Model
number: NRX-0015 Code name: Gundam Ashtaron Unit type: transformable mobile suit Manufacturer: New United Nations Earth Operator: New United Nations Earth First deployment: unknown Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso Dimensions: head height 19.5 meters Weight: empty 10.2 metric metric tons; max gross weight
unknown Armor materials:
unknown Powerplant: ultracompact fusion reactor, power output rating
unknown Equipment and design features: optional extended range
flight booster for mobile armor mode; sensors, range unknown Fixed armaments: 2 x atomic scissors claw, mounted on arms,
operable in all modes; 2 x scissors beam cannon, mounted in arms,
operable in all modes; beam saber, stored in recharge rack, hand-carried
in use in mobile suit mode only; 4 x nose beam cannon, fire-linked,
mounted in backpack/mobile armor main body, operable in mobile
armor only; 2 x machine cannon Optional hand armaments: beam crossbow
Technical
and Historical Notes
Presumably
completed before development of the GX-9901-DX
Gundam Double X began, the New United Nations Earth's NRX-0015
Gundam Ashtaron was a fairly heavy mobile suit capable of transforming
into a flight-capable mobile armor form. Despite its size and
bulk, the Ashtaron was equipped with sufficient thrust to allow
it to not only fly and maneuver at high speeds, but also to
carry Shagia Frost's NRX-0013 Gundam
Virsago on its back in MA mode. The Ashtaron's primary armament
were its pair of "atomic scissors" claws, which not only served
as large and powerful grappling/striking melee weapons in both
modes, but were also armed with beam cannons for equally flexible
ranged attacks. Piloted by Shagia's younger brother, Olba Frost,
the Gundam Ashtaron would prove to be an extremely difficult
menace to the Vulture crew of the land battleship Freeden
in A.W. 0015. The Ashtaron was later upgraded to the NRX-0015-HC
Gundam Ashtaron Hermit Crab.