RX-124 TR-6 [WOUNDWORT]

In the photo-novel and novel adaptation, the events unfold in January U.C. 0088, during the final stages of the Gryps Conflict. A prototype unit, the Gundam TR-6 [Woundwort], is stationed aboard the Titans Test Team (T3) Unit’s mothership, Aswan, in its Kehaar II form.

By February, Lieutenant Eliard Hunter is officially assigned as the unit’s test pilot, undergoing simulator training. That same month, during the final battle surrounding the Colony Laser Gryps 2, the Aswan receives direct orders from Titans headquarters to deploy the Woundwort into combat. However, with the war’s outcome all but decided, any further fighting would only result in meaningless losses. The fear is that deploying a “Gundam” unit could prolong the conflict by reigniting the Titans’ morale. Recognizing this, Aswan’s commanding officer, Colonel Otto Pedersen, gives Eliard a different order: sortie in the Woundwort and destroy it without engaging in combat.

Following launch in its Haze’n-thley II form, Eliard heads toward a shoal zone away from the front lines, as instructed. However, he is soon detected and pursued by Gabriel Zola of the AEUG, piloting a Rick Dias [Stutzer]. On the way, Eliard briefly encounters an AEUG unit and, demonstrating the capabilities of the TR-6, destroys three Nemos in an instant and deals a critical blow to a Salamis-class cruiser, forcing the surviving Nemos to retreat.

Awaiting his own end, Eliard holds position, intending for Zola to destroy both him and the unit. But Zola, aware of the greater implications, confronts Eliard and tells him, “You have a duty to see the Gundam completely destroyed.” He then brings Eliard into his cockpit. Together, they press their thumbs down on the trigger of Zola’s mega particle cannon, obliterating the TR-6 just before AEUG fires the seized Colony Laser.

The TR-6 was originally intended to sortie in its RX-124 Gundam TR-6 [Inle] form, but the conversion was incomplete. Instead, the Fiver II unit was mounted onto Lieutenant Carl Matsubara’s Gundam TR-1 [Hazel Owsla]. After the destruction of the Woundwort, Carl recovers Eliard and initiates a self-destruct sequence aboard the Hazel Owsla, escaping with Eliard via the Primrose escape pod. The remaining TR-6 units met the same fate as the sinking Aswan.

In the manga adaptation, the parts for the Gundam TR-6 [Woundwort] are transported from Confeito to the Aswan in November U.C. 0087 aboard a shuttle piloted by Carl Matsubara, with assembly carried out externally, outside the ship. During the Battle for the Colony Laser Gryps 2, the fully assembled Inle is docked aboard the Aswan, but its lower half, the Dandelion II, catches fire following an enemy attack and is jettisoned. Despite this setback, Lieutenant Eliard Hunter sorties in the Haze’n-thley II-Rah form of the TR-6, acting on his own initiative.

Eliard attempts to take on the AEUG mobile suit squad single-handedly and intercept the Colony Laser, but he fails to make it in time. The laser is fired, annihilating much of the Titans’ rear fleet. Determined to ensure his allies can retreat, Eliard destroys several enemy mobile suits and ships to cover the withdrawal of surviving Titans forces. With his mission complete, he heads to a shoal zone to fulfill his original orders: to abandon and destroy the Woundwort. Meanwhile, Carl’s Hazel Owsla, equipped with the Fiver II unit, is deployed just as in the photo-novel version. However, when it comes to recover Eliard, the machine is only outfitted with the Bigwig Cannon II and the Hrududu II.

In A.O.Z Re-Boot: Dream of the Black Rabbit, the Titans Remnants, known as “Tristellar,” withdrew from the front lines at the end of the Gryps Conflict and escaped to Mars, bringing with them at least one Haze’n-thley II, Hrududu II, and the Fiver II, which formed the upper half of the Inle unit. These were received by the Black Hares, a covert special forces group led by Colonel Tristan, a key figure in the Titans remnants and a close comrade of Dr. Valhalla, one of the TR-6 development team’s core members. At the same time, the Dandelion II, which formed the lower body of the Inle, was handed over to the AEUG, and Dr. Valhalla herself joined their side. However, this was meant to prevent the AEUG from acquiring the completed Inle and to ensure the continuation of the TR Project from within.

At the time, Mars was in a state of conflict between Zeon Mars, a Zeon remnant faction affiliated with the late Kycilia Zabi, which effectively controlled the planet, and ReZeon, a Zeon remnant organization affiliated with the late Gihren Zabi on Mars, led by Omega Zabi. Tristan’s faction joined ReZeon and participated in the ReZeon Founding War against Zeon Mars. The Titans remnants’ mobile weapons, including the RX-124 Gundam TR-6, which they brought with them, were deployed to the front lines along with Alicia Zabi and Omega, who claimed to be the successors of the Zabi family.

The Gundam TR-6 did not have many chances to stand out during the Gryps Conflict, but it fully demonstrated its overwhelming combat power against the Zeon Mars mobile suits, machines developed in cooperation with Axis, the Zeon remnant group in the Asteroid Belt led by Dozle Zabi’s faction, and contributed greatly to ReZeon’s victory. With the power of the Fiver II, they crushed Zeon Mars, and contributed to the founding of the new nation of ReZeon. Even after the establishment of the ReZeon nation, the Gundam TR-6 continued to serve as a core combat unit. It was primarily used as the personal machine of the Alice Guard, an elite unit composed of Alicia, who became its leader, and her sisters, all of whom were clone Cyber Newtypes. Thanks to its performance in the Founding War, the Black Hares’ jet-black Gundam became beloved by the people of ReZeon as a symbol of liberation from Zeon Mars and of their victory. It eventually became firmly established as the Royal Guard’s dedicated mobile suit.

Following this, ReZeon confiscated all the weapons brought by the Titans remnants, including the TR-6 variants, and began mass production in industrial plants on Mars. By U.C. 0089, one unit (in Queenly form) was stationed at Phobos Spaceport, and two Kehaar II units were deployed at ground bases. By U.C. 0091, the number of Kehaar IIs at ground installations had increased to six (one of which was later refitted into a Barzam II), and the Haze’n-thley II had been upgraded into the ARZ-125 Re-Haze, Alicia’s personal machine. Meanwhile, the Fiver II, referred to in the story as Inle, was reported to be under construction in a secret underground glacier base on Mars. Parts were being manufactured at the industrial plant, with the unit’s completion drawing near.