Technology & Combat Characteristics
A mobile armor developed following the footsteps of the AMX-103 Hamma Hamma, the Medussa is a highly maneuverable unit, combining the high mobility granted by its transformable mode with tremendous firepower provided by the four wired 3-barrel beam guns hosted in its limbs and controlled via the Quasi-Psycommu System. Capable of great stealth, the Medussa usually remains in its mobile armor form until a direct confrontation, switching to mobile suit mode to crush its opponent the 4 remote-controlled limbs.
To withstand the stress generated by the use of multiple remotes with the Quasi Psycommu System and the high mobility of the mobile suit, the Medussa's pilots such as the Schlange Team usually wear heavily armored normal suits that cover their entire body except for the eyes.
History
Designed by Axis Zeon near the end of the First Neo Zeon War, the Medussa was adopted by Newborn Neo Zeon for its special forces and was known to be the nearly signature unit of commander Luce's forces.
In UC 0092, the Schlange Team, dispatched for a special mission, discovered that Mineva Lao Zabi and the crew transporting her had been tracked down by the Ra Gills, and started patrolling the area around Moon Moon in their Medussas. When the ship arrived and demanded to inspect the colony, the Schlange team ambushed them, with one of the Medussas using its remote controlled limbs to destroy one of Londo Bell's RGM-86R GM III.
Once the Schlange Team infiltrated the colony, they proceed to join their allies and, after identifying themselves to Mineva's crew as subordinates of lieutenant commander Reuss, stated that they were now in charge of the mission. When the rest of the Federation’s GM III entered the colony cluster to retaliate, the Medussa Squad fired their beam cannons, an act that started a three-sided battle when one of the pilots of Mineva’s crew tried to stop team leader Gatt from damaging the colony (because the princess was still inside), prompting the sadistic pilot to kill him on spot as he stated it was not his responsibility and that the crew was just “dropout meant to cover his squad”.
The three Medussas later engaged the rest of Londo Bell forces and surrounded Saphira Gardner's MSZ-010A1 Theta Plus after her surprised attack was foiled by Gatt's I-Field, before the AMS-123X-X Moon Gundam entered the fight as well and destroyed Lephy's Medussa with one of its Psycho Plates.
Only one of the units, losing all of its limbs, managed to escape the colony, but destroyed under Luce Krangel's AMX-015-4S Dag Doll for failing her.