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The MBF-P03 Gundam Astray Blue Frame is a Mobile Suit introduced in the manga series Gundam SEED Astray and featured in the photo-novel Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray B. It is piloted by Gai Murakumo.

Technology & Combat Characteristics[]

The MBF-P03 Astray Blue Frame was one of five identical prototype combat mobile suits developed using stolen data from the Earth Alliance's G Project and was designated for testing optional equipment. Its computer contains data and blueprints for various optional equipment. Most of the technology from the G Project was successfully copied with the exception of Phase Shift armor. In its place the Astrays' designers made the machines out of a lighter foaming metal compound and were built with minimal armor over the frame. This made the Astray mobile suits lighter and faster than their G Project counterparts.

Originally, the Astray Blue Frame was armed with the standard armament of the other prototype Astray suits. These weapons include two head-mounted "Igelstellung" 75mm multi-barrel CIWS, two back-mounted beam sabers for close combat, a Type 71 beam rifle, and a single physical shield. However its mercenary pilot used his resources to outfit the Astray Blue Frame with a wide variety of equipment to suit multiple combat situations and to meet the needs of different mission. Like the other prototype Astray suits, Astray Blue Frame's backpack can be lowered to the back skirt armor, allowing the mounting of additional equipment on its back.

Armaments[]

  • "Igelstellung" 75mm Multi-Barrel CIWS
Mounted in the Blue Frame's head are a pair of "Igelstellung" 75mm multi-barrel CIWS guns. Although classified as anti air, these light projectile weapons can be used to intercept missiles and to destroy lightly armored vehicles.
  • Beam Saber
Blue Frame is equipped with two back-mounted beam sabers for close combat.
  • Type 71 Beam Rifle
The Type 71 beam rifle is the standard ranged beam weapon of the Orb military. The beam rifle fires an energy beam that is highly effective against most targets, such as mobile suits, but is less effective against targets designed to take beam attacks, such as laminated armor or shields treated with an anti-beam coating.
  • Shield
The Blue Frame can use a physical shield for defense, it is mounted on the left forearm and/or handheld. This is the same type of shield as used by Strike and Duel Gundam.
  • Supercavitating Torpedo Launcher
A handheld weapon used by the Blue Frame when it is equipped with Scale System. The rifle is mounted with six supercavitating torpedoes for ranged aquatic combat.
  • Combat Knife
A pair of combat knives are mounted on the Blue Frame's hips when it is using the Scale System. These knives are the suit's main close combat weapons when it is underwater, as the beam sabers cannot be used in aquatic environment.
  • Full Weapon Form
As a mercenary, Gai gets into plenty of lopsided MS battles; that's why he designed a "Full Weapon" form for the Blue Frame in which the MS is equipped with multiple bazookas and missile launchers that are also used by ZAFT's mobile suits. These armaments are solid projectile weapons that do not use much energy, allowing Gai to fight multiple enemies easily. They can be purged or discarded when necessary. This form was used when Gai was hired to protect the Eurasian Federation's damaged space fortress, Artemis.
  • 8-Barrel Short-range Guided Missile Launcher
A rectangular boxed shaped missile launcher mounted on the left side of the Full Weapon Form's back. It fires missiles capable of limited target tracking.
  • M68 "Pardus" 3-Barrel Short-range Guided Missile Launcher
The same type of 3-barrel missile launcher as used by the GINN, a pair are mounted on the Full Weapon Form's legs. When used in conjunction with the mobile suit's radar, it was capable of limited target tracking.
  • M68 "Cattus" 500mm Recoilless Rifle
The same large bazooka-type weapon as used by the GINN. It was fed by a replaceable box magazine mounted on the top, allowing it to reload or switch to other types of ammunition quickly. The Full Weapon Form is equipped with two of this weapon, one carried in hand, and another stored on the right side of the mobile suit's back as a spare.

Special Equipment & Features[]

  • External Connector
A connector for attaching additional equipment to the back of the suit. It is similar in function to the hardpoint on the back of the GAT-X105 Strike Gundam. The connector is exposed when the backpack is lowered to the back skirt armor.
  • Complete Sensor Unit
Constructed using the blueprint found within the Blue Frame's computer, the complete sensor unit is an optional head equipment. It greatly increases the mobile suit's communication, sensing capability and information processing power. On the flipside, the various detectors in the sensor unit are very energy draining and processing of the complex data place a heavy burden on the OS. The sensor unit contains a dedicated computer to process these data.
  • High-Speed Booster
An optional booster unit developed by Serpent Tail in order to recover data from a high-speed spaceship that lost control during testing. It seems to be attached to the suit through the external connector.
  • Scale System
For aquatic missions, Gai can equip the Blue Frame with a "Scale System" armor, which has numerous tiny scales that vibrate to propel the mobile suit through the water and can also serve as makeshift shield against phonon maser. With these parts, Blue Frame has higher underwater mobility than ZAFT's aquatic MS but the diving depth is relatively limited, since the mobile suit itself is not built to resist high pressures. Additional sensors such as active and passive sonar have also been installed in the Blue Frame's head. This set of equipment was built by Morgenroete Inc. under Erica's command and serve as payment for employing Gai to complete certain missions. The equipment proved itself in battle on Giga-Float against Gold Frame, in which Gai fought off Rondo Gina Sahaku to protect the installation. The back mounted portion of the Scale System seems to be attached to the suit through the external connector.

History[]

The Orb Union's Morgenroete corporation built five Astray prototype mobile suits at Heliopolis, the MBF-P01 Astray Gold Frame, MBF-P02 Astray Red Frame, MBF-P03 Astray Blue Frame, MBF-P04 Astray Green Frame, and MBF-P05 Gundam Astray Unit 5 (which was later modified into MBF-P05LM Gundam Astray Mirage Frame) which were based on the five G Project Gundams that they assisted the Earth Alliance's Atlantic Federation in creating. They successfully replicated the beam rifle and saber technology used by the Earth Alliance, but Morgenroete did not have access to the Phase Shift armor design, and compensated by making the Gundam Astray units lighter and more agile than their Alliance counterparts. Unlike Gold Frame, Blue Frame was fitted with only Orb hand plugs, and thus could not use Earth Alliance weapons.

On January 25, CE 71, ZAFT's attack on Heliopolis to steal the Alliance Gundams also unknowingly interrupted the Astray project. In order hide their progress, Orb's officials decided to destroy the Astray lab. Coordinator Rondo Gina Sahaku, an Orb nobleman, disagreed and attempted to save the save the three Astray units, Gold Frame, Red Frame and Blue Frame, that were assembled. He ordered one of his subordinate to split all the Astray data among the three MS and Blue Frame was uploaded with specifications for a variety of optional weapons and equipment. Blue Frame was soon located by Junk Guild technician Lowe Guele, who soon had to use it to protect himself from Coordinator mercenary pilot Gai Murakumo of the Serpent Tail company, who had been hired to eliminate all evidence of the Astray program. Over the course of the battle, Lowe abandoned the Blue Frame in a ploy to disable Gai's TS-MA2 Moebius. When the Serpent Tail were seemingly double-crossed by their employer (having seen the suits, Gai himself had become evidence of their existence), Gai commandeered the empty Blue Frame to defeat them, and after Lowe confronted him in Red Frame, Gai decided to leave Lowe and friends alone.[1]

After the battle, Lowe decided to give Gai the Blue Frame for protecting his friends, Gai accepted the offer.Gai kept Blue Frame for his own use, and the two Astray pilots encountered one another several more times, sometimes as allies, sometimes as enemies. They eventually became friends. Blue Frame was later severely damaged in battle against rogue "Combat Coordinator" Eleven Socius and Seven Socius in their GAT-01D Long Dagger, and was subsequently upgraded into MBF-P03 Gundam Astray Blue Frame Second L.

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Notes & Trivia[]

  • In Gundam Memories, the Gundam Astray Blue Frame and the Red Frame are unlockable after all modes, Story and Mission, are completed.
  • In many video games and other media, the Type 71 beam rifles used by the prototype Gundam Astrays are generally depicted firing pink beams, which is a very unusual color for the Cosmic Era, as almost all beam rifles and other standard ranged beam weapons, including the seemingly identical rifles used by the mass-produced M1 Astray models, fire green beams. In addition, in the video game Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Battle Destiny, the circular shape protruding from beneath the barrel of all of the Type 71 beam rifles specifically used by the "vanilla" Gundam Astrays are actually depicted as built-in grenade launchers, which has never been shown or listed in any other form of media. Once again, this feature is not present on the rifles used by the M1s.

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Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray Mechanics
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Junk Guild
Mobile Weapon
Mobile Suit
MBF-P02 Gundam Astray Red Frame | TMF/A-802 P-Mod.W BuCUE Waltfeld Custom Type | ZGMF-1017 Works GINN
Mobile Armor
Kimera

Land Battleship
Lesseps-class
Transporter / Supply Ship
Marseille III-class | Re.H.O.M.E.
Serpent Tail
Mobile Weapon
Mobile Suit
MBF-P03 Gundam Astray Blue Frame | MBF-P03secondL Gundam Astray Blue Frame Second L | ZGMF-1017 Elijah's GINN | ZGMF-1017 Gai's GINN
Mobile Armor
TS-MA2 Moebius

Cruiser / Mother Ship
Laurasia-class
Orb Union
Mobile Weapon
Mobile Suit
GAT-X133 Sword Calamity | MBF-01 Gundam Astray Gold Frame Amatsu Perfect Form | MBF-M1 M1 Astray | MBF-P01 Gundam Astray Gold Frame | MBF-P01-ReAMATU Gundam Astray Gold Frame Amatsu | MBF-P02 Gundam Astray Red Frame | MBF-P03 Gundam Astray Blue Frame

Ship
Aegis-class
Aircraft / Spacecraft
Heli
Cruiser / Mother Ship
Izumo-class
Earth Alliance
Mobile Weapon
Mobile Suit
GAT-01 Strike Dagger | GAT-X105 Strike Gundam | GAT-X105+AQM/E-X01 Aile Strike Gundam | GAT-X105+AQM/E-X02 Sword Strike Gundam | GAT-X133 Sword Calamity
Mobile Armor
TS-MA2 Moebius

Cruiser / Mother Ship
Archangel-class
ZAFT
Mobile Weapon
Mobile Suit
AMF-101 DINN | GAT-X102 Duel Gundam | GAT-X103 Buster Gundam | GAT-X207 Blitz Gundam | GAT-X303 Aegis Gundam | TFA-2 ZuOOT | TMF/A-802 BuCUE | TMF/S-3 GINN OCHER Type | UMF-4A GOOhN | UMF-5 ZnO | UWMF/S-1 GINN WASP Type | YFX-200 CGUE DEEP Arms | YMF-01B Proto GINN | ZGMF-515 CGUE | ZGMF-600 GuAIZ | ZGMF-1017 GINN | ZGMF-1017 Miguel's GINN | ZGMF-1017M GINN High Maneuver Type

Aircraft / Spacecraft
Guul
Cruiser / Mother Ship
Laurasia-class | Nazca-class
Actaeon Industries
Land Vehicle
Self-Propelled Linear Howitzer | Bulldog
Pirates / Civilians
Mobile Weapon
Mobile Suit
TFA-2 ZuOOT | TMF/A-802 BuCUE | UMF-4A GOOhN | UTA/TE-6 GOOhN Underground Mobility Test Type | YMF-01B Proto GINN

Transporter / Supply Ship
Courier Ship | Liteiria | Pirate Transport | Tsiolkovsky
Cruiser / Mother Ship
Agamemnon-class | Nelson-class


Astray R Mechanics
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Junk Guild
Mobile Weapon
Mobile Suit
MBF-P02 Gundam Astray Red Frame | MBF-P02 Gundam Astray Red Frame Power Loader | MBF-P02 Gundam Astray Red Frame "Powered Red" | TMF/A-802 P-Mod.W BuCUE Waltfeld Custom Type | ZGMF-1017 Works GINN
Mobile Armor
Kimera

Land Battleship
Lesseps-class
Transporter / Supply Ship
Giga | Marseille III-class | Re.H.O.M.E.
Serpent Tail
Mobile Weapon
Mobile Suit
MBF-P03 Gundam Astray Blue Frame | MBF-P03secondL Gundam Astray Blue Frame Second L | MBF-P03secondG Gundam Astray Blue Frame Second G | ZGMF-1017 Elijah's GINN
Orb Union
Mobile Weapon
Mobile Suit
MBF-M1 M1 Astray | MBF-P01 Gundam Astray Gold Frame | MBF-P01-ReAMATU Gundam Astray Gold Frame Amatsu | MBF-P01-Re2AMATU Gundam Astray Gold Frame Amatsu Mina

Cruiser / Mother Ship
Izumo-class
Earth Alliance
Mobile Weapon
Mobile Suit
GAT-01 Strike Dagger | GAT-X105+AQM/E-X01 Aile Strike Gundam
Mobile Armor
TS-MA2 Moebius

Cruiser / Mother Ship
Drake-class
ZAFT
Mobile Weapon
Mobile Suit
AMF-101 DINN | TFA-2 ZuOOT | TMF/A-802 BuCUE | TMF/A-803 LaGOWE | TMF/S-3 GINN OCHER Type | UMF-4A GOOhN | UMF-5 ZnO | UWMF/S-1 GINN WASP Type | ZGMF-600 GuAIZ | ZGMF-1017 GINN | ZGMF-X11A Regenerate Gundam | ZGMF/TAR-X1 GINN Tactical Air Reconnaissance Type

Submarine
Vosgulov-class
Cruiser / Mother Ship
Laurasia-class | Nazca-class
Super Weapon
GENESIS Alpha
Three Ships Alliance
Mobile Weapon
Mobile Suit
MBF-M1 M1 Astray | ZGMF-X09A Justice Gundam | ZGMF-X10A Freedom Gundam

Support Weapon
METEOR
Cruiser / Mother Ship
Archangel-class | FFMH-Y101 Eternal | Izumo-class
Pirates / Civilians
Mobile Weapon
Mobile Suit
TMF/A-802 BuCUE | ZGMF-1017 Hinstn's GINN | ZGMF-1017 GINN Fuego | ZGMF-1017 GINN Tempester | ZGMF-1017 Un'no's GINN

Transporter / Supply Ship
Pirate Transport | Silverwind
Cruiser / Mother Ship
Pirate Cruiser


Astray B Mechanics
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Serpent Tail
Mobile Weapon
Mobile Suit
MBF-P03 Gundam Astray Blue Frame | MBF-P03secondL Gundam Astray Blue Frame Second L | MBF-P03fourth Gundam Astray Blue Frame Fourth | ZGMF-1017 Elijah's GINN | ZGMF-1017 Gai's GINN
Powered Suit
Guti
Junk Guild
Mobile Weapon
Mobile Suit
MBF-P02 Gundam Astray Red Frame
Earth Alliance
Mobile Weapon
Mobile Suit
CAT1-X3/3 Hyperion Gundam Unit 3 | GAT-01 Strike Dagger | GAT-01A1+AQM/E-X04 Gunbarrel Dagger | GAT-01D Long Dagger | GAT-X133 Sword Calamity
Mobile Armor
TSX-MA717/ZD Pergrande

Aircraft / Spacecraft
AQM/E-X04 Gunbarrel Striker
ZAFT
Mobile Weapon
Mobile Suit
ZGMF-1017 GINN | ZGMF-1017 Vair's GINN | ZGMF-1017 Miguel's GINN | ZGMF-1017M GINN High Maneuver Type | UMF-4A GOOhN | TMF/A-802 BuCUE | ZGMF-600 GuAIZ | GAT-X102 Duel Gundam | YMF-X000A Dreadnought Gundam
Orb Union
Mobile Weapon
Mobile Suit
MBF-02+P202QX Strike Rouge IWSP | MBF-M1 M1 Astray | MBF-P01 Gundam Astray Gold Frame | MBF-P01-ReAMATU Gundam Astray Gold Frame Amatsu

Cruiser / Mother Ship
Izumo-class
Actaeon Industries
Mobile Weapon
Mobile Suit
NMS-X07PO Gel Finieto
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