VMF02-2SMS Aglaia

Model Number: VMF02-2SMS
Code name: Aglaia
Unit Type: Mass production space-use mobile suit
Manufacturer: Venus Military Force (PMS design)
Operator: Venus Military Force
First deployment: AC 217
Pilots: Venus Military Force pilots
Accommodation: Pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Height: 16.5 meters
Weight: 8.7 tons
Armor: Titanium steel alloy
Powerplant: Ultracompact fusion reactor, power output rating unknown
Equipment and design features: Head mounted sensors, range unknown
Fixed armaments: 2 x grenade launcher, 10 round magazine, mounted on arms
Optional fixed armaments: 2 x 5-tube missile launcher, mounted on legs
Optional hand armaments: 2 x beam saber, stored in charge racks on backpack, hand carried in use; 1 x beam rifle, hand carried in use, 1 x beam cannon, hand carried in use; 1 x double gattling, hand carried in use

Following the capture of all seven Prototype Mobile Suits, Inc engineers by Chayton and Arthur Pembroke, six of the team managed to escape Venus shortly after the completion of the VMF-MSX01 Anteros and VMF-MSX02 Hymemaios mobile suits. Left only with head engineer Tiffany Geslacht, the Venus military put the remaining captive to work designing new mass produced mobile suits, resulting in the VMF02-2SMS Aglaia, VMF03-2HMS Atropos, and VMF02-3MS Tisiphone suits. Unable to refuse, Tiffany once again put her design expertise to use in designing seemingly sound designs, but deliberately making sure the finished designs would not be as efficient as others credited to the PMS design team.

The Aglaia was designed to fill a role similiar to the VMF01-2MS Serpent II, only in space. While sporting a color scheme similiar to the brown Serpent II, the Aglaia was easily distinguishable from the more heavily armed unit. Provided with decent space mobility via a booster-ladden backpack, and a modest standard armament, the Aglaia was not a truly inferior design, though its performance still ranked well below suits being fielded by the Preventers and Earth Defense Organization at the time. Due to the simplicity of the design though, it was very easy and relatively inexpensive to mass-produce.