Technology & Combat Characteristics
A mass-produced mobile suit developed at Granada with help from Anaheim Electronics, which absorbed the Zeonic Company, the major mobile suit developer for the Principality of Zeon. While the Hizack's external appearance resembles that of Zeon's famous Zaku II, it was a vast improvement over the older mobile suit. The Hizack's design incorporated both Earth Federation and Zeon technologies, with the latter contributing to it having the same high operating reliability and ease of production as the Zaku II. Data from the MS-06F-2 Zaku II F2 Type was also referenced during development.
The Hizack is outfitted with a titanium alloy ceramic composite armor and has a higher output generator than that of a Zaku. It is also faster and more agile than its predecessors and is easy to pilot. The Hizack is most often equipped with a 120mm machine gun kai, beam saber, or heat hawk. It sometimes uses a beam rifle, but due to its insufficient generator output, it can only operate one beam weapon at a time. The Hizack can also be equipped with missile pods. Although the Titans were assigned to wipe out the remnants of Zeon forces, their Hizack uses a similar dark green color scheme. Meanwhile, the regular Earth Federation Forces used a dark blue color for their units.
History
The RMS-106 Hizack served as one of the three main mobile suit models that filled the Earth Federation Forces' ranks from U.C. 0084 to U.C. 0087, alongside the RMS-179 GM II and RMS-117 Galbaldy β. The Hizack was the primary mobile suit of the Titans and was used in many missions to eradicate anti-Federation dissidents. However, with the AEUG deploying more advanced mobile suits as the Gryps War progressed, the Titans began to search for a more powerful machine to replace the Hizack. Anaheim Electronics' RMS-108 Marasai was initially considered as a replacement, but a decision was eventually made for the Titans to develop their own mass-production mobile suit, leading to the RMS-154 Barzam. Despite this, the Hizack continued to operate as Titans primary mobile suit and still outnumbered the Barzam by the end of the war.
Following the Gryps War, the Earth Federation Forces sought to distance itself from the Titans by mothballing many of the mobile suits the group used, including the Hizack, replacing them with the MSA-003 Nemo and RGM-86R GM III. During the First Neo Zeon War, Neo Zeon appropriated an unknown number of Hizacks, and several of them participated in the Battle of Axis, fighting on both the sides of Haman Karn and Glemy Toto's Neo Zeon factions.
By U.C. 0093, the Hizack had been almost completely phased out and was either being used for scrap or for private purposes. One of these variants was the RMS-116H Hobby Hizack, a civilian use variant.
In U.C. 0096, the outdated Hizack is still used by the Sleeves and the Republic of Zeon.
In U.C.0097, a pair of Hizacks were deployed in defense of Side 6's college colony Metis alongside a RMS-099 Rick Dias and a MSZ-006A1 Zeta Plus A1 after a battle broke out between Zoltan Akkanen's forces and the Earth Federation Forces' Shezarr Unit. The two Hizacks and the Rick Dias were easily defeated by Zoltan's MSN-06S-2 Sinanju Stein.
