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Originally Posted by AnimeFangirl
Lasse did get totaled as part of the general massacre of Celestial Being, but Exia didn't seem to be struggling that badly. He still had the energy to fight Graham to a standstill even after that.
This was highly unfortunate, IMO. In-story they did explain that Graham had Billy rush the development but I wish they hadn't written that way. I wish they had done a proper outfitting and given Graham the time to master his new instrument the way Ali did with his Throne.
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Logically, it made sense that the development was rushed. Graham more or less demanded that they somehow force the technology onto his Flag somehow which just isn't designed to take advantage of the GN Drive Tau, certainly it's not something they could have done in a short period
(even by shortened anime standards). Not rushing it meant the thing would have taken months or years.
The only reason they got permission to do what they did was because Billy's uncle, Homer Katagiri is a higher up in the Union. Without that influence, no military commander worth their badge will allow such a thing because a soldier was fussy about symbolism. That's extra money on R&D work, losing one precious GN unit in battles and generally set up a poor example on favoritism.
If anything, Graham more or less screwed himself by not going onboard the superior GN-X because he cared about his Flag symbolism and his pride. That's fine and all but he chose his own path by going in an inferior suit and the bad results that come with if. If he chose the GN-X, not only he could sortie with the others and maybe helped reduced the losses but his chances of winning would be higher as well. He would have had a beam rifle and could just blow apart Exia from afar.
It was a miracle that they were able to get that thing to run in the first place really. I don't even think it's a matter of getting used to the machine as much as the machine itself is just doomed concept to begin with. The Throne Zwei was a proper fully developed GNMS, the GN Flag on the other hand is a rushed flawed prototype/experimental pet project made because of Graham's philosophy as opposed to actual sound military strategy.
That Exia, who usually has a hard time with Custom Flag at full strength, was able to fight it to a draw while weakened is a testimony to how bad the GN Flag is. The only difference is that the GN Flag has a weapon that could damage Exia in the form of Throne Ein's beam saber, where the Custom Flag didn't.
The Custom Flag isn't even designed to be able to operate in space so making it space worthy while adding all the low compatibility GN stuff just makes it into a bad machine. Certainly it's worse compared to a GN-X which is designed from the ground up to work well with those parts, is extensively tested, and had a proper prototype in the form of the
GNX-509T Throne Veranus
It's like trying to fit in an advanced 21st century jet engine into a WWI biplane. Even if possible, it's just....not a good idea in terms of compatability. Especially if that engine came with a perfectly fine 21st century airframe too.
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Originally Posted by AnimeFangirl
He... he was? I must have missed that reference.
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Nah you didn't. It was mentioned in a sidestory called Gundam 00N.
Like Obelisk mentioned, Gundam is a multimedia franchise so some things are happening in other stories. What was Celestial Being's fifth GN Drive is being used for during this time period for example, was covered in a sidestory manga called Gundam 00F.
(The fact that they are five GN Drives is mentioned in the anime in Season 1, so that's not a spoiler)
(eg. Gundam SEED).
