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Chaos025@aol.com
Mon, 20 Nov 2000 10:20:19 EST
In a message dated 11/20/00 7:31:56 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
kain@pacific.net.sg writes:
> So what's your definition? ^_^
One more time: General-purpose - Usable for most applications; standardized.
Gundams by definition are unique, and there for are not standardized. And
while they can be used for just about anything, they are in fact only used as
testbeds or in unique high performance applications.
GMs by definition are common, and the standardized. They can do everything a
Gundam can do in general, but without the high performance perks.
>> Amuro and the White Base crew used the Gundam
>> to do everything in every environment because it was
>> so overpowered and so tough with Amuro at the
>>controls it just couldn't fail.
>
> Also because they had no choice, remember?
Exactly!
>> The cost cutting measures taken to produce the
>> GM in quantity did not remove the ability of the
>> GM to follow in the Gundam's footsteps, but did
>> allow for the GM to be a general-purpose platform
>> for usage upgrades that would enhance its
>> performance any given role.
>
> Well, they can follow in the Gundam's footsteps,
> but they're going to be a lot less effective at doing
> so.
Which means what? What does effective have to do with overall use?
>>Gundams, by all accounts, are specialized test
>> beds for breakthrough MS technology, while
>> GMs are by all accounts the mass produced,
>> general-purpose user of the more cost effective
>> and usable technologies tested in Gundams.
>
> Not really. Remember the Proto Gundam?
> (Never seen in the series, as far as I know)
> THAT was the test model Gundam - the
> actual Gundam was supposed to be a
> multipurpose mobile suit, but because
> of the high cost involved in constructing
> one, the GMs were developed instead.
All I can find on it is from the Mecha Domain's listing of the RX-78, which
has more unknowns than knowns in its description, and from the Gundam
Project's Mobile Suit Classics listing, which states that the RX-78 was
intended for close combat support work. The Gundam Project also states that
the RX-78-2 is an up-powered version of the RX-78, to provide the required
power needed for its beam rifle (which must have been discovered during the
RX-78's testing, which is most likely why the RX-78 was delayed, while the
RX-75 and RX-77 were already completed).
No where is it stated that any of the RX-78 series was intended for general
purpose use. All entries I can find in fact state that the RX-78 series was
designed for close support work, and it was only later that it was actually
used for more.
Pointing out the RX-78-1 does not prove your point at all.
SJ
EXO Mechanical Editor & Mecha Designer
http://www.exo-armor.com
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