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Mark Simmons (scorpio@best.com)
Mon, 6 Nov 2000 16:36:50 -0800
Zhou Tai An writes,
>This begs the question (or rather, questions) - where is this mysterious
>Fleet getting all it's helium-3 from, and how come we never hear of it? I
>mean, it supplies the one element that both the Federation and Jion; heck,
>EVERY military force needs. No Minovsky particles, no radar jamming and no
>MSes. Surely it should be damn powerful - at the very least, stronger than
>Anaheim Electronics.
And so it is, at least in the later stories. Here's a run-down of the
Jupiter Energy Fleet's role in the Gundam saga...
* First Gundam: Newtype candidate Challia Bull is transferred from Zeon's
energy fleet to its military branch, the first of many Jupiter newtypes.
* Z Gundam: Newtype Paptimus Scirocco, captain of a Jupiter Energy Fleet
ship, becomes a major ally of the Titans and ultimately seizes control of
the organization, using his ship (the Jupitoris) as a base of operations
throughout.
* Gundam ZZ: Hero Judau Ashta ultimately quits the Federation and joins
the Jupiter Energy Fleet.
* Gundam F91: Supposedly, the Crossbone Vanguard capture a Jupiter Energy
Fleet ship to secure an energy supply for their independent nation of
Cosmo Babylonia, and end up forming an alliance with the fleet. This
stuff was cut from the final version of the movie, but you can see the
captain and his wife in the audience at the CV rally midway through the
movie. As a result of this alliance, the Federation is unable to attack
Cosmo Babylonia for fear of an energy embargo, and this upstart nation
remains independent for five years...
* Crossbone Gundam: In this Tomino-penned comic, the remaining Crossbone
Vanguard wage a secret war against the Jupiter Empire, the totalitarian
society that has taken over the Jupiter fleet. It's revealed that the
Jupiter Energy Fleet has been funding resistance movements for decades to
weaken the Federation, and caused the collapse of Cosmo Babylonia after
that nation's softening political stance made it useless as an anti-
Federation tool.
* V Gundam: Despite the defeat of the Jupiter Empire, the Jupiter Energy
Fleet continues supporting anti-Federation movements. The Zanscare
Empire, controlled by a former Jupiter fleet member, is backed by the
energy fleet, and Jupiter helps construct the incredible psychic weapon
Angel Halo.
As you can see, we hear about the Jupiter Energy Fleet in just about
every Gundam story (at least the ones written by Tomino), and in the
later ones it becomes a major power to rival the Federation itself.
Dafydd writes,
>Also, while there was originally a single JEF, initiated by the
Fedeeration in
>circa 2026 and reorganized in the Jupiter Development Enterprise Group in UC
>0010, Zeon established a fleet of its own shortly after it declared
>independence as the Space Republic in UC 0058.
Though this is part of the official timeline, it strikes me as a bogus
retcon. Prior to UC 0047, when Minovsky starts working on his fusion
reactor, nobody would have needed helium 3 for reactor fuel. Older
publications like Rapport Deluxe's Gundam Encyclopedia posit that the
Zeons created the first energy fleet in UC 0070, as Minovsky's reactors
became more practical, and that this Zeon fleet set up the Axis relay
base during its maiden voyage.
During the One Year War, there appear to be separate energy fleets for
each side. Challia Bull is a member of Zeon's energy fleet, and in the
52-episode outline for the original series, the White Base crew violate
the Antarctic Treaty by attacking a Zeon energy convoy in transit. Later
on there's a single, independent Jupiter Energy Fleet, but this
organization was likely created _after_ the war by merging both sides'
operations to create a neutral energy fleet.
At any rate, pre-war energy fleet facilities like Axis seem to retain
the alignment of the side that created them...
-- Mark
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