MSJ-06II-SP Tieren Taozi
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| Tieren Taozi | |
| Fast Facts | |
| Model Number | MSJ-06II-SP Tieren Taozi |
| Unit Type | Customized Mobile Suit |
| Launched | Anno Domini |
| Manufacturer | Human Reform League |
| Operator | Human Reform League |
| Known Pilot | Soma Peries (aka Marie) |
| General Characteristics | |
| Overall Height | 18.7 meters |
| Weight | 112.1 metric tons |
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| Accommodation | Pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso |
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| Armaments | |
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Custom-crafted from the ground up to best express the physical and cognitive enhancements of the super-soldier Soma Peries, the Taozi is a highly-maneuverable general-purpose mobile suit that performs with comparable superiority to standard-model Tieren variants in any terrain. Primary propulsion is supplied from the back of the unit's lower legs, with selective activation of the prominent thrusters upon its movable shoulder-mounted shield plates for directional guidance. Fine control is permitted with an additional six thrusters. The water used by the unit as propellant is stored in the tank attached behind its waist. All limbs may be purged if necessary.
In addition to a secondary T-shaped mono-eye rail along the top of its head, the unit is installed with an acutely responsive sensor system and an onboard processor capable of keeping up with the dramatically increased data load. Due to the extreme strain the pilot is subjected to at the rates of acceleration the unit can reach, only a fully trained super-soldier can safely exploit the unit's full potential. Shortly after its introduction, the unit's head-mounted display is replaced with a more standard screen interface.
The term Taozi (Chinese: 桃子) means "peach" in Chinese — a fruit that signifies longevity in Chinese folklore, traditionally depicted in pink.
The SP on the end of MSJ-06II-SP Tieren Taozi is actually the initials of Soma Peries
A small number of MSJ-06III-A Tieren All-Terrain Type mobile suits were also produced by the HRL, which were nearly identical to the Taozi, but tweaked to allow normal humans to effectively pilot them.
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Armaments
The following is a list of the standard armaments equipped upon the Tieren Taozi.[1]
200 x 25 mm Smoothbore Cannon (Space Type)
Forearm mounted. One amongst the selection of standard solid-round firearms available to the Tieren. The barrel is fixed with a 12.7 mm coaxial machine gun and two heat sink bayonets of sufficient resilience for use as a weapon in close-quarters combat.
30 mm Machine Gun
A machine gun mounted in the orange panel before the left shoulder joint. A self-propelled cable hook used for disabling and capture may be fired from the orange panel before the right shoulder joint.
Combat Characteristics
The Tieren Taozi is a vast improvement over previous HRL mobile suits in terms of versatility and capability. Unlike previous models of the Tieren series of mobile suits which were all designed for specific combat purpose in a specific type of terrain the Tieren Taozi is capable of functioning at full capacity both in space and on Earth.
In space the Taozi is capable of greater acceleration and maneuverability then the standard Tieren Space Type. Like the Tieren Space Type the Taozi mounts an extra fuel container. However unlike the Space Type the Taozi only mounts one on the back instead of two, one on each knee.
On Earth the Taozi is capable of the same hovering and maneuvering capabilities as the Tieren High mobility type.
One feature that the Taozi keeps from previous Tieren models is its weapon selection which is composed of the same relatively outdated smoothbore cannon and machine gun used by all HRL mobile suits. It is likely that since the Taozi is equipped with the same ranged weapons that it is also equipped with the same katar shaped carbon blade.
History
Test Run
In episode 5 of the first season of Mobile Suit Gundam 00, a test run was made on the Tieren Taozi, with Soma Peries/Marie Parfacy as its pilot. Allejuah was also dispatched there to view the suit's performance, and if needed, destroy it. Due to contact between Allejuah Haptism's and Soma Peries'/Marie Parfacy's quantium brainwaves, Marie/Soma went berserk and fired many rounds of bullets towards the elevator, causing a section of the Gravity Block to break away, which coincidentally contains Saji Crossroad and Louise Halevy. With the timely help from Allejuah/Kryios and Sergei Smirnow, the section is kept at the edge of the Breakaway Limit Zone, where the blocks will fall to earth, killing the 232 people on board. After contact withe the Plotemios, Ms.Sumeragi arranged a new mission,in which Dynames/Lockon Stratos used his Super Substratospheric Altitude Gun to seperate two of the blocks chunks of orbital elevator when the people have safely moved to the centre, therefore allowing Allejuah/Kryios and Sergei Smirnow to push it safely away from the Breakaway limit zone.
