RX-78-4 Gundam Unit 4 "G04"

RX-78-4 4th Gundam "Gundam G04"


Deployed to the 16th Autonomous Mobile Squadron and assigned to the Pegasus-class warship, the Thoroughbred, the RX-78-4 Gundam G04 was designed to be able to use a prototype mega beam launcher with destructive power equivalent to that of a capital ship. In order to power such a weapon, the RX-78-4 was outfitted with a heavier power plant than its brother unit, the RX-78-5. Like the RX-78-5, the RX-78-4 can be outfitted with a booster system which extends the operational range and time of the mobile suit in space operations. The RX-78-4 only used the mega beam launcher once, in order to stop a reinforcing fleet from Granada. Though the launcher was successful in destroying the fleet, the load it put on the RX-78-4's power plant was too much for the unit to bear, and resulted in the RX-78-4 taking severe damage and killing its pilot. This version of events has always been in dispute. During the final battles of the One Year War there were unconfirmed accounts of the RX-78-4 showing up in battle. (In the comic version the artist created the story that Luce was killed but he insert the "IF" it happened story later. It was that Ford brought Luce out of Unit 4 before it exploded, and after that Unit 4 and Unit 5, both upgraded with booster units were in service till the end of the battle of A Bao A Qu.) It is possible that based on the fact that G04 is critically damaged in battle that this unit may have been redesigned as the Gundam Alex.

The G04 first appears as part of Kunio Okawara's MS Collection original design series, designed by Kunio Okawara as the 4th Gundam. The design was updated to be use in Mobile Suit Gundam: Encounters In Space video games by Hajime Katoki.

Manufacturer: Earth Federation

User: Earth Federation

Unit type: Prototype Space-Combat Mobile Suit

Head height: 18.0 meters

Empty weight: 42.6 metric tons

Full weight: 80.2 metric tons (86.5 metric tons when equipped with Mega Beam Launcher)

Power generator output: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 1550 kW

Special equipment: Booster pack (Bst)

Fixed armament:

60mm Vulcan Gun x 2

Beam Saber x 2

Hand Beam Gun x2, mounted on forearms

Optional hand armament:

Hyper Beam Rifle

Mega Beam Launcher

Pilot: Luce Kassel

