Technology & Combat Characteristics
The F99 Record Breaker is a prototype MS developed by SNRI. The XM-10 Flint, which was originally supposed to be sold to the Earth Federation, was not adopted because the machine could expose its relationship with Crossbone Vanguard during the Jupiter Empire's invasion of the Earth. The mobile suit replacing the rejected Flint is the Record Breaker. The main feature of the Record Breaker is the Minovsky Drive. Originally the main engine of the spaceship Mother Vanguard, the Minovsky Drive has been successfully downsized for installation in a mobile suit. The Minovsky Drive was incorporated into four X-shaped thrusters that bore a passing resemblance to insect wings. Other than the Minovsky Drive, the Record Breaker did not have any other innovative feature, with 75% of its parts being the same as the Flint/Crossbone Gundams'. SNRI officials planned to change the Record Breaker's head into that of a Gundam-type when presenting the mobile suit to the Federation.
History
In U.C. 0136, SNRI built three Record Breakers and they were test piloted by Yon, Ulysses Leopard, and Mitchell Derek Nar who were all taught by Minoru Suzuki. The machines and their test pilots were stationed at an SNRI production and research facility on the moon.
When the Crossbone Vanguard pirates discovered that the Jupiter Empire was planning to use a colony laser on Earth they realized that the only way to get to the Jupiter Sphere from the Earth Sphere with enough time to stop the first attack was to use a Minovsky Drive. However, the only ship with a Minovsky Drive, the Mother Vanguard was destroyed three years prior. It seemed hopeless until Tobia Arronax remembered that SNRI was developing mobile suits that could use the Minovsky Drive. Knowing it was their only hope, the pirates quickly made their way to the moon base to plead their case to SNRI to let them use the mobile suits.
Despite the destruction of F99 development data, Jupiter Empire managed to acquire its data and used it to developed the EMS-TC02 Phantom Gundam.
