Other characters
Characters Related to the Knight Sabers
Mackie Stingray
Mackie is Syila's little brother, six years her junior. In most respects, he's a normal teenager, fascinated by vehicle and girls (including his older sister and the rest of the Knight Sabers). But he doesn't attend school, helps out the Knight Sabers, and is a mechanical genius who gets to play with mecha like motorslaves. So perhaps he's not so normal after all. But with all those beautiful women he gets to hang out with, perhaps that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Sylia, with her ceaseless work, has given Mackie a youth almost completely free from worry. He lives with her in the penthouse of the Lady633 building, works in her lingerie shop on occasion, and usually drives all the various Knight Saber vehicles. While he wants very much to avenge his father's death, he's not obsessed with Genom like his sister is. Mackie's only true obsessions are vehicles, an obsession that Dr. Raven has helped along by taking Mackie under his wing. But with a potential relationship between himself and Nene rearing its head at the end of Scoop Chase, he actually might end up taking some time away from Dr. Raven's shop.
Seiyuu: Sasaki Nozomu
Character Development
In Tinsel City, Mackie is shown to be your normal, lecherous, healthy teenaged boy, but nothing else is known at this point.
Mackie shows himself to be a lover of fine vehicles in Blow Up, specifically motorcycles, but also a valuable member of the Knight Sabers team. Without Mackie, someone would have to leave the transport vehicle unattended or stay with it, taking a combatant from where she would be most useful.
Continuing the technology mode, Revenge Road has Mackie not only being a motorcycle enthusiast, but also skilled enough that he actually creats a bike that even Priss can't handle.
By the end of Scoop Chase, Mackie has again proven his usefulness to the Knight Sabers by helping Nene defeat the computer Boomer and it may be that Mackie actually has some feeling for Nene as well.
Dr. "Pops" Raven
Dr. Raven was a very close friend of Dr. Stingray, and has looked out for Sylia and Mackie ever since his friend's murder. He is one of the few people who know all the Knight Sabers true identities, and he is trusted by all of them. As another brilliant mechanic and engineer, Dr. Raven has helped the Knight Sabers by helping them maintain and repair the hardsuits and the motorslaves. Dr. Raven is also a very good friend of both J.B. Gibson and Naomi Anderson, two of the main characters from Revenge Road.
He currently works out of Timex City, a part of MegaTokyo which lies completely within the giant fault chasm which opened with the Second Great Kanto Quake. His garage lies nestled between the various factories and is filled with the medals and awards his excellent work on vehicles has earned him. His shop also happens to contain one of the Knight Sabers' training facilities.
Fargo
Fargo is an informant, plain and simple. His background is unknown, but his information includes data from the government, Genom, and the various criminal syndicates and underworlds, so he has a lot of connections. He has found the Knight Sabers a few Genom-related contracts, and Sylia trusts him to the point that he knows her true identity. He even has the audacity to ask Sylia into dangerous parts of MegaTokyo after dark for meetings, and is constantly pursuing her as a sexual conquest. Sylia, however, isn't having any, and makes this very obvious.
AD PoliceLeon McNichol
Inspector Leon McNichol is certainly one of the most important secondary characters in the series, and quite likely the most important. He is, at 26, the highest ranking field officer in the AD Police, and he is unusual because he actually volunteered for AD Police duty. Most Normal Police get transfered to the AD Police, although it's never stated whether this is because they are particularly good or bad. In Leon's case, though, he's actually that good. Unfortunately, he knows it and isn't afraid to let everyone else know it too. We're first introduced to Leon in Tinsel City, where Leon first gets a chance to meet Priss and she's actually forced to admit that he's not necessarily a rotton human being just because he's a cop. Where his and Priss' relationship was heading, we never found out, although there were some indications of a potential romance.
Leon, like much of the rest of the AD Police, is sympathetic toward the Knight Sabers. He knows that the AD Police is often outclassed by the combat Boomers which seem to be appearing on the streets of MegaTokyo a bit too regularly, and because of it he's quite willing to turn a blind eye to the team's mercenary habits. He has quite a bit of personal presence, and his nearly heroic actions have helped the AD Police's credibility in the eyes of the public. He is attractive and confident. So confident, in fact, that he often attacks opponents which are obviously way more than he can handle. Yet he somehow always seems to last until reinforcements arrive. And there have been a few occasions when he has become the Knight Sabers' reinforcements.
Leon's done his time in the N-Police and as a Frontline Officer (the ones who get shot at the most) in the AD Police, and because of it he always uses the most powerful weapon he has available at a given time. In Tinsel City, that gun was a 3-shot railgun, and in Blow Up, it was a 3-shot, .60 calibre revolover called the "Earth Shaker". Too bad Leon's target at that point was an armored BU-12B combat boomer. Leon never goes anywhere without his shades, and rarely shoots anything or anyone without having them on, unless they really need to be shot and he's in too much of a hurry. Leon is, after all, an equal opportunity AD cop - he doesn't discriminate against any Boomer.
Daley Wong
Daley is Leon's partner and very likely the next highest ranking field officer after Leon, although it's never mentioned in the series. He replaced Leon's old partner, Jeena Malso, who is introduced in theAD Police Files anime. Daley happens to have the perfect personality to offset Leon's - patient, observant, and soft-spoken. That's not to say that Daley doesn't have a sense of humor, since his lines, IMHO, are some of the funniest in the series. Nor does it mean that Daley doesn't have a temper, as we see in Scoop Chase.
GenomQuincy
Quincy is the founder and current Chairman of Genom. As such, he is one of the most powerful people on, or off, the planet. He is also most directly responsible for Genom's current world dominion, as he was the one who forced Genom into the various key industries which have allowed Genom to control the various new technologies as they were developed, most especially Boomers.
His background is a complete blank, and even Sylia doesn't know it, but his personality can be easily deduced from the series. Quincy is totally confident at all times (with one or two possible exceptions in Red Eye's and Double Vision), egotistical perhaps, and pragmatic beyond the point of brutality. If it threatens Genom, it needs to be removed in some manner, preferably through controlling it. He is rarely seen in public, and his many Boomer android doubles have led to speculation on whether Quincy is truly alive, or whether he has downloaded his consciousness somehow into the Genom computer system.
Brian J. Mason
Second in command at Genom, Mason was the individual responsible for the assassination of Dr. Stingray, the development of combat Boomers, and the acquisition of the laser sattelite control device. He was also the driving force behind the development of the BU-99CX SuperBoomer. However, all of the activities Mason is responsible for in the series are aimed at his replacing Quincy as Chairman. Unfortunately for him, the Knight Sabers got in his way so often that he became obsessed with them, and the two finally clash directly in Blow Up.
Mason is a highly ambitious man who truly follows the old, Machiavelli axiom: "The ends justify the means." He is willing to do anything so long as his power is increased, his chances of replacing Quincy enhanced, and Genom's control over the world maintained. Add the patience of a tree to these qualities, and Mason become a very dangerous man.
BoomersLargo
Largo is a SuperBoomer of tremendous strength, power, and intelligence. He has much of the knowledge of Brian J. Mason, including the many and varied secrets of Genom. One of those secrets, that the head of the GPCC was secretly developing weapons for sale to the Communists, enabled Largo to gain control of the GPCC, and ultimately to confront Quincy himself.
Largo's Boomer body houses an AI of such complexity that it's essentially human, and capable of storing the mind of Mason. However, Largo was a very different person, and in many aspects a lot more evil than Mason could dream of being. Largo is meglomaniacal and sadistic, and his audacity even surprised the usually unflappable Quincy. While he views himself as a messia to the "new race" of Boomers, and wanted the OMS to help in the creation of the "new race", he was willing to kill anyone, including his fellow Boomers, just to satisfy his own need for power.
Largo is not a simple Boomer, and his armored body shows that just as much as his mind. Just like a BU-55C combat boomer, Largo can pack his body into a human form. However, his body really doesn't change much in size or shape from packed to unpacked. He has thrusters in his back which could enable him to fly were he to choose to. He is armed with the standard Boomer mouth laser, but instead of a heat cannon, he has a gravity attack which is extremely devastating. But the really dangerous attack is his ability to control the USSD orbital laser sattelites.