If you belong to a few Pinoy Gundam Wing fan like me, I think you'll find this post interesting. Do you remember those desert-type mobile suits assisting the Gundam Sandrock during fights? I only knew its name lately, and it is called the WMS-03 Maganac. What's interesting about this mobile suit's name is that it is derived from a Tagalog word "mag-anak". Here are the facts:
The Maganac Corps
As the Earth Alliance continued to spread its sphere of influence around the world, and even into the far reaches of the colonies in space, a few pockets of resistance formed to oppose them. One of these groups was the forty-man team known as the Maganac Corps; the word "maganac" meaning "family or relatives" in the Tagalog language, mag-anak. Although the Maganac Corps were in no way able to challenge the full force of the Earth Alliance military, by using guerilla tactics and their own mobile suit forces they were able to deal an occasional blow to the Earth Alliance.
The mainstay mobile suit of the Maganac Corps was the WMS-03 Maganac. Constructed and mass-produced by the Maganac Corps, the eponymous Maganac mobile suit proved to be equal in power to the OZ-06MS Leo fielded by the Earth Alliance and OZ, and it even was more effective in some areas such as firepower and fighting ability. The Maganac would be the Maganac Corps standard mobile suit before the war between the Earth and the colonies began in After Colony 195, and they would continue to use it during the war. Built and colored mainly for combat in the desert environments of the Middle East the Maganac proved to be versatile enough to fight in a wide range of terrains, and the Maganac Corps would even later adapt their Maganac mobile suits for use in space so they could assist Gundam pilot Quatre Raberba Winner during the Eve Wars.
online sources:
http://encycl.opentopia.com/term/WMS-03_Maganac
http://www.mahq.net/mecha/gundam/w/wms-03.htm
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