Setting 5: The "lifeguard" of the Covenant

"The 'lifeguard' humanoid weapon created by the Covenant to imitate the Eagle Yang type is simply a disaster."

—Commentator Massimo Gerbi

"modeling"

This humanoid weapon is called the "lifeguard" because a large area of ​​its body is painted orange, resembling a life jacket. The name also alludes to the fact that the Covenant was torn apart after the defeat in the "Battle of Carthage" and needed a "lifeguard."

The main colors of the Lifeguard are orange and white. In order to speed up production, there are no extra decorations on the body, so it is also jokingly called like a cheap children's toy (interestingly, before the "Battle of Carthage", the Star Alliance senior HER's Ying Yang pose is often laughed at as a toy).

The most distinctive feature of a lifeguard is the glass mask that covers the entire face. Under the mask are several cameras. Because the "Lifeguard" was manufactured only after the war, in order to save time in training pilots and quickly put them on the front line, the Lifeguard was equipped with multiple camera systems to facilitate the driver to find enemies in the dark universe. This system is also a "lifeguard" A few bright spots on "members".

"Armed"

Machine guns, thermal sabers, various grenades, and rocket launchers.

"development process"

The "Battle of Carthage" allowed the world to see the power of humanoid weapons. In order to save the defeat, the Covenant quickly began the research and development of its own humanoid weapons.

But their development work was full of twists and turns. First, in order to take a shortcut, the top management used the data and drawings provided by HER Dr. Keanu Long, who pretended to surrender. However, these data were all wrong, which caused the Covenant to waste a lot of time on testing data and drawings. In the end, they had to completely tear down and start over.

Although they have seen the combat effectiveness of humanoid weapons, there are still many conservative elements among the senior leaders of the Covenant. Under their random command, the first batch of Covenant humanoid weapons shipped from the factory actually required two people to pilot them like fighter jets, and the cockpit space was the same as that of fighter jets, with very little internal space. In addition, the armor technology of the first batch of Covenant humanoid weapons was not yet mature, and they were simply useless in front of the Eagle-type machine gun. In this way, the first batch of humanoid weapons went to the battlefield, and the results are self-evident.

So the Covenant had to start over again. They established a new humanoid weapons development department. During the research period, they also obtained more information and technology on the Eagle Yang type. Through this, they developed a weapon with a simpler structure than the Eagle Yang type. But it is easier to mass-produce the "lifeguard".

In actual combat, the lifeguard is just a younger brother to the more complete Yingyang type, but its scalability is very high. In order to make up for the performance gap, each unit that received the Lifeguard "magically modified" their airframes with parts they collected or seized. Because of this, although the standard uniform of lifeguards is orange, many troops have their own colors and styles.

As the war lengthened, the performance of later-produced lifeguards was almost the same as that of the Yingyang.

"Derivative models"

Because of the easy scalability of lifeguards, many forces with resources have manufactured or modified many high-performance derivative models. Representatives are the "Hundred Steps", the first humanoid weapon capable of laser long-range sniping, and the "Rough Rider" of the North American Rescue Alliance.