SVMS-01X Union Flag Custom II

GN Flag is a customized SVMS-01O Over Flag unit in season 1 of Mobile Suit Gundam 00. The unit is piloted by Graham Aker.

Technology & Combat Characteristics
All of the original means of propulsion; i.e. the MPD thruster backpacks have been removed, and a GN Drive Tau retrofitted. However, the GN Drive Tau does not integrate elegantly with the Flag; weapons have to be powered via an external wire, as the mobile suit was not designed to be used with a GN drive. The GN Flag only has one beam saber, taken from GNW-001 Gundam Throne Eins; this is the only offensive weapon, and is equipped via the aforementioned cable that provides the GN particle feed for the beam saber. One major flaw in this design is the fact that the mobile suit lacks the G-force dampening that the other GN drive-powered suits are equipped with. This is detrimental to the pilot who, in Graham Aker's case, ends up coughing blood while fighting the Gundams. Designed for one purpose and one alone, to defeat GN-001 Gundam Exia, the GN Flag is a merciless and reckless melee fighter, using its fists and feet when its beam saber proves inadequate.

History
When thirty GNX-603T GN-X units were delivered to the three power blocks, one belonging to the Union was given to ace Graham Aker. However, having made the promise that he would defeat a Gundam in a Flag, Graham instead requested that a modification be made to his custom Flag. The result was the GN Flag, a hastily-built version of the Flag which nonetheless sported power enough to match the Trans-Am weakened GN-001 Gundam Exia in solo combat. Driven nearly mad by his obsession with the Gundam which had first awed him, Graham's fight with Setsuna resulted in the destruction of the GN Flag and the near-destruction of Exia, tearing off its left arm and gouging out its right eye. In the aftermath, Graham and Setsuna were both believed dead, though both survived the encounter and would meet again on the field of battle four years later.

Variants
GN Flag II