AGX-04 Gerbera Tetra

Technical Data and General Information

Model number: AGX-04 Code name: Gerbera Tetra Unit type: prototype general purpose assault mobile suit Manufacturer: Anaheim Electronics Company Operator: Cima Fleet First deployment: UC 0083 Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso Dimensions: overall height 18.0 meters Weight: empty: 46.7 metric tons standard, 48.5 metric tons with sturm booster; max gross: 73.2 metric tons standard, 86.0 metric tons with sturm booster Construction: titanium/ceramic composite on semi-monocoque frame Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 1710 kW Propulsion: fixed rocket thrusters: 2 x 56000 kg, 50000 kg, 4 x 13500 kg; additional rocket thrusters with optional sturm booster: 2 x 50000 kg Performance: maximum thruster acceleration 2.95 G standard, 3.67 G with sturm booster; 180-degree turn time: 0.9 seconds Equipment and design features: optional sturm booster, stores extra propellant, mounts additional thrusters and 2 x ejectable external propellant tanks Fixed armaments: 4 x 110 mm machinecannon, mounted in pairs in arms, each pair fire-linked; 2 x beam saber, stored in recharge racks in hip armor, hand-carried in use Optional hand armaments: beam machinegun, powered by rechargeable energy cap

Technical and Historical Notes

As part of its military reconstruction following the One Year War, the Earth Federal Forces initiated its "Gundam Development Project," the goal being to develop advanced new Gundam-model mobile suit prototypes to test new technology concepts. The intended fourth unit in this "GP" series, the RX-78GP04G Gundam "Gerbera", never saw completion, as the GP04G's concept would basically be a space-use repeat of the RX-78GP01 Gundam "Zephyranthes". Civilian contractor Anaheim Electronics was left hanging with a set of plans and an incomplete mobile suit prototype, and the GP04G would never appear. However, many of Anaheim's engineers were former mobile suit designers from the Principality of Zeon, and they modified the plans and construction of the GP04G into a new, Zeon-style mobile suit. Called the AGX-04 Gerbera Tetra, it carried a powerful beam machinegun and could be equipped with a "sturm booster," which was essentially a large external propellant tank with extra thrusters, making the Gerbera Tetra one of the fastest and most maneuverable mobile suits of its time. When the Delaz Fleet launched its "Operation Stardust" uprising against the Federation in UC 0083, Anaheim Electronics - always looking to make a buck by playing both sides against the middle - offered support for Delaz when Vice-President O'Sullivan gave the completed Gerbera Tetra to Lieutenant Colonel Cima Garahau as a political gesture. In the last stages of Operation Stardust, Cima would use the Gerbera Tetra in a last-ditch fight for her own survival.