This page deals with technology from the Universal Century timeline of the Gundam fictional universe meta-series. [24][25], The fictional weapons of the Universal Century were described to be utilizing the degeneracy of the Minovsky Particle by compressing Minovsky particles in high pressure chambers and firing out the degenerated Minovsky particles (from the fusing of a positively charged and a negatively charged one) which carries high energy and mass from the degeneration of the matter. Individual colony pairs are known as Bunches, and a group of colonies that occupy a Lagrangian point are known collectively as a Side. E-cap technology appears outside of UC continuity in MS Saga: A New Dawn. They are equipped with a small beam cannon and an energy cell to propel the funnel when it is operating. However, this barrier has no effect against solid objects like missiles and projectiles, and beam weapons can still be used at point blank range within the barrier's boundary. Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 3,980 kW Propulsion: . This reactor was "radical" because it was the first "clean" nuclear reactor, emitting zero neutron radiation. The tail stabilator continues to be used on MS developed after U.C.0087, an example is the RGZ-91 Re-GZ. The list of authors can be seen in the page history there. Why? The Fin Funnel Barrier is a special force field that is powerful enough to not only stop beam weaponry, but also physical weaponry and is even able to trap units within it. [2], Universal Century technology debuted in Gundam Century, written by editors, academy and studios hired by Out magazine at that time,[3] later part of the book was endorsed by Sunrise and Bandai, and some of the authors of the articles within Gundam Century became official editors and writers of Gundam mechanics. Mobile suit pilots have to endure much higher acceleration forces than aircraft pilots, caused by maneuvering and engaging in close combat in a mobile suit. Thus, an unlimited number of copies of the user's mind can be made, allowing for an immortality of will, if not consciousness as well. Born on December 2, 1923 to Tetter and Ivana Minovsky in Moscow, Yuri was born into a Party family. Furthermore, if the pilot wears a compatible normal suit, the suit itself can be affixed to the seat, with no need for seatbelts. When the Minovsky particle is spread in large numbers in the open air or in open space, the particles disrupt low-frequency electromagnetic radiation, such as microwaves and radio waves. The viewpoint is that of the mobile suit's head, and the image is carefully edited to remove the mobile suit itself. Due to the various advantages of the movable frame, it soon become the standard mobile suit construction method during the Gryps War, and the obsolete monocoque and semi-monocoque construction was eventually phased out. Bandai (with its branch Sunrise) noticed the tradition and has hired writers to write articles for other Gundam series, too. It was handed from Phantom V2 Kai and used. However, it had the same weakness as all other I-field Generators - the generators tend to overheat and thus force cooldowns. The balancers are placed all across the body of the mobile suit's frame, with primary systems being located in the limbs. This design allowed for better energy efficiency, easier repair, maintenance, and modification of mobile suits, as well as increased maneuverability and fluidity of movements. According to Gundam Officials, in the latter half of the One Year War, Zeon mobile suits suffered heavy damage from Earth Federation Forces' beam weaponry-equipped mobile suits. They became a normal reference of the serial story and attracted publishers to publish books on them. Minovsky Ultracompact Fusion Reactor Armaments Beam Saber/Beam Gun x 2 Mega Machine Cannon x 2 System Features Minovsky Flight System Core Block System Psyco-Frame Cockpit I-Field Generator x 2 Optional Equipment Variable Speed Beam Smart Rifle (VSBSR) "Jitte" Beam Saber Blocking Unit Composite Shield Hyper Bazooka 10 x Funnel Missile [7] Although it could be viewed as following the Star Wars trend, nothing similar has started before the 1981 publishing of Gundam Century. An advanced type of psycommu system developed by the Crossbone Vanguard commander known as Iron Mask, and installed in the mobile armor XMA-01 Rafflesia. The system works by using the Psycoframe built within its body to seek out Newtype brainwaves. After the One Year War, the material is further refined by renegade Principality of Zeon soldiers at the asteroid base Axisand later given to Anaheim Electronics. The Minovsky physics is the fundamental technological advancement in the Universal Century series, as all Beam weaponry (including the lightsaber-like Beam Sabers), nuclear technology and defensive measures are based upon this fictional physics. Name: MSN-04 Sazabi Origin: Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack Pilot: Char Aznable Height: 25.6 meters (overall height), 23 meters (head height) Weight: 71.2 metric tons (max weight), 30.5 metric tons (standard weight) Powered By: Minovsky Ultracompact Fusion Reactor Destructive Capacity: Town level+ with beam weaponry (at least 83 kilotons), multi city block level with missiles More sophisticated varieties are equipped with small maneuvering verniers, allowing them to move in a realistic manner and register on infra-red sensors. 0090 era. They have also influenced creations in other Animation series. It is often used in conjunction with the propulsion system to quickly turn the unit and shorten aiming speed as well as directing the main thrusters. During the Gryps Conflict and the Neo Zeon rebellion of U.C. A new protective device used by the mobile suits of the U.C. Titanium alloys are metallic materials which contain a mixture of titanium and other chemical elements. This reduces the heat from the thermonuclear reaction and reduces the need for coolant and shielding for the fusion reactors. Several years after the ship's destruction SNRI would take the Minovsky Drive and improve it, reducing the size and installing onto three mobile suits, the F99 Record Breaker, as the "wings of light". Corodal Carbon. This frame was completely separate from the sensors, thrusters, armor, weapons and propellant tanks. 150K subscribers in the Gundam community. According to the Gundam Officials and Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, the anti-beam coating (ABC) first came into testing on MSN-00100 Hyaku Shiki. Categories space), and ask him to place his left arm to his chest then swing it out to the side, the resulting inertia of the arm movement would result in the rest of his body turning the other direction in order to conserve angular momentum. Unlike an I-field generator, which is effective only against beam attacks, the beam shield blocks both beam and projectile weapons. During the events of mobile suit Zeta Gundam; when the AEUG were making a drop on Jaburo, their mobile suits used balloon like devices called ballutes to slow their decent down and prevent burning up. This provides the basis for the miniaturizing of fusion reactors installed in mobile suits since a controlled I-field can block the infra-red waves. The Gundam world's fusion reactors rely on a constant supply of helium-3 imported from the outer solar system planet Jupiter, thus necessitating the beginning of the Jupiter Energy Fleet. At the dawn of the Universal Century, a massive space settlement program is launched to address Earth's energy, environmental, and population problems. | Anime Amino", Beyond the Time ~Mbius no Sora wo Koete~, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gundam_Universal_Century_technology&oldid=1129940757, Short description is different from Wikidata, Wikipedia articles that are excessively detailed from April 2012, All articles that are excessively detailed, Wikipedia articles with style issues from April 2012, Wikipedia introduction cleanup from April 2012, Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify from April 2012, All articles covered by WikiProject Wikify, Articles that need to differentiate between fact and fiction from April 2012, All articles that need to differentiate between fact and fiction, Articles with multiple maintenance issues, Articles with unsourced statements from July 2022, Articles containing Japanese-language text, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. 0081 -The Wrath of Varuna-, Stampede: The Story of Professor Minovsky, Mobile Suit Gundam F91: Formula Report 0122. According to the timeline deduced by the Gundam Officials, in UC 0071, Zeon researchers created the Minovsky ultracompact fusion reactor . The Day when Science will overtake Science Fiction. Minovsky in his earlier days when he was serving the Earth Federation, was still a piece of black box technology and rendered him a heretic in the classical physics community (where classical in the Universal Century includes the modern physics of today). The Federation did not know of the existence of this variant of Gundarium until Anaheim Electronics gives them theRMS-108 Marasaias a political gesture. An extra plate of armor carried on a mobile suit's arm. Due to internal space limitations, some mobile suits carry additional propellant in external These are commuter trains which travel on rails along the outside of a space colony, running from station to station just like the underground rail systems of terrestrial cities. Comment. The multiple panels of the panoramic screen make up a single 360-degree display, which covers the entire inner surface of the spherical cockpit. [20][21] AMBAC works by leveraging Isaac Newton's Third Law of Motion (when there's an action there is an equal and opposite reaction) with regard to inertia to effect changes in direction. The wire-gun launches a powerful magnet attached to a wire cable, which anchors the user in place and can be rewound to pull him to his destination. However, the difficulty and expense of producing this alloy preclude its use in mass-produced mobile suits like the RGM-79 GM. This makes the Dodai highly versatile, but also rather expensive. The idea is simple: "If four limbs can manoeuvre the unit better than none, why not equip them with 5 or more?" Under these conditions, the best alternative is to transmit data in the form of low-intensity laser pulses. When the propellant is consumed, the tank can be discarded to reduce the mobile suit's weight. While a normal aircraft obtains lift from the difference in airflow speed between the upper and lower surfaces of its wings, a wave rider flying at supersonic speeds concentrates the shock waves under its lower surface and obtains lift from the resulting pressure, essentially riding on these shock waves. Designed by the scientific team of Zeon's Living Dead Division, the Reuse "P" Device was meant to improve the performance of soldiers significantly injured during the One Year War. AMBAC is by its nature limited to re-orienting the unit about its center of mass, and is not a substitute for propulsion. This became known as the "Minovsky Effect". This became known as the "Minovsky Effect". By the year U.C.0047, development of the Minovsky-Ionesco reactor began. Later, following the trend of militaristic and technological interest in the community, Gundam Sentinel Special Edition included a section called imidam 0093 (Innovative Mobile Suit Information Dictionary, Annual Series, intentionally using an m at the end to reference Gundam), subtitled Basic Knowledge of Gundam Mechanics. The NRX-055 Baund Doc appears to be equipped with a similar device. Mobile suits performing AMBAC motions would presumably move similarly to present-day astronauts performing extra-vehicular activity: both typically having roughly similar body structure, their use of that mass to control their rotation would presumably be similar, even if calculated by different means. This page was last edited on 27 December 2022, at 21:27. Their research was devoted to the development of a nuclear fusion reactor. An I-field lattice will slowly expand and scatter into space; however, after dense interference it will take approximately 29 days before the region can support normal electromagnetic communication again. These are supplemented by infra-red and laser sensors for precision targeting. As such, a gun that does not need to be pointed directly at the target is more dangerous.[16][22]. Beam barriers generated in Flight Form allowed the Gundam to achieve supersonic . A mega particle cannon like those installed in space warships requires a large electrical power source, a steady supply of energy in the form of Minovsky particles, and a massive energy condensor to compress the latter into mega particles prior to firing. Strict speed limits are also enforced inside space colonies, so for longer trips, it's more convenient to travel via the colony's linear car system. The nuclear equation was: The reactant used a rare isotope of helium known as helium-3 (i.e., 2 protons and 1 neutron in the nucleus). 0120 era. This device automatically adjusts to the terrain the mobile suit is walking along in. Minovsky Ultracompact Fusion Reactor (Universal Century series) DHGCP power plant (Discontinuous Hyperoscillation Gauge Collapsing Pile) (Turn A series) Hyper-Deuterion Engine (SEED series) GN Drive/GN Drive Tau (00 series) Ahab Reactors (Iron-Blooded Orphans series) Etc. It is equipped with high-power thrusters that allow atmospheric flight under gravity for a short period of time. Developed by Char Aznable's Neo-Zeon, the Psycoframe allowed a Mobile Suit to be controlled by a Newtype pilot as if it were an extension of their own body, giving it greater response time. This was shown when Amuro, emotionally charged because of his fight with Char, overloaded the Nu Gundam, causing it to explode in a burst of light, yet using that power to tether the falling piece of Axis to the other half and pull it away from the Earth. and claimed that he did not think of Engineering and Electronics at all. Special Equipment & Features Phantom Mane The propulsion system based on the Minovsky Drive used by the Phantom. Nuclearlite Catalyst Minovsky Ultracompact Fusion Reactor Technology Information Manufacturer Neo-Zeon (based on recorded Laplace Theory) Chronological and Affiliation Universe Universal Century YC Appearance Storyline Universal Century: The Young Comet [Source] The Minovsky particles that form the I-field lattice also helped catalyze the fusion reaction, in a process similar to the muon-catalyzed fusion investigated by real-world scientists during the 1950s. Besides being mounted on transformable mobile suit, it is also used by non-transforming units such as PMX-003 The O. A system installed in the RX-78-2 Gundam, which pumps out air to counter the friction heat of atmospheric entry. It provides a type of sacrificial protection against any type of beam weapon. Early beam rifles were either taken back to ships for recharging or simply discarded. The nuclear equation was: (energy released: 18.35 MeV) This diffraction and polarization process disrupts the electromagnetic waves. This mechanism has far better fuel efficiency than a thermonuclear rocket engine or a chemical rocket, but due to its relatively low thrust it's best suited for massive, slow-moving objects such as the asteroid Axis. It is the device that enables the machine the ability to walk like a human being. Thanks to his massive intellect and high . Because of the way Minovsky particles react with other types of radiation, radar systems and long-range wireless communication systems become useless, infra-red signals are diffracted and their accuracy decreases, and visible light is fogged. A mobile suit can reach out with its manipulator to establish the link, and these sound vibrations can also be relayed through wires, including the wire-guns used by human workers. However, due to its nature of ablating when defending against great heat, ABC can only tolerate a few hits to the same spot. Eventually the Minovsky Craft System design would be overhauled and upgraded into the Minovsky Drive, the first of its kind being built into the ship Mother Vanguard of the Crossbone Vanguard as a system nicknamed the "Sail of Light". In U.C. This principle is used in the creation of the Minovsky craft system, which allowed a spaceship or heavy ground vehicle to "fly"/hover on Earth. This technology allows a mobile suit to be externally controlled via the psycommu system. It burst, causing Kacricon's Marasai to plunge into the atmosphere. Despite being set in the distant future, the Universal Century has several takes on modern weapons such as the twin gunned Type 61 main battle tank that bears a striking resemblance to the Israeli Merkava, the "Calt" M-72A1 assault rifle that is near identical to the British L-85, anti mobile suit weapons reminiscent of the BGM-71 TOW and Kornet, and even light utility vehicles similar to World War II era Jeeps. Originally intended for use inside thermonuclear reactors, this alloy's superb strength, durability, heat resistance and radiation-absorbing properties make it an ideal material for mobile suit armor. (Birth of Giant Robot - Latest Robotics Engineering birth from Gundam). While researcher (associate professor in the University of Tsukuba) and media artist Yoichi Ochiai viewed this in the science angle and said that even currently, if computers are not working right, things will get really weak, mixing in analogue in the machine is a correct choice and the setting is excellent. Applied Reactor Physics Technology The Gundam Wiki FANDOM powered by Wikia May 10th, 2018 - According to the timeline deduced by the Gundam Officials in UC 0071 Zeon researchers created the Minovsky ultracompact fusion reactor In the Mobile Suit Gundam Origin the technology was created by Professor Trenov Y Minovsky himself in U C 0074 for YMS . An attachment point for weapons, shields, spare ammunition, or optional mission-specific equipment. When the funnels are not in use, they are attached to the mother suit's surface hardpoints for recharging. The protons and helium ions produced by these fusion reactions can then be directed by a magnetic field to generate thrust. 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