XM-08 Zondo-Gei

Model number: XM-08
Code name: Zondo-Gei
Unit type: mass production mobile suit
Manufacturer: Buffo Concern
Operator: Crossbone Vanguard
First deployment: UC 0120s (exact date uncertain)
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Dimensions: head height 10.0 meters
Weight: unknown
Armor materials: unknown
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, power output rating unknown 
Propulsion: rocket thrusters: total output unknown
Equipment and design features: sensors, range unknown, optional ABC (anti-beam coating) mantle
Fixed armaments: beam shield, mounted on left shoulder
Optional hand armaments: beam rifle; beam saber; shot lancer with mounted 2-barrel heavy machine gun

Developed shortly after the end of the Cosmo Babylon War, the XM-08 Zondo-Gei was the product of the Buffo Concern answering the Crossbone Vanguard’s demand for a smaller mobile suit. Despite an overall height of only 10 meters, the Zondo-Gei maintained performance on par with its predecessors, and shared many of their weapons. In order to make up for their numerical disadvantage, the members of Berah Ronah’s Crossbone Vanguard used many leftover units in their forces. However, despite modifications such as a new engine and an anti-beam coating mantle (covering only the legs so as not to interfere with the main thrusters), nothing could change the fact that by that point the Zondo-Gei was 10 years old and severely outmatched. The Vanguard often captured Jovian mobile suits, particularly the EMS-06 Batalla, to replace this aging machine.

Pilot(s): Tobia Arronax, Umon Samon, Yona, Jared, Harida
First appearance: Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam
Original mechanical designer: Yuichi Hasegawa
Note: custom color lineart by AmuroNT1

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