MBF-P03 Gundam Astray Blue Frame

This article is about a fictional weapon from the Cosmic Era timeline of the anime Gundam metaseries.

The Orb Union's Morgenroete corporation built three Astray prototype mobile suits at Heliopolis, the MBF-P01 Astray Gold Frame, MBF-P02 Astray Red Frame, and MBF-P03 Astray Blue Frame, that were used to base the five GAT-X series Gundams that they assisted the Earth Alliance's Atlantic Federation in creating. They successfully copied the EA's beam rifle and saber technology, 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 EA counterparts. Unlike the Gold Frame, the 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 military decided to destroy the Astray lab. Coordinator Rondo Gina Sahaku, an Orb nobleman, disagreed and attempted to save all three suits. He uploaded specifications into Blue Frame's computer for use of a variety of optional weapons and equipment, including a high-mobility booster and an enhanced head sensor. Blue Frame was soon located by another Coordinator, pilot Gai Murakumo of the Serpent Tail mercenary company, who had been hired to eliminate all evidence of the Astray program. After being double-crossed by his employer (having seen the suits, Gai himself had become evidence of their existence), Gai teamed up with Red Frame pilot Lowe Guele to defeat him. Gai kept the Blue Frame for his own use, and the two Astray pilots encountered one another several more times, sometimes as allies and sometimes on opposing sides.

Thanks to the uploaded data, Gai was able to equip the Blue Frame with a variety of custom weapons and equipment to suit the needs of his jobs. When he was guarding the Eurasian Confederacy's Artemis space fortress, for example, Gai loaded Blue Frame with multiple bazookas and missile launchers of ZAFT. On Earth, equipped it with a "scale system" backpack and leg units for underwater mobility. The latter proved itself in battle against Gold Frame, in which Gai fought off Rondo Gina. Afterward, Blue Frame was severely damaged in battle against rogue "Combat Coordinator" Eleven Socius and his GAT-01D Long Dagger. Afterward, Gai, Lowe, and Orb engineer Erica Simmons collaborated to upgrade the suit to a form known as Blue Frame Second.Blue Frame Second had an altered head design, and mounted retractable knife blades in the heels and toes, which could be used as kicking weapons or as anchoring spikes. It also had fin thrusters on the shoulders and stored six "Armor Schneider" folding combat knives in its body. Erica Simmons' contribution was Phase Shift armor surrounding the cockpit area, and a two-layer armor for the rest of the suit, in which the inner layer's Phase Shift activated when the outer layer was breached. Lowe contributed the Tactical Arms system, which completed the first configuration, Blue Frame Second L ("L" for "Lowe"). Tactical Arms was a high-mobility backpack equipped with a 90 mm Gatling gun. Tactical Arms could detached and be reconfigured as either a hand-carried gun or a 20 meter huge sword. Like Red Frame's "Gerbera Straight", the Tactical Arms sword was very sharp and covered with anti-beam coating. The second configuration was Blue Frame Second G ("G" for "Gai"), which replaced Tactical Arms with the Full Armor Phase Shift (FAP) system. FAP could, like Tactical Arms, be used as a high-mobility backpack, and could also fold around to cover the entire mobile suit with additional Phase Shift armor.In addition, both Blue Frame Second configurations could carry an additional weapon: a mobile suit sized version of the "Archangel"-class assault ships' Lohengrin positron blaster guns. This weapon was stored in two pieces on Blue Frame Second's hips, and connected into a single gun for use. It was powered by its own ultracompact nuclear reactor (mounted on the rear waist armor). Unfortunately, Gai did not possess N-Jammer Canceller technology, so the utility of the gun was limited. It did, however, prove useful against the huge experimental mobile TSX-MA717/ZD Pergrande, when Gai closed to point blank range (bringing Blue Frame within influence of the Pergrande's own N-Jammer Canceller) and destroyed it with a single shot. In the early stages of the Second Bloody Valentine War, both the Blue Frame Second L and Elijah Kiel's ZGMF-1000 ZAKU Elijah Kiel Custom have been refitted with hardpoints for use with METEOR mobile weapon platform units. The units they used (Units 05 and 06) were salvaged from the GENESIS Alpha gamma ray laser cannon by the Junk Guild and were refitted with nuclear power plants and N-Jammer Cancelers (since the mobile suits used energy batteries). They were seen in use when the alliance of the Junk Guild, Serpent Tail, Rondo Mina Sahaku, and Jess Rabble attempted to stop the successful drop of the Junius 7 Colony hulk onto Earth. Shortly afterward, Gai used Blue Frame's Lohengrin launcher to bombard Logos agent Matisse Aducarf's space station, with Canard Pars' YMF-X000A/H Dreadnought H providing the N-Jammer Canceller for its use.

pecifications

MBF-P03 Astray Blue Frame

Manufacturer: Morgenroete, Inc.
Users: Serpent Tail
Unit type: prototype general purpose mobile suit
Head height: 17.53 meters
Base weight: 49.8 metric tons
Special equipment: extra sensor unit, high mobility booster, scale system underwater mobility pack
Powerplant: Ultracompact battery
Armament: "Igelstellung" 75 mm multi-barrel CIWS x2, Type 70 beam saber x2, Type 71 beam rifle x1, shield x1
Optional armament: 8-barrel missile launcher x1, M68 "Pardus" 3-barrel missile launcher x2, combat knife x2, M68 "Cattus" 500 mm recoilless rifle x2, underwater rifle x1
Pilot(s): Gai Murakumo, Lowe Guele

MBF-P03 Astray Blue Frame Second L

Manufacturer: Morgenroete, Inc.
Users: Serpent Tail
Unit type: prototype general purpose mobile suit
Head height: 17.78 meters
Base weight: 64.4 metric tons
Special equipment: Phase Shift armor (Cockpit only), Tactical Arms backpack, hardpoint for use with METEOR (Mobile suit Embedded Tactical EnfOrcer) mobile weapons platform
Powerplant: Ultracompact battery
Armament: "Igelstellung" 75 mm multi-barrel CIWS x2, "Armor Schneider" assault knife x6 (combat knife x2, retractable knife blade x4), Tactical Arms (90 mm Gatling gun x1, large sword x1)
Optional armament: "Lohengrin" positron blaster gun x1
Pilot(s): Gai Murakumo

MBF-P03 Astray Blue Frame Second G

Manufacturer: Morgenroete, Inc.
Users: Serpent Tail
Unit type: prototype general purpose mobile suit
Head height: 17.78 meters
Base weight: unknown
Special equipment: Phase Shift armor (Cockpit only), Full Armor Phase Shift (FAP) system
Powerplant: Ultracompact battery
Armament: "Igelstellung" 75 mm multi-barrel CIWS x2, Type 70 beam saber x2, "Armor Schneider" assault knife x6 (combat knife x2, retractable knife blade x4), Type 71 beam rifle x1, beam pistol x2
Optional armament: "Lohengrin" positron blaster gun x1, Beam Cannon
Pilot(s): Gai Murakumo

Trivia

* Blue Frame's Pilot, Gai Murakumo seems to have a liking for the 'Armor Schneider' knives, as he has had them equipped on all of his mobile suits at all times.