The MSN-01 Kikeroga is a prototype mobile suit developed by the Principality of Zeon during the One Year War.
Technology & Combat Characteristics[]
The Kikeroga is a prototype Newtype-use mobile suit that shares many of the aspects with the MSN-01 Psycomu Test High Mobility Type Zaku II with whom it shares a model number with. Its main weapons are finger-mounted mega particle guns, with the forearms being wire-guided. The Kikeroga also addresses a major fault of the Psycommu Zaku series; lack of weapons. The Kikeroga solves this problem by mounting a pair of mega particle guns on its shoulders.
Armaments[]
- Wired 5-barrel Mega Particle Gun
- The forearms of the Kikeroga can be detached from the main body and remotely maneuvered with micro thrusters at built into their base. The forearms are guided by thick wires that communicate the Newtype pilot's thoughts via the psycommu system. Each of the Kikeroga's forearms are in essence powerful mega particle guns with five barrels each built into the fingers. The five barrels on both arms are fire-linked, so each time one of the arm weapons fire a total of five beams are emitted, ten if both mega particle guns fire. This large amount of beams, combined with the remote weapons' ability to create all-range attacks, creates a powerful spread of beams that is nearly impossible to avoid and can destroy multiple machines.
- Mega Particle Gun
- There are two fire-linked mega particle guns mounted on the shoulders of the mobile suit.
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.
History[]
The MSN-01 Kikeroga was developed during the later stages of the One Year War as a prototype of the MSN-02 Zeong. However, development was cancelled while the Kikeroga was in the prototype stage as it was deemed impossible to fit some many equipment into its body.
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Notes & Trivia[]
- The Kikeroga has never appeared in any animated works. According to a memo written by Yoshiyuki Tomino, it was to originally appear in episode 42 of the Mobile Suit Gundam TV series, piloted by Char Aznable as the successor to his Gelgoog and the predecessor to his Zeong. However, the premature cancellation of the series and subsequent reduction in episode count meant that content such as the Kikeroga was removed.
- While most of the cut MS designs can be found in materials such as Mobile Suit Variation and MS-X, the Kikeroga design was largely unused until it reappeared in video games such as Twilight of Zeon and SD Gundam G-Generation F.
- The Kikeroga shares the same model number with the MSN-01 Psycommu Test High Mobility Type Zaku that first appeared in Mobile Suit Variations.
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