MK II "Hotspot" Insulated Armor

The MK II "Hotspot" Insulated Armor was a type of insulated clone trooper armor utilized by the clone flametrooper corps of the Grand Army of the Galactic Republic during the Clone Wars against the Confederacy of Independent Systems.

The armor was specially designed to assist the clone flametroopers in driving enemies away from their defenses and to clear areas of dangerous flora or contaminants in hostile environments, featuring a heavily filtered respirator unit and significant thermal shielding system to insulate the troopers from the effects of their BT X-42 heavy flame projectors. The MK II "Hotspot" design was a substantial improvement from the initial MK I insulated armor design that was issued at the beginning of the war. The initial design had lacked a sufficient respirator unit, which risked the wearer through exposure to toxic smoke and air deprived of adequate oxygen as a result of the flamethrowers, and was later deemed an oversight due to the rushed production needs of both the Republic and the Kaminoan government, and the flaws made in the MK I design were corrected and became a source of improvement morale among the flame trooper corps.

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