ZGMF-X23S Saviour 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-X23S Saviour
One of these new suits is the ZGMF-X23S Saviour, a transformable unit specializing in aerial combat. The Saviour is armed with a large beam rifle, a pair of beam sabers stored in its shoulder, and CIWS guns, as well as a pair of back-mounted pods containing beam and plasma beam cannons. These pods can fold under the Saviour's arms to fire in mobile suit mode, and also constitute its primary armament when it transforms into a high-speed airplane-like flight mode. The ZGMF-X23S Saviour uses the operating system Generation Unrestricted Network Drive Assault Module.
The Saviour is produced separately from the other 4 new Gundams, and after the fall of Junius Seven it is assigned by Chairman Gilbert Durandal to Athrun Zala, newly reinstated to ZAFT and appointed by Durandal to the elite FAITH detachment. Athrun then flies the Saviour Gundam back to Earth and joins the crew of the battleship Minerva. During the attack on the Lohengrin Gate in the Gulnahan Ravine near Suez, he disables the mobile armor YMAG-X7F Gells-Ghe. He manages to tie up ZGMF-X24S Chaos pilot Sting Oakley in most engagements by providing a difficult to hit target. He also uses his suit's high mobility combat abilities to disable many of ORB's MVF-M11C Murasame. Saviour is later damaged beyond repair by Kira Yamato's ZGMF-X10A Freedom in a naval battle off the coast of Crete.
[edit] ZGMF-YX21R (RGX-04) Proto Saviour
The Saviour was built using the ZGMF-YX21R Proto-Saviour as its basis. The Proto-Saviour, unlike ZAFT's other new mobile suits, was designed and constructed on Earth. Aside from having a black and white color scheme instead of red, the Proto-Saviour is visually indistinguishable from the Saviour, and is identical in armament. Shortly after the "Break the World" terrorist attack, the Proto-Saviour is stolen by EA forces under the command of Logos operative Matisse, refitted with the Mirage Colloid Virus Spreader and the refitted ZGMF-X11A Regenerate backpack (albeit redesignated as "+11"), and redesignated with the model number RGX-04. Since the +11 backpack contain Regenerate's nuclear reactor and Neutron Jammer Canceller, it gave the Proto Saviour an almost unlimited operational time. It makes its combat debut by attacking a shuttle carrying EA fugitive Edward Harrelson and escorted by TS-MA4F Exass pilot Morgan Chevalier and ZGMF-1001 ZAKU Phantom pilot Riika Sheder, presumably to sow further distrust between the EA and PLANT. Its is driven off by Terminal pilot Jean Carry in his MBF-M1 Astray, which is equipped with a Verne 35A/MPFM Multipurpose Flight Module.
[edit] Specifications
[edit] ZGMF-X23S Saviour
Manufacturer: Integrated Design Bureau
User: Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty
Unit type: prototype attack use transformable mobile suit
Overall height: 18.61 meters (mobile suit mode)
Weight: 77.13 metric tons
Special equipment: Variable Phase Shift armor, Deuterion Beam Energy Transfer System
Powerplant: Ultracompact energy battery
Armament: MMI-GAU25A 20 mm multi-barrel CIWS x2, M106 "Amfortas" plasma beam cannon x2, MA-7B "Super Fortis" beam cannon x2, MMI-GAU2 "Picus" 76 mm machinegun x2, MA-M941 "Vajra" beam saber x2, MA-BAR70 high-energy beam rifle x1, MMI-RD11 aerodynamic shield x1
Pilot: Athrun Zala
[edit] ZGMF-YX21R (RGX-04) Proto Saviour
Manufacturer: Integrated Design Bureau
User: Earth Alliance
Unit type: prototype attack use transformable mobile suit
Overall height: 18.61 meters (mobile suit mode)
Weight: 77.13 metric tons
Special equipment: Variable Phase Shift armor, Deuterion Beam Energy Transfer System, Mirage Colloid Virus Spreader
Powerplant: Ultracompact energy battery
Armament: MMI-GAU25A 20 mm multi-barrel CIWS x2, M106 "Amfortas" plasma beam cannon x2, MA-7B "Super Fortis" beam cannon x2, MMI-GAU2 "Picus" 76 mm machinegun x2, MA-M941 "Vajra" beam saber x2, MA-BAR70 high-energy beam rifle x1, MMI-RD11 aerodynamic shield x1
Optional Armaments: "+11" Weapons Unit
Pilot: Ile De Llorar
[edit] ZGMF-YX21R (RGX-04) Proto Saviour "+11"
Manufacturer: Integrated Design Bureau
User: Earth Alliance
Unit type: prototype attack use transformable mobile suit
Overall height: unknown
Weight: unknown
Special equipment: Variable Phase Shift armor, Deuterion Beam Energy Transfer System, Mirage Colloid Virus Spreader, "+11" weapons backpack
Powerplant: Ultracompact nuclear fission reactor, power output unknown
Armament: MMI-GAU25A 20 mm multi-barrel CIWS x2, M106 "Amfortas" plasma beam cannon x2, MA-7B "Super Fortis" beam cannon x2, MMI-GAU2 "Picus" 76 mm machinegun x2, MA-M941 "Vajra" beam saber x2, MA-BAR70 high-energy beam rifle x1, MMI-RD11 aerodynamic shield x1, 4x MA-X200 beam sword ("+11")
Optional Armaments: "+11" Weapons Unit
Pilot: Ile De Llorar
[edit] Trivia
- Saviour's head crest displays the text "X23S TRE", which means "Three" in Italian and is a reference to the Saviour's series number.
- The name Saviour and the mobile suit's eventual fate may be a poke at G-Saviour.
- The S in its model code stands for "Second Stage"
