40K Space Marine Power Armor Marks 1-10 Explained

hello and welcome back to episode of generation films my name is American Ben here to do my duty for the Imperium this is my second video covering the Adept assess our teas in the span of just a few days so I'm asking you kind souls of mankind don't send the Inquisition my way for whatever heresy might be mine to claim I have spread the good word of humanity's greatest warriors the other day I did a video explaining Space Marine power armor the power suits that are biologically connected to Space Marines acting as second skins as they charge into battle last cannons at the ready fear far behind if you are not familiar with 40k I really suggest you watch that video first and please do not announce your ignorance in the comments below because the 40k fans will have your head better yet just don't give them your address they'll pass it right along to the Imperium of man's intelligence apparatus and you'll be dead within days anyway if you are properly prepared but the requisite knowledge for today's video as promised I am going to go through the evolution of Space Marine power armor and give some details on each iteration the first suit was the mark 1 Thunder power armor of course that name is a retronym as at the time of its introduction this suit was simply known as power armor but it was later given the Thunderer moniker in honor of the Raptor Imperialis the emperor used during the unification wars the armor had evolved from the power suits worn by the techno barbarians savages that roam Terra during the Age of strife a fragmented period of human history that ran from the 25th 30th millennium this armor was designed for use on Terra and thus did not fully enclose its wear and obviously thus did not allow its user to subsist in a vacuum the armor also didn't have a comprehensive life support system and only the upper body of the armor was powered as given the difficulty in making ranged weapons at the time a warrior often had to rely on upper-body strength to survive coiled energy cables beneath the armor transmitted energy from the power pack on the back to the arms of the suit and down the user with augmented strength when the Thunder Armour was introduced standardization was lacking and each suit of armor created varied to a degree usually the design depended on the Preferences of the wear eventually when humanity began to venture into space the forces of mankind developed a need for more capable Armour as humanity under the will of the emperor crusaded further and further across the galaxy and discovered new resources power armor evolved to be stronger and stronger the next iteration of power armor to come along was the mark to crusade power armor which was developed towards the end of the age of strife the armor was used by the Space Marine legions at the heart of the Emperor's Great Crusade across the galaxy to unite mankind into the Imperium of man after conquering the Sol system the Emperor had mechanic in factories erected on Mars that were dedicated to constructing more advanced power armor the mark to crusade armor was born from these factories the crusade honor was the first fully enclosed power armor suit and was vacuum rated making the crusade easier on the Marines but given how psycho they are I'm sure they would have been willing to just hold their breath in space while raiding space hulks the suit also had life-support systems that allowed for combat in various atmospheres the armor plates of the suit were composed of microscopic circular armored rings of ceramide layered under and over each other the different plates were then linked together and the power cabling of the suit was threaded inside the plating put together this way the suit allowed for ease of movement and the Sara might made the armor durable but the ring design wasn't easy to repair the helmet was fixed in position but wearers could still turn their heads the helmet had auto senses or electronic sensory systems and many computers that monitor the surrounding area and transmitted basic visual and auditory information back to the space marine user this was not done through some sort of hug though as we explained in the last video we did on this subject set information was transmitted to the Space Marines through their cerebral cortexes the wearer simply learned the information instantly rather than having to read it from a display this was the first suit to incorporate Auto senses but such tech became standard in all iterations to follow the next iteration was the mark 3 iron power armor a suit developed during the Great Crusade for use against a race of beings called squats short stocky AB humans who did not want to be conquered by the armies of man the Space Marines suffered high casualties at the pudgy hands of the squats as fighting them required the Marines to engage in difficult boarding operations in combat and confine underground tunnels thus the iron armor was developed especially for such situations and was not intended to replace crusade armor the armor had much greater frontal protection in the mark - and the weight of the rear of the armor was decreased in order to compensate for the game in front the idea was to make the armor ideal for all-out frontal assaults the wedge shape of the helmet with sloping plates was designed to deflect incoming fire from the front and would later inspire the mark four and six helmet designs now just as a note the mark one through three armors are no longer in use by any spaceman chapters and are rare to even come upon though you can get lucky on ebay every once in a while next comes the mark for Maximus power armor a suit produced at the height of the Imperium of man during the great crusade to replace the mark to suits the space marines had mostly worn out the maximus is the first power armor with a design directly related to modern space marine armor it traded the separate abutting plate design of older suits for larger more inflexible armour casings with flexible joints while the maximus decreased the flexibility of the suits various parts because it was lighter than previous iterations Space Marines actually gained mobility in this armor additionally the mark 4 was easier to produce and maintain the more lightweight design was the result of technological secrets discovered by man that allowed the factories on Mars to make more efficient suits while not sacrificing anything in terms of protection actually these tech secrets led to improved armoring that allowed the suits power cables to be placed on the exterior of the armor and not only were the amount of cables decreased but all the systems in the suits backpack and the backpack itself were made smaller in size and more efficient than in previous versions the suits helmet was also a completely new design as it was no longer fixed to the suits neck plates and can move independently while maintaining its seal in the thirty first millennium Imperial War Master Horace loop Racal the Primark up the sons of Horus legion became corrupted by the ruinous powers of chaos and he betrayed the Imperium of man taking much of the Imperial forces with him this led to a galaxy-wide civil war known as the Horus heresy that plagued humanity for nine years this is where the mark-5 heresy power armor comes in after the Horus heresy broke out many of the loyalists marine chapter still hadn't been outfitted with marked for armor and were stuck to fight Raider chapters in mark 2 armor additionally during the Civil War given the widespread nature of the Imperium chopper ations and the amount of damage suits of armor suffered in battle resupply and repair was difficult thus the mark 5 heresy armor was developed from very basic material so that it was easy to maintain the mark 4 was a much more advanced suit of armor but the chapters involved in the heresy couldn't maintain them that said the mark 5 wasn't exactly a perfect option it had heavy power cabling and substandard materials which caused the suit to overheat quickly and to compensate for this where's would often turn down the power output of the suit meaning they would sacrifice performance the helmet of this iteration was a more basic version of the mark forth helmet after the heresy ended these suits were rarely used and were often scrapped so that their parts could be used to repair mark for or later power armor now before we move on here I just want to point out that the mark 6 through 8 armors mark an era of space marine armor in which the armors were specifically designed to be rugged and adaptable the mark 6 Corvis or coronavirus power armor was another armor that was developed during the Horus heresy to replace the mark 4 armor the Corvis armor also known as the b key armor was named for the raven guard legions premark Corvus corax and stood out in a number of ways but perhaps its most prominent features were its beak like muzzle and its molecular bonded studded autoreactive bolt reinforced left shoulder plate the Corvis armor liked the mark 5 was intended to be easy to maintain and repair and it continued the practice of the mark 5 of using molecular bonding studs to hold the armors plasteel and ceramide layers together though the mark 6 was specifically known to boast the lightest form of this technology and space marines often say that this armor offers the most comfortable fit the armor had dual technology circuits which allowed for its more complicated parts they were replaced with more generic parts without sacrificing performance and it also contained duplicate power cabling which functioned as a fail-safe the Corvis armor is still commonly used by Space Marine chapters to this day next up is the mark 7 AK wila power arm this suit developed on Terra towards the end of the Horus heresy when Mars was spectre-2 soon be lost is the armor most commonly used by the Space Marine chapters of the Imperium to this day this armor is noteworthy for the Vox caster on its face plate and the imperial Aquila or Imperialis on its chest plate Vox casters are radio communications transceivers that Imperium forces use to communicate trooper to trooper or with headquarters technology and design wise the Aquila armor is mostly just a small update from the mark 6 and parts from both suits can be used on one another pretty much interchangeably next we have the mark 8 Aaron power armor similar to the mark 6 and 7 suits the mark 8 has enhanced armored plating which better protects the power cables on the torso which in the mark 7 were much more exposed to incoming fire the mark 8 is probably most recognizable for its raised collar called a gorget in the front of the suit for extra protection with the mark 7 incoming rounds would often hit the chest plate and deflect up to the neck joint the mark 8 score jet solves this issue however given the significant change this suit is not backwards compatible with mark 6 and 7 helmets without heavy modification the mark 8 suit never went into wide-scale production and was mostly issued to high-ranking Space Marine officers which endowed the suit with an air of authority finally we have the mark 10 power armor and for those of you who are going to ask about the mark 9 listen the first rule of 40k Space Marine armor is that we don't talk about the mark 9 as one user asked on reddit a few months ago quote what the f happened to the mark 9 power armor to which a veteran of the Imperial Guard responded quote same thing that happened to Windows 9 and that's all I'm gonna say on that because I don't want to disappear anyway the mark 10 marks a significant upgrade from all the previous suits of power armor 10,000 standard years ago ultramarines pre macro boot a Gilman commissioned a project to develop a legion of transhuman warriors that would be superior in every way to the standard Space Marine after 100 standard centuries of development the result of this project was the Primera's Space Marines of course if you're going to spend ten thousand years developing super Space Marines then you had better develop power armor that's worthy of such a Space Marine legion as well thus we get the mark 10 which combines all the best of all iterations of space marine armor with the most heavy inspiration coming from the mark 4 and mark 8 patterns that said the mark 10 has a modular design and is more versatile than its predecessors and there are many variants of this model of armor used by different units of the pre Mars Marines the armor is actually designed to attach to a special protective under suit that enables it to be fitted to each marine in different configurations as needed examples of some of the features one might find on a given variant are enhanced protection throughout the entire body of armor more efficient backpack heat ventilation guidance thrusters integrated into Greaves grab shoots for controlling low orbit drop speeds helmets with expanded rebreather filters for low orbit combat drops and an external hydraulic footplate for controlling the power and direction of the jump ax thrusts the mark 10 in all its variants is the Opie armour of already Opie Armour and those are all of at least the general Space Marine power armor models giving this video a like if you enjoyed definitely let me know in the comments down below what I missed what I got wrong which models are your favorite which ones you hate what makes sense what doesn't whatever you want yeah remember to subscribe to this channel hit that notification bell hope you enjoyed the 40k content we've got some expanse content on the way for now my name is American bent and I'll catch you next time Generation films peace

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Id: O9QsMIBAzjo

Length: 12min 30sec (750 seconds)

Published: Wed May 06 2020