2012-05-02, 23:34 | Link #821 | |
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Protuding but still attached here. Most likely similar to the stuff Zeidarus' claws and tail-knife are made of.
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2012-05-02, 23:38 | Link #822 | |
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Yes that's true, the list (unsurprisingly) calls them Ghirarga Bits I believe.
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2012-05-03, 19:24 | Link #823 |
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The Core Fighter has an opening beneath the nosecone. I at first thought it was an air scoop for the engines, but then I noticed each thruster already has an opening that may fulfill that role. So, possible beam weapon?
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2012-05-03, 19:45 | Link #826 |
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The original wasn't, it had nose mounted guns. The Core Fighter II from 0083 is listed as having beam guns. Victory Gundam's Core Fighters had machine guns, though that was because it had the head of the actual Gundam. So that might not count.
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2012-05-03, 19:48 | Link #827 |
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As noted above, most Core Fighters have are minimally armed at worse, with the majority of them packing at least beam guns. In the case of the RX-78-2's Core Fighter, it even has missiles.
It wouldn't be surprising to see the AGE-3 Core Fighter having beam guns for defense.
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2012-05-04, 15:32 | Link #829 | |
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In real life the strongest lasers are those in the 808nm range, or more. The near infra-red, which the human eye cannot see. That's what they use to cut steel and such. If I had to guess I'd say these guys are just using lasers in the thousands of kiloWatt range, maybe even Giga Watts...The only problem I see is that there is no pink wavelength. Having said that, it could just be a shade of red in the 500's nm that when traveling through a medium appears pink, kinda like how the 405nm violet lasers appear blue when hitting certain surfaces.
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2012-05-04, 16:42 | Link #830 | |
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On an unrelated note, neither do the laser weapons from 00 actually. That is the GN Lasers weapons mounted on The Celestial Being or the non-GN Lasers on the Memento Mori and ESF ships. They all move around the speed of normal beam weapons (the Memento Mori's beam is relatively pretty fast though but still nowhere near light speed; we could tell if it was) I'm no expert on the subject matter of lasers or electromagnetics but I've been curious about this as well; without going to "animation/depiction being wrong" conclusion that is.
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2012-05-04, 18:24 | Link #831 |
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Yeah, lasers travel at the same speed of light, so assuming they're not slowing them down in the show for the sake of letting people have a chance to dodge, they must be doing something to the process of creating the actual beam and slowing it down
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2012-05-04, 19:54 | Link #832 | |
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In 00 anyways, I've rationalized it to either lasers being used in the beam creation process rather than being the actual fired beam or it being named for the sake of coolness. Neither is satisfactory though but its better than nothing. If those weapons were truly move like lasers than they'll have a big aiming advantage. Of course, in the case of the Photon Blaster, it might be too early to make decent conclusions yet since we don't know whether its actually a laser but photons being involved does suggest a speed of light something somewhere at least. I'm kinda hoping they'll explain it somewhere eventually. The adaptation novels are surprisingly detailed tech, well sometimes anyways. I guess after getting a brief explanation on DODS specialty of a spinning, however simple I'm kinda hoping they'll be something with Sigmaxiss too. The stupidiest theory I can think of would be to call it the Photon Blaster Cannon simply because it blasts visible light literally from the brightness from the large beam.
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2012-05-05, 10:33 | Link #834 |
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Well, it might not matter too much to the production team or writers but the way I see it, it can be avoided by not classifying the weapon as a laser in the first place. Of course, that hasn't really been said of the Photon Blaster Cannon yet though.
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2012-05-05, 11:12 | Link #835 | |
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The mysterious weapon from Scorpiopt's post was called Blaustia Cannon... Spoiler for ep. 30:
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2012-05-06, 06:52 | Link #836 |
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More interesting than the Blaustia launcher itself is how it was created: Flit had the AGE Builder FORCE itself to actually make something despite lacking enough combat data to do so. Might explain why the Blaustia exploded on itself after firing.
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2012-05-06, 07:56 | Link #839 | |
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The Age system was active during Asem's chapter, but it was great to see that 3D printing scene again. The Vegan Earth Attack Force now has two types (recolored) of dragons... Green->http://www.gundam-age.net/ms/3rd_002w.html Purple->http://www.gundam-age.net/ms/3rd_003w.html
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2012-05-06, 09:09 | Link #840 | |
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Then in dire situations, the operator has to lower the gauge for AGE system to work with, such that the system has to infer from less recent combat data to build weapons from. It's also possible the AGE system keeps track of the enemy's technological progress, and predicts the enemy's state of technology two decades later. But like what you said perhaps it was forced to build something, it focused on firepower and neglected safety or its turdiness. |
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