XXXG-00W0
Wing Gundam Zero (OVA version)
General
and Technical Data
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Model
number: XXXG-00W0
Code name: Wing Gundam Zero
Unit type: mobile suit
Manufacturer: Quatre Raberba Winner (based on a design
by Doctor J, Professor G, Instructor H, Doktor S and Master O)
Operator: Gundam pilots
Rollout: AC 195
First deployment: AC 195
Accomodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Dimensions: head height 16.7 meters
Weight: empty 8.0 metric tons; max gross weight unknown
Construction and armor: gundanium alloy
Powerplant: ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at
3732 kW
Propulsion: rocket thrusters: 88150 kg total
Equipment and design features: Zero System combat computer/pilot
interface in cockpit; self-destruct system
Fixed armaments: 2 x machinecannon, fire-linked, mounted
in torso; 2 x beam saber, stored in recharge racks in wing binders,
hand-carried in use
Optional hand armaments: twin buster rifle, can be separated
into two separate single-barrel buster rifles
Technical
and Historical Notes
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"Heero,
it's human beings who fight against each other. But those humans
are now depending on machines to gain their strength to fight.
Heero, it's mistaken. This Gundam is a MISTAKE." - Quatre Raberba
Winner
Before there were five Gundams, there was only one - and it
existed strictly on paper. It was AC 180 - fifteen years before
they would send their own respective custom-built Gundams to
wage guerilla warfare on Earth - and the five eccentric scientists
Doctor J, Professor G, Instructor H, Doktor S and Master O,
had just completed designing the first mobile suit of that era,
the OZ-00MS Tallgeese. Seeing
their work being put to oppressive use in the form of mass-produced
Leos - and spawned by the assassination
of space colony political leader Heero Yuy - the five scientists
decided to design their own mobile suit which could overpower
OZ's forces.
This mobile suit was the XXXG-00W0 Wing Gundam Zero, and it
was a design to truly be feared. In addition to being extremely
maneuverable, it sported Gatling-like machinecannons, beam sabers,
and an extremely powerful twin buster rifle, capable of wiping
out entire groups of mobile suits in a single shot.
However, one more factor put the Wing Zero above everything
else: the cockpit's "Zero System," which allowed the pilot's
mind to interface directly with the Gundam's combat computer.
Although the exact nature of the Zero System's operation is
unclear, it appeared to operate by "sampling" the pilot's thoughts
and, combining them with current combat data, presented the
pilot with various alternate outcomes. Thus, depending on the
pilot's mood, the Zero System could tell him/her how to achieve
total victory... or decisive defeat.
Nevertheless, the mental stresses the Zero System would place
on the pilot would be too great for any ordinary human to handle,
and even the five mad scientists saw the dangerous turn their
work was taking. And thus, the Wing Gundam Zero project was
shelved. A copy of the plans went with each of the five scientists
when they broke up and went underground to pursue their own
individual plans for revolution against OZ. The Wing Zero design
would serve as a base model for the five Gundams that would
actually be built and sent to Earth.
In AC 195, unfortunate circumstances placed Gundam
Sandrock pilot Quatre Raberba Winner in space without a
Gundam, with a dead father, and with enemies of the very space
colonists he was fighting to free. Wracked by a serious mental
imbalance, Quatre discovered the abandoned work of the five
scientists, and he built the Wing Zero. Mindless of its dangerous
Zero System, Quatre took off to destroy anyone and everyone
fighting in space. Though his mental condition was temporary,
the Wing Zero's power proved truly terrible, as Quatre used
it to destroy an entire space colony. After that, the Wing Gundam
Zero would pass from one pilot to another until it landed in
the hands of former OZ pilot Zechs Merquise, and then Gundam
pilot Heero Yuy - two of the only humans known to actually master
the Zero System by making use of its advantages while preventing
it from driving them mad.
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Despite our best research efforts here at
the Vicinity Research Institute, there seem to be two versions
of the Wing Gundam Zero... the one shown here, and an alternate
version. However, as best as we can tell, these two different
versions are actually the SAME mobile suit! To date, we have
been unable to determine if one version was upgraded into the
other, or if indeed one version is the "true" version with the
other version being a "ficticious" one created for a historical
drama. Either way, we present them both for your pleasure.)
Miscellaneous
Information
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Pilot:
Heero Yuy
Appearances: New Mobile Report Gundam
W: Endless Waltz; New
Mobile Report Gundam W: Episode Zero; New
Mobile Report Gundam W: Battlefield of Pacifist
Original mechanical designer: Hajime Katoki
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