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Mon, 6 Nov 2000 19:37:30 -0800
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gundam@1u.aeug.org [mailto:owner-gundam@1u.aeug.org]On
> Behalf Of Mark Simmons
> Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 16:37
> To: Gundam List
> Subject: Re: [gundam] Jupiter Energy Fleet and Minovsky Particles
>
> 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.
I have to disagree with you here. The Minovsky-Ionescu compact fusion reactor
wasn't the first practical fusion system, just the most efficient and compact --
small enough to bring fusion to the masses, if you will. Solar and fusion power
are the two core technologies of space colonization as envision by O'Neill, who
touted the higher percentage of He3 to be found on the Moon as one of the
reasons for basing construction operations there. So He3 reactors didn't have
to wait for Minovsky, but would already have been part of the infrastructure and
made that much more desirable after Minovsky and Ionescu found a way to make
them more portable.
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