FF-X7-Bst Core Booster

FF-X7-Bst Core Booster is Hervic Company's booster pack for the FF-X7 Core Fighter, the cockpit block that doubles as the RX-78-2 Gundam's escape craft. It appears in the compilation films Soldiers of Sorrow and Encounters in Space (1981-82, U.C. 0079), where it replaces the television series' G-Fighter.

What it does in the story

The White Base received one for trials on 7 November U.C. 0079, and Sayla Mass flew it as unit 006. She used its beam cannons to bring down Ortega's Dom, then sank a Jukon-class submarine and destroyed a Gogg at Belfast. Sleggar Law took 005 to Solomon, and Sayla's 006 later cut into Char Aznable's duel with the Gundam.

What makes it different

• It is an attachment, not a new aircraft. The Core Fighter had a computer with ten times the processing power of other fighters, but it was small, lightly armed and short on fuel. The booster was drawn around it to fix those limits.
• Docking costs it the fighter's missiles. The Core Fighter's wings fold inside the booster, so its own launchers are unusable. The booster carries two of its own below the beam cannons, plus a bay for two multi-warhead bombs.
• The beam cannons borrow the Gundam's trick. Two cannons on top run off the reactor but use E-cap technology like the Gundam's beam rifle, and they aim through the same sight.
• It is built for air and for space. Thermonuclear jet and rocket engines give it Mach 5.38, and a spray system smothers fires in damaged sections.

How big is it?

• Length: 13.8 m, with a 12.6 m wingspan and a 6.75 m height, at 18.3 t, according to Bandai's official spec
• 1/144: roughly 9.6 cm long, which covers the 1982 original kit

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Frequently asked questions

Background sources: FF-X7-Bst Core Booster — Gundam Wiki