Model
number: OZ-13MS
Code name: Gundam Epyon
Unit type: transformable mobile suit
Manufacturer: OZ (Organization of Zodiac)
Operator(s): White Fang; Gundam pilots
First deployment: AC 195
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Dimensions: head height 17.4 meters
Weight: empty 8.5 metric tons; max gross weight unknown
Armor materials: gundanium alloy
Powerplant: ultracompact fusion reactor, power output rating
unknown
Performance ability levels: fighting 160; weapons 140;
speed 160; power 150; armor 140
Equipment and design features: sensors, range unknown;
Epyon System combat computer/pilot interface in cockpit
Fixed armaments: beam sword, directly powered by generator
via cable, stored in rack on right hip armor, hand-carried in
use
Optional fixed armaments: shield, mounted on left forearm,
mounts heat rod, retractable
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Technical
and Historical Notes
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Designed
and built by OZ leader Treize Khushrenada during the political
and military chaos occuring in AC 195, the OZ-13MS Gundam Epyon
was intended to be the physical manifestation of Treize's martial
ideals. Based on combat data acquired on the Gundams fighting
OZ and the Romefeller Foundation, the Gundam Epyon ("epyon"
is Greek for "next") was intended to be the perfect weapon for
Treize's envisioned perfect soldier.
Rather than incorporating ranged weapons used by "cowardly"
soldiers with no warrior's sense of fulfillment, Treize armed
the Epyon with only two weapons: a razor-sharp, retractable
tentacle heat rod - effective for both grappling and slicing
enemies at high speed - and a large beam sword, connected directly
to the mobile suit's generator via a power cable. These "duelist's"
weapons were the only weapons a "true" soldier would need, and
Treize, seeing the personal philosophies he lived by embodied
in the Gundam pilots, waited until the day he could give his
perfect weapon to one of these perfect soldiers. In addition
to these melee weapons, the Epyon could transform into a mobile
armor mode for atmospheric flight and added speed and mobility.
That day came when Treize - having withdrawn his support for
the Romefeller Foundation's new direction of purpose - was under
seige in his Luxenbourg headquarters by Romefeller loyalists
attempting to take out Treize and his proud supporters. Gundam
pilot Heero Yuy arrived on the scene, and his meeting with Treize
ended in Heero's acquiring the Gundam Epyon for his personal
use. To Heero's surprise, the Epyon incorporated a dangerous
cockpit system similar to that of the XXXG-00W0
Wing Gundam Zero - one that interfaced directly with the
pilot's mind, eliminating all doubts and fears and providing
its pilot with unquestionable knowledge of his enemies and the
ability to achieve total victory. Heero, having already had
this disturbing experience with the Wing
Zero, quickly mastered this new Gundam's "Epyon System,"
though he would later end up trading mobile suits with former
OZ pilot Zechs Merquise, who had just recently acquired the
Wing Zero himself. Zechs would keep
the Gundam Epyon for the remainder of the fighting occuring
that year, leading his own soulless mobile doll "troops" on
the front lines against Treize's World Nation and the Gundam
pilots.
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Miscellaneous
Information
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Pilot(s):
Zechs Merquise (aka Milliardo Peacecraft), Heero Yuy
Appearances: New Mobile Report Gundam
W; Gundam W Dual Story: G-UNIT;
Gundam Battle Assault
2
Original mechanical designer: Kunio Okawara
