| Model number: YMS-15 Code name: Gyan Unit type: prototype general purpose mobile suit Manufacturer: Zimmad Company Operator: Principality of Zeon First deployment: UC 0079 Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso Dimensions: overall height 19.9 meters Weight: empty 52.7 metric tons; max gross 68.6 metric tons Construction: super-high tensile steel on monocoque frame Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 1360 kW Propulsion: rocket thrusters: 56200 kg total Performance: maximum thruster acceleration 0.82 G Equipment and design features: sensors, range 4400 meters Fixed armaments: none Optional hand armaments: beam saber, powered by rechargeable energy cap; shield, mounts 56 x missile launcher and 12 x hide bomb/space mine |
| YMS-15 Gyan |
| MSiA Features YMS-15 Gyan beam sword with detachable beam blade shield |
| Released: 2002 Series: Mobile Suit Gundam Avg. Price: $5.76 Version: 1.0 |
| REVIEW The Gyan figure is one of the later Gundam figure releases, and shows many of the improvements made in the line over time. The joints all have excellent range of motion, from a ball jointed head to feet tht can easily move under the lower leg armor. Even the backpack has been mounted on a ball joint, allowing some poseability. The only accessories for the Gyan are a large beam sword with a removable beam blade, and a shield with a ball joint mounted handle. The figure holds both accessories well, and can be easily posed without dropping them. Overall,the Gyan is a good figure. |
| As the One Year War was raging to an end, Zeon stepped up development of a new generation of high-performance mobile suits in a last-ditch act of desparation. Zeonic Company had begun development of its powerful MS-14 Gelgoog line, and in response, Zimmad Company designed its own next-generation mobile suit. Code-named the YMS-15 Gyan, Zimmad's latest entry was intended to complement its already-well-performing MS-09R Rick Dom space combat suits. The Gyan's development was supervised by Zeon's Colonel M'Quve, and he took one of the three YMS-15 prototypes built as his personal mobile suit. However, the Gyan only saw combat once, as M'Quve used his unit in a one-on-one fight against the Federation's powerful RX-78-2 Gundam prototype - and lost. With Rick Doms to provide the heavy long-range firepower, the Gyan was built with close combat in mind. Its primary weapon was a powerful beam sword, backed up by a large shield containing 56 individual missile launchers and carrying various bombs and space mines. Despite its high performance as a close combat unit, the Zeon military favored the more well-rounded Gelgoog - particularly since the Gelgoog incorporated the long-range firepower the Gyan lacked - and the Gyan project was dropped. Pilot: M'Quve Appearances: Mobile Suit Gundam; Mobile Suit Gundam: Federation VS Zeon DX (PS2); Mobile Suit Gundam: Encounters in Space (PS2) Original mechanical designer: Kunio Okawara |
| Overview Articulation: 3 Detailing: 3 Accessories: 2 SCORE: 3 |
| 1 = POOR 2 = DECENT 3 = GOOD 4 = EXCELLENT 5 = OUTSTANDING |
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