An APU (Armored Personnel Unit) is a fictional vehicle in the of films. The APUs are charged with the greater part of the defense of Zion.
Captain Mifune is the leader of the APU unit, as well as the most experienced pilot (though he never completed its basic training).
Usage
An APU is a bipedal, sapient-like robotic tank - albeit without armour - that is similar in design and function to some types of mecha. The pilot sits in a rollcage-like cockpit and controls the APU with foot pedals and flexible control arms which move the APU's arms and aim and fire its weapons. Movement appears to be based on not only the movements of the APU caused by the pilot, but also the pilot's own sense of balance.
The APU is armed with two belt-feed "slug thrower" 20 mm cannons mounted on its arms; the guns are effective against the Sentinels, as it commonly requires only one direct hit to disable a "Squiddy." An APU actually acts as a team with two parts, the APU itself (in constant combat conditions) and a reloading crew. When the APU's ammunition is exhausted, the pilot calls for a reload; the reloading crew brings the ammo to the APU on a motorized rack and feeds the ammo into the back of the APU. As shown during the combat in The Matrix Revolutions, the reloading crews are highly vulnerable to Sentinel attacks; thus, the crews are a three-man operation, one person to carry the ammo and the other two covering using plasma guns.
The APU was used in the first human-machine war (2097-2139), as shown in The Animatrix. The APU did possess armour, but it proved ineffective against the machines. As depicted in the The Second Renaissance, the machines were able to tear through an APU's armor and kill its pilot with great ease. Later variations of APUs, as seen in the Matrix Revolutions, possessed limited armor, probably because the humans do not have the resources to add armor on every APU, leaving its pilot almost completely exposed. This proved to be a disadvantage, as it sped up Captain Mifune's death.
APUs were also highly vulnerable in close-quarter combat. As seen in the 'Matrix Revolutions', Sentinels that were able to evade an APU's fire long enough to close with it, could use their mechanical arms to bind the APU's guns and kill its human pilot. Captain Mifune and several APU pilots fought in trios, back to back, possibly to counter this weakness by using the APUs' multi-directional firing to cover all directions of attack. However, as the battle wore on, and his fellow pilots were killed one by one, Mifune found himself alone and vulnerable to Sentinel swarms.
There were about 150 APUs defending Zion during the Matrix Revolution.
Captain Mifune is the leader of the APU unit, as well as the most experienced pilot (though he never completed its basic training).
Usage
An APU is a bipedal, sapient-like robotic tank - albeit without armour - that is similar in design and function to some types of mecha. The pilot sits in a rollcage-like cockpit and controls the APU with foot pedals and flexible control arms which move the APU's arms and aim and fire its weapons. Movement appears to be based on not only the movements of the APU caused by the pilot, but also the pilot's own sense of balance.
The APU is armed with two belt-feed "slug thrower" 20 mm cannons mounted on its arms; the guns are effective against the Sentinels, as it commonly requires only one direct hit to disable a "Squiddy." An APU actually acts as a team with two parts, the APU itself (in constant combat conditions) and a reloading crew. When the APU's ammunition is exhausted, the pilot calls for a reload; the reloading crew brings the ammo to the APU on a motorized rack and feeds the ammo into the back of the APU. As shown during the combat in The Matrix Revolutions, the reloading crews are highly vulnerable to Sentinel attacks; thus, the crews are a three-man operation, one person to carry the ammo and the other two covering using plasma guns.
The APU was used in the first human-machine war (2097-2139), as shown in The Animatrix. The APU did possess armour, but it proved ineffective against the machines. As depicted in the The Second Renaissance, the machines were able to tear through an APU's armor and kill its pilot with great ease. Later variations of APUs, as seen in the Matrix Revolutions, possessed limited armor, probably because the humans do not have the resources to add armor on every APU, leaving its pilot almost completely exposed. This proved to be a disadvantage, as it sped up Captain Mifune's death.
APUs were also highly vulnerable in close-quarter combat. As seen in the 'Matrix Revolutions', Sentinels that were able to evade an APU's fire long enough to close with it, could use their mechanical arms to bind the APU's guns and kill its human pilot. Captain Mifune and several APU pilots fought in trios, back to back, possibly to counter this weakness by using the APUs' multi-directional firing to cover all directions of attack. However, as the battle wore on, and his fellow pilots were killed one by one, Mifune found himself alone and vulnerable to Sentinel swarms.
There were about 150 APUs defending Zion during the Matrix Revolution.
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Currently, Dr. Sean Wright is a board certified plastic surgeon in the Philadelphia area. His original research has been featured in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the American Journal of Physiology, and Techniques in Hand Upper Extremity Surgery.
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Currently, Dr. Sean Wright is a board certified plastic surgeon in the Philadelphia area. His original research has been featured in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the American Journal of Physiology, and Techniques in Hand Upper Extremity Surgery.
Dr. Sean Anthony Wright marriage last year was featured in the New York Times and Philadelphia Inquirer.
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http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/10610822.htmlPhilly Inquirer
Daphne Iris Willis
Daphne Iris Willis was born January 16th, 1910 to Martha and Jonathan Willis, a prominent doctor in Louisville Kentucky. Her tragic death shortly after her eighteenth birthday is rumored to have been the inspiration of Zelda Fitzgerald's unfinished novel, Floating Amongst the Trees.
Biography
Early Life
Daphne Willis was the only child of the prominent Louisvillan doctor, Jonathan Willis and his wife Martha. Marha Willis became pregnant many times after the birth of her first child, but all the pregnancies terminated in miscarriages, except for one still-born son in the summer of 1914. As a result, both Jonathan and Martha Willis were very protective of their daughter.
By all acounts, Willis was a happy child, living in her parent's palacial estate just east of the city proper. Martha Willis enrolled her daughter into ballet lessons at age 5, and dancing became Daphne's passion.
Rebellious Adolescence
Daphne, starting in 1924, became increasingly agrumentative with her ballet teacher, Elizabeth Byrant, according her diary, about her direction in dance. Having been inspired by Isadora Duncan, Daphne began to find ballet moves restrictive and unnatural, instead opting for more free-flowing forms inspired by classical Greek dance.
Daphne was not only rebelling on-stage but in her personal life too. She was often seen cruising in the car of Jason Brown, an heir to The Brown Hotel fortune, despite the fact she was engaged to Marcus Alexander Doyle, a man of Irish and Italian descent nearly thirteen years her senior. It is rumored that Jonathan Willis arranged the engagement against his daughter's will, wanting her to marry a stable man as oppose to the wild, and often drunk, Jason Brown.
A Tragic and Mysterious End
Shortly, after her eighteenth birthday, on January 20th, 1928, Daphne Willis was racing down a state route that connected Louisville with Newport, Kentucky, across the river from Cinncinati, Ohio. At this time Jason Brown was staying with his cousins in the area, thus many conclude she was driving up to see him. Like her idol, Isadora Duncan, Daphne had a pension for long, flowing scarfs. The police report concludes that Daphne stop for a moment on her trip, for a reason unknown, at which time her scarf became tangled on a branch due to the intense winds that night. She then proceeded to press down on the accelerator, the scarf still around her neck, and was thus yanked out the vehicle and hung. The ruling that this occurence was an accident has aroused much suspicion. Some conclude that Daphne Willis actually hung herself, due to her unhappy engagement, and Jonathan Willis, not wanting the world to know, paid the police to call it an accidentally death. This seems to be the most likely scenario but others argue that foul play was involved, and that a jealous Marcus Doyle killed his unfaithful fiancee for humiliating him by her affair with Jason Brown. Zelda Fitzgerald's unfinished novel seems to have been inspired by this theory, even included that Iris Kraft, the character inspired by Daphne, haunted the woods she was hung in, searching our her revenge on any man with her murderer's initals.
Daphne Iris Willis was born January 16th, 1910 to Martha and Jonathan Willis, a prominent doctor in Louisville Kentucky. Her tragic death shortly after her eighteenth birthday is rumored to have been the inspiration of Zelda Fitzgerald's unfinished novel, Floating Amongst the Trees.
Biography
Early Life
Daphne Willis was the only child of the prominent Louisvillan doctor, Jonathan Willis and his wife Martha. Marha Willis became pregnant many times after the birth of her first child, but all the pregnancies terminated in miscarriages, except for one still-born son in the summer of 1914. As a result, both Jonathan and Martha Willis were very protective of their daughter.
By all acounts, Willis was a happy child, living in her parent's palacial estate just east of the city proper. Martha Willis enrolled her daughter into ballet lessons at age 5, and dancing became Daphne's passion.
Rebellious Adolescence
Daphne, starting in 1924, became increasingly agrumentative with her ballet teacher, Elizabeth Byrant, according her diary, about her direction in dance. Having been inspired by Isadora Duncan, Daphne began to find ballet moves restrictive and unnatural, instead opting for more free-flowing forms inspired by classical Greek dance.
Daphne was not only rebelling on-stage but in her personal life too. She was often seen cruising in the car of Jason Brown, an heir to The Brown Hotel fortune, despite the fact she was engaged to Marcus Alexander Doyle, a man of Irish and Italian descent nearly thirteen years her senior. It is rumored that Jonathan Willis arranged the engagement against his daughter's will, wanting her to marry a stable man as oppose to the wild, and often drunk, Jason Brown.
A Tragic and Mysterious End
Shortly, after her eighteenth birthday, on January 20th, 1928, Daphne Willis was racing down a state route that connected Louisville with Newport, Kentucky, across the river from Cinncinati, Ohio. At this time Jason Brown was staying with his cousins in the area, thus many conclude she was driving up to see him. Like her idol, Isadora Duncan, Daphne had a pension for long, flowing scarfs. The police report concludes that Daphne stop for a moment on her trip, for a reason unknown, at which time her scarf became tangled on a branch due to the intense winds that night. She then proceeded to press down on the accelerator, the scarf still around her neck, and was thus yanked out the vehicle and hung. The ruling that this occurence was an accident has aroused much suspicion. Some conclude that Daphne Willis actually hung herself, due to her unhappy engagement, and Jonathan Willis, not wanting the world to know, paid the police to call it an accidentally death. This seems to be the most likely scenario but others argue that foul play was involved, and that a jealous Marcus Doyle killed his unfaithful fiancee for humiliating him by her affair with Jason Brown. Zelda Fitzgerald's unfinished novel seems to have been inspired by this theory, even included that Iris Kraft, the character inspired by Daphne, haunted the woods she was hung in, searching our her revenge on any man with her murderer's initals.