Hostile environment suit

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The hostile environment suit is the standard issue combat gear for terran ghosts,^[1] though was originally developed for miners.^[2] It is a polymer suit covering the body along with a helmet or headpiece.^[3]

Contents 1 Overview 1.1 Ghost Suit 1.1.1 Cloaking 1.1.2 Sensory Systems 2 Notes 3 Images 4 References

[edit] Overview

The hostile encounter suit was originally designed for miners working in high-temperature environments and on cold planets. Its temperature regulation system could shield the wearer from heat detection equipment.^[2]

[edit] Ghost Suit

The suit is interwoven with an advanced circuitry system that covers the entire body apart from the head, which could interfere with the ghost's psionic powers.^[3] In addition to an adjustable temperature setting,^[3] it is laced with a form of psi-sensitive artificial muscle fiber which augments their natural physical strength.^[4] A time setting is also built into the system, allowing a ghost to check the time of any place in the Koprulu Sector.^[3]

The helmet acts as a chemical agent mask.^[5]

Light pulses across Nova's suit.^[6]

By 2503, upon the ghost's death, the suit automatically degraded.^[3] This feature was missing from hostile environment suit versions from 2491.^[5]

[edit] Cloaking

Perhaps the most well known function of the suit is its cloaking ability. Though older models lack it, many ghost suits feature a personal cloaking device, allowing the ghost to render him/herself invisible. The amount of time this is able to be used is limited by the amount of energy available, though can be increased through the installation of a Moebius Reactor.^[1] The cloaking system would shut down upon the user's death in earlier suits^[5] although this has become redundant with new models, where, should the ghost die, the suit automatically degrades itself and the wearer to prevent the technology from falling into enemy hands.^[3] The stealth abilities were, and perhaps still are, aided by coolant systems woven into its lining, rendering its user invisible to infrared sensors.^[2]

[edit] Sensory Systems

There is the helmet/eyepiece (or ocular implants as the case may be).^[1] The helmet shares the rest of its functions with the smaller headpiece, which include a comm system,^[3] infrared vision,^[5] and a psionic "heat vision" mode which allows the ghost to see through walls.^[7] A HUD system is also present, capable of showing a map display in the left-hand corner,^[5] a zoom function^[8] and at least in later models, provides the ghost information on his/her health status, the amount of psionic energy available, a stealth meter (an indication as to how exposed the ghost is to being seen) and a weapon meter, informing the ghost of how much ammunition is available for his/her equipped weapon.^[9]

[edit] Notes

Former Ghost Program employee Gabriel Tosh wears an unusual suit in which light pulses across it,^[10] just like Nova's.^[6] Whether Tosh is actually a ghost or actually wearing a hostile environment suit is unknown, due to his mysterious origins.

[edit] Images

Sarah Kerrigan wearing a hostile environment suit.

A ghost wearing a hostile environment suit

Nova wearing a hostile environment suit

[edit] References

Terran Combat Armor
Light	CMC Light Combat Armor · CMC-405 light combat suit · Hostile environment suit
Powered	CMC-200 · CMC-300 · CMC-400 · CMC-660 firebat armor