Code name: Val Varo
Unit type: space combat mobile armor
Manufacturer: Principality of Zeon
Operator: Principality of Zeon; Kelly Layzner
First deployment: UC 0079
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in main body
Dimensions: overall length 68.0 meters; overall width 46.0 meters; overall height 22.5 meters
Weight: empty 254.1 metric tons; max gross 379.8 metric tons
Construction: titanium/ceramic composite on monocoque frame
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 26030 kW
Propulsion: rocket thrusters: 3 x 184000 kg, 3 x 56000 kg
Performance: maximum thruster acceleration 1.90 G
Fixed armaments: large mega particle cannon, mounted in main body; 2 x 2-tube missile pod, mounted on main body; 2 x anti-aircraft beam gun, mounted on main body; 4 x 110mm vulcan gun, fire-linked, mounted in main body; 3 x plasma leader, stored on main body, delivers plasma electrical charge to target upon deployment
Featured series: Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory; SD Gundam: G Generation Neo; Mobile Suit Gundam: Encounters in Space
Webmaster's notes: While both are mobile armors mounting heavy mega particle cannons, the MA-06 Val Varo is a significant improvment over the much simpler MA-05 Bigro. The Val Varo was a streamline craft capable of moving at intense speeds, making as much a gigantic space fighter as it was a mobile armor. Its arms could be laid flat against itself to make it smoother in flight, and its armor was so powerful that even something as powerful as a beam rifle did little damage. Still capable of doing terrible damage to enemy ships, mobile suits and fighters used to picking on poorly armed Bigro would be suprised to find the Val Varo more than a match for them, equipped with four powerful machine guns and two beam guns, as well as four missile tubes. Its claw arms were also much more manuverable than than the Bigro's, capable of grabbing a mobile suit and crushing it with ease. Finally, the Val Varo could incapacitate even the most powerful enemy Mobile Suits using its plasma leaders. Vast improvements over those seen on the MAX-03 Adzam, the leaders worked in a group of three and did not require for the target to be coated in conductive powder. Instead, they simply arrayed around it and suspended it in powerful electricity. Unfortunately, the leaders themselves were not well armroed. Sadly, the Val Varo was even more expensive than the Bigro, and few were ever constructed.
