Super-Coordinator Project: Routine Update No. 23

Capt. Dearka Elsman

Capt. Elsman has sent us the newest report from ZAFT’s super-pilot program: the most recent update gives finalised specifications for the ZGMF-GS128 Onslaught and ZGMF-GN189 Predator Gundams as well as two of the newest prototype Wizard packs for use by NAIOE units.
Photos, by Jess Rabble, are unfortunately not permitted for release until December 10 C.E. 78, at which point Terminal representatives Capt. Waltfeld, Commander Joule and Commander Yamato will announce the date of integration of the Mobile Protectors into the ZAFT military.

Production of the ZGMF-GSN144 Eclipse Gundam is still proceeding and the unit and its operator are expected to see a direct integration into the FAITH division of the ZAFT armed forces.

ZGMF-GS128 Onslaught

Model number: ZGMF-GS128
Code name: Gundam Onslaught
Unit type: prototype transformable variable range SEED-Factor mobile suit
Manufacturer: Clyne/Yamato faction
Operator(s): Terminal, ZAFT (Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty)
Pilot: Yzak Joule, Nichihito Shuyu

First deployment: 22 September C.E. 78
Accommodation: pilot only, cockpit in torso
Dimensions: head height 17.98 metres (all range mode), 19.12 metres (close quarters mode)
Weight: max gross weight 69.1 metric tons

Armour materials: unconfirmed
Power plant: ultra-compact energy battery
Equipment and design features: sensors (max range 120 km); Variable Phase Shift (VPS) armour, Dueterion energy transfer receiver, combinable weapon systems; transformable structure
Fixed armaments: 4 x MMI-GAU25A 20mm CIWS multi-barrel CIWS, fire-linked, mounted on head; 2 x beam sabre, mounted behind shoulders; 2 x 7.68 metre anti-ship blades mounted in elbows and forearms; anti-beam shield, mounted on left forearm; collapsible 10.19 metre high energy beam rifle/SMG, stored in shield; 2 x beam handguns, stored in leg compartments, (handguns and rifle combine into a single anti-ship sniper cannon)

Optional armaments: anti-material rifle, shared with ZGMF-GN189 Predator

ZGMF-GN189 Predator

Model number: ZGMF-GN189
Code name: Gundam Predator
Unit type: prototype transformable variable terrain Newtype-Factor mobile suit
Manufacturer: Clyne/Yamato faction
Operator(s): Terminal, ZAFT (Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty)
Pilot: Andrew Waltfeld, Anthony “Maverick” Scythe

First deployment: 22 September C.E. 78
Accommodation: pilot only, in panoramic 360˚ cockpit in torso
Dimensions: head height 17.35 metres (Mobile Suit mode), 9.61 metres (“feral’ Mobile Armour mode)
Weight: max gross weight 64.2 metric tons

Armour materials: unconfirmed
Power plant: ultra-compact energy battery
Equipment and design features: sensors (max range 120 km); Variable Phase Shift (VPS) armour; transformable structure; custom weapon pack hardpoints; “Wrath” close quarters weapon pack, “Legion” Long range weapon pack, “Vent” atmospheric sublifter/flight pack, Dueterion energy transfer receiver
Fixed armaments: 2 x MMI-GAU25A 20mm CIWS multi-barrel CIWS, fire-linked, mounted on Mobile Suit head; 3 x variable length beam sabre, mounted in rear waist armour; 2 x Beam SMG stored in hip holsters; 2 x SMG barrel extensions, stored in leg compartments

Optional armaments: Wrath mode, 2 x 19.81 metre anti-ship swords; Legion mode, 2 x 25 metre plasma cannons, 2 x 7 barrel “nova-round” Gatling guns; Vent mode, 2 x 3 barrel “nova round” anti-vessel guns, 2 x DRAGOON 9-barrel funnels, 4 x DRAGOON 2-barrel nodes; anti-material rifle, shared with ZGMF-GS128 Onslaught

ZGMF-3200/Dn Dreadnought NAIOE Comm.

Model number: ZGMF-3200/Dn
Code name: Dreadnought NAIOE Comm.
Unit type: Newtype use Commander DRAGOON attack mobile suit
Manufacturer: Clyne/Yamato faction
Operator(s): Terminal, ZAFT (Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty)
Pilot: Kira Yamato, Courtney Hieronimus

First deployment: 22 September C.E. 78
Accommodation: pilot only, in panoramic 360˚ cockpit in torso
Dimensions: head height 18.12 metres
Weight: max gross weight 72.32 metric tons

Armour materials: unconfirmed
Power plant: ultra-compact energy battery x 2
Equipment and design features: sensors (max range 120 km); laminated armour; Hyper-Dueterion energy transfer receiver, Wizard pack hardpoint mounts
Fixed armaments: 4 x MMI-GAU25A 20mm CIWS multi-barrel CIWS, fire-linked, mounted on head; 2 x beam sabre, mounted behind hips; 12.45 metre anti-vessel beam blade, mounted on left arm shield; variable output beam rifle, hand carried in use, stored on side skirt armour; low output beam handgun, hand carried in use, stored in shield; 4 x DRAGOON 9- barrel funnels , mounted on Wizard pack

Optional armaments: multi-function beam rifle-swords x 2, hand carried in use, stored on knee armour holsters.

  

 

ZGMF-3200/VT Guardian NAIOE Comm.

Model number: ZGMF-3200/VT
Code name: Guardian NAIOE Comm.
Unit type: Newtype use Commander DRAGOON defense mobile suit
Manufacturer: Clyne/Yamato faction
Operator(s): Terminal, ZAFT (Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty)
Pilot: Kira Yamato, Karin Tetsuno

First deployment: 22 September C.E. 78
Accommodation: pilot only, in panoramic 360˚ cockpit in torso
Dimensions: head height 18.12 metres
Weight: max gross weight 72.32 metric tons

Armour materials: unconfirmed
Power plant: ultra-compact energy battery x 2
Equipment and design features: sensors (max range 120 km); laminated armour; Hyper-Dueterion energy transfer receiver, Wizard pack hardpoint mounts
Fixed armaments: 4 x MMI-GAU25A 20mm CIWS multi-barrel CIWS, fire-linked, mounted on head; 2 x beam sabre, mounted behind hips; 12.45 metre anti-vessel beam blade, mounted on left arm shield; variable output beam rifle, hand carried in use, stored on side skirt armour; low output beam handgun, hand carried in use, stored in shield; 8 x DRAGOON ion field generators, mounted on Wizard pack

Optional armaments: none

No, word as to the release date of the ZGMF-GSN144 Eclipse yet. Commander Yamato claims that the prototype Mobile Suit is being custom built to accommodate a pilot possessing both Newtype and SEED-Factor abilities, so naturally it will be vastly more complicated than even the Predator and Onslaught Gundams.

Thanks again to Captains Elsman and Waltfeld, Commanders Yamato and Joule and PLANT Councilwoman Lacus Clyne for generously allowing us such data on these revolutionary Mobile Suits.

Operating Mobile Suits: for Dummies

Famed junk tech and Astray pilot, Lowe Gear has provided us with a taster of his in-the-works handbook: Operating Civilian Mobile Suits, the first in what is expected to be a trilogy of similar handbooks with the following titles, Customizing Combat Mobile Suits and Repairing Civilian Mobile Suits.

Excerpt from chapter 2: Health and Safety Standards

“While in your MS unit’s cockpit you will be exposed to no less than three external view monitors, four if your suit is an Astray or Raysta type. As with any conventional TV or computer monitor, you are required to take 15-20 minute breaks every hour for the sake of preserving your eyes. With a mobile suit, those breaks are required to be twice as frequent. And don’t neglect the rest of your body when using one. Whether in zero gravity, on Earth or the moon, the basic rules for safely using a Mobile Suit’s cockpit stay the same. Rather than give a long paragraph on how you adjust the controls to suit your body, I’ve decided to provide a brief checklist:

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1. Bring the manipulator controls close to your body: you should be able to push and pull both controllers to their limits without having to bend your arms to less than a 60 degree angle or breaking contact between your back and the backrest of your seat.
2. Bring the seat close to the monitor bank: you should be able to push the thrust pedals to their limits with your feet without moving along the seat. In the neutral position, the backs of your knees should be resting on the forward edge of the seat.
3. Set the monitors further away: as mentioned before, for the sake of your eyes, do not sit closer than arms length to your forward monitor. In space or an area which lacks a hospitable atmosphere, you should be wearing a standard pilot suit anyway, but on earth you should at least be wearing a pilot helmet with the visor down to reduce the glow effect from your monitors.
4. Adjust the headrest: you should be able to see your side monitors without causing discomfort in your neck by simply turning your head. If necessary, adjust the positions of the side monitors to you can see them easily and comfortably and remember to keep them at wrist length.

That’s just about it for manual use of the cockpit. Another piece of advice is to run a full system diagnostic every 10-15 days. Any standard Astray, Murasame or Raysta comes with an AI system readily uploaded to aid Natural pilots that can scan for abnormalities in the software, hardware or body of the mobile suit. For Coordinator use and any ZAFT derived Mobile Suits, diagnostic programs are available for free download from just about any Mobile Suit oriented website.”

The completed book will be available for purchase from retailers and for download by July in C.E. 79.

Besides giving us a snapshot of his book-to-be, G.U.N.D.A.M. would like to thank Lowe for updating many of our entries on the MBF-P02 Astray Red Frame, the MBF-P03 Astray Blue Frame, the ZGMF-X12 Out Frame, the LN-GAT-X207 Nebula Blitz, the GAT-02L Dagger L Junk Guild Custom and the MVF-M11X Wraith Murasame.