Lichkeit
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Lichkeit (full name Persoenlichkeit) is a fictional machine from the Super Robot Taisen series of video games, appearing in the Super Robot Taisen Compact 2 trilogy, IMPACT, and Original Generation 2.
[edit] Description and Background
Persoenlichkeit (German for personality) is one of the machines created by the Einst, an unusual race of biomechanical beings from an unknown part of the galaxy. The body of the Lichkeit is one of the few Einst machines with a definite, human shape, its body clad in red and white biomechanical armor formed over green, vine-like cables and wires emanating from a central point within. The plating on its forearms, shoulders, and knees bear strange, skull-like shapes, with hollowed eyes and long horns, like the heads of demons; adding to the demonic visage is a pair of demonic skulls hovering around the Lichkeit at all times, its familiars.
In battle, Lichkeit is a dangerous foe. Like the other Einst, it is capable of instantaneous teleportation in order to strike quickly; however, unlike most other Einst, it is designed to battle individually rather than as a collective. Its high speed is bolstered by the use of a large katana, with which it can create waves of supersonic force; as well as a variety of energy blasts which emit from the eye sockets on its armor, as well as from the mouth of Lichkeit's head, when it reveals its true face: a snarling beast.
Lichkeit is not only a battle unit, however, but the life support system of its controller, the Einst-human hybrid known only as Alfimi. Alfimi uses it as her means of searching for Kyosuke Nanbu and Excellen Browning -- two individuals with whom she has a strange connection.
It also acts as her grave; freeing herself from the control of Einst Regisseur, she helps her former enemies to destroy its evolved forms, the Neu Regisseur and Stern Regisseur. With the Einst queen destroyed, the Lichkeit breaks apart in space. Rather than living amongst normal humans, Alfimi chooses to stay in the crumbling Lichkeit as a way of committing suicide. Her reasoning is that she, as an artificial lifeform, should not exist.
