The Armor of the High Priestess
of the Temple of the Mountain Headlands
(Prepositional phrases are fun!)
Linna Hardsuit was designed primarily for speed and accuracy. She was destined to become the Knight Sabers' melee expert. Melee combat is meant to be fast and efficient, precisely as Linna might best be described in battle. When she engages in combat, woe betide the Boomer who challenged her.
Sylia Stingray created and maintained all of the Knight Sabers' Hardsuits and spent hours preparing the individual armor for its wearer, and vice versa. Linna was chosen for her mix of dance and martial arts that combined to create a deadly style. Light and flexible were two major factors needed to make Linna successfully function as one of the head offensive members of the Knight Sabers organization. Sylia took these, and many other things, into consideration when creating Linna's Hardsuit.
The casing of Linna's Hardsuit is a ceramic/metal based substance of Sylia's own creation. Linna's flexibility could have been sacrificed through impending heavy weight of her armor, but Sylia chose to cut back on the padding and thickness of the armor, thus making a combination of highly powerful and durable but light armor. This also helps Linna's thrusters send her for longer leaps. Her thrusters/jumpjets are the second most powerful, after Sylia's.
Linna's weapons are almost entirely close combat. She has the ribbons which, when activiated, heat up to a point that the thin strips they are made of can slice through nearly anything. Linna demonstrates the usefulness of this particular weapon in only two episodes of the series.
Another weapon Sylia made for Linna and herself (one which Priss received later) was the Knuckle Bomber. One of the most impressive weapons found on the Hardsuits, the Knuckle Bomber is a contact detinator which heats up after a charge and can puncture the majority of known substances. The Knuckle Bomber has the setbacks of only being good for a certain number of uses and can overheat, making it worthless. There are cones on the tip of Linna's gauntlet that detonate, sending charges through the Boomers. It can also pierce the armor of the Boomers and be held into for a short-term blast that can last up to one second.
Finally, Linna has a rotating cannon on her right gauntlet (her left hand is protected by a fire-proof glove). This cannon is not so affective as Sylia's or Priss', but is works to stop a Boomer in its tracks. Destroying a Boomer takes her other weapons. The cannon fires three constant or controlled streams of lasers that come from the 'fingertips' of Linna's Hardsuit.
Linna's Hardsuit is also equipped with an HUD that reads heat, organics/inorganics, and her life signs. It can lock automatically on a target and even lift Linna's arm into firing position. The HUD goes through several notable upgrades during the span of the eight BGC episodes.
See Linna's Hardsuit Statistics and Hardsuit: Linna for more information on Linna's Hardsuit.
Return to the Temple of the Mountain Headlands
E-Mail!