Apsalus III


General and Technical Data

Model number: N/A
Code name: Apsalus III
Unit type: base attack use mobile armor
Manufacturer: Principality of Zeon
Operator: Principality of Zeon
First deployment: UC 0079
Accomodation: pilot and co-pilot, in tandem-seat standard cockpit in main body
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
Powerplant: 3 x Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 1220 kW each, total output rated at 3660 kW
Propulsion: rocket thrusters: output unknown; 2 x Minovsky craft system: output unknown
Equipment and design features: sensors, range 3200 meters
Fixed armaments: 1 x mega particle cannon


Technical and Historical Notes

After the test flights and collection of combat and flight data from the Apsalus and Apsalus II were complete, Ginias Sahalin set out to complete his dream project and bring it to fruition. The final, completed version, the Apsalus III was completed at Ginias' Southeast Asian mobile suit factory during the One Year War. Primarily addressing the problem of insufficient generator output to drive its Minovsky craft system, the Apsalus III was equipped with three power generators pulled from MS-09RII Rick Dom IIs. It also mounted two Minovsky craft systems instead of one, making the Apsalus III much more stable during atmospheric flight. However, the Apsalus III never got used against its intended Jaburo target, as word of it reached Federation intelligence and their Kojima Batallion destroyed it before it ever got out of Southeast Asia.

Miscellaneous Information

Pilot(s): Aina Sahalin, Ginias Sahalin
Appearances: Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team

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