Knightmare Profile

As the Black Rebellion collapses, Black Knights leader Zero loses his personal Knightmare, the IFX-V301 Gawain, in a battle with the Knight Giga Fortress FXF-503Y Siegfried. During the intervening year, Black Knights engineer Rakshata Chawla recovers the Gawain and salvages whatever components she can, and uses them to build Zero a new Knightmare. This machine, dubbed the Type-0/0A Shinkirou (Japanese for "mirage"), is specially designed to the masked man's abilities, covering his poor piloting skills and enhancing his ability to dominate the battlefield through strategy and real-time tactics. The Shinkirou mounts the Gawain's Druid System, a highly advanced computer and analysis complex, which it uses to manage its offensive and defensive capabilities. The defense comes in the form of the absolute protection territory, a fortress-level defense made up of several smaller energy shields which require precise coordination by both the pilot and the Druid System in order to maximize its effectiveness. The offense is primarily marked by the structural phase transition cannon, a powerful energy weapon mounted in the Shinkirou's chest. The cannon makes use of a special liquid metal prism which can refract the energy in many directions, allowing it to sweep through the battlefield with almost no effort. In addition to this, the Shinkirou mounts a pair of lower-powered hadron guns in its forearms. In addition to all these abilities, the Shinkirou can transform into an amphibious Fortress Mode, which Lelouch used to maintain his cover identity as a high school student and throw off Britannia's attempts to track him.

The Shinkirou remains Lelouch's personal machine even after the Black Knights turn against him and he conquers Britannia, declaring himself the 99th Emperor. However, during the decisive battle between Lelouch and his brother Schneizel El Britannia, the Shinkirou sustains critical damage at the hands of Knight of Three Gino Weinberg and his RZA-3F9X1 Tristan Divider, destroying the machine.