ZM-S09G Tomliat

The ZM-S09G Tomliat is a fictional mobile weapon from the Mobile Suit Victory Gundam anime.

Technology and Combat Characteristics
The ZM-S09G Tomliat is a technological descendant of the ZM-S08G Zolo ground combat mobile suit. Like its predecessor the ZM-S09G Tomliat is a combat mobile suit designed for combat on Earth.

When BESPA determined that the ZM-S08G Zolo's transformation/separation system and its Top Terminal/Bottom Terminal combination was too inefficient for mobile suit combat. For its new mobile suit design the BESPA discarded the costly and complicated separation and docking component system, and instead opted to utilize a design for a single fast-transformation body. This new design has the advantage of being simpler to build, thus making the Tomliat easier to maintain, and simpler to pilot as there is no second unit to control via remote.

Though its outer frame barely resembles that of the ZM-S08G Zolo, the ZM-S09G Tomliat makes use of many of the Zolo's internal components, including the same model fusion reactor, though it has been upgraded slightly. By using parts from the ZM-S08G Zolo to build the Tomliat, the Tomliat's production costs were relatively low. To further its simplicity and production costs the Tomliat utilizes the same hand armaments and most of the same built-in armaments as the ZM-S08G Zolo. There are however three differences in its weapon selection.

First the ZM-S09G Tomliat's beam sabers double as beam tomahawks. Second, the wing-mounted missile launchers which were optional on the ZM-S08G Zolo have become standard fixed equipment built onto the ZM-S09G Tomliat's wing-binders. Finally the ZM-S09G Tomliat is unable to mount the bomber unit that was used on the Zolo's Bottom Terminal. To make up for this the ZM-S09G Tomliat mounts a four-tube multi-launcher on each leg.

One distinctly unique feature of the ZM-S09G Tomliat is that its helicopter mode was designed to handle atmospheric re-entry on its own without the need of a shuttle or transport. Though as seen with the XM-X1 Crossbone Gundam X-1 its possible for any mobile suit equipped with an appropriate beam shield to make an atmospheric re-entry.

History
When it was determined the ZM-S08G Zolo was too inefficient and phased out of service the Zanscare Empire deployed the newer and superior ZM-S09G Tomliat ground combat mobile suit that was developed by BESPA. The ZM-S09G Tomliat would take over the ZM-S08G Zolo's various roles, from standard mobile suit combat to acting as a bomber for bombing raids.

The Zanscare Empire would make use of its new mobile suit's ability to re-enter the atmosphere to quickly deploy the ZM-S09G Tomliat across the Earth.

Pilots that previously flew ZM-S08G Zolo mobile suits, such as Cronicle Asher, easily made the transition to the new ZM-S09G Tomliat.