GN-001 Gundam Exia
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| Unit Type | |
| Close-Quarters Combat Mobile Suit | |
| Profile | |
| Model Number |
GN-001 |
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| Developed from | |
| Launched |
2307 A.D. |
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| General Characteristics | |
| Overall Height |
18.3 meters |
| Standard Weight |
57.2 metric tons |
| Power-plant | |
| Accommodation |
Pilot only, Cockpit in Chest |
| Armor |
E-Carbon |
| Armaments | |
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| Special Equipments and Features | |
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| Optional Equipments | |
Gundam Exia is the mobile suit featured in seasons 1-2 of Mobile Suit Gundam 00. The unit is piloted by Setsuna F. Seiei.
Exia derives from Exusia and/or Exousia, the biblical Greek word for the power of choice and/or authority.
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Technology & Combat Characteristics
Exia, also known as the Gundam of Seven Swords is the close quarters combat specialist of Celestial Being's armed intervention team consiting of Dynames, Kyrios, and Virtue/Nadleeh. Although Exia and Dynames are closely related designs, the final results are worlds appart. The Gundam that would eventually fall to Setsuna F. Seiei was built to be the tip of Celestial Being's spear. While its fellows operate in primarily supporting roles, Exia takes the fight to enemy. Setsuna would repeatedly use the speed and stealth granted by the GN Drive to rapidly close with and decimate enemy forces.
Speed and stealth would be useless without offense. To that end, Exia carries the Seven Sword System. A mix of seven different melee weapon systems. The GN Sword Rifle's rifle mode provides Exia with a single mid-range, mid-power weapon. The overall performance is comparable to Dyanmes' GN Pistols. GN Vulcans on each wrist can be used for point defense or to engage soft targets. The rest of Exia's weapons are pure melee. Small beam blades, GN Beam Daggers are used as throwing weapons or when an enemy gets too close for anything else. Virtually weightless GN Beam Sabers allow Exia to match faster oppoents, who might otherwise evade a physical blade[1].
The true reason for Exia's creation is the GN Long Sword, GN Short Sword, and the GN Sword/Rifle. Physical blades coupled with a layer of GN Particles along the cutting surface(s) are almost as devastating as a beam blade. Despite their anachronistic nature, these weapons are critical to Aeolia Schenberg's overall plan: he foresaw the day when his GN technology would fall into the hands of those who would use it for selfish ends. In preperation for that day he ordered the creation of Exia and its three GN Particle-charged physical blades, which were made specifically to cleave through a GN Field[2].
The GN Sword/Rifle is the crown Jewel of the Seven Swords system. Melee, ranged attack, and defense are all wrapped in one lethal package. Not only is the largest of the three physical blades but it also taps directly into Exia's forearm GN Particle distribution port. As a result, the GN Sword/Rifle does not need to be returned to its docking point to recharge its on board GN Condenser. Opponents that try to run away are rudely surprised when when the blade folds back along the forearm, like a tonfa, revealing a GN beam gun. All this is housed behind a small GN Shield. This buckler allowed a one-armed Exia to attack and defend against an Ahead in 2312.
Every part of Exia is lethal. Even the ends of the GN Shield are tapered and sharpened to form GN Blades!
Setsuna was educated in combat by Ali Al-Saachez (trained in a unidentified form of martial arts), training reflected in Exia's combat style. When facing overwhelming numbers and firepower such as the GN-X, Exia can dock with the GNR-001 GN Arms to drastically enhance its firepower, or use its Trans-Am System to increase its speed far beyond anything that can match it.
Armaments
Seven Swords System
GN Beam Saber & Beam Dagger
Exia has a total of four beam sabers: two of standard length, mounted behind either shoulder; and two beam daggers, mounted behind the waist. The sabers are in combat when the regular GN Sword/Rifle is inadequate while the daggers are used as a throwing weapon for semi-ranged combat.
GN Long Blade & Short Blade
A pair of solid blades differing in length, sheathed at either side of the Exia's waist when not in use. The blades are lined with GN particles to increase the effectiveness of armor-cutting. Normally dual-wielded in combat.
GN Sword/Rifle
A solid blade attached to a miniature forearm shield, which serves as the Exia's primary weapon -- the longest blade amongst the Seven Swords. The cutting edge is lined with GN particles, allowing it to easily split MS armor. The sword can be vertically folded along the forearm, exposing the muzzle of a short-range, high-speed beam rifle concealed behind the shield. A single shot can destroy a conventional enemy unit. The sword can also be used as a physical blade to pierce/negate GN Field equipped opponents.
GN Shield
Defensive equipment composed of durable E-Carbon. As the Exia is designed for close-quarters combat, the shield it's equipped with is relatively small and light-weight. Both ends of the shield are bladed and of sufficient consistency to be used as a piercing weapon.
GN Vulcan Cannon
A small beam-based vulcan cannon, built into the Exia's forearms.
System Features
Optical Camouflage
Exia features a cloaking system based on Celestial Being's optical camouflage technology. When performing missions that need Exia to be hidden, the optical camouflage blends Exia into its surroundings; the cloak isn't perfect. The cloak isn't an active cloaking field, it's only applicable when Exia is stationary. Should Exia move during cloak, the optical camouflage would reveal Exia. The optical camouflage is also capable of expanding its cloak field. It's able to cloak another Gundam inches away from its position, but it's unclear if it is capable of cloaking a non-Gundam MS and/or foreign object.
Trans-Am System
Trans-Am grants Exia three times it's normal capabilities. It's overall speed, firepower, and strength is temporarily increased at three times its normal specs. When activated Exia becomes a high speed MS combatant, capable of hyper vector CQC combat. Because CB engineers didn't know about Trans-Am, no secondary features or special abilities were given to Exia when Trans-Am is activated. The system utilizes the maximum potential of its GN Drive in particle generation. Once all it's particles are spent, Exia is temporarily under powered until the GN Drive recharges Exia's particle levels to normal performance parameters.
Variants
GN-001/hs-A01 Gundam Avalanche Exia
GN-001 + GNR-001 GN Arms Type-E
GN-001RE Gundam Exia Repair
Due to lack of contact with Celestial Being during the five years between Season 1 and Season 2 of Gundam 00, Gundam Exia was never fully repaired from the damage it sustained in combat with Graham Aker and his GN Flag. As a result, when it reappears five years later, Exia is heavily damaged and poorly maintained. The left arm severed by the GN Flag's beam saber has been lost, replaced instead with a camouflage sheet that creates the illusion of a cloak. The Gundam's head has been reattached, but the right eye remains gutted, leaving a glowing red eye taken from a Tieren in its place. As most of its weapons were destroyed, the Exia Repair only has access to its GN Sword/Rifle (now broken) and its right arm's GN Vulcan. Though Setsuna's increased piloting skill allows the Exia Repair to hold its own against the far superior Ahead units, it is quickly dispatched, only to be rescued by the new GN-008 Seravee Gundam. Its GN Drive was then removed in for use in the GN-0000 00 Gundam.
GN-001REII Gundam Exia Repair II
Pics Gallery
 GN-001 Gundam Exia Over City Artwork |
 GN-001 Gundam Exia Sunset Wallpaper |
 GN-001 Gundam Exia Sky Descent Wallpaper |
