Model number: RMS-099 (MSA-099)
Code name: Rick Dias
Unit type: mass production attack use heavy mobile suit
Manufacturer: Anaheim Electronics
Operator: AEUG (Anti-Earth Union Group)
First deployment: UC 0087
Accommodation: pilot only, in panoramic monitor/linear seat cockpit in head
Dimensions: overall height 21.6 meters; antenna height 18.7 meters; head height 18.0 meters
Weight: empty 32.2 metric tons; max gross 54.7 metric tons; mass ratio 1.43
Armor materials: gundarium γ alloy
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 1833 kW
Propulsion: rocket thrusters: 2 x 37400 kg; vernier thrusters/apogee motors: 7
Performance: maximum thruster acceleration: 1.37 G
Equipment and design features: sensors, range 11500 meters; 2 x "random binder" ejectable external propellant tank, mounted on backpack; birdlime launchers in hands; flare launchers in hands
Fixed armaments: 2-barrel 55mm vulcan phalanx anti-missile gun system, mounted in head; beam saber, power rated at 0.4 MW, stored in recharge rack in backpack, hand-carried in use
Optional hand armaments: 2 x beam pistol, power rated at 2.2 MW, powered by rechargeable energy cap, can be stored in backpack storage racks; AE/ZIM.C-BAZ-531 clay bazooka, clip-fed, 7 rounds per clip plus 1 round in chamber; beam rifle, powered by rechargeable energy cap

Technical and Historical Notes

When the underground organization known as the Anti-Earth Union Group began organizing to fight the ever-corrupt Titans, the AEUG commissioned one of its supporters, Anaheim Electronics Company, to develop a new mass-production mobile suit for their use. Although commonly known as the RMS-099 (an alternate model number used to cover the fact that this mobile suit was not being developed for the Earth Federation Forces' use), the MSA-099 was designed mostly by former Zeon mobile suit manufacturer employees who had gone to work for Anaheim after the One Year War. Originally intended to be called the "Gundam γ" (γ being the Greek symbol "gamma"), the MSA-099 sported a more Zeonic look, so it was named "Rick Dias" instead ("Rick" is derived from "remake", and was a term first used on the MS-09R Rick Dom to distinguish it as a space-use remake of the MS-09 Dom; "Dias" was the name of the discoverer of the Cape of Good Hope on Earth).

The Rick Dias was the first mobile suit to use the new gundarium γ armor developed by Axis, thus making it lighter and able to accomodate greater fuel capacity, particularly in the "random binder" external propellant tanks mounted on its backpack. The Rick Dias was also armed with a good variety of weapons, such as beam pistols, a clay bazooka (which fired adhesive pellets designed to disable enemy mobile suits), beam sabers and vulcan phalanx guns. All of these factors made the Rick Dias an all-around excellent mobile suit, and it was fielded quite commonly among the AEUG forces during the Gryps Conflict.

Miscellaneous Information

Pilot(s): Char Aznable (aka Quattro Bajeena), Apolly Bay, Roberto, Kamille Bidan, Emma Sheen, Amuro Ray, Franklin Bidan, Botty, Batch, Tripper, Hodge, Asuna Elmarit
Appearances: Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam; Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: AEUG VS Titans; Gundam Evolve; Mobile Suit Gundam Ecole du Ciel; Char's Return; Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam Vs. Gundam; Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam Vs. Gundam Next
Original mechanical designer: Mamoru Nagano

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