Character's Name: Walter Van Owen
Character's Age: 27
Character's Gundam/Mobile Suit:
1st mobile suit being used: YMS-16M Xamel
2nd mobile suit being used: RMS-142 Xeku Zwei
3rd mobile suit being used: ZMT-S29S Zanneck
List of Mobile Suit's weapons:
680mm Cannon - A massive semiautomatic cannon, it's fixed to a turret mount that gives the weapon 360 degrees of motion and be controlled independently of the suit by a gunner. Originally intended for shelling targets from several kilometers away, but can also be used as a very capable sniping weapon. One of the few true artillery guns in the UC timeline. Can load a wide variety of solid ammunition types.
20mm Vulcan Turret - A large seven-barreled vulcan turret capable of mounting and freely switching between four ammunition reserves. Gundam is a show that prefers beams to real bullets, but the real-life equivalent of this gun can quite literally cut tanks in half.
8-Tube Multipurpose Missle Rack - Due to a unique casing system, the launcher can use any missle (or missles) of 36cm diameter or smaller. Carries 8 missiles per tube.
Beam Spray Gun - A short-range handheld beam weapon normally carried by GMs. It has poor accuracy but good firepower, arguably being more damaging than the RX-78's beam rifle at close ranges due to the wider focus. Roughly analagous to an SMG for Mobile Suits.
Roland - A white Haro. Walter's copilot and sometimes-gunner, though the little guy is arguably a better close combatant than a sharpshooter. A great guy.
Timeline your character is from: Universal Century
Link to Gundam site you're getting your information from:
mahq.netGenetic Type: Oldtype
Biography: An Earth Federation artilleryman during the One Year War, he recieved stellar results both in the field and formal marksmanship tests, and was one of the earliest pilots to be assigned a GM Sniper Custom unit. He was placed with the Fogcutters, a team of highly-skilled MS pilots sent to scout Zeon-occupied territories and lay groundwork for larger offensives.
After joining up with the Fogcutters, however, his performance fell massively- he had joined the military to pick up chicks, and with no nearby women to impress his motivation dropped like a rock. Leaving a note not to look for him and deserting on foot, Walter joined up with the Zeon troops for a time as they had a surprising number of cute girls, both as pilots or support staff. Somewhat later still, during the tail-end of the war, he turned up at a Federation base, covered in bruises and mumbling about how "those space bitches is crazy.".
For the next few years, he spent most of his time ping ponging back and fourth between his ex-Zeon buddies and his ex-Federation buddies, joining up with one or the other depending on which had better poon at the time. Strangely, all the women he formed a relationship would invariably die from stray beam shots during large battles, even if they were inside of a base or watching from the edge of the hotzone. During the quiet periods between violent uprisings, when merc work was scarce, he makes his living hauling freight between Earth and the Sides- legal or otherwise- in a run-down Papua-class supply freighter known as the
Manatee.