MSN-008 Prototype Qubeley
Unit Type Prototype Newtype-use Space Mobile Suit
Profile
Model Number	MSN-008 AMX-001
Developed from	MAN-08 Elmeth
Developed into	AMX-004 Qubeley
Manufacturer	Axis
Operator	Axis
General Characteristics
Head Height	25.0 meters82.021 ft 984.252 in
Power-plant	Ultracompact Minovsky Fusion Reactor
Power Output	1480 kW1,984.713 hp
Pilot Accommodations	Pilot only (in cockpit in torso)
Armaments 2 x Mega Particle Cannons/Beam Saber Funnels
Special Equipments and Features Psycommu System

The AMX-001 (MSN-008) Prototype Qubeley is the prototype of the Mobile Suit AMX-004 Qubeley.

Technology & Combat Characteristics

The development of the Qubeley began shortly after the rollout of Mobile armor MAN-08 Elmeth, late during The One Year War. This "MSN-008 Prototype Qubeley" was developed as a mobile suit version of the Elmeth. In order to reduce the Elmeth's massive size, a smaller Psycommu weapon was developed to replace the "Bit" weapon drones. This new weapon, later known as Funnel, uses Energy-capacitator (E-cap) instead of built-in generator, thus requiring recharging after a certain period of deployment. Other armaments include a pair of mega particle cannons and beam sabers, both mounted in the arms.

Armaments

• Mega Particle Cannons/Beam Saber

The standard weapons of the Prototype Qubeley is a set of dual purpose Mega Particle Cannons/Beam Sabers that mount in the palm of the hands (similar to the MSM-07 Z'Gok). They are powered directly from the mobile suit's Minovsky type ultracompact nuclear fusion reactor. With the high power output and precision, this weapon prove its dangerous power.

• Funnels

These funnels are technological descendants of the Elmeth's remote bit weapons; but they are smaller than the bits as they lack their own power generators, instead using energy capacitors. This allows the funnels to be small enough so that a large number of them can be stored on a mobile suit but requires that the funnels return to the tail binder for recharging after a certain amount of time.

Special Equipment & Features

• Psycommu System

The Flanagan Institute of Zeon developed a mind-machine interface called the psycommu (psycho-communicator) system, which receives these thoughtwaves of Newtypes and translates them into computer commands. Using this interface a Newtype pilots can direct remote weapons, and operate huge mobile armors, by thought alone. The Principality forces based at the asteroid Axis succeed in miniaturizing the psycommu system, so that it can be installed in regular-sized mobile suits like the AMX-001 Prototype Qubeley.

History

Similar to AMA-002 Neue Ziel, the Prototype Qubeley was never built before the War's end, but its blueprints were taken to the asteroid base Axis and later constructed there with an alternate model number AMX-001 as Axis's first experimental Mobile Weapon. Although the Psycommu system still makes it a bulky Mobile Suit at 25 meters in height, it was nevertheless considered a success. (However, AMX-001 is a number of Gaza-A.). The Prototype Qubeley would later be perfected into the AMX-004 Qubeley and then the AMX-004 Qubeley Mk-II.

Variants

• AMX-004 Qubeley
  • AMX-004 Qubeley Mk-II

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Notes

• Qubeley's name is derived from the Greek goddess "Cybele". Cybele embodies the fertile Earth, a goddess of caverns and mountains, walls and fortresses, nature, wild animals (especially lions and bees). Phrygian Cybele is often identified with the Hittite-Hurrian goddess Hebat, though this latter deity might have been the origin of only Anatolian Kubaba. The Greeks frequently conflated the two names, the Anatolian "Kubaba" and the Phrygian "Kybele", to refer to the Phrygian deity.
• Qubeley's design is similar to Heroic Age's Heroic Tribe member Artemia.

References

External Links

• AMX-001/MSN-08 Prototype Qubeley on MAHQ.net