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The XM-01 Den'an Zon is a mobile suit featured in the anime movie Mobile Suit Gundam F91 and the manga Mobile Suit Gundam F91 Silhouette Formula.

Technology & Combat Characteristics[]

Though the RGM-109 Heavygun was the first miniature mobile suit to be mass-produced, it is the XM-01 Den'an Zon which is truly the first representative of a new age of mobile suits in the late Universal Century. Developed and produced by the Crossbone Vanguard, the Den'an Zon is lighter and had greater performance than any Federation mobile suits produced in U.C. 0117, the year the Den'an Zon was first produced, or in U.C. 0123 when the war between the Federation and the Crossbone Vanguard began. The Den'an Zon also has new features such as the defensive beam shield and the offensive shot lancer.

Invasion of the Frontier Colonies seems to be taken into consideration when the Den'an Zon was developed as its primary weapon is the shot lancer, which has a combination of close and ranged weapons in the form of machine guns and a pile-driver lance. Although not an advanced weapon, the shot lancer produces far less collateral damage than beam weapons, thus keeping damage inside the colonies to a minimum.

Unlike the shot lancer, the beam shield is truly new technology. While physical shield can be rendered useless by consecutive hits, a beam shield could be maintained as a virtually impenetrable barrier as long as the mobile suit has power. Combined with the Den'an Zon's greater maneuverability, the suit's pilot had a higher survival chance on the battlefield. Despite being an incredible defensive technology, it was not perfect. A well-placed attack could destroy the beam shield emitter, and a beam attack with a high energy concentration, such as an attack from the F91 Gundam F91's VSBRs, could overpower the beam shield.

Armaments[]

  • Dual Beam Gun
Mounted on the left forearm, below the beam shield, the dual beam gun is the only fixed ranged beam weapon used by the Den'an Zon.
  • Beam Shield
A beam shield is mounted on the left forearm. Unlike an I-field generator, which is effective only against beam attacks, the beam shield blocks both beam and projectile weapons. The beam shield generates a plane of energy similar to the blade of a beam saber. This plane is divided into multiple sections, which can be turned on or off as needed to conserve energy, or whenever they're in danger of coming into contact with the mobile suit itself.
  • Beam Saber
The beam saber is a small cylindrical device held in the mobile suit's hands when operated and is powered by a rechargeable energy capacitor. The beam saber is capable of cutting through any material that has not been treated with anti-beam coating.
  • Shot Lancer
A distinctive close combat weapon developed by the Crossbone Vanguard, the Shot Lancer is designed for combat in and around space colonies, where beam weapons would run the risk of triggering catastrophic reactor explosions in enemy mobile suits. Instead, the shot lancer uses electromagnetic acceleration to drive its tip through the enemy's armor, and the spearhead itself can also be launched like a missile. The shot lancer was first equipped on the Den'an Zon and remained a standard melee weaponry for many Crossbone Vanguard mobile suits.
  • Heavy Machine Gun
To increase the shot lancer's combat effectiveness, the weapon mounts a pair of heavy machine guns.

Special Equipment & Features[]

  • Beam Flag Emitter
The beam flag emitter is a technology that uses similar principals as a beam saber to generate a large beam shaped into a specific symbol. It is used to act as a battlefield standard, often designating which units were commanders.
  • Optical Visors
The Den'an Zon can be equipped with a pair of optical visors that are fitted over its standard "goggle"-type optics. So far, these have only been seen on units in the Crossbone Vanguard's Dark Tiger Squadron.

History[]

The XM-01 Den'an Zon was first developed by the Crossbone Vanguard in U.C. 0117. From that point on, it would serve as the basis for several future Crossbone Vanguard mobile suit designs as well as serving as the basic grunt mobile suit of the Crossbone Vanguard's military forces.

In U.C. 0122, the Den'an Zon makes its first appearance when it tried to ambush Earth Federation Forces's Anti-EF Extermination Unit's space shuttle at a spaceport that contains F90 Gundam F90 Unit 1. The unit almost succeeded, but was foiled when a RGM-89R Jegan A-Type engaged it to some buy time for the shuttle to launch.[1] Later, a team of 3 disguised Den'an Zons belonging to Charles Rochester's Oldsmobile Army destroyed several Earth Federation Forces mobile suits while also heavily damaging the F90V Gundam F90 VSBR Type.[2] Despite the appearance of Den'an Zon during the war, the EFF didn't officially acknowledge its appearance, instead they keep it classified until much later.

On February 18, U.C. 0123, several Anaheim Electronics test pilots saw a Den'an Zon from the Dark Tiger Squadron lurking around a meteor in Side 3's Zebra Zone. The test pilot, Kevin Forrest, who was piloting an RGM-111 Hardygun at the time, mistook the Den'an Zon for a type of Zaku mobile suit because of the sensor visor it was equipped with. The Den'an Zon was driven off by Tokio Randall and his RXF-91 Silhouette Gundam. The pilot of the Den'an Zon, Morris O'Barry, returned to his mothership and reported the incident. His commander decided that it was the Dark Tiger Squadron's duty to destroy those that saw the Den'an Zon before they could go back and report it to their superiors. The attack force included at least one Den'an Zon piloted by O'Barry.[3]

On February 22, U.C. 0123, O'Barry's Den'an Zon escorted Shelf Sheffield and his XM-05B Berga Balus for an information exchange with Federation officer and RX-99 Neo Gundam Unit 1 pilot Baz Galemson. However, Galemson double crossed the Dark Tiger Squadron and tried to kill them, only succeeding in killing O'Barry who was outside his Den'an Zon.[4]

Later in U.C. 0123, the Den'an Zon would make its first official appearance and served as the backbone of Crossbone Vanguard's invasion force of Frontier Sides. While the Den'an Zon performed admirably against the outdated EFF mobile suits, it was evenly matched against the EFF's more modern MS such as RGM-109 Heavygun, F71 G-Cannon, and F91 Gundam F91.[5] Despite its well-rounded performance, it is estimated that Den'an Zon's kill ratio was 1 to 1.5 against G Cannon during the Cosmo Babylonia War.[6] The Den'an Zon would continue to serve as the basis Crossbone Vanguard mobile suit development.

After the financial bankruptcy of the Crossbone Vanguard, the Den'an Zon remained in service as part of colony defense forces. The colonies that used the Den'an Zon were likely those that housed wealthy individuals who would have been the aristocracy of Cosmo Babylonia, such as Sheridan Ronah, had the government not gone bankrupt.[7]

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Notes & Trivia[]

  • The alternate white colors of the Den'an Zon is a possible reference to Star Wars' Imperial Stormtroopers.
  • The monoeye visor attachment of Den'an Zon that appeared in F90FF and Silhouette Formula 91 is a nod to MS-06 Zaku II from the One Year War. This was supported by those who encountered it and referred to the MS as "Zaku Type".

References[]

  1. Mobile Suit Gundam F90: Fastest Formula, Vol 6, Pg 036-038.
  2. Mobile Suit Gundam F90: Fastest Formula, Vol 11, Pg 198.
  3. Mobile Suit Gundam Silhouette Formula 91, Vol 1, Chapter 1.
  4. Mobile Suit Gundam Silhouette Formula 91, Vol 1, Chapter 6, Pg 135-139.
  5. Mobile Suit Gundam F91
  6. F90FF Monthly MS, Vol 4, F71-G Cannon Edition, Pg 02
  7. Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam, Vol 6, Chapter 27.

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