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About Gundam and other Giant Robot stuff:
Wouldn't it be outrageously expensive to mass produce robot suits? Who's building them? Are there specialists in each robot-suit part? Where are they getting all the metal from? Are there special acadamies where people learn to control them; and are there different levels? Do they get 'student driver ( Read more... )
Click to viewWouldn't it be outrageously expensive to mass produce robot suits? Who's building them? Are there specialists in each robot-suit part? Where are they getting all the metal from? Are there special acadamies where people learn to control them; and are there different levels? Do they get 'student driver ( Read more... )
there are two different types of mobile suits, one is the average gundam suit, which is made of steel, polimers and titanium, but mostly steel.
gundams are made of gundarium, which is a special polymer ceramic that is extra hard. the people who drive gundams, depending if you follow the number series or the letter series or the zeta series (which are completely different) a certain percentage of the users of gundams and mobile suits are new types. meaning they are clarisients.
also the colonies have a lot of raw materials, mainly because they do live in space and have maintained a high level of mining and shit.
on the specialists, yes, they do have specialists, as seen on Gundam-ZZ.
on the terrordrome (or technodrome, i always forget the name), if the 45th wheel of the 2 quadrant explodes, believe me, it should not be too much of a problem.
why? since we do not have a technodrome to measure this, we do have semi-trucks. in a semi truck you may lose a tire, and the truck can keep going for a while same with the double trailers. it won't be super stable, but it is moving
and building mobile suits is not anymore expensive than building fighter jets. but the gundams are way more powerful and there is only a handful of those. japan and germany, back in ww2 had the great idea of building really good, really high quality machines of war. the allies, they made cheap, easily fixed, easily used machines (look at the sherman tank, it is basically a yt-1300) or the motherfucking ak-47 (which didn't see battle since it was made in 1947). they are machines that do not jam, that do not need specialists, can be taken down to 20% structural integrity and still do their job and are cheap to make. the japanese still have the idea that quality is the way to go on a war. like super quality. that is the mentality behind gundam.
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I think my concern with stuff like the Technodrome and Gundams is that they're fucking enormous (the Technodrome is, what, like a half mile in diameter? I'm not sure about Mobile Suits, but I've seen the smaller ones) and at a certain point if, let's say you get stranded right after a space battle and you blow a gasket and you can only turn left, well then, you better hope AAA covers it. Or that one of your fellow Gundam pilots can give you a ride, assuming they can carry one person.
And the thing about Japan and Germany during those times is the sense of nationalism they instilled in the working classes who would produce all the necessary materials and services, and/or their respective abilities to force people to work super hard for the sake of their nation whether they wanted to or not. So man, the Gundam universe must have some super patriotic proletariat people who really, really believe in the Galactic Empire or whatever those shows are about (no disrespect; I really have no idea).
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in the numbered series, like 0079 and so on is about years that have passed since the colonies have been sent to space. basically they have lost all knowledge of the past. they have changed tanks and fighter planes for mobile suits. think of the mobile suits as all terrain, all need vehicles. they would have add ons that would help on space verus ground, versus air battles. the war is between the colonies who want their freedom and earth, who wants them to stay together. there is no good side, there is no bad side. and along comes the gundam, a vehicle created in the beginning of the colonies expedition and forgotten. the gundam is made of gundarium, which makes it perfect for all kinds of terrain and able to sustain the fires of the sun, heavy fire and just about anything you can throw at it. there is a very heavy sense of patriotism versus pacifism versus what is right and wrong. basically it is what happens when one weapons can define war and peace and the road that humanity will take (sounds familiar). the gundam can be your enemy and it can be your ally.
the letter series (g, x, z, zz, alpha, epsilon, wing) are all stand alone series and most happen in their own continuities. there are multiple gunsdams (all made of gundarium) all with their own stories. in g gundam was a contest, similar to street fighter. in z and zz gundam was the height of technology, where the gundams had their own vehicles and the new types are everywhere. in gundam x was an old west story. in gundam wing the earth has basically enslaved the colonies, and each colony prepares to send one pilot, each with a legendary weapon created by each colony. Earth also has their own mega powerful gundam and legendary soldier. basically the whole story is about war and the effects one machine has.
you may want to watch gundam the 8th ms team. it is exactly what you want to know. imagine crappy ms roaming around a place similar to vietnam/colombia in a guerrilla war. the ms (mobile suits) get damaged and tons of realistic battles happen.
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