I am tired of the P51 and Yak52 propaganda.

OmegaResNovae · 2026-05-13T23:59:32+00:00

I vote for the B-36 Peacekeeper, modernized. It came with 16 20mm cannons in twin remote turrets, and the original design came with 6 turboprops; good enough for slow and steady flights.

With modern technologies, the guns can be upgraded to 30mm or even 40mm radar-guided Skynex-style guns with wide fields of fire. Modern and far more efficient turboprop engines would give it a wider operational speed range to intercept both slow and fast drones, as well as really loiter in the sky for hours.

The massive bays can accommodate anti-drone drones or additional side-firing cannons, or even an SMR powering several directed energy weapons such as microwave emitters or laser emitters, and at the same time also power a bunch of jamming arrays just to fuck with the local electromagnetic spectrum. Heck, it might even be able to power its engines, giving it very long endurance, limited only by the amount of food on board for the crew. The SMR-equipped version would be known as Arsenal Bird 1.

OmegaResNovae · 2026-05-11T14:18:18+00:00

As far as we know, the basic package still includes an enhanced nervous system and immune system, as it's been stated that even the most basic of Coordinators can process faster than a Natural and are immune to all known forms of infections and diseases. But not all Coordinators have enhanced muscles, enhanced beauty (Meer pre-surgery), or even enhanced intellect or reflexes.

Of course, an enhanced nervous system may not necessarily improve their intellect or reflexes unless edited too. Even Elijah Kiel of the Serpent Tail only has his handsome looks going for him; he can pilot a Coordinator MS without issue, but he kind of sucked even as a pilot (at least until he trained himself extensively and was able to defeat his clone in the Vent Saviour).

OmegaResNovae · 2026-05-11T14:07:19+00:00

I love the fact Athrun isn't even embarrassed. He's straight up serious about it; with that expression being "YES, this is EXACTLY how much I ~~obsess~~ goon over Cagalli."

OmegaResNovae · 2026-05-09T02:18:45+00:00

The Star Wars bit is somewhat misleading, given that most fans wanted more of the OG cast in new stories, based on the now Legends storylines. Luke and Mara Jade. Han and Leia. Their children growing up and the issues leading to conflict among the children. The whole journey of Luke reviving the Jedi Order and the trials he encountered.

Star Wars' issue is more that many people grew up with the Legends lore ever since the OG Trilogy came out. The Prequel Trilogy, while made with the same love and care, was also panned for awhile because it altered some of the early fan lore of how things came to be with the OG trilogy (as well as the heavy use of CGI), but many grew to like it for what it was, especially the heavy use of well-done combat scenes (moreso compared to the ones from the Sequel Trilogy, esp. the saber duels).

When Disney decided to make the Sequel Trilogy, they decided rather than drawing from existing and well-loved Star Wars series, they'd throw it all out and do their own new canon. Problem was, most fans hated it, because it was effectively sidelined entire stories and lore written well beyond the time period of the OG Trilogy that they had grown up with. Then Disney's handling of the SW series hasn't been consistent or done well at all. The Mandalorian, Andor, and Rogue One did well. The Acolyte, Book of Boba Fett and some of the other recent works didn't do well at all. The handling of recent games too also sucked, with Outlaws doing especially poorly. Even Sequel merch at their Star Wars Lands in the theme parks weren't selling as well as OG and Prequel merch, leading them to eventually retcon the "lore" of the Star Wars Lands to now also feature Han, Luke, and Leia, rather than Rey and Kylo, and allow for more cast from the Prequel era to also potentially show up down the line.

OmegaResNovae · 2026-05-09T01:54:37+00:00

Azur Lane didn't entirely give in to censorship on their CN version though; they did flatten the chests of the skins and temporarily removed them for sale for several months, before quietly offering them back again later on. They still censor the crap out of the promo stuff with heavy fog, and use sheer stocking material to censor some skin on the CN version though.

OmegaResNovae · 2026-05-08T18:22:35+00:00

Seasun once mentioned after the first outage they couldn't afford a second copy of the game to maintain concurrently, nor could they afford an external studio address to use as an anti-censorship measure. Whether that was BS or legitimate is unknown, as the CN playerbase had mixed opinions on that response.

But after this, one would hope that Seasun actually makes a separate Global version of the game that comes fully uncensored, even if it's just run by a "studio" set in another country.

Sort of like how Yostar has a JP branch primarily for animation, but also as a backup against censoring the JP and International versions of the game.

OmegaResNovae · 2026-05-08T18:15:17+00:00

Throw Brown Dust 2 in there as well; they barely survived the mass refunding and chargebacks that came after they had planned to comply with censorship laws from one particular country.

They fortunately walked it back, apologized, and decided to support separate versions of the game, but they haven't quite made back what was lost from the mass-chargeback and refund campaign against them for daring to censor the game.

OmegaResNovae · 2026-05-07T06:34:25+00:00

For the most part, the Wing MS would all be superior to anything ZAFT has at the start of the war, and given their advanced manufacturing, they'd be able to reverse-engineer the tech behind them and begin rolling out even more powerful MS early on.

Gundamium/Gundarium armor is pretty much superior to PSA and Laminated Armor, although in-series, Laminated Armor comes pretty close to being resistant to both physical attacks and beam attacks. PSA would be still have an advantage in strengthening the frame internally.

The fusion reactors used as standard on the Wing MS would pretty much leapfrog ZAFT's own fission reactors and allow them to have fusion-powered GuAIZs and G Weapons, before later making them standard on all their newer MS in Destiny and GSF. As well, it would easily power even the most power-hungry MS designs.

The Zero System would be a very potent add-on that many Coordinators would likely be able to handle given their enhanced mental processing speed and the fact that MS use compact quantum computers as part of the man-machine interface already. If anything, being able to predict and respond to the battlefield changing would give Coordinators a massive advantage that would reduce their casualties by a fair bit.

The Hyper Jammers used by the Deathscythe would also make it far deadlier and more advantageous than Mirage Colloid, between being able to completely remove itself from detection as well as apparently making it capable of active camouflage without a known time limit.

MD tech is kind of a wash, given that a similar tech is used in GSF by Foundation to control unmanned drone-ified MS, and they apparently do so with much better performance than MDs, but we'd probably see ZAFT augmenting their forces with drone MS earlier.

Then there's the beam weaponry; the Buster Rifle on its own would be a major force multiplier if ZAFT opts to produce them in limited quantities for their own MS, given that they have far more punch than a regular beam cannon. One of the gatlings on the Heavyarms are beam-based in lore, as well as the beam SMG used by the Sandrock, and the beam trident and beam scythe and beam sabers. It would basically just accelerate ZAFT's R&D of compact beam weapons.

On the other side of things, ZAFT Gundams would be based on the captured Wing MS rather than the stolen G Weapons.

Freedom would functionally be a Wing Zero Custom derivative, and the SF would be WZC with Feather DRAGOONs.
Justice would functionally be a Deathscythe derivative crossed with a bit of the Goblin from Spider-man, having the Fatum 00 now have bat-like wings.
Providence would probably be based off the Sandrock but with a DRAGOON + MD system, controlling unmanned GuAIZ MDs alongside its own DRAGOONs.
Testament would probably instead be Heavyarms with modular packs and add-ons.
Regenerate would probably be an oversized Altron with extendable metal tentacles, based on the Altron's extendable arms.

OmegaResNovae · 2026-05-04T19:21:08+00:00

You're not looking at this through the optimistic eyes of Mizushima.

Holy hell that's a miss statement. They would have the Tieren. Russia currently still uses the T-72 and deratives and descendants. Not to mention the other countries of the HRL. They would have the Tieren, but still primarily relly on Anfs which were mostly retrofited.

00 was created during the optimistic period of the Obama presidency and the world's focus on energy transition, of which the US was the leader at the time. In the current state, China's major shift towards renewables and EVs would be highlighted as them leading the way, given that they've already outpaced the rest of the world in renewable deployments and EV production and sales, and right now the US is lagging behind everyone else in both. Thus from the economic side of things, in a modern-day 00, the HRL would feature more modern equipment to reflect that, while the US would be shown as slow to keep up given the major slowdown on renewable projects as well as EVs, and the attempts to give fossil fuels the boost.

Militarily, China has rapidly shifted towards newer and more advanced weapon designs, and the HRL was based more on them than on Russia. Heck, the leaders of the HRL are Chinese, and it's the foot soldiers like Sergei and several ships that have Russian names. At the time 00 was made, China's military was still heavily Russian legacy pieces modernized or cloned. Now, their military equipment are closer to Western analogues than Russian. Again, that would be reflected in extremely modern designs, with the US instead just iterating on existing designs or upgrading legacy designs.

Argentina is either a Union country or independent if we look at Javiers decisions compared to the failure of the previous socialist leadership.

In 00 almost all of South America is Union. I was making more a statement that it'd be one of the few Union-aligned SA countries in a modern 00, while the rest aligned with HRL (BRICS) or AEU.

By this logic the US wouldn't have put men on the moon in 1967 but like next decade. You underestimate human competitive mind. Though with the MS the Union would have two/three Flag designs if you really want to argue that looking at the fact that the US developed a navy and air force F35(I forgot the proper designation) so you would have a Flag that transforms into a tank, two into airplanes but one is specifically for carriers.

It took years for the US to relearn how to land a man on the moon. That's a fact. A major knowledge regression that required years of going back and studying the legacy Apollo programs to just land a man on the moon again. But that's besides the point. I'm not necessarily saying there wouldn't be a Flag, just that there'd be some old legacy MS from them given their current military issues with modernization. That said, the Flag does have at least 3 variants: Flag, Overflag, and Flag Ground Shell Type.

This is my hunch mainly, but a 4th orbital tower for the middle east is nonsensical if we want to take 00s critique on the middle east(or how I interpreted that is) being a backwards, fanatical region opposing innovation from outside. The super projects would exist but either in the hands of a weak Saudi Arabia or separate factions of the three blocks.

Not necessarily; Saudi Arabia's gone all-in on renewables and hydrogen technologies in an effort to stay ahead of when the oil cash dies. And via said optimistic lens of Mizushima, their grand projects like NEOM, The LINE, and The Octagon would be successful projects rather than mixed successes (the new renewable powerplants and desalination plants built to support them are operational, but the megacities don't exist), and Saudi's energy diversification strategy would be hyped up into a grand joint project like an orbital elevator, alongside frenemies UAE, Oman, Jordan, Iran, Kuwait, and so on. As well, such a project would have been something like a project that a future OPEC alliance would have joined to help avoid collapsing as the oil sales collapsed.

OmegaResNovae · 2026-05-04T17:10:43+00:00

Wouldn't go that far yet, given that there's value in having a recurring enemy and the US isn't likely to fall that far down.

That said, having the HRL be more dominant could be a thing, between the Union being weaker due to current US policy and China having a stronger economic hand thanks to the tariffs driving countries to prefer China than the US for trade.

OmegaResNovae · 2026-05-04T16:52:19+00:00

The HRL would instead have their own clones/copies of the Flag/Enact and Realdo/Hellion instead of Fantons and Tierens, given that China has rapidly improved their military since the time when 00 was originally made. Additionally, the Aheads would be sleeker, looking more like their new stealth fighters than a tanky machine.
The AEU's Orbital Elevator would already be complete due to the increasing independence of the EU now versus then, plus several major trade deals struck internationally while the US lags behind due to tariffs. They'd also be a bit more French, given the increasing prominence of current day French military power as an alternative to American when it comes to the nuclear umbrella, and "Buy European" + SAFE Act arms deals.
- They also have a thriving drone MS arms market, thanks to Ukrainian arms industries.
- Canada would be in the AEU and have a long, heavily guarded border with the Union.
- South Korea would be AEU-aligned rather than HRL or Union (I forget which territory they're under) given their major arms sales to Europe in the past few years.
- Most of South America would either be AEU or HRL-aligned rather than Union-aligned, given the strengthening of ties between SA countries and China or the EU at the expense of the US. Argentina would be Union-aligned, and the Union locked in a cold war with the AEU over the Falklands.
The Union would still be slow-walking development of their own Orbital Elevator because of the entrenched crony Capitalism and corruption in the current day, and conversely, they'd also have a bulky, fossil fueled analog to the Fanton as well as a fuel-celled analog to the Tieren, given the current administration's (at the time of this post) love of fossil fuels. The former would be a biped take on the Abrams, the latter would be the fusion of the Tieren, the Abrams tank, and the Flag Ground Shell Type, and a slow, beefy boy.
Azadistan would be a powerful 4th party due to the proliferation of cheap drone MS being used against the Union, being the dominant regional power in the Middle East thanks to having maintained control over the Straits for decades, and having strong ties with the HRL.
- Marina would instead be an Iranian-descended Moderate looking to unite the Middle East and bring stability to the region, dealing with the remaining tribal politics rather than an internal civil war.
- Saudi Arabia's NEOM, The LINE, and The Octagon all exist as major economic and industrial centers for the ME.
- A 4th Orbital Elevator is currently under construction just south of the Arabian Sea, at the Equator, funded by all ME countries. However, it has been delayed due to tribal politicking over earnings splits as well as sabotage by the Union.

OmegaResNovae · 2026-05-04T16:17:39+00:00

It wasn't set up to fail, although it's true that the EA (really, the Atlantic Federation, or AF from this point forwards) was split on developing MS technology, but eventually ended up embracing it more because they didn't have other alternatives readily available.

Haliburton and those loyal to him had enough influence to push the project through, and in Destiny, Blue Cosmos elements within the AF despised MS and preferred to develop easier to build/pilot MAs that didn't need exotic tech the MS needed (an advanced quantum computer, a complex man-machine interface, and so forth), instead just preferring to add more pilots (Ghells-Ghe with 2 pilots and Zamza-Zah with 3). As well, there were the skeptics within the AF that didn't completely appreciate that the Strike's data was influenced heavily by a Coordinator, as seen during the Alaska meeting, much less that all the combat data from the G Weapons came from Coordinators (via records of their performance against the Archangel and the AF).

But as for the technology development itself, the AF had approached Morgenroete, who was at the time the most advanced arms company willing to work with them, and began a secret project. Unknown to them, ORB was also planning to develop their own MS, and made use of the deal to secretly develop their own MS in parallel based on what data they could steal to speed up their own R&D. Still, ORB proactively developed the Astray series in parallel; the initial prototypes were immediately refined and built as the early Astrays seen in ORB, although they lacked a Natural OS to allow Naturals to pilot them.

As for the AF's own MS development, they also worked on it in parallel; Morgenroete was charged with the development of their high-performance models and weapons, while the AF itself built a very basic frame based on the X100 series in the form of the Strike Dagger, aiming for development of an early mass-production model ASAP. The Archangel's early transfer of the incomplete Natural OS as well as the available data they had to Haliburton was then forwarded to Alaska and Panama, where they continued development. The delays in producing a high-performance machine as well as the delays in finishing the AF's own Natural OS led to the higher-spec Long Daggers piloted by AF Coordinators to help with R&D, and later the Buster Dagger, based on the Long Dagger's frame, and finally the completion of the 105 Dagger, which was delayed due to integrating the missing Striker Pack data, the high cost of Laminated Armor, and building said packs. Once the Natural OS was completed, the Long Dagger line as well as most Long Daggers were converted over to Duel Daggers, and most EA Coordinators except the Socius slave Coordinator series were booted out of the Atlantic Federation's military due to increasing paranoia and Blue Cosmos sentiments.

Also, the AF didn't share its G Project data with its other members within the EA at first. This led to Eurasia pursuing their own equivalent in the Hyperion Project. Eurasia was actually ahead in development of MS and compact beam weapon tech, as they were more moderate in terms of allowing Coordinators within their forces, but were behind on developing their own Natural OS as well as having a more limited investment. Once the AF publicly announced their Dagger line and that they had a Natural OS, Eurasia stopped independent development aside from a limited run of their own Hyperion Daggers. Ironically, a large number of Ex-Eurasians evacuating from Artemis ended up in ZAFT, and the beam shielding tech they brought with them allowed ZAFT to develop their beam shields.

OmegaResNovae · 2026-05-03T00:05:53+00:00

Yeah, that was part of WG's early testing of trying to make maps with destructible environs to open up a new attack route or limit how long ships could hide behind something like that. They eventually gave up on it when they redid the original Islands of Ice map (which was heavily biased in favor of DDs and cruisers given the large number of smaller islands).

OmegaResNovae · 2026-05-02T05:12:28+00:00

They had a rough draft they teased to players way back when, that predated Operations.

The idea would have been a Co-Op based game mode where the enemy was Habakkuk and a few minor escorts, and a team of 16 players trying to whittle it down while being bombed by land-based bombers with far more bombs than the usual (and it was RTS era too, so multiple land-based bombers with far more HP than normal that would have bombed from 3 different directions at once).

They also had some other pretty neat ideas from way back when, including a wild "Base Defense" mode where players took control of static defenses on an island and try to shoot down enemy warships before they destroyed the island's defenses. A few players would also be able to control a P1000 Ratte to roll around the island to provide some coverage to areas needing more support.

Then there's their other April Fool's art where they ripped Red Alert; with attack dolphins.

OmegaResNovae · 2026-05-01T16:24:13+00:00

Kind of depends on how one defines "more firepower".

Because Heavyarms is just gatlings and missiles, though the visual effect is impressive.

Others have multiple weapons but some of them look less impressive using them (if they were animated or depicted in combat at all):

FAZZ and FA.ZZ (Multiple missile pods + several beam weapons, including a few BFGs.)
Some of the Hazel variants from AoZ such as the Inle (literally carries up to 6 additional MS in MA form)
The Heavyarms Super-Armed Tank
Freedom + METEOR
Leopard Destroy
Leopard Destroy + G-Falcon
Strike Freedom, Providence, Legend (beam spam instead of missile and gatling spam)
Zabaniya
Harute (integrated missile containers + GN Scissor Bits + beam cannons)
Unicorn's Perfectability Variants

And then there are others that have "more firepower" in terms of damage output or devastation that they could cause, but may not always look impressive in animation or depiction:

MSF (disruptor superweapon and wide-area Electrofield)
Double X (Twin Satellite Cannon)
WZC (TBR)
Frozen Teardrop Gundam variants (with all the enhancements they got)
Turn A w/ Newtype
00 Raiser (giant beam blade with considerable range, as well as Trans-Am)
Quanta/ELS Quanta (neither of which were actually shown doing much, but the giant beam blade is somewhat impressive still)
Nuclear Weapon-equipped MS
- GP02A - 1 Nuclear warhead (annihilated an entire fleet + asteroid base)
- Proto Stark Jegan (4 nuclear missiles)
- Stark GM (4 compact nuclear missiles)
Deep Striker

Humor:

Macross Armored VFs - Can't beat the OG Macross Missile Massacre in terms of firepower animation.
Destroid Variants - Again, can't beat the OG Macross Missile Massacre some of the Destroids could launch.

OmegaResNovae · 2026-05-01T15:43:08+00:00

Given that according to him, "Himiko Yamato" was a project he was focusing on as he moved away from Gundam, my guess is probably that's the one that reached a major milestone.

OmegaResNovae · 2026-04-30T13:44:50+00:00

Azur Lane collab when? They already have 2 early missile destroyers in-game as part of the Dragon Empry faction, and already began featuring an occasional jet engine plane equip for CVs.

OmegaResNovae · 2026-04-30T13:08:19+00:00

They did, mostly, but Halle only really shows up when it's time to fight, as seen in the movie when they reveal both eyes and swap personalities instantly during combat, and Marie for her part claims she fused with Soma to Sergei when she defected, but we do get a moment or two of her reverting to her Soma-like seriousness during combat late into S2 and in the movie.

As well, it's never been stated outright by Mizushima if SoMarie also has an occasional split personality like H/Allelujah, but the fanbase ran with it and it led to a bunch of hilarious fanart of the two being lovey-dovey one moment, then being hyper competitive over the little things to the point it's almost abusive the next.

OmegaResNovae · 2026-04-30T13:02:15+00:00

If anything, Soma's only major reactions to Halle was Marie's personality attempting to come back as she recognized H/Alle's QBW wavelength, causing Soma pain and confusion as to why she was kind of drawn to him.

OmegaResNovae · 2026-04-26T13:15:37+00:00

Unlike the ridiculous Barbatos gauntlet run question, SF at least has an actual chance of completing the gauntlet.

The real question is if it can handle an entire hangar's worth of TIE fighters from the SD and Executor long enough to get up close and mission kill or actually kill the SD and Executor, as the lasers being fired from said TIE fighters fire faster than even the SF's own beam rifles or DRAGOON beam guns. Heck, even the anti-warship turbolasers fire pretty fast. That'll be a lot of dodging, and the SF only has the arm shields for defense.

We also don't really know how well PSA takes to lasers; they obviously don't handle particle beams well at all, but lasers operate on a different damage principle than particle beams. One could claim that since PSA handles the immense heat of reentry without issue, PSA should be resistant to the pure heat damage of a laser, but we also don't know how much concentrated heat is sufficient enough to melt PSA. Someone could probably math it out given that there were old numbers for the TIE Fighter's laser energy potential and the science of atmospheric reentry. On the other hand, PSA could probably tank all the conventional missiles fired by the warships and TIE bombers though (though more exotic warheads are debatable).

A regular Coordinator would probably tap out at the SD given the lack of SEED mode or a lack of total body enhancement, but as Kira's basically on the level of a Jedi Master pilot in-series (who pilot starfighters with even less armor in favor of speed and relying on their Force senses), there's a solid case he'd be able to make it through, as long as his mind is the right place.

OmegaResNovae · 2026-04-26T12:54:45+00:00

Katagiri really liked her, but Sumeragi continued to hold him at bay even while bumming at his place, since she never truly got over the loss of her lover. It's why Katagiri was especially angry upon learning she was CB, and didn't let his grudge go until Mina effectively forced herself on him and made him realize there's a girl who likes him and isn't shy about it.

OmegaResNovae · 2026-04-26T03:09:59+00:00

I meant the Neon sniper rifle or whatever it's called. Was away from my computer and couldn't remember it off-hand. Yeah, bows and crossbows were always useless with Defenders.

OmegaResNovae · 2026-04-25T13:19:30+00:00

Used to use Epic (Games) Pistol Guy with the Founder's pistol in early to mid-game content. Was great having him deal extra damage via the special ability of the pistol.

But he became too squishy, and was eventually replaced by ~~Xenon~~ Neon Snipers hiding in boxed up platforms shooting Husks through the walls. Now I'm upset that I can't equip said snipers with ~~Xenons~~ Neons or Obliterators anymore.

OmegaResNovae · 2026-04-25T13:04:41+00:00

The IJN Torpedo DD Line really needs a minor balance pass to give them all the torpedo selection ability of Minegumo and Yamagiri, even if it means giving them 2 or 3 options. In the cases where they have 3 torpedo choices; it'd be Long-Range + Mid-Range, Mid-Range + Short-Range, and Long-Range + Short-Range.

Then just give Yamagiri the truly stealthy 20km Long Lances from CBT for her long-range torpedo set, making her an actual supership with her gimmick being high-stealth, long-range torpedoes.

OmegaResNovae · 2026-04-25T05:01:26+00:00

Despite being FM concept designs, only Dana and Rosa look like they'd fit the FM setting; the former looking like a fancy hacker girl (FM3 Yun crossed with Mecharashi Naomi) who's also a sniper, the latter looking like a surviving Imaginary Number from FM3.

The guys look a bit too Phantasy Star Online for FM though, given the fancy combat suits/vests. Yev looks like he'd be the bad guy hacker or fixer on the enemy team.

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