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XM-X1
(F97) Crossbone Gundam X-1 Kai
Model number: XM-X1 (F97) Code name: Crossbone Gundam X-1 Kai Unit type: prototype general purpose mobile suit Manufacturer: Strategic Naval Research Institute Operator: Crossbone Vanguard First deployment: UC 0133 Accommodation: pilot only, in panoramic monitor/linear seat cockpit in torso with Core Block System using Core Fighter Dimensions: head height 15.9 meters Weight: empty 9.5 metric tons; max gross 24.8 metric tons Armor materials: gundarium alloy/ceramic composite Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 5280 kW Propulsion: rocket thrusters: 4 x 25000-30000 kg; vernier thrusters/apogee motors: 34 Performance: maximum thruster acceleration 4.03-4.84 G Equipment and design features: sensors, range unknown; dummy launchers in hands; special weapons targeting sensor in head, can be deployed over right eye sensor/camera; bio-computer system Optional equipment: anti-beam coating cloak, mounts on main body; booster, mounts on X-thrusters Fixed armaments: 2 x vulcan gun, fire-linked, mounted in head; 2 x mega machine cannon, fire-linked, mounted in torso; 2 x beam saber, stored in recharge racks in shoulder armor, hand-carried in use; 4 x heat dagger, stored one in each foot and one in each calf, hand-carried or foot-mounted in use; 2 x scissor anchor, mounted on front skirt armor; 2 x screw whip, mounted in rear skirt armor, hand-carried in use; 2 x beam shield/brand marker, mounted on forearms Optional hand armaments: buster gun, can be stored on right hip armor; beam zanber, can be stored on left hip armor; zanbuster, combined buster gun/beam zanber Optional armaments: rifle grenade, fired from buster gun; atomic shell, fired from buster gun
One of the Crossbone Vanguard's flagship mobile suits, the XM-X1 Crossbone Gundam X-1 was in need of major repair after combat with the Jupiter Empire's Death Gale Team. The melee-focused Gundam was unable to get through the EMS-VSX1 Quavarze's snake hands and ended up losing both arms, among other damages. While repairing the Gundam, the Crossbone Vanguard's engineers decided to give it a slight increase in its short-range combat abilities. The only major change to the Crossbone Gundam X1 Kai was the addition of a pair of screw whips, which mounted miniature drills on their tips. With this new weapon, Kincado Nau (aka Seabook Arno) was able to fight off the Death Gale Team. However, after being forced into extended combat with the Earth Federation, Kincado was attacked by his former ally, Zabine Chareux. Already damaged from fighting the mass-produced F91 Gundam F91 units, the X-1 Kai was outmatched by Zabine's XM-X2 (F97) Crossbone Gundam X2 Kai, who apparently killed Kincado by stabbing the X-1 Kai's cockpit with a beam saber before kicking it into Earth's atmosphere. Several months later, however, the X-1 Kai reappeared just in time to help Tobia Arronax's XM-X3 Crossbone Gundam X3 fight off the Death Gale Team on Earth. After meeting up with his friends, Kincado returned to the battlefield, using the X-1 Kai to destroy the Jupitris 9 and deal the final blow to the real Crux Dogatie's EMA-10 Divinidad. As the Jupiter Conflict came to an end, Kincado retired to marry Berah Ronah (aka Cecily Fairchild), leaving the X-1 Kai in Tobia's hands. In the time between the conflict's end and the rise of the new Crossbone Vanguard, the X-1 Kai would be upgraded again, this time into the infamous "Skull Heart."..
Pilot: Kincado Nau (aka Seabook Arno) Appearances: Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam Original mechanical designer: Hajime Katoki
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