Model
number: YMS-15
Code name: Gyan
Unit type: prototype general purpose mobile suit
Manufacturer: Zimmad Company
Operator: Principality of Zeon
First deployment: UC 0079
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Dimensions: overall height 19.9 meters
Weight: empty 52.7 metric tons; max gross 68.6 metric tons
Armor materials: super-hard steel alloy
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor,
output rated at 1360 kW
Propulsion: rocket thrusters: 56200 kg total
Performance: maximum thruster acceleration 0.82 G
Equipment and design features: sensors, range 4400 meters
Fixed armaments: none
Optional hand armaments: beam saber, powered by rechargeable
energy cap; shield, mounts 56 x missile launcher and 12 x hide
bomb/space mine
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Technical
and Historical Notes |
As the One
Year War was raging to an end, Zeon stepped up development of
a new generation of high-performance mobile suits in a last-ditch
act of desparation. Zeonic Company had begun development of
its powerful MS-14 Gelgoog line, and
in response, Zimmad Company designed its own next-generation
mobile suit. Code-named the YMS-15 Gyan, Zimmad's latest entry
was intended to complement its already-well-performing MS-09R
Rick Dom space combat suits. The Gyan's development was
supervised by Zeon's Colonel M'quve, and he took one of the
three YMS-15 prototypes built as his personal mobile suit. However,
the Gyan only saw combat once, as M'quve used his unit in a
one-on-one fight against the Federation's powerful RX-78-2
Gundam prototype - and lost.
With Rick Doms to provide the heavy
long-range firepower, the Gyan was built with close combat in
mind. Its primary weapon was a powerful beam sword, backed up
by a large shield containing 56 individual missile launchers
and carrying various bombs and space mines. Despite its high
performance as a close combat unit, the Zeon military favored
the more well-rounded Gelgoog - particularly
since the Gelgoog incorporated the
long-range firepower the Gyan lacked - and the Gyan project
was dropped.
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Miscellaneous
Information |
Pilot:
M'quve
Appearances: Mobile Suit Gundam;
Char's Deleted Affair: Portrait of
Young Comet; Mobile Suit
Gundam: Federation VS Zeon DX;
Mobile Suit Gundam: Encounters in
Space; Mobile Suit Gundam Ex Revue; Gundam Evolve; Mobile Suit Gundam: Pilot's Locus; Mobile Suit Gundam: Bonds of the Battlefield; Mobile Suit Gundam Battlefield Record UC 0081
Original mechanical designer: Kunio Okawara
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