MS-09SS Dowas Custom

The MS-09SS Dowas Custom is a mobile suit featured in Anaheim Laboratory Log

Technology & Combat Characteristics
At the end of the war one of the MS-09S Dowas was transported to the asteroid Axis by Zeon remnants who fled to the asteroid belt at the end of the One Year War. There, it was subjected to further mobility and generator output upgrades as well as improvements to it's combat abilitys and armor through the use of Gundarium alloy. Some added armor evolved the suit into the Dowass Custom.

Armaments

 * Vulcan Gun
 * These head-mounted shell firing weapons have a high-rate of fire but have little power and can't damage the thick armor of a mobile suit, though it can damage lightly armored areas such as the sensors. The weapons are ideal for shooting down small, fast moving, lightly armored targets such as missiles.


 * Scattering Beam Gun
 * The breast-mounted beam gun of the Dowas may look similar to the one used by the Dom series, but instead it is now a true beam weapon that can be used from mid to close range.


 * Beam Bazooka
 * An hand-carried high output beam weapon. The bazooka has its own internal reactor, rather than an E-cap, and is, essentially, a Musai deck gun scaled down for mobile suit use.


 * Heat Saber
 * Stored on the backpack when not in use, this weapon uses thermal energy to superheat a metal blade, allowing it to melt through the armor of an enemy machine at high speed.

Special Equipment & Features

 * External Ejectable Propellant Tank
 * An external tank used for propellant storage. This extra propellant greatly extends a mobile suit's operating range, and enables it to stay in combat longer. When the propellant is consumed, the tank can be discarded to reduce the mobile suit's weight. These tanks use a two-layered construction, with one layer containing propellant, and the other holding extra coolant.

History
When Char Aznable leaves Axis for his mission to infiltrate the Earth Federation Forces ranking, he takes a Dowas Custom and some Gundarium alloy to Anaheim Electronics. As a result, the MS-09SS Dowas Custom would be used as the base for the design of the Gamma Gundam (later known as the RMS-009 Rick Dias), a state of the art unit that uses Gundarium alloy.