ZGMF-1017M2 GINN High Maneuver Type II

The GINN High Maneuver Type II is a Mobile Suit in the series Gundam SEED Destiny.

Combat Abilities
Like its predecessor, the new GINN High Maneuver Type II is designed for high speed battles and thus mounts several additional thrusters all over its body. Another similarity to the old variant is the fact, that the new suit only carries light armament. In the Type II's case it consists of a samurai-like MA-M92 sword for close combat and a shield mounted on the left arm for defense. For ranged combat the suit features an MMI-M636K beam carbine.

History
Although the old ZGMF-1017 GINN suit created by ZAFT during the First Bloody Valentine War is long outdated and has beed replaced with the new ZAKU series, ZAFT still creates new variants of the old suit. One such variant is the GINN High Maneuver Type II, which is an upgraded variant of the ZGMF-1017M GINN High Maneuver Type used during the first war. Despite being based on an old design, the new suit is capable of holding itself against ZAFT's new ZAKU series (if piloted by good pilots).

In late CE 73, a group of Coordinator extremists loyal to Patrick Zala's ideals, use these mobile suit series to install flare motors on a large piece of the destroyed Junius Seven colony to let it fall on Earth. When ZAFT tries to break the massive rock apart using meteor breakers, the estremists use their GINN units to destroy the ZAFT mobile suits, resulting in a large battle around the falling debris. Eventually the Minerva and its Gundams intervene who are eventually able to destroy the remaining extremist group after learning of the reason why they were doing this. Since the plan with the meteor breakers failed, the Minerva uses her Positron Blaster Cannon on the remaining fragment and successfully shatters it into hundreds of smaller pieces, which nevertheless cause massive damage on Earth. This incident is later called "Break the World" and used by Blue Cosmos/Logos to ignite the Second Bloody Valentine War.