GR7-Spartan "Mata Hari"

Although Spartans are renowned for their durability, endurance, and heavy-lifting, looking upon the Mata Hari would almost make you think there was an entire separate class of even heavier, liftier Spartans. It retains the smooth, circular shoulders and legs, but its face, chest, and arms feature plate-like, layered armor. The Mata Hari’s appearance begets that of a knight with how it is armored, and the thick, clover-shaped shield hooked along its left arm certainly does not help.

Though originally a heavy-assault machine, significant renovations occurred on the acquisition of ‘beam’ technology. Much of its kinetic loadout has been swapped out with non-kinetic weaponry. This is in part because much of the Mata Hari’s original draw was its sub-generator system. While many AA feature only one generator, the Mata Hari features three- one in its chest like most standard machines, and a smaller one in each shoulder. This allows it to carry a slew of high-powered beam equipment, with the only downside being that it is theoretically more vulnerable to losing a limb.

Its ratio of armor-to-frame allows it to compensate for this weakness, capitalizing on the Spartan’s already tough exterior. While it may be slow, its ability to engage at nearly any range makes it a powerful threat. Outside of the standard equipment an AA could possess, the Mata Hari’s main long to mid range armament are two shoulder slung particle beam cannons. An initial glance might think onlookers that the cannons are simply high-powered thrusters, but once they lock over the shoulders and face forward, it's clear that they’re intended to destroy.

Its clover-shield retains a small cable which hooks to the Mata Hari’s chest, angling from the back. While certainly durable, its main draw is the fact that it is a weapon as well. A single large lens sits in the middle, lowered somewhat into the shield. Three other lenses sit around it in a triangle. What the shield is capable of doing is generating a temporary ‘plasma field’. In short, the lenses generate the particle encased plasma that many ‘plasma sabers’ employ. The field is short and not very concentrated, but in close to mid ranges the plasma that does exit the shield can still damage enemies. This field has the added benefit of being able to deflect or disperse enemy ranged attacks, as the plasma acts as a potent wall.

Its main weapon, the GLX-’Filibuster’, is a mid to long-range experimental railgun. The Filibuster loads special explosive ammunition designed to cover large distances, destroy defenses, and obliterate AAs. While extremely potent, its main weakness is its somewhat extreme draw on generator power and limited ammunition. The weapon itself can only fire six shots before the machine must return to restock, making the weapon limited in its uses.