Zone Trooper (Tiberium Wars)

Following the events of the Firestorm Crisis and the proliferation of Tiberium, GDI desperately needed a technology that would allow them to control Tiberium infested areas without endangering humans. As remotely controlled weapons and unmanned vehicles were not suitably powerful, the research and development division of GDI decided to use the old Mobius Suit and Wolverine technologies to create a completely new and efficient weapon.

The Zone Trooper wears the result of this research, an advanced, self-sufficient powered armour made from the same composite that constitutes the Mammoth 27's armor. It is equipped with advanced life support systems, which allows him or her to survive in heavily Tiberium contaminated areas such as Red zones. In addition to being able to survive in such conditions, the Zone Troopers are equipped with jump jets, allowing them to move long distances in seconds, often dropping into the heat of a battle as reinforcements. For combat, he carries an advanced portable railgun, based off the same design that is used for the new Mammoth 27 and Predator tanks. The Zone Trooper armor is required to absorb the recoil that railguns produce. The weapon itself is capable of causing serious damage to vehicles, structures, and infantry.

Squads of four Zone Troopers are deadly foes, often accompanying large tanks on their way into combat. Their armour suits can be upgraded with sensor packs, giving them limited stealth detection abilities and with advanced power packs, which amplify the suit's performance, resulting in increased resilience, and allows the suit to self repair.

The Zone Troopers are also used as reinforcements dropped from orbit, in large atmospheric entry drop pods. These soldiers are ready for combat as soon as the pod hits the ground.

However, the cost of equipping a single Zone Trooper is enormous, as a single armour module and railgun cost as much as an entire single rifleman squad. They are also completely defenseless against aircraft (especially the Venom) and armor piercing projectiles of the shredder turret are also a danger to them, as is flame-based weaponry.

Within blue zones, some Zone Troopers operated without a cockpit cover, since the environment was less hazardous and allowed for better vision. A heavily modified variation of the Zone Trooper armor is deployed by ZOCOM, and utilised by soldiers known as Zone Raiders.