AMX-004 Qubeley (キュベレイ Kyuberei?) is a mobile suit introduced in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam. It is piloted by Haman Karn.
Technology & Combat Characteristics[]
The AMX-004 Qubeley is a next generation mobile suit designed for Newtypes that features numerous technological innovations which allow it to fight on par with other advanced mobile suits that appeared during the Gryps Conflict and the First Neo Zeon War. Developed from the data gathered from the MS-09R4 Schnee Weiss and the AMX-001 Prototype Qubeley, the Qubeley featured four independently movable shoulder binders, two binders per shoulder, to assist in AMBAC (Active Mass Balance Auto Control), granting phenomenal mobility. Though lacking the full range of motion as the arms and legs, these binders bring the Qubeley's total number of movable limbs up to eight. Furthermore, these binders also contain the Qubeley's primary thrusters.
The most notable feature of the Qubeley is that it is the first combat mobile suit to be equipped with a mobile suit-sized psycommu system, which is used to control the new remote controlled weaponry known as "Funnels". The Prototype Qubeley featured a similar system, but its psycommu had not been fully miniaturized and the Funnels were stored in its main body, leaving it with a large body that stood 25 meters tall. The system aboard the Qubeley had been perfected and its ten Funnels were stored in a container located in its rear armor, allowing for quicker deployment and recall. The Qubeley lacks the mega particle cannons of the prototype version, replacing them with a pair of dual-purpose beam guns that can double as beam sabers for close combat. Lastly, the Qubeley is one of the first Zeon mobile suits to use a dual-type optical sensor instead of the traditional mono-eye.
Armaments[]
- Beam Gun/Saber
- Stored in the Qubeley's forearms is a set of dual purpose beam gun/beam sabers. When used as a beam gun, the weapons remain mounted in the forearms. When used as a beam saber, the weapons are hand-carried.
- Funnel
- The Qubeley stores 10 funnels in a funnel container located in its movable rear armor. These funnels are technological descendants of the Elmeth's remote-controlled bits. The funnels are smaller than the bits as they lack their own power generators, instead they are powered using energy capacitors. This allows the funnels to be small enough so that a large number of them can be stored on a mobile suit, but they have to return to the mobile suit for recharging after operating for a certain amount of time.
- Large Beam Saber[1]
- Stored in the Qubeley's left and right shoulder binders, the pair of large beam sabers emit a longer and more powerful beam blade than a normal beam saber. Additionally, it has a longer hilt that can be held in both hands.[1]
Special Equipment & Features[]
- Psycommu System
- During the One Year War, the researchers of the Flanagan Institute discover that Newtypes emit powerful thoughtwaves - similar to regular brainwaves, but not electrical in nature - which they call psycowaves. The Flanagan Institute goes on to develop a mind-machine interface called the psycommu (psycho-communicator) system, which receives these thoughtwaves and translates them into computer commands. Using this interface a Newtype pilot can direct remote weapons, and operate huge mobile armors, by thought alone. The Principality forces based at the asteroid Axis succeed in miniaturizing the psycommu system, so that it can be installed in regular-sized mobile suits like the AMX-004 Qubeley.
History[]
The AMX-004 Qubeley served as the personal machine of Axis leader Haman Karn. The Qubeley was fielded near the end of Gryps War, fighting against Quattro Bajeena and his MSN-00100 Hyaku Shiki. Despite Quattro being one of the best mobile suit pilots and his Hyaku Shiki being one of the most advanced mobile suits fielded by the AEUG during the Gryps Conflict, they were simply outmatched by Haman and her Qubeley.[2]
The Qubeley continued to serve as Haman's personal mobile suit throughout the First Neo Zeon War. An improved variant known as the AMX-004 Qubeley Mk-II was also developed and two units were built. Near the end of the war, Haman and her Qubeley dueled against Judau Ashta and his MSZ-010S Enhanced ZZ Gundam. The fight ended in a draw with both machines disabling each other, but instead of surrendering, Haman crashed the Qubeley into an asteroid fragment, destroying both the mobile suit and herself.[3]
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Anime[]
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam[]
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Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ[]
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Illustrations & Artwork[]
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Notes & Trivia[]
- The name "Qubeley" is likely derived from the Anatolian goddess "Cybele" (pronounced roughly like Kübele). Cybele embodies the fertile Earth, a goddess of caverns and mountains, walls and fortresses, nature, wild animals (especially lions and bees). Phrygian Cybele is often identified with the Hittite-Hurrian goddess Hebat, though this latter deity might have been the origin of only Anatolian Kubaba. The Greeks frequently conflated the two names, the Anatolian "Kubaba" and the Phrygian "Kybele", to refer to the Phrygian deity.
- Qubeley has the words "2LMES" engraved on its back near the left shoulder binder, which can be seen in its Gunpla incarnations. This possibly denotes it being the successor of the MAN-08 Elmeth. (L-Mes in Japanese phonics will result in Eru-mesu, a pun to Elmes / Elmeth.)
- In the anime, the Qubeley is sometimes portrayed as having two mono-eyes while other times it is portrayed as having the traditional single mono-eye.
- As the Large Beam Saber is used only once in the anime and movie, it is often not listed in the mobile suit's specifications. Additionally, it is rarely reproduced in related products or games, but it is included with the "Robot Damashii" and "HCM-Pro" action figures.[1]
- In Gundam Battle Assault 2, Qubeley can only be played by using a Gameshark device.
- The Qubeley's ZZ incarnation appears in the Gundam Vs. series initially at a cost of 3000 but was later downgraded to 2500 to match the cost of the MSZ-010 ΖΖ Gundam. Aside from its beam gun and funnels, Haman can use her Newtype powers to unleash an unblockable stun field as well as summon Mashymre Cello's AMX-103 Hamma Hamma and Chara Soon's AMX-104 R-Jarja for support.
- In Around Thirty Office Worker Haman-sama, the Qubeley is a popular plush brand known as "Mochikyube" that is adored by Haman, who has multiple dolls and pajamas. She would later introduce the more recent releases to Elpeo Ple and Ple Two.
- According to Project File: Z Gundam, the Qubeley is supposed to have one large beam rifle as optional armament, but it has never been used.
- The Qubeley's design later inspired the IB-01: CEL 240 from Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon.
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References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Profile on Japanese Wikipedia, which also noted that the Large Beam Saber was used in the final episode of the anime and in the final battle with the Hyaku Shiki in the third Zeta Gundam movie
- ↑ Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam Episode 50, Riders in the Skies
- ↑ Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ Episode 47, Warrior, Once More...
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