ZGMF-X09A Justice Gundam

In mid CE 71, ZAFT creates a series of advanced mobile suits based on technology reverse-engineered from the captured Earth Alliance G Project suits. Like their EA predecessors, the ZAFT Gundams are armed with advanced beam weaponry and protected by Phase Shift armor. However, an additional technology is incorporated as well: the Neutron Jammer Canceller, which counters the effects of the ubiquitous N-Jammers and allows these suits to be powered by nuclear reactors. This gives them almost limitless combat endurance, even with Phase Shift armor activated.

One of these suits is the ZGMF-X09A Justice. It is the first and most conventional of the series, armed with beam sabers, beam boomerangs, head-mounted CIWS guns (which, foreshadowing what would later become standard practice, are much smaller in calibur than those of contemporary mobile suits), and a high-energy beam rifle. In addition, the Justice carries a large detachable Fatum-00 pack, which could be remotely controlled or used as a subflight lifter. The Fatum-00 is also well-armed with a pair of beam cannons and multiple machineguns. However, the suit's most powerful weapon is the optional METEOR (Mobile suit Embedded Tactical EnfORcer) support system, a large mobile weapons platform with powerful thrusters and an even more powerful armament of battleship-calibur beam cannons, large beam swords, and dozens of heavy missile launchers that is designed specifically for the Justice and its companion unit, ZGMF-X10A Freedom. Justice also mounts a tall sensor spine on the top of its head, similar to that of the GAT-X303 Aegis, indicating that it was likely also intended as a commander-type mobile suit. Many of it's and the ZGMF-X10A Freedom's systems were tested on the YFX-600R GuAIZ Experimental Firearms Type.

The ZGMF-X09A Justice uses the operating system Generation Unsubdued Nuclear Drive Assault Module complex.

Late in CE 71, Athrun Zala, former pilot of the Aegis, is assigned the Justice with the mission to either recapture or destroy its stolen sister unit, the ZGMF-X10A Freedom. Instead, however, Athrun joins forces with his old friend Kira Yamato, in defending neutral Orb from an Earth Alliance attack. Later he met up with the support vessel Eternal which carried both METEOR units. Athrun and Kira use the METEORs' firepower to thwart an Earth Alliance nuclear missile attack on the PLANTs on the final day of the war, and Athrun also destroys the GAT-X131 Calamity with his METEOR's beam sword. Afterward, Athrun flies the Justice inside the gamma ray laser GENESIS and self-destructs it, preventing his father's doomsday weapon from firing on the Earth.

ZGMF-X09A Justice
Manufacturer: Intergated Design Bureau User: Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty, Clyne Faction Unit type: prototype assault mobile suit First Deployment: May 17, Cosmic Era 71 Head height: 18.56 meters Weight: Max gross 75.4 metric tons Special equipment: Phase Shift armor, Neutron Jammer Canceller, Fatum-00 backpack/subflight lifter, hardpoint for docking with METEOR unit Powerplant: Ultracompact nuclear fission reactor, power output rated at 8826 kW Armament: MMI-GAU1 "Sagittus" 20mm CIWS x4, MA-M01 "Lacerta" beam saber x2, RQM51 "Bassel" beam boomerang x2, Fatum-00 pack/subflight lifter (M9M9 "Cervus" turret machinegun x2, MA-4B "Fortis" beam cannon x2, GAU5 "Volucris" machinegun x4) x1, MA-M20 "Lupus" high-energy beam rifle x1, shield x1 Pilot: Athrun Zala

Trivia

 * Justice's head crest displays the text "X-09A NOVE", which means "Nine" in Italian and is a reference either Justice's model number or that it was the nineth Gundam to appear in Cosmic Era.