Some art for
Robotech: Genesis Pits by
Palladium Books [link]UEEF Exploratory Corps soldier in CVR-3 "Ride Armor". Armed with a H-90 Gallant modular energy weapon system in "rifle" mode, and an RL-6 60mm Rocket Launcher slung over his shoulder. Finally, a shemagh adds a jaunty accent, and personalizes him a bit. This is one of four pieces I did that got into the book, and one of two cyclone riders.
Funny thing is, when I was initially drawing this, I was drawing from the head, down. Before I drew in the legs, the most common comment I got while drawing this at MidWest FurFest
[link] was, "Is that Master Chief?".
Wow.
It does kinda look like him, in an EVA-permutation helmet. (Then again, if you hunt down some of the MOSPEADA pre-production art by IMAI, there looks like a few armor permutations in there!)
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Also, that armor that he wears for the flashback would likley have been phased out for the UEEF by the time of the Cyclone. The CVR-3 was designed to be augmented with the Cyclone series of power armor, kinda throwing it into Starship Troopers territory.
Finally, there's the Shadow Chronicles - which is officially the new continuity (notice how we have to call everything "UEEF"... man, "ARR DEE EFF" and "ARR EEE EFF" were so much easier on the tongue, only being three letters each...) - and we have to work in that.
But then again, who knows. I can't recall seeing that flashback armor anywhere in the previous RPG books, but maybe it'll pop up in UEEF Marines now that you've mentioned it. It almost does, by chance, look like a halfway point between the CVR-2 and the Southern Cross era body armors.