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NOTE - I'm not doing the mecha of the Gundam multiverse; just the spacecraft. This is Mandel's Fighting Starships after all, not Mandel's Fighting Mecha. I'll let someone else take on that particular topic. (REM)

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XPS port by Metalscourge18XD of the GMOD version by Blaze, who by his own account ripped and ported them himself from various Gundam franchise video games. Musai originally created by Kunio Okawara and Hajime Katoki for the original Mobile Suit Gundam anime TV series and subsequently reused (sometimes in modified form) for later installments in the long-running Gundam anime franchise. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. You can get the XPS version from Metalscourge18XD's dA page at the link below:

One of the most visually distinctive and thus easily recognizable Zeon starship types of the Universal Century Era, the Musai class light cruiser (pronounced MOO-sah-ee', not MOO-sai as is common in the West) became not only their main combat class of the One Year War but also the most famous Zeon starship type of all time. This was due in equal parts both to it being the first Zeon starship class built as combination cruiser and mobile suit carrier from the keel up (it was actually the first human combat starship built this way by anybody), and by the use of Musai class member Falmel as the personal flagship of legendary Zeon officer and mobile suite ace Char Aznable. Its dual purpose design as both combat starship and mobile suit carrier was the reason behind its very nontraditional and visually distinctive configuration, as well as for its subsequent popularity and long service life with Zeon forces. Musai proved extremely successful right off the bat and soon replaced the contemporary Chivvay class heavy cruisers (which had only a limited mobile suit capability) as the Principality of Zeon's main front line combat starship class. Its only major design flaw was the lack of an adequate close-in defensive battery, and this would come back to bite Zeon forces later in the war once Earth Federation forces learned to take advantage of it. There were three main production groups. Musai Block I was the original and is the one pictured above. Musai Block II or the Improved Musai Type was its successor in production, incorporating into its design many of the early lessons learned with using the original Musai in combat against Earth Federation forces. Musai Block III or the Final Musai Type was the third and last version, which was essentially a Musai Block II modified to carry a basic close-in defensive battery. There was also a much later variant put into limited production by the splinter Axis Zeon group in the decade following the One Year war known as the Musai Kai class, and like its gloried predecessor it too saw combat against Earth Federation forces during the two wars of the Neo-Zeon Conflict some years later. All surviving Musai and Musai Kai starships were mothballed in UC 100 following the end of all hostilities between Earth and the last surviving Zeon splinter groups. The last surviving Musai of any type or variation still in good enough condition to be returned to service was scrapped in UC 120, and that for the time being marked the end to one of the most famous human-built combat starship types of all time. Only artifacts, unsalvageable battle wrecks, and small-scale reconstructions of various kinds survive today.

This is canon, as it was developed for the original Gundam television series and has been reused numerous times in later Gundam franchise media.

Description

NOTE - I'm not doing the mecha of the Gundam multiverse; just the spacecraft. This is Mandel's Fighting Starships after all, not Mandel's Fighting Mecha. I'll let someone else take on that particular topic. (REM)

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XPS port by Metalscourge18XD of the GMOD version by Blaze, who by his own account ripped and ported them himself from various Gundam franchise video games. Musai originally created by Kunio Okawara and Hajime Katoki for the original Mobile Suit Gundam anime TV series and subsequently reused (sometimes in modified form) for later installments in the long-running Gundam anime franchise. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. You can get the XPS version from Metalscourge18XD's dA page at the link below:

One of the most visually distinctive and thus easily recognizable Zeon starship types of the Universal Century Era, the Musai class light cruiser (pronounced MOO-sah-ee', not MOO-sai as is common in the West) became not only their main combat class of the One Year War but also the most famous Zeon starship type of all time. This was due in equal parts both to it being the first Zeon starship class built as combination cruiser and mobile suit carrier from the keel up (it was actually the first human combat starship built this way by anybody), and by the use of Musai class member Falmel as the personal flagship of legendary Zeon officer and mobile suite ace Char Aznable. Its dual purpose design as both combat starship and mobile suit carrier was the reason behind its very nontraditional and visually distinctive configuration, as well as for its subsequent popularity and long service life with Zeon forces. Musai proved extremely successful right off the bat and soon replaced the contemporary Chivvay class heavy cruisers (which had only a limited mobile suit capability) as the Principality of Zeon's main front line combat starship class. Its only major design flaw was the lack of an adequate close-in defensive battery, and this would come back to bite Zeon forces later in the war once Earth Federation forces learned to take advantage of it. There were three main production groups. Musai Block I was the original and is the one pictured above. Musai Block II or the Improved Musai Type was its successor in production, incorporating into its design many of the early lessons learned with using the original Musai in combat against Earth Federation forces. Musai Block III or the Final Musai Type was the third and last version, which was essentially a Musai Block II modified to carry a basic close-in defensive battery. There was also a much later variant put into limited production by the splinter Axis Zeon group in the decade following the One Year war known as the Musai Kai class, and like its gloried predecessor it too saw combat against Earth Federation forces during the two wars of the Neo-Zeon Conflict some years later. All surviving Musai and Musai Kai starships were mothballed in UC 100 following the end of all hostilities between Earth and the last surviving Zeon splinter groups. The last surviving Musai of any type or variation still in good enough condition to be returned to service was scrapped in UC 120, and that for the time being marked the end to one of the most famous human-built combat starship types of all time. Only artifacts, unsalvageable battle wrecks, and small-scale reconstructions of various kinds survive today.

This is canon, as it was developed for the original Gundam television series and has been reused numerous times in later Gundam franchise media.