Technology & Combat Characteristics
The DT-6800W Daughtress Weapon is the artillery support variant of the United Nations Earth (UNE) mass production general purpose mobile suit, the DT-6800A Daughtress. Overall, the Daughtress Weapon maintains the Daughtress' basic frame and its ability to function both on Earth and in space with the right adjustments to its parts and systems. Its main difference from the standard Daughtress is the addition of a shoulder-mounted 500mm cannon, allowing it to function as an assault mobile suit by bombarding targets from a distance with its cannon. Additionally, the Daughtress Weapon can function as a rear support unit that provides covering fire for allies.
The Daughtress Weapon's primary armament is its shoulder-mounted 500mm cannon which fires explosive rounds. For close quarters combat, the Daughtress Weapon is armed with a beam saber. The Daughtress Weapon can optionally be equipped with a 90mm machine gun, commonly found used on the standard Daughtress, for additional firepower. Additionally, the Daughtress Weapon can be equipped with a shield for basic defense.
History
The DT-6800W Daughtress Weapon is the artillery variant of the original DT-6800A Daughtress created before or during the 7th Space War by the United Nations Earth (UNE). Like the original Daughtress, it can assumed that the Daughtress Weapon started to be phased out of use during the final stages of the war due to the deployment of the more advanced Gundam-series mobile suits.
After the cataclysmic war, a number of these units survived and found their way in to the hands of various factions. Some of these Daughtress Weapons were claimed by Vultures. Many of these acquired Daughtress Weapons were customized in various ways by different factions and people. One group, the Alternative Company, used a Daughtress Weapon as part of a team to capture the Newtype Tiffa Adill. It was ultimately defeated by Garrod Ran and his Gundam X.
Even though the Daughtress Weapon was an outdated mobile suit in A.W. 0015, the New United Nations Earth still operated a large number of these mobile suits in its campaigns to re-unify the world. The Daughtress Weapon started to be phased out of use by the New UNE when the more advanced NRX-009 Balient was introduced. Despite the deployment of the more advanced Balient and NRX-018-2 Daughtress Neo, many Daughtress Weapons were still deployed in the 8th Space War (presumably due to the New UNE's lack of resources).