Hydra Mk. I

Suit Name: Hydra
Serial Number: NWC-M9-S/HYD1
Suit Type: Mass Production Ground Mobile Suit
Deployment Date: Barton Foundation: AC 196; Neverwinter Corps: AC 211
Suit Height: 16.6 Meters
Suit Weight: Empty: 55.8 Tons; Full: 85.2 Tons; Max: 90 Tons
Powerplant: Ultra-Compact Minovsky Advanced Reactor; Output: 15 mw
Propulsion: : Plasma Thrusters; Vectoring Thrusters: Output: 6 x 45,000 kg, 2 x 50,000 kg, 4 x 10,000 kg, 2 x 20,000 kg; Total: 450,000 kg
Mobility: Linear Control & Coordination System
Armor: Nano-Fibril Neo-Titanium: 2.5 Decimeters; Titanium Reinforcement Rods Weaved Into Nano-Fibril Neo-Titanium: 1.5 Decimeter; Xirillium Flex Layer: 1 Decimeter; EMP Ceramic Shielding: .1 Decimeter; Assault Shroud: Nano-Fibril Antimentium w/ Antimentium Honeycomb Reinforcement: 3 Decimeters
Equipment/Design Features: Phase Shift Armor (PS); Multi-Bogey Targeting System; Command Relay System (Slave) (CRS-Slave), Natural OS (Standard), Can be Interchanged; Omniscient Mk. II Aspect Type Sensor Suite; Anti Missile System (AMS)
Fixed Armaments: 2 x 8 Missile Pods, shoulder mount; Beam Sword, stored on waist, hand carried in use
Optional Armaments: 2 x 115 mm Rail Gun, mounted on shoulder
Optional Hand Armaments: 70 mm Rapid Fire Ion Discharge Rifle; 75 mm Plasma Rifle, 150 mm Plasma Cannon, 115 mm Rail Gun; 320 mm Hyper Impulse Cannon; 280 mm Bazooka, 350 mm Gun Launcher

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Background: Originally developed in AC 195 as a replacement for the aging OZ-06MS Leo, the OZ-17MS Serpent's production lines at the X-18999 space colony were seized by the Barton Foundation following that year's military and political strife. The Barton Foundation then began production of 500 Serpent units (now re-designated MMS-01) for its puppet military force, the Mariemaia Army. Intent on using the Mariemaia Army's force against the now de-militarized Earth Sphere United Nation, the Barton Foundation intended to follow through with its original plans to seize control of the Earth Sphere.

The MMS-01 Serpent, like its Leo predecessor, was a versatile mobile suit capable of being equipped for both space and land combat. Built of the new-and-improved neo-titanium alloy, the Serpent was physically almost as tough as the gundanium-armored Gundams, but much less expensive to produce. Armed with shoulder missile launchers, the Serpent could also carry a variety of hand-carried weapons, such as a bazooka, a large beam cannon or a double-barreled Gatling gun similar to that carried by the XXXG-01H2 Modified Gundam Heavyarms. Since the Earth Sphere United Nation had scrapped all of its military weapons - including mobile suits - the Serpent was not armed with any hand-to-hand combat weapons.

Neverwinter took this model as well, however they have taken a while to develope it. It has been the last put into production and has just recently entered service. This Mobile Suit is to be the front line mobile suit for the Neverwinter Forces on Earth as soon as their invasion begins. This, will probably take the place of most of the Assailant MS's, though they are much more expensive to produce. The Hydra utilizes the most advanced Mass Production armor, Antimentium. This is an impact armor used mainly to curb Impact from things such as missiles. It's meant to withstand the potent attacks from Rail Guns and things of this magnitude. In turn it is also the most versatile weapon in the Neverwinter Arsenal next to the Intruder, and the only mobile suit carrying projectile weapons as hand held weapons.

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