Triakis FX300

Triakis FX300
Team
League	FX300
Speed	4/5
Handling	2/5
Shield	5/5
Thrust	2/5

The Triakis FX300 is a ship featured in Wipeout Pure.

Description

To the power of three. Newcomers Triakis muscle onto the AG scene with this robust and menacing pitch fork of a machine... keep your eyes on these boys.

Overview

In true military style, the Triakis craft is an absolute tank. With the strongest shielding of any AG craft, it can shrug off most weapon fires and just keep on going. This in turn means that you can stay on the offensive without having to absorb too many weapons. It's also very fast once it gets going, and skilled pilots will have no trouble beating away anyone stupid enough to get in the way. The tradeoff of such a heavily shielded craft is that its thrust and handling have suffered badly. It takes a bit longer to accelerate, and it is quite difficult to get this thing around complex circuits without highly skilled use of airbrakes to maintain speed. However, its vast energy reserves also translate into lots of barrel rolling chances.

Trivia

• There is a bug on this ship in the game, where the parameter controlling the rate of deceleration for this ship is slower than every other ship.
  • This bug is later mentioned in the team's Wipeout Pulse backstory, which also describes the disqualification of Triakis from the 2206 season of the FX300 League, despite originally winning the title that year. The bug, referred to as the reverse-inertia deceleration system, allowed the ship to take corners faster and effectively bypass its handling stat on paper.
  • Lore-wise, the fact that its reverse-inertia deceleration system gave Triakis such an unfair advantage above the competition, which led to Triakis' 2206 championship title being stripped, is a reference to the Brabham BT46B Formula One car, which had a large rear-mounted fan that sucked in the air to give the car more downforce. The car itself was subsequently discontinued over personal concerns after a single race, in which Niki Lauda won the race with the car.
    • The bug may also reference the Toyota Celica GT-Four ST205 WRC rally car, infamous for a loophole in its turbocharger that made it unusually fast for the competition, leading to the car's eventual ban and Toyota's exclusion from the championship (both in the drivers and manufacturers' standings) in 1995.