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Palladium RPG Stats by Kelly Green.
Version 1.5 Created 2-05-02
Updated X-XX-02
General and Technical Data
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Model number: MS-05B
Code name: Zaku I
Unit type: mass production general purpose mobile suit
Manufacturer: Zeonic Company
Operator(s): Principality of Zeon; civilians
Rollout: May UC 0075
First deployment: July UC 0075
Accomodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Dimensions: head height 17.5 meters
Weight: empty 50.3 metric tons; max gross 65.0 metric tons
Construction: super-high tensile steel on monocoque frame
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated
at 899 kW
Propulsion: rocket thrusters: 2 x 19500 kg, 2 x 850 kg
Performance: maximum thruster acceleration 0.63 G; 180-degree turn
time 2.9 seconds; maximum ground running speed 65 km/h
Equipment and design features: sensors, range 2900
meters
Fixed armaments: none
Optional hand armaments: 105 mm machinegun, drum-fed, 100 rounds per
drum, spare drums can be stored on waist armor racks; 120 mm machinegun,
drum-fed, 100 rounds per drum, spare drums can be stored on waist armor racks;
280 mm Zaku bazooka, 4 round magazine, can be stored on rack on rear waist
armor; heat hawk, battery powered, can be stored on waist armor racks; G-3
nerve gas grenade launcher
Technical and Historical Notes
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"I can't count the number of battles I've been through with this Zaku!
I'll show him the difference between my machine and some slapped-together
toy!" - Gadem
Introduced in UC 0075, the MS-05B Zaku I was the Principality of Zeon's first
true mass-production model mobile suit. Although designed as a front line
combat unit, the Zaku I was soon replaced by the improved MS-06F Zaku II
and would be replaced as the mainstay of Zeon's mobile suit forces. Early
during the One Year War of UC 0079, most Zaku Is were relegated to menial
construction and supply duties, although a few did continue to serve in combat
roles. During the war's opening days, Zaku Is were also used in other
combat-related work roles, such gassing of colony populations, attaching
booster engines to space colonies to hurtle them towards Earth, and so on.
It wasn't until the last months of the war that Zeon, desparate after facing
losses in Operation Odessa and Operation Star One, would move the old Zaku
Is back to the front lines to reinforce their faltering main forces.
(EDITOR'S NOTE: It is interesting to note that the MS-05B Zaku I bears
a striking resemblance to Gavane Goonny's Custom MS-06 Borjarnon recently
excavated and employed by the Lousiana Militia forces. Due to some very minor
cosmetic and technical differences, our archaeologists here at the Vicinity
Research Institute can only surmise that Captain Gavane's Borjarnon is actually
a slightly modified Zaku I built by the Principality of Zeon of the Universal
Century Era, or is perhaps an entirely new line of mobile suit based closely
on the Zaku I design, but manufactured by another party in a later period.
To date, we have not been able to solve this mystery.)
Miscellaneous Information
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Pilot(s): Gadem, Topp
Appearances: Mobile Suit Gundam; Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team;
Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ; Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story: MS Generation; Mobile
Suit Gundam in UC 0099: Moon Crisis; Side Story of Mobile Suit Gundam: The
Blue Destiny (game)
Original mechanical designer: Kunio Okawara
M.D.C. by Location:
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| [1]Head [2]Main Body Reinforced Pilot Compartment Thruster Backpack Left Shoulder Shield Arms (2) [1]Hands(2) Legs(2) 120mm Machine Gun |
75 250 150 75 50 100 ea 50 ea 175 ea 100 |
[1]The Head and Hands are small targets , and are difficult to hit. Therefore, even with a called shot, they are -3 to hit.
[2]Depleting the MDC of the Main Body will disable the Zaku II.
Speed
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Running: 50 mph
Leaping: 35 feet high or 70 feet lengthwise. Thruster Assisted leaps
of 70 feet high or 140 feet lengthwise are also possible.(Note: Leaps in
space are increased by a factor of 10.)
Flying:
In Atmosphere: Hovering is Possible, and the thruster unit
can be used to slow the unit in a fall, to survivable levels.
Space: Mach 2.0(1350 mph)
Dimensional Data
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Main Body:
Height:
Width:
Length:
Weight:
Weapon Systems
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120mm Machine Gun: One of the first large scale (mecha) sized firearms
ever developed, this large and bulky unit fired shells much larger than later
weapons. Each Drum holds 100 rounds, and additional drums can be attached
to the Zaku II's waist.
Location: The Heat Hawk is Hand Held when in use.
Bazooka:the Mecha Bazooka is a larger version of the man sized weapon,
that essentially fires a rocket propelled explosive shell. They have
minimal guidance, and are shorter range than missiles of the same size.