General and Technical Data
Model Number: VMF01-2MS
Code name: Serpent II
Unit Type: General purpose mass-production mobile suit
Manufacturer: VMF Research Group - based on an old Barton Foundation/OZ design
Operator: Venus Military Force
First deployment: Late AC 215
Pilots: Venus Military Force pilots
Accommodation: Pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Height: 16.6 meters
Weight: 8.6 tons
Armor: Titanium alloy
Powerplant: Ultracompact fusion reactor, power output rating unknown
Equipment and design features: Head mounted sensors, range unknown; external fuel tanks, increasing range/operating time by 1/3, mounted on backpack; 3 x Planet Defensor unit, stored on rear skirt armor, can be used to repel most beam weapons fire
Fixed armaments: 2 x 12-tube micromissile launcher, mounted in shoulders
Optional fixed armaments: none
Optional hand armaments: 1 or 2 x double gattling, hand carried in use; 1 x beam chain gun, hand carried in use; 1 x dober gun, hand carried in use
Code name: Serpent II
Unit Type: General purpose mass-production mobile suit
Manufacturer: VMF Research Group - based on an old Barton Foundation/OZ design
Operator: Venus Military Force
First deployment: Late AC 215
Pilots: Venus Military Force pilots
Accommodation: Pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Height: 16.6 meters
Weight: 8.6 tons
Armor: Titanium alloy
Powerplant: Ultracompact fusion reactor, power output rating unknown
Equipment and design features: Head mounted sensors, range unknown; external fuel tanks, increasing range/operating time by 1/3, mounted on backpack; 3 x Planet Defensor unit, stored on rear skirt armor, can be used to repel most beam weapons fire
Fixed armaments: 2 x 12-tube micromissile launcher, mounted in shoulders
Optional fixed armaments: none
Optional hand armaments: 1 or 2 x double gattling, hand carried in use; 1 x beam chain gun, hand carried in use; 1 x dober gun, hand carried in use
Technical and Historical Notes
As part of Venus' Rapid
Militarization Plan, the Serpent II was the first "new" mobile suit to
be produced since the disarmament of the Earth Sphere Unified Nation in
AC 196. Little more than a more modern version of the Barton
Foundation's Serpent, the Serpent II was
intended to be the backbone of Venus' military strength, a general
purpose mobile suit that could perform well in space or on the ground,
supported by the more lightly equipped but faster and more manuverable VMF01-1VMS Orion. The suit's two most
noticeable changes from the original Serpent are an enlarged booster
pack with auxillery fuel tanks, and the addition of three Planet
Defensor units first made famous by the OZ-13MSX2 Mercurius during the
Eve Wars.
Despite the later production of newer mass production mobile suits designed by the unwilling Tiffany Geslacht of Prototype Mobile Suits, Inc, the Serpent II would remain a mainstay of the Venus military throughout the war.
Despite the later production of newer mass production mobile suits designed by the unwilling Tiffany Geslacht of Prototype Mobile Suits, Inc, the Serpent II would remain a mainstay of the Venus military throughout the war.