Mark III Hazard Suit

The Starfleet Mark III Hazard Suit is protective armor used by Starfleet personnel in dangerous and hostile environments during missions. Its advanced technology make it perfect for a variety of missions where it is more than likely that there will be combat.

History
The original Hazard Suit was designed and created by Lieutenant Commander Tuvok and Seven of Nine on the starship Voyager in 2376. Since its inception the Hazard suit has undergone several design modifications the most recent resulting in the newest variant, the Mark III Hazard suit.

Features
The Mark III Hazard Suit was equiped with a number of advanced features. One of thease features being a universal power adapter, that allowed it to replenish its internal energy stores from almost any uplink, even some alien power sources. This power then could be used by the suit to power the various systems. Such as to effect repairs on the suit through the use of nanites laced through the armor or to power the suit's life support feature to keep the wearer comfortable in less than ideal circumstances or to operate the internal dermal regenerators and protoplasers to treat wounds or administer stimulants to keep the wearer alert.

Unlike the Mark I and II versions of the suit the Mark III did away with the portable transporter buffer designed to store weapons and equipment. The reason being to reduce the energy signature of the armor and eliminate the chance of damage to the transporter buffer causing the weapons or equipment stored in it being rematerialized in a non-operational state thereby depriving the user of their use.

The armor itself was constructed of the most advanced energy weapon resistant materials and augmented with a tritanium mesh throughout the suit which was capable of being polarized thereby increasing the suits capability of resisting the effects of directed energy weapons fire as well as providing additional protection from physical attacks.

The shoulders of the suit were were equipped with multi-phasic wave generators designed to actively disrupted transporter and sensor locks on the wearer. The hazard suit was equipped with a tactical eye display, which gave the wearer a crosshair for weapons aiming and a scope for sniper shooting. The eye peice was also capable of displaying the suit and wearer's status as well as being interfaced with a Mark XI tricorder to serve as a hands free control (via eye movements) and to display information gathered by or contained in the tricorder's database.

The suit's footwear was reinforced and contained magnetic strips, should the wearer enter an area with little or no gravity.