AMA-100 Z'od-iacok

The Z'od-iacok (Official spelling), better known as Zodiac, is a gigantic mobile armor created by Neo Zeon in the photonovel Gundam Sentinel.

Combat and Technological Capabilities
One of the most prominent feature of the Z'od-iacok is its gigantic double mega particle cannon, located within its body. Aside from Colony Lasers, it could be said that the double mega particle cannon is the largest and most powerful cannon-type weapon in the Universal Century. Due to this, it has been said that the actual main body is the mega particle cannon itself. Furthermore, it was equipped with beam deflectors, allowing it to do microadjustment (such as directions and beam speed) during attacks. It can be shot fire-linked, or alternatively fired.

For additional firepower, it was equipped with a quasi-psycommu system, which is used to control its four wire-guided claws. To round it off, it was equipped with eight 60mm vulcans, twelve beam cannons, twelve beam sabers, as well as an I-field generator, located within the front end area, which provide efficent defense during attacks.

Another feature that makes it even more versatile is the ability to seperate and transform into two units; it can be splited length wise into Zoon-I (upper section) and Zoon II (lower section). In this mode, it can act as a waverider, and use the atmosphere itself to rapidly change its direction - and like many waveriders, it can enter the atmosphere (in both Zoon mode and Z'od-iacok mode).

History
The main purpose of the Z'od-iacok was to conduct high atmospheric attacks. As an experimental machine, it was very expensive. However, it had a serious design flaw: the high power consumption of the mega particle cannons frequently overloaded the capacitors during continuous firings, which forced all the power to rush into the mega particle cannon and overloaded it. Since the cannon is located right between the two main engine units, this generates intense heat that may reach and explode the propellant tanks and self destruct the entire unit. Thus, it was treated as a failure, and was to be decommissioned after testing its unit seperation, transformation and beam deflector tests. In the end, it was given to the New Desides and piloted by its ace Tosh Grey, and was destroyed above Earth's atmosphere due to the overload.

Variant
AMA-100 Zoon