Setting 10 "Phoenix" - Ten Swords Unit No. 4

"Unit No. 4, transform!!"

—Luke Rand (Pilot of the Phoenix)

[Body positioning]

Variable highly mobile humanoid weapon.

【modeling】

The main colors of "Phoenix" are red, yellow and white. The body is slender, the face is triangular, and there are 2 eye monitors on the left and right sides.

"Phoenix" can transform into a fighter mode. In this form, the normally stowed wings will be extended, but the overall shape is still relatively slender.

【Armed】

Specially made high-power laser rifle (with laser bayonet), laser knife x2, head cannon, and several missiles.

It can be equipped with additional missile bays for bombing missions.

【development process】

"Phoenix" is the one with a relatively high development cost among the Ten Swords series (relatively speaking). As a transformable humanoid weapon, it was later given to the "New European Union", a force that also had the transformable humanoid weapon "Partner Cavalry".

Because the Phoenix's transformation mechanism was more advanced than that of the Buddy Trooper, many engineers attempted to copy its technology. But they found that the Phoenix's deformation mechanism was too complicated. In order to improve reliability and deformation speed, the Moore Chamber of Commerce used a large amount of expensive materials on the Phoenix. If its transformation technology was copied, the development speed and funding of each "Partner Cavalry" would be unimaginable (not to mention that the original development cost of Partner Cavalry was very high), and the new EU stopped trying to copy its transformation technology.

The reason why the Moore Chamber of Commerce adopts a more complicated transformation method than the "one-down transformation" of the "Partner Cavalry" is to allow the Phoenix to fight in different environments such as air, ground, sea, and space without changing equipment, and to switch operations at any time environment (such as surfacing from water for aerial combat).

Because of this, the specific development process of the Phoenix Transformation Mechanism is classified as confidential by the Moore Chamber of Commerce.

It is not enough that the main body can fight in all environments. Phoenix also needs a weapon that can adapt to all environments. The Moore Chamber of Commerce specially made a high-power laser rifle for it. The length of the gun body is almost as long as the body of the machine. It is equipped with a laser bayonet, giving Phoenix the tactical possibility of killing the enemy immediately after shooting.

But the Phoenix only has two all-environment pan-permanent weapons (the other is the missile carried by the body itself). Its laser knife will become unstable in the water, the power of the head cannon will be reduced in a gravity-free environment, and the missile bay will be Ammunition needs to be replaced according to the usage situation.

Power technology development process (*confidential*)

【Driver】

Although the New European Union has canceled its plan to copy the Phoenix transformation technology on a large scale, it still hopes to find more technical "references" in subsequent use, so its drivers are specially selected from young engineers with high academic qualifications.

On the recommendation of ace pilot Billy Budd, Luke Rand, a technical second lieutenant of black descent who graduated from Oxford, became the pilot of the Phoenix. As a technician who had recently joined the army and became a driver, Luke's performance in training was not outstanding, but he submitted a large number of Phoenix research reports, and the military did not consider the idea of ​​replacing him with a better driver.

Luke Rand's first battle was to attack the Osiris (the official statement of the new EU was that the border guards mistook it for the enemy), although he had a bad start and crashed on a small island in the Black Sea together with the Osiris' No. 2 machine. . However, Luke and Lin Ao, the pilot of the Osiris, destroyed HER's plot to attack the port of New Muscovy and then frame it on the new EU on the small island, preventing the war situation in the Black Sea from deteriorating, and Luke and Lin Ao also formed a bond. friendship.

Currently Luke Rand is still serving in the New EU-Eastern Europe Macedonian Legion.