TS-MA2 Moebius
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This article is about a fictional weapon from the Cosmic Era timeline of the anime Gundam metaseries.
The TS-MA2 Moebius is a mobile armor, a heavy space fighter with tough armor.
The Moebius is swift and powerful, but it becomes terribly obsolete when the ZGMF-1017 GINN is introduced by ZAFT, with at least five Moebius mobile armors required to take down a single GINN on average. Until the introduction of Natural-pilotable mobile suits, the Moebius is the backbone of the Earth Alliance forces, despite its general inadequacy in combat against enemy mobile suits.
The TS-MA2mod.00 Moebius Zero is a high-powered commander-type variation produced in limited quantities during the Bloody Valentine War. Only a few highly-talented mobile armor pilots, like Lt. Mu La Flaga, can successfully pilot this mobile armor because of the difficulty of simultaneously controlling its four wire-guided gunbarrels. As a result, the production model mobile armor TS-MA2 Moebius was given a more conventional armament, with missiles instead of the gunbarrel pods. The Moebius Zero pilots were assembled into a single elite corps in the 3rd Fleet, but Lt. Flaga was the only member to survive the Battle of Endymion on June 2, CE 70.
The Moebius is phased out of frontline use by late June, CE 71, replaced by the GAT-01 Strike Dagger. In November, at the Second Battle of Jachin Due, several squadrons are launched from the Earth Alliance's Agamemnon-class carriers for use as nuclear weapons delivery platforms. Most of the Moebius units are destroyed during the battle, along with the majority of the Alliance's Strike Dagger forces.
The AQM/E-X04 Gunbarrel Striker is based on the Moebius Zero, but with an improved Gunbarrel sporting a beam cannon and two missiles instead of the Zero's two ballistic cannons. The Gunbarrel Striker can operate either as an independent unit or as a Striker Pack for the GAT-X105 Strike Gundam or GAT-01A1 105 Dagger. Very few Gunbarrel Strikers are produced, with at least two of them used by GAT-01A1 105 Dagger ace Morgan Chevalier.
In CE 73, a single unit of a similar but much more advanced design, the TS-MA4F Exass, is deployed. The legacy of mass-produced Mobile Armors in O.M.N.I. is long from over with the introduction of the TS-MB1B Euclid during later half of the Second Bloody Valentine War.
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Specifications
TS-MA2 Moebius
Unit type: mass production mobile armor
Crew: One pilot in a standard cockpit in the unit's fuselage
Armament: 2x 40mm Gatling gun, wire-guided missile x4
Optional armament: linear gun, nuclear missile, Gatling gun
Pilot(s): Luke, Gail, Gai Murakumo
TS-MA2mod.00 Moebius Zero
Unit type: prototype commander use "Newtype" mobile armor
Armament: linear gun x1, wire-guided gunbarrel pod (railgun x2) x4
Pilot: Mu La Flaga, Lindgren, Winters, Charles Kane
AQM/E-X04 Gunbarrel Striker
Unit type: support fighter for use with GAT-X105 Strike Gundam/GAT-01A 105 Dagger
Weight: 11.87t
Armament: M58E4 Gatling gun x1, wire-guided gunbarrel pod (GAU-758S beam gun x1, M70AMSAT missile x2) x4