ZGMF-X10A Freedom Gundam
General and Technical Data
Model number: ZGMF-X10A
Code name: Freedom Gundam
Unit type: prototype assault mobile suit
Manufacturer: ZAFT (Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty)
Operator: Orb Union/Three Ships Alliance
First deployment: 5 May C.E. 71
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Dimensions: head height 18.03 meters
Weight: max gross weight 71.5 metric tons
Construction: unknown
Powerplant: ultracompact nuclear fission reactor, power output
rated at 8826 kW
Equipment and design features: sensors, range unknown; Phase Shift
(PS) armor; Neutron Jammer Canceler
Fixed armaments: 2 x MA-M01 "Lacerta" beam saber, stored on hips,
hand-carried in use; 2 x MMI-GAU2 "Picus" 76mm CIWS, fire-linked,
mounted on head; 2 x M100 "Balaena" plasma beam cannon, stored in
wings, mounted over shoulders in use in HiMAT mode; 2 x MMI-M15
"Xiphias" rail cannon, folded underneath hips, spread out in use in
HiMAT (High Mobility Aerial Tactics) mode, shield, mounted on left
arm
Optional fixed armaments (docked with METEOR): 2 x 120cm
high-energy beam cannon, 2 x 93.7cm high-energy beam cannon, 2 x
MA-X200 beam sword , 77 x 60cm "Erinaceus" anti-ship missile
launchers (22 per pod, 12 per arm unit, 9 on tail fin)
Optional hand armaments: MA-M20 "Lupus" beam rifle, power rating
unknown
Technical and Historical Notes
After successfully stealing four of the Earth Alliance's prototype
Gundam mobile suits, ZAFT reverse engineers them and incorporates
new technologies such as Phase Shift armor and beam sabers into
their own mobile suits. With these new technologies, ZAFT also
builds several Gundams of their own under the direction of leader
Patrick Zala. Unlike previous Gundam designs, these new units
feature a dangerous new technology: the N-Jammer Canceler. ZAFT
originally develops the N-Jammer to prevent the Alliance from using
nuclear weapons, but this also means that mobile suits have to be
powered by short life energy batteries. By creating the N-Jammer
Canceler, a mobile suit can use a nuclear fission reactor and
function for a nearly unlimited amount of time even with Phase
Shift armor activated. Unfortunately, the N-Jammer Canceler
technology proves to be a Pandora's Box that falls into the wrong
hands.
The ZGMF-X10A Freedom Gundam is one of the new Gundam designs built
by ZAFT. The Freedom Gundam is equipped with a wide variety of
powerful weapons for use in its HiMAT (High Mobility Aerial
Tactics) mode. One of these weapons is the twin "Balaena" plasma
beam cannons, which are stored in the wings and mounted over the
shoulders during use. The Freedom Gundam's other main armament
consists of twin hip-mounted "Xiphias" rail cannons. Other standard
armaments include head vulcans, twin beam sabers and a beam rifle.
The Freedom Gundam is also capable of using something far more
powerful: the METEOR support system. This mobile weapons platform
is designed specifically for use by the Freedom Gundam and
ZGMF-X09A Justice Gundam and is stored aboard the support ship
Eternal. By using the METEOR, the Freedom Gundam can deliver a
blitzkrieg attack utilizing various cannons, missile launchers and
two long beam swords.
The Freedom Gundam is first used in late C.E. 71 when Kira Yamato
steals it with the help of Lacus Clyne. Kira uses his new suit to
travel to Earth and join the battle between ZAFT and the Alliance
at Alaska. Following the battle, Kira rejoins his comrades on the
Archangel and travels to Orb after Murrue Ramius decides to defect
from the Alliance. There, Kira fights to protect Orb from the
Alliance and is later joined by his old friend and former enemy
Athrun Zala piloting his new ZGMF-X09A Justice Gundam. Following
the defeat of Orb, Kira returns to space and is joined by Lacus
Clyne and her stolen support ship Eternal, which provides Kira with
his METEOR support system. Along with Athrun, Kira uses his METEOR
to save the PLANTs from destruction by nuclear missiles. At the
war's end, the Freedom Gundam is heavily damaged in a battle
against Rau Le Creuset's ZGMF-X13A Providence Gundam. After the
war, the Freedom Gundam is secretly repaired and hidden at Orb. In
late C.E. 73, the Freedom Gundam is reactivated by Kira to fight
off a squad of UMF/SS0-3 ASH mobile suits used by a group of
special ops Coordinators sent to assassinate Lacus. After
interfering in several battles between ZAFT and the Alliance, the
PLANT Supreme Council declares the Archangel and Freedom Gundam as
menaces which must be destroyed. ZAFT then initiates "Operation
Angel Down", and during that battle the Freedom Gundam is destroyed
by Shinn Asuka's ZGMF-X56S/α Force Impulse Gundam.
Miscellaneous Information
Pilot: Kira Yamato
Cockpit
Docked with METEOR weapons support system
M100 "Balaena" plasma beam cannons & MMI-M15 "Xiphias" rail
cannons deployed
MA-M01 "Lacerta" beam saber
MA-M20 "Lupus" beam rifle
MMI-M15 "Xiphias" rail cannon
shield
