VMF-MSX02 Hymemaios

Model Number: VMF-MSX02
Code name: Hymemaios
Unit Type: Close-combat mobile suit
Manufacturer: Prototype Mobile Suits, Inc
Operator: Venus Military Force
First deployment: AC 217
Pilots: Chayton Pembroke
Accommodation: Pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Height: 16.7 meters
Weight: 7.5 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: 4 x vulcan gun, fire-linked, mounted in head; 2 x machinecannon, fire-linked, mounted on torso
Optional fixed armaments: 2 x buster shield, mounted on forearms, can be used as melee weapons or fired as short-range projectile weapons
Optional hand armaments: 2 x beam saber, stored in charge racks on waist armor, hand carried in use; 10 x superheated shuriken, stored in charge racks on leg armor, hand-thrown in use

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.

While the Anteros was designed largely as a general purpose mobile suit, the Hymemaios was designed as a high-mobility suit for close-quarters combat. While Quatre Winner's PMS-XXXG-02SR3 Sandrock (Ver. PMS) boasts greater mobility, the Hymemaios boasts better overall melee capabilities, partly from pilot Chayton Pembroke's tendancy to dual-wield his mobile suit's two beam sabers and make the most of the suit's mobility. Both Chayton and Arthur would put their Gundams to good use during the war, taking on the Mars Defense Corps with devastating effectiveness.