OZ-14MS Gundam Aquarius

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[edit] OZ-14MS Gundam Aquarius

The OZ-14MS Gundam Aquarius was an OZ mobile suit first seen in the SD Gundam G Generation video game SD Gundam: G Generation F.

When former OZ-leader Treize Khushrenada was exiled to his estate in Luxembourg he suddenly found himself with a lot of free time on his hands to prepare for his upcoming political and military strides. Not being one to waste time Treize began to create new mobile suits to further his vision, and one of the two designs he came up with was the OZ-14MS Gundam Aquarius. The Gundam Aquarius continued the OZ tradition of naming new mobile weapons after Zodiacal Constellations, in this case "Aquarius". Based on combat data from the five rebel Gundams and the OZ-00MS Tallgeese, the Gundam Aquarius was the sister unit of the OZ-13MS Gundam Epyon.

Where the Gundam Epyon was designed to personify Treize Khushrenada's ideals of the perfect warrior - the soldier who bravely charged into close combat as opposed to sitting back and shooting their foes - the Gundam Aquarius was constructed to embody Treize's other ideal, that mobile dolls should not be used as weapons of war. To achieve this, the Gundam Aquarius was able to broadcast an anti-mobile doll virus from the large fins that project from its shoulders and back. This virus would render any mobile dolls affected totally inoperable, leaving them easy pickings for the Aquarius, or other allied units, to destroy.

Of course the eccentric Treize Khushrenada also made the Gundam Aquarius fit the role of his perfect warrior, so just like the Gundam Epyon the Aquarius was only armed with two melee weapons and no ranged weaponry at all. The Gundam Aquarius was armed with two "heat rods"; long segmented whip-like projections that were housed in the Aquarius's forearms. When not in use the heat rods are retracted into the Gundam Aquarius's forearms. In their de-activated state the heat rods could be used as a grappling weapon, wrapping around opponents to pull or throw them or to disarm another mobile suit by knocking their weapon out of their hands. But the heat rods, when activated, become super-heated, turning it into a deadly tool capable of slicing through enemy units with ease.

Although it was built to work in tandem with the Gundam Epyon, the Gundam Aquarius would never be officially built, although the Gundam Epyon was constructed and handed to Gundam pilot Heero Yuy. The Gundam Aquarius existed only as a design, as the political situation during the war escalted to a boiling point before it could be built, forcing Treize to make his move.