Model
number: MSN-04 Code name: Sazabi Unit type: prototype Newtype use mobile suit Manufacturer: Anaheim Electronics Operator: Neo Zeon First deployment: UC 0093 Accommodation: pilot in panoramic monitor/linear seat cockpit
in head Dimensions: overall height 25.6 meters; head height 23.0
meters Weight: empty 30.5 metric tons; max gross 71.2 metric tons Armor materials: gundarium alloy Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor,
output rated at 3960 kW Propulsion: rocket thrusters: 2 x 14000 kg, 2 x 13300 kg,
8 x 9800 kg; vernier thrusters/apogee motors: 28 Performance: maximum thruster acceleration 1.87 G Equipment and design features: sensors, range 22600 meters;
psycommu system; psycoframe cockpit frame; 2 x external propellant
tank, ejectable, mounted on backpack Fixed armaments: mega particle gun, power rated at
8.8 MW, mounted in torso; 2 x beam saber, stored in recharge racks
in forearms, hand-carried in use Optional fixed armaments: shield, mounted on either
forearm, mounts 3 x small missile Optional hand armaments: beam shotrifle, power rated at
10.2 MW, powered by rechargeable energy cap; beam tomahawk,
stored in recharge rack in shield, hand-carried in use Remote weapons: 6 x funnel (mounts beam gun, power
rated at 10.6 MW), stored in backpack storage pods
Technical
and Historical Notes
When the presumed-dead Char
Aznable made a surprise reappearance in the early UC 0090s,
many surviving Zeon remnants and spacenoid civilians still desiring
independence from the Earth Federation welcomed him with open
arms. Thus, a second Neo Zeon movement was started at the colony
of Sweetwater, with Char as its leader. A new revolution against
the Federation was now brewing, and as the new Neo Zeon military
began building its forces, Char commissioned his engineers to
design him a custom mobile suit to take advantage of his Newtype
abilities and superb piloting skills.
This design was the MSN-04 Sazabi, and it was constructed by
the Luna-based contractor Anaheim Electronics. Despite its large
size and heavy armor, the Sazabi was equipped with enough thrusters
and verniers to make it extremely maneuverable compared to mass-produced
frontline mobile suits. It was equipped with a relatively high-output
generator, but most of its power was used to fire its abdomen-mounted
mega particle gun, whose beam was wide enough and powerful enough
to destroy several mobile suits with a single shot. The Sazabi's
armament was rounded out by a pair of beam sabers, a large shield
carrying three missiles and a large, hand-carried beam tomahawk,
and a beam shotrifle, which operated like a beam rifle version
of a shotgun.
However, the Sazabi was also designed as a Newtype's weapon.
Armed with six remote funnel units, Char could mentally control
these weapons at great distances and without the disadvantage
of Minovsky particle interference. His funnels were controlled
via a fairly standard psycommu (short for "PSYchic COMMUnicator")
system, but the Sazabi was also the first mobile suit to feature
a revolutionary new piece of Newtype-use technology. This feature
was called the "psycoframe", and it involved constructing the
cockpit's frame with a material composed of microscopic psycommu
receptors, thus increasing the pilot's Newtype sensitivity and
responsiveness. Strangely enough, Char - for reasons known only
to himself - would authorize Anaheim to pass along the psycoframe
technology to the Earth Federation Forces' Londo Bell taskforce,
who had also contracted Anaheim to construct a new Gundam
mobile suit to be used by Char's old rival, Amuro Ray.
Always having been a soldier who preferred to lead his troops
into battle rather than command from the rear lines, Char would
deploy quite often in his crimson-red Sazabi during the Second Neo Zeon War that he started when he began bombarding Earth with
asteroids in UC 0093. Soon enough, Char would come up against
Amuro Ray in his own psycoframe-equipped mobile suit, the RX-93
n Gundam,
and their battle of Newtype minds and mecha would reach its
fateful, inevitable conclusion.
