Model number: AMX-103
Code name: Hamma Hamma
Unit type: prototype knight custom mobile suit
Manufacturer: Neo Zeon
Operator: Neo Zeon
First deployment: UC 0088
Accommodation: pilot in panoramic monitor/linear seat cockpit in torso
Dimensions: overall height 24.03 meters; head height 21.5 meters
Weight: empty 40.3 metric tons; max gross 79.4 metric tons; mass ratio 1.68
Armor materials: gundarium alloy
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 3820 kW
Propulsion: rocket thrusters: 2 x 18300 kg, 10 x 13200 kg, 8 x 11200 kg; vernier thrusters/apogee motors: 12
Performance: maximum thruster acceleration 1.92 G
Equipment and design features: sensors, range 14200 meters; quasi-psycommu system
Fixed armaments: 2 x wire-guided 3-barrel beam gun/claw, controlled via quasi-psycommu system, power rated at 3.1 MW
Optional hand armaments: shield, equipped with independent power generator, mounts 3 x beam gun (fire-linked, power rated at 1.8 MW each), 2 x beam saber (power rated at 0.74 MW, hand-carried in use), and space mine launcher (8 rounds)

Technical and Historical Notes

As Axis/Neo Zeon began openly moving to conquer the Earth Sphere at the outbreak of the First Neo Zeon War, they developed several prototype mobile suits to serve as testbeds for advanced new technologies. One of these prototypes was the AMX-103 Hamma Hamma, whose primary function was to test the new "quasi-psycommu" system. The quasi-psycommu was a computer control system designed to allow normal (non-Newtype) pilots to operate wire-guided remote weapons and conduct all-range attacks in a fashion similar to Newtype-use mobile weapons equipped with a standard psycommu system. The Hamma Hamma's quasi-psycommu was intended to control its two wire-guided claw-hands, each of which was armed with a 3-barreled beam gun. This was the only armament mounted on the Hamma Hamma itself, as the remaining reactor output was required to operate the large number of thrusters arrayed on the massive shoulder and skirt armor of this highly maneuverable mobile suit. In order to be equipped with additional beam weaponry, the Hamma Hamma could also carry a shield that was equipped with its own independent power generator. This generator powered the weapons mounted on the shield, which included three linked beam guns, a pair of beam sabers, and a space mine launcher.

Initially, only one prototype Hamma Hamma was in use, assigned to Mashymre Cello's Endra cruiser, which was tasked with recruiting new allies among the citizens of Side 1's Shangri-La colony and destroying the AEUG's sole remaining battleship Argama. Although Mashymre failed in his mission, his use of the Hamma Hamma proved its effectiveness as a fast and agile unit... and the shortcomings of its experimental quasi-psycommu system. As such, Mashymre could only use the Hamma Hamma's wire-guided arms as simple direct-fire, launch-and-retrieve weapons or extendable grappling hands, unable to carry out the simulated all-range attacks intended to be made possible by the quasi-psycommu. As it was, the Hamma Hamma never made it past the prototype/limited production stage and onto the hoped-for full production lines. However, the quasi-psycommu technology would later be perfected and incorporated into a later mass-produced Neo Zeon MS, the AMX-014 Dooben-Wolf.

Miscellaneous Information

Pilot: Mashymre Cello
Appearances: Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ; Gundam: The Battle Master/Gundam Battle Assault; Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam Vs. Gundam Next
Original mechanical designer: Yutaka Izubuchi

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