mEPS MK6-MAC
The mEPS MK6 was intended to be a step forward for MAC operations introducing several new features to improve the safety of the user as well as to provide tactical advancements allowing MAC operatives to work in more hostile environments. It included over the standard soft body lining a state of the art rigid body protective plate system. This provided protection from low calibre weapons and eliminated the risk posed by sharp objects and was resistant to crushing forces. This protected the user from what might otherwise damage soft body lining and expose the user to hazards. The second major feature was the addition of a Compact Point Teleport System. The CPTS was supposed to replace the at the time extremely bulky Portable Point Teleport System PPTS.
However after the CPTS passed unmanned lab testing and went to human trials a conner case emerged with the minimisation of the power limiting ballast resulting in a fail closed condition in where the point teleport Initialiser would fall into a runaway over current state where it would draw up to 45x its rated current. This would cause over magnetisation where the resulting magnetic force would crush the suit inwards onto the user before the point teleport initialiser would then explode.
Over the 5 months of testing this failure mode cost 2 test pilots their lives as well as injuring dozens more. Soon after development of the mEPS MK6 was officially abandoned.
Status: As of now the mEPS MK6 program has been terminated with no plans to revisit the program.