OZ-12SMS Taurus
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The OZ-12SMS Taurus was a mass-production transformable mobile suit in the Gundam anime television series New Mobile Report Gundam Wing.
The OZ-12SMS Taurus line of mobile suits was in the first stages of production before the war against the space colonies began, and followed OZ's tradition of naming mobile suits after Zodiacal Constellations, in this case "Taurus" the bull. When the war did eventually break out in the year After Colony 195, the Specials were already training in preparation to use the new model Tauruses at the Lake Victoria base in Africa.
The Taurus was built to be an advanced high-mobility unit to supplement OZ's fleet of aging Leos. Sleek, agile, and quite fast, it proved to be an excellent mobile suit, and was capable of transforming into a jet-like flight mode for additional speed and maneuverability. Although the Taurus was mainly designed for use as a space combat mobile suit, it could still function within Earth's atmosphere and even fly while it is transformed into its flight mode. However its high powered beam cannon tended to suffer over-heating problems while on Earth and had the pesky habit of exploding if over-used. ' Although originally designed to be piloted by a human pilot, the Taurus fleets would become one of OZ's first mobile suits to be widely converted into mobile dolls. The Taurus would be heavily mass-produced by OZ until it was supplanted by the newer and more powerful OZ-02MD Virgo series.
But the Taurus would still wind up making its way into many of the various rebel fanctions that jockeyed for power as the war drew on. When Lucrezia Noin travelled to the re-established Sanc Kingdom she brought a squad of white Taurus suits with her. Modified for atmospheric combat, these white and red Sanc Kingdom Taurus units and would be used by the Sanc Kingdom in its own defense from the attacking OZ Forces.
And again, when the White Fang revolutionary organization came into being, they had their own version of the Taurus, colored in an unsightly pale pink and purple. The Taurus would even be later used by the Mariemaia Army in After Colony 196 to guard the colony X-18999 during the events seen in New Mobile Report Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz, although this version retains the standard model number and coloration.
[edit] Specifications
Model number: OZ-12SMS
Unit type: transformable mobile suit/mobile doll
Operator(s): OZ, Sanc Kingdom, White Fang, Mariemaia Army
Accommodation: pilot only for standard mobile suit type, in standard cockpit in torso; N/A for mobile doll type
Dimensions: head height 16.8 meters
Weight: empty 7.9 metric tons; max gross weight unknown
Construction: titanium alloy
Powerplant: ultracompact fusion reactor, power output rating unknown
Performance ability levels: fighting 100; weapons 110; speed 125; power 110; armor 110
Equipment and design features: sensors, range unknown; optional mobile doll AI control system
Optional hand armaments: beam rifle; beam cannon; beam saber (Sanc Kingdom only)
Pilot: Lady Une (OZ) Lucrezia Noin (Sanc Kingdom, Preventers), Quatre Raberba Winner (Sanc Kingdom), Trowa Barton (Gundam Pilots), Hilde Schbeiker (White Fang)