HIPaR Blades

Heat Induced by Particle Resonance Blades (aka HIPaR Blades, often pronounced "Hyper blades") are a weapons technology used to create solid blades for mobile suit combat first used on the EGX-000G79A Pró̱ta Énas and EGX-001 Storm Gundam.

Description & Characteristics
Most Peacekeeper mobile suits relied on a plasma sword for close quarter combat, while extremely effective at the time, these weapons showed to have difficulty in blocking attacks from solid melee weapons. Though a physical shield could be used as part of a sword-and-shield tactic, it limited the feasibility of high mobility close combat mobile suits as they would have to constantly carry around a large shield. Part of Athena's research into Reichold particle-based weapons lead to the development of new weapons for all combat situations, including solid melee weapons that proved to be far more effective than older Titanium Polycarbon Alloy Swords.

Using the Titanium Polycarbon Alloy Sword as a design base, Athena managed to create a Titanium-based Supperalloy that had some functionality of a Reichold Particle Condenser, allowing the structure to become saturated with particles, though nowhere near as efficiently. The Titanium Isocarbon Superalloy is highly resistance against thermal and impact stress, allowing the particles within to resonate and produce heat. This allowed for the production of TIS-based weapons that could generate heat, improving both offensive and defensive potential. Specific HIPaR Blades could also resonate the entire weapon at a high frequency, effectively multiplying the cutting power when active.

HIPaR blades also required beam-resistant coating, allowing a fully constructed blade to parry beam sabres and in rare cases, block beam weapon fire. Later versions were built into a variety of blade sizes, with most mass-production machines fitted with a scaled-down version that could not physically resonate. A more advanced version of the HIPaR Blade could generate a beam edge as well, combining the functionality of beam sabres into a single weapon.