Shores wrote:Wingnut wrote:Yeah, when the twin drive goes Trans-Am, the particles have a way of going through solid matter for some reason.
Particle weapons can, yeah. I even understand that, too. But I don't why they're just... there. And if the GN Particles could do that all along, did it really just come down to who got the Twin Drive System as to who'd innovate? Did anyone know this? If they did- if Tieria did, anyway, and he knew that he couldn't really innovate -then it makes sense to give it to Setsuna (I guess?). If not, then why did the replacement for Exia, a machine that primarily uses rifle and solid-blade weapons, need all those extra particles? Having two drives would make Cheridum or Arios or Seravee
insanely powerful, and they didn't even know if Setsuna was alive. Basically, unless they knew that Setsuna would come back, Tieria couldn't innovate, particles would get through to the cockpit, and they'd be enough to cause the innovation, then this whole thing is a huge coincidence, and a weird one, at that.
And I could just accept all that if someone could explain to me how the particles got in and changed Setsuna. The other stuff will probably be explained in the movie or mangas. Or it'll just keep bugging me. Either way.
Anything can become powerful with a Twin Drive, it is unknown the exact reason why they chose Exia as the base, though it should be noted that Exia itself has general purpose roots in Astraea
[who does posses the most powerful beam weapon among the 2nd Gen; the GN Launcher. 1/100 Astraea manual even mentions that the GN Bazooka of Virtue was developed from it], so its not like the Exia Lineage have not done it before, except now its integrated into a combination Solid Sword-Beam Rifle/Launcher-Beam Saber weapon.
Besides, the Seven Swords equipment
[designed to be used with a fully working Twin Drive......which they did not succeed without the 0 Raiser equipment] appears to look like it would consume large amounts of particles anyways. Equipment like the GN Sword II Long
[who has a more powerful beam rifle than the normal II] and the GN Buster Sword II is also large and powerful and can act as a remote GN Field emitter; the profile says that it can even be used to generate a remote GN Field for protecting allies as well.
So its not like they just wanted to use a basic Exia with a large Twin Drive not doing anything. They had plans to improve its abilities far beyond the basic single Drive normal Exia-type. Even 00's powerful basic beam weapons are very very very strong compared to Cherudim or Arios
[Exia's was just an ordinary short to mid range semi automatic weapon without the specialization that Dynames or Kyrios had in theirs], so even though 00 was made from the Exia archetype it had additions that a Generation 3.5 Exia successor would not otherwise be able to achieve otherwise without a Twin Drive, not at the level 00 has been able to do it.
00 is not just the sole 4th Generation Gundam because of the Twin Drive, the frame itself is more powerful and advanced than the others; although without the Twin Drive, its incredibly hard to get it working anywhere close to optimum as the non Twin Drive 00 Repair shows so the Twin Drive is still a super important aspect of it in terms of being powerplant.
There is another good stat of the Exia as well: Mobility. According to MG Exia manual, due to its close combat nature the Exia was made to possess one of the best mobility among the Gundams. In order to achieve this, they needed to make Exia possess greater humanoid articulation to help improve its AMBAC. However, in order to achieve a much better humanoid articulation, armor needs to be sacrificed at certain parts of the body such as joint exposing it to the internal frame; reducing overall defense. As a result of this mobility specialization, Exia possesses the lowest "being hit" rate of all the Gundams.
[considering this is MG Exia, its probably comparing it to CB's 3rd Generation Gundams]
Looking at 00 itself, you can tell that it follows the same concept. 00 has much more exposed parts than even the Exia
[or even the other Generation 3 and Generation 3.5 for that matter] and this is presumably done in the same spirit. The addition of the 0 Raiser would probably improve this even further, since you now have extra directional thrusters that can actively change the direction to improve the AMBAC further. Not to mention the powerful beam ability of the 00's weapons and the large melee options combination available to it
[with the GN Sword IIs].
It certainly was not a bad choice, considering that statwise 00 Raiser seems to excel at all stats from speed, mobility, beam power, long range, short range, etc. It just seems like the Exia lineage and data is just a base for the large improvements they wanted to implement, with the mobility and melee prowess as good bases while alot of new high level abilities into the were added such as power beams, speed, powerful sensor
[from the 0 Raiser], large saber. In this regard, 00 is probably closer to the Astraea than Exia in terms of balancing, in the sense that its about equally good at everything.
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And your right, it DOES come up to who has the Twin Drive System. CB does not even know anything about Innovation truth be told until post S2. Since the person would be in the middle of a large squared times three particle generator during Trans-Am, of course his most likely to Innovate first. Saji was there too during some instances of Trans-Am but Setsuna has been at the center of 00 Trans-Am more. They certainly had little idea of Innovation until then.
As for particles going through solid matter, there are a lot of elementary particles in real life that possess the ability to go through solid matter. I'm no expert in this field but I believe neutrinos I believe are one example such a particle type. The sun emits its own neutrinos and a large number of it passes through our bodies all the time and you cannot even see these as it happens.
Its important to note that even though you can see GN Particles when their compressed together into beams or when their emitted, their actually invisible to the naked eye in their smaller less compressed forms or in some certain applications. Solid GN Swords have a GN Field over them at all times applied over the shape of the sword; essentially making the applied GN Field becoming the extremely powerful "sharp edge" of the sword. In another case, one S1 episode even had Dynames on the ground while jamming the enemy radar over a certain range with GN Particles
[while no visible particles are actually seen being seen coming out from Dynames or even being spreaded out]. The physical properties of GN Particles varies depends on how they are treated and this change of properties is taken advantage of for various uses in weapons and applications.
The manuals
[PG 00 Raiser and MG Exia] seems to keep calling the particles as "photons" for some reason. If they are indeed photons, than they probably possess properties that are different from ordinary photons, I presume. But I still have not figured out what they mean by this but they are constantly associated with "light", thats how they come to be called as Solar Furnaces in the first place according to the MG Exia manual.
Not to mention, its during some instances of Trans-Am Raiser
[its refers to a nickname of 00 Raiser in Trans-Am. Its separate term from Trans-Am Raiser the Mode, which is essentially 00 Raiser using the large Raiser Sword], you can have a field of telepathy communication between people within a certain range of 00 because of its GN Particles. If the GN Particles cannot get to these people, then they would be unable to do anything so there much be contact with them in order to initiate the phenomena.
