VMF-MSX01 Anteros

Model Number: VMF-MSX01
Code name: Anteros
Unit Type: Transformable mobile suit
Manufacturer: Prototype Mobile Suits, Inc
Operator: Venus Military Force
First deployment: AC 217
Pilots: Arthur Pembroke the Second
Accommodation: Pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Height: 16.6 meters
Weight: 7.6 tons
Armor: Gundanium alloy
Powerplant: Ultracompact fusion reactor, power output rating unknown
Equipment and design features: Head mounted sensors, range unknown; remote activated self-destruct system
Fixed armaments: 2 x vulcan gun, fire-linked, mounted in head; 2 x vulcan gun, fire-linked, mounted on torso
Optional fixed armaments: 1 x shield, mounted on left arm, nosecone of fighter mode
Optional hand armaments: 1 x beam sword, connected to suit's reactor, stored in rack on left waist armor, hand carried in use;1 x buster rifle, powered by rechargable power cell, forms nose of fighter mode, hand carried in use; 2 x 2-tube electromagnetic pulse grenade launcher, mounted on forearms

After the seven Prototype Mobile Suits, Inc engineers were kidnapped by the Pembroke sons, they were forced to design Gundams for the Venus Military Force. Unwilling but unable to do anything about it, they grudgingly designed and built two Gundams before six of the team were able to escape. Those two Gundams were the VMF-MSX01 Anteros and the VMF-MSX02 Hymemaios. The disgruntled engineers were forced to create the new Gundams, but they took their revenge in a very subtle way: Many systems and hardware elements were designed to operate less efficiently than their Martian counterparts. Most of these discrepancies escaped notice by Venusian engineers, most of whom were far less experienced than the PMS team and accepted the designs with little comment.

The Anteros was a transformable mobile suit with a very basic armament: head and shoulder mounted vulcan guns, a beam sword, shield, and a toned down rendition of the buster rifle weapon made famous by the original Wing Gundam in AC 195. After it was built, Arthur had Venusian technicians further modify the mobile suit, adding a pair of EMP grenade launchers to the suit's forearms. While boasting performance specs somewhat below the Martian Gundams, the abilities of its pilot Arthur Pembroke would enable the Anteros to put up a surprisingly good fight against Sidra's OZ-13MS2 Epyon II, Siduri's PMS-MDC-01SS Star-Streak, and Meiran's PMS-MDC-02S Seiryuu in the later part of AC 217.