GAT-X105E Strike Noir

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This article is about a fictional weapon from the Cosmic Era timeline of the anime Gundam metaseries - specifically the ONA .

The GAT-X105E Strike Noir is a variant on the design of the GAT-X105 Strike, created by the Eurasian corporation Actaeon Industries for the Phantom Pain special forces and designed primarily for close combat. Very similar to the GAT-X105 Strike in appearance, the structural and design changes implemented by Actaeon Industries were intended to increase the units power efficiency and therefore improve its operating time.

Assigned to Phantom Pain pilot Lieutenant junior grade Sven Cal Bayan, Strike Noir is part of a special combat MS platoon with 3 or more other pilots, which include the GAT-X1022 Blu Duel and GAT-X103AP Verde Buster. The Strike Noir was designed to work as part of a unit, since basic Phantom Pain battle tactics do not allow for solo operation.

Like its predecessor, the Strike Noir includes hardpoints for Striker Packs and the Strike Noir was built with a custom Striker pack - the "Noir Striker". The Noir Striker is a flight pack equipped with a pair of linked railguns and a pair of heavy beam swords. In effect it combines the primary features of the original three Striker packs (the Aile, Sword, and Launcher Strikers). It also mounts a single rocket anchor.

The Strike Noir unit itself is armed with a pair of beam pistols, stored on the waist armor, and mounts small rocket anchors in its hands and feet. It can also carry a pair of larger grenade launcher-equipped beam rifles of the type used by the GAT-X102 Duel.

The GAT-X105E Strike Noir uses the General Unilateral Neuro-link Dispersive Autonomic Maneuver synthesis system operating system.

Specifications

GAT-X105E Strike Noir

Manufacturer: Actaeon Industries/Earth Alliance
Users: Earth Alliance
Unit type: Prototype general purpose mobile suit
Rollout: unknown
First Deployment: Cosmic Era 73
Overall height: 17.72 m
Weight: 90.51 t
Powerplant: Ultracompact energy battery
Special equipment: hardpoints for Striker Packs, Variable Phase Shift armor, AQM/E-X09S Noir Striker
Armament: M2M5 "Todesschrecken" 12.5mm CIWS x2, M8F-SB1 beam rifle "Shorty" x2, EQS1358 rocket anchor x6, Noir Striker (MR-Q10 "Flagalac 3" beam blades x2, MAU-M3E42 linked linear guns x2, EQS1358T rocket anchor x1)
Optional armament: beam rifle with 175mm grenade launcher x2
Pilot: Sven Cal Bayan
Mechanical designer: BEE-CRAFT (primary design), Kunio Okawara (cleanup)

Trivia

• The Strike Noir's armaments as listed on the Mecha Section of the [SEED-Stargazer official site] do not include the pair of beam rifles the unit is seen using in the official [SEED-Stargazer promo video]. The rifles are possibly the same rifle/grenade launcher employed by GAT-X102 Duel.

• The promo video shows a ZGMF-1017 GINN exploding (shot by Strike Noir) in what appears to be footage from episode 31 of Gundam SEED Destiny, when the original GFAS-X1 Destroy unit destroys Berlin. This implies that the events of Stargazer overlap this battle and that the Strike Noir took part in it, but it is more likely that the series just re-uses stock Gundam SEED Destiny footage (a common practice throughout Gundam SEED Destiny).

• Noir is French for black. This makes the Strike Noir the second Strike-derived unit to bear a color-themed name, the first being the MBF-02 Strike Rouge.

Sources

[MAHQ]

[SEED-Stargazer Stargazer promo video]

[SEED-Stargazer official site (Mecha section)]