Model number:
LM312V04
Code name: Victory Gundam
Unit type: prototype close combat transformable mobile
suit
Manufacturer: League Militaire
Operator: League Militaire
First deployment: UC 0153
Accommodation: pilot in panoramic monitor/linear seat
cockpit in torso with Core Block System using Core Fighter
Dimensions: mobile suit mode: head height 15.2 meters;
Core Fighter: overall length 8.6 meters; Top Fighter with Core
Fighter: overall length 11.8 meters; Bottom Fighter with Core
Fighter: overall length 16.8 meters
Weight: mobile suit mode: empty 7.6 metric tons, max
gross 17.7 tons
Armor materials: gundarium alloy/super-ceramic composite
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor,
output rated at 4780 kW
Propulsion: rocket thrusters: 6 x 7390 kg (all operable
in mobile suit mode, 2 operable in Core Fighter, 2 operable
in Top Fighter, 2 operable in Bottom Fighter), 8 x 4420 kg (all
operable in mobile suit mode and in Bottom Fighter); vernier
thrusters/apogee motors: 34
Performance: maximum thruster acceleration: mobile suit
mode 4.50 G
Equipment and design features: sensors, range unknown;
separable transformation components, mobile suit mode can split
into Top Fighter and Bottom Fighter, each can be controlled
by a Core Fighter or operated from a separate Core Fighter via
remote control
Fixed armaments: 2 x vulcan gun, fire-linked, mounted
in head in mobile suit mode and in main body of Core Fighter
(operable while docked with Top Fighter and Bottom Fighter);
2 x beam saber, stored in recharge racks in forearms, hand-carried
in use in mobile suit mode or on Top Fighter, 2 spare beam sabers
stored in forearms; 2 x beam shield, mounted on forearms in
mobile suit mode, also operable on Top Fighter; 8 x hardpoint,
can be used to externally store beam rifles or beam pistols,
4 located on arms in mobile suit mode and on main body of Top
Fighter, 2 located on hip armor in mobile suit mode and on main
body of Bottom Fighter, 2 located on legs in mobile suit mode
and on main body of Bottom Fighter
Optional hand armaments: beam rifle, powered by rechargeable
energy cap, can be stored on external hardpoints; beam pistol,
powered by rechargeable energy cap, can be stored on external
hardpoints; javelin; vulcan cannon
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Technical
and Historical Notes
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As the Zanscare
Empire continued to spread its tyrannical military and political
power throughout the Earth Sphere, their forces launched an
invasion and occupation of Earth to make way for their religious
radical "true believers." With the Earth Federation slowly collapsing
into political and military insignificance, the only hope for
freedom lay with the underground resistance organization known
as the League Militaire. In UC 0153, the League Militiare launched
its "Victory Project" from their Kolin factory near Eastern
Europe's Point Kasarelia (in former Czechoslovakia), its goal
being to design and mass-produce advanced new mobile suits to
counter the Zanscare threat.
Their flagship mobile suit was the LM312V04 Victory Gundam,
named after the legendary Federation mobile suits of its heyday,
and serving as a symbol of freedom for the League Militaire
forces. Built around a Core Fighter base, the Victory Gundam
could separate into a "Top Fighter" and "Bottom Fighter", each
of which could be docked with a Core Fighter or operated via
remote control from another Core Fighter. This modular/docking
design not only increased the chances of pilot survivability,
thus allowing a pilot to continue fighting if part of his mobile
suit is damaged or destroyed, but also allowed for replacement
of destroyed Top Fighter or Bottom Fighter modules mid-battle
if the need arose.
The Victory Gundam was also the first mobile suit to feature
the "Minovsky flight" system, a miniaturized Minovsky craft
system designed to keep the mobile suit floating in mid-air
at any altitude while it maneuvered with its rocket and vernier
thrusters. This system was much more efficient and made for
greater combat flexibility than the Zanscare mobile suits' beam
rotor system, and the Minovsky flight technology would later
serve as the basis for the LM314V21 Victory
2 Gundam's much more advanced "Minovsky drive."
Several Victory Gundams were manufacturered at the Kolin factory,
with replacement Top Fighter and Bottom Fighter modules being
readily available for battlefield replacements. The original
Victory Gundam design would also serve as the basis for the
cheaper, non-transforming mass-produced LM111E02
Gun-EZ.
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Miscellaneous
Information
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Pilot(s):
Uso Evin (all modes and components), Marbet Fingerhat (mobile
suit mode, Core Fighter and Top Fighter), Oliver Inoe (all modes
and components), Juca Meilasch (mobile suit mode only), Cronicle
Asher (mobile suit mode only), Odelo Henrik (mobile suit mode
only)
Appearances: Mobile Suit Victory Gundam;
SD Gundam: G Generation Neo
Original mechanical designer: Hajime Katoki
Note: custom lineart by crashandburn
