GAT-X252 Forbidden Gundam

GAT-X252 Forbidden Gundam is a late GAT-X prototype from Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (2002, C.E. 71), one of a trio commissioned by Muruta Azrael's conglomerate and flown by Biological CPUs. Shani Andras pilots it, and its brief is raiding enemy bases.

What it does in the story

It debuts at the Battle of Orb alongside the Calamity and the Raider, and the trio fight the Freedom and the Justice to a standstill. Afterwards they are posted to the Dominion and taken to Jachin Due for the war's last battle, where the Duel Gundam destroys the Forbidden.

What makes it different

• Its shields bend beams instead of stopping them. The two large shields carry the Geschmeidig Panzer, a colloid-particle system that turns an incoming beam aside before it reaches the hull. The shields carry Trans-Phase armour of their own, so shells and blades are stopped too, and the same particles work as propulsion underwater.
• The plasma beam is steered, not aimed. Magnetic field generators on the two backpack railguns shape a field between them and use it to bend the Hresvelgr's beam in flight, so the shot arrives off the line the target was watching.
• Two weapons exist in only one form. The Eckzahn railguns and the Hresvelgr sit on the backpack, which flips over the head to make the High-Speed Assault Form, so neither can fire in the suit's normal shape. What is left then is the scythe, forearm machine guns and head CIWS.

How big is it?

• Overall height: 17.47 m according to Bandai's official spec
• Weight: 85.33 t
• 1/144: roughly 12.1 cm
• 1/100: roughly 17.5 cm

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Background sources: GAT-X252 Forbidden Gundam — Gundam Wiki · フォビドゥンガンダム（日本語版 Wikipedia）