After the collapse of Celestial Being in AD 2308, the Innovades who called themselves Innovators started gathering data to develop their own mobile suits. For this purpose, they recreated six machines used by Celestial Being and its support group, Fereshte, based on information within Veda. The GNY-001FB Gundam Astraea Type F Black is one such machine; as implied by its name, it is a copy of the Fereshte's GNY-001F Gundam Astraea Type F and has a new predominately black color scheme. Performance wise, it is comparable to the original, but as its power source is changed to the GN Drive Tau (though it still retained the original's GN Drive cover), it could not use Trans-Am System and has limited operating time. It also does not use a Sensor Mask like the original.

When the Astraea Type F Black was launched alongside the other five machines to intercept Fon Spaak's GNY-001F2 Gundam Astraea Type F2 and Hixar Fermi's GNY-002F Gundam Sadalsuud Type F, it was armed with GN Beam Rifle, GN Shield and a pair of GN Beam Sabers. Sometime later, Fon and his accomplice, Hanayo, recovered the defeated Astraea Type F Black and repaired it for Fon's use as an independent Gundam Meister.