Trowa Barton

Trowa Barton is one of the Gundams. He pilots Gundam Heavyarms. Trowa is of American descent, and appears to be very disciplined and very fearless. He poses as a carnival acrobatic clown.

As far as Heavyarms go, it is capable of doing quite a good amount of damage until it runs out of ammunition.

Abilities:

Training: All the Gundams have been trained quite excessively in the arts of warfare.

Equipment:

Chest Miniguns: A triple-minigun setup in the chest.

Dual Machine Cannons: All the Gundams have these dual Machine Cannons.

Dual Vulcans: All Gundams have these dual Vulcan cannons.

Forearm Blades: Trowa's only real hand-to-hand weapon, these small forearm blades nonetheless are capable of cutting up Leos. Their short range is a limitation, however. These are also known as "Army Knives".

Forearm Minigun Shield: A shield fused with a minigun that is detached when it runs out of ammo. The minigun gives the arm more weight and is the source of the name "Heavyarms". Those who hijack or borrow Trowa's mech will have to get used to manually compensating for the weight, as Trowa didn't automatically adjust the arm's movement for the weight so he could have a speed edge (automatic is not as good as manual).

Leg Micromissiles: Trowa has 24 micro-missiles in compartments on his leg. The upgraded Heavyarms Custom has 56.

Shoulder-Mounted Shoulder Missiles: Trowa has 6 shoulder-mounted homing missiles. While very good against Leos and other regular mobile suits, Zechs Marquise is perfectly capable of dodging them in the Tallgeese.

Potential Upgrades:

All the Gundams are pragmatic and see their weaknesses. Trowa runs out of ammo quickly and then becomes a fairly easy enemy to defeat by Gundam standards. Thus, the upgrades he will be interested in will attempt to alleviate this problem, as well as augment his strengths.

• Dimensional clips. Whether magical or technological, Trowa will like this idea, as it provides the potential to increase carry capacity by 10 times with no additional weight! In addition, magical super-light features and shrinking will enable him to carry more bullets and missiles conventionally.
• An energy backup for his minigun. Trowa would like the edge of surprise that having a conventional minigun turn on a secondary, laser minigun feature! It would also make his minigun forearm shield more useful and allow him to detach it less.
• Railgun or gauss accelerations with switches. There is little evidence to assume that the Gundams are railgun accelerated; perhaps such technology was not in the realm of the Gundam designers. There is no evidence to assume gauss acceleration. Such upgrades can increase a minigun's efficiency by 10 times without requiring any more ammo.
• Trowa might be interested in a Recallable (teleporting) energy sword of some type.
• He might want to get his Army Knives vibro, ion or plasma cutting capacities. They are already made of sharpened gundanium, meaning that there is little he can do in the way of upgrading the material.
• Automatic repair of some type, probably nanorobotic. All Gundams will be especially interested in such a thing, as it cuts down on repair time and allows minor dents and scratches to be repaired in the midst of a battle (as most conventional weapons will indeed only dent the Gundams).
• Direct neural linkup, although he will probably still want to have his body use the pedals (keep in shape). All the Gundams will be interested in direct neural linkup to the armor. Perhaps even VR (Virtual Reality) controlling from a distance, like they do on the Rifts Moon and in the NGR! Remember that the system developed in GW that we see on the Wing Zero is only partial: it influences the warrior and expands his capacities, but is not a complete fusion.
• Conventional cloaking. All the Gundams can see the beauty in being unseen. I believe that Heavyarms already has a sort of white-noise generator, but apparently only Deathscythe has that. Anyone know? siva69@hotmail.com, per usual.
• Teleportation. Remember that Heavyarms must often waste ammunition to get to a strategic point. Teleporting in would be so much simpler.
• Protoculture backup power. Of course the backup power is always useful, but the protoculture also develops a symbiotic relationship between the robot and the pilot! This is what gives Veritechs advantages over Rifts robots.
• Iron Curtain. If Trowa could rush madly through enemy obstacles without taking damage, he could cut down on his ammunition costs. He could also take time to aim better if he activated it when he was firing.
• Enhanced hydraulics. The Gundams appear to be pretty good at hand-to-hand, but they could definitely improve. Extending arms could enable enhanced point-blank firing and HTH combat, better hand-to-hand means less bullets, and jumping is harder to detect and more silent than flight
• Transformable mech. Just because Hiro already has the capacity to transform his mech doesn’t mean Troa doesn’t like the idea as well. He might also want a sort of hover tank transformation.
• Forcefields, preferably a combat forcefield. All the Gundams will be interested in this opportunity to enhance their defenses, and combat forcefields offers an advantage in HTH combat.
• Enhanced sensory capacity. All Gundams will be interested in TW and technological sensory capacities that they don't have. Trowa will be especially interested in sensory capacities enabling him to guess strategic spots to attack.
• Sound diffusion, ala Rifts™ or Batman Beyond™. Silence for a mech is strange, but could be used in combination with other systems to avoid detection. Remember that there are essentially two types of invisibility: types that take advantage of human weaknesses, and types that take advantage of machine weaknesses. This is more of the first type, although it would help avoid audio pickup.
• Superlight systems. Remember that Heavyarms is called that for a reason, and it could enhance Trowa's combat speed by having his heavy minigun arm move that much quicker.
• Techno-wizard modifications of all types. Trowa might be interested in auxillary offensive spells (i.e. Fireball or Call Lightning), and he would definitely be interested in features like Chameleon, Invisibility Superior, Armor of Ithan, Shadow Meld, and so on. Some things are pretty useless; Breathe without Air would just be an auxillary system and would be a second interest, Swim like the Fish could be done technologically anyway, and so on.
• Perhaps more weapons hidden in convenient spots: additional blades in the knee, elbows, and so on; palm energy blasters; eye lasers.
• A combat computer could be useful, although Trowa will definitely want to keep a level of control.
• A sort of Alpha Strike or LAWLO system could be used, as Trowa can see the advantage in pummeling one enemy to smithereens, especially with this new All-Monster character capable of withstanding destruction to the nth degree. not to mention the Avatars!
• Hologram projector. All the Gundams would like this inexpensive, small device that enables them to control what their enemy sees!
• Identification Scrambler. All the Gundams will like the capacity to trick their enemies.
• Scouter systems. All the Gundams will be amazed at the new superhumans who can destroy a Gundam outside of a mech! Being able to see these dangers before they come and avoiding them can be a major help.
• Techno-Gauge. The Gundams will want the capacity to see their enemy's true technological prowess, as they aren't the big boys anymore (their weaponry having been surpassed by the Zero Armor of 000 and such).
• Heatsink Blaster Upgrades will be another way to exacerbate Trowa's problem with ammo loss. All the Gundams will enjoy this enhanced effiency.