Sandrock is the Gundam to Quatre Raberba Winner in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing.
Technology & Combat Characteristics
Gundam Sandrock
Professor H's Gundam, it boasts the highest power output and strongest armor of the five original Gundams. Intended for desert combat, its primary weapons are a pair of heat shotels, normally stored on the back, which it wields with great skill. It can also combine its shield, backpack, and shotels into the cross crusher, a powerful claw weapon that can crush the thickest armor in a single attack.
Gundam Sandrock Kai
When the Gundam Pilots went to space to battle the rebels known as White Fang, Quatre found that his Sandrock wasn't suited to fight at its fullest. Thus, Gundam ally Howard upgraded the Sandrock to enable it to function in space as well as it did on Earth. The biggest change to Sandrock Kai is the addition of a large, thruster-laden backpack, as well as a number of other thrusters added all over its body for space mobility. Unfortunately, this modification removes the cross crusher weapon, of which the original backpack was an integral part. The upgrade included the addition of a beam submachinegun, giving Sandrock better ranged combat abilities. At one point, Heero installs the ZERO System in Sandrock Kai in order to allow Quatre to counter Dorothy Catalonia's use of the system to coordinate White Fang's mobile doll forces, but after that battle Quatre removes the system, feeling it is too dangerous for him to use.
Armaments
Shield Flasher
Heat Shotel
Vulcan guns
Machine Cannon
Missile
Shield
Cross Crusher
Diffusing Cloak
Beam Sub-Machinegun
System Features
ALICE System
The ALICE System's intervention during episode 17
This is an AI-based learning system, and is most likely a nod to the ZZ Gundam side-story, Gundam Sentinel. ALICE, a fully sentient AI, is an acronym for Advanced Logistics Inconsequence Cognizing Equipment. This also explains Gundam Sandrock's ability to self-destruct without a pilot in episode 17.
ZERO System
In episode 44, Heero Yuy installed the ZERO System (taken from his Wing Zero) into Sandrock. Initially, Quatre was hesitant to use it (as it brought back memories of him nearly killing Trowa in Wing Zero), but during battle with Dorothy Catalonia's ZERO System-enhanced Virgo IIs, he activated the ZERO System and and was able to turn the tide of the battle in the Gundam Team's favor.
Self-Destruct System
History
When the five scientists who designed the XXXG-00W0 Wing Gundam Zero in AC 180 went their separate ways, each of them took copies of the plans for their original Gundam design. Instructor H, who went into hiding in the L4 colonies, then went on to design and build his own Gundam based on their original plans. His result was the XXXG-01SR Gundam Sandrock, built specifically for pilot Quatre Raberba Winner. Quatre had no intention of aiding in Operation Meteor's colony drop operation, and - against his pacifist father's wishes - took his Sandrock to Earth to meet up with the Maganac Corps in their direct fight against OZ and the oppressive Earth Alliance.
Of the five Gundams launched in the "new" Operation Meteor, "Gundam 04" (as the Sandrock was code-named by OZ) was the most heavily armored, further lending to its durability despite its almost indestructible gundanium alloy construction. The Sandrock was also the strongest - better built to handle its two very large and heavy "heat shotels," which worked as both an excellent pair of melee weapons and as throwing weapons. The heat shortels could also be coupled with the Sandrock's shield to form a "cross-crusher," a large pincer-like weapon capable of snapping mobile suits in two. Topped off by a pair of head vulcan guns and two large missiles, the Gundam Sandrock was nothing but tough through-and-through.
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