VMF03-2HMS Atropos

Model Number: VMF03-2HMS
Code name: Atropos
Unit Type: Fire support mass production 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: 16.3 meters
Weight: 9.1 tons
Armor: Neo Titanium alloy
Powerplant: Ultracompact fusion reactor, power output rating unknown
Equipment and design features: Head mounted sensors, range unknown; 2 x leg hardpoint; 2 x backpack hardpoint
Fixed armaments: 2 x double grenade launcher, 20 round magazine, mounted on arms; 2 x shield, mounted on shoulders, mounts 4 missiles and 1 small beam gun
Optional fixed armaments: 2 x large beam cannon, mounted on backpack hardpoints; 2 x 2-tube missile launcher, mounted on leg hardpoints; 2 x 8-tube micromissile launcher, mounted on leg hardpoints; 1 x long range cannon, sensor suite and cannon mounted on backpack hardpoints
Optional hand armaments: Superheated long saber, stored in charge rack 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 Atropos served a role similar to the heavily armed Serpent II, only to a greater extent and with greater ability to serve multiple mission roles. Many weapons could be mounted on the suit's four hardpoints, and the large shields mounted on the shoulders provided the suit with additional armament mounts as well as considerable protection from enemy fire. As if the armament of the suit wasn't reason enough to be wary of it, it was armored with the extremely durable Neo Titanium alloy, giving it an armor rating second only to the Gundams being fielded by Mars. The production of the Atropos would relegate the older Serpent II to occupational forces and guard roles instead of frontline combat.