SP-W03 Space Pod

Model number: SP-W03
Code name: Spacee Pod
Unit type: space use worker pod
Manufacturer: civilians
Operator: civilians
First deployment: unknown
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in body
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
Armor materials: unknown
Powerplant: unknown
Propulsion: rocket thrusters: total output unknown
Equipment and design features: sensors, range unknown
Fixed armaments: none

The SP-W03 Space Pod was a unit built to assist in the construction of the space colonies. This simple unit consisted of a main ball-shaped body and two manipulator hands for use in construction. When the One Year War erupted in January UC 0079, the Earth Federation Forces were caught flat-footed by the Principality of Zeon’s introduction of the mobile suit as a weapon of modern warfare. The EFF were at work on their own mobile suits under the Operation V banner, but none were combat ready at the war’s outset. The EFF used the Space Pod to resurrect the RX-76 project, and they eventually became the combat use RB-79 Ball, which was deployed as a stopgap measure until the rollout of the EFF’s first mass production mobile suit, the RGM-79 GM. After the war, Space Pods were used to clean up space debris as part of the Colony Reclamation Project.

Pilot: Ken Bederstadt
First appearance: MSV
Original mechanical designer: Kunio Okawara

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