XXXG-01SR2 Gundam Sandrock Kai

Technical Data and General Information

Model number: XXXG-01SR2 Code name: Gundam Sandrock Kai Unit type: mobile suit Manufacturer: Instructor H (with modifications by Howard) Operator: Gundam pilots Rollout: AC 195 First deployment: AC 195 Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso Dimensions: head height 16.5 meters Weight: empty 7.9 metric tons; max gross weight unknown Construction: gundanium alloy Powerplant: ultracompact fusion reactor, power output rating unknown Performance ability levels: fighting 120; weapons 120; speed 120; power 150; armor 160 Equipment and design features: sensors, range unknown; self-destruct system; Zero System in cockpit (temporary field upgrade) Fixed armaments: 2 x vulcan gun, fire-linked, mounted in head; 2 x missile, mounted in launch tubes in torso; 2 x heat shotel, superheated blade, stored on recharge racks in backpack, hand-carried in use; shield, can be stored on backpack or mounted on left forearm, mounts 2 x "shield flasher" blinding flare system, can be combined with heat shotels to form "cross-crusher" pincer weapon Optional hand armaments: beam machinegun, powered by rechargeable energy cap

Technical and Historical Notes

Although pilot Quatre Raberba Winner had activated the self-destruct system on his XXXG-01SR Gundam Sandrock during his escape into space, the ensuing explosion had rendered the mobile suit useless - but its gundanium alloy body was still more or less intact. The Sandrock's remains were be confiscated by OZ, but later would be retrieved by members of his Maganac Corps allies and taken to their underground base in the Middle East, where it would be rebuilt and fully restored. After Quatre's return to Earth, he returned to the Maganacs to pilot his Gundam once again. But the military and political strife plaguing the Earth Sphere in AC 195 would reach a decisive conclusion in space, and Quatre returned to space with his Sandrock to join the battle. Aboard the independent battleship Peacemillion, Gundam supporter Howard would upgrade the mobile suit, giving it minor improvements for space combat. Though the changes made to the Gundam Sandrock Kai were cosmetically minor, they would give the mobile suit the edge it needed to use its abilities against the spacebound forces of White Fang's Virgo II mobile dolls and the mobile suits of the World Nation military. The addition of several vernier thrusters made the Sandrock stable to operate in a zero-gee environment, and the permanent addition of a small beam machinegun gave it more extensive ranged firepower. Over Quatre's protests, Gundam pilot Heero Yuy also temporarily outfitted the Sandrock with a component of the XXXG-00W0 Wing Gundam Zero's infamous Zero System, allowing Quatre to coordinate the Peacemillion's mobile suit forces in a major assault against White Fang's mobile dolls.