XMA-01 Rafflesia

XMA-01 Rafflesia

The Rafflesia is an extremely powerful mobile armor produced by the Crossbone Vanguard militia in the anime movie Mobile Suit Gundam F91 (1991).

The Rafflesia Project was initiated in UC 0119 under command of Crossbone Vanguard leader Carozzo “Iron Mask” Ronah. The "Rafflesia" proved to be a strong enemy in both ranged and close-quarters combat. With its 22 beam guns it was able to unleash a deadly rain of beam fire on its enemies from a distance, and with hundreds of tentacular heat rods it was even deadlier in close combat. The "Rafflesia" dispensed with manual controls, and was instead operated by direct mental command using a neo-psycommu, an advanced version of the original psycommu system. The pilot was Ronah himself, who linked his receptor-filled helmet to the mobile armor with a snake's nest of fiber-optic cables.

(The name of the red, flower-shaped vehicle was derived from Rafflesia, a genus of parasitic flowering plants.)

The "Rafflesia" entered combat in March UC 0123; Ronah's goals were to destroy the Federation Forces and to stop his own daughter, Berah Ronah (a.k.a. Cecily Fairchild), who sought to prevent his plan to wipe out all humans on Earth with his Bug weapons. He first attacked a fleet of Earth Federation ships, which proved no match for the powerful mobile armor. Later, he was attacked by Cecily in her XM-07 "Vigna Ghina" and her friend, Seabook Arno of the F91 Gundam, but Cecily’s suit was soon took heavy damage and she herself was thrown into space by Iron Mask. Seabook was able to inflict some damage on the "Rafflesia" by detonating the vacant "Vigna Ghina", and finally used the F91's special afterimages ability to induce the mobile armor to destroy itself.

pecifications

XMA-01 Rafflesia

Manufacturer: Crossbone Vanguard
Operator: Crossbone Vanguard
Unit type: prototype mobile armor
Dimensions: overall length 37.5 meters
Weight: empty 184.6 metric tons; max gross 263.7 metric tons
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 31650 kW
Special Equipment: neo-psycommu system, allows pilot to control all functions of mobile armor without use of manual controls; anti-beam barrier system, absorbs/deflects all incoming beam weapon attacks
Armament: 8 x scattering beam gun, fire-linked, mounted in main body stalk; 5 x petal mega beam cannon, mounted in petal binders; 5 x mega particle gun, mounted in main body between petal binders; 4 x beam cannon, fire-linked, mounted in tip of main body stalk; 125 x tentacle rod, each rod mounts superheated chainsaw tip, 25 tentacle rods mounted in each petal binder
Pilot: Carozzo Ronah


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