[zephyr325]

Originally Posted by HailEmperor

Summaries for each volume would be wonderful, especially for those who want them.

If possible, I'd like to know how many IS does each country have. From what I understand, with the Alaska Treaty, IS have to be shared and opened to the world, and there are enough cores for every country in the world to be given one core. But, it seems like the more wealthy countries have more than one IS...

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Other questions I have:
1) Since cores can't be tinkered yet, do all IS have a fixed amount of energy?
2) How long can the shield of an IS last under repeated attacks from an IS using weapons of moderate power (below the threshold necessary to pierce an IS' shield kind of power)?

Spoiler for Deployment of ISs in military:

Well, not much is known about the detailed information about the distribution of IS over the world (i.e. exact number of IS for each countries)

So far, We know that Germany has total of 10 ISs inside the country, with 3 of them assigned to Schwarz Hase, the German Special IS Force.

Laura is the commander of Schwarz Hase, and this unit is considered as the most powerful single military unit inside the contry.

Also, there are about 320 ISs deployed in military throughout the world, while 145 or so ISs are being used as trainer or testbed for R&D.

The 10 ISs in German could be sum of combat-ready IS and trainer/testbed type.
(I'd say that each nation of moderate natonal power would have at least 1 IS for training purpose, since they would have to use IS to determine the apptitude of its female citizen - potential pilot candidates - and preferably, they would do it on their own, not relying on other nation to decides which of its citizens becomes IS pilot)


It is very likely that nations with large territory (like US or Austrailia) are provided with more ISs than smaller nations, since defending such territory would require more force quantitatively.

But it is unlike that currrent superpower such as US would receive enough ISs to maintain the peace-keeping duties overseas.
(Those countries would get just enough ISs to defend their territory, which still would mean more ISs than smaller nations)

1.

Spoiler for Answer for Q.1:

There is no detailed information about total output energy of IS core.

But the energy consumption rate (fuel efficiency) for each IS seems different. So far, the concept of increasing total energy reserve is not mentioned, so it is probably a function within the core which scientists(except for Tabane) can't touch yet.

At current level, it is difficult to determine if a given IS has just a very high energy reserve, or is optimized for defense.

IS designed with high defensive capability would take less damage than the ones designed for high mobility, thus draining less shield energy per same attack.

For example, Charlott's IS, equipped with defensive package Equalizer comes with augmented shielding system called 'Garden Curtain' which is set of 2 physical shiled panels and 2 energy shield panels, covering the foward arc.

In this case, any attack on forward arc would be blocked by these shields first.
(the main IS shield is likely to take no damage at all, or just a fraction of residual damage)

In that way, it could be viewed as her IS having much higher shield energy than an average IS.

2.

Spoiler for Answer for Q.2:

Well, it is difficult to say, since there are no chart with numbers specifying what kinds of attack deals hou much damage.

Also, keep in mind that IS is way more maneuverable than any conventional platforms, meaning any weapon platform with nowhere enough firepower to be a threat to an IS is about equally hopless when it comes to actually scoring a direct hit on an IS.