RE: Advanced Power Armor MKII
Make something up huh? well here goes nubbin err nothing:
The president and his enclave were very familiar with the growing threat that the brotherhood of steel possessed (this was before FO2). The enclave had power armor, so defense was not an issue, but the BOS had armor as well and that caused a problem as the BOS had superior weaponry. So the President assigned some scientists to work on improving the power armor, through research they developed the hardening process and completed hardened power armor. However, they found that hardened power armor offered little protection against some of the flamers that the BOS had used, as well as some explosive and plasma/laser weaponry, it merely provided increased strength as well as slightly improved armor and more flexibility. Before the Enclave was ready to defend themselves against the BOS (being the only threat in the wastes at the time) they found that the master had been destroyed (FO1 ended) and that the BOS slowly began to become weaker and form outposts on the northern areas of new california as they dispersed. Seizing the advantage, the Enclave sent a few troops to the brotherhood main base, since most of the BOS were unprepared and poorly manned, they fell fairly easily dispite being powerful warriors. After salvaging all the information they could, the enclaved destroyed the base and proceeded to report to the president. Most of the BOS' Secret technology was spilled over to the Enclave, this, including laser/plasma weaponry was taken into the study. Over time the enclaves scientists had learned much of how the laser weaponry worked, and tested it on various chemically treated metals. Eventually they formed a conclusion, HRDND P armor was made of inferior metal, plus it's design was overly bulky and could be made much better with improved agility (Armor Class is higher for this reason, AC mods how well you can DODGE an attack). With most of the new technology ransacked from the old BOS base the enclave had already designed new tech as well as improved on the older models (ie - flamer fuel mk 2). After a few short years of engineering the adv. p armor, finally it was created. The first model was tested and worked successfully, with a few minor problems with movement hydraulics and such (the new power armor had the components inside the shell so they wouldn't be damaged as well as body fluid recycling and many cool features, plus a menacing appearance to signify the enclave was a deadly force to be feared). After being improved, Adv. Power Armor was perfected and shipped around to Enclave soldiers. The new armor proved powerful and worked well, however, it was seen that it could be perfected, thus after much research involving polymers and chemical treatments, ADV P Armor MK2 was designed. The first armor plating was created for a top secret project (hint hint, horrigan!) and a suit was created using the new polymers but before mass production and distribution could occur, a few "problems" arose (ie - you kicked the shit out of the enclave, and stole it from the locker LOL!).
Anyway if thats what you were looking for, there you go. Sorry it's not very detailed but this IS only a message board post!
Problems with my plot explained: If Horrigan was seen killing those guys for difecting in the desert and he had MK 2 Adv p armor plating, and that was like a year before you could get to the enclave, how could P armor Mk 2 not be distributed in a year?!
Answer: Horrigan's original suit was a specially made combat implant suit comprised ORIGINALLY of standard BOS armor, as research continued the armor was improved and so horrigan was modified accordingly.
Q: How did the ENCLAVE get power armor?
Answer: Remember FO1's opening video? the army was using P armor, simple enough no?
Q: If the brotherhood had equal power armor to the enclave, how did the enclave beat their superior fire power?
A: *grins* a lot of good enclave soldiers were killed in that fight, it was basically a "Send millions of your men until you wipe them all out" kind of deal. Ever notice how there are like 100 soldiers in the whole game between Navarro and the Rig hehe.
Q: Are you on drugs?
A: not right now.
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(inside joke, if you help Farrel with his garden problem you get a message saying that plus some EXP)...anyway tho thanks is all I had to say..