The TSX-MA717/ZD Pergrande is a Mobile Armor in the Cosmic Era timeline. It appeared in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray B.
Technology & Combat Characteristics
The only weapon system installed on the Pergrande is the DRAGOON system, which however is a unique variant of the system used in other Mobile Suits. Besides this weapon system, the MA also features Phase Shift armor for protection against shell firing weapons and a nuclear reactor for extended operation use. To work under the influence of Neutron Jammers, the Pergrande is also equipped with a Neutron Jammer Canceller.
The whole unit is essentially made up of three modules. One is the initial frame of the armor, the next are the cockpit areas for the three pilots (which can all be detached, but upon detaching communication is lost with one another), and finally the 6 detachable DRAGOON units.
Armaments
- Originally, the DRAGOON sytem was designed to allow a single pilot to coordinate multiple attacks from numerous locations. However unlike the true DRAGOON system and Gunbarrel system, which required one with heightened spatial awareness (regardless of being a Coordinator or Natural), the modified DRAGOON system used on the Pergrande utilizes three pilots, with the system tapping into each of the pilots brainwaves and extracting the X, Y, and Z coordinates necessary to utilize the pods. The MA is equipped with a total of three DRAGOON units, each heavily armed with two large beam cannons, a single beam cannon, and two beam guns.
History
The Pergrande was a Prototype MA created by the Azrael Financial Group (National Industrial Alliance) for the Earth Alliance. In Latin, the Pergrande means "huge", and indeed, this mobile armor was very big and powerful. On its test run however, the MA was destroyed by Gai Murakumo using his Blue Frame Second L's Positron Blaster Cannon when he brought his suit into the range of the Pergrande's own N-Jammer Canceller.
In CE 74, the Pergrande was put into limited mass production, with several units being used to guard the space station of Logos member Matis Adukurf. The armors however were destroyed by the combined efforts of the Serpent Tail and Canard Pars.
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