Alteisen Riese (Super Robot Wars) Papercraft Model by GwiJang

25 Oct, 2021

The Alteisen (アルトアイゼン), also known as the Gespenst Mk-III, is a Banpresto Original Mecha debuting in Super Robot Wars Compact 2 Part 1: Earth Crisis. Part of the ATX Project, it was later upgraded into the Alteisen Riese. It's main pilot is Kyousuke Nanbu.

Appearance

The Alteisen is predominantly red with black coloring on its joints and white on various parts of its front chassis and rear verniers. This unit is very bulky for its size and heavily armored, and carries an extreme load of firepower, with a left arm-mounted three-barreled machine cannon, a stake-like weapon on its right arm, and a pair of shoulder-mounted projectile launchers. Unique to the Alteisen is a protruding red horn located on its forehead.

Technical And Historical

The Alteisen is designed to be a Personal Trooper capable of swiftly breaking through enemy forces with overwhelming power in a single assault. This unit specializes in close-to-mid range combat, closing in on the enemy from a distance with its powerful thrust and delivering a devastating frontal attack. It is equipped with a thick layer of armor to aid in the machine's reckless fighting style, along with a powerful thruster system to compensate for the heavy armor. To supplement for its lack of long-range weapons, the Alteisen is designed to work in tandem with the Weissritter, an agile long-range sniping unit with flight capabilities. However, the Alteisen's biggest weakness is in extreme close-range combat, due to the mecha requiring a certain distance to gain acceleration and deliver its attacks, making it vulnerable against zero-range fighters, most notably the Soulgain.

The Alteisen's head is equipped with a Heat Horn for close encounters, the left arm mounts a 3-Barrel Machine Gun, the right arm is equipped with a powerful, close-range, armor-piercing Revolving Stake with 6 rounds, and the shoulders possess two large Square Claymore launchers with titanium-fitted pellets to supplement its mid-range attacks. It was also equipped with Split Missile containers in Compact, Impact and OG1. In the Super Robot Wars Compact 2 trilogy it was given the model number PTX-003-001 because Banpresto had yet to make 10 or more models of Personal Troopers.

Compact/Impact Series

The Alteisen appeared in Compact 2 Parts 1 and 3 as well as Impact parts 1 and 3 as Kyousuke Nanbu's personal mecha. It was developed from the PTX-001 Gespenst along with the Weissritter. It was later upgraded into the Alteisen Riese in Compact 2 Part 3.

Alpha Series

It is implied in the Mass-Production Gespenst Mk-II section of Alpha Gaiden's Robot Encyclopedia that the Alteisen and Weissritter exist in the Alpha timeline as custom MP Gespenst Mk-II units.

Original Generation

Designed by Dr. Marion Radom, the PTX-003C Alteisen uses the scrapped PTX-003 Gespenst Type-T as its base and uses no Extra-Over Technology, as Marion was against it. The PT is Marion's bid for the next-generation, mass-production Personal Trooper of the Earth Federation Army as the Gespenst Mk-III, replacing the Mass-Production Gespenst Mk-II and was designed under the ATX Plan which aimed to create high performance Personal Troopers. However, the machine's concept was considered flawed: because of the heavy weight of the armor and the weapons, no pilot could effectively use it. In addition the Alteisen was designed primarily for close quarters combat and possessed no long range weapons. Coupled with the high production cost, the Alteisen was deemed too impractical to mass-produce. The only unit produced is handed down to ATX Team member Kyousuke Nanbu when Marion realizes he is the only person who can utilize the Alteisen to its fullest. Despite original misgivings about the Alt, Kyousuke uses the Alteisen for the duration of the Divine Crusaders War and the L5 Campaign, alongside his girlfriend Excellen Browning and her Weissritter.

During the middle of the conflict against the Neo Divine Crusaders, Kyousuke requested Dr. Marion for upgrades to his Alteisen to better combat the new robots fielded by the DC and (at the time, unknown) Shadow Mirror. However, because he is sorted out battle after battle, there is not enough time to grant his request until the machine is badly damaged in a duel with Axel Almer's Soulgain at the end of Operation Plantagenet, losing its right arm and both legs aside from other damages, prompting Dr. Marion to begin the Alteisen's refurbishment. The result is the Alteisen Riese.

The Alteisen served as the basis for one of the ATX Project's next-generation PT, the Wildwurger and Wildwurger Type-L. The Flickerei Geist's right arm also originally belonged to the Alteisen and was salvaged after the arm was ripped off by Soulgain during Operation Plantagenet. In the Shadow-Mirror world, the Alteisen has been adopted by the Earth Federation Army and referred to as the Gespenst Mk-III, with one unit piloted by that world's Kyousuke (more commonly known as Beowulf) and under influence from Einst, giving it regeneration abilities and overwhelming power output to name a few.