MSS-178DC Freerider Gundam Slut

The MSS-178DC Freerider Gundam Slut (also known as Freerider 03, Freerider Slut, or Gundam Slut) is a heavily customized experimental mobile suit featured in New World Panic Gundam Freerider. It was designed, built, and now piloted by Amber Durange.

Technology & Combat Characteristics
By the third century of the Universal Century, constant use of the Minovsky particle has led to its proliferation across the air supply of the Earth, with a significant 8% chunk dedicated to it and its offshoot mutations and variants. The original Freerider series, five testbed mobile suits meant to help in the development of the Omega (&omega;) Gundam, were designed with a specialized Minovsky Surf System which would use the particles as a stable wavepoint which would allow objects to obtain high speed flight capabilities regardless of aerodynamics. The counterculture group Ride the Wave, in an act of defiance, stole five of these Freeriders and customized them to their own preferences.

The MSS-178DC Freerider Gundam Slut is the third of this series, Freerider 03, taken by Amber Durange to do as she pleased with. Much of the original Freerider's frame and armor has been completely remodeled, with the only components surviving the process being the cockpit unit, vital systems and reactor core arrays, and the Boardrider. It now stands shorter and thinner than the rest of its sister units, with much of its original Gundarium &omega; (omega) alloy either recast into slimmer forms or just outright gone. What armor is still there is extremely light and durable, able to take massive amounts of punishment without so much as a scratch. This is because it is intrinsically imbued with properties such as anti-beam coating and resistance to most physical forces, though due to its recasting into a thinner form it has lost a small percentage of its original strength.

The mainstay of the Freerider series is the Minovsky Surf System, an evolution of the Craft system first innovated three centuries ago, which is used in tandem with a Waverider/Base Jabber-type platform called the M-SURF Boardrider. Vents on the board act to spread out a stream of Minovsky particles along the horizontal plane of the Freerider. By polarizing the closest particles in the atmosphere in the immediate vicinity of the board and creating a constantly-in-flux unstable I-field, the unit can essentially achieve self-sustaining flight by essentially surfing through the air.

By creating a magnetic force around the board, the unit can be propelled by the unstable I-field across vast distances at high speeds. Because of the low amount of Minovsky particles that are permanently part of the atmosphere, the unit isn't trapped vertically or horizontally by the I-field, allowing for smooth three dimensional movement. Because of how the Surf System works, a trail of energized particles is left behind that, at the source behind the board, have similar properties to a high intensity beam saber. For the sake of independent use, the Freerider also has a pair of thrusters on its back for traditional propulsion and air nozzles which act to push it in certain directions within low gravity vacuums such as outer space.

As said, the Freerider Slut has areas of its body exposed, showing the magnetically-coated inner frame system underneath. Overall design changes also include sheaths of Gundarium &omega; attached to the front and back of the head unit, longer reaching skirt armor with more than just the original six moving plates that originally made up the skirt, and much of the suit's original white color replaced with black and dark gold except for the entirety of the legs and the arms up until the shoulder armor. The head unit's faceplate has also been rounded out and spraypainted with the Freerider's given name on the right side.

A design idea of the original Freerider project that made its way to the five testbed units was the Mobile Track System. Rather than a normal cockpit, the pilot would use their whole body as the controls to the Mobile suit. They would be suspended in the middle of an I-field within the chest cavity of the Freerider and would have their movement match the positioning of the mobile suit with 1-to-1 accuracy. The only things that the pilot would be equipped with are a pair of gloves which allow the pilot the same controls they would have in a regular cockpit and a miniaturized version of the Boardrider which is fully operational. Due to the Nanocompact Minovsky reactor, an entire deck of the chest cavity is mostly hollow, allowing room for the Mobile Track System and a series of optional passenger seats on the sides of system array. An added feature of the Panic is a front-and-back opening hatch which would allow a pilot to use their Boardrider to fly into the MT System cockpit.

Trivia

 * The term Freerider can refer to several concepts and real-world ideas:
 * Freeriding is a style of snowboarding or skiing performed on natural, ungroomed terrain, without a set course, goal, or rules in place.
 * The Free-rider problem is a type of market failure seen in social science that occurs when those who benefit from resources, public goods, or services of a communal nature do not pay for them. Free riders are a problem because while not paying for the good, they may continue to access it. Thus, the good may be under-produced, overused or degraded. An example would be a project where one or more members may reduce their contributions or performance if it is thought that others in the group may attempt to free ride.
 * The word Slut is a derogatory term used to refer to women who have "loose sexual morals or are sexually promiscuous". The word can be used interchangeably with words such as tramp, whore, hoe, nympho, and hooker.
 * The term Nympho originates from the Nymph, a Greek spirit who maintains the nature of whatever element it associated with. By contrast, the Greek word νύμφη (nýmphē) primarily means "young woman; bride, young wife".
 * Another creature of Greek mythology related to the Nymph is the Siren, a dangerous sea-faring creature who would lure sailors and their ships with their enchanting song in order to guide them towards the rocky shores of their island to be shipwrecked. Sirens are connected to the Greek word σειρά (seirá), which means rope, or cord.