Zfylud (Mecha)
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Zfylud is a fictional giant robot from the Japanese video game series Super Robot Wars (SRW). It has appeared as a boss in Shin SRW, SRW Alpha, SRW Original Generation, and SRW Alpha 3. Due to the protean nature of the mecha, it has appeared in three distinct aspects in the game. This article will discuss the three different aspects of the Zfylud unit.
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[edit] Zfylud (Humanoid)
The first Zfylud appeared in Shin SRW and SRW Alpha. In both games it was the personal mount of Admiral Laodicea Judecca Gozzo, commandant of the Seventh Ze Balmary Imperial Inspection Fleet, otherwise known as the Aerogators.
[edit] Appearance
The humanoid Zfylud is a deep purple in color and appears to be made entirely of crystals. It has a pair of orange-tinted winglike projections. Its only handheld weapon is a crystalline sword. Its face is said to be fashioned in the likeness of the Balmarian creator god, Zfylud. Many SRW players have commented that it appears to be sticking out its tongue.
[edit] Technical and Historical Info
The Zfylud was designed as the nucleus of the fleet's colossal Hermóðr-class warships. It serves as the power source and main computer of the entire ship. The unit itself is only used in dire circumstances (ie, the destruction of the flagship), but when it is used, it can turn the tide of the battle on its own.
The Zfylud is made up entirely of Zfylud Crystals, nanomachine-like particles that can reproduce, repair themselves, generate energy and even gain sentience in large quantities. Because of this, the mecha constantly generates its own power without any fuel requirements---the Quantum Pulse Engine simply harnesses the waves of energy that the crystals constantly radiate. The Zfylud can also repair itself when damaged.
Despite the crystals' reproductive properties, the unit itself cannot be mass-produced. A limiter device on the mother crystal prevents the Zfylud from reproducing itself more than four times.
The Zfylud's most incredible feature is its ability to change its shape depending on the nature of its opponents. In SRW Alpha, the Zfylud took on a (relatively) small form in order to challenge the protagonists. This shapeshifting process, however, takes a lot of time to complete and cannot be done at will. The Zfylud usually changes its configuration in the belly of the ship it commands while the fleet observes its opponents with unmanned probes.
[edit] Specifications
Height: 67.2 meters
Weight: 523.1 tons
Main Power Source: Quantum Pulse Engine
Armor Material: Zfylud Crystal
Defensive System: Gravity Territory Barrier
Weapon Systems:
- Cross Blade
A handheld sword formed out of Zphiroude Crystals.
- Hexagram
A wide-area energy attack capable of damaging large masses of enemies.
- Ald Laser
An immense burst of radiation, possibly gamma rays, from gunbarrels mounted on the Zphiroude's wrists.
- Omega Wave
A time-space-bending energy burst shot out of the Zphiroude's palms.
- Zehn Gebote
"The Ten Commandments". In SRW Alpha, the Zfylud maxes out its power output (as it does this, a ghostly image of the deity Zfylud appears) and fires an energy projectile at its victimm trapping it within a vortex of energy. The Zfylud then appears to grow to an immense size (this is probably just an illusion) and closes its fist around its victim. The victim is then crushed into nothingness by the swirling energy ball. In SRW Alpha for Dreamcast, the giant Zfylud illusion crushes the victim with the point of its Cross Blade instead, stabbing it from above.
[edit] Zfylud Eved
A wide-area extermination aspect of the Zfylud. This form appeared in SRW Alpha 3, but was mentioned in SRW Alpha.
[edit] Appearance
In this form, the Zfylud has grown to an immense size (possibly anywhere from 100 meters to a kilometer in diameter) and has lost its humanoid shape. The only remaining resemblance to its humanoid form is its face. The rest of it is a giant, amorphous crystalline mass.
[edit] Technical and Historical Info
The Zfylud Eved is the nucleus unit of the fleet's Hermóðr-class flagships. However, it has been reconfigured to include weapons designed for engaging multiple opponents. Since the Ze Balmary Empire was fighting the Buff Clan and the STMC in SRW Alpha 3, all existing Zfylud were reconfigured into this monstrous form.
Before SRW Alpha 3, the Eved aspect was used in the war against the Zentradi. The Zentradi fleet was so vast that the humanoid form was useless, having been designed more for mecha-to-mecha combat than anti-ship warfare. The Zfylud Eved single-handedly destroyed the Zentradi flagship, sealing the Zentradi defeat.
Strictly speaking, there were originally only seven Zfylud. However, they can be mass-produced it the limiters on their mother crystals are deactivated. Keisar Ephes produces large numbers of Zfylud Eved units each of them piloted by his demonic Neshamah.
[edit] Specifications
Height: unknown, anywhere from 100 to 1000 meters in diameter.
Weight: massive
Main Power Source: Quantum Pulse Engine
Armor Material: Zfylud Crystal
Defensive System: Deflect Field
Weapon Systems:
- Ald Laser
An intense burst of radiation, possibly gamma rays, fired from the Zfylud Eved's mouth.
- Zehn Gebote
"The Ten Commandments". The Zfylud's crystal mass breaks apart into nine shards, each one orbiting around the face. Each shard fires a huge energy beam, while the face fires another beam from its mouth.
- Meth Hazon
"Death Vision". A wide-area shower of crystals that deals immense amounts of damage while disabling weaponry.
[edit] Septuagint
This terrifying form appeared in SRW Original Generation as the "true" last boss. In hard mode, after Levi Tolar's defeat, the protagonists find out that Meteor-3, the extraterrestrial chunk of rock that landed on Aidoneus Island, was actually a large mass of Zfylud Crystals.
[edit] Appearance
The Septuagint does not have recognizable features--it is nothing more than a gigantic, misshapen mass of purple, green and reddish-pink crystals. It has no face, arms or limbs. It can speak, however, and often refers to itself as The Final Adjudicator.
[edit] Technical and Historical Info
The Septuagint is not a true Zfylud unit. The Zfylud units are the cores of the Empire's Hermóðr-class warships and serve as emergency superweapons should the flagships be compromised. The Septuagint is an emergency weapon as well--but it is meant to eradicate a sample race in the event that the race grow too strong for the Neviim forces to contain and assimilate. The Septuagint was sent to Earth in the form of Meteor-3.
When the Judecca was destroyed towards the end of SRW OG, the Septuagint activated and began assimilating the fleets that were guarding Aidoneus Island. Septuagint uses its Zfylud crystals to absorb its victims, using their mass to increase its own.
What makes the Septuagint truly terrifying is its ability to "grow" Balmarian units from its Zfylud crystals, including Huleh-class warships. This reproductive cycle takes five minutes to complete.
In the final battle of SRW Original Generation, Septuagint began to grow Judecca-class Mobile Weapons which would have easily wiped out the protagonists. Had it not been destroyed, the Septuagint could probably have single-handedly exterminated all life on Earth.
[edit] Specifications
Height: unknown, possibly several thousand meters. It was growing multiple 5.4 kilometer-long Huleh-class cruisers in the last stage of SRW Original Generation.
Weight: massive
Main Power Source: Quantum Pulse Engine
Armor Material: Zfylud Crystal
Defensive System: Warp Field
Weapon Systems:
- Energy Drain
The Septuagint fires beams that function as energy conduits, siphoning the energy from its victim's reactor.
- Crystal Masmer
A deadly shower of crystal shards breaks off the Septuagint and tears the enemy to pieces.
- Omega Wave
An intense pulse of radiation that destroys everything in its path.
