Anubis

Template:Mechabox Anubis was one of the most powerful Orbital Frames in all of history. It was piloted by Nohman.

Technical Specifications

Class: Type C Orbital Frame
Purpose: General
Piloted By: Nohman
Weapons: Arm Cannon, Battle staff, Homing Laser, Burst Attack, Grab, Shield, Zero Shift

Description

True to its name, Anubis resembles its namesake. It has a dog-like anthropomorphic appearance and its physical appearance is very similar to that of Jehuty, but with some key differences. Its legs are reverse-jointed, with a set of six wings and most notably, a long prehensile tail. The wings on its back are actually huge vector traps. It originally had a color scheme similar to that of Jehuty, with everything that was blue on its twin brown on Anubis, but it is given a revamp in The 2nd Runner, now sporting a white, beige, and black color scheme.

In its first appearance, Anubis is shown to be absolutely invincible in combat and Jehuty is only able to evade its attacks as it constantly teleports to Jehuty's current location with an impenetrable shield immune even to Burst attacks. Anubis' primary weapon is a long range battle staff with a blade at the end. Due to have already been installed with Zero Shift, Anubis is considered the stronger of the two twin frames. Zero Shift creates the illusion of teleportation by moving into compressed space. Near the end of the game, Nohman had created a duplicate of Anubis (with Ken Marinaris in it), sans the wings to fight Jehuty, but it sustained heavy damage from Vic Viper. After releasing Aumaan and fighting Jehuty, it is defeated in battle as some of its Metatron is absorbed by its twin frame to become Naked Jehuty. After landing on Phobos, Anubis falls into the underground level to absorb Aumaan's power, transforming itself into the upgraded Aumaan Anubis, which atrophied its wings with a set of hexagonal fragments surrounding it and a halo-like structure sitting atop its head. Despite improved performance and the ability to repair itself, it is defeated by Dingo and Naked Jehuty, and the finishing blow splits it in half from the waist down. The head was the only thing that remained of Anubis when Auuman exploded. It was shortly after crushed by a damaged Jehuty, effectively destroying all traces of the fearsome Orbital Frame.

Despite its massive power and initial superiority over Jehuty, Anubis displayed the very same problem that its predecessor, Idolo had: psyche degradation. The pilot Nohman was shown to have also been degraded into insanity, but on a much worse degree to the point of celebrating nihilism, which he claims is the true will of Metatron.

More information

The strongest Orbital Frame, controlled by Nohman. A twin mech developed along with Jehuty, it has similar characteristics. It has the ability to use an Urenbeck Catapult in order to propel itself at incredible speeds. Anubis's abilities are similar to Jehuty's through the use of burst attacks and its laser dash attack. Anubis is already programmed with Zero Shift at the end of Zone Of The Enders and is thus renowned as the most powerful orbital frame in existence.

In the anime series 'ZOE:Dolores, I" Anubis demonstrates the ability to redirect projectiles using it's vector traps. When an enemy orbital frame fires beams and missiles, Anubis opens the vector trap to intercept the attack, and redirects it back at the enemy. The missiles enter and exit the trap while still in flight, indicating that no fuel was expended and that objects inside a vector trap are in suspended animation.

Etymology

The Orbital Frame Anubis is named after the Egyptian god that was associated with the mummification and protection of the dead for their journey into the afterlife.