List of playable Gears in Xenogears
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The following is a list of all playable gears and vehicles in the PlayStation RPG Xenogears. A list of non-playable gears can be found at Gears and Vehicles (Xenogears).
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[edit] Regular Gears
[edit] Brigandier
An agile and strong red Gear piloted by Bart. It was excavated out of the ruins in Aveh by Bart and his Sand Pirate crew and later customized to meet Bart's exact standards. He had a feather placed on the Gear's head and purposely had one of the Gear's optical sensors destroyed and covered over with an eyepatch to reflect Bart's own physical appearance. It first appears when Bart and his pirates attack the Aveh sand cruiser carrying a captured Weltall along with Fei and Citan back to Bledavik. Mistaking Fei for an Aveh pilot he attacked Weltall after the sand cruiser was sunk. The battle between the Gears caused them both to sink into a Stalactite Cave. It suffered damage to its leg joints and was later repaired by Isaac Balthasar. Bart used this Gear for most of the game until he acquired his Omnigear Andvari.
[edit] Crescens
A thin white and gold Gear with no arms and large green angel wings on its head. The Gear was constructed by Solaris to be used exclusively by Emeralda. Similar to its pilot, it is made at least partially out of nanomachines. The Gear makes its first appearance at the Sargasso Gate when Krelian, having harvested enough of Emeralda's nanomachines to suit his purposes, turned her loose on Fei and his friends in the hopes that they would dispose of her for them or vice-versa. After Crescens was defeated the brainwashing performed on Emeralda wore off and she then joined Fei's party in their quest to stop Krelian. Perhaps as an Easter egg for fans of Xenogears, Crescens gears are enemies in the Omega System dungeon in Xenosaga Episode II. One of the more prominently features mechs in the game, Pellegri's E.S. Issaachar also wields a powerful weapon called the "Crescens Claw". In battle Crescens is one of the faster Gears with high accuracy, but like Elly's Vierge this is offset by poor framework.
In the Xenogears Perfect Works a pre-production sketch of Crescens with arms exists, thus showing what the Gear would look like if completed.
[edit] Heimdal
Citan Uzuki's gear. It was one of the few Gears excavated from ruins in Aveh by Bart and his Sand Pirates. It was stored away in his hideout while a search for a suitable pilot was underway. The Gear was so awkward and unresponsive that it wound up severely injuring every test pilot that climbed in its cockpit. Citan Uzuki came across it by chance while he was a guest of Bart's along with Fei Fong Wong. Citan first piloted it when Bart's lair was attacked by Gebler. Cognizant of its "Wild Horse" nature he piloted it anyway, putting all his skills as a former Element to use and subduing the rebellious Gear. Heimdal bares a striking resemblance to Citan's Omnigear, Fenrir. Heimdal was named after Heimdall, the God of Light in Norse myth. In battle it is slightly faster than the Weltall, possesses some strength, and features average framework.
[edit] Renmazuo
A custom built Gear made by the Ethos Society for Etone Billy Lee Black. It was stored beneath Billy's orphanage in Aquvy before Billy joined Fei's party full time, then it was moved onto the Yggdrasil. The Gear makes an impressive and heroic entry into the game when Billy summons it on the Reaper Ship. Renmazuo, much like Billy uses a variety of guns for weapons including the "JessieCannon", a special Gear that transforms into a gun built and piloted by his father Jessiah "Jessie" Black. Late into Disc 2 Renmazuo is aligned with an Anima Relic and transformed into the Omnigear El Renmazuo. In battle, the Renmazuo has the potential to become powerful, due to the diversity of its three styles of attack.
[edit] Seibzehn
A titanic blue Gear controlled by Maria Balthasar, "Siebzehn" is German for "Seventeen", perhaps inferring that Seibzehn was the seventeenth version of its design. Seibzehn is unlike most other Gears in Xenogears in a variety of ways, one of which being that Maria does not pilot it by sitting in a cockpit inside it - she rides on its head and controls it with verbal commands. It was created in Solaris by master Gear designer Nikolai Balthasar at the horrific cost of hundreds of land dwellers' lives. Because part of the Gear's neural make up is comprised of -Wels-, the Gear itself has a personality and a degree of autonomy. Nikolai programmed it to escape Solaris and flee to Shevat carrying young Maria with it. Ever since Maria has used it to defend Shevat from any and all threats to its safety. When Shevat is attacked by a brainwashed Nikolai who had also been merged into his next generation gear Achtzehn, Maria reluctantly rode Seibzehn out to confront her father. Nikolai was able to regain control of himself but couldn't live being trapped in the shell a Gear so he activated one of Seibzehn's dormant weapons, the Gravitation Cannon. To her horror, Seibzehn acted beyond her control and fired the cannon on Achtzehn and completely obliterated it and Nikolai. In battle, aside from Xenogears, Seibzehn is the strongest Gear in the game. Its physical attacks are arguably the best of all the "normal" Gears in the game, but its power is offset by low speed and sometimes poor accuracy, much in the same vein as Rico's Stier. Seibzehn can also appear while Maria is on foot through her "Call" special ability, and its concept and physical design are based on Giant Robo of super robot fame.
[edit] Stier
A gargantuan green monster of a Gear, it shares several characteristics with its pilot, Ricardo Banderas. It has wheels on its feet and a large rocket on its back. Stier was custom built by the Nortune Battling Committee for Rico after he became champ for the first time. Rico never lost a match thereafter with it until Fei came along. After Rico was dethroned by Fei in the tournament the Battling Committee, which was run by the Ethos Society, arranged a special match for Rico and they rigged his Gear to malfunction and crash into the Kaiser's box seat. The incident lead to Rico being sentenced to execution after the Committee testified that Rico intentionally ploughed Stier into grandstands in an attempt to kill the Kaiser. Rico was later rescued by Fei and along with Citan, Elly and Hammer they fled to freedom from Kislev. In Disc 2 Steir is aligned with an Anima Relic and transformed into the Omnigear El Stier. In battle Stier is powerful, but it is weaker to Ether-based attacks, slow, and inaccurate. It does, however, have quality framework. Steir bears some resemblance to an Armored Trooper from Armored Trooper Votoms, notably in its reliance on its foot-mounted rollers and its odd proportions.
[edit] Vierge
A sleek and powerful Gear piloted by Elly Van Houten. It was a custom built special forces Gear made by Solaris specifically for top-level Ether users (an elite few within Gebler known as the 'Elements'). It first appeared at the Mountain Path when Elly confronted and then fought Fei, acting under orders from Gebler command. When Elly turns against Solaris and sides with Fei's party the Gear becomes playable full-time. In battle Vierge is very fast with powerful Ether attacks but its physical attacks are rather lacking. Its special ability is Animum Ether Response Offensive Drones or AERODs, powerful Ether-powered attack drones. The Gear was based on the C-1 Vierge, Miang's prototype Gear.
[edit] Weltall
A svelte but powerful black-red humanoid Gear. Its first appearance in the game sets the plot into motion and irrevocably changes the life of young protagonist Fei Fong Wong. Weltall is probably the most important and mysterious Gear in the entire world and pivotal to the game's storyline. Weltall was constructed in Kislev using parts supplied to them from Solaris by Grahf. It was specifically custom-made for Fei, or more importantly custom-made for Id. Many of the Gear's Black Box components were Ether amplifiers and components used to transform the Gear into Weltall-Id-. Grahf manipulated Gebler into raiding the factory where it was being stored and returning with it to Aveh, he also engineered that it would crash-land in Lahan Village with the intention that Fei would get inside it and Id would awaken within it. His plan worked perfectly. While Fei was reluctant to pilot it after the incident, fate seemed to draw him and Weltall closer and closer together until he just accepted being its pilot. At the end of Disc 1 Weltall is tracked down and destroyed by Ramsus' brand new Omnigear Vendetta. Weltall is rebuilt into the larger and more powerful Weltall-2 by the three Sages of Shevat at the start of Disc 2.
[edit] Weltall-2
A larger, more powerful version of Weltall that was rebuilt from the wreckage of the original Weltall at the start of Disc 2 by the Sages of Shevat. While still only a normal Gear, Fei's level of power as the Contact and a new feature installed on the Gear known as "System Id" gave it a level of power equal to that of an Omnigear. System Id, designed by Taura Melchior, allowed Fei to use all the raw power and abilities of his destructive alter-ego Id without Id actually awakening and taking control of his body. This effectively allows the player to immediately enter Hypermode. It also starts with two other special abilities that are lost upon its transformation into the Xenogears. Fei pilots Weltall-2 throughout most of Disc 2 until it is transformed into the Xenogears at the end of the game. Weltall-2's trial-by-fire came when Fei took it into battle against Vendetta, the Omnigear piloted by Ramsus that had destroyed the original Weltall.
[edit] Xenogears
The word Xeno comes from the Greek word, "foreign", as this would apply to Fei's gear, Xenogears. This means that Fei's gear is foreign, or not of the regular kind. Xenogears is the most powerful Gear on earth. It is not an Omnigear, rather it is Fei's Weltall gear that made contact with the Wave Existence. It is a large white Gear with 8 spikes coming out of its back and angelic wings. The wings appear when the Xenogears reaches its maximum power limit in battle (which a 99% chance of happening after the first round of battle). The gear also floats all the time, and its feet appear to be inside giant modules which allow this. Fei receives this after meeting the Wave Existence inside Zohar. He easily beats True Weltall afterwards, then heads on with the others to destroy Deus. After the Zohar Modifier is destroyed, Xenogears is the only Gear that is left working (as it is the only Gear on the planet not irretrievably reliant on a Zohar slave generator). Fei pilots after the Malakh Angel into Deus and then totally annihilates Urobolus in it. He then returns to earth in it with Elly. The Xenogears is truly a one of a kind machine, as evidenced at the end when the Anima relics of all the party member's omnigears were stripped from them and stolen by Krelian in order to revive Deus. All the gears are reverted to their original, weaker forms until Fei comes on scene with the Xenogears. The Xenogears is so powerful, that its energy could actually be used on the other gears to elevate them to Omnigear status again, making the Xenogears quite godlike and possibly on par with the Deus and the Zohar generator themselves. This could possibly be evidenced by the fact the giant gear-like machine that Deus embodies in the end which the player fights has many design similarities to the Xenogears. Having both be of the same advanced technology could also support the Wave Existences' claim for Fei to use it to destroy Deus, giving the impression that it's a gear made especially to destroy the godlike being.
Despite being the titular mecha of the game, Fei receives this gear only near the very end of the game.
[edit] Omnigears
[edit] Andvari
The Fatima Family Treasure. A tall bright red Omnigear with a large yellow horn and small black wings that was piloted over 500 years ago by Roni Fatima, the first king and founder of Aveh. After the Shevat-Solaris War Roni sealed the Omnigear away inside of Ft. Jasper, which was then hidden in the Nisan Mausoleum. A legend was then passed down through the Fatima Dynasty that if ever Aveh or Nisan were in peril then Roni's descendants could unlock the treasure wake the Omnigear from its slumber to save either nation. Such a time came 500 years later when Roni's descendant Prince Bart Fatima unlocked the Omnigear and claimed it for his own in order to fight back against Solaris, who had put the whole world in jeopardy, not just Aveh. Andvari is the first Omnigear that Fei's party obtains. Andvari is alinged with the Anima Relic Dan.
[edit] El Crescens
At one point in Xenogears' development Emeralda was meant to have an Omnigear just like the other main characters known as El Crescens. Unfortunately due to time and money constraints the portion of the game where Crescens is aligned with an Anima Relic was cut out of the game and El Crescens went with it. A concept sketch of El Crescens exists within the Xenogears Perfect Works which proves that it was an option indented to be implemented at one point in the game's development cycle. The sketch depicted El Crescens in the similar organic-like design scheme of its fellow Omnigears, its originally mechanical hand-like wings had turned into a singular flowing form of similar shape which was more like a cape than wings.
[edit] El Renmazuo
Billy's Omnigear. It was aligned with the Anima Relic Joseph in the first Anima Dungeon near the end of the game. El Renmazuo looked strikingly similar to the normal Renmazuo, though its Omnigear form was measurably more powerful and sported a pair of diamond-shaped wings instead of a heroic cape. Billy puts his new Omnigear to good use as he helps Fei and Elly defeat the massive G-Elements Gear.
[edit] El Seibzehn
At one point in Xenogears' development Maria was meant to have an Omnigear just like the other main characters known as El Seibzehn. Unfortunately due to time and money constraints the portion of the game where Seibzehn aligned with an Anima Relic was cut out of the game and the Omnigear went with it. A concept sketch exists within the Xenogears Perfect Works which proves that it was an option intended to be implemented at one point in the game's development cycle. The sketch depicted El Seibzehn in the similar organic-like design scheme of its fellow Omnigears.
[edit] El Stier
Rico's Omnigear. El Stier was created when the Anima Relic Gad was aligned with Stier in the second Anima Dungeon near the end of the Game. El Stier is a larger and more powerful streamlined version of Steir, but it's not that remarkable and is still just as slow as the normal Stier is.
[edit] Fenrir
Citan Uzuki's original Gear. It was made when Solarian-built Gear was aligned with the Anima Relic Asher several years before the start of the game. When Citan assumed his fake name and went down to the surface on a mission from Emperor Cain he had the Omnigear stored away in the care of Gaspar. The Omnigear is a strong-looking Gear colored royal green and white that wields a sword in battle. Citan reclaims his Omnigear when he reclaims his sword from Shevat just before going to Solaris, however the first opportunity that the player is given to use it does not come until well into Disc 2 at the first Anima Dungeon.
