OZ-13MSX2 Mercurius

The OZ-13MSX2 Mercurius was a mobile suit seen in the Gundam anime television series New Mobile Report Gundam Wing.

OZ-13MSX2 Mercurius

While the five Gundam pilots were fighting on Earth to defeat the OZ and the Alliance forces, the scientists who created their mobile suits were captured by OZ and forced to work on next generation mobile suits capable of putting an end to the Gundam pilots' activities. The five scientists set to work and came up with a pair of mobile suit designs - the OZ-13MSX1 Vayeate and the OZ-13MSX2 Mercurius.

The Mercurius was designed with defensive strategy in mind, and was armed with a small beam spray gun and a large shield, called a "Crash Shield," which had a powerful beam saber integrated into it. It was also equipped with a set of ten "planet defensors", which were small disc-shaped objects which projected an energy shield to protect the Mercurius or another mobile suit from virtually any attack. The shield is powerful enough that it could even block a shot from XXXG-00W0 Wing Gundam Zero buster rifles, but a subsequent shot would would prove too much for it. They were stored in a rack on the back of the Mercurius, where they were charged by the suit's reactor. The planet defensors were later used in OZ's mass production mobile doll, the OZ-02MD Virgo, and later by the White Fang's on their captured Virgo troops which included the upgraded WF-02MD Virgo II.

The Mercurius was piloted by captured Gundam pilot Heero Yuy, whose combat data was recorded to be used for the Virgo's AI control system. When Quatre Winner went on a rampage with the newly built XXXG-00W0 Wing Gundam Zero, Heero Yuy was dispatched with OZ infiltrator Trowa Barton to capture or destroy the renegade Gundam. Heero fought Quatre to a standstill, and the Mercurius was self-destructed by Heero and Quatre to try and destroy the Wing Zero. The remains of the suit were captured by the terrorist group White Fang, who had the Gundam scientists use Heero's combat data to install a mobile doll control system in the suit when it was rebuilt. The Mercurius was destroyed by Duo Maxwell's XXXG-01D2 Gundam Deathscythe Hell, along with the Vayeate when it was dispatched to pursue Hilde Schbeiker.

An upgraded model of the Mercurius was developed by OZ's black ops wing, Prize. The OZ-13MSX2B-S Mercurius Shuivan features twenty planet defensers over the original model's ten. The Mercurius Shuivan can also use the planet defensers to form an energy net to ensnare enemy mobile suits. It was piloted by Luna Armonia, who worked in tandem with her sister, Soris Armonia, who piloted the OZ-13MSX1B-S Vayeate Shuivan. In AC 195, the Armonia sisters would use their mobile suits to capture Odin Bernett's OZ-19MASX Griepe Gundam. Both Luna and Soris were betrayed and killed by their commander, Valder Farkill, who ordered a test firing of the Gran Shiro's beam cannon during their fight with Odin and OZ Prize defector Roche Nattano.

Specifications

OZ-13MSX2 Mercurius

* Model number: OZ-13MSX2
* Code name: Mercurius
* Unit type: Prototype Testbed Defense Mobile Suit
* Manufacturer: OZ/Gundam Scientists
* Operator: OZ; White Fang
* First deployment: AC 195
* Accommodation: Pilot only, in standard torso cockpit.
* Height: 16.3m
* Weight: Empty 7.3 metric tons
* Construction: gundanium alloy
* Powerplant: Ultracompact fusion reactor
* Equipment and design features: Sensors, range unknown; self-destruct system; mobile doll combat system
* Fixed armaments: None
* Optional Hand Armaments: Beam gun; crash shield, mounts beam sword
* Remote Weapons: Planet Defenser x10, generates defensive energy field
* Pilot(s): Heero Yuy, Quatre Raberba Winner