Model number: MS-09R
Code name: Rick Dom
Unit type: mass production space combat mobile suit
Manufacturer: Zimmad Company
Operator: Zeonic Corps
First deployment: UC 0079
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Dimensions: head height 18.6 meters
Weight: empty 43.8 metric tons; max gross 78.6 metric tons
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 1199 kW
Propulsion: rocket thrusters: 2 x 22000 kg, 9 x 1000 kg
Performance: maximum thruster acceleration 0.67 G; 180-degree turn time 2.1 seconds; maximum ground running speed 110 km/h
Equipment and design features: sensors, range 5400 meters
Fixed armaments: scattering beam gun, mounted in torso; heat saber, battery powered, stored in recharge rack on back, hand-carried in use Optional hand armaments: 360 mm giant bazooka, clip-fed, 10 rounds per clip
Featured series: Mobile Suit Gundam; Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory/The Last Blitz of Zeon; Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story: MS Generation; Mobile Suit Gundam F90 (manga); Mobile Suit Gundam: Cross Dimension 0079; Gundam Tactics Mobility Fleet 0079; Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam; Char's Deleted Affair: Portrait of Young Comet; Mobile Suit Gundam: Federation VS Zeon DX; Gundam the Ride: A Baoa Qu; Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story: Space, To the End of A Flash; Mobile Suit Gundam: Encounters in Space
Webmaster's notes: Though not as impressive as its ground use counterpart, the MS-09R Rick Dom claims an entirely different place in mobile suit history, as the first high performance mobile suit to be mass produced. After winning the Duchy's approval to be mass produced over Zeonic Company's MS-06R-2 Zaku II High Mobility Type, Rick Doms were produced in numbers probably only second to the MS-06F Zaku II and RGM-79 GM, quickly taking the place of the Zaku II on the front line. Armed solely with a 360mm Giant Bazooka and a Heat Saber, the Rick Dom was aimed at ending a fight quickly. Zimmad Corporation originally intended for the MS-15 Gyan to serve as a support unit for the Rick Dom, to provide it with medium range cover. However, the Gyan concept was turned down, the Dom proving a more than acceptable mobile suit all by itself. The Rick Dom's shortcoming laid primarily in the fact that the Duchy's number of experianced pilots was constantly being shortened, leaving more and more MS-09Rs in the hands of rookie pilots.
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Drawn by Mark Simmons
Alternate colors(drawn by Mark Simmons)
