"Uh... yeah, you could say it's like a whip. It's got an adjustable strength, so you can wrap somethin' up or cut through it as ya need to." She thought it was a little strange for a suit to be designed for ambushes, but then there were even Gundams on her Earth that used those sort of tactics. For a real war, it made more sense. She began fitting a few parts together--there was plenty of scrap around for casings; she just needed to find an emitter.

She grinned at Duo's description. "Wow, that sounds fun! Like the kind of thing where you'd jump out of an airplane and just float down to the ground?" She'd always thought parachutes looked like a hell of a lot of fun. "I bet I could help ya put somethin' together!"

"Excuse me, but is this the sort of thing you're looking for?" said the stallkeeper, holding up a thumb-sized part and flicking a switch to show a long, purplish beam.

"Yeah!" Allenby grabbed it and turned it on and off a few times. "Here, Duo, check it out!"