Tachy is a courageous leader of the 7th Airborne Squad. Tachy is a decorated soldier, renowned for her tactical acumen, combat and survival skills.
The mission to Earth leading an assault team into battle against the Naytiba couldn’t have been in safer hands.
But things go very wrong.
They barely have a moment to take a breath of their home planet’s air before they’re confronted by a shocking attack by a Naytiba from beyond their darkest nightmares.
Biography[]
"Tachy is the commanding officer of the 7th Airborne Squad. They say that in the Colony's combat simulations, her speed was unmatched. Her name is Tachy for a good reason.
The 7th Airborne Squad gets obliterated by Naytibas while entering the Earth's atmosphere. However, the mission is still a go. Tachy finds EVE and intends to regroup with their squad.
Yet the Naytiba's onslaught practically wipes out Tachy's squad. To make matters worse, an Unidentified Naytiba strikes without warning, leaving both Tachy and EVE at death's door. In this desperate moment, Tachy sacrifices herself to save EVE. There is still life in the Flames of Hope.
Tachy, thought to be dead, somehow appears from the abyss of the matrix alive yet contaminated by an Alpha Core. She dies once again in EVE's arms, leaving EVE with her Memorystick, wanting more than anything to return to the stars."
Other than commanding the 7th Airborne Squad at the beginning of the game, Tachy is not seen again after her death until EVE's battle with her after she was corrupted by an Alpha Core at the end of Matrix 11. After her defeat, as she lay dying in EVE's arms, she requests that her memories be uploaded to the NETWORK, showing that she never doubted Mother Sphere's intentions or validity (or was never given the info and opportunity to do so before she died).
Characteristics[]
Personality[]
Tachy has a strong and leader-like personality in the limited time she is involved in the story, as fitting of her position as commander of the 7th Airborne Squad. She is duty-focused and prioritizes the mission, though still appears to care for her comrades quite deeply judging by how focused she is on EVE's well-being and her sacrifice to save her from the Unidentified Naytiba. Tachy does not appear to have ever questioned Mother Sphere or her intentions in the time that she was alive, making her a loyal soldier.
Appearance[]
Tachy is a tall, beautiful woman who appears to be around the same age as EVE. She has black hair that extends slightly past her shoulders and is parted in the middle. She wears a skin-tight black bodysuit with yellow highlights and black hexagonal patterns near her hips. Tachy's left arm is severed at the shoulder, where an alpha core is implanted to transform her into an Alpha Naytiba. In her reemergence, her core appearance remains unchanged. However, she now possesses strengthened and elongated mechanical legs, a golden cape draped over her left side that covers the Naytiba-infested tentacle arm, and a mechanical wing on her right side. She also wears a helmet with a skull projected on the visor. Whether this is a manifestation of the once-human Naytiba or simply a design choice is unclear. She unmasks herself during the second phase of the fight, and in her defeat, EVE severs her wing first and then the tentacle arm.
Powers and Abilities[]
Like EVE, Tachy is an extremely capable swordswoman who specializes in using a long, katana-like sword called the Tachyon Blade. However, in her match with the Unidentified Naytiba, she fails to detect its intention to attack EVE and to intervene with her sword. Once her left arm is severed, Tachy's right hand gives up her sword to tend to her bleeding shoulder socket. The lack of any defense or resistance suggests that she is outmatched by the Unidentified Naytiba, let alone Raven, by an indefinite margin.
In the first phase of her Alpha Naytiba form, Tachy attacks with heavy sword strikes on EVE. Her sword can also fire waves of energy from its slashes. In the second phase, she removes the cape to extend her Naytiba-infested tentacle arm to grab and throw down EVE. This tentacle arm functions as the pairing wing for her aerodynamic balance and as a striking weapon, but it is also her weak spot.
Trivia[]
- The name Tachy is a root word that roughly means "rapid" and is derived from the Greek takhus, meaning "swift".
- The perpetrator of Tachy's corruption is certainly not Adam but by Raven, who exclusively could have been in possession of her disabled body. As early as EVE entered the underground facility of Matrix 11, Adam expresses his unfamiliarity with the parasitic kinds of Naytibas that harness dead bodies as weapons. His innocence is affirmed by Orcal, who, upon touching Tachy's Alpha Core, detects its categorical difference from those of the Elder Naytiba's making. He adds that he could dimly make out the image of a Naytiba bearing black wings behind this, to which EVE instinctively injects, "It was the one that attacked Tachy and me! It has to be. But why?"
- The motivation behind Raven's corruption is hatred, presumably against EVE. This is implied both by Adam's response to Orcal's revelation and his final confession to EVE that he has not been insensitive to the target of Raven's hatred. His apology for "what happened between you [EVE] and Raven" must include his liability in the loss and abuse of Tachy.
- Tachy's Alpha Core is located in her Naytiba-infested tentacle arm, the removal of which results in the "lifting of subjugation," or the liberation of her consciousness, but the loss of her vital organ.
- Tachy is technically killed by EVE. This conclusion is based on a cut-scene from a Matrix 11 supply camp, where the Airborne squad's communication frequency is disrupted by her encoded plea, "kill me". When defeated by EVE, she states, "I have been waiting for this moment. Thank you for freeing me."
- Tachy's final wish is to entrust her memory to EVE, intending for it to be delivered to the Mother Sphere. However, in none of the endings does EVE remember this or consider it a worthwhile cause to mention when she finally confronts the Mother Sphere.
- During the production phase of Tachy's boss fight design, Kim Hyung-tae was briefly hospitalized. The Shift Up crew managed to complete the lower body (the mechanical legs) but expressed their irresolution in rendering her upper body. It is understood from game-play that the implementation of her Alpha Core would at least directly impact her battle movesets and EVE's execution cut-scene. They deferred this task to Kim Hyung-tae, who finalized the design (or its draft) while in the hospital.
