OZ-12MSX1 Vayeate

Technical Data and general Information

Model number: OZ-13MSX1 Code name: Vayeate Unit type: mobile suit Manufacturer: OZ (Organization of Zodiac) Operator: OZ First deployment: AC 195 Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso Dimensions: head height 16.3 meters Weight: empty 7.3 metric tons; max gross weight unknown Construction: gundanium alloy Powerplant: ultracompact fusion reactor, power output rating unknown Performance ability levels: fighting 110; weapons 160; speed 125; power 110; armor 130 Equipment and design features: sensors, range unknown; self-destruct system Fixed armaments: beam cannon, powered by external energy collector

Technical and Historical Notes

When the five scientists who built the Gundam mobile suits plaguing OZ during AC 195 were captured, OZ put them to work developing new technologies for its next generation of mobile weapons - giving them the ability to tackle the Gundam problem. Two testbed units were built, the OZ-13MSX1 Vayeate and the OZ-13MSX2 Mercurius. Whereas the Mercurius was designed as a defensive mobile suit, the Vayeate was designed primarily as an offensive unit. Since the Vayeate was intended to be as powerful as the infamous Gundams - and needed proper combat test data for future mobile doll programming - OZ selected one of its own pilots, an extremely capable young man named Trowa Barton (unknown to OZ as actually being one of the Gundam pilots) to be its test pilot. The Vayeate, built on the same basic frame as its Mercurius twin, was armed only with a large beam cannon. This cannon was designed to provide a damaging blow almost equivalent to that of the XXXG-01W Wing Gundam's powerful buster rifle. To overcome the problem of the buster rifle's limited charge, the scientists designed a large energy collector, providing the Vayeate's beam cannon with a virtually limitless "ammunition" charge.