MS-09SS Dowas Custom

Model number: MS-09SS
Code name: Dowas Custom
Unit type: custom high mobility mobile suit
Manufacturer: Axis Zeon (based on a design from the Principality of Zeon)
Operator: Axis Zeon
Rollout: UC 0079 (original version)
First deployment: unknown
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Dimensions: head height 18.6 meters
Weight: empty 42.6 metric tons; max gross 61.2 metric tons
Armor materials: titanium ceramic composite; Gundarium alloy
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 1,360 kW
Propulsion: rocket thrusters: 65,000 kg total
Performance: unknown
Equipment and design features: sensors, range 5,400 meters; 2 x optional propellant time
Fixed armaments: 2 x vulcan gun, mounted in head; diffuse beam cannon, mounted in torso; heat saber, battery powered, stored in recharge rack on back, hand-carried in use
Optional hand armaments: beam bazooka

Late in the One Year War, the Principality of Zeon produced the MS-09S Dowas as the final version of the MS-09R Rick Dom. The Dowas was developed to improve the Rick Dom’s high mobility combat ability, but the war ended with most having never seen battle. Zeon remnants transported the completed Dowas units to the Axis asteroid, where they were upgraded with higher mobility and generator output, plus new Gundarium alloy armor. These upgraded units were redesignated as the MS-09SS Dowas Custom. The Dowas Custom’s armaments included vulcan guns, a diffuse beam cannon, a heat saber and a beam bazooka. The Dowas Custom could optionally be fitted with two propellant tanks on its backpack to extend its operational time, depending on the mission. When Char Aznable left Axis, he took a Dowas Custom and some Gundarium alloy to Anaheim Electronics. The Dowas Custom became the design base for Anaheim’s Gamma Gundam, which later evolved into the RMS-099 Rick Dias used by the AEUG during the Gryps War.

Pilot(s): Char Aznable, Andy
First appearance: Anaheim Laboratory Log
Original mechanical designer: Masato Natsumoto

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