SD GAT-X105E Strike Noir

The GAT-X105E Strike Noir is a variant on the design of the GAT-X105 Strike, created by the Eurasian corporation Actaeon Industries for the Phantom Pain special forces and designed primarily for close combat. Very similar to the GAT-X105 Strike in appearance, the structural and design changes implemented by Actaeon Industries were intended to increase the unit's power efficiency and therefore improve its operating time.

History
The Strike Noir's first deployment, along with the Blu Duel and Verde Buster, is to defend against Zala loyalist guerillas who emerged in the wake of the "Break the World" terrorist attack. Shortly afterward, Sven supervises a squad of GAT-01AR2 Slaughter Daggers as they destroy a Coordinator refugee camp where some of the terrorists were allegedly trained.

Later in CE 73, Sven engages in a brief, inconclusive duel with Martian Coordinator Agnes Brahe in the GSF-YAM01 Δ Astray. Agnes escapes in his ship, the Acidalium. Shortly afterward, when Orb joins in a treaty with the Earth Alliance, Sven is assigned to lead a squad of 5 Slaughter Daggers piloted by Orb soldiers in pursuit of the Acidalium. While the Orb pilots fare poorly and Sven's Noir Striker is damaged during the fight, he attaches the IWSP (which was being used by one of the Orb pilots) to Strike Noir and manages to severely cripple the Δ Astray.

At some point after this operation, Sven returns to his Phantom Pain squad and escorts the Bonaparte as it delivers the GFAS-X1 Destroy Neo Roanoke's unit. The Bonaparte is attacked along the way, and while Blu Duel pilot Mudie Holcroft is killed, the ZAFT force is wiped out and the Bonaparte arrives at its destination.

Appearance
Astraea appearance is almost likely the same on Exia. their body, legs and arms are very similar to Exia's appearance. Since Astraea is the prototype for the Gundam Exia

Colors
For the Colors, Astraea has a very typical color for a gundam. Red, blue, white and Grey are used on this model kit. White is the very used color for this one. It covers almost all over its arms, legs, head, feet, and body with white. As for Blue and Red, they are found on the body area which Blue covers on top portion of the body and Red in its abdomen. Also Red is on lower part of the feet and chin. For Grey they are on joints and palms of the kit.

Articulation
Since this came from the new series, It has a very good articulation. Its articulation is the same with over models in the series of Gundam 00. Chest parts, waist, arms knees and feet are very articulated.


Accessories
As for the accessories, It has a similar type of weapon for the Exia. It has a GN sword(same with exia but no guns attached), Has a separate GN riffle, GN cannon, GN Shield (almost the same pattern to exia 's shield), and two Beam sabers.

Availability on the market and Costs
If your thinking this is expensive since it is on a 1/100 scale, well it does not. Astraea comes with a cheaper price of 1400 yen or $14.65 US (according to Hobby Link Japan). And luckily this item is no hard to found. Astraea is very easy to buy since it has a lot of stock available.

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