- oI CANUCK Io
- |
- Honorable Member
90% of the Mjolnir armor (OFFICIAL Mjolnir, anyways) was the classic colour scheme that Master Chief wore. Green with a slight shimmery coating and a Gold or Copper visor.
That was standard issue. If you look at JORGE's armor, it still has that look, all except the yellow of his chest piece, but we know that was a personal modification.
If you look at the timeline, we have:
Spartan-II Project, gets the MARK-IV Mjolnir and (if you read the books) ALL look like MC did in HALO:CE...same armor, that was the standard.
Just before the Fall of Reach, we have the development of the SPI armor which was a MJOLNIR knock-off but still had a Greenish tint to it to help with it's Camo-System, and was the original SPARTAN-III Standard issue, until Alpha Company was wiped out.
We can surmise from HALO: REACH that eventually, ONI:Section3 developed another version of MJOLNIR armor to give to the remaining Spartan-III's and here is where we can get some colour variations (As seen in NOBLE team), possibly to indicate Rank or speciality. HOWEVER, a closer look at the armor of Noble shows that they added their own...personal touches to their gear (Optical attachments, white bands painted around thighs and forearms, CARTER looks like he's re-painted his gear here and there to touch up some spots...note his right forearm...and cmmon, look at what EMILE did to his bloody helmet!
By the time HALO 2 comes around and Master Chief comes home, he is issued the MARK VI armor, and is told that it is the new standard issue. We can assume from this little tidbit, that ALL Spartans (Seeing as the remaining Spartan II survivors were merged with Spartan-III's making one large force of just "Spartans"..note Jorge, an S2 being amongst all S3's in NOBLE Team) ended up taking the Mark VI as the armor...which is that Dark Green Sage with a copper-visor.
Now, thats not to say there weren't a few SPECIALIST armors being tinkered with, but they probably didnt pan out in time. By the time HALO3 is over, the Mark 6 (Along with its colour standard) was the standard.
So...Green armor with gold/copper visor....was the standard.
[Edited on 11.17.2010 3:01 PM PST]