Knightmare Profile
Despite its pilot
Kallen Kouzuki's exceptional skill, the Type-02
Guren Mk-II is outclassed by the
Knights of the Round during an attempt to capture
Area 11's new Viceroy,
Nunnally Vi
Britannia. Badly damaged
and plummeting towards the ocean,
Kallen is saved by the intervention of
Black Knights engineer
Rakshata Chawla,
who sends a set of upgrade parts that turns the
Guren Mk-II into the Type-02/F1A
Guren Flight">
Guren Flight. The old radiation
wave arm is replaced with a much more powerful bombardment arm, which can fire microwaves in a ranged beam or in
a wide-area burst that can short out enemy machines caught within it. As the name implies, the Flight Type also
receives an air glide wing unit that allows it to fly, but this also comes with a set of missile-like Gefjun
disturbers, which can shut down the functions of an improperly shielded
knightmare (and still hamper the functions
of a shielded one). Though the modifications consist mostly of a new head and arm, this upgrade puts the
Guren on
par with the Rounds' personal Knightmares, and
Kallen returns to her place as the
Black Knights' ace pilot. Shortly
afterwards, however, the
Guren faces off against its "brother," the Chinese Knightmare Frame XT-404 Shen-Hu, and is
defeated in part by a lack of maintenance which leaves it powerless in a critical moment.
Kallen and the
Guren are
handed to Prince
Schneizel El
Britannia, who gives the
Guren to the Camelot Engineering Corps working under Knight
of Seven
Suzaku Kururugi. The Corps then massively overhauls the captive enemy machine into the Type-02
Guren SEITEN.