Founder of the Knight Sabers organisation and daughter to the brilliant Dr. Katsuhito Stingray, creator of the 'Boomer', Sylia lives alone, occasionally her younger brother Mackey drops in, what with the loss of her parents by the age of 12. Sylia lives a life of luxury through the success of her numerous businesses ventures, in particular her 'Silky Doll' fashion store, and due to the huge financial empire she inherited upon the death of her father.
Though she puts on a pleasant face in public, Sylia has a tendency to suddenly flare up in anger and has built up years of disgust towards GENOM in side of her. Sylia clearly lives in a fragile emotional world on the brink of total collapse, though she does have the girls, Henderson her long-term carer/butler and a little remaining self-control to help keep herself focused and on track. Despite this kind of emotional support, however, Sylia is often seen taking medication, no doubt in an effort to control her sudden emotional out bursts.
All this aside though, Sylia is a fairly competent leader, it's rare for her to make rash judgment calls. Having made one or two bad calls in the past, Sylia has had to learn from her mistakes and come to recognise the fact that she is solely responsible for the safety of the team. As a result Sylia can be extremely blunt with her orders, unwilling to argue them during the thick of it, which at times, despite her sexy appearance, makes her out to be a cold heartless monster.
Although Sylia usually takes a back seat during Boomer confrontations, she is actually a skilled fighter and can be relied upon for strong backup. Though Sylia's skills are best put to use when lining up jobs for the team, devising attack strategies and issuing orders in the field. Sylia is also romantically involved with Nigel, though their feelings for one another are no where near as clear cut as would normally be expected.
Name: Priss Asagiri
Gender: Female
Occupation: Singer
Team role: Assault specialist
There are no wings on Priss's back, when she signed up with the team it was for the money and the risk, Priss is a thrill-seeker and thrives upon living life on a knife-edge. Though this doesn't mean to say she's reckless, Priss sees herself as a bit of a professional and so finds it hard to work along side the less able members of the team.
Priss is the lead singer in an up and coming rock band, she isn't one for the lime light though, she and her band are quite happy touring the local clubs playing live to the so called dregs of society. In fact the band have since settled at the Hot Legs night-club, apparently both Priss and the rest of the band members have taken a liking to the place. She puts a lot of soul and effort into her music and, although chooses to vent a lot of her built up aggression through rock music, has an extremely powerful voice.
Unfortunately Priss isn't really all that communicable, this is made even worse due to her nasty habit of blanking people when really unimpressed with the person standing opposite. Despite Priss's antisocial behavior though, both she and Linna get along remarkably well, so much so in fact that Priss helped worm Linna into the team in the first place.
Priss also has a passion for fast machines, in particular motorbikes, she loves nothing more than burning up the freeway pushing both herself and her bike to the limit leaving the hapless highway patrol to eat her dust. It's almost as if Priss was born to ride, it's hard to see Priss biting the bullet during a mission, no doubt when the time comes she'll go out whilst clocking over 140mph.
Name: Linna Yamazaki
Gender: Female
Occupation: Clerk
Team role: Close combat specialist
Perhaps at times a little silly and naive, but an attractive, caring and loveable person, able to tolerate even the intolerable, who wishes to make the most of her life. Linna's a country girl at heart, which seems to make her a prime target for Priss's word games, but Linna's not one to take crap from anyone. She never looks before she leaps though, and will often shoot her mouth off in the defence of not only herself, but others too, regardless of the outcome.
Linna's extremely determined in whatever task she sets her mind to, she sets the bar very high for herself and is her own worst critic. She's also for the most part very confident too, most likely this confidence in her abilities came from her days as a track 'n field athlete. Her athletic background also explains her reluctance to stick out her current job as a clerk working for a company in the Boomer industry.
Linna's a physical hands on kind of girl, if she's stuck in one place for too long performing mundane tasks then her mind will start to drift. She craves a challenging life of action, and if nothing else just wants to be able to help those people unable, or unwilling, to stick up for themselves.
Name: Nene Romanova
Gender: Female
Occupation: AD police operator
Team role: Electronic warfare specialist
Nene spends all together far to much time in front of computers, her apartment looks like an electronic junk yard. On the net she's probably best avoided, but in reality she's a cute little girl desperately trying to escape the daddy's little spoilt daughter stereotype. She doesn't seem to have much luck in establishing herself as an attractive independent young woman, instead Nene is constantly teased because of her young age.
Although not the strongest fighter in the team, what she lacks in skilful destructive aggression she makes up for in intellect, according to her at least. Nene does actually have the making of a first rate close combatant, but it just seems like that last slice of cake's holding her back. Nene loves her munches though, it's unlikely that she'll ever trade in snacks for athleticism.
Despite being put down by Priss time and time again though, Nene's not the type to bear grudges, besides as far as she's concerned if you can't kick the crap out of the rogue Boomer standing opposite, then simply fry its brain using a computer.
Whilst Nene gets along well with Linna, she does so even more with Mackey, though in a more playful, childlike and bashful manor. Nene especially enjoys keeping Mackey hanging on to her every word with slightly exaggerated stories of her past hacking exploits.
Name: Nigel Kirkland
Gender: Male
Occupation: Boomer engineer / mechanic
Team role: Senior engineer
It's likely that without Nigel's expert mechanical assistance the team, or to be more precise the team's hard suites, would quite literally fall apart. Unmatched in his field and with a passion for machines, Nigel is the real source of drive behind the team's exploits.
All this aside though, Nigel isn't really all that much of a people person, preferring instead to be left alone to get on with the job at hand. This said, however, Nigel sees himself as Mackey's personal mentor instructing the prodigal boy genius in the machine arts. This father son relationship most likely exists due to Nigel's involvement in the project which spawned Mackey over seven years ago.
Nigel also has a complicated relationship, due to his inability to express his feelings, with Sylia, though one of passion.
Name: Mackey Stingray
Gender: N/A (Boomer)
Occupation: Student
Team role: Junior engineer
It could be said that Mackey is a mystery of two conundrums of a riddle of another mystery...for Mackey isn't quite human, and whilst he may look quite young, he is in fact much older.
The warped truth of it all is that Sylia's father saw fit to experiment with the brains of that of his wife and daughter in his attempt to create a new life-form. Although ultimately successful, only Sylia survived the experiments and in doing so effectively gave birth to her younger brother Mackey, for Mackey was born as a result of Dr. Katsuhito Stingray's successful attempt to duplicate human consciousness. Whilst Mackey isn't human, he isn't exactly machine either, he is fully sentient and as a result is almost indistinguishable from actual human beings. The only give away is Mackey's eternal youth, both a blessing and a curse.
Since Mackey has no real need for those drawn out teaching methods employed by the education system, what with his advanced electronic brain 'n all, Mackey spends his spare time contributing to the team in anyway he can. As a result Mackey can often found aiding Nigel with hard suit upgrades and, more frequently than would be desired, repair work. When he's not busy maintaining the team's hard suites, however, Mackey spends his time tinkering with machines as well as acquiring hacking tips from Nene in his on going quest for that all elusive first kiss.
Name: Meishio Henderson
Gender: Male
Occupation: Sylia's butler
Team role: Advisor
The relationship between Meishio and Sylia is unclear, though one thing's for certain, whatever the outcome of Sylia's endeavours, Meishio will always be there for her for better or worse. In a way Meishio is both Sylia's mentor and carer. He has, what would seem, a blood tie of sorts with Sylia and is more than happy to spend the remainder of his life in her service. Indeed, he takes great pride in his service to Sylia and those under her wing.
Meishio is kept in the Knight Saber loop, so to speak, to quite a large extent, and in a way has adopted a role within the team as Sylia's advisor. Since Sylia at heart is a known risk taker, Meishio's cautious play it safe attitude helps to keep her mind focused and on track. It is likely that without his council, Sylia's emotions would gradually consume her ultimately leading to rash leadership in the field.
Name: Quincy Rosenkreutz
Gender: Male
Occupation: Chairman / president of GENOM
Quincy is the ultimate corporate king pin bent on the accumulation of power. Wealth no longer holds any meaning for Quincy, the prolonging of his life and the continual accumulation of power are the only visions that course through his mind. Self-development, love, happiness...none of these words factor into Quincy's plans for the future. If there was ever a power crazed villain to end all power crazed villains then the chairman of GENOM would be guaranteed a place within the top ten of history's most prominent bad guys.
In truth, the Knight Sabers are of little concern to Quincy...sadly the effects of his exploits ripple across Mega Tokyo regardless of any interference from the armoured vigilntes. In Quincy's eyes, the Knight Sabers are little more than a nuisance, flies to be swatted as and when the opportunity presents itself.
Quincy's position within GENOM, however, is far from secure. He is old, his body long since having given up the ghost, and so relies upon machines to continue his life span. This in itself leaves him vulnerable, especially to those under his watchful eye whom continually plot his downfall from within the shadow.
Name: Brian J Mason
Gender: Male
Occupation: Vice president of GENOM
Snake in the grass! Bullied as a child and having been subjected to serious surgery in order to keep his frail body in check, Brian has grown up into a power hungry malicious individual no longer willing to be walked over. Indeed, incurring the wrath of Brian J Mason is equivalent to rubbing up the local mafia the wrong way. As a result of his physical and psychological scaring as a child, Brian has matured into a first rate bastard.
As a young man he worked in the shadow of Sylia's father, Dr. Katsuhito Stingray, and had a hand in the Boomer project. After the quake, however, Brian turned his attention towards rising the ranks of GENOM in the hope of one day realising his own personal goals through the power obtained from said career path.
Brian is very withdrawn from the human race, he despises his own kind preferring instead to place the Earth in the hands of machines. It is for this reason alone that Brian is hot on the heels of the position of chairman, not for wealth and not necessarily for the power, but instead the power to alter the destiny of humanity. Though until judgement day, Brian continues to patiently bide his time as Quincy's right hand lap dog.
Name: Leon McNichol
Gender: Male
Occupation: AD police detective
Leon's your stereotypical good cop. Having risen through the ranks of the Normal police and established himself within Mega Tokyo's Advanced Police force, Leon sees himself as a bit of a sheriff out to protect the locals of his home stomping grounds i.e. Mega Tokyo. Although often quite hot headed and prone to boiling over, Leon's about as just worthy as they come. Fortunately when he does boil over, partner Daily Wong's always there to reel him back in, an invaluable friend to have particularly when you're taking on the GENOM suits and their solicitors.
As far as the Knight Sabers are concerned, Leon's attitude towards them is mixed. Whilst he regularly beats himself up over coming second best to them, when biting off more than he can chew, this he does quite frequently, he's always glad to have the iron ladies battling on his side of the fence.
Leon's also a bit of a ladies man, though more of a hopeless romantic at heart and at times almost shy. He currently has his sights set firmly on rock singer Priss Asagiri, and as such his doomed attempts to woo the hot headed biker feature quite prominently amongst the AD Police's rumour informant network, courtesy of Daily and the girls down in the information management centre.
Name: Daily Wong
Gender: Male
Occupation: AD police detective
Riding into battle as Leon's trusty side kick is Daily, though where Leon will quite happily plug away uselessly with his standard issue magnum stylee hand gun, Daily has a bit more common sense, or be it a survival instinct, about him preferring instead to make a quick phone call to the army. Daily is a quick, sharp and extremely cunning individual, whilst he implicitly trusts Leon, he's always suspicious of others and their true agendas.
Daily's the sort to take you down via the stealthy approach as opposed to Leon's gun ho kick ass doctrine. That said, both get on famously well...Daily formulates the plan whilst Leon takes point. Daily's also quite a brave sort, however, this may well stem from his confidence in his abilities to solve problems in a calculated manor. He's not blind to the dangers that he encounters whilst on the beat, but his been there done that attitude helps him keep it together when the bullets start rattling past his head.
Daily is also a gossip. He's just unable to keep that nose of his out of the latest goings on. It's in his nature, Daily likes to stay informed at all times in case he ever needs to be one step ahead of the game.
Name: Nicholas Roland
Gender: Male
Occupation: AD police chief
When it come to the AD Police, Nick runs the show...that is when his hand isn't being tied by members of the board on the GENOM pay role. He's a good honest cop of days gone by longing for one more adventure. He's not lost it either over the years, Nick's still got a lot to teach provided you're willing to listen. In a way Nick resents the fact that he's risen to the dreary top of the AD Police, some days you get the impression that he'd quite happily chuck it all in for a good honest gun fight with some rogue Boomer.
Nick's not really cut out for the admin business or prepared to do battle with the politicians, though this may well be the very reason as to why he was chosen to head up the AD Police. Nick's a family man, however, and so when the time of promotion came he was ultimately destined to make the sensible decision, thus getting his ass off the streets into the office.
When all's said and done though, Nick's the same hot headed cop at heart that Leon presently is. Though both argue relentlessly over the preferred methods of policing, beyond the constant bickering is much mutual respect. Nick is a bit of a father figure to his boys and will do everything in his power to see that they get the best the AD Police weapons locker has to offer.