Yeah, the whole point of Island 3 colonies (the type seen in the Universal Century) is that the living environment is extremely similar to conditions on Earth. Same level of apparent gravity, same general atmospheric makeup (if not quite equal to full sea level pressure, but not unreasonably thin, ...

What was the population of Earth, Luna and the various space colonies/asteroids? Particularly during the OYW? We have early numbers, but not OYW ones. UC0001 Earth population exceeded 9 billion. UC0050 Human population exceeded 11 billion, and 90% lives in space. We can assume the population on Ear...

I want to ask about the technology that helped the first generation immigrants to fit in with their new environment in UC. Is there any material that mentioned it, and if so, then how advanced is it? This question has more implication than what it seems at first glance. Most important of all, it ex...

May not be considered canon but seen from scenes. I always have the idea that as long as a NT is more powerful than the other, they can simply hijack the psychommu system. A good example is Karmille hijacking The-O.(Although I am of the view that it is the pilot's mind that is hijacked, or simply th...

Thank you, DD, for the link and information! I checked out the site that you recommended and it seems like the mobile suits have an extended articulation port, as I'm assuming that some form of rotational cuff is used to rotate that arm at the shoulder joint. But this extended articulation port or ...

It's this one. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=zeta+gundam+beam+confuse and another one just to be on the safe side. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_Y1YSeMk-4 Thank you youtube. Tossing out the beam sabre and shooting at it, spreading out M particles and Mega particles to hit a wider...

I'm not sure totaling up the outputs of all the mobile suit's weapons tells us anything very useful, since in most cases they don't use them all at the same time. Well, the rationale of adding up the total output is to see what the MS is designed to be capable of. Yes, in most cases they don't use ...

We don't actually have much information about Sentinel weaponry, aside from the occasional reference to the beam smartgun using an energy CAP. (In fact, the MG kit manual identifies the block at the rear of the gun as an energy pack.) To me, the bulbs at the ends of the S Gundam's backpack cannons ...

I don't think we can assume that each of those connectors on the Ex-S backpack is limited to supporting 12 MW worth of beam weapon. After all, there's a configuration of the Core Booster 0088 that has a beam smartgun mounted on a single connector. Most likely, it doesn't matter. On the other hand, ...

It's also possible that we could honor the written descriptions and (selectively) discard the output specs for the CCA weapons. To be honest, some of those figures are pretty wacky, and they only ever appeared in the old kit manuals and Entertainment Bible 3 - they weren't part of the original publ...

Regarding the comparison between the Gundam's beam rifle and a battleship cannon, I always figured that that was simply a reference to the fact that the beam rifle could one-shot a Zaku with a direct hit, just like a battleship cannon. After all, as far as battlefield tactics are concerned, "c...

I dimly recall that being mentioned in Gundam Sentinel or something like that, but it doesn't seem to play much of a role in the animation or in Gundam Unicorn. Even the EWAC Zack, according to the kit manuals, relies mostly on passive detection of enemy radar emissions, since this remains in use e...

Sure, but that still means that the output specs we have for every other weapon are basically meaningless, and have no relationship to the power of the weapon; only this one mislabeled, unexplained chart from a kit manual contains any useful information. That's kind of an extreme view, don't you th...

Perhaps people are conflating Amuro with Kamille here? We know for a fact that Kamille did hack through his dad's data. It'd be quite impossible for him to not have seen his father's data, his Haro did use parts from the research. (the part his father passed to him saying that will improve the powe...

In that case, it doesn't really tell us much of anything about the performance of the Gundam's actual beam rifle, making it pretty useless as an information source. (Which is my view of this chart, anyway.) And if we slice and dice the original numbers too much, they cease to mean anything at all -...

On comparing E-CAP weapons to standard mega particle cannons: I've been thinking about that diagram, and I don't think it's really helpful. It's actually labeled as "Input Voltage (入力電圧) Versus Effective Range"; the fact that the x-axis is labeled with "10 Mw" implies they actua...

So, I've pretty much codified how should a land-use combat drone look and works like, let's move to air-use. I suppose that fixed-wing drones will be the main fighting force (taking the job of fighter, bomber, and attack aircraft), while rotor-use drones will work in reconnaissance, recovery, and o...

Yeah, for the most part it seems physically impossible that mobile suit fusion reactors would actually "melt down" or somehow undergo a nuclear explosion. They do seem to react violently when hit by beam weapons, but the Japanese publications normally claim that's just the propellant, fue...

This is a quirk of Gundam's fictional physics. The Universal Century timeline uses Minovsky reactors, which are H3-De fusion reactors made more efficient through the use of an "i-field", which is a magnetic field seeded with fictional "Minovsky particles" (named after the fictio...

My personal view is this, the E-cap helped part 1 and 2 like Gelgoog Jager mentioned a few posts up, thus saved quite some output from the MS, which tallies with the settings about e-cap. So I am all convinced that the output power listed is just the required power to fire the weapon, not the actual...