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On hiding dead bodies:
Posted by: Psuedo
Posted by: teh Chaz
Inside another dead body. It's the last place they'll lookA corpse within a corpse.
CORPSEPTION.Win.
Posted by: drummer0702
Posted by: anton1792
It was mentioned during Halseys testing of the Mk V in TFoR that the shield strength can be altered in specific places to improve the Spartans interaction with particular objects. Example: Making the shields thinner at the palms for easy grip of weapons and making them thinner on the soles of their boots so that they do not slide around.
Perhaps air can circulate through these -and maybe other- inconspicuous areas?
I can't think of an answer better than this, however, it would seem putting the filters on the helmet wouldn't be the best idea then. 2 very small low-0 shielded areas on the jawline of the helmet.
It's theoretically feasible, but creates a massive weakspot on the head region in terms of the shield (not much of an issue for a SPARTAN in the first place, unless they're in a game). Also, UNSC understanding of shield tech isn't great so I'm not sure they'd have enough capability to make 'low shielded' areas like this, it may be too complex.
However, regarding my old shield theory (how it is an EMF containing an electrically-altered region of particles that can coalesce into a hyper-dense region when taking an impact), then there is another theory.
The air popping away from the armour is the field being generated - the shield 'particles' are on the surface from the armour, forming a dense barrier and moving away until the electromagnetic field reaches its furthest distance from the armour.
Then, the particles stabilise and diffuse inside the field, until they equally spread amongst themselves - at this point, air and other gases are possibly able to move between the 'particles' that make up the shield, and make it to the filters on the helmet.
When underwater or in vacuum, the suit goes to vacuum protocol, and fully seals itself including the helmet filters.