R-Gun

The R-Gun is a fictional robot in the Super Robot Wars series. Its upgrade is the R-Gun Powered. Both units have appeared as playable units in the Super Robot Wars Alpha series and the series.

Appearance

The R-Gun is a humanoid machine with a very sleek design. It is colored in a shade of dark purple. Various linings and decoration of white and orange are apparent on various places on the body. The head of the unit uses a visor. The R-Gun Powered is slightly modified and now carries two large launchers on each shoulder.

Technical And Historical

The RW-1 R-Gun was developed as a modular weapon for the SRX. During the testing stages, it was referred to as "Argun" (in Super Robot Wars Original Generations, it would be codenamed the "Real Personal Trooper Type-Gun"). The R-Gun seems like a normal machine, but can transform into its "Metal Destroyer" ("Metal Genocider" in the original Japanese version) Mode, resembling a large, handheld gun which the SRX can use in combat (in Original Generations, its appearance resembles more of a cannon than a gun that can fit with the SRX's hand). The R-Gun was given a Personal Trooper mode so it could fight independently and not stay in its gun form all the time. Since it uses a T-Link System, the pilot needs to be a Psychodriver to bring out the most of the mech (in Original Generation 2, Viletta Vadim is not a Psychodriver, but can still pilot the mech, minus the T-Link Boomerang attack). The engine is a powerful Tronium Engine, though this is usually suppressed until the R-Gun is used by the SRX, due to the inherent dangers of the highly unstable Tronium.

In the Alpha series, the R-Gun would be piloted by Major Ingram Prisken, commander of the SRX Team. Later on, it would be piloted by Viletta Vadim and be upgraded to the RW-1P R-Gun Powered (alternatively, the player could recruit Levi Tolar and have her pilot it). In the Original Generation games, the R-Gun was primarily piloted by Viletta for the duration of the Divine Crusaders War. Ingram would take the R-Gun with him, during the L5 Campaign and turn it into the AGX-13 R-Gun Rivale, by exposing it to Zfylud Crystals. As the R-Gun Rivale, its armor takes on a violet crystalline appearance, and it loses its ability to transform into the Metal Genocider Mode. It does, however, gain incredibly powerful internal weapons to compensate for the loss of the transformation ability. The R-Gun Rivale would be destroyed by the SRX, and the original R-Gun rebuilt in Original Generation 2, rolling out for use as the R-Gun Powered, and used specifically for Mai Kobayashi.

pecifications

R-Gun Specifications

Model Number: RW-1 (Real Weapon Type 1)

Height: 16.8 meters

Weight: 46.2 tons

Main Power Source: Tronium Engine

Defensive System: Nendō Field

Weapon Systems:
*Vulcan Guns
"In the head there area a pair of small-calibur guns."

*Beam Gladius (Beam Katar Sword in the Japanese version)
"On each arm are metal katars that can project beam sabers for melee combat."

*Twin Magna Rifle
"This type of rifle can fire both solid rounds and energy rounds."

*Metal Destroyer (Metal Genocider in the Japanese version)
"The R-Gun transforms into its Metal Destroyer Mode and fires its Hyper Tronium Buster Cannon in this form. "

R-Gun Powered Specifications

Model Number: RW-1P (Real Weapon Type 1 Powered)

Height: 29.8 meters

Weight: 66.2 tons

Main Power Source: Tronium Engine

Defensive System: Nendō Field

Weapon Systems:

*Vulcan Guns
"In the head there area a pair of small-caliber guns."

*Beam Gladius (Beam Katar Sword in the Japanese version)
"On each arm are metal katars that can project beam sabers for melee combat."

*Twin Magna Rifle
"This type of rifle can fire both solid rounds and energy rounds."

*T-LINK Boomerang
"The R-Gun combines its two metal blade weapons to form a twin-sided blade. It then uses telekinetic force to throw it at the target."

*Metal Destroyer (Metal Genocider in the Japanese version)
"The R-Gun transforms into its Metal Destroyer Mode. With the exception of its appearances in Alpha and Super Robot Wars Alpha Gaiden, the Powered form must link with the SRX to actually fire the Hyper Tronium Buster Cannon."

*Hi-Twin Launcher
"The R-Gun aims and fires the beam launchers on its shoulders."

*Tenjou Tenga Ichigeki Hissatsu Hou (Heaven and Earth One Shot Sure Kill Cannon)
"This is actually known as the HTB Cannon (Hyper Tronium Buster Cannon), where the R-Gun Powered transforms into its Metal Genocider Mode and is used as a giant gun (cannon, in Original Generations), in which power from the SRX's Tronium Engine is combined with the R-Gun Powered's Tronium Engine (hence Ryusei Date stating, "Energy charge, 120%!") to perform a devastating attack. In Alpha, this was the most powerful attack in the game.

R-Gun Revale Specifications

Model Number: AGX-13 (Aerogator Type X - 13)

Code Name: Handgun

Height: 40.3 meters

Weight: Unknown

Main Power Source: Zfylud Crystals

Defensive System: Nendō Field

Weapon Systems:

*Roshe Blade
"The R-Gun Rivale deploys two whip like energy tendrils with harpoons at the end of them from its arms which is launched at the enemy and slashes it before stabbing it and lodging into the body of the enemy and is wrenched in half by the R-Gun Rivale. In Original Generation the R-Gun Rivale deploys a buzzsaw like blade which shreds the enemy to pieces."

*Gun Slave
"The R-Gun Rivale deploys numerous razor sharp triangle shaped discs which shoots the enemy repeatedly before shreding the victim with their blades."

*Axion Buster
"R-Gun Rivale's ultimate attack, its chest plate opens to form an odd shaped gun before deploying its Gun Slaves which fire beams into its chest plate forming a circle shaped energy field, once the attack is fully charged it fires a powerful beam which traps the enemy in a giant sphere of darkness which blasts the helpless opponent on the inside before imploding with the enemy still in it. In Original Generation it is a weaker version of the Blackhole cannon."

Notes

The R-Gun first appeared in the Banpresto role-playing game, Super Hero Sakusen ("Super Hero Operations"), along with other Banpresto Original characters that were slated to appear in Super Robot Wars Alpha. Such characters include Ingram Plisken and Viletta Vadim, who are the male and female counterparts of each other (they originally shared the same surname in this game, before Viletta's was changed to "Vadim" in Alpha, wherein they are established as rather two separate identities), from which the player can choose the main character to play as. Aside from Ingram and Viletta, the eight characters that were to compose the new set of eight lead protagonists in Super Robot Wars Alpha, takes part in Super Hero Sakusen as non-playable characters (NPCs) that provide Ingram/Viletta and company access to item shops, health recovery facilities, and save functions. Euzeth Gozzo of Balmar appears in this game, so it may as well have been his first. The rest of the SRX Team, which the R-Gun is associated with, is present and playable in Super Hero Sakusen.

In this game, the R-Gun was built by "Howard" from Mobile Suit Gundam Wing. The R-Gun Powered's ability to transform into a gunlike weapon for the SRX was first featured here as well.