MS-10 Pezun Dowadge

The MS-10 Pezun Dowadge (ペズン・ドワッジ pezun dowajji) is a mobile suit that first appeared in the original design series MS-X.

Technology & Combat Characteristics

Based upon Zeon's tried-and-true MS-09B Dom series, the Pezun Dowadge was one of the last mobile suits in Dom family to be made during the One Year War. Produced at the asteroid base Pezun, the Dowadge featured improved close-range combat abilities. The armor is slighly slimmer to improve its agility, and there are spikes on forearm armors. While the Dom featured a weak beam cannon on its chest, only suitable for temporarily disabling enemy sensors, the Pezun Dowadge upgraded the weapon into a true beam gun. Its other weapons include a remodelled giant bazooka, a heat saber, and an eight-barreled 420mm rocket launcher.

Armaments

• Scattering Beam Gun

The breast-mounted beam gun of the Pezun Dowadge may look similar to the one used by the Dom series, but instead it is now a true beam weapon that can be used from mid to close range.

• 8-barrel 420mm Rocket Launcher

• Giant Bazooka

The primary weapon of the Pezun Dowadge is a large bazooka. The bazooka is magazine fed and holds 10 rounds per mag, and a single round can blow the torso off of an enemy mobile suit.

• Ex-T2-2 Beam Bazooka

A weapon originally developed for the Rick Dom. The bazooka has its own internal reactor, rather than an E-cap, and is, essentially, a Musai deck gun scaled down for mobile suit use. Due to using a reactor rather than an E-cap, the bazooka is capable of a single sustained blast or several short bursts, requiring a lengthy recharge period of approximately 10 minutes before it can be used again.

• Heat Saber

Stored on the back of the waist when not in use, this weapon bears a strong resemblance to the beam sabers used by Earth Federation mobile suits, however it still relies on the older technology of using thermal energy to superheat a metal blade, allowing it to melt through the armor of an enemy machine at high speed.

History

As the end of the One-Year War came swiftly, it is not known if the Pezun Dowadge actually saw any combat duties. As Pezun Dowadge was developed as a replacement of space-use Rick Dom, its relationship with the Earth-based MS-09G Dwadge remains uncertain.

Picture Gallery

Pezun Dowadge: Zeonography's color arts

Color art: Giant Bazooka

Pezun Dowadge promotion campaign as featured in Mobile Suit Gundam: Battle Operation

Action Figures

1/144 Zeonography #3004a "MS-10 Pezun Dowadge / MS-09R Rick Dom" (2004): package front view.

1/144 Zeonography #3004b "MS-09RS Char's Rick Dom / MS-10 Pezun Dowadge" (2004): package front view.

1/144 Zeonography #3004a "MS-10 Pezun Dowadge" action figure: sample product (left) with parts convertible to MS-09R Rick Dom action figure (right)

1/144 Zeonography #3004b "MS-09RS Char's Rick Dom" action figure: sample product (right) with parts convertible to MS-10 Pezun Dowadge action figure (left)

1/144 Zeonography Pezun Dowadge & Rick Dom: promotion material.

Notes and Trivia

• Like other MS-X mechanic designs, the Pezun Dowadge did not appear in the originally-planned 52 episodes of Mobile Suit Gundam TV series; in fact, "Dowadge" was an early production name for the MS-09R Rick Dom. Although the machine was renamed, Tomino (who has a fondness for odd names) kept the Dowadge name around, eventually creating the Pezun Dowadge.

• The Pezun Dowadge was eventually made into an action figure as part of Hajime Katoki's Zeonography series. The figure could be converted into the Rick Dom, and came in either its standard purple color, or Char Aznable's custom red color.

Reference

Pezun Dowadge: information from Mobile Suit Gundam: Battle Operation

External links

• MS-10 Pezun Dowadge on MAHQ.net