SOLUH

The SOLUH (also known as the SALAF or SALAUX) is a standard NEXT design in the Armored Core 4 Universe. It appears in Armored Core 4 as the SALAF, created by Eqbal, and in Armored Core: For Answer as the SOLUH, after Eqbal's rebranding as Algebra.

Its real-world designer is Daisuke Satake.^[1]

Summary[]

Built with emphasis on speed, the SOLUH is a lightweight model with high mobility and good close range capability. However, it suffers from high energy consumption, low AP, and low defense ratings. These particular pros and cons make this particular NEXT best suited for the more experienced pilots. The most notable user of this NEXT is probably the Maghrib Liberation Front's Amazigh, the Desert Wolf, the iconic hero of White Africa.

SALAF in Armored Core 4[]

NEXT Schematic AC4 SALAF — The SOLUH as it appears in *Armored Core 4*, under the name "SALAF"

In Armored Core 4, the SALAF is the main NEXT type used by Eqbal as well as Technocrat (under the designation ESER-01). The basic design includes a back mounted rocket launcher, a short range machine gun, and a shot gun. Technocrat's ESER-01 model uses the same frame and internals, but with a larger back rocket unit and a hand rocket instead of a shotgun.

SOLUH in Armored Core: For Answer[]

By the time of Armored Core: For Answer, almost all of Eqbal's old SALAF Lynx (now re-branded to Algebra's SOLUH) have been destroyed as a result of the Lynx War, and the type has been mostly supplanted by the new, SAUBEES-inspired EKHAZAR. The only remaining user of a "pure" SOLUH design is Do Su, a Lynx working for Technocrat. The SOLUH is no longer offered as a starting unit, but selecting Omer Science as a sponsor and completing missions for them quickly unlocks the SOLUH, and since it uses Omer/Rosenthal parts, the schematic is easy to complete.

Variants[]

ESER-01: Technocrat's designation for its preferred SALAF configuration - moving the ZAKAT to the right arm, moving the CP-48 rocket to the left hand (as the CPH-48 hand rocket), and adding a triple-barrel CP-49 rocket launcher to the left back hardpoint.
SAUBEES: A reverse-joint variant (originally known as the TAWHID).
- SAUTEES: A weapon arm variant of the SAUBEES. Originally known as the INJIL.

Users[]

Anatolia's Mercenary (with SOLUH starter AC option)
Amazigh (NEXT: Barbaroi):
Anil Hassan (NEXT: Carrion Crow):
K.K. (NEXT: Liver Drive):
Borisovich (NEXT: Bogomol): Technocrat's resident Original piloted an ESER-01 while moonlighting for the MLF during the Lynx War.
Do Su (NEXT: Starka): Technocrat's replacement Lynx during the Economic War.