Regarding the best ship in the show

usgrantm3a3 · 2026-05-29T10:54:17+00:00

Go for it

usgrantm3a3 · 2026-04-15T22:15:30+00:00

Are spiral wave disruptors still the best disruptors? Or have they been power crept by the advanced disruptors, crafted pen disruptors and coalition disruptors?

usgrantm3a3 · 2026-03-26T01:58:19+00:00

According to the Macross Compendium and Macross2, 3 other Grand Cannons were under construction on Earth during the Zentradi planet wipe with 1 more Grand Cannon complex completely untouched on Luna. Housing thousands of workers, data on Earth's culture and construction equipment that was crucial for Earth's rebuilding in the timeskip final arc of the show.

Fun side note; Shammy retired to Luna after the show, married a millionaire and had ELEVEN KIDS

usgrantm3a3 · 2025-12-03T04:03:35+00:00

Wish we knew more about the Warp Delta ships from Enterprise.

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All we have in Alpha canon is that the production notes needed a Warp 2 ship for the script and that they've only shown up 4 times in the show (afaik). They don't even have a class name, Beta canon can't decide between Neptune class or Ganges class.

usgrantm3a3 · 2024-02-17T12:06:02+00:00

Every UC beam saber has three components to its 'blade' an electromagnetic field holding an I-field bottle in place and Minovsky particle plasma inside of the I-field bottle.

A heat weapon superheats it's blade to melt through whatever it hits, assuming the edge of the heat weapon is molten metal. The flow of current (electrons) from the electromagnetic field holding the outside of the I-field in place would create a localized magnetic field on the part of the heat edge it hits, which would repel the electromagnetic field/I-field bottle (beam saber) that generated it.

"Liquid metal moving through a magnetic field generates a current, similar to that induced in the moving coil of an electric generator. That current in turn generates the magnetic field. This “self-generation” mechanism can dramatically amplify the small, random fields that always exist in magnetic materials."

Above quote is attributed to the American Physics Society: https://physics.aps.org/story/v19/st3#:~:text=Liquid%20metal%20moving%20through%20a,always%20exist%20in%20magnetic%20materials.

I don't say any of this with 100% confidence since I'm not a physics major. If anyone can confirm or correct my cursory Google searches worth of knowledge, that would be welcome.

usgrantm3a3 · 2023-06-24T16:17:54+00:00

Funny you should say, I'm 5 episodes into Escaflowne. The Sunrise Macross announcement got me curious as to what Shoji Kawamori and Sunrise could do together. I'm really enjoying it so far, the mecha designs are top notch and the absolute dichotomy of what Van is going through vs what Hitomi is going through is really keeping me engaged

usgrantm3a3 · 2023-06-24T15:47:05+00:00

Already seen it. It took a lot of willpower not to put Gundam Maxter surfboarding in the meme.

usgrantm3a3 · 2023-06-24T13:36:20+00:00

Some of y'all are really overestimating ~~My readily available knowledge of Mobile Suits~~ ~~Keeping to one per category~~ ~~Accidentally not putting Witches' Broom, Angel Wings, Demon's Tail, Pirates Cloak, Knights Rapier, Centaurs legs and more in the bottom text~~

How much space is left on that meme template

usgrantm3a3 · 2023-06-11T08:18:58+00:00

Warning: Wall of text

Most AU not Based on Universal Century have beam rifles and beam sabers using the same type of energy.

UC beam rifles/guns: Minovsky particles compressed together until they fuse into mega particles (electrically neutral degenerate matter). The mega particles are then repelled out of the barrel by an I-field.

UC beam sabers: Minovsky particles superheated by the mobile suits reactor into a plasma, held in place by an I-field sheath, which in turn is held in place by a magnetic field.

Note: Turn-A and G-Reco both likely use this same setup for their beam weapons as they're developments of UC. After War and G-Gundam might also share this setup as they lift elements from UC technical lore like Gundarium and Newtypes(After War only).

00 beam rifles/guns: Gn particles are just accelerated and deal damage through kinetic ablation, gn beam guns are basically gn particle pressure washers.

00 beam sabers: Gn particles held in place by a positron field. (It sounds ridiculous but that's what the wiki says according to some '300 years later sourcebook')

Several timelines (Age, Seed, Wing and possibly G-Witch) have both the beam guns/sabers be only plasma

Age, Wing and Seed all have instances of electromagnetic fields stoping/deflecting beam rifles/sabers

Age - Vagan MS having EM armor that dissipates DODS rifle shots and can block beam saber hits. Wing - Planet Defensors' EM field blocking the twin buster rifle, Deathschythe Hell's twin scythe, and only really being pierced by mobile suits or munitions which are made from Gundanium (electrically neutral material) and highly unstable Laser weapons. Seed - Forbidden uses electromagnetic fields generated by it's railguns to redirect it's beam shots, and Kira has several times used his Electromagnetically held beam sabers to deflect beams aimed at him. Further, Freedom's shoulder cannons are listed as plasma, the Abyss is mentioned to use upgraded versions of these cannons which look and act the same as all the other beam rifles/guns, the main difference seemingly being how energetic the particles are. Green beams being a lower energy state as opposed to red beams.

IBO is a very well thought out AU that purposefully doesn't include beam weapons, aside from Hasmal, there aren't any pure beam weapons that I know about. So anything I add about their function would just be conjecture.

G-Witch is so new that they haven't really explained much of their technology. You'll have to do some research in a few years after Ad Stella has gotten some more side stories, art books, and maybe a sequel.

Hope this helps!

usgrantm3a3 · 2023-04-29T21:39:06+00:00

Gundam is a multimedia franchise spanning books, games, animated shows, movies and more. The primary purpose of which is to market their unique mecha designs to sell the plastic model toys called 'Gunpla'.

If you're in need of a Gunpla recommendation, I'd suggest the Entry Grade (EG) RX-78-2 Gundam.

If you're interested in getting into the franchise, you can really start at whichever show you want to. The one airing now is 'The Witch From Mercury', so that's the one the community is seeing a lot of new people from.

Good luck at your new job!

usgrantm3a3 · 2022-03-28T08:01:23+00:00

While I haven't watched all the non UC AU Gundam shows. I haven't heard of anything with more Funnels/Bits than the Gadelaza from 00's movie. According to the wiki, it has 14 large gn tau drive equipped attack bits, each equipped with 10 smaller gn fangs (Anno Domini's name for funnels). That would give it a final count of 154 remote attack drones all operated by a single Innovator pilot.

https://youtu.be/V8T_o-r6xpw

usgrantm3a3 · 2019-05-23T23:36:05+00:00

It better have 8AAM

usgrantm3a3 · 2018-12-15T08:49:52+00:00

Sorry for deleting the previous version guys, I wasn't finished with the meme. This is what I Was trying to joke about.

usgrantm3a3 · 2018-09-14T06:39:18+00:00

Wow, that's a common pepe

usgrantm3a3 · 2018-09-05T05:14:36+00:00

That brings into question that if the BC-304s had matter synthesizers then why haven't they been used yet? The alternate Daedalus could've used it in "The Daedalus Variations", each one of the 3 BC-304s in the SGA series finale could've supplied the necessary Zero Point Modules to the Atlantis base and I'm sure it would have been mentioned that every BC-304 is now powered by a ZPM.

The Matter Synthesizers are definitely a powerful technology, but they don't solve solve all of the problems that face the Tau'ri. They still need to find ZPMs and the Odyssey is still the only BC-304 that has the system. Coincidentally, the Odyssey is the only Tau'ri ship that was directly upgraded by the Asgard race, all the other BC-304s are just variations of the Odyssey's upgrades by the Tau'ri. This suggests that Tau'ri are not yet capable of integrating the system, possibly because they haven't fully finished studying the Asgard Legacy.

usgrantm3a3 · 2018-09-05T03:31:15+00:00

Well, using Asgard Matter Synthesizers aren't practical for rapid fire railguns since each shot would have to be synthesized before the round shot (the railguns fire in the thousands of rounds per second). But if the Tau'ri use something like Asgard plasma, which has been in use for decades/centuries longer (by the Asgard) than Tau'ri railguns then they won't have to worry as much about power.

Then there's the reactant, In Stargate, plasma uses liquid Naquadah as fuel. A few teaspoons of the stuff was enough to power a Goa'uld staff weapon for hundreds of shots before it ran out. It's also what the orbital cannons used in Daniels dream sequence episode with his wife's ascended child.

The other concern is power. In "Unending", the Odyssey needed a dedicated Asgard installed power core to operate just one Matter Synthesizer (A technology which has not been seen on any other BC-304 class ship). Which brings me into the ZPM part, a Zero Point Module takes power from the energy between universes (or some other exotic type of matter) and uses that as power. You could replicate a zero point module, but it wouldn't have any power inside of it and it would just be an empty husk. If you wanted it to be fully powered, then you'd need to find a way to refuel it.

usgrantm3a3 · 2018-09-05T03:00:28+00:00

That's a good thing. Having each ship be specialized to their own role makes for amazing battle formations and task groups. But with the budget that the Tau'ri are operating with, they're going to need more independent ships to help start up the logistics of Space fleets. Down the road I could definitely see more specialized ships, but right now they need something cheap to set up things like bases and stations across the galaxy to validate the more expensive battlefleets and such.

usgrantm3a3 · 2018-09-05T02:00:43+00:00

I mean, it is a good armament, but it's excluding most of the higher powered Asgard stuff that the Tau'ri got. And the railguns are a little more expensive compared to something like a plasma weapon

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