GAT-X203 Duke Gundam (Conflicted Hearts)

The GAT-X203 Duke Gundam was one of the Prototype Mobile Suits built by Morgenrote Inc. for the Earth Alliance on the Orb Union's Heliopolis Colony, it was originally designed as the Prototype Command unit for the GAT-X303 Aegis Gundam but was later redeveloped into a Prototype high-speed Assault Command unit, it was piloted by Rau Le Creuset's Protege and Ace pilot: Isao Kofun.

Design Features
This Mobile suit was specifically designed to be used in lightning fast attacks and to command other units. It features a number of features that its fellow G-Weapons do not have, or takes them and uses them in a different fashion. The Duke is made to go extremely fast and make maneuvers that ordinary suits can’t do.

Appearance wise it looks like a cross between the Aegis gundam and the MSN-06S Sinanju from Gundam Unicorn, having the Aegis’s head with orange eyes instead of green and the Sinanju’s body.

Most of the engineers who created, say it would take someone who was either crazy or a near god to be able to pilot it to its full potential. A fact proven when its first test pilot passed out at the controls while piloting it at only 25% of it full speed and then nearly have a seizure when the pilot pushed to 40%.

Trivia

 * A Duke is a monarch ruling over a duchy or a member of the nobility, historically of highest rank below the monarch.
 * The Duke was the prototype of the Aegis, it was originally designed to become the Aegis, however they instead built the Aegis based off it and then used it to create an ambitious new Mobile Suit.