One thing I was always interested in is, Who Built Monarch's Armor?

I mean, it's obviously very powerful, and is somehow able to convert Hawk's Chaos Energy into devastating energy blasts and flight and whatnot.

But there was probably a moment somewhere in the 1990's when Monarch/Hawk went to a mad scientist and had this conversation:
Hawk: See this armor I'm wearing? I need you to make and exact, brand-new duplicate of it.
Scientist: Why?
Hawk: 'Cause I took it off the corpse of my future self a year or so ago, and if I'm not wearing a newer one when I eventually kill myself, the armor will be ten years older than it should be when I get killed in the future.
Scientist: Why not just avoid getting killed by you past self?
Hawk: Then I won't have this bitchin' armor that'll allow me to take over the world.
Scientist: This armor is really advanced. Who designed it in the first place.
Hawk: I have no idea.