ORX-005 Gaplant TR-5 [Hrairoo] with Support Unit
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- Model Number
- ORX-005
- Unit Name
- Gaplant TR-5 [Hrairoo] with Support Unit
- Organziation
- Titans
- First Known Deployment
- Accommodation
- Panoramic Monitor and Linear Seat
- Dimensions
- 25.2 meters overall height
- Weight
- 50.8 tons base, 115.1 tons full
- Construction
- Luna Titanium Armor on a Movable Frame
- Powerplant
- Minovsky-Type Ultra-Compact Fustion Reactor rated at 3040 kW (+410 kW)
- Propulsion
- unknown
- Performance
- unknown
- Equipment
- Skirt-Sub Arms x3, Hrududu II
- Optional Equipment
- Dual Shield Booster mount on Beam Gun, Psycho Gundam Arms
- Sensor Radius
- unknown
- Fixed Armaments
- Spread Beam Guns x2, Beam Saber (0.6 MW) x2, Beam Cannon x2
- Optional Armaments
- Long Blade Rifle on Spread Beam Gun, Mini-Missile Pod in front skirt, Beam Cannon x10 (Psycho Gundam Hands)
- Variations
- ORX-005 Gaplant TR-5 [Hrairoo]
- Pilot(s)
- Wes Murphy, Eliard Hunter
- Assignment
- Titans Test Team (Black Otter Team)
- Development
- Konpeitoh Arsenal
- Mecha Designer
- Fujioka Kenki
Model Number Breakdown
ORX-005
- ORX
- developed at Augusta Labs
- 005
- designation used for the Gaplant series of designs
Profile
The transformable mobile armor Gaplant, developed for high-altitude interception, has performance surpassing that of second-generation mobile suits. Although this machine was developed before the category of third-generation mobile suits (transformable mobile suits) was established, its performance is sufficient to qualify as a third-generation mobile suit. This machine is a Gaplant further enhanced with the addition of support parts. Rather than being a fighter-class mobile weapon, its performance gives it tactical-class fighting strength, like the mobile armor Big Zam of the One Year War or the Gundam GP02A of the Delaz Conflict. Thus it is categorized as an “Area Dominance Mobile Armor” whose absolute fighting strength allows it to dominate the battlefield in space, in the air, or on the ground. This high-class machine can demonstrate its maximum potential under any conditions.
The new support units developed for the Gaplant TR-5 are based on data obtained from the Hrdudu. Instead of the shield boosters previously used by the Titans Test Team, its arms are equipped with the same movable shield binders as a normal Gaplant. Extra boosters are also installed on its shoulders and around its waist, giving it higher mobility and offensive power in both mobile suit and mobile armor forms. Since this equipment is designed so as not to affect the Gaplant’s characteristic transformation functions, it can still transform while the support units are attached.
Hrairoo: The transformable mobile armor that serves as the core of the Gaplant TR-5 Fiver. Without its atmospheric escape and reentry parts, the Fiver becomes the Hrairoo, a custom machine based on the transformable mobile armor Gaplant and then upgraded and improved by the Konpeitoh technical headquarters. The Titans Test Team pilots previously referred to this form using the TR-5’s original “Fiver” nickname, or called it the “Fiver Gundam” due to the blade antennas attached to its head unit. At the request of the mechanics, main pilot Lieutenant Wes Murphy christened it “Hrairoo” in order to clearly distinguish between the Fiver and the form without the atmospheric escape and reentry parts.
Support Units (Hrududu II): There are two types of shoulder units. The shoulder claw unit on the right serves as both a supplemental thruster and a hardpoint for carrying weapons, while the shoulder thruster unit on the left also contains a generator. The extra skirt units contain attitude control verniers and supplemental thrusters, and the front units are also equipped with spread beam guns. The multi arm unit is a multipurpose device attached to the back of the machine, which plays a similar role to the sub arm unit of the Hazel Custom. The long blade rifle is a long-range sniper beam rifle made up of a long blade barrel and a stabilizer unit attached to a beam pistol.
Technical Notes
The model kit manual indicates that the Hrairoo nickname retroactively applies to the basic Gaplant TR-5 described above, so I suppose the model kit version should really be described as the Gaplant TR-5 Hrairoo with Support Unit.
The Hrairoo’s shoulder units can be attached to the Hrdudu in place of its original wing units, creating the support machine Hrdudu II. Like the Hrdudu’s claw wing unit, the shoulder claw unit contains a beam emitter which can be connected to the barrel of the long blade rifle, while the shoulder thruster unit contains a generator similar to those used in other TR series machines. A drum frame is attached to each shoulder unit, providing an attachment point for additional multi arm units or even Psyco Gundam arms.
The spread beam guns installed in the front skirt armor resemble the diffuse beam guns used in the enhanced shield booster, and their placement is similar to those of the Gabthley. Small manipulators can also be attached to rails on the underside of the front armor. The side armor can carry energy pack holders, and the beam sabers stored in the side armor function as beam guns in mobile armor form.
The multi arm unit on the machine’s rear skirt armor is more compact than the Hazel Custom’s sub arm unit, but it can’t be used at the same time as the mobile suit’s own arms. Its manipulator can hold equipment such as a shield or shield booster, a Primrose mega particle cannon, or a long blade rifle, and in mobile armor form it is used to hold the long blade rifle in place. A winch mechanism installed in the base of the arm also allows it to function as a winch unit.
Two shield boosters can be attached to the beam pistol or long blade rifle via a special latch.
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