ZGMF-X12 Gundam Astray Out Frame

This article is about a fictional weapon from the Cosmic Era of the anime Gundam metaseries.
The ZGMF-X12 Astray Out Frame is a unique mobile suit custom-built by Junk Guild technician and MBF-P02 Astray Red Frame pilot Lowe Guele, using the incomplete frame of a ZAFT mobile suit that he salvaged. While the Out Frame is intended primarily for peaceful purposes, it is nonetheless very capable of combat use. Its cockpit is identical to that of the ZGMF-X09A Justice and ZGMF-X10A Freedom, and the reaction of ZGMF-X999A ZAKU Trial Type pilot Courtney Hieronimus is the first indication that the frame was of a ZGMF-X12A Testament.
Out Frame's only fixed armament is a pair of "beam signs", which are mounted in its waist armor. These beam signs are extremely versatile, capable of functioning as beam sabers, fan-like signs, bulb-shaped shields, and ribbon-like whips. In shield mode, the beam signs are capable of blocking even a positron blaster cannon. In addition, the beam signs can combine to form larger signs or a beam nunchaku weapon, and can be attached to one of Out Frame's cables and spun rapidly to produce a much larger beam shield. Also, unlike ordinary beam sabers, the beam signs can be configured to any color, or multiple colors at once. This function even allows the fan mode to create video displays. The Out Frame also has a hardpoint on its back capable of mounting the Earth Alliance's Striker Packs.
In late C.E. 71, Lowe gave the Out Frame to freelance journalist Jess Rabble, and also allowed him to borrow the compact artificial intelligence unit "8" to assist in its operation. Jess typically carries an ultra-high-resolution "camera gun", and often used the Striker Pack hardpoint to carry a pair of heavy manipulator arms (which also mount two "Armor Schneider" folding knives) and a large backpack known as the "Back Home" (which contains living quarters for the pilot), or the "G-Flight", a huge Striker that gives Out Frame sustained flight capability on Earth and enhanced acceleration in space. The Back Home also contains both living quarters for the pilot and camouflage system called the "Shooting Cloak". When deployed, this system covers the Out Frame with a cloth-like cloak that alters its color to match the surrounding terrain. Both the Back Home and G-Flight Striker were designed by 8. The Out Frame is also sometimes equipped with an AQM/E-X01 Aile Striker pack, and on one occasion Jess used AQM/E-X03 Launcher Striker that he found while trapped in an abandoned asteroid base. In C.E. 73, Out Frame is further upgraded with the "Multi-Pack", an adapter for its Striker hardpoint that allows for the use of ZAKU series Wizard and ZGMF-X56S Impulse Silhouette packs.
It is later upgraded by Lowe to the two-seat ZGMF-X12D Out Frame D after sustaining severe damage from its sister unit RGX-00 Testament. The Out Frame D includes a secondary cockpit for a co-pilot/observer in the head, and resembles Testament more closely than the original configuration did (the only externally obvious differences are the head, chest armor, and beam sign mounts). While Testament is in several respects a more powerful mobile suit, mounting a nuclear reactor and Phase Shift armor compared to Out Frame D's battery and foam metal armor, the latter unit's reduced weight gives it superior speed and agility. Kaite pilots Out Frame D (equipped with the Sword Striker) with Jess as his co-pilot to defeat Testament. Jess's assistance proves instrumental in this battle, as his direct view of the battlefield allows Kaite to overcome the sensor-scrambling effects of Testament's Mirage Colloid Virus Spreader. Afterward, Kaite takes Testament as his personal unit and Jess resumes piloting Out Frame alone. When Earth Alliance forces attack the Junk Guild's GENESIS Alpha base, Jess launches in Out Frame D with the G-Flight attached, but after it sustains damage it is replaced first by a Doppelhorn Striker and then by an Aile Striker, which Kaite forcibly removed from a GAT-02L2 Dagger L and GAT-04 Windam, respectively. The unit now has access to a Destiny Silhouette pack after capturing it from the ZGMF-X56S/θ Destiny Impulse Unit 01 during a three-way battle with the .
Specifications
ZGMF-X12 Astray Out Frame
Unit type: custom civilian-use mobile suit
Manufacturer: Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty/Junk Guild
User: Jess Rabble
First deployment: CE 71
Overall height: unknown
Weight: unknown
Powerplant: Ultracompact energy battery
Special equipment: hardpoint for mounting Striker Packs, cable launcher x2
Optional equipment: Back Home, Shooting Cloak, heavy manipulator arm x2, Multi-Pack
Armament: gun camera x1, "Armor Schneider" knife x2, beam sign x2
Optional armament: beam rifle x1, triple smoke grenade launcher x4
Pilot: Jess Rabble, Kaite Madigan
===ZGMF-X12+AQM/E-X01 Astray Aile Out Frame===
Unit type: custom civilian-use mobile suit
Manufacturer: Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty/Junk Guild
User: Jess Rabble
First deployment: CE 72
Overall height: unknown
Weight: unknown
Powerplant: Ultracompact energy battery
Special equipment: hardpoint for mounting Striker Packs, cable launcher x2
Armament: gun camera x1, beam sign x2, beam saber x2
Optional armament: beam rifle x1
Pilot: Jess Rabble
===ZGMF-X12+AQM/E-X03 Astray Launcher Out Frame===
Unit type: custom civilian-use mobile suit
Manufacturer: Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty/Junk Guild
First deployment: CE 73
User: Jess Rabble
Overall height: unknown
Weight: unknown
Powerplant: Ultracompact energy battery
Special equipment: hardpoint for mounting Striker Packs, cable launcher x2
Armament: beam sign x2, cable launcher x2, "Agni" 320mm hyper impulse beam cannon x1, 120mm anti-ship vulcan gun x1, 350mm gun launcher x2
Optional armament: gun camera x1
Pilot: Jess Rabble
ZGMF-X12 Astray Out Frame G-Flight
Unit type: custom civilian-use mobile suit
Manufacturer: Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty/Junk Guild
User: Jess Rabble
First deployment: CE 73
Overall height: unknown
Weight: unknown
Powerplant: Ultracompact energy battery
Special equipment: hardpoint for mounting Striker Packs, cable launcher x2
Armament: gun camera x1, beam sign x2
Optional armament: beam rifle x1
Pilot: Jess Rabble
ZGMF-X12/A1 Astray Gunner Out Frame
Unit type: custom civilian-use mobile suit
Manufacturer: Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty/Junk Guild
User: Jess Rabble
First deployment: N/A
Overall height: unknown
Weight: unknown
Powerplant: Ultracompact energy battery
Special equipment: hardpoint for mounting Striker Packs, cable launcher x2, Multi-Pack
Armament: beam sign x2, M1500 "Orthros" high-energy long-range beam cannon
Pilot: Jess Rabble
ZGMF-X12/K Astray Slash Out Frame
Unit type: custom civilian-use mobile suit
Manufacturer: Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty/Junk Guild
User: Jess Rabble
First deployment: N/A
Overall height: unknown
Weight: unknown
Powerplant: Ultracompact energy battery
Special equipment: hardpoint for mounting Striker Packs, cable launcher x2, Multi-Pack
Armament: beam sign x2, MMI-M826 "Hydra" Gatling beam cannon x2
Optional armament: gun camera x1, beam rifle x1
Pilot: Jess Rabble
ZGMF-X12/M Astray Blaze Out Frame
Unit type: custom civilian-use mobile suit
Manufacturer: Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty/Junk Guild
User: Jess Rabble
First deployment: N/A
Overall height: unknown
Weight: unknown
Powerplant: Ultracompact energy battery
Special equipment: hardpoint for mounting Striker Packs, cable launcher x2, Multi-Pack
Armament: gun camera x1, beam sign x2, 14-round AGM138 "Firebee" guided missile launcher x2
Optional armament: beam rifle x1
Pilot: Jess Rabble
ZGMF-X12/α Astray Force Out Frame
Unit type: custom civilian-use mobile suit
Manufacturer: Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty/Junk Guild
User: Jess Rabble
First deployment: N/A
Overall height: unknown
Weight: unknown
Powerplant: Ultracompact energy battery
Special equipment: hardpoint for mounting Striker Packs, cable launcher x2, Multi-Pack
Armament: gun camera x1, beam sign x2, MA-M941 "Vajra" beam saber x2
Optional armament: beam rifle x1
Pilot: Jess Rabble
ZGMF-X12/β Astray Sword Out Frame
Unit type: custom civilian-use mobile suit
Manufacturer: Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty/Junk Guild
User: Jess Rabble
First deployment: N/A
Overall height: unknown
Weight: unknown
Powerplant: Ultracompact energy battery
Special equipment: hardpoint for mounting Striker Packs, cable launcher x2, Multi-Pack
Armament: beam sign x2, RQM60 "Flash-Edge" beam boomerang x2, MMI-710 "Excalibur" anti-ship sword x2
Optional armament: gun camera x1, beam rifle x1
Pilot: Jess Rabble
ZGMF-X12/γ Astray Blast Out Frame
Unit type: custom civilian-use mobile suit
Manufacturer: Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty/Junk Guild
User: Jess Rabble
First deployment: CE 73
Overall height: unknown
Weight: unknown
Powerplant: Ultracompact energy battery
Special equipment: hardpoint for mounting Striker Packs, cable launcher x2, Multi-Pack
Armament: beam sign x2, M2000F "Kerberos" high-energy long-range beam cannon x2, MMI-M16XE2 "Deluge" hyper-velocity rail cannon x2, GMF-39 4-barrel missile launcher (AGM141 "Firefly" guided missile) x1, MA-M80 "Defiant" beam javelin x2
Pilot: Jess Rabble
ZGMF-X12D Astray Out Frame D
Unit type: custom civilian-use mobile suit
Manufacturer: Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty/Junk Guild
User: Jess Rabble
First deployment: CE 73
Overall height: unknown
Weight: unknown
Powerplant: Ultracompact energy battery
Special equipment: hardpoint for mounting Striker Packs
Optional equipment: Back Home, Shooting Cloak, heavy manipulator arm x2, Multi-Pack
Armament: gun camera x1, beam sign x2
Optional armament: beam rifle x1, triple smoke grenade launcher x4
Pilots: Jess Rabble, Kaite Madigan
===ZGMF-X12D+AQM/E-X01 Astray Aile Out Frame D===
Unit type: custom civilian-use mobile suit
Manufacturer: Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty/Junk Guild
User: Jess Rabble
First deployment: CE 73
Overall height: unknown
Weight: unknown
Powerplant: Ultracompact energy battery
Special equipment: hardpoint for mounting Striker Packs
Armament: beam sign x2, beam saber x2
Optional armament: camera gun x1, beam rifle x1
Pilot: Jess Rabble
===ZGMF-X12D+AQM/E-X02 Astray Sword Out Frame D===
Unit type: custom civilian-use mobile suit
Manufacturer: Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty/Junk Guild
User: Jess Rabble
First deployment: CE 73
Overall height: unknown
Weight: unknown
Powerplant: Ultracompact energy battery
Special equipment: hardpoint for mounting Striker Packs
Armament: beam sign x2, "Schwert Gewehr" 15.78m anti-ship sword x1, "Panzer Eisen" rocket anchor x1, "Midas Messer" beam boomerang x1
Optional armament: camera gun x1, beam rifle x1
Pilots: Jess Rabble, Kaite Madigan
===ZGMF-X12D+AQM/E-X05 Astray Divine Out Frame D===
Unit type: custom civilian-use mobile suit
Manufacturer: Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty/Junk Guild
User: Jess Rabble
First deployment: CE 73
Overall height: unknown
Weight: unknown
Powerplant: Ultracompact energy battery
Special equipment: hardpoint for mounting Striker Packs
Armament: beam sign x2, heavy grappling claw
Optional armament: camera gun x1, beam rifle x1
Pilot: Jess Rabble
===ZGMF-X12D+AQM/E-M11 Astray Doppelhorn Out Frame D===
Unit type: custom civilian-use mobile suit
Manufacturer: Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty/Junk Guild
User: Jess Rabble
First deployment: CE 73
Overall height: unknown
Weight: unknown
Powerplant: Ultracompact energy battery
Special equipment: hardpoint for mounting Striker Packs
Armament: beam sign x2, dual recoilless cannon x1
Optional armament: gun camera x1, beam rifle x1
Pilot: Jess Rabble
ZGMF-X12D Astray Out Frame D G-Flight
Unit type: custom civilian-use mobile suit
Manufacturer: Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty/Junk Guild
User: Jess Rabble
First deployment: CE 73
Overall height: unknown
Weight: unknown
Powerplant: Ultracompact energy battery
Special equipment: hardpoint for mounting Striker Packs
Armament: gun camera x1, beam sign x2
Optional armament: beam rifle x1
Pilot: Jess Rabble
ZGMF-X12D/θ Astray Destiny Out Frame D
Unit type: custom civilian-use mobile suit
Manufacturer: Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty/Junk Guild
User: Jess Rabble
First deployment: CE 73
Overall height: unknown
Weight: unknown
Powerplant: Ultracompact energy battery
Special equipment: hardpoint for mounting Striker Packs, cable launcher x2, Multi-Pack
Armament: beam sign x2, MMI-710 "Excalibur" anti-ship sword x2, high-energy long-range beam cannon x2
Pilot: Jess Rabble
Trivia
*The letter "D" in the Out Frame D's name originally had no actual meaning. When pressed, Lowe suggested "Duel" and "Destiny", but both were rejected on account of other mobile suits using those names. Ultimately, the name "Dash" was settled on after Setona Winters' suggestion.

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