MMS-02 Raze

**Mobile Suit Name:** MMS-02 Raze

**Armor/Armor Material:** Nanolaminate Armor, High Hardness Rare Alloy(Frame)

**Height:** 10m

**Weight:** 18 tons (Empty), 24 tons (Fully loaded)

**Tier:** Basic

## Weaponry:

### Fixed Weaponry

1x GR-MV12: Mounted in the left side of the machine’s head, is a 12.7mm heavy machinegun designed to destroy lightly skinned vehicles, along with acting as a CIWS platform to destroy incoming missiles.

### Handheld Weaponry

1x GR-MR02 Battle Blade: A broadsword styled blade carried on either waist hardpoint of the Raze, it’s a relatively sizable blade and designed for general anti-mobile suit combat. The spine of the blade has been reinforced with a small amount of Rare Metal Alloy in order to grant the blade great rigidity.  One sword is always carried on the left side skirt hardpoint.

1x GR-MW04 40mm Machinegun: Styled after the Graze’s 120mm rifle, the GR-MW04 machinegun is a very high rate of fire machine gun designed for destroying lightly armored vehicles, and other miniature mobile suits. It has the capacity to be loaded up with two magazines at the same time, in the same way as the Graze’s rifle.

1x Humbler 35mm Railgun: One of the most powerful weapons developed for a Mini-Ms, the Humbler railgun was designed from the ground up to be a very potent weapon. It has a 15 round magazine, with an internal capacitor that constantly draws power from the Raze’s Ahab Reactor to keep it charged up, allowing 5 rounds to be fired before the capacitor has to be recharged(3 turns to recharge). The Humbler fires it’s rounds at hypersonic speeds, allowing the small High Hardness Rare Alloy rounds to pierce through tank armor. Along with having anti-mobile suit capabilities in terms of targeting sensors, and other such weak spots. Due to the extremely high speed of the projectile, the recoil force is extremely high leading to a very low rate of fire with only 2-3 rounds being able to fired every turn. The Humbler is mounted underneath the right arm of the Raze, if the GR-MW04 and the Humbler are mounted on the same arm, you cannot fire both of them at the same time.

## Equipment

### Handheld Equipment

1x GR-ME02 Shield: A simple shield styled after the Graze’s shield, it is made out of High Hardness Rare Alloy and lacks any nanolaminate coating. It’s designed to help the Raze take enemy tankfire and or lower scale mobile suit weaponry (such as submachine guns, or weaker rifles). It can take several 120mm shots before failing.

### Fixed Equipment

1x Weapon Rack: Mounted on the rear of the Raze’s waist, is a simple storage rack where a GR-MW04 machinegun can be mounted, and or 4 GR-MW04 magazines can be stored, or 2 Humbler magazines can be stored. You can also store a combination of magazines, 1 Humbler magazine takes the spot of two GR-MW04 magazines.

1x Wire Claw: Mounted on the left arm of the Raze is a simple short range wire claw, a rocket propelled claw that can be used to grab onto objects. It can be used to grapple on enemy units, and or used to help maneuver in Zero-G.

Modular Holographic Cloak System: Consisting of three different nanolaminate derived “capes”, the MHCS is meant to serve two primary purposes, the first is to add the functional benefits of a cloak, allowing the Raze to be less bogged down in very rainy or snowy environments. The secondary purpose is to simply look nice, and add a “knightly” look to the Raze. The cloak provides no armor protection to the Raze, though it does consume a moderate amount of power, it has a “Low power” mode that turns the physical cloaks holographics off, revealing the dark-greyish color of the nanolaminate derived holographic material.

(OPTIONAL) AV System: The Raze’s cockpit and piloting systems support the capability to be installed with an AV system, though unlike normal Mobile Suits. Its performance increase is about 60% as effective as a normal Mobile Suits AV system.

## Appearance

The MMS-02 Raze with it’s Modular Holographic Cloak System deactivated (Left side),Activated (Middle), activated in low power mode(right)

## History

The Raze follows a long line of New Empire Miniature Mobile Suits, heading all the way back to Union of the Orion Union, and the New Empire. The first mobile suits developed by this program would be the Body Guard Radiobeam, a unit manufactured as an attempt to make a MS to directly counter the extremely high numbers of Mobile Dolls that the Legion has. This attempt was by all regards a failure, as by the events of Gralia Beta Sewers in march of 6108 A.D, the ATG program had started.

The ATG program would lead to two new mobile suits to be adopted by the New Empire, the ATG-05 Honoshiba, and the ATG-07 Konojima. Both machines would see limited use in the Dogma incident, though their general performance left much to be desired. Though it wasn’t until the Tikal Incident, and the severe losses that the New Empire suffered during the battles there that lead to an immediate successor program would be kickstarted.

This program would have a spin-off program that would lead to the development of the AGSU-05 Mini-Ms Series, yet while the AGSU program would quickly bear fruit, the MMMS program or Miniature Mobile Suit program. Wouldn’t bear fruit until very late 6110, as right before the events of Alpha Centauri the first prototypes of MMS-00 would be produced at The Depot. This prototype would eventually go through very rapid design prototyping as by the end of Alpha Centauri the first designs for what would become the MMS-02 Raze would be finished.

The key designer behind the project was the same man that made sure the AGSU-05 series would be a successor, it was General Falke Liseli. A general with more than 30 years of frontline combat experience, and hailing from the world of Al-Jadii, he keenly remembers the faults and failures of the New Empire military more than any other living general. As such the MMS-02 was designed to fulfill his dream of a mass production unit that would replace rusting third line mobile suits, and essentially become the mainstay of PDF forces in much poorer parts of the Empire.

Sadly for Liseli, the MMS-02 would suffer numerous production delays, as issues after issues popped up with it’s reactor and especially issues with the production of its railgun, lead to the first 100 units. All made by the end of February 6111 A.D, to be scrapped and sent back to the factory,the particular factory in question being none other than.

The Depot, the singular largest New Empire MS RnD facility, is currently the sole producer of the MMS-02 Raze. This would prove to be a problem, as the complete reconstruction of 100 units, along with The Depot currently focusing on producing a couple hundred Shiranuis every month, struggled to keep producing both. This has lead to roughly only 12 MMS-02 Razes currently being combat ready, with six of them being simply rebuilt prototypes, while the rest are a mixture of freshly produced machines and rebuilt machines.

All 12 machines sit idle, awaiting their pilots in one of The Depots hundreds of MS bays. Currently General Liseli is fighting to get the Raze into mass production, as while the machine is so far being cheap to produce it is proving difficult to produce it’s miniaturized ahab reactor, as those are not made at the Depot, and instead having to be shipped in from off planet.

## Performance

Like its larger cousins the Raze is a highly durable, and high endurance machine capable of sustaining one on one fights with any type of tank. In terms of sheer durability, the Raze’s nanolaminate is half as effective as normal mobile suit grade nanolaminate armor. Only capable of stopping 1 Beam cannon shot, or 2 beam rifle shots before failing. Its frame though is made to the same toughness and durability standards as a normal IBO mobile suit, with the closest comparison being a Graze.

Yet if the Raze was only tanky, it would be useless as the defining characteristics of the miniature mobile suit are the following. It’s impressive ground mobility, being able to keep pace with some of its larger brethren, along with packing a decent amount of firepower. While it’s miniaturized ahab reactor, and a quite compact cockpit leads the suit to underpower in the realm of raw power output, what power output the suit has goes into a decent sensor suite, along with the very impressive Humbler railgun. Overall the suit leans far more into being a durable, high endurance, agile unit that packs a decent punch.

Though the Humbler fails in terms of sheer outright speed, as in space it becomes quite slow being outsped by the vast majority of it’s larger brethren, along with being out maneuvered by even spacefighters. Overall the units performance in space is best relegated to walking along the hulls of ships or stations, and or being used to board enemy stations and ships.

## Speed

**Straight line acceleration:** 1

**AMBAC maneuvers:** 4

**Direction changing speed:** 2

**Generator Output:** 40% of a normal Ahab Reactor

**Main Thruster Count:** 4 (2 on backpack, 1 per leg)

**Vernier Count:** 4 (2 per shoulder)