Most imagine the MJOLNIR project to be a single suit used continuously during the Human-Covenant War between 2525 and 2552. If it is possible for this to be any further from the truth, it is difficult to concieve how, and in hindsight the idea that the most advanced soldiers that humanity has ever fielded would use the exact same equipment for nearly thirty years unchanced is ludicrous. The introduction of the Mark IV was without precedent, perhaps akin to the invention of the lance or the sword; this was unknown territory, revolutionising the already revolutionary way that their Spartan operators were able to wage war, and with it came many problems that nobody could have foreseen, sometimes shockingly so. Field patches were made either by technicians or even by the Spartans themselves fo