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Reishi Armour

Sakura Wars Series > Reishi Armour

Reishi Armour is a fictional weapon that appears in the game Sakura Wars Series, and is a type of armoured power suit.

Overview

In the world of the Sakura Wars series, there exist steam-powered steampunk creations known as ‘human-shaped steam,’ which are a type of humanoid heavy machinery (a variant of powered suits). The Ryōshi Armour is an advanced, improved version of these. It was developed based on a design draft by Lieutenant Colonel Yamazaki Shin'nosuke of the Japanese Army's Anti-Demon Corps.

The total height is approximately 3 metres (excluding the variable fighter ‘STAR V’). The power source is a steam-hybrid spirit crystal engine, and the activation of the spirit crystal embedded in the engine requires the pilot's spiritual power, so only humans with strong spiritual power can operate it. Since those with strong spiritual power are particularly common among young women, most pilots are female. Only two men—Oogami Ichiro and Oka Shinjiro (excluding Kujo Akira, whose gender is unknown)—have been confirmed to possess the strong spiritual power required to operate the spirit armour.

The armour is made of Silsus steel, a special alloy of iron and lead. This alloy was developed through the analysis of the material used in the traction engine of an agricultural steam tractor where an infant—the sole survivor of a tribal extermination operation conducted by the Confederate Army during the American Civil War—was hidden by his parents. Silsus steel blocks external spiritual energy while serving as a medium for the pilot's spiritual energy. The use of spiritual armour, which surpasses conventional weapons in terms of spiritual power, is limited to urban defence specialising in countering demonic power and monsters. However, during the European War, humanoid steam units covered in Silsus steel, which possess high demonic power resistance and bulletproof capabilities, were used as weapons to break through trench defences.

The pilot inserts their arms into the machine's forearms and operates the upper arm's control grips to manipulate the arms, weapons, and equipment (in the TV anime version, levers are arranged alongside instruments in front of the pilot). Among the Flower Division, there are also petite members like Iris, but their machines adopt a different non-contact control system. The Koubu/Koubu Kai adopts a control system that traces the pilot's movements. In its advanced form, the Koubu F, an auxiliary system is used that provides feedback on subtle changes in motor skills through the pilot suit and sensors inside the machine. Additionally, when performing more complex movements, mechanisms such as foot pedals are used, making the controls themselves not particularly difficult. There have been cases where pilots who had not undergone control training participated in actual combat immediately. Oogami, who first encountered the Koubu during the battle at Ueno, described its ease of operation as being ‘like armour or something.’

Pilot suits are basically designed specifically for each aircraft type (though the upper garment in each pilot's personal colour and white trousers are standardised), and each suit is custom-made to fit the pilot's size. While they are standardly equipped with connectors for supplying spirit energy to the spirit engine, due to the lack of compatibility between different aircraft types, these pilot suits are likely one-off components of the spirit armour.

The basic style is to add additional equipment to the base aircraft body according to the characteristics of each pilot, but since combat in urban areas is the main focus, there are more close combat-type aircraft equipped with swords than rear support-type aircraft equipped with firearms.

Following the recognition of the achievements of the Flower Division during the ‘Demon Suppression War’ that erupted in 1919, the international organisation ‘World Flower Division Federation (WLOF)’ was established. Based on spirit armour, they developed the foundational framework for a new spiritual combat weapon, the ‘spirit fighter.’ The Spirit Combat Aircraft achieved miniaturisation, increased output, and reduced the spiritual power required for activation and operation compared to conventional spirit armour. As a result, it was adopted as the main aircraft of Flower Battalions worldwide, and by the 29th year of the Taisho era, spirit armour had become obsolete as a spiritual combat weapon.

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