Original Garland

Model number: N/A
Code name: Original Garland
Unit type: prototype maneuver slave
Manufacturer: unknown
Operator: E=X
First deployment: unknown
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
Armor materials: unknown
Powerplant: unknown
Propulsion: unknown
Performance: unknown
Equipment and design features: sensors, range unknown
Fixed armaments: 2 x missile launcher, mounted in shoulders, beam cannon, mounted in torso
Optional hand armaments: beam gun

During the great war a thousand years ago that nearly destroyed Earth, one of the warring factions created a prototype maneuver slave, the Original Garland. The Original Garland’s data became the basis for several Garland iterations over the next thousand years, most recently the E=X Garland. The Original Garland was housed at Eden City’s E=X Tower, but its technicians were unable to completely determine its abilities. Unlike other machine soldiers that used motorcycle controls in their cockpits, the Original Garland used a trackball control system. The Original Garland’s armaments included a pair of shoulder-mounted missile launchers, a beam gun and a powerful chest-mounted beam cannon that could wipe out several machine soldiers with one blast. During Orange’s rebellion, E=X bureau director Yacob Halm used the Original Garland to single-handedly fight off Orange’s Hargan III units. At the battle’s end, Yacob and the Original Garland were destroyed by Eiji Takanaka’s E=X Garland.

Pilot: Yacob Halm
First appearance: Megazone 23 Part III
Original mechanical designer: Shinji Aramaki

Beam gun

Head

Rear view