List of Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Technology - Memento Mori

Memento Mori

A solar-powered free-electron laser located on the Low Orbit Ring, it was developed by the Innovators for A-Laws with Wang Liu-Mei's financial support. Its destructive power quite easily surpasses nuclear weapons, and is capable of wiping an entire city off the face of the Earth with one shot. For all its power however, the weapon was doomed by multiple weaknesses. Its inability to fire rapidly and its limited firing angles meant that it was dependent on an A-Laws fleet for protection. Even with that though, Memento Mori would not prove easy to destroy. Its greatest weakness is its "electromagnetic field photon resonance chamber", a component critical to firing the Memento Mori. Should the chamber be destroyed or damaged, the Memento Mori's energy systems will overload and will result in a chain reaction explosion; the chamber itself is built under the right side of its hull armor. Approaching fleets were limited by their size and formation to stay in Memento Mori's firing area, and Memento Mori's heavy armor meant that only the most powerful weapons could destroy it. Also it suffers from a limited firing angle (approximately 30–45 degrees from vertical) relative to distance. In fact, the satellite weapon has a blind spot parallel to the orbital ring in which it is unable to attack. The Memento Mori makes up for this by anticipating the movement of enemy targets and firing at the enemy from long-range before the enemy can reach their intended destination.

Two Memento Mori's were created. The first was fired four times; first at the Suille Kingdom's capital city, then on a Richiera Kingdom military base-refugee camp, on an approaching Katharon fleet, and finally at Celestial Being's Transport Ship, Ptolemaios II. It was destroyed when Celestial Being used the Gundam Seravee's Hyper-Burst and Ptolemaios II's missiles to breach the armor, allowing Gundam Cherudim to destroy the electromagnetic field photon resonance chamber, destroying the superweapon. Memento Mori 2 fired only once, at Africa Tower's Low Orbit Station during a Federation Forces coup. It was critically damaged and put out of operation (at least temporarily) by 00-Raiser. Repaired, it was destroyed four months later by 00-Raiser.