RX-78GP04G Gundam "Gerbera"

The RX-78GP04G Gundam "Gerbera" is the fourth of four mobile suits in the Gundam Development Project. Although it's not completed, It is stolen by Principality of Zeon and remade it into the AGX-04 Gerbera Tetra.

Combat Characteristics
The RX-78GP04G Gundam Gerbera was intended to be built specifically for high speed assault. Its major feature was that it could have a pair of "stürm booster" thrusters added on to increase the unit's top speed and range. However, the Federation came to the realization that both the RX-78GP04G and the RX-78GP01Fb would essentially be filling the same niche and the GP04G, due to its high performance designs, is radically more expensive then the GP01Fb. Because of this, the Federation canceled development of the RX-78GP04G, leaving Anaheim Electronics with a half-completed prototype.

History
According to the MG model manual and MS encyclopedia, one of the tactics that Zeon used to great success against the Federation in the One Year War was high speed strikes with mobile suits. Federation forces had little time to react before being attacked by mobile suit squadrons. So, it was not surprising that the Federation sought to develop high speed assault mobile suits of its own. It was about at this time that the Delaz Fleet approached the division of Anaheim Electronics created from the Zeonic Company, which was still filled with Zeon loyalists. They then revised the design of the RX-78GP04G, transforming it into the AGX-04 Gerbera Tetra assault mobile suit. Some say that the branch of the Earth Federation which later developed into Titans canceled the development in order to provide in secret this mobile suit to the spy Cima Garahau. Although highly possible, no actual record could be traced to support this argument.

Trivia
Madnug from Superior Defender Gundam Force is loosely based on the RX-78GP04G Gundam "Gerbera".