File 03
Equipment Pack XEP-0511X
Kuro Tenshi
Unit Type: Extended Operation Multi-Range Interception/Scouting and Discriminate Destruction Pack
Main Armaments: 1 x "Excalibur" Double-Edge Beam Longsword
1 x Phase-Shift Edged Anti-Beam Shield with "Kamikaze" 150mm Specialized Dual-Barrel Railgun
1 x 25mm Forearm Beam Carbine
Equipment: 1 x EWACS
Equipment (Add-ons): 2 x Ramjet Boosters
6 x Thrusters
Bio: The Kurotenshi pack is as much of an upgrade as possible for the Augury without extensively overhauling the mobile suit itself. In order to use the pack, the Augury's Phase Shift voltage has to be set to an extremely low state, rendering the unit black. This is to provide additional power to the multiple Ramjet boosted thrusters the main pack hosts in wing-like structures, as well as the standard thrusters and add-ons.
The Kurotenshi's only apparent weapon is the Excalibur Double-Edge Beam Longsword, which is effectively a much larger, much more potent version of the Cavalier Pack's Clarent Anti-Ship Sword, measuring at ten meters long and two-thirds of a meter wide. A distinguishing feature, however, is that the beams are actually cycled around the blade by magnetic fields, creating a chainsaw-like effect. This increases the penetration of the Excalibur, allowing it to slice through most common alloys.
However, the Anti-Beam Shield, which is larger than other similar units by a half, incorporates a unique weapons system into its ventral surface. Just above the place where the shield connects to the forearm is a dual barrel Railgun, with a top muzzle velocity almost equaling the Ballistra. What makes this one different from others is that it is made of a special (and expensive) alloy that takes enormous amounts of heat to melt, needed due to the purposeful extraordinary amounts of heat produced by the Railgun's operation. The ammunition fired by this weapon is also different, constructed of a small super-compressed high-explosive material encased in two layers of depleted uranium and tungsten-silicon alloy, which is in turn covered by a case of a costly artificial magnesium allotrope called thermesium. When fired, the excess heat literally ionizes the already super-heated thermesium, turning it into dense plasma. The plasma is fired along with the projectile, adhering to the natural magnetic field exerted by it. Heated to extreme temperatures, it is capable of melting through almost everything, practically dissolving armor and allowing the following round to enter the target, the high-explosives detonating mere milliseconds after initial impact. The weapon, called the Kamikaze, is capable of penetrating all kinds of armor, including Phase-Shift. It is also capable of firing the shells without ionizing the thermesium, saving energy (if not money). Also, it can still fire other rounds, among them special depleted-uranium HEAP shells, 'Shogun' frangible flechette rounds, and Teflon-coated Kinetic Penetrator sniper rounds
The shield itself is also a unique weapon, with it's monomolecular edge of highly compressed Phase Shifted Alloys, it is capable of slicing through most materials
Another weapon is the 25mm Beam Carbine, a smaller, less powerful and more stream-lined and efficient version of the standard beam rifle mounted on the forearm. The Beam Carbine fires at a rate of about 300 beams per minute, each one about a fifth the energy of a standard beam. It has different firing modes as well, firing in semi-automatic, burst, or automatic modes. In the semi-automatic mode, the carbine can charge its beams for more power, allowing it to fire exactly like a beam rifle.
The Kurotenshi pack hosts a larger backpack module than other equipment packs, in order to make room for the wing-mounted extra verniers and the larger energy capacitors, which effectively doubles the Augury's normal operation time than if it had a normal capacitor. Along with the larger capacitors, the pack also has four rechargeable paper batteries, essentially blocks of cellulose threaded with carbon nanotubes. The nature of the battery ensures a relatively safe supply of energy for the Augury when the Kuro Tenshi pack is equipped, doubling the already doubled operation time of the pack.
For support, the Kuro Tenshi utilizes an improved version of the Angelos' EWACS in the shape of a second, smaller, V-fin, which now includes satellite hacking and quantum communication. It also houses a new camera system in the junction where the arms of the V-fin, using magnetic resonance imagers, ultraviolet lenses, and other such devices to improve the visual sensors.
PGAT-001
Constantine
Unit Type: Mass-Production Mobile Suit
Manufacturer: Azrael Industries
Operator: OMNI Enforcer
Height: 17.6 Meters
Weight: 65.9 Metric Tons
Armor: Titanium/Carbon Alloy
Power Source: Ultra-Compact Rechargeable Energy Battery
Propulsion: Multiple Plasma Verniers
Operating System: Standard High-performance Interfaced Transintelligence
Special Systems: AMBAC
Equipment and Design Features: Equipment Pack hardpoints
Laminated Armor
Anti-Beam Shield (Optional)
Fixed Armaments (Standard): 2 x 85mm CIWS
1 x Back-Mounted Mortar
Hand Armaments (Standard): 1 x 50mm 'Sparta' Rail Assault Rifle or 1 x Beam SMG
1 x beam sabers
1 x beam pistol
Pack Armaments: 30mm Beam Sniper Rifle
180mm Railcannon
Tactical Missile Launchers
Strategic Missile Launchers
Pulsed Tactical High-Energy Laser
Anti-Ship Sword
Dual Beam Cannons
45mm Beam Rifle w/ Linear Grenade Launcher
Bio: Before the G Project, OMNI's flagship mobile suit project was Project Byzantine, designed to create designs of mobile suits easily mass-producable with the ability to adapt easily. Some of the designs did not fit into these criteria, and were shelved. These designs later became the inspiration for Halberton's G Project, which was meant to produce more advanced mobile suits with the intent of producing more specialized units in the form of the Bastion, the Enmity, the Noctoraptor, the Ferox, and the Kiba (although the last was more an accidental creation by Orb). The Augury was created as a hihgly-advanced version of the prototype, which then used information from the Augury trials to enhance its abilities in a sort of feedback loop.
The result was Azrael Industries Constantine, a mobile suit based off of the ZONGS' basic frame, with modifications developed from the Augury's data. The armor takes its physical design from that of medieval knightly armor, with similar sections and the like. The right pauldron extends down from the shoulder to about elbow length, and has been treated with an anti-beam compound similar to that of the Anti-Beam Shields. The camera units are located on the ends of the four 'arms' of the crucifix-shaped visor, and possess the ability to simultaneously view in several different spectrums of light. Most of the armor is rather angular, made so to deflect both solid and beam projectiles.
The Constantine's standard fixed weapons consist of head-based CIWS guns, usually stored inside the head under armor plates, a Mortar based on the back capable of firing several different rounds.
The hand armaments are a choice between the new-fangled 'Sparta' Rail Assault Rifle, a new rifle using more-advanced capacitors and magnetic materials to allow the acceleration of projectiles at velocities allowing them to impact with kinetic energy far greater than an equivalently sized normal assault rifle. This weapon was supposed to be one of the few technological advances OMNI had over ZAFT, but the appearence of the Charcharius SCAU-XU and its linear assault rifle with thermal bayonet pre-empted this. The other main armament is the 30mm beam SMG, which fires faster than the beam rifles used by the Gundams, but with much less power. Also, the Constantine has one beam saber and a weaker version of the Augury's Dylandy beam pistol sheathed/holstered on its hips.
Like the Augury, the Constantine has the capability to use Equipment packs to quickly switch battlefield roles, although the enhancements are far less specialized, merely changing its abilities in regards to weapons instead of augmenting the mobile suits base abilities. Some of them, including the 'Assault' pack, also equip the Constantine with some special equipment, but the majority is just weapon differences.
The first ever deployment of the Constantine was when the elite special operations group, 'The Watchers', deployed ten in order to observe the Augury and Kiba in action and obtain information in order to complete the nascent Natural Operating System. At the time, the system was incomplete, causing the Constantine's initial operation to be...lackluster. However, with the data from that initial encounter, OMNI's programmers have completed the OS, and Constantines are being deployed around the Earth and in space.
The first few production Constantines were unfinished, with most of them missing parts that would have improved their performance. By Januray 10th, 71 C.E., complete Constantines were being manufactured and shipped out to bases staffed with trained pilots. As a result, the war, which had been slightly tipped towards ZAFT, began to go more OMNI's way with the large numbers of Constantines paving the way for more OMNI victories, even after the temporary technical edge in their beam weapons and laminated armor was eliminated by ZAFT's incorporation of those technologies into their newer mobile suits.
Future enhancements have been planned for the Constantine, hoping to eventually defeat ZAFT's enhanced technology, as well as to eventually make mobile suits equal in performance to that of the Gundams. Supposedly, one of these enhanced Constantines has already been deployed, in service of the secretive military organization, the Watchers, and rumors state that it easily mauled a contingent of ZAFT mobile suits in North Africa.
For the BuCUE/LaGOWE Replacement
Original Mechanical Designer: Velshard
TMF/A-402
GAHMU (Ground Attack High-Mobility Unit)
Pilot: Kirkwood, Maylam, Hadat(otherwise known as cannon fodder), Andrew Waltfeld,
Unit Type: Mass Production Ground Assault Mobile Suit
Manufacturer: ZAFT controlled Maius Military Industries (MMI ZAFT armament designer)
Operators: ZAFT (Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty)
various civilians
Height: 11.5 meters (base of turret)
Weight: 64.9-87.5 metric tons (varies upon armament)
Accommodations: Pilot and passenger or pilot and copilot/gunner
Armor materials: Laminated Carbon Fiber and Kevlar, interwoven with Titanium Strands & Super Chobham
Power Source: Ultra Compact Rechargeable Energy Battery
Propulsion: Leg Mounted Linear Magnetic Tracks
Operating System: Composite Rapid-Action Program
Special Systems: Networked Assault System
Equipment and Design Features: 1 x periscope, mounted in head
Sonar and Ground Audio Receiver System
4 x Weapons/Equipment hard point, 2 on each shoulder and thigh
2 x Equipment hard points, on flanks
1 x triple hard point multi-armament turret
1 x tail unit balancer
Permanent Fixed Armaments: 1 x GAU2357 7-barrel 35mm anti-armor Gatling gun, mounted under head, 4900 rounds
1 x 25mm multi-barrel CIWS, mounted on back between front legs
1 x double-edged beam saber mounted in head
1 x 356mm triple barrel 9-shot ground torpedo launcher, mounted under main body
4 x anti-personnel grenade launchers, mounted in each shoulder and thigh
4 x smoke discharger, built in to each shoulder and thigh
4 x Leg-Spike, mounted inside feet
1 x Guided Electromagnetic Tow Cable, mounted in tail unit;
Optional Fixed Armaments, Shoulders & Thighs: M65 "Felis" 8-barrel small missile launcher, mounts on shoulders and thighs
M68 "Pardus" 3-barrel missile launcher, mounts on shoulders and thighs
M71 "Tessis" 64mm triple barrel vulcan gun, stores 450 rounds, mounts on shoulders only(essentially a modified version of the CGUE's shield vulcan)
M73 "Furca" single shot long-range cruise missile launcher, mounts on shoulders and thighs.
Optional Fixed Armaments, Multi-Armament Turret Large hard point: M62 "Thunga" 300mm Linear Artillery Cannon
M63 "Belga" 5-barrel 76mm Gatling gun
M72 "Lupus" Ion particle beam sniper rifle (the sniper rifle used by the original LRR GINN)
M74 "Cattus" 500mm recoilless rifle
M75 "Halis" 210mm MLRS (Multiple Launch Rocket System) 19 tubes 4 shots each
M76 "Furcas" 2-shot cruise missile launcher
M77 "Badis" 3-tube 3-shot, Large missile launcher, 9 missiles total
M78 "Hadis" 4-tube 4-shot, Medium missile launcher, 16 missiles total
MMI-M8A3 76mm heavy assault machine gun
MMI-M9A1 133mm battle rifle (basically a bigger version of the M8A3 that favors precision and power over rapid fire)
MMX-TL80 54mm high-energy beam rifle (design is a smaller more compact version of the Providence Gundam's beam rifle)
Optional Fixed Armaments, Multi-Armament Turret Small hard points: M76 "Furcas" 2-shot cruise missile launcher
M77 "Badis" 3-tube 3-shot, Large missile launcher, 9 missiles total
M78 "Hadis" 4-tube 4-shot, Medium missile launcher, 16 missiles total
MMI-M8A3 76mm heavy assault machine gun
MMI-M9A1 133mm battle rifle (basically a bigger version of the M8A3 that favors precision and power over rapid fire)
MMX-TL80 54mm high-energy beam rifle (design is a smaller more compact version of the Providence Gundam's beam rifle);
Bio: As the Bloody Valentine War begins to intensify and extend its reach to Earth, ZAFT begins producing specific mobile weapons for certain environments. The GAHMU is one of the main weapons of ZAFT's ground forces, it's quadruped design makes it ideal for combat in almost any surface environment, thanks to the incredible agility and stability it's design offers. Learning from the mistakes made in previous machines the GAHMU has adapted perhaps all of the best features of its progenitor's designs to its own while improving its overall versatility and adaptability.
The GAHMU's construction is entirely modular, much like the original ZAMS. Its head, forward torso, rearward torso, tail unit, upper legs, and lower legs can all be swapped out with new or specialized parts within the span of a few minutes even during in-field operations.
Taking a cue from the AMF-201 IAAMS, the GAHMU's armor is mostly made from the same lightweight material, reinforced by sections of Super Chobham over critical areas in order to decrease its overall weight and increase its speed and agility. The Armor is also made almost entirely made into curved and rounded surfaces, both to minimize air resistance and increase the armors defensive capabilities. Because of the round surfaces and oblique angles projectile weapons have a much greater probability of deflecting off the GAHMU's armor. Additionally the armor's shape causes a collapsing affect around rounds that managed to penetrate the armor significantly reducing their kinetic energy and decreasing the chance of serious damage being done to the machine's internal workings.
The GAHMU's head contains two armaments, a double edged beam saber, in the general area of what would be the unit's muzzle was retrofitted on to all current and later models after ZAFT acquired beam saber technology from their stolen Gundams. Under the GAHMU's "jaw", and perhaps its most distinctive feature, is a 35mm Gatling gun that fires Teflon coated Tungsten Carbide slugs with depleted uranium cores at speeds between 1800 rounds a minute to 4300 rd/min. This cannon is wickedly effective against soft targets, and can literally reduce OMNI linear tanks and bunkers to nothing more than metal and ceramic confetti in the span of a few seconds. As a side note of interest, GAHMU pilots traditionally paint the image of a set of teeth filled jaws around the cowling of the machine's Gatling gun.
In terms of sensor systems the GAHMU is also no slouch, it's head contains a periscope as a standard scouting feature but takes a trick from the SCAU and equips two high resolution mono-eye cameras on either side of its head as well. Additionally it equips thermal imagers into most of its camera units to aid in target detection. Because of the N-jammers on Earth radar is all but useless; the Gahmu instead exchanges radar for a high performance 3-D sonar detection system that identifies possible friends and enemies based on target's shapes and densities over a wide area. Another device that aids in the GAHMU's detection abilities is the four high-performance subsurface audio receivers built into each foot. These devices pick up vibrations through the ground and using a specialized computer system that takes terrain and environmental conditions in to account, extrapolates where a target is and what it is based on the vibrations created by it's movement. The combined efforts of its sensor systems have proven to be very effective and reliable in target tracking and identification, combining that with its highly lethal armaments and general battlefield dominance, has resulted in the GAHMU being given the rather disturbing but suitable nickname "Death Stalker".
The GAHMU's tail unit's primary purpose is to act as a balancer, the same way a cat's tail would during high speed turns or powerful leaps and distant jumps. But seeing no reason to waste an appendage that could possibly have multiple uses the designers incorporated a guided electromagnetic tow cable into it. Primarily this device is simply intended to be used to tow various equipment palettes or even damaged or crippled mobile weapons, including other GAHMUs. Though some of the more inventive pilots have found an offensive application for it as well, by either using the cable to yank enemy MS or MA off their feet or even as a trip line for said machines.
The unit's legs also contain a number of valuable and multipurpose features; in the upper section of each leg is an anti-personnel grenade launcher that fires 70mm frag grenades that are even effective against light armor vehicles. The upper legs also contain large smoke generators that as well as providing the traditional smoke screen also interferes with most alternate detection methods, excluding the GAHMU's own sonar and audio detection systems. Traditionally smokescreens are used to cover a retreat or protect oneself from attack but the GAHMU uses it's offensively as well, allowing it to attack enemies during a detection blackout, further adding to the unit's infamous reputation. The GAHMU's feet are fairly long and a bit broad with multiple joints to promote better traction over different terrains, the end of each foot ends in a retractable leg spike that is primarily used as a secondary traction method for making more rapid turns. They can also be used to add more stability to the unit when firing larger more powerful weapons at standoff ranges and if necessary they may also be used as a close range weapon.
As a fairly standard design procedure amongst ZAFT units, on each of the GAHMU's shoulders and thighs is a hard point for equipping extra weapons or special equipment, though any missiles equipped to the thighs must be put into a vertical launch position to work safely.
On the back of each of the machines legs are Linear Magnetic Tracks (LMTs) that can propel the GAHMU at speeds in excess of 220kmh (about 138mph) on optimal terrain such as pavement. Originally it had proposed to equip the GAHMU with scale system pods on each leg but this was found to be unfeasible since outside of very alluvial soil, wetlands, or sand the scale system is all but useless. However this proposal was not completely abandoned, though the LMTs remain it's standard production equipment, special wetland use scale system equipped lower legs are still produced in limited quantities.
Equipped to the GAHMU's under body is a triple tube 9-shot high-accuracy ground torpedo launcher that fires 356mm HEAP (High Explosive Armor Piercing) warheads that are effective against most any target. Ground Torpedo is actually a metaphor, the weapon is actually a supersonic missile that flies only a few feet above the ground, relying on optical sensors to guide it to it's target safely without hitting an obstruction. By skimming so close to the ground the missile both avoids detection and adds to its probability in striking a target by confusing most CIWS because it hugs the ground so tightly up until it gets very close to its intended target.
On the unit's flanks between it's for and rear legs are equipment hard points for equipping different types of down force stabilizers or even special weapons. These wing like devices help to balance and stabilize the GAHMU as well while traveling at high speed. These wings often include plasma verniers of varying sizes and output to increase the unit's overall speed, they can also have additional sensor and stealth systems for units meant to operate as tactical reconnaissance machines. Or an even better use is down force stabilizers equipped with auxiliary power units to vastly extend the GAHMU's operational range and time.
In the center of the GAHMU's body is its Multi-Armament turret, it's location is meant to add greater stability to the unit when in use. This mobile turret has three hard points a larger more heavy duty central hard point on top of the turret for equipping heavier more unwieldy weapons and two smaller hard points on the outside of the turret for more easily managed weapons. The central hard point can still be equipped with lighter weapons but is primarily meant for carrying specially converted heavier armaments like the M62 "Thunga" 300mm Linear Artillery Cannon, usually mounted in tandem on the TFA-30 CUMAR or the M72 "Lupus" Ion particle beam sniper rifle normally used by ordinary MS. The weapons for the two small hard points are all hand carried armaments originally meant to be used by ZAFT's more standard MS but were cheaply modified to dock with the GAHMU's multi-armament turret and equipped with auxiliary energy capacitors for the beam weapons and belt fed magazines for the solid shell weapons.
Thanks to the GAHMU's brilliant and careful design the unit can bring a blistering amount of fire power onto a target nearly as well as it's much larger cousin the CUMAR can, at the cost of it's mobility. Often GAHMUs will be launched with a plethora of heavy weapons, which they'll use up as quickly as possible at long range before purging the heavier weapons before moving in to engage an enemy at closer range with their more moderate assault weapons.
Mounted on the GAHMU's back between it's front shoulders is a 25mm multi-barrel CIWS that is highly effective at destroying missiles coming at the machine from above, at it's flanks and from in front of the unit. Between the CIWS and the base of the multi-armament turret is the GAHMU's cockpit hatch on it's back, the GAHMU's cockpit is a two seater and is very well protected within the suits main body. The GAHMU was given a tandem cockpit for several reasons, the most important being increased survivability, by having a pilot and copilot/gunner the chances that the unit will be destroyed as the result of one pilot's lack of attention or mistake drastically decrease. Another bonus is the morale boost of having a fellow brother in arms in the cockpit with you during combat or long boring patrol/scouting missions.
The production cost of the GAHMU is admittedly significantly higher than most of ZAFT's other mass produced machines but due to the unit's incredible flexibility, combat performance, and survival ratio, the machines cost is more than justified. In the years since it's inception many new components and specialized equipment packages have been developed, allowing for it to function in most any role imaginable, as well as insuring that the unit will stay in the field for many years to come.
D/N: part of my inspiration for this suit comes from the A-10A Warthog aka Thunderbolt II tank killer, though that'll be pretty obvious to some just as the primary inspiration for the Noctoraptor was the F-117A Night Hawk, which was decommissioned in 2007. Primarily this unit is a blatant rip off of the BuCUE/LaGOWE with design changes that I thought would have been fairly cheap but made it a far more effective unit. The feet are essentially longer and slightly broader versions of the BuCUE's except with two joints in the foot so it could bend around surfaces obstructions for additional traction and the spike in the tip of each foot is from the TMF/TR-2 BuCUE Tactical Reconnaissance type, as for the tail unit, it kind of looks like the tail on the Shadow Fox from the anime Zoids. The armament turret is in roughly the same position as the LaGOWE's with the cockpit hatch just in front of it. As to the multi-armament turret just mix and match the weapons you like the most. Also because I thought it was stupid to make MS universally one color the GAHMU are painted in camouflage patterns that best match their environments.
– Quis est a Iuguolo nisi a Iuguolo? –
A/N: Yes, I suck at timetables. Give me a break though, it's summer. I get writer's block easy. Wow I sound pathetic. Anyway, short tech file here, mainly because Velshard's GAHMU dossier is quite a bit larger than usual.
FraserMage: Knew something was missing. I'll get right on it.
Nivek Beldo: Ah, no problem. It happens to everyone. As to seeing the Freedom replacement...Tell you what, you send me a basic idea for a replacement design for either the Calamity or the Forbidden, and I'll send it to you. As for the South Africa line...I dunno, that's kinda out of their way. Thank you.
G. Wagers: No worries, I have thick skin and I can take criticism. Sorry about this though. But, the next Phase should entertain you sufficiently, if I can get it up on time. And that depends on if this computer doesn't break down again.
Crelrn: Thank you.
Ah, weird people are milling around my front yard. I wonder what they're doing there...