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Super Evangelion (スーパーエヴァンゲリオ, Sūpā Evangerion?) is an Evangelion Unit that was introduced in the Neon Genesis Evangelion: ANIMA novel. It is piloted by Shinji Ikari.

Profile[]

This unit is an evolution of Evangelion Unit-01. It still bears the iconic purple and neon green color scheme of the Unit-01 but however has more orange details throughout its body. The S.EVA's armor, being derived from the F-Type Equipment is more bulky and more ornate.

It was created when Shinji, in the Unit-01 Type-F was shot at point-blank by Rei Quatre in her Evangelion Unit-0.0 Mutant. Everyone thought Shinji to be dead but as Yui appeared before him, his body and soul merged together with the Unit-01. It then started to rebuild itself, creating the Super Evangelion. His soul is now linked to the S.EVA to the point that it could be considered Shinji's second body.

Features[]

The Super Evangelion is considered the "Stage 3" of the technology used on Evangelion Unit-01. Its name, Super Evangelion, was coined by Misato Katsuragi.

One of the primary focus of the design of the Super Evangelion unit is to adapt the changes caused by the ingestion of the S² Engine by the Unit-01. The technology of heat management, first tested on the components used by the Evangelion Unit-01 Stage 2 Specification via the its Type F Equipement configuration, is now perfectly applied on the armor of the unit, due to the use of parts and technologies found on the Mass Production Evangelions. In the end, one could say that the Evangelion Unit-01 has finally become one with the S² Engine.

The head is also a noticeable feature of the unit. Where the previous versions of the Unit-01 used transparent eyecover, the forehead portion of the helmet now moves down to protect the eyes of the Evangelion (similar to the helmet popping mechanism of the NGE-version Evangelion Unit-02). When this mechanism is activated, the Entry Plug field-of-vision's camera feed is changed from the eyes of the Super Evangelion to the secondary camera located on each side of the "cheek" parts of the helmet.

Vertex system
The Vertex is a supplementary flight unit. A pair of small, hip-mounted wings called the Vertex system.[1] Unlike the UX-1 Allegorica that uses graviton based system, the Vertex uses an A.T. Field to create variances in the density of air through which the Super Evangelion can float. Flight was one of the possible applications of the A.T. Field deflection technology developed for the Type F, but it had to be shelved due to the incapability of generating an sufficient A.T. Field that would allow sustained flight, not even bursts.[2]
To fly, unlike the Allegorica, which was fully technological, it need the focus of both Super Evangelion and Shinji, if they fail to generate the A.T. Field, it will definitely fail to fly. When Shinji first used it inside the cage, anything under it would be shaken, twisted, and broken by the violent phasing. [3]During the first attempted flight, Maya asked Shinji to open the retractable wings, as it extended a little farther, and the outer edge of the field guidance plates distanced themselves from the body. With just that slight change, the Super Evangelion's uncontrolled twirling motion stabilized. Maya explained that extending the wings increased stability at the expense of slower responsiveness and decreased mobility. [4]
When using the Vertex system, the green coloring is altered to blue-based aviation camouflage.[5]

Weapons[]

One of the features of Super Evangelion is the hardpoints and rail system, which allowed Super Evangelion to have various different loadouts depending of the mission. These are the weapons that Super Evangelion used:

New Type Pallet Rifle "Powered 8"
KEG-46R Yamato Rebuild
EXW-038 Guided Artillery Cannon Neyarl
Azumaterasu
SRM50
SRM-6la Field Splitter Sword Kesara
SRM-61b Field Splitter Sword Basara
Stage 3 Specification Progressive Knife

History[]

Neon Genesis Evangelion: ANIMA[]

Although the changes to the Unit-01 were planned for quite a long time, the fact that the unit self-regenerated itself and evolved when it was critically damaged made the NERV technical department have to change the Stage 3 modifications to better fit the new Evangelion. Those changes also lead to various tests of experimental equipments using particle transfer, like the Vortex unit which enables the flight of the S.EVA (when equipped with the Vortex unit, the unit's armor's color is slightly altered, as the neon green details are replaced with baby blue details). These researches are meant to perfect the use of a particle jump-use power supply (making the power of the S² Engine directly transfered to the components, instead of it being changed first into electricity; this would make the entire system more efficient in theory). Those experiments are considered the "Stage 4" of the Evangelion Unit-01.

All of those experiments will eventually lead to the development and the creation of the Evangelion Final Model, the ultimate of the technology used on Unit-01. This results in a more sleek armor with more black details and a new, foldable backpack derived from the Vortex which the S.EVA uses to fly.

As a Stage 3-Evangelion, it makes use of Stage 2 equipments as its standard weapons.

Trivia[]

  • Rough draft for Super Evangelion air combat equipment was called Turbulence equipment. It featured not only the flying parts but also artillery battle equipment and sword battle equipment were also considered at time. [6]
  • Maya personally named the Vertex system using the Latin name—vertex, referring to a point of rotation in the sky, like those that occurred at the celestial poles. Later, when the wings were formally assigned a name, a clerical error resulted in the English spelling being used in conjunction with Super Evangelion, which led to most people calling this configuration the Super EVA Vortex or Vortex EVA.[7]
  • The first action figure released based on the Super Evangelion was the Chogokin Super Evangelion. This figure is part of the Chogokin line made by Bandai and released on March 27, 2010 in Japan.[8]

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