EMS-10X "Zudah"

Description
This mobile suit is only seen in 0095: Ghosts of Zeon. A rebuilt version of a prototype Zeon mobile suit, with lighter titanium alloy armor, an upgraded rocket motor and enhanced safety features. The original EMS-4 and EMS-10 suffered from poorly designed electronics which made it possible to rip the Zudah apart from the forces of acceleration. While this retrofit has resolved the issue, the Zudah is still blisteringly fast for a mobile suit.

Its strength lies on the very fast spin-up time on the Zudah's large rocket engine, which reaches maximum speed much faster than even current designs. The Gees are very punishing on the pilot, and the few veniers make steering difficult, but a properly piloted Zudah is almost impossible to hit with mobile suit weapons.

Beam Hawk
Copied off of Neo-Zeonic weapons, this update to the Zudah's primary melee weapon has similar penetrative power to a beam saber,

75mm Tri-Barrel Cannon
A weapon that traces its roots to the One-Year War, this weapon was added when the Zudah was found to have no room for vulcans. It is effective against mobile suit at close range.

Leg Spikes
A large pair of hardened spikes on the legs allow for highly damaging physical attacks.

Shield
A shield is mounted to the left shoulder which can pivot back for clearance during flight.

Optional Weapons
The Zudah does not have much spare weight capacity for extra weapons, but is compatible with most hand-carried weaponry.

Combat Effectiveness
The Zudah has a somewhat legendary reputation in the mythos of Zeon, as a suit with immense, unimagineable power that the Federation had to match for. In reality, it was a more or less standard mobile suit that happened to use a very powerful engine. Its inferior armor and skeleton was not capable of supporting the forces of acceleration at full speed, contributing to a disastrous testing cycle.

But the Zudah saw stalwart use at the end of the war with pilots that were aware of its limitations. Though it was on a similar level of overall performance to Federation RGM-79Cs, its skilled pilots and effective engine created significant success. What the rebuilt model can offer has yet to be seen.

Operational History

 * 0079 - EMS-10s used by Zeon at the end of the One-Year War, a rebuilt EMS-04.