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Mark Simmons (scorpio@best.com)
Wed, 1 Nov 2000 12:50:47 -0800
Dafydd writes,
>After a brief review, I've identified the creators of the NRX line of Newtype
>mobile suits in Z Gundam.
>
>It's our old friends, the Flanagan Agency.
Interesting theory, but unless I'm missing something, you're missing
supporting evidence to bridge the gap between the Flanagan agency and the
creators of the NRX series...
However, you've given me an idea for an alternate proposal.
As we know, Augusta Newtype Labs, creator of the ORX series, is a
descendant of the Augusta research base that created the Alex during the
One Year War. But the Federation had a second newtype research effort
during the war - the Blue Destiny project, headed by Flanagan Agency
defector Chlust Morses. Morses quit the Flanagan Agency and joined forces
with the Federation, bringing his "EXAM" newtype simulator project with him.
Now, the Blue Destiny novelization (written by Yuka Minakawa, editor of
the upcoming Sunrise-sanctioned Gundam Officials book), fills in more of
the details around Morses's efforts. The Blue Destiny research effort is
housed at the Hamilton base, which is also used as a staging area for the
attack on Zeon's California Base. (I don't think there's a city of that
name in California, but there _is_ a Mount Hamilton just east of San
Jose, about 50 miles south of San Francisco.)
Also, according to the novel, Morses's chief aide is another Flanagan
Agency defector - Rolen Nakamoto, who appears in Z Gundam. In Z, Rolen is
a newtype researcher who co-pilots Gates Kappa's NRX-055 Bound Doc. To
me, this strongly suggests that Rolen works for the guys who developed
the NRX series, and his previous engagement as Morses's aide creates a
connection between the wartime EXAM project and the Z-era NRX series.
Interestingly, the Blue Destiny novel also has Morses and Rolen testing a
young war orphan named "Rozamie" - namely Rozamia Badam, who appears in Z
as an artificial newtype attached to the Augusta Labs. Clearly there's a
lot of pooling of effort going on here. By the end of Z, we have NRX-lab
employees working in concert with an (NRX-trained) Augusta newtype
piloting a Murasame mobile armor...
I wouldn't be surprised if the three (or more) newtype labs pooled all
their artificial-newtype candidates and then divvied them up so that each
one had a useful test subject. Thus Augusta gets Rozamia, Murasame gets
Four, and the NRX labs get Gates. When the supply starts running out, of
course, they start swapping them back and forth as their experimental
needs dictate.
-- Mark
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