OZ-00MS Tallgeese
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The Tallgeese is a mobile suit from the fictional anime/manga series Mobile Suit Gundam Wing.
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[edit] OZ-00MS Tallgeese
Manufacturer: OZ (Organization of Zodiac)
User: OZ
Unit type: Prototype mobile suit
First Deployment: AC 175
Head Height: 17.4 m
Weight: Empty 8.8 metric tonnes
Powerplant: Ultracompact fusion reactor
Equipment and design features: Powerful vernier thrusters similar to a Flight option pack used on ground-based Leo, provides aerial control surfaces and additional thrusters for atmospheric flight and space flight. Self-destruct mechanism
Armament: Dober gun, clip-fed, mounted on right shoulder; 2 x Beam saber, stored in recharge racks in shield, hand-carried in use. Shield can be optionally mounted on left shoulder
Pilot: Lieutenant Otto, Zechs Merquise
In After Colony (AC) 170, the secretive Romefeller Foundation tasked its military wing, OZ, with building a mobile suit designed for combat. The fruit of their labour was the titanium-armored OZ-00MS Tallgeese, a heavy prototype suit with such power that it remained a top of the line unit for twenty years after its creation. The Tallgeese's main armaments comprised of a pair of beam sabers and a long range shell-firing dobergun; it was also seen utilizing a beam pistol at one point. Despite its bulk, the Tallgeese was an incredibly fast mobile suit capable of sustained flight. The suit's maneuverability, however, made it extremely difficult to control; a number of pilots at its helm have been killed by the excessive G-forces experienced inside the cockpit. The Tallgeese was dismantled and placed into storage until AC 195, when ace OZ pilot Zechs Merquise took it upon himself to rebuild the Tallgeese, in order to match the new Gundam-type suits sent to fight OZ. Despite his piloting prowess, Zechs would suffer internal injuries (including a heart attack) on his first mission with the Tallgeese in the Sanc Kingdom.
The Tallgeese proved to be able to stand toe to toe against the original Gundams, showing impressive combat capability on land, air and sea. The mighty suit was even able to fight well against the newly designed Taurus mobile suits and Virgo units. On atmospheric conditions, the suit's flight speed was three times that of the Aries; ironic, as the Aries was designed for atmospheric flight.
The original designers of the Tallgeese left OZ following the assassination of the space colonies' leader Heero Yuy to design suits capable of waging war on OZ, but OZ would use the Tallgeese as the foundations for their mass production model, the OZ-06MS Leo.
The original Tallgeese was self destructed as a decoy tactic by Zechs when he discovers the abandoned Wing Zero in space and comes under heavy fire by OZ's Taurus mobile dolls.
[edit] Gundam Wing: Episode Zero
In Wufei's story it is revealed that Wufei's home colony had a Tallgeese unit of their own, but how they obtained it is unknown. It was piloted by Wufei's wife Mailan Long aka Nataku (thus the nickname of Wufei's Gundam) in an attempt to defend their home colony from a biological weapon attack. In the end Meilan's unit was destroyed when protecting Wufei in the Shenlong Gundam from an OZ solider who was attempting to kill Wufei in a kamikaze attack. Meilan died from her wounds shortly afterwards.
[edit] OZ-00MS2 Tallgeese II
Manufacturer: OZ (Organization of Zodiac)
User: World Nation
Unit type: Command mobile suit
First Deployment: AC 195
Head Height: 17.4 m
Weight: Empty 8.8 metric tonnes
Powerplant: Ultracompact fusion reactor
Equipment and design features: Powerful vernier thrusters similar to a Flight option pack used on ground-based Leo, provides aerial control surfaces and additional thrusters for atmospheric flight and space flight. Self-destruct mechanism. Possible traces of Gundanium alloy in armor.
Armament: Dober gun, clip-fed, mounted on right shoulder; 2 x Beam saber, stored in recharge racks in shield, hand-carried in use. Shield can be optionally mounted on left shoulder
Pilot: Treize Khushrenada
- The Tallgeese II was a stop-gap unit assembled on the asteroid base MO-II, built from spare parts left over from the original Tallgeese project. Tallgeese II is identical in performance to Tallgeese I the only visible differences between the original Tallgeese and Treize's OZ-00MS2 Tallgeese II were the color scheme, an Epyon-style crest and a Gundam inspired face plate.Treize originally intended to pilot an upgraded design, the OZ-00MS2B Tallgeese III, but its main armaments, a Mega cannon similar to Wing Zero's Twin Buster Rifie and a Heat rod derived from the Gundam Epyon, weren't finished in time for Treize to take it with him to space. Treize was killed during the end of the Eve Wars when he allowed Wufei Chang to pierce the Tallgeese II's fusion reactor with his Altron Gundam's Beam trident during their duel on the Battleship Libra.
[edit] OZ-00MS2B Tallgeese III
Manufacturer: Unknown (designed by Treize Kushrenada)
Operator: Preventers
Unit type: Mobile suit
Dimensions: Head height 17.4 meters
Weight: Empty 8.2 metric tons
Powerplant: Ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 3647 kW
Armament: 1 x mega cannon, mounted on right shoulder; 2 x vulcan gun, fire-linked, mounted in head; 2 x beam saber, stored in recharge racks in shield, hand-carried in use; shield, can be optionally mounted on left shoulder, mounts 1 x heat rod, retractable
Pilot: Zechs Merquise (aka Preventer "Wind")
The Tallgeese III is a mobile suit from the fictional anime/manga series Mobile Suit Gundam Wing.
The twin suit of Treize Khushrenada's OZ-00MS2B Tallgeese III was built at the same time as the OZ-00MS2 Tallgeese II, but its Mega Cannon and a heat rod derived from the Gundam Epyon wasn't finished in time for Treize to take it with him to space. After the Eve Wars' conclusion, the Tallgeese III was confiscated by the Earth Sphere United Nation's Preventer taskforce and kept in storage. In AC 196, when the Mariemeia Army declared war on the Earth Sphere Unified Nation, former OZ ace pilot Zechs Merquise returned from hiding to work for the Preventers. Zechs was assigned the code name Wind and given the Tallgeese III to fight against the Mariemeia Army.
The Tallgeese III's armament was expanded from the original Tallgeese. It sported a pair of head mounted vulcans, a pair of beam sabers, a retractable heat rod (similar to the one previously used on Zechs' OZ-13MS Gundam Epyon) and a mega beam cannon similar to the Wing Zero's twin buster rifle. The mega beam cannon was powerful enough to destroy the asteroid base MO-III in one shot. Zechs would later use the Tallgeese III to attack the Mariemeia Army's MMS-01 Serpent mobile suits in Brussels without killing any of the pilots.
