MBF-P10 Astray Silver Frame

The MBF-P10 Astray Silver Frame is a Prototype Mobile Suit developed by the Orb Union's Morgenroete, Inc that was recovered by the Oceanic Union's Space Forces following the collapse of Heliopolis. It was later developed/upgraded into the MBF-P10R1 Re-Astray Silver Frame Revision.

Technology and Combat Characteristics
Designed as a Mobile Suit to serve as the testing platform for various systems, the Astray Silver Frame was considered an ambitious, and highly costly, machine to develop...which made the loss of the unit due to transit delays caused by the Earth Alliance's G-Project all the more devastating.

Like other machines developed with data stolen from the G-Units, the Astray Silver Frame was equipped with a pair of Head-mounted "Igelstellung" 75mm multi-barrel CIWS, two Beam Saber's stored in suits "backpack", an Anti-Beam Shield and a Type 71 Beam Rifle. Additionally, the Astray Silver Frame was initially loaded with an incomplete Natural OS that was unable to properly regulate the Silver Frame's proposed alternative to both Laminated and Phase Shift Armour; the "Kagami" (Japanese for Mirror) Variable Reflective Armour.

Once the OS issue had been resolved, the "Kagami" Armour functioned as an effective, but expensive, alternative to Laminated Armour - The Armour was capable of outright deflecting, and in some instances reflecting, incoming beam attacks. However, this left the Silver Frame no more durable when faced with conventional physical weapons used by Alliance MA's or ZAFT MS at the time and it could be overwhelmed by sufficiently powerful Beam attacks.

The suit possessed Data and Drivers relevant for the usage of Striker Packs, though only an early prototype for the Aile Striker (which lacked the Aile's Beam Sabers to boot) was recovered alongside numerous "Blank" Strikers. The machine was easily modular, though, and could be equipped with weapons from other Mobile Suits, such as the M69 "Barrus Kai" Heavy Ion Cannon.

Despite serving well during the 1st Alliance-ZAFT War, the unit wouldn't be kept long afterwards. However, rather than be wholesale retired, it was further developed upon resulting in the upgraded MBF-P10R1 Re-Astray Silver Frame Revision.