Post by Akitsuki Yamato on Jul 10, 2007 12:50:07 GMT 9
Mobile Weapon Level: Nuclear Class Gundam
Model number: ZGMF-X10A
Code name: Crimson Freedom Gundam
Unit type: prototype assault mobile suit
Manufacturer: Integrated Design Bureau
Operator(s): ZAFT (Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty); Three Ships Alliance, Zala Foundation
First deployment: 5 May C.E. 71
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Dimensions: head height 18.03 meters
Weight: max gross weight 71.5 metric tons
Construction: unknown
Powerplant: ultracompact nuclear fission reactor, power output rated at 8826 kW
Equipment and design features: sensors, range unknown; Phase Shift (PS) armor; Neutron Jammer Canceler, 2x MX2002 beam shield generator; Geschmeidig Panzer coating on normal shield, The Wings of Light (Hikari no Tsubasa)
Fixed armaments: 2 x MA-M02G "Super Lacerta" beam saber, stored on hips, hand-carried in use; 2 x MMI-GAU2 "Picus" 76mm CIWS, fire-linked, mounted on head; 2 x M100 "Balaena" plasma beam cannon, stored in wings, mounted over shoulders in use in HiMAT mode; 2 x MMI-M15 "Xiphias" rail cannon, folded underneath hips, spread out in use in HiMAT (High Mobility Aerial Tactics) mode, 2x MX2002 beam shield generator mounted on both arms for added defense when shield is gone, RQM60F "Flash-Edge 2" beam boomerang x 2 mounted on forearms; and rocket anchor mounted on basic shield.
Optional fixed armaments: 9docked with METEOR):2 x 120cm high-energy beam cannon, 2 x 93.7cm high-energy beam cannon, 2 x MA-X200 beam sword , 77 x 60cm "Erinaceus" anti-ship missile launchers (22 per pod, 12 per arm unit, 9 on tail fin)
Optional hand armaments: MA-M20 "Lupus" beam rifle, power rating unknown
Technical and Historical Notes:After successfully stealing four of the Earth Alliance's prototype Gundam mobile suits, ZAFT reverse engineers them and incorporates new technologies such as Phase Shift armor and beam sabers into their own mobile suits. With these new technologies, ZAFT also builds several Gundams of their own under the direction of leader Patrick Zala. Unlike previous Gundam designs, these new units feature a dangerous new technology: the N-Jammer Canceler. ZAFT originally develops the N-Jammer to prevent the Alliance from using nuclear weapons, but this also means that mobile suits have to be powered by short life energy batteries. By creating the N-Jammer Canceler, a mobile suit can use a nuclear fission reactor and function for a nearly unlimited amount of time even with Phase Shift armor activated. Unfortunately, the N-Jammer Canceler technology proves to be a Pandora's Box that falls into the wrong hands.
The ZGMF-X10A Freedom Gundam is one of the new Gundam designs built by ZAFT. The Freedom Gundam is equipped with a wide variety of powerful weapons for use in its HiMAT (High Mobility Aerial Tactics) mode. One of these weapons is the twin "Balaena" plasma beam cannons, which are stored in the wings and mounted over the shoulders during use. The Freedom Gundam's other main armament consists of twin hip-mounted "Xiphias" rail cannons.
The Freedom Gundam is first used in late C.E. 71 when Kira Yamato steals it with the help of Lacus Clyne. Kira uses his new suit to travel to Earth and join the battle between ZAFT and the Alliance at Alaska. Following the battle, Kira rejoins his comrades on the Archangel and travels to Orb after Murrue Ramius decides to defect from the Alliance. There, Kira fights to protect Orb from the Alliance and is later joined by his old friend and former enemy Athrun Zala piloting his new ZGMF-X09A Justice Gundam. Following the defeat of Orb, Kira returns to space and is joined by Lacus Clyne and her stolen support ship Eternal, which provides Kira with his METEOR support system. Along with Athrun, Kira uses his METEOR to save the PLANTs from destruction by nuclear missiles. At the war's end, the Freedom Gundam is heavily damaged in a battle against Rau Le Creuset's ZGMF-X13A Providence Gundam. After the war, the Freedom Gundam is secretly repaired and hidden at Orb. In late C.E. 73, the Freedom Gundam is reactivated by Kira to fight off a squad of UMF/SS0-3 ASH mobile suits used by a group of special ops Coordinators sent to assassinate Lacus. After interfering in several battles between ZAFT and the Alliance, the PLANT Supreme Council declares the Archangel and Freedom Gundam as menaces which must be destroyed. ZAFT then initiates "Operation Angel Down", and during that battle the Freedom Gundam is destroyed by Shinn Asuka's ZGMF-X56S/á Force Impulse Gundam.
After it's destruction X10A's parts were salvage and was rebuilt to counter the other Freedom Gundam (X10A). Though it's similar to Strike Freedom, The engineers chose to add extra armaments to the X10A's designs to for a wide range of close and long range attack. New armaments include The MX2002 Beam sheild generator activated only when main regular shield is lost, RQM60F "Flash-Edge 2" beam boomerang x 2 attached to both forearms similar to the Destiny Impulse, the Geschmeidig Panzer coating on the shield similar to Impulse , and rocket Anchor, which is attached to the shield simliar to ZGMF-X19A Infinite Justice. This unit is assigned to Akitsuki Yamato (amnesiac Shinya Tanaka) under the Zala Foundation's leader, Rau le Creuset. Beause of the color red, when phase shift is activated, Shinya renames the mobile suit Crimson Freedom.
For high class use:
2x beam boomerangs
2x beam sabers
2x balena plasma rifles
2x CIWs
2x xiphas railguns
1x beam rifle
1x Geschmeidig Panzer coating on normal shield
Deuterion energy beam transfer
