Type: Liger
Class: 4
Function: Close range heavy assault combat unit. Limited Command Edition.
Alignment: Non issue Helic Republic/ Guardian Force issue.
Designation: RZ-028 Blade Liger
The Blade Liger, an evolved form of the Shield Liger, boasts higher armor integrity and increased shielding capabilities. Armed with a meager long range armament and relying on high speed to reach melee range, the Blade Liger carries the highest output booster of any land based Zoid not spawned from the Saurer project. Though enlisted in the Helic Republic, it is not considered a production unit. Though not completely one of a kind (several Blade Ligers were produced based off of Van/Ban’s Blade Liger*) the Liger’s immense production placed a major crimp in its numbers, that and the extensive training required for the pilot to fully control it (which is not possible without an Organoid, for you cannot unlock its full potential without having a sequencing device between the Zoid core and the pilots mind).
The mass production type of the Blade Liger was the RZ-007S Blade Liger Simulacrum. The Simulacrum used lighter armor alloys and thinner armor (90mm rather then 200mm) then even the Shield Liger (150mm) and used a smaller output Dual Impact Cannon. The Simulacrum also features a lower output reactor, this causing it to sacrifice the E-Shield generator. Not only did it lack the shield of its predecessor but it also did not have the weapon of its name sake, the Simulacrum uses a hyper impact razor blade over the Blade Ligers laser blade.
The best known pilot of the Blade Liger is probably Van/Ban. Though Leon Toros easily takes second place. The Blade Liger uses an armament of twin laser blades, a dual impact cannon, twin fully auto low output laser cannons, and its formidable claws and jaws to attack and defend. But for its main choice of defense it uses its E-shield. The E-shield, boosted from the Shield Liger by fifty percent, is one of the strongest E-shields mounted on a class four Zoid.
Unfortunately due to its frame design the Blade Liger is not well set up for weapons package upgrades. The CP-12 Booster Units are the only mass production upgrades package and the only package on the market, though the CP-06 MK II upgrade package from the Shield Liger can be modified to be usable by the Blade Liger. The most common upgrade for the Blade Liger was the OS-10 System. When the Blade Liger was equipped with the Organoid Simulation System it could finally hit full sync with the pilots brain, allowing the Zoid to max out reaction time and optimize combat systems.
All and all, the Blade Liger is a remarkable machine, though not well balanced, and way to powerful for an inexperienced pilot, the Blade Liger is one of the few Zoids that were written into the history books of the Zijin race.
* Though Van/Ban is one of the most well known Blade liger pilots, he is not the first.
DETAILS OF THE MACHINE
Height: 12.2m
Weight: 124.0T
Length: 25.9m
Maximum speed un assisted: 305 Kmph (.25 Mach)
Maximum speed booster assisted: 501 Kmph (.45 Mach)
Crew: 2
Powerplant: Class 4 Zoid Core rated at » 4000Mw
Propulsion: Sub sonic rocket thrusters (mounted in thruster pod): 2x 15000kg
Vernier thrusters (mounted at base of tail[butt burners]): 2x 1000kg
Performance: 2.5 G
Equipment and Design Features: Sensor Package rated at » 20Km, E-Shield
Generator running at about 14.5GHz with a power consumption of roughly
2500Mw.
Fixed Armament: Twin repeating blaster cannons (15mm barrel diameter, mounted along blades) estimated at 5.5Mw ; Dual Impact Cannon (30mm barrel width) roughly 10Mw power consumption for both; Hardened alloy strike claws; Hardened alloy teeth (» 2 meters long); Laser Blades (» 8.8 meters long) estimated at 200Mw power consumption each, blades must reach a temperature of atleast 1427ºC in order to cut through medium grade steal (typical grade for all mass production Zoids), the blades electrons vibrate at 20GHz when active, thus countering the charged particle cannon (the cpc’s ionized particles vibrate at the same frequency, thus they interact with each other).
MAP (for your viewing pleasure):
1: The main shielding control unit is based mere centimeters behind the secondary pilots seat. Provides protection from those unforeseen attacks!
2: High tension coils and high output hydraulic systems help counter act downward drag and improve reaction time. Makes tight corners a breeze!
3: Not just a flashy mane, the frontal drop fin is where twenty five percent of the shield power comes from. And Raven thought it was a bib...
4: Rear heat ducts, used for cooling and throwing off Vipers. Rear heat ducts, for those times when you just gotta sweat!
5: Thruster Pod, this powerful booster supplies ninety percent of the thrust power. Accompanied by its secondary companion, the Butt burner!
6: The Blades, the fiesta de la resistance of the Blade Liger. These mighty weapons make the Blade Liger what it is, a rocket powered streamline salad shooter!
