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Gloucester

Gloucester

Technical Specifications

Model Number

RPI-209

Unit Type

Mass Produced

Overall Height

4.29 meters

Gross Weight

7.75 metric tonnes

Power Source

Yggdrasil Drive, Energy Filler

Armor Materials

Tungsten

Manufacturer

Holy Britannian Empire

Operators

Britannian Military
Glaston Knights
Glinda Knights
Pluton

KMF Generation

5th

Role

Multi Purpose, Anti-Panzer, Anti-Knightmare

Developed From

Sutherland

Developed Into

Gareth

Variants

Cornelia's Gloucester
Gloucester Swordsman
Gloucester Glinda
Gloucester Pluton Custom
Gloucester Air Custom

Equipments

Standard

Factsphere Sensor
Landspinner Propulsion System
Cockpit Ejection System
I.F.F Transponder

Optional

Sand Panels
Float System

Armaments

Fixed

2x Chest-mounted Slash Harkens
1x Torso-mounted Antipersonnel
Machine Gun (Stored in The Chest)

Optional

1x Assault Rifle
1x EM Jousting Lance
2x Sattel Waffen Missile Launchers
2x Maser Vibration Swords
1x Anti-Knightmare Sniper Rifle
1x Giant Cannon
Multiplex Chaos Mines

Appearances

Anime

The Princess and the Witch (First)
Schneizel's Guise (Last)

Manga

Code Geass: Oz the Reflection
Code Geass: Oz the Reflection O2

Known Pilot(s)

Cornelia li Britannia
Euphemia li Britannia
Gilbert G.P. Guilford
Andreas Darlton
Alfred G. Darlton
Bart L. Darlton
Claudio S. Darlton
David T. Darlton
Edgar N. Darlton
Oldrin Zevon
Gino Weinberg
Luciano Bradley

Status

(Partially) Active

The fifth-generation RPI-209 'Gloucester' (グロースター Gurōsutā) is a remodeled Sutherland with focus on close combat. Ordinary models are painted a flat, dull purple, but a few ranked-officers units are known to be custom painted. For example, Guilford's and Darlton's units sport a more vibrant deep-purple color scheme, while the elite Glaston Knights mostly retain the standard colors except for their shoulders and the sides of the head, which are blue. The cape on standard-model Gloucesters are a muted dark blue-grey, while those of Guilford, Darlton, and the Glaston Knights are more navy-blue.

Following the failure of Zero's Black Rebellion, the Gloucester replaces a majority of the Sutherlands as Britannia's mainline Knightmare, while maintaining its high performance unit status.

Design and Specifications[]

Featuring enhanced hand-to-hand capabilities, in addition to standard Sutherland equipment, the Gloucester also uses a large jousting lance and, to further draw into a medieval knight's motif, is occasionally draped in a cape. Cornelia, her knight Guilford, and the Glaston Knights habitually equipped capes to their units, though Andreas Darlton did not. The unique lance, dubbed as the "EM (Electromagnetic) Jousting Lance", incorporates a set of expanding prongs on four sides that makes possible to trap and disarm enemy weapons. Combined with the Gloucester's high mobility, this fearsome weapon can be used to penetrate right into an enemy Knightmare's cockpit, killing the pilot and preventing him from escaping via the standard ejection system.

During the Area 18 campaign, several Gloucesters were equipped with sand panels similar to those used by the Z-01 Lancelot in the Battle of Narita. Furthermore, it can be fit with an optional Float Unit backpack, consequentially changing the machine designation to RPI-209FA Gloucester Air (グロースター・エア, Gurōsutāea).

Exceptionally, the Glaston Knights units were shown to equip two "Sattel Waffen" five-barrel missile launchers attached to the sides of the cockpits, while Guilford's Gloucester has been fitted with a pair of MVSs stored in black scabbards on the sides of his Gloucester's cockpit.

Variants[]

Gloucester Cornelia[]

Main article: Cornelia's Gloucester

Gloucester Glinda[]

Gloucester Glinda (Color)

RPI-209/G Gloucester Glinda

The RPI-209/G Gloucester Glinda is a variant of the Gloucester that appears in the manga and photo story, Code Geass: Oz The Reflection. The Gloucester Glinda is a Gloucester frame that has been modified for the Glinda Knights. Besides its lance and other regular Gloucester armaments, it is equipped with two powerful oscillating Maser Vibration Swords, but since using them consumes a lot of energy, it cannot be used in prolonged battles. Its operational history consists of a battle simulation, where it was piloted by Oldrin Zevon against the Guren Mk-II and against the Britannian terrorist group the Wings of Talleyrand while the Lancelot Grail was being repaired. It was destroyed in battle. However, the Glinda Knights mass-produced in Gloucesters in Glinda red and gold colours.

Gloucester Pluton Custom[]

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RPI-209/PC Pluton Custom

The RPI-209/PC Gloucester Pluton is a variant of the Gloucester that appears in the manga story, Code Geass: Oz the Reflection. It is used exclusively by the Britannian special forces group, “Pluton”, which undertakes dirty jobs for the royal family. Since its interior frame and OS have been customized, it is more highly efficient than the regular Gloucesters, although it possesses the same standard armaments. Like all other Pluton Knightmare units, it has completely black armor along with purple on the shoulder armor, Factsphere face-plate, and also on the hip guards.

Gloucester Air Custom[]

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RPI-209AFA/C Gloucester Air Custom

The RPI-209AFA/C Gloucester Air Custom is a machine of unknown affiliation that aimed at Marrybell's life. Its head has been changed to an unregistered unit, and its registration number has also been deleted. However, a base machine like a Gloucester equipped with a Float Unit was very rare at the time compared to a Sutherland so only a person of high societal status is perceived to have access to it.

Appearances in Other Media[]

Gloucester Swordsman

Gloucester

Technical Specifications

Model Number

RPI-209/EB

Unit Type

Mass Produced

Overall Height

4.51 meters (Asura Team: 4.50 meters)

Gross Weight

8.10 metric tonnes (Asura Team: 8.06 metric tonnes)

Manufacturer

Holy Britannian Empire

Operators

Euro Britannia
Knights of St. Michael
Knights of St. Raphael

KMF Generation

5th

Developed From

Sutherland

Variants

Asura Team Gloucester Swordsman Custom
Ashley Ashra's Red Gloucester Swordsman
St. Michael Swordmasters Custom
St. Raphael Swordsman
St. Michael Swordsman
St. Uriel Swordsman
St. Gabriel Swordsman

Equipments

Standard

Cockpit Ejection System
Factsphere Sensor
Landspinner Propulsion System
I.F.F Transponder

Armaments

Fixed

2x Chest-mounted Slash Harkens

Optional

1x Assault Rifle
2x Swords
EM Jousting Lance (Seen Briefly in Episode 1)

Appearances

Anime

Code Geass: Akito the Exiled

Known Pilot(s)

Asura Team
Knights of St. Michael
Knights of St. Raphael

Status

N/A

Code Geass: Akito the Exiled[]

The Gloucester Swordsman is variation of the Gloucester used by elite knights of Euro Britannia. The unit is exactly identical to the original Gloucesters performance wise, although parts of its armor have been re-designed and thus the appearance looks remarkably similar to traditional medieval knights motif of old.

Each elite Knight Order of Euro Britannia is shown to have Gloucester Swordsman units amongst its ranks, with each sporting the order's unique color scheme. The Knights of St. Raphael Gloucesters are silver and blue/purple, while the Knights of St. Michael's are silver and red, St. Uriel's are silver and brown, and St. Gabriel's are silver and Green. Furthermore, the Asura Strike Team are shown to have their own custom Gloucester Swordsman machines, with their leader Ashley Ashra using a uniquely customized red Gloucester Swordsman. It is also shown that the 3 Swordmasters of a Knight order use the Swordsman as their primary Knightmare Frame, as seen with the Knights of St. Michael Swordmasters having their representative colors on their units.

As the name suggests, these Gloucester prefer to use traditional long swords (note that these swords are not MVS swords) over the EM Jousting Lances that were seen in the original series. Though, they can use said Jousting Lances, as was seen very briefly during the first episode of the OVA series when a Knight of St. Raphael used the Lance for his machine.

Specifications[]

209 Gloucester Normal techbio

General Characteristics

Design Features

Armament

Optional Armaments

  • 1x Assault Rifle (Commonly-used weapon)
  • 1x EM Jousting Lance (Commonly-used weapon, mainly among Cornelia's Royal Guards, the Glaston Knights, and Andreas Darlton)
  • 2x Shoulder-mounted "Sattel Waffen" (Saddle Weapon) Missile Launchers (Located on each side of the cockpit)
  • 2x Maser Vibration Swords (Holstered in black scabbards on the sides of the cockpit) (used by Gilbert G.P. Guilford)
  • 2x Swords (Knight Orders)
  • 1x Anti-Knightmare Sniper Rifle
  • 1x Giant Cannon (大型キャノン, Oogata Kyanon) (Commonly-used weapon)
  • Multiplex Chaos Mine(s) (ケイオス爆雷, Keiosu Bakurai, lit. Chaos depth charge) (carried in its hips)
  • 1x Torso-mounted Antipersonnel Machine Gun (LEAST-used weapon)

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

  • The Gloucester shares its name with the city, district and county of Gloucester in England, a part of the British Isles, Britannia's conquered ancestral homeland in the series.
Vehicles of the Holy Britannian Empire and Euro Britannia
Knights of the Round
Knights of the Round Knightmares Florence - Galahad - Lancelot (Conquista - Albion - Club - Albion Zero) - Mordred - Palomides - Percival - Tristan (Divider)
Sheffield Eye
Ground
Landships G-1 Base-class Land Cruiser
Britannian Superheavy Railway Gun
Armoured Fighting Vehicles Britannian APC - Britannian Tank
Britannian Armoured Train - Britannian Jeep
Transport Vehicles Black Knights Command Vehicle - Britannian Ambulance
Dispatch Trailer
Ground Knightmares Generation 3 (Ganymede)
Generation 4 (Glasgow - Knightpolice - MR-1 - Prytwen)
Generation 5 (Canterbury - Gekka Alonso (Custom)
Gloucester (Cornelia) - Liverpool - Sutherland (Club - Eye
Glinda - Ledo - Pluton Custom - Schnee))
Generation 6 (Equus)
Generation 7 (Ahuramazda - Brighton - Gawain - Gracchus
Lancelot Grail - Vercingetorix - Vincent (Gram - Ward - Glinda
Snipe - Blaze - Pluton) - Zetland (Heart))
Air
Airships Avalon-class Aircraft Carrier/Battleship - Caerleon-class Floating Battleship - Gallia Grande-class Floating Ark
Logres-class Floating Battleship - Britannian Transport Blimp
Transport Aircraft Britannian Transport Plane - Britannian Shuttle
Britannian Heavy Transport Plane - Vercingetorix Flight Unit
Fighter Aircraft Britannian Jet Fighter
VTOL Britannian Knightmare Carrier VTOL - Britannian VTOL Gunship
Britannian VTOL Transport
Knight Giga Fortresses Elphaba - Siegfried
Aerial Knightmares Generation 7 (Aquila - Bradford (Brave) - Lancelot HighGrail
(Frontier) - Somerset - Vincent (Command Model) - Gareth)
Miscellaneous Aircraft Britannian Police Aircraft
Sea
Seaships Dreadnought-class Carrier-Battleship - Britannian Carrier-Battleship - Britannian Destroyer
Assault Boats Britannian Landing Craft
Naval Nightmares Generation 4 (Portman)
Generation 5 (Portman II)
Space
Spaceships Damocles-class Sky Fortress
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