Set 10 "Phoenix" - Ten Swords Unit 4
"Unit 4, transformation!!"
—Luke. Rand (Phoenix's Driver)
【Airframe Positioning】
Variable highly mobile humanoid weapon.
【Styling】
The main colors of "Phoenix" are red, yellow and white. It has a slender body with a triangular face and 2 eye monitors on the left and right sides.
The "Phoenix" can be transformed into a fighter mode, in which the wings are usually stored, but the overall shape is still relatively slender.
【Armament】
Special high-output laser rifle (with laser bayonet), laser knife x2, head cannon, and several missiles.
It can additionally carry a missile compartment for bombing missions.
【Development process】
"Phoenix" is one of the most expensive to develop in the Ten Swords series (relatively speaking). As a Variable Humanoid Weapon, it was later given to the New European Union, a faction that also possesses the Variable Humanoid Weapon "Companion Cavalry".
Because the Phoenix's transformation mechanism is more advanced than that of the Companion Cavalry, many engineers have attempted to replicate its technology. However, they found that the transformation mechanism of the phoenix was too complicated, and in order to improve the reliability and speed of the transformation, the Moore Chamber of Commerce used a large number of high-priced materials on the phoenix. If its transformation technology is copied, the development speed and capital of each "partner cavalry" will be unimaginable (not to mention the original development cost of the partner cavalry is very high), and the new EU will stop the idea of copying its transformation technology.
The reason why the Moore Chamber of Commerce adopts a more complex transformation method than the "one-lying transformation" of the "partner cavalry" is that the phoenix can fight in different environments such as air, ground, sea, and space without changing equipment, and switch the combat environment at any time (such as floating from the water for air combat).
Because of this, the specific development process of the Phoenix Transformation Mechanism was classified by the Moore Chamber of Commerce.
It's not enough for the main body to be able to fight in all environments, Phoenix also needs a weapon that can adapt to all environments. The Moore Chamber of Commerce created a high-power laser rifle that was almost as long as the body, and attached a laser bayonet to it, giving the Phoenix the tactical possibility to kill the enemy immediately after shooting.
However, 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 water, the power of the head cannon will be reduced in a gravityless environment, and the missile compartment needs to change ammunition according to the use occasion.
Power technology development process (*confidential*)
【Driver】
Although the new European Union canceled the plan to replicate the Phoenix transformation technology on a large scale, it still hopes to find more technical "reference" in the subsequent use process, so its drivers are specially selected from young engineers with high academic qualifications.
In the ace driver Billy. On Bard's recommendation, Oxford graduated with technical ensign of black ancestry, Luke Brown. Rand became the driver of the Phoenix. As a new technician, Luke, who turned to driver, did not perform well in training, but he submitted a lot of Phoenix research reports, and the military department did not consider the idea of replacing a better driver.
Luke. Rand's first battle was to attack the Osiris (the official version of the new European Union is that the border guards mistook it for an enemy), although he was unsuccessful and crashed on an island in the Black Sea with the Osiris's No. 2 aircraft. However, Luke and Osiris' pilot, Lin O, struck up HER's plot to attack the ports of the new Muscovy and then frame it for the new European Union on the island, preventing the war in the Black Sea region from worsening, and Luke and Lin Ao formed a friendship as a result.
Currently Luke. RAND also served in the New EU-Eastern European Macedonian Legion.