Buch Concern

The Buch Concern was a mobile suit manufacturer from the late Universal Century timeline of the that is mentioned in Mobile Suit Gundam F91.

History
The Buch Concern was a wealthy financial group that owned several heavy equipment manufacturing facilities. By 0123 U.C. it was well known that a Buch Concern subdivision, Buch Aerodynamics, built and sold a civilian use mobile suit known as the Dessa Type.

The Buch Concern would secretly backed the wealthy Ronah family and their military force, the Crossbone Vanguard, to create Cosmo Babylonia by constructing a series of military mobile suits, and likely their battleships. Despite being new to the construction of military mobile suits, the Buch Concern was able to develop a series of advanced mobile suits that surpassed the Earth Federation backed Strategic Naval Research Institute's own F-series of mobile suits. Among the advanced technologies the Buch Concern developed was the beam shield, a powerful defensive technology that it developed before either SNRI or Anaheim Electronics, the two standards of military mobile suits of the time.

Though the Buch Concern was the primary supplier of mobile weapons to the Crossbone Vanguard they did not supply all of them, such as the XMA-01 Rafflesia or the Bug weapon.

Despite the technological success of their mobile weapons the Buch Concern fell unto hard times after the fall of Cosmo Babylonia. They did provide some support to the pirate group Crossbone Vanguard led by Berah Ronah, however it was not profitable and they ceased producing the parts needed to repair the Zondo Gei mobile suits they used. After ending their support the Buch Concern fell into obscurity in the field of mobile suits, with their position as a supporter of the pirate Crossbone Vangaurd being taken up by SNRI who would continue the "XM" line of mobile suits with the XM-10 Flint.

Creations

 * XM-01 Den'an Zon
 * XM-02 Den'an Gei
 * XM-03 Ebirhu-S
 * XM-04 Berga Dalas
 * XM-05 Berga Giros
 * XM-05B Berga Balus
 * XM-06 Dahgi Iris
 * XM-07 Vigna Ghina
 * XM-07B Vigna Ghina II
 * XM-07G Vigna Zirah
 * XM-07G type F.T.E. Vigna Zirah Flamme Tiger Einzelkampf
 * XM-08 Zondo Gei