GN-001RE Gundam Exia Repair

GN-001RE Gundam Exia Repair (aka Gundam Exia, Exia), is the shoddily repaired version of GN-001 Gundam Exia in season 2 of Mobile Suit Gundam 00; the unit is piloted by Setsuna F. Seiei.

Technology & Combat Characteristics
Due to lack of contact with CB during the 4-5 years (between Season 1 and Season 2 of Gundam 00), Gundam Exia was never fully repaired from the damage it sustained in combat with Graham Aker and his GN Flag; when it reappears in AD 2312, Exia is heavily damaged and poorly maintained. The left arm was severed by the GN Flag's beam saber, it was replaced instead with a camouflage sheet that creates the illusion of a cloak. The Gundam's head has been reattached, but the right eye remains gutted, leaving a glowing red eye taken from a Tieren in its place. As most of its other weapons were discarded in the battle against the Alvaaron, Exia only had access to its damaged GN Sword and its right arm's GN Vulcan. Despite the vastly inferior armaments and poor condition of the mobile suit, Setsuna still managed to hold its own in combat against a GN-XIII and a far superior Ahead for a short time.

GN Sword
The sole weapon of the Exia Repair. Although the weapon itself is damaged and not in perfect state, the function of changing from one mode to another hasn't changed.

System Features

 * Trans-Am System


 * Optical Camouflage

Variants

 * GN-001REII Gundam Exia Repair II

History
In AD 2307, after the final battle against the UN Forces and against Graham Aker's GN Flag, Exia and Setsuna survived the battle, but Exia was severely damaged. With Celestial Being defeated by UN Forces, Setsuna and Exia went into hiding for the next 4-5 years and without contact from Celestial Being, Setsuna had to salvage and repair Exia with Tieren parts.

By AD 2312, Setsuna brought Exia with him to the space colony Proud during his investigation of A-Laws. Unexpectedly, a Katharon liberation operation was in progress at that time while A-Laws was performing a test of its kill-bots. To survive against A-Laws's extermination operation, Setsuna summoned Exia for its final battle against A-Laws. The battle was a losing one as Exia was no match against a GNX-609T GN-XIII (piloted by Araga) with an GNX-704T Ahead (piloted by Barrack Zinin). Exia was literally disarmed and was only saved by Tieria Erde in his GN-008 Seravee Gundam.

After Exia was salvaged and brought back to Ptolemy II, Exia's GN Drive was transferred to GN-0000 00 Gundam. Exia's frame was transferred to one of Celestial Being's Lagrange point satellites, where the decision was made to give Exia a proper repair job and upgrade it with the latest GN technology by Celestial Being's engineering staff. After this, Exia was re-dubbed as GN-001REII Gundam Exia Repair II, or R2.