MS-9R Rick Dom

When the Zeonic Company's space combat MS-11 Act Zaku development project is canned, the Zimmad Company quickly responds by making a variant of their well-proven MS-09 Dom ground combat mobile suit. It's near the end of the One Year War in UC 0079, and the Principality of Zeon, realizing that the outcome of the war is going to be decided in space, devotes all of its mobile suit manufacturing resources to space combat units. Refining the Dom design for space is simple, and mostly involves replacing the hover jet thrusters with standard rocket thrusters (and, judging by its lighter empty weight, opening up more interior space for fuel). The result is the MS-09R Rick-Dom, and Zeon manufacturers begin cranking out hundreds of these new units late in the war, replacing the aging MS-06F Zaku II as the premiere front line combat unit. When the Zeon military launches its "United Maintenance Plan" to streamline manufacturing by redesigning mobile suits to use the same parts, the Rick Dom is redesigned into the MS-09R-2 Rick Dom 2.

Production: Mass

Use: Space Combat

Type: Mobile Suit

Manufacturer: Zimmad Company

Operator: Zeonic Corps

Propulsion: Rocket Thruster

Armaments: Diffuse Beam Cannon, Heat Saber, 360mm Giant Bazooka, Beam Bazooka

Armor: Super Hard Steel Alloy