Model
number: OZ-13MSX1
Code name: Vayeate
Unit type: mobile suit
Manufacturer: OZ (Organization of Zodiac)
Operator: OZ
First deployment: 20 August AC 195
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Dimensions: head height 16.3 meters
Weight: empty 7.3 metric tons; max gross weight unknown
Armor materials: gundanium alloy
Powerplant: ultracompact fusion reactor, power output rating
unknown
Performance ability levels: fighting 110; weapons 160;
speed 125; power 110; armor 130
Equipment and design features: sensors, range unknown;
self-destruct system
Fixed armaments: beam cannon, powered by external energy
collector
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Technical
and Historical Notes |
When
the five scientists who built the Gundam mobile suits plaguing
OZ during AC 195 were captured, OZ put them to work developing
new technologies for its next generation of mobile weapons -
giving them the ability to tackle the Gundam problem. Two testbed
units were built, the OZ-13MSX1 Vayeate and the OZ-13MSX2
Mercurius. Whereas the Mercurius
was designed as a defensive mobile suit, the Vayeate was designed
primarily as an offensive unit. Since the Vayeate was intended
to be as powerful as the infamous Gundams - and needed proper
combat test data for future mobile doll programming - OZ selected
one of its own pilots, an extremely capable young man named
Trowa Barton (unknown to OZ as actually being one of the Gundam
pilots) to be its test pilot.
The Vayeate, built on the same basic frame as its Mercurius
twin, was armed only with a large beam cannon. This cannon was
designed to provide a damaging blow almost equivalent to that
of the XXXG-01W Wing Gundam's powerful
buster rifle. To overcome the problem of the buster rifle's
limited charge, the scientists designed a large energy collector,
providing the Vayeate's beam cannon with a virtually limitless
"ammunition" charge.
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Miscellaneous
Information |
Pilot(s):
Trowa Barton, Heero Yuy
Appearances: New Mobile Report Gundam
W; Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam Vs. Gundam; Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam Vs. Gundam Next
Original mechanical designer: Hajime Katoki