Iridium Armour

Iridium Armour is a Tau Battlesuit wargear upgrade where the Battlesuit is fitted with additional protection in the form of iridium armour plates across its surface. Iridium Armour significantly increases the resilience of the Battlesuit armour to a point where it can shrug off all but the heaviest of firepower, albeit at the cost of a decrease in manoeuvrability due to the armour’s increased weight impeding the function of the Battlesuit’s Jetpack. Iridium Armour was an upgrade only available to Battlesuit pilots of the rank Shas’vre or higher, and its rarity means that its distribution is usually limited to only one per Hunter Cadre. However, further refinements of the upgrade’s technologies resulted in the development of the XV89 Crisis Battlesuit variant that was specifically designed to be fitted with Iridium Armour. However, inherent weight problems in its design caused production to slow, and eventually the prototype XV8-02 Crisis ‘Iridium’ Battlesuit was developed. With this new variant of the XV8 Crisis Battlesuit, Iridium Armour is no longer an available Battlesuit upgrade.