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MA-06 Val Waro
Model number: MA-06
Code name: Val Waro
Unit type: space combat mobile armor
Manufacturer: Principality of Zeon
Operator(s): Principality of Zeon; Kelly Layzner
First deployment: UC 0079
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in main body
Dimensions: overall length 68.0 meters; overall width 46.0 meters; overall height 22.5 meters
Weight: empty 254.1 metric tons; max gross 379.8 metric tons
Armor materials: titanium/ceramic composite
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 26030 kW
Propulsion: rocket thrusters: 3 x 184000 kg, 3 x 56000 kg
Performance: maximum thruster acceleration 1.90 G
Fixed armaments: large mega particle cannon, mounted in main body; 2 x 2-tube missile pod, mounted on main body; 2 x anti-aircraft beam gun, mounted on main body; 4 x 110mm vulcan gun, fire-linked, mounted in main body; 3 x plasma leader, stored on main body, delivers plasma electrical charge to target upon deployment
In the last weeks of the One Year War, the Principality of Zeon develops the mobile armor MA-06 Val Waro, based on the MA-05 Bigro. Whereas the Bigro is designed for anti-ship assaults, the Val Waro is designed to serve as both an anti-ship unit and as a close combat unit against mobile suits. Sporting a powerful mega particle cannon, anti-air beam guns and vulcan guns, and large claw arms, it is well suited to both these mission roles. Another weapon in its anti-MS arsenal is its trio of "plasma leaders," an improvement on the Adzam leaders used in the MAX-03 Adzam mobile armor. These weapons, when deployed around a target, open up and emit powerful electrically-charged plasma, disrupting and overloading a mobile suit's controls and electronics. Due to its late entry into the war, however, only a handful are constructed.
One unit survives the war and finds its way into the ownership of crippled Zeon pilot Kelly Layzner, who keeps his Val Waro hidden at his junkyard in the lower levels of Von Braun City on Luna. In UC 0083, Kelly's old friend and wingmate Anavel Gato invites him to join the Delaz Fleet in their Operation Stardust offensive. Kelly jumps at the chance, rebuilding the Val Waro and modifying it so that he can pilot it in his one-armed condition. When Cima Garahau officially purchases the Val Waro from Kelly on behalf of the Delaz Fleet, she intends to assign one of her own pilots to fly the mobile armor. Intending to prove himself, Kelly takes the Val Waro out himself and challenges the Federation Forces' assault carrier Albion, docked at Von Braun. During the battle, Kelly loses his life and the Val Waro is destroyed in a duel against the RX-78GP01-Fb Full Vernian Gundam "Zephyranthes" on Luna's surface.
Pilot: Kelly Layzner
Appearances: Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory; Mobile Suit Gundam: Encounters in Space
Original mechanical designer: Mika Akitaka
Anti-air beam gun
Cockpit
Mega particle cannon
Plasma leader
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