GN-008 Seravee Gundam

Model number: GN-008
Code name: Seravee Gundam
Unit type: heavy assault mobile suit
Manufacturer: Celestial Being
Operator: Celestial Being
Rollout: AD 2312
First deployment: AD 2312
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso, can transfer pilot seat to GN-009 Seraphim Gundam
Dimensions: head height 18.2 meters
Weight: max gross 67.2 metric tons
Armor materials: E-Carbon
Powerplant: GN Drive, mounted on Seraphim Gundam, power output rating unknown
Propulsion: GN verniers, total output unknown
Equipment and design features: sensors, range unknown, Trans-Am System; docking point for Seraphim Gundam; optical camouflage; communication jamming; Face Burst Mode; many x GN Condensers, mounted on main body, can generate GN Field
Fixed armaments: 6 x GN Beam Saber, 2 stored in racks in forearms, 4 stored in GN Cannons, all hand-carried in use; 4 x GN Cannon, mounted in shoulders and knees
Optional fixed armaments: see GN-008GNHW/B Seravee Gundam GNHW/B; GN-008GNHW/3G Seravee Gundam GNHW/3G
Optional hand armaments: 2 x GN Bazooka II, can combine with GN Cannons in multiple configurations

Celestial Being’s Gundam Meisters were scattered following a devastating attack by United Nations forces in 2308. Only Tieria Erde remained with the group afterward, and he assisted with the development of new mobile suits. The first new Gundam to roll out in 2312 was the GN-008 Seravee Gundam, the successor to his GN-005 Gundam Virtue. Whereas the Gundam Virtue consisted of heavy armor for a lighter mobile suit, the Seravee Gundam turned this concept around by having a lighter mobile suit docking with a heavy one. This lighter suit, the GN-009 Seraphim Gundam, could separate while the Seravee Gundam acted as unmanned attack unit powered by GN Condensers. One of the Seravee Gundam’s new features was Face Burst mode, which used its antennae to improve GN particle flow. Because of the Seravee Gundam’s heavy use of GN particles for its weapons, it received a dramatic performance boost when using Trans-Am as more GN particles were available for its use. However, the Seraphim Gundam was unable to initiate Trans-Am on its own after separating from the Seravee Gundam.

The Seravee Gundam inherited the Gundam Virtue’s role as an anti-ship/fortress unit and could take out multiple enemies at once with its overwhelming firepower. For close-range self-defense it carried two GN Beam Sabers in its forearms, with an additional four hidden inside its GN Cannons. In addition to the four GN Cannons, the Seravee Gundam was armed with a pair of combining GN Bazookas that could be used in multiple configurations. The two bazookas could combine with each other to create the Double Bazooka, which could open to fire in Burst Mode. The Double Bazooka could connect to a shoulder cannon to form the the Double Bazooka Cannon, or in Burst Mode the Double Bazooka Burst Cannon. The individual bazookas could combine with the shoulder cannons into Buster Cannons. The bazookas could also combine with the shoulder cannons as the Twin Buster Cannon. At the end of the conflict with the Innovades, the Seravee Gundam was heavily damaged while the Seraphim Gundam was destroyed. After merging with the quantum computer Veda, Tieria remodeled the Seravee Gundam into the GN-008RE Seravee Gundam II to support the new CB-002 Raphael Gundam.

Pilot: Tieria Erde
First appearance: Mobile Suit Gundam 00
Original mechanical designer: Takayuki Yanase

GN Bazooka II

Head

Rear view