MA-06 Val Varo
							Technical Data and General Information
						Model number: MA-06 Code name: Val Varo Unit type: space combat mobile armor Manufacturer: Principality of Zeon Operator: Principality of Zeon; Kelly Layzner First deployment: UC 0079 Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in main body Dimensions: overall length 68.0 meters; overall width 46.0 meters; overall height 22.5 meters Weight: empty 254.1 metric tons; max gross 379.8 metric tons Construction: titanium/ceramic composite on monocoque frame Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 26030 kW Propulsion: rocket thrusters: 3 x 184000 kg, 3 x 56000 kg Performance: maximum thruster acceleration 1.90 G Fixed armaments: large mega particle cannon, mounted in main body; 2 x 2-tube missile pod, mounted on main body; 2 x anti-aircraft beam gun, mounted on main body; 4 x 110 mm vulcan gun, fire-linked, mounted in main body; 3 x plasma leader, stored on main body, delivers plasma electrical charge to target upon deployment
		Technical and Historical Notes
	In the last weeks of the One Year War, the mobile armor MA-06 Val Varo was developed by the Principality of Zeon, based on the MA-05 Bigro. Whereas the Bigro was designed for anti-ship assaults, the Val Varo was designed to serve as both an anti-ship unit and as a close combat unit against mobile suits. Sporting a powerful mega particle cannon, anti-air beam guns and vulcan guns, and large claw arms, it was well suited to both these mission roles. Another weapon in its anti-MS arsenal was its trio of "plasma leaders," an improvement on the Adzam leaders used in the MAX-03 Adzam mobile armor. These weapons, when deployed around a target, would open up and emit powerful electrically-charged plasma, disrupting and overloading a mobile suit's controls and electronics. Due to its late entry into the war, however, only a handful were constructed. One unit survived the war and found its way into the ownership of crippled Zeon pilot Kelly Layzner, who kept his Val Varo hidden at his junkyard in the lower levels of Von Braun City on Luna. In UC 0083, Kelly's old friend and wingmate Anavel Gato invited him to join the Delaz Fleet in their "Operation Stardust" offensive, Kelly jumped at the chance, rebuilding the Val Varo and modifying it so that he could pilot it in his one-armed condition. When Lieutenant Colonel Cima Garahau officially purchased the Val Varo from Kelly on behalf of the Delaz Fleet, she intended to assign one of her own pilots to fly the mobile armor. Intending to prove himself, Kelly took the Val Varo out himself and challenged the Federal Forces' assault carrier Albion, docked at Von Braun City. During the battle, Kelly lost his life and the Val Varo was destroyed in a duel against the prototype RX-78GP01-Fb Full Vernian Gundam "Zephyranthes" on Luna's surface.