Underrated GM Custom wrote: ↑Wed Mar 01, 2023 8:18 am
Ah gotcha, yeah I'm familiar with all the main beats there I just didn't know if Gihren or perhaps had any specific propaganda regarding Newtypes, since Newtypes themselves were treated as something of a superstition prior to and during the OYW. I suppose awareness of Newtypes was limited just to the research institutes which of course Moses was part of, although I don't recall which Zabi the NT research institute fell under.
Kycillia noticed the death rate of pilots is significantly lower than predicted values after the Battle of Loum, and started the research to find out the reason, and finding out the pilots exhibiting exceptionally fast reaction speeds and later finding out they sense and give out psycommu waves. This became the NT research. The name has basically nothing to do with the propaganda Gihren was using in his speeches, calling all spacenoids NTs and Zeon citizens more NT than others.
i wonder what would have happened to amuro if he had used an EXAM equipped unit
The whole point of EXAM is it's a cursed system inhabitated by a Newtypes souls which has been twisted and corrupted by the hatred, in this case from Dr. Moses. Having a Newtype pilot a machine that has a malevolent NT spirit inside of it probably wouldn't end well.
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on the other hand, the NTs maybe able to actually communicate and settle the hatred.
Though it will be fun if the unit just decides to destroy itself to kill the NT within it.
As for Alice, it's an AI which is limited by its designers and its learning capacity. I don't think it could keep up with Amuro and instead slow him down. Psycoframe, psycommu and biosensors are a better fit for a NT, as Seto Kaiba mentioned in another thread The O's Biosensor helped Scirocco while maneuvering the great machine.
Biosensor is very unstable and not really suitable for combat. I liken it to putting the unstable part of cyber NTs to the machine but the damage potential against the pilot is still there(see Kamille)
If we take Ecole du Ciel's explanation of NTs having a negative reaction time(they start reacting BEFORE they see the threat/target), ALICE would not be that useful, yes.
However, the negative reaction time is very likely due to psycommu waves being sensed even around obstacles, and according to Sentinel's attached terms explanation(imidam0093), they already have sensors for waves travelling in Minovsky particles, meaning ALICE should also have, at least limited, function to sense psycommu waves as well, and can likely learn to detect and be aware of objects not in line of sight. Considering even a regular simulator also gives out psycommu waves(thus Asuna and other NT pilots like Banagher can sense it and have negative reaction time even in simulation), it would be reasonable to assume their sensors can pick up the signal, just that the machines don't usually process them as useful data.(but they surely can sense the change in density of Minovsky particles even during OYW, and waves are just density change of a medium.)
Also, Amuro can always find ways to fully utilise his machine, if it got ALICE, he will use it in innovative ways.(note the wired bazooka)