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Colony-Laser

The Colony Laser is a weapon of mass destruction which appeared several times in the Gundam universe. As the name implies, the weapon is an empty shell of an orbiting space colony which is converted into a large laser to destroy several targets at once.

Universal Century[]

Solar Ray[]

Mobile Suit Gundam[]

Built by Gihren Zabi of the Principality of Zeon, the first colony laser, known as the Solar Ray, was planned to be used by Zeon to attack the Earth Federation. Instead, however, he chose to use it to eliminate his father Degwin Sodo Zabi, who was in negotiations with the Federation to settle the war peacefully. The premature firing caused the Colony Laser to burn out, which contributed to the Principality of Zeon's loss during the battle of A Baoa Qu by depriving Gihren and Kycilia Zabi of the ability to strike at the Federation from a distance.

In the novel version of Mobile Suit Gundam, the Colony Laser was fully completed and tested before the Battle of A Baoa Qu. Using the cannon, A Baoa Qu and virtually everyone on the battlefield were killed in a single shot, the only ones surviving were Char Aznable's squad and the defecting crew of the Pegasus II.

In Gundam Build Fighters Try Island Wars, the Colony Laser is one of three weapons summoned by the Scramble Gundam in an attempt to defeat the Build Fighters. Sekai Kamiki, Fumina Hoshino, and Mirai Kamiki use their respective Gunpla, KMK-B01 Kamiki Burning Gundam, SD-237S Star Winning Gundam and Beargguy P, to barely hold back the shot.

Gryps II[]

Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam[]

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Gryps II and the Alexandria (left) as seen on Gihren's Greed: Menace of Axis V

A second colony laser was built in U.C. 0087 this time by the Titans. Original the Titans base Gryps, the colony was transformed into a weapon, referred too as the Gryps II Colony Laser. Unlike the Solar Ray Cannon, which burned out after firing, Gryps II can fire indefinitely. Although, it suffers from two primary flaws: a time-consuming process of recharging between shots and the fact that it was ponderously slow and a huge (but resilient) target. Power is supplied by an array of solar panels, whilst a thermonuclear pulse thruster provides a limited degree of mobility. It was first used by the Titans to destroy Colony 18 of Side 2, and later captured by the AEUG during Operation Maelstrom and used to repel the course of asteroid Axis and then eradicate the remnants of the Titans. The Colony Laser was heavily damaged in the conclusion of the Battle of Gryps, at the end of the Gryps Conflict.

Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn[]

Gryps II Colony Laser (Unicorn OVA Ep7)

Reconstructed Gryps II Colony Laser (Gundam Unicorn OVA)

Reconstructed after the Second Neo Zeon War, the Earth Federation used Gryps II in an attempt to destroy Industrial 7 and prevent a speech by Mineva Zabi and destroy Laplace's Box. The beam was blocked by the combined psycho fields of the Unicorn Gundam and Unicorn Banshee Norn. Although the output of Gryps II was never stated in the OVA, the final Gundam UC novel mentions Gryps II to have an output of 92 million gigawatts.

Colony Laser (Jupiter Empire)[]

Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam[]

Another colony laser was built in the later U.C. 0130s by the remnants of the Jupiter Empire, who planned to use it in their "Zeus Thunder" project, a plan to attack Earth with the laser from Jupiter.

After War[]

Colony Laser (Space Revolutionary Army)[]

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Colony Laser as seen on After War Gundam X

Built for Operation Dahlia by the Space Revolutionary Army, the Colony Laser is built from the remains of an abandoned space colony and powered by a large network of solar panels positioned behind it. Construction of the laser was started during the 7th Space War but work on it was delayed for over a decade. In AW 0015 it was finally completed and SRA leader Seidel Rasso planned to use it to attack Earth and, in the following chaos, the SRA would take control of the planet.

When Operation Dahlia began, Seidel and a large fleet were at the colony laser to oversee the attack. However at the same time, Gundam pilot Garrod Ran used the Satellite Cannon of his GX-9901-DX Gundam Double X to fire two times at the laser, only to miss it each time narrowly. He threatened Seidel with the weapon's total destruction if the SRA leader wouldn't hand out Tiffa Adill to him. Seidel grudgingly accepted but after Tiffa was handed over, Garrod nevertheless destroyed the laser since it was a far too dangerous weapon.

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