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Gundam: Ascend to the Stars

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Port Algec

Mess Hall

@Phoenix347@Crosswire@veenknight343

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As he plunged his silver fork to the center of his sliver of pork, Roose would take his other hand to steadily cut out the charred crust with its paired knife. The slices were precise and thin; it almost resembled the skill of a surgeon but definitely the frugality of a butcher. Besides that, he wasn't going to let burns ruin this perfect meal: both on his steak and on his lack of piloting experience.

"Well, Zakus practically pilot themselves." he would state diminutively after Skye's toddler comment, looking away and stuffing his mouth with cube cuts of meat afterwards. The kill count was impressive though, but not because of the amount itself. "You keep track, Carius Skye? No offence meant but I try not to remember the deaths of our enemies. It's taxing on the mind, specially as you look them in the eye in their final moments." The last morsel of his steak would soon enter the Roc's mouth, savouring it in its finality.

As Centurion Tyr continued the informal briefing, Roose would simply nod along but the approaching figure could not be ignored. There he was in the flesh: The Lion. No man of Armen had not heard of the bravery displayed by the soldier-prince. Was it likely the efforts of propaganda that this was the case? Sure. Was Roose caught up in the hype? Most definitely.

"Your grace! We meet again! I mean, I personally didn't meet you but we served in the same front before in Armen." Roose would state with excitement in his voice, standing up to greet his fellow Carius. However, it occurred to him that such a talent wasn't the sole ace or leader on the team. "... Centurion, it seems you have quite the squadron assembled to serve under you." he would say with less enthusiasm as he turned to gaze straight into Tyr's eyes. Only one thought came to his inquisitive mind, which pecked at the undecided confidence he had in his Centurion.

The unparalleled bravado of Hesse, the unmatched intellect of Skye, and the unbridled pursuit of Tadmoore were under a boy's beck and call. Roose would look away, hopefully not arousing suspicion. There has to be a good reason why this young officer, who he did not know until about an hour ago, was their superior. Heck, there definitely was a ton of bad reasons why he felt this way: Anxiety, cold feet, maybe worms were actually in his steak cut that could manipulate someone's emotional state like in those old pulp comics they found in archaeological digs? Whatever the case was, he had to excuse himself. "Sorry to dine and dash, fellas and lady. Got to do some pre-launch prep, specifically dropping off my jacket to facilities since I got red on me." After a quick salute, Roose was out of there.

Upon exit he saw that the jeep was still there, blood and all.

Gundam: Ascend to the Stars

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Port Algec

Mess Hall

@Phoenix347@Crosswire

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As Roose emerged from the kitchen, he had a wide smile on his face and his left thumb held high, thanking the kitchen staff for their kind consideration as he exited. "Gonna be ready in ten minutes guys!" he would yell across to Tyr and Skye before walking towards them. As he returned to to the table, he had just caught the tail end of Centurion Tyr talking about the Gols and how the soldiers fighting them got better food. His mood shifted, with his smile turning to a sour expression to signify this.

"Hardly any better, in my opinion. Was stuck north for the past couple of years guarding the sticks and all the non-canned stuff were fish or blubber. I mean, I can't track down pigs or bears in freezing waters!.. Believe me, I tried." After a quick dietary intake advisory, the Centurion then moved on to asking both of his subordinates about their piloting experiences. Of course, every soldier in the Imperial Army knew about Everin Skye so Roose had taken the initiative to upsell himself to his commanding officer, lest he be thought of to be a burden.

"I'm gonna tell it to you straight, sir. Officially, this will be my third sortie barring the training sims but those are pretty much glorified arcade machines. Also, all three of those sorties were routine checkups to make sure the Zaku's boosters were calibrated correctly. But hey, there's a reason why I'm on this team." he would state, before taking off one of his gloves. The brand on his hand retained its charcoal umber though Roose doubted anyone this side of the peninsula knew what it meant. He would place it on the table, pointing to it with his other hand as he continued to speak. "This is a mark to signify that I was from the Tadamur tribe, whom I fought for from my childhood years until civilization came. After His Imperial Majesty incorporated Anatolia under his rightful domain, I operated as an auxiliary that hunted down whatever was asked for by the Armen garrison, and I never once failed to deliver. Traffickers hiding in the shifting sands, smugglers operating in the cold desert night, runaways hoping to find an oasis in the mirage..."

Just then, a cook from the kitchen had arrived at their table with three meals. One of them was the well-done steak Skye had asked for, another one was also a well-done steak but with bits of rosemary spread on top. The third one was also a well-done steak. "And of course the most in demand bounty, that of nature's. Hope you don't mind, we really can't risk worms so I asked them to just really cook it all until charred. Anyway, where was- Oh yeah. Space might not have sand dunes to stalk prey from but I bet you we'll trap fools just the same."

Roose would then reach out for one of the steaks not covered in rosemary. He hated the herb.

The Digital Expanse {Digimon x Megaman RP}

It was finally here. After weeks of hyping it up to his measly subscriber base, the promised Omniphone had arrived and his review recording was well underway. While his microphone and camera setup wasn't the best, his overtly optimistic expectations assured him that this video will be a smash hit and pay dividends. Who knows, maybe he'll even get sponsored by those mobile gacha games that other influencers plaster all over their ad breaks. One thing's for sure though: this was going to change everything.

However, just as Luso was about to end the review, a call from an unknown number had flashed on his phone screen. Not wanting to edit out more raw footage than he needed to, he was quick to pick up the call only to be met with nothing on the other end... Followed by a litany of irregular heartbeats and internal ringing. Reasoning this to merely be a panic attack, the shaken teen tried to continue working away to distract himself. As his draws of breath became shorter, he figured it was exhaustion on top of the exciting day he just had.

"Yeah, that's it." he reassured himself.

Quickly saving his work, Luso stepped away from his computer desk and crashed into his nearby bed face first. He was gonna sleep it off and hope that everything would be back to normal when he wakes up.

Justice League Unlimited: AMONG US

Washington DC Airspace

♫

The slow and leisurely flight of the Captain would soon come to an abrupt end, with radio chatter being picked up from the League's headquarters being relayed to him via military satellites unto his private communicator. However, immediately after hearing Wonder Woman's call to arms, a second transmission had interjected itself in to the receiver. "Callsign Horizon, gonna need you to hang back from that mission. The engineers need to do thorough scans of your equipment before further sortie." Who else could it have been except for Doctor Megala, though the usage of code talking felt like overkill. After all, who could have possibly hacked a secured military line?

"Callsign Continuum, my equipment's fine. Proceeding ahead with sortie." replied Captain Atom. After all, he was a soldier first and foremost, not some sort of lab rat that only ran pressure gauge tests. "Now listen here, Horizon! You were just under abyssal conditions and we cannot guarant-" Static soon scrambled the feed as the Captain altered the electromagnetic field around him to block out radio waves. It sure beats having to audibly create your own static noise or having to find a tunnel to go through, he had thought. With the distractions dealt with, he soon used that burst of speed they had just discovered he was capable of in order to reach the League Headquarters in no time flat.

Landing on the League's hangar bay, Captain Atom noticed that some of his fellow League members had already assembled for the mission. While he wasn't on a first name basis with anyone on the team, the Captain did want to make a good professional impression. "Salutations, fellow Leaguers!" he would state in a authoritative tone towards the group, followed by a formal military salute then at-ease pose with his hands behind his back. His face wouldn't show it but he was quite eager to get back out there on the field.

Gundam: Ascend to the Stars

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Port Algec

Mess Hall

@Phoenix347@Crosswire

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Roose's eyes widened and his salutatory stoic smile shrunk to a smirk as his superior officer called his thinly-veiled excuse of a bluff. Though he was just about to try and weasel his way out of his situation, his fellow soldier had started to speak. Clearly the situation she had found herself in was of greater severity than what Roose had done and so he stayed to listen, crossing his arms while nodding along as she recounted the events of what had just happened. Halfway through the story, Roose realized who she was and who she spoke of, though the only words he could let out was to comment under his breath with "I don't know about unavoidable", in reference to narrowly avoiding the stretcher on the way here. After Skye's story though, their commander began to chew her out about taking your vitamins or whatever as Roose tuned out completely from the sermon and focused on his comrade eating the inedible rations they served at the mess hall.

"You know, the Centurion's right. You shouldn't jeopardize the health of soldiers here, specially your own. So, I'm gonna grab that boar which got inside the base and commandeered one of our jeeps before I shot it dead and have the cooks serve it to you. Just between us three, I think the canned rations are actually older than the base itself." With a quick salute to both fellow squaddies, Roose stepped away before Tyr could hopefully followup with further questions. As he got out though, the results of his actions had stranded him back at square one except now there were added consequences if he didn't tidy it up. Ironically, having to fireman carry the boar towards the mess hall kitchen by himself was the furthest thing from tidy as pig's blood dripped on his favourite jacket on the way there. He would purposefully pass by Tyr and Skye to show that he was actually doing what he had said he would do.

As he arrived to the kitchen, Roose would dump the boar on the nearest table regardless of what had been on there before. "Alright, here it is lads. Like we spoke of yesterday, finest game in Iberia: jamón ibérico. Or rather it will be when you get around three servings for me now since I'm in a bit of a bind right now." The Carius' plea hopefully wouldn't fall on deaf ears.

Justice League Unlimited: AMONG US

Visited this thread after a while.

I was under impression that this is being a casual RP. Could someone please provide a little summary on how the RP should be played? How a character should interact with others?

Thanks in advance :D

@VeyrinDay

Well, this specific RP format is usually divided into Episodes where you have a set amount of posts allocated for each episode and there is a central focus for each episode as well (Solomon Grundy seems to be this current episode's focus). Your character is free to have their own side stories and personal arcs play out throughout the RP while integrating into the wider main story.

As for interacting with others, I personally contact the owner of the character I plan to have interactions with via Discord to set expectations though I guess nothing would stop you from talking to another character and effectively do improv.

P.S. The expectations of "Casual" RPs is a hotly debated topic. My personal interpretation is that it's not as loose as Free but not as demanding as Advanced but you'll still find examples that defy those definitions. So really, just follow the rules on the first IC post and have fun?

Gundam: Ascend to the Stars

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Port Algec

Base Entrance -> Mess Hall

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"We, as loyal soldiers of the Empire, are on the verge of making history here. To take on the final frontier is no easy feat. It takes will, talent, preparation, guns, men to fire those guns, and a lot of food to feed those men." At least that's what Roose had justified to the MP officer guarding the gates upon returning back to Port Algec in a muddy military jeep that was in pristine condition when he took it out. While the usage and state of the vehicle did not leave much to be desired, the broken standard-issue rifle prominently displayed on the passenger seat and the dead wild boar (with its rotting tongue sticking out and attracting flies) strapped in the back seats did not do him any favors. Luckily for our unscrupulous hunter, the guard merely shook his head before handing Roose paperwork which marked his wild game meat as procured rations that need to be reported to the officer in charge of food storage. With a smile and a nod, he gleefully drove off.

The ease of this interaction was mostly due to the fact that a ton of resources were already pouring in from all over the Empire into Port Algec and the administrative process had already been streamlined since, presumably, the last thing the Empire needed would be for a logistical challenge to ground to a halt its grand ambitions to reclaim space. Every day a parade of crates labelled such as food, ammunition, electronics, and even laundry soap would be shipped in via trucks and naval convoys. While the supply corps who handled and unloaded the crates already knew of each delivery's destination, the newly returning Carius had no clue where not-so-fresh pork would go. However, if the obvious answer was the correct one, food would go to the mess hall. Thanks Occam's Razor.

Hence why he stopped directly in front of the common grunt's favourite building, narrowly missing a schmuck being stretchered out along the way. Unfortunately for Roose, no one was there to help him carry his deadweight from the back of his borrowed jeep. With the foul stench getting worse under the hot Iberian sun, he was quick to rush in and try to find any soul kind or gullible enough to help. As he entered the hall, there wasn't really anyone there that stood out as either of those. Bored and exhausted sure but neither of those qualities in a person indicated that they could be schmoozed to carrying a pig into the proverbial pantry. He would continue to aimlessly wander around before spotting the perfect mark. This kid had pushover written all over him, Roose thought. Sure, he needed a bit more muscle to haul that hog out of the jeep but beggars can't be choosers. As he got closer to tap him on the shoulder, the following words had been uttered which threw off the troublesome Tadmoore's scheme.

"I'm Centurion Tyr Fin. Callsign Kraken. Your new superior. You can start by explaining yourself and who that... Soldier was."

Aw fuck he thought. With his mind racing, Roose had to figure something out and quick. So, he blurted out the first thought that came to mind.

"Sir, Carius Roose Tadmoore reporting in! I did not drive to this location and there is no wild boar at the back of the vehicle that I did not use!"

Justice League Unlimited: AMONG US

Just found out I'm having another baby!!!! I'll get caught up on reading today and make another post, last couple days have just been nuts lol

@Omega Man

Congrats dude, that's wonderful news!

Gundam: Ascend to the Stars

Roose Tadmoore

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Callsign:
Roc
Gender:
Male
Age:
27 Years Old
Role:
Newly Promoted Carius

Origin: Human born to a desert clan near Armen
Personality: Brave, Persistent, Generous, Resourceful, Sycophant, Duplicitous, Anxious, Pessimist
Known Features: Branded burn marks are on his hands, hidden by his gloves. In his people's script, they read out as "The Living Damned."
Attire: Roose always wears his favorite leather jacket when not in combat missions - even trying to get away with it during patrols. He reluctantly wears the provided uniforms provided to him though he claims that they don't provide enough insulation.
History: On the outskirts of civilization, one might think that only the toughest, the scariest, or the cleverest tribes survive. However for the people of the settled Tadamur clan, they can claim that it is their unbreakable brotherhood that has sustained their people throughout the ages. Their tenacity has beaten back other nomadic tribes looking to subjugate them, some even twice their size, due to each of their soldiers fighting back with the strength of ten. In times when that wasn't enough, they had also used weapons traded from foreign lands such as artillery pieces and Mobile Suits. No matter the trial or tribulation, this extended collection of families bounded by camaraderie would always support their sons and daughters in their endeavours.

So it must have been quite the sin for one Rostam Tadamur to commit for him to be expelled by his people. He would have nothing but the shirt on his back when he first arrived in Armen looking for work in order to survive. Luckily for him, his nomadic lifestyle equipped him with skills that the Empire needed. First, he started as a desert guide for the local garrison in order to successfully find the hideouts which raiding bandits had operated from. He then used what little savings he had to buy equipment to work as an auxiliary specializing in tracking defectors, escaped prisoners, and whoever else had thought that they could hide in the borderlands of the Empire. With each subsequent traitor brought to justice, Rostam's payday kept getting bigger and allowed him to sample the comforts and luxuries brought from the Imperial heartland. This mercurial lifestyle would go on for eight years before his past would finally catch up to him.

As the empire's border expansions finally started to encroach on Tadamur territory, Rostam decided to formally join the Beloth Empire's armed forces in a posting far away from the Levantine front. Fear and sadness grip his heart if he were to see his old family once again. So with a newly Belothicized identity, Roose Tadmoore soon found himself in the heart of civilization. Due to his actual combat experience and manhunting skills, Roose would only spend a couple of years in the regular forces. However, that brief time saw him assigned to the hellscape known as the northern front before being selected to join a newly formed MS squad bound for space, far away from his old family.

Skills: Roose believes that range and preparation are the best advantages one can have over an opponent, whether on foot or in a Mobile Suit. Specifically, he favors using artillery to draw out opponents from their defensive position and to mask his allies advance with the resulting smoke from the shell explosions using a tactic known as the Creeping Barrage. As well, his skills as a tracker are still sharp as ever with him knowing what clues to look for when pursuing someone.

Items:

• Leather jacket
• Sunglasses
• MS-05Q Zaku I

MS-05Q Zaku I

Custom General-Purpose Mobile Suit

Roose Tadmoore

Unit Appearance

The Zaku I is a simplistic Mobile Suit at first glance with its pink mono-eye, field green armouring, and marine blue bodyframe. To the untrained eye, this Mobile Suit is woefully under-equipped and lacking when compared to the other models operating in the battlefield. In the hands of a veteran soldier such as Roose, this Mobile Suit's complete lack of discernible features will take complete advantage of those that underestimate it as the inner circuitry is actually on par with contemporary models. To his credit, there are no visible damage marks on his specific unit.

Technical Details

Accommodation: Pilot only (in cockpit in torso)
Dimensions: 17.5 meters
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor
Equipment and Design Features:

Super-Hard Steel Alloy Armor
Low-costing and readily available, the Zaku I's armor composition was always meant for mass production. However, that's not to say that it is unreliable as this particular alloy is resistant to corrosion, wearing, and impact damage. Not only that, it is one of the more powerful alloys when you consider its density to mass rating which allows for proportionally higher power output compared to similarly built models.

Zaku Mono-Eye
Perhaps the most useful - and arguably only - feature of the Zaku, the mono-eye camera is capable of deploying a rangefinder and helps the pilot re-align targeting sights despite Minovsky particle interference.

Weapons and Combat Capabilities

Handheld Armaments

120mm Machine Gun
A standard drum-fed shell firing rifle with auto, semi-auto, and single fire modes. Using this weapon does not take up any internal energy from the Mobile Suit itself and can be freely equipped or discarded.

Heat Hawk
Using excess power from the Mobile Suit's portable reactor, heat-based weaponry very often cleave through most unprotected portions of enemy mobile suits. However, Roose considers this a last resort to be used only if the enemy has closed in on him.

280mm Zaku Bazooka
A portable shell based firearm primarily used for anti-ship combat due to how inaccurate it would be against moving targets. Regardless, it will punch through most conventional armor if it lands a direct hit, not to mention the guaranteed collateral damage to those near the blast.

Fixed Armaments

Spiked Knuckle
Built-in to the hands of the Zaku itself, these weapons are for even more desperate times. Theoretically, they should be able to break rocks though it is recommended to use a dedicated drill unit instead.

Strengths and Weaknesses

The simplicity and intuitiveness of the MS-05Q Zaku I allows for easy mastery of this Mobile Suit. However, the maximum potential of this unit is only unlocked by creative pilots due to how limited it is in possible equipment loadouts. As with most of the early iterations of the Zaku, this model does not excel in any particular field and cannot deploy beam weaponry either.

Technical History

Due to carbon dating and archaeological discoveries, it is widely known in weapons development circles that the MS-05B Zaku I is the earliest known mass produced unit model from the Universal Century. Using similar techniques, it has also been deduced that the MS-05Q Zaku I was actually developed five years after that first model. While their outer appearances are quite similar, the streamlined designs of the Q iteration have more similarities with the MS-06F Zaku II than the base model Zaku I.

There are a few theories as to why this is the case, ranging from considering the pilot's cosmetic preference to a recycling initiative implemented by the armed forces which deployed these Mobile Suits. Regardless, it now finds it's way in the hands of the Beloth Empire and its soldiers.

Gundam: Ascend to the Stars

@Phoenix347

Roose Tadmoore

---

Callsign:
Roc
Gender:
Male
Age:
27 Years Old
Role:
Newly Promoted Carius

Origin: Human born to a roving desert clan near Armen
Personality: Brave, Persistent, Generous, Resourceful, Sycophant, Duplicitous, Anxious, Pessimist
Known Features: Branded burn marks are on his hands, hidden by his gloves. In his people's script, they read out as "The Living Damned."
Attire: Roose always wears his favorite leather jacket when not in combat missions - even trying to get away with it during patrols. He reluctantly wears the provided uniforms provided to him though he claims that they don't provide enough insulation.
History: On the outskirts of civilization, one might think that only the toughest, the scariest, or the cleverest tribes survive. However for the people of the settled Tadamur clan, they can claim that it is their unbreakable brotherhood that has sustained their people throughout the ages. Their tenacity has beaten back other nomadic tribes looking to subjugate them, some even twice their size, due to each of their soldiers fighting back with the strength of ten. In times when that wasn't enough, they had also used weapons traded from foreign lands such as artillery pieces and Mobile Suits. No matter the trial or tribulation, this extended collection of families bounded by camaraderie would always support their sons and daughters in their endeavours.

So it must have been quite the sin for one Rostam Tadamur to commit for him to be expelled by his people. He would have nothing but the shirt on his back when he first arrived in Armen looking for work in order to survive. Luckily for him, his nomadic lifestyle equipped him with skills that the Empire needed. First, he started as a desert guide for the local garrison in order to successfully find the hideouts which raiding bandits had operated from. He then used what little savings he had to buy equipment to work as an auxiliary specializing in tracking defectors, escaped prisoners, and whoever else had thought that they could hide in the borderlands of the Empire. With each subsequent traitor brought to justice, Rostam's payday kept getting bigger and allowed him to sample the comforts and luxuries brought from the Imperial heartland. This mercurial lifestyle would go on for eight years before his past would finally catch up to him.

As the empire's border expansions finally started to encroach on Tadamur territory, Rostam decided to formally join the Beloth Empire's armed forces in a posting far away from the Levantine front. Fear and sadness grip his heart if he were to see his old family once again. So with a newly Belothicized identity, Roose Tadmoore soon found himself in the heart of civilization. Due to his actual combat experience and manhunting skills, Roose would only spend a couple of years in the regular forces. However, that brief time saw him assigned to the hellscape known as the northern front before being selected to join a newly formed MS squad bound for space, far away from his old family.

Skills: Roose believes that range and preparation are the best advantages one can have over an opponent, whether on foot or in a Mobile Suit. Specifically, he favors using artillery to either draw out opponents from their defensive position and to mask his allies advance with the resulting smoke from the shell explosions using a tactic known as the Creeping Barrage. As well, his skills as a tracker are still sharp as ever with him knowing what clues to look for when pursuing someone.

Items:

• Leather jacket
• Sunglasses
• MS-05Q Zaku I

MS-05Q Zaku I

Custom General-Purpose Mobile Suit

Roose Tadmoore

Unit Appearance

The Zaku I is a simplistic Mobile Suit at first glance with its pink mono-eye, field green armouring, and marine blue bodyframe. To the untrained eye, this Mobile Suit is woefully under-equipped and lacking when compared to the other models operating in the battlefield. In the hands of a veteran soldier such as Roose, this Mobile Suit's complete lack of discernible features will take complete advantage of those that underestimate it as the inner circuitry is actually on par with contemporary models. To his credit, there are no visible damage marks on his specific unit.

Technical Details

Accommodation: Pilot only (in cockpit in torso)
Dimensions: 17.5 meters
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor
Equipment and Design Features:

Super-Hard Steel Alloy Armor
Low-costing and readily available, the Zaku I's armor composition was always meant for mass production. However, that's not to say that it is unreliable as this particular alloy is resistant to corrosion, wearing, and impact damage. Not only that, it is one of the more powerful alloys when you consider its density to mass rating which allows for proportionally higher power output compared to similarly built models.

Zaku Mono-Eye
Perhaps the most useful - and arguably only - feature of the Zaku, the mono-eye camera is capable of deploying a rangefinder and helps the pilot re-align targeting sights despite Minovsky particle interference.

Weapons and Combat Capabilities

Handheld Armaments

120mm Machine Gun
A standard drum-fed shell firing rifle with auto, semi-auto, and single fire modes. Using this weapon does not take up any internal energy from the Mobile Suit itself and can be freely equipped or discarded.

Heat Hawk
Using excess power from the Mobile Suit's portable reactor, heat-based weaponry very often cleave through most unprotected portions of enemy mobile suits. However, Roose considers this a last resort to be used only if the enemy has closed in on him.

280mm Zaku Bazooka
A portable shell based firearm primarily used for anti-ship combat due to how inaccurate it would be against moving targets. Regardless, it will punch through most conventional armor if it lands a direct hit, not to mention the guaranteed collateral damage to those near the blast.

Fixed Armaments

Spiked Knuckle
Built-in to the hands of the Zaku itself, these weapons are for even more desperate times. Theoretically, they should be able to break rocks though it is recommended to use a dedicated drill unit instead.

Strengths and Weaknesses

The simplicity and intuitiveness of the MS-05Q Zaku I allows for easy mastery of this Mobile Suit. However, the maximum potential of this unit is only unlocked by creative pilots due to how limited it is in possible equipment loadouts. As with most of the early iterations of the Zaku, this model does not excel in any particular field and cannot deploy beam weaponry either.

Technical History

Due to carbon dating and archaeological discoveries, it is widely known in weapons development circles that the MS-05B Zaku I is the earliest known mass produced unit model from the Universal Century. Using similar techniques, it has also been deduced that the MS-05Q Zaku I was actually developed five years after that first model. While their outer appearances are quite similar, the streamlined designs of the Q iteration have more similarities with the MS-06F Zaku II than the base model Zaku I.

There are a few theories as to why this is the case, ranging from considering the pilot's cosmetic preference to a recycling initiative implemented by the armed forces which deployed these Mobile Suits.