Z-17 Power Armor

Z-17 Power Armor is primitive early human power armor developed to counter its far more advanced elven counterparts. The Z-17, while it could handle a heavy modicum of kinetic weapon damage and also having enhanced filtration systems to fight in the radioactive environments around major cities that had been struck with tactical nukes, the Z-17 Power Armors simple rolled homogenous armor was pathetically weak to the advanced weapons of the Elves and even some of the more powerful and modern human weapons. While the Z-17 was a prominent first step forward when it came to Human Power Armor development, the system simply was a rushed and underperforming armor system that handled riot control and police duties better than the intense combat theaters of the Canadian Campaign. Nevertheless, the Z-17 served in the war heavily, providing soldiers with an advanced exoskeleton that could carry the heaviest weapons into battle, and later on when more advanced models hit the production lines, the Z-17s additional strength made it ideal for the heavy work of the logistical corps.

History
The Z-17 power armor began development at the beginning of the Canadian invasion of the human nation of Washington when the human forces found themselves facing not just advanced combat armor that far surpassed their own, but Elvish Power Armor that rip the turret of a light tank or shrug off direct hits with mortars. Human nations as a stopgap began deploying their 7.5cm cannons and medium tanks, which in a direct hit could disable their power armor, but hitting a target a little larger than a human that moves faster than a car was not the easiest task, and so development began to produce humanities own suits of power armor.

The development of the Z-17 was extremely fast, within 8 months the first suits were ready for production. Emphasis had been placed for a suit that could handle heavy kinetic damage and had a similar overall strength as their elven counterparts, and could handle the toxic and radioactive combat zones of outside Portland and Seattle. However one major oversight took place, and that was that Elven units were moving further and further away from kinetic based weaponry and into energy and electrical weapon types. The Z-17 Power Armor suit was...unironically...outdated the moment it entered service.

Z-17 Power Armor was nonetheless, a lifesaver for the human armies who had been operating almost entirely in defense. The armor gave soldiers increased strength and melee damage, however the additional bulk, and total lack of a HUD, instead the visor was simply a piece of bulletproof glass, meant that the armor made firing smaller weapons or more accurate sniper rifles...very difficult. Instead, Z-17 power armor was best suited for carrying heavier weapons like the prominent 3.7cm handheld autocannon that was designed for usage with the armor, or variations of miniguns and other larger heavier big guns.