Spyborg

Spyborg

File:Spyborg.jpg Incomplete weapon
Location:	Sector X
Methods of attack:	Arm flailing, energy blasts, tossing debris
Boss Type:	A

The Spyborg is the unfinished robot guardian aimlessly adrift in Sector X.

Methods of Attacks

When the fight begins, it will fly out from behind the player, so one should fly down low to avoid collision.

Its main methods of attack are the lasers it fires from its yellow eyes and detaching and launching its large arms at the player. Both of which, can be easily avoided.

After it loses half of its life meter, the Spyborg will explode by itself only to return without its head.

Without its head, it apparently becomes blind. To wit, it will start to flail around madly in an effort to swat the player.

On occassion, the newly beheaded robot guardian will spin around with its arms outstretched or it will grab a nearby panel and throw it in the player's direction (though how it does this so accurately without the ability to see is unknown).

Story Role

The machine is consistently inquiring about its master's whereabouts (which is assumed to be Andross, but there is some speculation as to whether or not this is true), striking out at anything in front of him.

If the battle takes too long, its mad flailings eventually tag the arwing of the hapless pilot Slippy Toad, sending him crash landing on the nearby planet Titania where the next stage will take place.

If the guardian is defeated quickly enough, the next stage will be the planet Macbeth.

Trivia

The robot itself resembles the top half of a R.O.B. (Robot Operating Buddy). Evidence for this is backed up by its japanese name: "HVC-09" which is similar to the Nintendo serial code "HVC-12", the serial code for R.O.B.

Further evidence is that it also resembles the Great Commander II which also resembles the R.O.B.

Its asking about its "creator" is based off of V-ger from Star Trek.