General and Technical Data

Model number: Type-02/F1Z
Code name:Guren SEITEN
Unit type: modified ninth generation knightmare frame
Manufacturer: Kyoto House, modified by "Camelot" Engineering Corps
Operator: Order of the Black Knights/United Federation of Nations
First deployment: a.t.b. 2018
Accommodation: pilot only, in motorbike-style cockpit in torso
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
Armor materials: unknown
Powerplant: energy filler, replaceable electrical cartridge, uses Yggdrasil drive superconductor transfer system, power output rating unknown
Equipment and design features: 
landspinner high-mobility propulsion system, mounted in legs; 
cockpit ejection system; 
energy wing defense/propulsion system, enables atmospheric flight
Fixed armaments: 
2 x slash harken, mounted on main body; 
"Fukusha Hadou Kikou" enhanced radiant wave surge unit, output variable, mounted on rocket harken as right arm; 
MVS (maser vibration sword) fork knife, hand-carried in use, stored on back
Optional hand armaments: none

Technical and Historical Notes

Despite its incredible performance and the skills of its pilot, Kallen Kouzuki, the Type-02/F1A Guren Flight is defeated in battle in 
the Chinese Federation by a combination of poor maintenance and the efforts of Li Xingke and his Knightmare Frame XT-404 
Shen-Hu. Both machine and pilot are handed over to Britannia by the request of Suzaku Kururugi and taken back to Area 11. 
While Kallen is imprisoned, the Guren is handed over to Suzaku's subordinates in the Camelot Engineering Corps. The head of the 
corps, Lloyd Asplund, defers to his assistant Cecilé Croomy, allowing her to modify the Guren using a number of technologies 
intended for Suzaku's new machine, the Z-01Z Lancelot Albion. This includes the Energy Wing System, a new flight option of 
Cecilé's design, which combines incredible propulsion with maser field "feathers" which can be used in the same fashion as the 
Blaze Luminous energy shields. In the end, Cecilé by her own admission goes overboard, producing a unit so high-spec that it is 
thought nobody can truly pilot it, not even Suzaku. However, during the Second Battle of Tokyo, Kallen is broken out of her 
prison and hijacks the modified Guren, using it to tear through the battlefield and save Zero from the axe-crazy Knight of Ten, 
Luciano Bradley. When the Black Knights rebel against Zero, Kallen struggles with the choice of who to side with, eventually 
becoming convinced that Zero/Lelouch has truly "gone bad" and swearing to kill him personally to atone for allowing him to 
become so powerful. In the final battle over Mount Fuji, Kallen and the Guren face off against Suzaku and the Lancelot Albion in 
a duel that sees both units dealing crippling damage to one another, finally ending the rivalry between both the machines and 
their pilots.