MS-14 Gelgoog

The MS-14A Gelgoog is the final and most powerful mass production type mobile suit produced by the Principality of Zeon during the One Year War of the Mobile Suit Gundam anime. It was originally derived from the canceled MS-11 Gelgoog project, which was redesignated the MS-11 Action Zaku when the project restarted in the final days of the war. The high-performance A-Type Gelgoog was equipped with a twin-bladed beam saber and a high-output beam rifle, a first for the a Zeon mobile suit. The Gelgoog was a superior mobile suit to the MS-06F Zaku II and even the new MS-09R Rick Dom.

While the Gelgoog was by a considerable margin the most powerful production-type MS of the One Year War, matching or slightly exceeding the Earth Federation's RX-78–2 Gundam unit, it was never produced in the numbers required to counter the sheer numbers of RGM-79 GMs that walked off the production lines before the end of the war. It is possible that if the Gelgoog had been pushed into production even two weeks sooner, it may have been able to secure independence for Zeon.

The last major problem with the Gelgoog was that it had mainly rookie pilots inside the cockpits. The novice pilots had seen little or no combat before the Battle of A Baoa Qu. These fresh pilots could not use their Gelgoog's effectively enough to counter the Federation's less powerful GM models.

After the war, some units were taken by the Federation to serve as high-performance aggressor trainer units, while others escaped into deep space with various Zeon remnants; the majority had either died at A Baoa Qu or were marched off to the scrapper's torch. Some examples of the MS-14 Gelgoog survived postwar in museums.

Model variations:
MS-14S Gelgoog Commander Type
MS-14G Gelgoog Ground Type
MS-14Jg Gelgoog Jager
MS-14F Gelgoog Marine
MS-14Fs Gelgoog Marine Commander Type