YMS-15 Gyan


General and Technical Data

Model number: YMS-15
Code name: Gyan
Unit type: prototype general purpose mobile suit
Manufacturer: Zimmad Company
Operator: Principality of Zeon
First deployment: UC 0079
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Dimensions: overall height 19.9 meters
Weight: empty 52.7 metric tons; max gross 68.6 metric tons
Armor materials: super-hard steel alloy
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 1360 kW
Propulsion: rocket thrusters: 56200 kg total
Performance: maximum thruster acceleration 0.82 G
Equipment and design features: sensors, range 4400 meters
Fixed armaments: none
Optional hand armaments: beam saber, powered by rechargeable energy cap; shield, mounts 56 x missile launcher and 12 x hide bomb/space mine


Technical and Historical Notes

As the One Year War was raging to an end, Zeon stepped up development of a new generation of high-performance mobile suits in a last-ditch act of desparation. Zeonic Company had begun development of its powerful MS-14 Gelgoog line, and in response, Zimmad Company designed its own next-generation mobile suit. Code-named the YMS-15 Gyan, Zimmad's latest entry was intended to complement its already-well-performing MS-09R Rick Dom space combat suits. The Gyan's development was supervised by Zeon's Colonel M'quve, and he took one of the three YMS-15 prototypes built as his personal mobile suit. However, the Gyan only saw combat once, as M'quve used his unit in a one-on-one fight against the Federation's powerful RX-78-2 Gundam prototype - and lost.

With Rick Doms to provide the heavy long-range firepower, the Gyan was built with close combat in mind. Its primary weapon was a powerful beam sword, backed up by a large shield containing 56 individual missile launchers and carrying various bombs and space mines. Despite its high performance as a close combat unit, the Zeon military favored the more well-rounded Gelgoog - particularly since the Gelgoog incorporated the long-range firepower the Gyan lacked - and the Gyan project was dropped.

Miscellaneous Information

Pilot: M'quve
Appearances: Mobile Suit Gundam; Char's Deleted Affair: Portrait of Young Comet; Mobile Suit Gundam: Federation VS Zeon DX
; Mobile Suit Gundam: Encounters in Space; Mobile Suit Gundam Ex Revue; Gundam Evolve; Mobile Suit Gundam: Pilot's Locus; Mobile Suit Gundam: Bonds of the Battlefield
Original mechanical designer: Kunio Okawara

Lineart

Hide bomb