Model number:Â AGE-3O
Code name:Â Gundam AGE-3 Orbital
Unit type:Â prototype transformable multi-mode mobile suit
Manufacturer:Â Earth Federation Forces
Operator:Â Earth Federation Forces
First deployment:Â AG 164
Accommodation:Â pilot and copilot, in standard cockpit in torso with Core Fighter
Dimensions:Â overall height 18.5 meters
Weight:Â empty 69.2 metric tons
Armor materials:Â unknown
Powerplant:Â unknown
Propulsion:Â unknown
Equipment and design features:Â sensors, range unknown; AGE System
Fixed armaments:Â 2 x beam saber, stored in recharge rack in forearms, hand-carried in use
Optional hand armaments:Â SigMaxiss long cannon
When the battleship Diva encountered new opponents in space in AG 164, the AGE System developed the high mobility Orbital wear for the AGE-3 Gundam AGE-3 Normal. As with other wear parts, the Core Fighter transformed and docked with the Orbital’s G-Viper components. The beam sabers from the AGE-3 Normal returned, but its main armament was a new SigMaxiss long cannon. In addition to its precision aiming, the SigMaxiss long cannon could take advantage of an X-Rounder’s abilities and curve its beam to follow its target. The AGE-3 Orbital was damaged in a battle with the xvm-zbc Xamdrag and captured by Zanald Beihart, who took his prize back to the Vagan home colony Second Moon. Vagan engineers studied the captured mobile suit, and when Kio traded access to the AGE System for medicine for a young girl, they combined it with data from the EXA-DB to create a new mobile suit, the xvm-fzc Gundam Legilis. After Kio escaped from Second Moon with the help of his father, Asemu, he upgraded a new mobile suit, the AGE-FX Gundam AGE-FX.
Pilot:Â Kio Asuno
First appearance:Â Mobile Suit Gundam AGE
Original mechanical designer: Kanetake Ebikawa
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Gundam AGE Info
Director(s):
Susumu Yamaguchi (TV)
Shinya Watada (OVA)
Writer(s):
Akihiro Hino
Kazuho Hyodo
Noboru Kimura
Rika Nakase
Yoichi Kato
Mechanical Designer(s):
Kanetake Ebikawa
Kenji Teraoka
Junya Ishigaki
Character Designer(s):
Takuzo Nagano
Michinori Chiba
Musical Composer:
Kei Yoshikawa
Airdates:
Japan 10.09.2011 – 09.23.2012
Format:
49 episodes; 1 compilation OVA
Video Release (OVA):
Japan 07.26.2013
U.S. 07.03.2018
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Cutaway diagram of the VF-1J Valkyrie Fighter Mode from “This is Animation Special: Macross Plus”(1995). Larger versions on my DA profile:
https://www.deviantart.com/marchly/art/Macross-VF-1J-Valkyrie-Cutaway-Diagram-detailed-973372931
https://www.deviantart.com/marchly/art/Macross-VF-1J-Valkyrie-Cutaway-Diagram-clean-973371729
Art by Kiyomi Tanaka. Original concept by unknown Macross fan. Image built by me
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