ACF-S4xC2-005 Quel

- External Fuel Tanks

## Standard Armaments

### Fixed

- Left Wire-Guided Forearm w. Built-in Laser Manipulators- Primary Shield Generator

- Right Forearm-Mounted 80mm Dopplehound Twin Gatling Cannon

- Solar Cannon Apparatus

### Handheld

- 40mm ASU

The ACF-S4xC2-005 Quel is a Garrisai from the *Harbinger - Century's End* Novel. It is piloted by Lucy Faraday.

## Technology and Combat Characteristics

36 years after the Harbinger Uprising, the Queen Caelestis had undergone a substantial amount of damage since its first deployment. With only a handful of its original weapons and equipment still intact, it was brought back onto the battlefield against threats far beyond what it had ever faced before.

## Armaments

- 40mm ASU: In the need the machine has to engage in combat, it is equipped with a standard assault rifle. While not the most effective for a machine of its class, it can still deal a considerable amount of damage when needed.

- Forearm-Mounted 80mm Dopplehound Twin Gatling Cannon: Created from the salvage of the shoulder-mounted 80mms of the Queen Caelestis, this now forearm-mounted weapon of the Dopplehound has been reworked by Lucy to be a manually operated weapon. Now no longer connected to the automated weapons system of the Garrisai, it can be operated with a fixed manual weapon trigger with a decent amount of reliability. Due to their age these experimental weapons are far more prone to overheats, resulting in shorter firing times between cooldowns. While it is possible to purge these weapons, their exotic design makes them of relative importance to Lucy.

- Left Wire-Guided Forearm w. Built-in Laser Manipulators: A side-project created by Lucy during one of her tinkering sessions, this specialized forearm replacement works in a similar way to the MASTERSTRIKE Harbinger’s Wire-Guided Forearms. However, the addition of five compacted laser weapons in each of the “fingers” means that the weapon can fire five individual lasers at once. Even with one of these forearms, the Quel can engage multiple enemies at once, with the wire-guided aspect of the arm meaning the lasers have a far greater range.

- R1-System (Main Shield Generator): This nearly 190 year-old, essentially unmodified design has certainly seen better days. After its near-crippling escape from the Red Hornets, the shield generator was reduced to its chest-mounted core, as both side-generators were destroyed. Through using an array of small-wave hardlight amplifiers, the generator is capable of generating a medium-sized dome shield, which can sustain small periods of sustained damage before requiring a recharge. Compared to its original battery strength, use of the shield is far more draining of the Fusion Drive, meaning it can only take so many hits before requiring a recharge.

- Solar Cannon Apparatus: (Virgo’s Flame): With the last firing of the SCA being over 20 years ago in 2600, this once apex weapon has now been reduced to that of a neglected decoration. With Lucy covering the weapon up with an externally mounted head armor piece, its power had decayed over the years, meaning a discharge at this point would be incredibly risky. When Lucy ended up firing the weapon on the Red Hornets in 2621, the SCA was only able to emit a bright stinging light, draining what was left of the one and a half fuel tanks left.

## Special Equipment and Features

- External Fuel Tanks: In order to compensate for the increased strain of power on the Fusion Drive from both the aging R1-System and aging Solar Cannon, two sets of external fuel tanks can be mounted on the Quel’s backpack. Even with one tank equaling a single Dechalus core, the energy drain on the tanks is incredibly costly. Each full charge of the R1-System costs one fuel tank, while one shot of the SCA requires all four. All four tanks can be purged if depleted, or detached early to provide a devastating explosion.

## Trivia

- Bring back Lucy’s LEGACY Team pose where the Quel’s shielding against a bunch of bullets by deploying the main shield generator, then sucks the shield back in and gets into its firing pose, blasting everything in front of it.

- The sound of its Solar Cannon sounds like the Full Armor ZZ's Double-Beam Rifle from the animated clip thing. Click-BWAZZZZ—

- The combination of the cannon and shield are reminiscent of Guardia 7’s most iconic features. This was to represent the “soul” of the fortress.

- Its name, Quel, is a loose abbreviation of Queen Caelestis. Maybe there can be a faded print of its name that reads QU[ ]E[ ] [ ]L[ ].

- “Quell” also means to suppress or put an end to, representing the Solar Cannon’s importance in ending many wars throughout the history of Metugars.