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Originally Posted by JohnSilver
Zeon had plenty of pilots after the Battle of Loum... They had the Black Tri-Star, Johnny Ridden, Shin Matsunaga, Char Aznable, Garma Zabi, all of the Midnight Fenrir, Ramba Ral, Anavel Gato, Dimitri...
And I had never heard about the Plant quota thing, sorry... I must have missed it somewhere...
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well, Zeon had quite some top ace pilots, but they were really exhausted in good veteran pilots at that time. a dozen or so ace pilots won't make a difference in a huge war where the casualty amounted to hundreds of millions. I think the general lack of number of pilots and the lack of a decent number of good pilots (it's not about a dozen or so aces, but thousands of veteran soldiers) was the main reason of Zeon's defeat, they got depleted, while the Federation still had plenty of soldiers and resources. Zeon's losing quite some aces at the hands of Amuro Ray just accelerated its defeat.
For the plant quota thing, I think it's mentioned in episode 14, Rau's recap episode...