Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn
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| 機動戦士ガンダムUC（ユニコーン） (Kidō Senshi Gundam UC (Unicorn)) |
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| Genre | Mecha, Action, Military |
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| Author | Harutoshi Fukui |
| Publisher | Kadokawa Shoten |
| Magazine | Gundam Ace |
| Published | December 26, 2006 – ongoing |
| Volumes | 3 |
Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn (機動戦士ガンダムUC（ユニコーン） Kidō Senshi Gandamu Yunikōn?) is a serial novel by popular Japanese author Harutoshi Fukui (Shusen no Lorelei, Bôkoku no îgisu). The novel takes place in Gundam's Universal Century timeline. Character and mechanical designs will be provided by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko and Hajime Katoki, respectively.
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[edit] Setting
The novel begins in UC 0001, at the very beginning of human space colonization, and is said to cover an as yet unspecified major event that influences the course of human history forever. The main story takes place in UC 0096, three years after the events of Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack.
[edit] Characters
[edit] Civilian
Barnarge Lynx
Age: 16
- A boy who is a student at Anaheim Industry Technical School in the colony "Industrial 7". He is described as seeing war as something akin to fiction, as he was born after the One Year War ended and did not experience the more isolated wars that followed it. However, upon meeting Audrey, he is drawn into a new conflict. He does a part-time job clearing space debris with a miniature MS.
Audrey Burn
Age: 16
- A girl from a noble family, whose life changes after she meets Barnarge. Her name appears to be derived from famed actress Audrey Hepburn. Recently revealed herself as Mineva Lao Zabi.
Takuya Irei
Age: 16
- Another student of Anaheim Industry Technical School and also Barnarge's roommate. He wishes to become a test pilot for Anaheim Electronics and he knows a lot about mobile suits.
Micott Birch
Age: 16
- A girl who commutes to a high school adjacent the Anaheim Industry Technical School. Her father is the plant manager of Industrial 7.
Siam Vist
Age: 100+
- A boy born in a small country located in Western South Asia. He became a terrorist because of the twisted society and tough life. During the terrorist activity at the official residence "Laplace" he came into possession of a strange object (U.C.001). Though underworld connections he married into the Vist family and became the head of the influential Vist Foundation. He is still alive in U.C.0096 as he used cryonics.
Cardias Vist
Age: 60
- Grandchild of Siam Vist, second generation head of the Vist family. Was a helicopter pilot in the Earth Federation when he was young. He is the real father of the protagonist, Barnarge Lynx. With his dying breath, he entrusted the Unicorn Gundam to Barnarge.
Albert
Age: 33
- A staff of Anaheim Electronics who board the Nehal Argama to stop the opening of the "Laplace's box". Shows attachment to the "Unicorn".
Martha Vist Carbine
- Cardias' younger sister. She married into the Carbine family which established Anaheim Electronics. Through the Carbine family she has connections with the higher ups of the Earth Federation. Concerning the treatment of the "box" she oppose her father and brother. The attack of Industrial 7 is seen to be in line with her intention.
[edit] Neo-Zeon/"The Sleeved"
Full Frontal
Age: Unknown
- The mysterious leader of the Neo-Zeon remnant forces who is described as the "2nd coming of Char". Like Char Aznable, he is a blonde man whose face is hidden behind a mask, and he wears a red uniform and pilots a red mobile suit. Similar to Char, he holds the Neo-Zeon remnants together with his high charisma. Whether the name is an alias is unspecified. On the contrary, his name holds the meaning of "stark naked"(or fully exposed) although it could easily be reference to a full frontal assault. He plays around Barnarge and the others with his puzzling speech and behaviour. He is fighting against the Earth Federation for "the secret" of the foundation of the Universal Century.
- His face and tone closely resemble Char's. Nahel Argama's captain Otto, who watched Char's archived recordings, remarked that the voice is just like it.
Zuberoa Jineman
Age: 52
- Captain of "Garancieres", the ship of "The Sleeved" which is disguised as a cargo ship.
Marida Kruz
Age: 18
- A female pilot of the MS "Kshatriya" on board the Garancieres. A capable pilot and artificial Newtype. She refers to captain Zaberoa as "Master" and loyally carry out his orders. Originally known as "Puru Twelve", she is actually a clone of Elpeo Puru. She was awakened by Glemy Toto and fought with her sisters during the First Neo-Zeon War. After the fight with Chara Soon in U.C.0089.1.17, one of the clones survived and was retrieved by an MS pod. She was then sold to prostitution, there on she worked as a prostitute. Before being protected by Zaberoa she experienced countless pregnancies and abortions and her body is scared by the abuse of her customers. During an examination on board Nehal Argama when she was captured, it was ascertained that she cannot bear children anymore.
Angelo Sauper
Age: 19
- A MS pilot of "The Sleeved". Team leader of the Frontal bodyguards. He adores Full Frontal. Pilots a purple Geara Zulu.
[edit] Earth Federation
Riddy Masenas
Age: 23
- MS pilot of Earth Federation's Londo Bell team. Son from a family of politicians. He entered the army opposing his family wishes for him to be a politician. He wants to make a name on his own and became a pilot.
Ronan Masenas
- Riddy's father, an important member of the Earth Federation Central Council.
Riccardo Masenas
- Supported by the liberal group, he became the first prime minister of the Federal Government. Born in America but he is raised in the midst of travelling to different countries. He died in the Laplace terror incident in U.C.001.
Otto Midas
Age: 45
- The captain of Londo Bell ship "Nehal Argama".
Daghda mac Cumhaill
Age: 38
- The commander of ECOAS.
Mihiro Oiwakken
Age: 22
- A newly appointed female officer onboard the Nahel Argama.
[edit] Mechanics
[edit] Earth Federation
RX-0 Unicorn Gundam
- A pure white MS produced by the "UC Project," part of the Federation Space Force's reorganization plan. The entire movable frame of this experimental machine forms a psycoframe, and its responsiveness is incredibly high. It also incorporates a special "Laplace Program" OS and a system known as "NT-D (Newtype Destroyer System)." When NT-D is activated, the internal frame expands and the entire figure is transformed. In the process, the armor separates along its seams, and slides are released. A red glow can be seen where the internal frame is exposed by the gaps in the armor, and this is believed to be a psycoframe luminescence phenomenon. The machine's performance, in particular its mobility, is dramatically increased when NT-D is active. In this normal mode, it spots a head resembling that of mass-produced MS like the GM.
RX-0 Unicorn Gundam (Destroy Mode)
- The Unicorn's appearance when the 'NT-D' system is activated. In this form, the psycoframe built into the entire body's movable frame reads the pilot's thoughts (psycowaves) and directly influences the unit's movements. In other words, the MS can ultimately be controlled by thought alone. However, when compared to one's idea of how a human body works, the stress of gravity on an 20 meter MS (more than 10 times the size) is extraordinary. Aided by the psycommu, the pilot's mind can only endure about five minutes of operation, after which a limiter is believed to activate, returning the MS to normal Unicorn form. Furthermore, the system activates not according to the pilot's discretion, but automatically when certain conditions, as yet unexplained, are met. In this mode, the mobile suit becomes taller and its head transforms to one having standard Gundam features.
RGZ-95 ReZEL
- A Londo Bell mobile suit intended as another attempt to mass-produces the MSZ-006 Zeta Gundam, after the failure of the RGZ-91 ReGZ. It uses the basic frame of the RGM-89 Jegan, and has a transformation system similar to the MSA-005 Methuss instead of the Back Weapons System(BWS). It is armed with a beam rifle and beam shield, and piloted by Liddy Marcenas.
D-50C Loto
- A transformable tank mobile suit used by ECOAS. It is a predecessor of the F-50D/RXR-44 Guntank R-44.
MSN-001A1 Delta Plus
- A variable mobile suit developed by Anaheim Electronics and supplied to the Nahal Argama after the loss of most of its MS complement in combat against the Kshatriya. An all-purpose attack mobile suit that can reenter the atmosphere unassisted and is also capable of atmospheric flight. Because it's a nonstandard prototype, it is difficult to place in a regular military unit, so it was sent to the Nahal Argama, which has numerous such unusual machines.
- It is based on the MSN-001 Delta Gundam, a transformable MS designed during the Gryps War that, because of problems with insufficient frame strength, was completed as the non-transforming MSN-00100 Hyaku Shiki. CG models of the Delta Gundam exist on the net, though it was never built. While Anaheim Electronics was trying various approaches to develop a production model of the Zeta series as a transformable MS, it also simultaneously conducted a reinvestigation of the shelved Delta plan and created the MSN-001A1 Delta Plus as a result. It's said that a few units of the Delta Plus were produced as a mass production prototype.
Clop class Carotte
- The main space crusier model used by the Earth Federation Army.
Nahel Argama
- The space cruiser of Londo Bell. It served during the First Neo-Zeon War and has undergone a refit to make it compatible with spare parts of current time. Most prominent changes is that the rear thrusters block has been changed to that of a Clop class and MS hanger has been expanded.
Magallanica
- A huge spaceship used in the building of space colonies. It is categorized as a "colony builder". It's shape resembles that of a snail. It is used in the construction of Industrial 7.
Salamis class Space patrol cruiser
Alaska
- The name of a resupply ship, a Colombus class. It resupplied the Nahel Argama.
- Name not known. Provides support for the resupply ship Alaska.
[edit] Neo-Zeon
AMS-129 Geara Zulu
- A Neo-Zeon mass-production mobile suit. It is the successor to the AMS-119 Geara Doga.
NZ-666 Kshatriya
- A green mobile suit fielded by Neo-Zeon, it is very similar in appearance to the NZ-000 Quin Mantha, though much smaller. It is armed with a total of twelve megaparticle cannons, two beam sabers, and twenty-four funnels (six in each binder.) The pattern on its arms led to the Neo-Zeon remnants being called "The Sleeved". Its pilot's name is Marida Cruz.
MSN-06S Sinanju
- Personal machine of Full Frontal, it strongly resembles the late Char Aznable's MSN-04 Sazabi. Developed by Anaheim Electronics, it equips a psycoframe and served as a testbed for the NT-D System. The resulting data was used by Anaheim to complete the RX-0 Unicorn Gundam, and the Sinanju was subsequently stolen by Neo-Zeon in UC 0094.
Garancieres
- A space cargo ship. The ship can operate in space and in earth's atmosphere. It can also capable of atmospheric exit and re-entry. On the outside it is a cargo ship of the civilian company "Libacorner Delivery" but it is actually the ship of "The Sleeved". It has the MS "Kshatriya" and "Geara Zulu" onboard.
- The flagship of the new Neo-Zeon.
- The ship is colored red as it was the ship of the previous commander, Char. The ship carries 10 Geara Zulu as its main attack force.
[edit] Organizations
Londo Bell
ECOAS
- Earth Federation Space Forces Special Task Group. A newly put together group that is in charge of hunting down the Neo-Zeon remnants. Known as the Manhunter unit.
"The Sleeved"
- This is the name the Neo-Zeon remnants are known as. After the Second Neo-Zeon War, the remaining Neo-Zeon troops are gather by Full Frontal at the ruins of a resource asteroid.
Vist Foundation
Anaheim Electronics
[edit] Books
Book 1: Day of the Unicorn (Part 1)
- ISBN 978-4-04-713969-5 (Released September 26, 2007)
Book 2: Day of the Unicorn (Part 2)
- ISBN 978-4-04-713970-1 (Released September 26, 2007)
Book 3: The Red Comet
- ISBN 978-4-04-715003-4 (Released December 26, 2007)
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