Knightmare Frame - Britannian Models - Custom Models - Tristan

Tristan

The Tristan (トリスタン, Torisutan?), named after Sir Tristan of the Knights of the Round Table, is a custom eighth-generation Knightmare Frame piloted by the Knight of Three, Gino Weinberg. It is the first transforming Knightmare Frame introduced in the series, able to switch between humanoid and jet forms. It is very maneuverable, able to fold out and transform in mid-air. It can utilize a pair of machine guns in its jet form. It has two large Slash Harkens mounted on its forearms, which are equipped with Harken Boosters. The two Slash Harkens can combine to fire an energy blast, powerful enough to effectively match the Shen Hu's Baryon Cannon. When in humanoid form, it can wield two pickaxe-like Maser Vibrations Swords called the MVS Polearm, which can be joined together at the hilts to form a single, double-edged scythe. The Tristan is heavily damaged during a battle with the Lancelot Albion.

Following Gino's defeat by Suzaku, the Tristan is rebuilt by the Black Knights into the Tristan Divider (トリスタン・ディバイダー?). It features a Black Knights' model Float System and a redesigned head unit similar to the Galahad with longer red horns. The MVS Polearm is replaced with the two severed halves of the Galahad's Excalibur, refashioned into twin swords. It manages to destroy the Shinkirō, but the Knightmare Frame is once again badly damaged by Suzaku, who severs it in half at the waist.

In the manga spin-off series, Nightmare of Nunnally, the Tristan was built by the same manufacturer as the Irregular's Alpha units, but unlike the anime series the pilot of this unit is Anya Alstream instead of Gino. Like the Lancelot, the Tristan appears slightly human in shape and is installed with a synthetic and electrical gel with a special wax made from sakuradite and a muscle framing system and its base metal uses sakuradite with Geass-conducting circuitry, however it does not have a Knight Giga Fortress mode. Its main weapons are the MVS Harken Automated Trajectory Variable type, and it function similar to the Mark Nemo's Blonde Knives.