GN-XN Eclipse

History
During the War against The Ascent the Earth Sphere Federation began a massive campaign to develop new and more advanced mobile suits to pit against the increasingly powerful mobile suits produced by The Ascent. Schematics were drawn from all potential sources and only a few were put into production. Two of those designs lead to the GN-XN Eclipse.

Design
The Eclipse is a tactical mobile suit capable of rendering itself completely invisible to both the eye and any other means of detection. Because of this it was given only to pilots who had proven themselves by displaying incredible skill in the cockpit of a mobile suit or those in high positions.

The GN-XN Eclipse was developed from two different schematics, one for the elite and one for general and more public use. The elite design was equipped with a full psychoframe body designed to enhance the reaction rate of the machine. To enhance the pilot the mobile suit was equipped with the reverse engineered ZERO System stolen from Wing Zero. The combination of psychoframe and Zero boosted the capabilities of the mobile suit to the level of being able to hold its own against Gundams. This design was the one given to the Shadow Five for use in their shadow operations. The second design was more standard, lacking both the psychoframe and the ZERO System. However many of the features of this design were retained in the first design.

The standard GN-XN Eclipse was equipped with two special GN Swords designed to capatilize on the stealth capability of the mobile suit. These swords were extremely light weight and were excellent in close range combat. Like the traditional GN Swords, the two used by the Eclipse was designed with a storage mode, in which the blade is folded back until needed. However instead of incorperating a GN Rifle into the blade the swords were instead fitted with beam vulcans for suprise attacks to keep the enemy on guard until the pilot could either reactivate the stealth field or get close enough to finish the target off.