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I've been getting a ton of work done writing this story lately. The script is almost done, and I feel pretty good about it. However, after getting some of the details set in stone, I started realizing I had to make a few more changes. Atlas, for example, needed to be a little bit smaller. The earlier version I had of him made him around 20 feet tall. Now, he's scaled back to about 12 feet. Still huge, but more manageable. I also had a few thoughts on his armor, so, anyone who's been following my work for a while will know that means redesigns. But at least these ones are for a reason, and not just because I felt like it.

Anyways, here's some backstory for this suit:

The Chitin Project
The Chitin Project was originally started with the goal of trying to create an impenetrable suit of armor for a soldier to break enemy defenses. With the added armor, mechanical assistance was needed to help the soldier walk, and the project quickly grew in size until they were building an entire mech suit for a single soldier. Eventually the project did yield a mech suit that made the soldier inside completely invulnerable, but the extreme cost of making one ensured they would never see action on the battlefield.
Instead of giving up, the project leads began soliciting investments from private companies to fund the project. One company did agree, with the added caveat that the program be used to test a new project they had been working on: Nano-integration. Once a pilot is encased in the suit, an infusion of nanobots begins converting human tissue into the rest of the suit, until the pilot and suit are one.
Unsure of why they would test such a thing, the project leads initially refused. However, once they ran out of money and were turned down by every other investor, they were left with no other choice. They completed four suits in total: The Hercules, the Stag, the Rhinoceros, and the Atlas.
Testing began slowly. Pilots spent less than an hour in the suits at a time. Patches of their skin would be transformed every time they got in the suit. Eventually, there came a ‘point of no return’ where the pilots couldn’t eject from the suits, and were too integrated to survive outside the suit. The pilots of the Hercules, Stag and Rhino all reached it during the same extended training mission. They tried to deal with it, but eventually signs of dementia set in.
Doctors were brought in to try to diagnose it. At first they thought it was some form of claustrophobia or cabin fever from being locked in the suit for weeks. What they eventually discovered is that the nano tech had no problem integrating bone and muscle, but it wasn’t advanced enough to convert brain tissue and preserve the information within.
The project was abandoned and the entire island housing the military base was quarantined and labeled a black site. Everyone left, except for the three unfortunate pilots slowly going mad, sealed inside the bodies of indestructible war machines.
The Atlas still sits inside a rusting hangar, guarded by its crazed brothers waiting for the day when its long lost pilot might return.

Description
I've been getting a ton of work done writing this story lately. The script is almost done, and I feel pretty good about it. However, after getting some of the details set in stone, I started realizing I had to make a few more changes. Atlas, for example, needed to be a little bit smaller. The earlier version I had of him made him around 20 feet tall. Now, he's scaled back to about 12 feet. Still huge, but more manageable. I also had a few thoughts on his armor, so, anyone who's been following my work for a while will know that means redesigns. But at least these ones are for a reason, and not just because I felt like it.

Anyways, here's some backstory for this suit:

The Chitin Project
The Chitin Project was originally started with the goal of trying to create an impenetrable suit of armor for a soldier to break enemy defenses. With the added armor, mechanical assistance was needed to help the soldier walk, and the project quickly grew in size until they were building an entire mech suit for a single soldier. Eventually the project did yield a mech suit that made the soldier inside completely invulnerable, but the extreme cost of making one ensured they would never see action on the battlefield.
Instead of giving up, the project leads began soliciting investments from private companies to fund the project. One company did agree, with the added caveat that the program be used to test a new project they had been working on: Nano-integration. Once a pilot is encased in the suit, an infusion of nanobots begins converting human tissue into the rest of the suit, until the pilot and suit are one.
Unsure of why they would test such a thing, the project leads initially refused. However, once they ran out of money and were turned down by every other investor, they were left with no other choice. They completed four suits in total: The Hercules, the Stag, the Rhinoceros, and the Atlas.
Testing began slowly. Pilots spent less than an hour in the suits at a time. Patches of their skin would be transformed every time they got in the suit. Eventually, there came a ‘point of no return’ where the pilots couldn’t eject from the suits, and were too integrated to survive outside the suit. The pilots of the Hercules, Stag and Rhino all reached it during the same extended training mission. They tried to deal with it, but eventually signs of dementia set in.
Doctors were brought in to try to diagnose it. At first they thought it was some form of claustrophobia or cabin fever from being locked in the suit for weeks. What they eventually discovered is that the nano tech had no problem integrating bone and muscle, but it wasn’t advanced enough to convert brain tissue and preserve the information within.
The project was abandoned and the entire island housing the military base was quarantined and labeled a black site. Everyone left, except for the three unfortunate pilots slowly going mad, sealed inside the bodies of indestructible war machines.
The Atlas still sits inside a rusting hangar, guarded by its crazed brothers waiting for the day when its long lost pilot might return.