TS-MA2 Moebius
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This article is about a fictional weapon from the Cosmic Era timeline of the anime Gundam metaseries.
The TS-MA2 Moebius is a mobile armor, a heavy space fighter with tough armor.
The Moebius is swift and powerful, but it becomes terribly obsolete when the ZGMF-1017 GINN is introduced by ZAFT, with at least five Moebius MAs required to take down a single GINN MS on average. Until the introduction of Natural-pilotable mobile suits, the Moebius is the backbone of the Earth Alliance forces, despite its general inadequacy in combat against enemy mobile suits.
The TS-MA2mod.00 Moebius Zero is a high-powered commander-type variation produced in limited quantities during the Bloody Valentine War. Only a few highly-talented mobile armor pilots, like Lt. Mu La Flaga, can successfully pilot this mobile armor because of the difficulty of controlling its four wire-guided gunbarrels. As a result, the production model mobile armor TS-MA2 Moebius was given a more conventional armament, with missiles instead of the gunbarrel pods.
The Moebius is phased out of frontline use by late June, replaced by the GAT-01 Strike Dagger. In November, at the Second Battle of Jachin Due, several squadrons are launched from the Earth Alliance's Agamemmnon class carriers for use as nuclear weapons delivery platforms. Most of the Moebius MAs are destroyed during the battle, along with the majority of the Alliance's Strike Dagger forces.
The AQM/E-X04 Gunbarrel Striker is based on the Moebius Zero, but with an improved Gunbarrel equipping one beam gun and two missiles instead of the Moebius's two machine guns. The Gunbarrel Striker can operate either as an independent unit or as a Striker Pack for the GAT-X105 Strike Gundam or GAT-01A1 105 Dagger.
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Specifications
TS-MA2 Moebius
Unit type: mass production mobile armor
Crew: One pilot in a standard cockpit in the unit's fuselage
Armament: 2x 40mm Gatling gun, wire-guided missile x4
Optional armament: linear gun, nuclear missile
Pilot(s): Luke, Gail, Gai Murakumo, Lai Zhou Ming
TS-MA2mod.00 Moebius Zero
Unit type: prototype commander use mobile armor
Armament: linear gun x1, wire-guided gunbarrel pod (railgun x2) x4
Pilot: Mu La Flaga, Prayer Reverie?
AQM/E-X04 Gunbarrel Striker
Unit type: support fighter for use with GAT-X105 Strike Gundam/GAT-01A 105 Dagger
Weight: 11.87t
Armament: M58E4 Gatling gun x1, wire-guided gunbarrel pod (GAU-758S beam gun x1, M70AMSAT missile x2) x4
This page written with information released to the public domain from Burke's Big List O' Gundam Mecha (http://www.mahq.net/mecha/gundam/biglist-gundam.txt).