PMX-000 Messala

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The Messala is a mobile armor from the anime series Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam.

The PMX-000 Messala was the first of altogether four mobile weapons personally produced by the powerful Newtype Paptimus Scirocco on board the transport ship Jupitris. Originally the Messala was used to fly in the atmosphere of Jupiter and thus it was equipped with powerful thrusters to fly under Jupiter’s high gravitational pull. Because of this, when used under Earth’s atmosphere, the Messala was extremely fast and agile. However the Messala was not only quick it was also heavily armed. In mobile armor mode it featured a pair of strong mega particle cannons and two missile launchers, making the Messala nearly as powerful armed as a space battleship. In mobile suit mode, Scirocco’s suit was additionally armed with grenade launchers and vulcan guns and for close combat two beam sabers and two grappling vice claws. Thanks to this weapons the Messala was a deadly enemy in close combat.

The Messala was first introduced when Scirocco used it to attack the shuttle Temptation under the command of Bright Noa. During this attack it also had a short battle with the RX-178 Gundam Mk-II piloted by Kamille Bidan and the MSN-00100 Hyaku Shiki piloted by Quattro Bajeena. During this battle it proved to be a dangerous enemy and the two AEUG pilots weren’t able to hit it with their weapons. Later the Messala was piloted by young Scirocco follower Sarah Zabiarov and Reccoa Londe, who has betrayed the AEUG to fight for Scirocco.

[edit] Specifications

[edit] PMX-000 Messala

Manufacturer: Jupitris
Operator: Titans
Unit type: prototype general purpose transformable mobile armor
Dimensions: mobile suit mode: overall height 30.3 meters, head height 23.0 meters
Weight: empty 37.3 metric tons; max gross 89.1 metric tons
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 4900 kW
Armament: 2 x beam saber, power rated at 0.5 MW, stored in recharge racks in forearms, hand-carried in use; 2 x mega particle gun, mounted in backpack booster binders; 2 x 9-tube missile pod, mounted in shoulders; 4 x vulcan gun, mounted in pairs in forearms, each pair is fire-linked; 2 x grenade launcher, 3 round magazine per launcher, mounted in forearms; 2 x vice claw, mounted on forearms
Pilot(s): Paptimus Scirocco, Sarah Zabiarov, Reccoa Londe

[edit] Trivia

• The Messala is the first fully transformable mobile suit seen on screen in the entire Gundam metaverse history.