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Robot Aero-Type, or MOGUERA, was constructed around
1995 in order to replace the wrecked Mechagodzilla
as the new anti-Godzilla mech. Moguera was an
amalgam of the aerial attack plane: Star Falcon,
and the burrowing ground-based weapon: Land Moguera.
Soon after its creation, the NASA Interplanetary
Research Vessel disappeared during a routine collection
of samples. Shortly thereafter, the G-Force Countermeasures
Division discovered an unidentified object on
their space radar. Though Moguera was built to
contend with Godzilla, the United Nations asked
that the machine be deployed to fight off this
new anomaly. Moguera rocketed off into space to
intercept the UFO.
Flying through the asteroid belt between Mars
and Jupiter, Moguera suddenly came face to face
with the unidentified object. Moguera quickly
fired it plasma laser cannons at the creature,
which the enemy countered with a corona beam and
electromagnetic energy rings. After a rather short
fight, Moguera's controls went haywire and the
craft was sent spinning out of control. It barely
made it back to Earth.
Upon returning, the UNGCC decided to equip Moguera
with more power. It didn't take long at all for
the space monster, now called SpaceGodzilla, to
appear on Earth. Akira Yuki now piloted the craft,
and as he led Moguera to SpaceGodzilla, Godzilla
suddenly appeared in Kagoshima. Yuki had long
had a vendetta against Godzilla, since his friend
had been killed by the monster in 1989. Defying
orders, he turned the craft around to confront
the nuclear menace, but his crew mates Koji Shinjo
and Kiyoshi Sato put a stop to it. They knocked
Yuki out and turned the craft back around so they
could face SpaceGodzilla, the more imminent threat.
Moguera approached SpaceGodzilla's crystal fortress
in Fukuoka, and it shot its spiral grenade missiles
and its enhanced chest beam at the beast. Moguera
used its spinning drill nose to attack the monster's
shoulder. However, the robot was quickly knocked
back by SpaceGodzilla's corona beam. Moguera began
to roll backwards, firing its chest beam all the
while. SpaceGodzilla gathered more energy and
fired its corona beam, knocking Moguera over.
SpaceGodzilla roared triumphantly, just as Godzilla
arrived and entered the battle. Yuki awoke and
resumed command of the vessel. Moguera was hit
again by the corona beam, and the pilots were
forced to use the main thrusters to make a hasty
retreat. Moguera proceeded to separate into Star
Falcon and Land Moguera, in order to execute a
new plan of attack.
After the two separate machines led an offensive
against SpaceGodzilla's power supply, they combined
once more to form Moguera. The mech reentered
the fray and fired all of its weapons on SpaceGodzilla.
It used its spiral grenade missiles to destroy
SpaceGodzilla's shoulder crystals, but in the
process lost its left hand to the corona beam.
SpaceGodzilla's tail latched onto Moguera and
threw it aside. Moguera was almost wrecked, and
Yuki told his crew mates to escape. Yuki attempted
to fix Moguera, and the craft was sent crashing
straight into SpaceGodzilla in the process. The
machine ultimately rammed head first into a nearby
building, making the once brilliant mech inoperable.
Miki Saegusa and Koji Shinjo saved Yuki just
in time, as Godzilla shot its spiral fire ray.
The immense energy ray destroyed SpaceGodzilla
once and for all, and annihilated Moguera in the
process. The crew of Moguera survived and SpaceGodzilla
was no more, but Godzilla lived on...
