Another weakness is that the I-field generator has an operating limit. Once their propellant is exhausted, the sturm thruster units are detached and discarded as dead weight. Semi-transparent coating protect the unit by having multiple layers all reflecting a certain wavelength of light and thus effectively reduces the energy of different laser weapons. 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". Instead of the conventional magnetic field, this improved version of the Minovsky-Ionesco reactor used an I-field to confine and compress the reactor fuel, triggering a fusion reaction. The NRX-055 Baund Doc appears to be equipped with a similar device. During the Gryps Conflict, they are often unmanned models controlled by the mobile suit itself, but later versions are equipped with cockpits so that they can also be used as transport craft. The Psycoframe is a later technology that builds the psycommu into the nanomachines within the metal frame of a mobile suit. Magnet Coating is a special process developed by the Earth Federation in U.C. He thus was raised around politics and science the whole of his life. 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. Add to Favourites. A new type of control lever used in the mobile suits of the U.C. Instead, it uses a cubic lattice of Minovsky particles to push the vessel away from the Earth's surface. The resulting advancement is the tail binder. 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. The joints of Zeon mobile suits are driven by a fluid pulse system, which used a pulse converter to turn the energy produced by the atomic reactor into pulses of pressure within a fluid. Each reactor is even further miniaturized A Ata Geta 617 followers More information This page deals with technology from the Universal Century timeline of the Gundam fictional universe meta-series. It should be noted that in real physics, helium-3-deuterium fusion produces neutrons due to inevitable deuterium-deuterium reactions. Technology from the Gundam anime media mix, Gundam Century renewal version acknowledgment. The protons and helium ions produced by these fusion reactions can then be directed by a magnetic field to generate thrust. The contact link is an alternative means of short-range voice communication. The Flanagan Institute goes on to develop a mind-machine interface called the psycommu (psycho-communicator) system, which receives these thoughtwaves and translates them into computer commands. This system yielded a higher operating speed than hydraulics, and lower weight and greater structural simplicity than electric motors. When scattered in open space or in the air, the repulsive forces between charged Minovsky particles cause them to spontaneously align into a regular cubic lattice structure called an I-field. A prototype transformable Man-Machine developed by Metatron, the Gaia Gear is a ultra high-performance unit built during the pinnacle of Universal Century era technology. The device detects and amplifies the user's brainwaves, and a sophisticated computer system enables the user to manipulate weapons by using their mind. Power Source: Minovsky Ultracompact Fusion Reactor Armor Material: Gundarium Alloy Pilot Accommodations: Pilot only (in panoramic monitor/linear seat cockpit in torso) Manufacturer: Anaheim Electronics Operator: [REDACTED] Weapons: - 2x 60mm Vulcan Gun: Head-mounted projectile weaponry that is utilized against missiles and light-armored vehicles. Besides being mounted on transformable mobile suit, it is also used by non-transforming units such as PMX-003 The O. However, his inventions were applied very differently by the Earth Federation. 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. Only a handful of reckless pilots, like Char Aznable, Paptimus Scirocco and Haman Karn, are willing to forfeit the protection of the pilot suit in order to avoid this minor inconvenience. 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. As described in the Gundam Officials and Mobile Suit Gundam the novel appendix, the semi-transparent coating () is originally used as the laser medium, mirror and partial mirror of laser weapons in the Universal Century timeline. Unlike an I-field generator, which is effective only against beam attacks, the beam shield blocks both beam and projectile weapons. The Federation did not know of the existence of this variant of Gundarium until Anaheim Electronics gives them theRMS-108 Marasaias a political gesture. This technology allows a mobile suit to be externally controlled via the psycommu system. The exposed power cables seen on some Zeon mobile suits, such as the Zaku II series, are part of the fluid pulse system, connecting the reactor to each joint. 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. (Universal Century Science digest - From Space colonies to what Gundam can do). Corodal Carbon. 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. Furthermore, Minovsky also developed the Fluid Pulse system, which utlized the Minovsky Particles to drive the Mobile Suit's system, which allows active attitude control possible. This bio brain also develops Newtype abilities thanks to the combat data, as well as some aspects of Amuro's personality. The linear rail contains actuators, which are controlled by a computer to mitigate the g-force from acceleration and impact. 0100, designers begin to consider shifting systems like generators and thrusters outside the mobile suit itself. According to the timeline deduced by the Gundam Officials, in UC 0071, Zeon researchers created the Minovsky ultracompact fusion reactor. A helium-3 atom is fused with a deuterium atom (heavy hydrogen) to form the stable helium-4 and a single proton. The main use of the Minovsky particle was in combat and communication. Furthermore, if the pilot wears a compatible normal suit, the suit itself can be affixed to the seat, with no need for seatbelts. The flying armor functions as a wave rider, allowing the Gundam Mk-II to enter Earth's atmosphere from orbit, and also serves as a hovercraft once it reaches the ground. 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. It was handed from Phantom V2 Kai and used. Installed on the XM-07 Vigna Ghina, these devices are improved versions of the shelf nozzle used by other Crossbone Vanguard command mobile suits. These devices, distributed across the machine's outer surface, are used for changing direction and performing fine movements - or attitude control, in technical jargon. A standard piece of mobile suit technology, the balancer, sometimes called balance controller or auto-balancer by different authors, is the device responsible for keeping a mobile suit upright. 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. These shelf nozzles are movable thrusters attached to the mobile suit's backpack, whose flexibility also allows them to be used for AMBAC maneuvering. According to the timeline deduced by the Gundam Officials, in UC 0071, Zeon researchers created the Minovsky ultracompact fusion reactor . The system is similar in principle to the momentum wheel system used in present day satellites, though obviously more complex. 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. When the Hyaku Shiki's transformation system fails, the mobile suit was retooled into a non-transformable unit and the wing binders were kept as they can serve as additional AMBAC limbs. 0085. 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. [24], According to the timeline deduced by the Gundam Officials, in UC 0071, Zeon researchers created the Minovsky ultracompact fusion reactor. The system made use of the wings' mobility for the transformation during mobile suit mode as AMBAC limbs and further increasing the number of limbs for the AMBAC system. The system works by using the Psycoframe built within its body to seek out Newtype brainwaves. Likewise, the lift-generating Minovsky craft system, which vehicles like the White Base use to float in Earth's atmosphere, isn't a true anti-gravity system. As such, a gun that does not need to be pointed directly at the target is more dangerous.[16][22]. With the development of a new generation of highly compact mobile suits after U.C. According to Gundam Sentinel Special Edition, the beam smart gun is designed to bend the output beam by up to 20 degrees. A unique type of sensor used in the heads of Crossbone Vanguard mobile suits, which consists of a pair of compound sensors installed behind two goggle-like lenses. After the war, the Earth Federation Forces refine this concept into a dedicated mobile suit support device, substantially reducing its cost. The Newtype Destroyer (or NT-D) System is an anti-Newtype system developed by the Earth Federation and used on the RX-0 Unicorn Gundam. [8] Bandai (with its branch Sunrise) noticed the tradition and has hired writers to write articles for other Gundam series too. Category:Cosmic Century Technology. Thanks to their increased generator output, the scaled-down mobile suits of this era are able to use beam technology for defensive purposes. This field has difficulty permeating conductive materials like metal, water, and plasma, and it exerts a repulsive force against mega particles. According to the official guide of Mobile Suit Gundam, Gundam Century and Gundam Officials, the Minovsky Physics Society, while working on the reactor, encountered a strange electromagnetic wave effect in U.C.0065 within the Minovsky-Ionesco reactor that could not be explained by conventional physics. Ochiai also mentioned the idea in his book "The Age of Magic" saying "The people using computers has a greater power of understanding", and admitted that this view is influenced by Newtype in Gundam.[13]. When the pilot grasps the spherical controller, he can use his fingers to operate the individual control switches, while moving the sphere itself to maneuver the mobile suit. Hardpoints can also be used to store carried weapons when a mobile suit needs its manipulators free for other purposes, or when a transformable mobile suit changes into its mobile armor form. However, the Earth Federation was quick to adopt the system on its Pegasus-class assault carriers. Minovsky Ultracompact Fusion Reactor Armaments 2 x 60mm Vulcan Gun 4 x Beam Saber (2 on forearms; 2 in backpack, usable in Destroy Mode only) 2 x Beam Tonfa System Features NT-D System Optional Equipment Beam Magnum Shield I-Field Generator Armor Gundarium Alloy Accommodation Pilot only (in panoramic monitor/linear seat cockpit in torso) and claimed that he did not think of Engineering and Electronics at all. E-cap technology appears outside of UC continuity in MS Saga: A New Dawn. 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. Minovsky Ultracompact Fusion Reactor Armaments 2 x Head Vulcan Gun 2 x Beam Saber/Dagger System Features Armor Series Cyclops Phase Poseidon Phase Dryad Phase Magic Phase Optional Equipment Beam Machinegun Shield Armor Gundarium Alloy Appearance Storyline Mobile Suit Gundam: Fusion Vs. [Source] The tail stabilator continues to be used on MS developed after U.C.0087, an example is the RGZ-91 Re-GZ. This system permits the use of simple remote weapons like incoms, but even with computer support, these devices are capable only of two-dimensional movement. For the most part, AMBAC is invisible to the naked eye, as the shifts are slight. Universal Century technology refers to technology created in the fictional Universal Century timeline of the Gundam anime media mix. The Federation Forces, meanwhile, concentrate on developing artificially enhanced cyber-Newtypes to operate their psycommu weapons. Other Newtype technologies are the Bio-Sensor system, the Quasi-psycommu system, the Neo-psycommu system, the Bio-computer, the EXAM System, the Angel Halo fortress, and the NT-D system. By the year U.C.0047, development of the Minovsky-Ionesco reactor began. Numerous shock absorbers are installed throughout a mobile suit's body, and the linear floating seat where the pilot sits is itself mounted on an electromagnetic shock absorber. The movable frame was a new concept in mobile suit construction introduced after the One Year War, it was first tested on the RX-178 Gundam Mk-II(though the GP series featured partial movable frame). Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 4,050 kW Propulsion: rocket thrusters: 168,000 kg total Performance: unknown Equipment and design features: sensors, range unknown; psycommu or quasi-psycommu system; FF (Fixed Flight) Unit, includes Minovsky Flight Unit, can generate beam barrier 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". 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. The word Newtype (, Nytaipu) first came into being when Zeon Zum Deikun, the fictional character, founder of the space colony-based Principality of Zeon, created his philosophy: mankind was destined to leave the Earth for space, where they would experience a cognitive shift, and evolve into a kind of superhuman called the Newtype. Another bio brain is fed the combat data of Amuro Ray's RX-78-2 Gundam, which allows it to pilot the Amakusa with Amuro's skill. [3] In the Cosmic Era timeline, one of the authors of Gundam Century articles (while still a high school student at that time), Shigeru Morita, who had became a regular employee of Bandai, was assigned to write these kind of technological articles, possibly a method used by the company to attract Universal Century techno fans to watch the new series.[4]. 5.2Minovsky ultracompact fusion reactor 5.3Mega-particle cannon 5.3.1Beam smart gun 5.4Funnels 5.4.1Cultural influence 6Newtypes and related technologies 7Conventional weapons 8References 9Notes 10External links Toggle the table of contents Toggle the table of contents Gundam Universal Century technology 3 languages Italiano Edit links When Minovsky particles are released into the air or into open space, the positive and negative particles spontaneously align themselves into a three-dimensional cubic lattice. The Day when Science will overtake Science Fiction. This strengthening of the pilot's abilities is done by forcibly increasing and speeding up the neurotransmissions in the pilot's brain. Added to a layer of armor to increase durability. MS Encyclopedia, ISBN / 4-89189-336-2, Bandai, 10th Feb, 1988. The tail binder is also seen on later models of military aircraft and space fighters in U.C.0088, on the FF-08 Wyvern.[22]. timeline, space colonies are placed at the five Earth-Moon Lagrangian points. This system could not be miniaturized to fit on a mobile suit until after U.C.0100. 0065, Minovsky noticed a unique electromagnetic effect within the completed reactor, which he attributed to a new kind of subatomic particle. The system consists of a pilot seat suspended on a linear rail floating in the cockpit block. As a result, the unit performed well against more conventional mobile suits and showed superiority in manoeuvrability. These technologies are the basic reasoning for the Universal Century's having mobile suits as the main battle units, replacing space fighters. While functionally similar to the psycommu system, the bio-computer places less strain on its human operator. 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. The JEF would travel from Earth to Jupiter, which has a high level of helium-3 in its atmosphere, and then come back to Earth with the gas fuel. Binders are technological instruments that provide extra control for the AMBAC systems. It provides a type of sacrificial protection against any type of beam weapon. 1, Cities in the sky, Kofu Culture Imagine Publish, Inc., Hobby Japan Feb, 2005 issue, Ball special, Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Special report, Gundam Kyrios section, Gundam Sentinel special edition Gundam Wars III, ASIN: 4499205301, (Dai Nippon Kaiga Co. Ltd.), Sept, 1989. Titanium alloys are metallic materials which contain a mixture of titanium and other chemical elements. When this propellant is discharged through the rocket nozzles, it creates a counter-force in the opposite direction, generating thrust. The Minovsky-Ionesco reactor was named after its fictional inventors, Dr. Y.T. In the original show, the magnet coating process has no visible indication. On Earth, other options for detecting enemies include sonar and magnetic anomaly detectors - the latter devices, used in the modern era for locating submarines, sense the magnetic distortions caused by metallic objects. Within the next few years, they identified the cause: a new elementary particle generated by the helium-3 reaction on the inner wall of the reactor, which was named the Minovsky particle (, Minofusuk ryshi) or "M" particle. This substance can be used to seal ruptures in spacecraft and space colony exteriors. The core block system used in the Earth Federation's RX series, meanwhile, is too expensive for mass production. The idea is simple: "If four limbs can maneuver the unit better than none, why not equip them with 5 or more?" The AMBAC technology in conjunction with the fictional fusion reactor developed by the character Dr. Y.T. Main article: CloneSome individuals in the Universal Century are artificially-produced, genetically identical (or nearly identical) copies of others. It is a controversial system which seems to be similar to the earlier developed EXAM System. The shelf nozzles installed on Crossbone Vanguard command mobile suits like the XM-04 Berga Dalas and XM-05 Berga Giros are examples of this external device concept. This page was last edited on 27 December 2022, at 21:27. When scattered in open space or in the air, the repulsive forces between charged Minovsky particles cause them to spontaneously align into a regular cubic lattice structure called an I-field. When mobile suits come into direct physical contact with each other, or with other vehicles, sound can be transmitted between them via vibrations in their outer armor. 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. In case of emergency, the inhabitants of a space colony can escape using small spacecraft stored in the colony's outer walls. Unlike radio communications, conversations transmitted in this way are almost impossible to intercept.