MS-05S Char's Zaku I

MS-05S Char's Zaku I is Char Aznable's own Zaku I in Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin, the retelling of the One Year War set in U.C. 0079. It is not the 1979 television machine: this is an MS-05 fitted with MS-06 Zaku II equipment and issued to Zeon's Lunar Attack Force.

What it does in the story

Char flies it in the Battle of Von Braun during the One Week Battle, where a single suit bombards a Magellan-class battleship. The manual has him working the belt-fed gun, belt racking into the chamber, while on a call with Lalah Sune.

What makes it different

• It is a Zaku I in Zaku II equipment. The spiked shoulder, the right-shoulder shield and the belt-fed gun were developed for the MS-06. The war began before the Zaku II reached full production, so Zaku Is went out with that gear.
• The ammunition rides on its back. The belt feeds from a box magazine under the backpack instead of a drum, which holds far more rounds. The backpack itself is the MS-06 unit, with two thrusters and two verniers.
• The shield changed shoulders. The MS-05 carried its shield on the forearm; the S type moves it to the right shoulder, where it covers a wider area. The left shoulder gains a spike in exchange, for ramming.
• Its colour is not red. The machine is described as twilight-coloured rather than red, and the manual treats that scheme as a foretaste of the Red Comet.

How big is it?

• Head height: 17.4 m, with an overall width of 9.0 m, per Bandai's official spec
• 1/144: roughly 12 cm

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Background sources: MS-05S Char's Zaku I — Gundam Wiki · 宇宙世紀の登場機動兵器一覧（THE ORIGIN）— 日本語版 Wikipedia