GNW-001 Gundam Throne Eins

The GNW-001 Gundam Throne Eins (aka Gundam Throne Eins, Eins), is the lead Gundam of Team Trinity and piloted by Johann Trinity in season one of Mobile Suit Gundam 00.

Technology & Combat Characteristics
The first unit of the Gundam Thrones series, which are each specialized custom versions of the same mobile suit design. Of the three Throne units, the Throne Eins is mostly a mid-to-long range fire mobile suit. The Gundam Thrones also employ more advanced version of GN technology than of Ptolemaios's Gundams, such as a more advanced internal particle distribution system as well as a more compact GN Drive Chassis technology that were not adapted by the Ptolemy team until the 3.5 and 4th generation Gundams. It is said that in terms of orientation, Eins combined both the characteristics of both the range of Dynames as well as the firepower of Virtue into a single unit. Eins would often fire the GN Rifle for short-to-mid range attacks and firing the GN Launcher for mid-to-long range attacks. While similar to Dynames, a long range tactical MS, it is not a sniper. Eins' "GN Launcher" has a more powerful feature called GN Mega Launcher, which basically more powerful and more particle consuming. Since Eins doesn't have an unlimited supply of GN particles due to its GN Drive Tau, Eins is largely dependent on Drei for transferring compressed GN particles in order to use it this feature. With both Zwei and Drei linked together, Eins is able to use it's most powerful attack, the "GN High Mega Launcher". Unlike the Throne Varanus and the GN-X series, the Gundam Thrones do not need a special start-up machine in order to activate their GN Drives due to the fact that they possess their own compact start up mechanism on-board.

Armaments

 * GN Beam Rifle
 * Less powerful then the GN Launcher but more powerful than the other Thrones' GN Handguns, the GN Beam Rifle is Johann's secondary weapon of choice as it is primarily used as a defense against short to mid-range targets.


 * GN Beam Saber
 * Throne Eins is seen to carry two GN Beam Sabers which its Beam color is red. Unlike the beam sabers used by the Gundams on the Ptolemaious, the GN Beam Sabers that the Thrones use have a small GN Condenser within, meaning the beam does not dissipate when it leaves the Gundams' hand. This is evident when Union ace Graham Aker steals Throne Eins' beam saber despite piloting his Custom Flag which was solar powered.


 * Smokescreen
 * Unlike the other Gundam units Throne Eins has a smokescreen dispenser built into its GN Beam Rifle underneath the beam emitter. It does not spray the smoke, instead it shoots a projectile of sorts that bursts into a large smoke cloud. It is not known whether there is something special about the smoke's composition that would further scramble enemy sensors. The system was only used once to allow the Thrones, that were low on particles, to escape from a team of ten GN-X units led by Sergei Smirnov and included Soma Peries.


 * GN Launcher
 * The primary weapon of the Throne Eins is the GN Launcher a high-power, high-precision, long-range beam weapon mounted on the right shoulder. The GN Launcher is capable of destroying a mobile suit with a single shot, as evidenced during the Thrones' first mission where the Eins destroyed a squad of Hellion and Over Flag mobile suits in seconds. Its range is far greater than that of conventional weapons.


 * Because of the shoulder rack the GN Launcher is mounted on, it has a limited firing arc compared to a hand mounted weapon such as Eins GN Beam Rifle or Dynames GN Sniper Rifle


 * GN Mega Launcher
 * The GN Launcher is capable of combining with Throne Eins' GN Beam Rifle forming the GN Mega Launcher. The power of the GN Mega Launcher's beam is much greater than that of the GN Launcher and is comparable to the weapons of the Virtue, only the beam is narrower allowing for greater precision; the GN Mega Launcher has a much higher GN-Particle requirement, a requirement that the GN Tau Drive is unable to provide for. To make up for this weakness, the Eins is capable of docking with either Throne Zwei and/or Throne Drei to provide the needed GN particles. Unfortunately there is a momentary time of weakness during the charge period where the two Thrones are left vulnerable should they be without a third unit's protection.


 * GN High Mega Launcher
 * The most powerful version of the Eins' "GN Launcher" modes. It requires even more particles than even the "GN Mega Launcher" and is only usable by Eins when it is linked to both Zwei and Drei.

Special Equipment & Features

 * GN Particle Transfer System
 * The Throne's particle transfer system is essential to form the GN Mega Launcher and the GN High Mega Launcher. The process involves one of the Throne unites (primarily Drei since it contains greater particle storage than Zwei) plugging an energy cable found hidden in the GN Handgun of either Zwei or Drei into the rear of Eins' GN Launcher. A panel at the bottom rear of the launcher then exposes itself, allowing the second Throne unit to hold onto Eins for stability during firing. The Thrones are the only mobile units to actively use this system in battle.

History
Gundam Eins was secretly constructed (along with Zwei and Drei) without the prior knowledge of Celestial Being regulars until it was dispatched in Episode 16 with the other Thrones to aid the four Gundam Meisters in the Taklamakan Desert. After the rescue mission, the Trinitys had a meeting with the Ptolemy group for discussions.

Johann transported his siblings with Eins, Ian Vashti took the opportunity to perform in depth scans of Eins and later discovered that its GN drive is in fact a "false solar furnace" (GN Drive Tau), giving the Thrones their signature red GN particle emission. As a drawback of the copied GN Drives, the Thrones have a limited operation time.

After a series of armed interventions against world armed development, Eins was used to attack the world's military bases as a means to force planetary pacification; their reign however was short lived after the inception of the GN-X series. Since the existence of the GN-X series and the formation of the UN Forces, the Thrones were no longer effective nor a threat to the world, forcing the pilots to go on the defensive. In episode 22, Ali al-Saachez stole and piloted Gundam Throne Zwei and fought Throne Eins in a duel. Due to the lower piloting skills and low particle reserves, both Johann and Eins were destroyed in mid-air in a spectacular explosion near a shore line. The remains of Eins were scattered along the shores of a deserted island in the Atlantic.

Variants

 * GNW-001/hs-T01 Gundam Throne Eins Turbulenz
 * GNW-002 Gundam Throne Zwei
 * GNW-003 Gundam Throne Drei

Notes & Trivia

 * In Episode 16, when Drei docks with Eins for a Mega Launcher attack, a right side view of Eins' head can be seen without its front fin.
 * The mobile suit's name is derived from two sources. The first part, Throne, is a name for a class of powerful angels who were close to God and dispensed justice according to God's will. The second part, Eins, is the German word for the number one.