Technology & Combat Characteristics
The Gundam Throne Drei is the third unit in the Gundam Throne series operated by Celestial Being's second team, Team Trinity. Specializing in supporting the other two Gundam Thrones, Eins and Zwei, the Drei has enhanced search capabilities and unique features like the GN Stealth Field that disrupts radar and communications over a wide area, and a GN Shield Pod for storing equipment for itself and its teammates. Such a support type is not present among the Gundams of the Ptolemaios team, highlighting the different operating method of the three Gundam Thrones that are designed on the premise of fighting together as a team. Due to its role, Drei has minimal offensive power in the form of a GN Handgun and two GN Beam Sabers; it also has a GN Shield for defense. All three Gundam Thrones are developed based on the 0 Gundam, with their systems and armor utilizing the same technology as the Ptolemaios team's Gundams, but they have a different type of GN Drive– the "GN Drive Tau" that emits red GN Particles.
The Gundam Thrones are customized version of the same basic machine, thus they have the same body frame and basic parts, with variations in weaponry, equipment and head design setting them apart. The Drei's head is larger than that of the Eins and Zwei, and is equipped with enhanced sensor system as well as improved information processing capabilities. As the amount of data collected is too much for Drei's pilot, Nena Trinity, to process by herself, she is aided by a purple Haro robot that also assists in operating the Gundam during combat. The Haro is mounted on a dock in the center of the cockpit, resulting in the Drei having a slightly different cockpit layout from Eins and Zwei. This is the same Haro that the Corner Family recovered from a wrecked Celestial Being spaceship near Jupiter about 80 years ago, and data of the original GN Drive stored within this robot played a critical role in the development of the GN Drive Tau.
While the Drei's wide-ranging GN Stealth Field is a powerful stealth/jamming ability, its deployment requires the release of a huge amount of GN Particles, leading to the usages of other equipment to be kept to a minimum to ensure there are sufficient particles. Thus, when the coating on the frame's surface is stripped away, a luminescence effect due to the particles within can be observed. The red GN Particles produced by the GN Drive Tau are multifunctional like the green GN Particles from the original GN Drive.
Alejandro Corner, United Nations ambassador, one of Celestial Being observers and a member of the aforementioned Corner Family, masterminded the creation of Team Trinity and Gundam Thrones without informing Celestial Being, with the machines secretly built by Laguna Harvey in the factories within the Orbital Elevators based on his instructions. However, Alejandro's intention was not to help the organization, but to further his and his family's ambition of world domination. The Gundam Thrones are therefore regarded as the basis for the GN-X.
Following the loss of Eins and Zwei, and death of her brothers, Drei and Nena are taken in by Wang Liu Mei, an agent of Celestial Being. Four years later in AD 2312, Nena continues piloting the Drei while in service of Wang. When needed, Drei can add the Liang's GN Long Rifle to its armament.
History
For the Throne Drei's history, please go to Nena Trinity's page.