Technology & Combat Characteristics

The EMS-TC02 Phantom was the second "Thousand Custom" unit created by the Jupiter Foundation. Incorporating the Minovsky Drive technology, this mobile suit was originally developed as an experimental high-speed interplanetary travel unit meant for travelling between Earth and Jupiter. This was so that it could act as a trump card for Jupiter, and be used for conducting terrorist attacks on Earth during an emergency. As a Thoucus unit, the Phantom's combat power was supposed to be equivalent to an army of a thousand mobile suits.

It was renamed the Phantom Gundam by Font Bow after he became its pilot, and the skull motif was painted on its body following this renaming. According to Font, the Phantom was developed by combining the data of two mobile suits made using different technologies. Specifically, the Phantom's development utilized the Amakusa's data and the data of the Minovsky Drive-equipped F99 Record Breaker, which Callisto's Shadow stole from SNRI. Because Jupiter did not have the technology to perfectly replicate a mobile suit-size Minovsky Drive, this resulted in the Phantom being an incomplete unit with a lack of balance between the two technologies and was abandoned as a failure.

Furthermore, although the Phantom Gundam was developed with a transformation mechanism, a problem with the Minovsky Drive forced the developers to abandon the completed mechanism. A physical lock was placed on the transformation mechanism located in the torso so that the Phantom would be rolled out as a standard humanoid MS. Under the cover in its head is the monoeye camera commonly used in Jovian mobile suits.

History

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