SAND ANGLER (FORT APACHE)
Among the Zeon Mars survival fleets led by the outlaw Chester, it is the third warship of the Sand Angler-class submersible carrier. In addition to this, the first ship of the class and flagship of the fleet is named Fort Alamo with the second ship being the Rio Grande. It has a warship design similar to the Rewloola-class and was constructed as a mobile suit carrier to handle a large number of mobile suits. The center hangar is an expanding type, it can expand and contract the hull by about twice as much like an accordion allowing for one giant mobile armor to be loaded inside: the Adzam in ship one and the Helios in ship three. The role of the three ships in “Operation Radiant Star,” which is the Inle recovery operation, has the first and second ship carry out a diversionary operation at the Arcadia plant while the third ship penetrates the subsurface glaciers as originally planned. The key tactic to the Chester Fleet’s guerrilla warfare in the desert was standardizing all ships and all mobile suits with a sand color. However, ship number 3 was modified into a marine color to penetrate the glaciers for this operation. As this repainting was suggestive of “funeral make-up” and loathed by Chester, it was carried out by the decision of the third ships captain in order to accomplish their mission. However, it seemed to suggest the future of the third ship.
