RMS-099A Rick Dias

[Daniel Gage]

Specifications

Name: Rick Dias
Model: RMS-099
Type: Limited Production Assault Mobile Suit
First Deployment UC 0087
Manufacturer: Anaheim Electronics
Weight: Empty 32.2 metric tons; max gross 54.7 metric tons
Armor Type: Gundarium
Power Plant: Class ‘B’ Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 1820 kW (Supports 2 hand weapon of Assault class, or one hand weapon of Standard and Above class)
Defense Value: +1

Armaments & Equipment
Fixed Equipment: Standard Sensors

Fixed Armaments:
2 X 60mm CIWS, fire-linked, mounted in head (CIWS, 2 Fires/nonreloadable))
2 X Beam Sabers, mounted on Wing Binders (Melee)
2 X Beam Pistols (Assault, 2 fires per Charge), power rated at 1.68 MW, mounted in recharge rack on backpack, hand-carried in use (Charge 1 Fire per post stored in recharge rack)

Optional Hand Armaments: (1 storage hardpoint on rear waist)
Hyper Bazooka (Sniper, 2 Fires per magazine)
Beam Rifle (Standard, 3 Fires per E-Pac), power rated at 1.78 MW
Clay Bazooka (3 Fires per magazine, effect depends on ammunition loaded. You must declare what is loaded at launch and must spend a post changing magazines to switch round type)
-Standard Round - Marksman
-Clay Round - Shotgun, with the exception that instead of causing damage, a hit from Close Range will impart a permanent -2 DV penalty on the unit hit, while a hit from Medium Range will impart a permanent -1 DV penalty.


History
As the Anti-Earth Union Group (AEUG) militarized in the wake of the 30 Bunch Incident, they contracted Anaheim Electronics to produce a new line of mobile suits for their use. Anaheim immediately started turning out the up-mod of the legacy GM known as the Rechts for the AEUG, but they also went to the drawing board with several new designs. The Rick Dias was the first of these to see production.

The Rick Dias drew heavy inspiration from the Rick Dom used by Zeon in the One Year War with a number of modernizations and design improvements. Unlike the HiZack, also produced by Anaheim, the Dias was a full-scale new unit rather than an upmod of an old design. Built around the concept of a high agility unit with multiple weapon systems to close with and destory the enemy. Equipped with a revolutionary ‘random binder’ system designed to alter its center of mass to increase the lever arm its verniers had to work with, the Dias is more agile than almost anything else in space. Anaheim also incorprated the new, lightweight, Gundarium Gamma lightweight armor, furthering its agility. Combined with a new-model Minovsky reactor and a formidable weapons array, the Dias is already making waves on the Argama squadron. Of particular note is the custom bazooka Anaheim developed for it. While the standard round is a potent mobile suit killer, the ‘clay’ round they developed for it is far more frightening. An area effect round akin to an old shotgun, the clay round entangles and restricts its target, reducing agility and making any follow-up shots far easier. The AEUG is producing as many of these as it can, as rapidly as it can, to get more units on the front lines...