ZGMF-X24S Chaos Gundam
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This article is about a fictional weapon from the Cosmic Era of the anime Gundam metaseries.
In late CE 73, ZAFT creates a new series of advanced mobile suits to succeed their previous generation of Gundams, which were all lost in the previous war. Since the Treaty of Junius bans the military use of the Neutron Jammer Canceller, these new Gundams use conventional battery power instead. However, technological improvements over the last two years mean that battery efficiency is improved, and Phase Shift armor is less power intensive than it had once been. To further improve endurance, ZAFT also introduces the new Deuterion Beam Energy Transfer System, which allows a properly equipped battleship to remotely recharge a mobile suit's battery.
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[edit] ZGMF-X24S Chaos
One of these new suits is the ZGMF-X24S Chaos, a transformable unit specializing in space combat. In mobile suit mode, the Chaos is armed with a large beam rifle, a pair of beam sabers, and several CIWS guns. In addition, it carries a pair of mobile weapon pods, similar to the TS-MA2mod.00 Moebius Zero's gunbarrels but wirelessly controlled, which each contain a beam gun and 12 missiles. The Chaos can also transform into a close combat mode, in which it could use a multi-phase beam cannon and a set of foot-mounted beam claws. The ZGMF-X24S Chaos uses the operating system Generation Unrestricted Network Drive Assault Module.
The Chaos is initially tested at Armory One by former Proto-Chaos pilot Courtney Hieronimus. However, before ZAFT can bring it into active service, Sting Oakley of the Earth Alliance's 81st Independent Mobile Battalion steals the mobile suit and escapes with it to the battleship Girty Lue, where it is given the new model number RGX-01. The Chaos is later transferred to Earth and operates from the carrier John Paul Jones. The Chaos is heavily damaged by the Freedom piloted by Kira Yamato, but is soon repaired and transferred to the land aircraft carrier Bonaparte. The Chaos then serves as an escort for the GFAS-X1 Destroy for a mission, until it is downed by an elite attacking trio of MVF-M11C Murasames from the assault ship Archangel. Apparently the Chaos featured some sort of last-minute eject system, as it was clearly sliced in half at the cockpit, yet Sting somehow survived.
[edit] XMF-P192P Proto-Chaos
The close combat mode of the Chaos was previously tested with the XMF-P192P Proto-Chaos mobile armor, which could not transform into a mobile suit and mounted two additional mobile weapon pods in the place of arms. This prototype was piloted by Courtney Hieronimus who used it during the Armory One raid to fight against several GAT-SO2R N Dagger N.
A special ZAFT variant of the Chaos is the ZGMF-X56S/δ Chaos Impulse, which is a modified version of the ZGMF-X56S Impulse. Equipped with two shields that can expand into claws, the top, carrying the core fighter, can transform into a mobile armor mode, enabling the Impulse to emulate the function of the Chaos as an aerial and space combat unit.
[edit] Specifications
[edit] ZGMF-X24S (RGX-01) Chaos
Manufacturer: Integrated Design Bureau
User(s): Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty, Earth Alliance
Unit type: prototype transformable close combat mobile suit
First Deployment: 2 October, CE 73
Overall height: 17.43 meters
Weight: 91.61 metric tons
Special equipment: Variable Phase Shift armor, Deuterion Beam Energy Transfer System
Powerplant: Ultracompact energy battery
Armament: MMI-GAU1717 12.5mm multi-barrel CIWS x2, MMI-GAU25A 20mm CIWS x2, MA-M941 "Vajra" beam saber x2, MGX-2235B "Callidus Kai("Kai" is the Japanese Kanji character "改". In English, it means "modified".)
" multi-phase beam cannon x1, EQFU-5X mobile weapon pod (MA-81R beam assault cannon, AGM141 "Firefly" guided missile x12) x2, MA-XM434 beam claw x2, MA-BAR721 high-energy beam rifle x1, MMI-RG30 cruising mobile shield (MMI-GAU2 "Picus" 76mm CIWS x2) x1
Pilot: Courtney Hieronimus, Sting Oakley
[edit] XMF-P192P Proto-Chaos
Manufacturer: Integrated Design Bureau
User: Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty
Unit type: prototype close combat mobile armor
Overall height: unknown
Weight: unknown
Special equipment: Phase Shift armor
Powerplant: Ultracompact energy battery
Armament: MGX-2235B "Callidus Kai" multi-phase beam cannon x1, EQFU-5X mobile weapon pod: (MA-81R beam assault cannon, AGM141 "Firefly" guided missile x12) x4, MA-XM434 beam claw x2
Pilot: Courtney Hieronimus
"Kai" is Japanese Kanji character "改". In English means "Modified".
[edit] Trivia
- Chaos is one of the first Gundam mobile suits to be downed by "grunt" MS, as it was destroyed by three Murasames from the Archangel.
- Chaos's head crest displays the text "Quattro" (which means "four" in Italian), and it is a reference to the Chaos's series number.
- Chaos along with Gaia and Abyss are named for aspects of Greek Mythology.
- Chaos is the state of primordial existence which gave way to the existence of the first gods and as such, Sting appropiately takes a leadership role in the trio and is also the last to die.
- Gaia was born from Chaos and this can be correlated with Sting's protective nature of Stellar as representations of some form of a bond although it is more fraternal in this case.
- Chaos is thought of as having the physical appearance of a formless mass, something which can be said of the suit's Mobile Armor mode to a certain extent due to its highly irregular shape.
- The S in its model code stands for "Second Stage"
