Mobile Suit MMS-001 Serpent Custom

- Model number: MMS-01 (OZ-17MS)
- Code name: Serpent
- Unit type: mobile suit
- Manufacturer: Barton Foundation (based on a design by OZ)
- Operator: Mariemaia Army
- First deployment: December AC 196
- Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
- Dimensions: head height 16.6 meters
- Weight: empty 8.6 metric tons; max gross weight unknown
- Construction: neo-titanium alloy
- Powerplant: ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 2998 kW
- Propulsion: rocket thrusters: 72030 kg total
- Equipment and design features: sensors, range unknown
- Fixed armaments: 2 x 8-tube missile launcher, mounted in shoulders Optional hand armaments: double Gatling gun, can be stored on backpack storage racks; bazooka, can be stored on backpack storage racks; beam cannon


The box


The huge beam bazooka
(In Gundam Scale, it's a gun that's about the size of two city metro buses stacked on each other!)

Originally developed in AC 195 as a replacement for the aging OZ-06MS Leo, the OZ-17MS Serpent's production lines at the X-18999 space colony were seized by the Barton Foundation following that year's military and political strife. The Barton Foundation then began production of 500 Serpent units (now re-designated MMS-01) for its puppet military force, the Mariemaia Army. Intent on using the Mariemaia Army's force against the now de-militarized Earth Sphere United Nation, the Barton Foundation intended to follow through with its original plans to seize control of the Earth Sphere.

The MMS-01 Serpent, like its Leo predecessor, was a versatile mobile suit capable of being equipped for both space and land combat. Built of the new-and-improved neo-titanium alloy, the Serpent was physically almost as tough as the gundanium-armored Gundams, but much less expensive to produce. Armed with shoulder missile launchers, the Serpent could also carry a variety of hand-carried weapons, such as a bazooka, a large beam cannon or a double-barreled Gatling gun similar to that carried by the XXXG-01H2 Modified Gundam Heavyarms. Since the Earth Sphere United Nation had scrapped all of its military weapons - including mobile suits - the Serpent was not armed with any hand-to-hand combat weapons.



He comes with a Heavyarms-style double-gatling cannon with removable polycapped plug-in handgrip which allows you to slide the grip into the molded plastic gun-hand and then slide the whole thing into the gun, between the ammo-cubes to give the impression that the mecha has slid his arm into the gun itself.




When fully loaded, the Serpent is a walking arsenal, with the two dual Gatling Guns backed up by the giant bazooka. The shoulders also open up to fire missiles, making the Serpent able to use just about any weapon.



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