Mobile Suits BEFORE the OYW: The Precursors to the Zaku series (Gundam Lore/ Universal Century[OYW])

hi everyone gundam facts here for ninth and  brand new episode of our special edition   lore of the universal century today we're  going to the mysterious area taking place   before the one year war in an attempt  to answer a particular question which is yep in this video we are going to present the  origins of Zeon mobile suits and the development   line which led to the creation of the Zaku  series in this video we will exclusively   address the mobile suits of the regular UC  continuity and not the origin continuity   this mean no Waff no Bugu because  they are from a distinct timeline   even if they have often a counterpart in the  regular UC now time to dive in our subject The year is UC68 the group of colonies located  the farthest from earth Side 3 or Munzo declare   its independence from the earth's federation  and its rebirth into the Principality of Zeon   for the people of Side 3 this unrecognized  independence was a synonym of great joy but   what they didn't realize was the dramatic  consequences it would have for the entire UC   soon enough it became clear that federation  and Zeon could never coexist peacefully for   the federation the very existence of Zeon  was intolerable as it loosened its grasp over   the colonies and fragmented its authority and  power on the other side the ruling Zeon family   the Zabis backed by the local aristocracy  crave the richness of earth and secretly   the independence of Zeon became nothing more  than a desperate pretext to usurp the earth's   federation of its ruling title however the ruling  cast of Zeon was aware that because of their fewer   resources and population they were outnumbered  by ten to one furthermore total victory would   mean size earth itself and without proper sea  or real ground in the colonies creating an   adequate air and naval force would be impossible  without a very powerful and adaptable wonderweapon   thus started Zeon 10 years long race to arms  with the final results being the mobile suits  UC71 active research to create this wonder weapon  finally started to achieve this the army weapon   development bureau was created and to assist it  local private companies were solicitated with   three of them actively answering the call these  companies were respectively Zeonic specialized   in space pods Zimmad specialized in propulsion  systems and MIP specialized in beam weaponry   very quick all three of them started their  own development ideas and submitted them to   the development bureau in the initial stage  all three of them proposed several dozens   of concepts but in the end only two of them  were retained and presented to the top brass   of the principality the first was MIP new creation  the forefather of all mobile armors the MIP-X1   45* meters long this decisive weapon had been  created by updating a pre-existing design   which was a spacecraft used in the asteroid mining  this fighter had been overhauled with additional   verniers which granted it higher mobility and it  received a prototype jet engine enabling it to   hover inside the colonies additionally the MIP-X1  was outfitted with a powerful mega particle cannon   which had an output similar to a battleship main  gun its contender the ZI-XA1 aka the AMBAC Space   Pod was a creation of Zeonic and was essentially  a retrofitted and highly modified space pod that   the company had used for years in comparison  with the MIP-X1 the AMBAC Space Pod seemed   like a joke and it's only assets a monoeye camera  and two limbs pale assets to win the competition   however those who thought like that were proven  completely wrong with an intelligent combination   of thrusters and weight distribution the AMBAC  Space Pod could capitalize on what Zeonic   called the Active Mass Balance Auto Control which  used the reaction generated by the movement of a   limb at high speed to control the altitude of the  space pod the result was a highly maneuverable   vehicle with high mobility and with a far lower  fuel consumption than a regular mobile weapon   with a single limb movement the AMBAC Space Pod  could rotate by 180 degrees in less than 3 seconds   while the MIP-X1 could only achieve this with  the help of two verniers and its rear thrusters   these characteristics made the AMBAC Space Pod a  revolutionary design and during a demonstration   Gihren Zabi himself praised the vehicle  effectively putting Zeonic at advantage over MIP   but also Zimmad who was now really lagging behind  its two adversaries still a whole portion of the   Zeon topbrass was fonder of the MIP-X1 and its big  canon and Zeonic was ordered to continue research   and create something that would completely  outperform the MIP-X1 else it would be the one   to be definitely adopted with this middle success  in mind Zeonic officially started the ZI-XA series   and development restart at last immediately Zeonic  engineers had come to the conclusion that it was   the AMBAC abilities that had made the AMBAC space  pod so successful and they quickly realized that   a humanoid shaped weapon with four limbs for  active AMBAC control had an enormous potential   following this direction they continued the ZI-XA  line and few months later they completed the   successful model to the ZI-XA2 dubed the Humanoid  Walker this new creation was a drastic departure   from the AMBAC Space Pod and was closer to what  future mobile suits would eventually resemble   widely similar to its descendant the Zaku I the  Humanoid Walker was nonetheless too crude to be   called a mobile suit or even a robot and it  was more of a walker than anything else as   it was meant for work under gravity even worse it  didn't even add arms but only balancer weights to   stabilize it during experimental runs despite that  it was not a scarecrow machine and its structure   did not relies on a simple box assembly but on  many curved surfaces for an enhanced rigidity   additionally it replaced the fully mechanized  limb articulation of the AMBAC Space Pod with a   pulse system which enabled smoother limb movement  and would be inherited by all future mobile suits   still it was far from being an autonomous machine  and its numerous holes on the body are a testimony   that it needed to be connected to an outside  generator to remain active as soon as it was   completed Zeonic moved to the next stage of the  ZI-XA line and with the help of the professor   Torenov Minovsky and other civilian companies they  managed to create a refined variant the ZI-XA3   the ZI-XA3 was essentially a more advanced ZI-XA2  but with arms and pinchers serving as hands   in addition its power sources were not any more  external but downsized in the form of a back   mounted high capacity generator which enabled it  to walk unassisted still the ZI-XA3 was nowhere   perfect and the trial test initially proved  disastrous it took ZI-XA3 two years to eventually   refine it into a decent form and this resulted  in an increase in size from 10 to 14 meters  in UC3 the ZI-XA3 was on secondary modified  was finally presented to the development guru   among the new additions were a large armored frame  and the replacement of the n-finchers with regular   and manipulators once completed it still took  several months for the zeixa tree to complete the   working test without crashing but it eventually  ended up being a success upon presentation to the   development bureau the zaixar tree quickly gained  the ungrathful moniker of crabman and upon seeing   it giren zarby mocked the design which she found  ridiculous yet the crab man easily surprised the   mip x1 and after few debates it was decided that  the krabband line would be the one to be adopted   by the army this was the first success of mobile  suits of removal armor and it ended up the mobile   armor development line for almost a decade with  the mip x1 going back to storage the ironic then   remained the zaixa 3 as the mobile 201 ms 01 and  craig christianized it as the first ever produced   mobile suits still the crabman was far from being  a real war machine and its mobility and propulsion   left much to be desired in that same year of uc73  the mobile suit line continued with the creation   of a model designed to fix some of the kramband  flows to ms-02 aka the immobility test type   as its name indicates the high mobility test type  was a sort of upgraded version of the cropman   with enhanced mobility mobility it achieved  through the removal of the additional armor layers   and increased propellant capacity aside that not  much is known about the mobile 2-0-2 but it seemed   this particular model was the first one to succeed  in obstacle parkours and that it was later the   first one to be able to use the end manipulators  for more complex tasks such as picking up cubes   later that year they only completed a new success  through to ms-03 they would eventually go to pull   the prototype mobile suit and much later  the prototype early zaku like the ms-02 the   ms-03 is mostly surrounded in mystery but the 8  mobile suite team bonus video gave us information   about it the ms-03 was the real first introduction  of the zaku series and the first unit to be really   considered for live combat unlike the ms-01 and  ms-02 the ms-03 was enlarged by two meters and now   stood at approximately 17.5 meters this increase  in size enables xeonic to install a reactor   inside the torso although it was far from being  optimal in the end zion manufactured four of these   units with something orange or the blue and with  one of them having a lighter frame than the orders   the ms-03 soon by the space trials and now the  zaku series could start in the origin continuity   the vath serve as the equivalent of the ms-03  but there are some differences between them first   the vaf is far more advanced and more effective  than the ms-03 and its production was limited   to only one prototype while the ms-03 and the  winter 4 units production aside that the other   differences is that the valve was produced  in uc74 and not in late uc73 that it already   used a diverse arsenal of weapons arsenal that the  regular continuity zaku would struggle to acquire   as we will now explain the year is uc74 after  a few months spent improving the ms-03 xeonic   presented their brand new addition to the mobile  suite line the ms-04 prototype zaku in comparison   with all its predecessors the ms-04 was in a wall  of the leak while it was developed from the ms-03   improvements over the propulsion system and  thrusters had given it twice the mobility   of the ms-03 something which was astonishing  since no armor was cropped to increase mobility   actually the steel alloy armor frame had been  almost completely redesigned which resulted in a   bulkier look which offered better resistance  against ballistic or super heated weapons   yet it wasn't this mobility node is  improved defenses which make the prototype   saku a completely revolutionary machine since the  xyx a2 miniaturization of the power source have   proceeded smoothly and the final result of these  three years of art labor finally paid through its   cooperation with the task company xeonic was able  to obtain what they call the das x7 which was a   miniaturized thermonuclear reactor which could  be integrated inside the tools of the ms-04 and   power the wool suit without the need of external  power sources no additional backpack generators   the concept of having a small thermonuclear  reactor as a superpower surely paved the way   to the success of mobile suits as a wall as the  backpack could now be used exclusively to mount   propulsion systems making the suit faster and  more agile with these assets the prototype zaku   proved itself to be the first of the mobile suit  line to be not just considered for live combat but   actually capable of it to achieve this the ms-04  received a brand new chu weapon which was a 100   millimeter machine gun the ozark machine gun this  weapon is actually the direct predecessor of the   infamous 120 millimeter zaku rifle which would  go to become a standard weapon in zion arsenal   despite all of that the ms-04 was like most  of its predecessor a [ __ ] in its own way   first the prototype zaku was extremely costly  and it was all but fit for mass production   secondly zeonic engineers have been kind of  anxious about protecting its arms and they have   basically designed the ms-04 with so much armor  on the arms it had difficulties moving them at all   aside that the ms-03 proved during simulation that  the 100 millimeter machine gun was not enough to   deal with warships and that another more powerful  weapon was needed at the end of the day the ms-04   still needed to be refined for a possible  mass production plan and the only was for to   continue development in the origin continuity  the prototype zaku is replaced by the similar   looking but chunkier boogie which saw almost the  same problems we talked earlier but was still put   to limited production something the prototype  saku unfortunately never reached for one year   zeonic engineers dedicated themselves into  refining and simplifying the design behind   the prototype cycle and all this artwork  eventually paid off as in the uc75 xeonic   presented a new breakthrough the ms-05a aka the  zac 1 type a later known as the zaku1 early type   in comparison with the ms-04 the zaku1 early type  was more streamlined lighter and it replaced the   zaix7 reactor with the more powerful thus m88b  his next generator was like the sussex 7 an almost   unlimited power source but more stable and which  could be air cooled or hydrogen cooled rather than   being exclusively hydrogen cooled overall the zaku  early type remained cheaper than the prototype   zaku is your two pilots and it also introduced  some small assets which made big differences first   its monolith camera was not anymore the only  camera system and it worked in conjunction   with other cameras disseminated all over the  armor which gave the pilot a better visibility   secondly it was outfitted with infrared another  sensor which would have facilitated communication   now because of minowski effect blocking both  types of communication these two new additions   became kind of worthless or at least not as  effective than what they hoped it could have been   finally the last addition was an early version  of the zaku bazooka named the initial type which   corrected the firing power of the ms-04  when xiaomi presented the zakuan early   type to the development bureau they were met  with a slight problem the zaku one early type   was not any mode alone in the competition through  all these years zymat had been able to perfect   their own mobile suit the ems zerufu zuda stat  wise both suits were not too far from each others   except the zaku one was 1.8 times cheaper  however zeiman master level propulsion systems   had provided the zuda with the revolutionary  jupiter engine which was a backpack engine   relying on zinc and lead fusion rather that alien  tree combustion for propulsion this engine gave to   zuda unprecedented mobility and for the first time  zionic on the zaku series felt threatened still   zernik was able to resolve this crisis by leaking  to the top rust that the jupiter engine making it   stable if overused during the official threat  demonstration of the zuda zeonika accusation   proved correct when the zoo that is integrated in  front of a world bunch of the xion top officials   with the zuda out of the picture the development  guru approved the mass production of the zakuan   early type into what would be known as the zach  1 b type which is your average standard set 1.   before that 27 early types had already been  produced and most of them would live long   enough to see the start of the one-year war aside  these 27 a-types an unknown but far more important   number of sakura-1 b-types were manufactured  production of the b-type continued for the two   following years until xeon possessed a real small  army of mobile suits in uc77 ziontopras colluded   that a more powerful mughal suit would be needed  to fight the federation on a more equal footing   and thus they decided to stop the production  of the zaku one but not before solicitating   the awning for a successor version almost  immediately zeonik presented the new model that   had been working since the completion of the zaku1  b type the new entry to the zaku series the ms-06a   the zaku2 a-type also known as the zakutu first  mass production type this mobile suit was the   first representative of the zappo2 family and it  distinguished itself from its future brethren by   gets two round shoulder armor which used the  pauldron of the second one rather than the   future shoulder shield or spiked shoulder to be  fully honest the zaku2 first mass production type   was more of a glorified upgrade of the zach one  rather than a fully new and revolutionary machine   still it had a superior overall performance  because of its increased armor and improved   frostus other than that it replayed the zarza m8b  reactor with a slightly upgraded version those r7   and it also introduced external power cables  for better over responsiveness in august 2677   production of the type a zaku ii officially  started at the zionic zoo ct factory at that   time zernik expected his mobile suit to be the end  result of all these years of labor and the model   which would be definitely adopted by the zeal  army however things didn't proceeded as planned   real admiral kasilya zabi which had became the  new director of the army development bureau   considered the design to be insufficient to meet  our expectation and for one particular reason   nobody could have anticipated basically caesarea  argued that should the federation ever develop   mobile on their own that a-type would be left  without options standard fist in close combat and   this was a risk that couldn't be overlooked with  this argumentation the already built first mass   production models were relegated for training duty  and xeronic was forced once again to go back to   the drawing board in a matter of weeks they came  back with the zakutu b type which was an almost   unmodified zakuto first mass production type  which which was this time equipped with a solid   new plunge race weapon to eat up this weapon was  an axe-like weapon which could be superheated to   increase its sharpness and use the thermal energy  of the thermonuclear reactor delivered through   the zaku ends now the b type may or may not have  been the model introducing the use of the spike's   shoulder and shoulders shield but since we can say  that for sure it remained unsure in september uc77   the xeon top brass confined to zionist that the  principality puts an end to wartime readiness   and that the incoming war would likely see the  federation ships employing nuclear missiles   and that the principality should be prepared to  do the same despite limited stocks the oi officers   had hopes in a particular concept which  was zarko's using nuclear warrants   and asked the company if it was a feasible concept  to meet such demand xiaomi credits on extensively   the zakutu a and b type and by the end of the  month they brought the new success in front of   the generous stuff this new mobile suit was the  zaku2 c-type also known as the zaku2 early type   equipped with a spiked shoulder for ramming  attacks and a shoulder shield for defense purposes   to type c at the iron of lucertility and its  predecessors but as was not even the tip of   the iceberg the type c was effectively designed to  work in conjunction with a special nuclear bazooka   derived from the initial type bazooka and which  could be used in two firing boats the first one   simplified nuclear warheads which enabled the  zakuz to damage multiple salamis in a single hit   as the federation use formation with a 25  kilometers distancing its ships the second   mode was the actual precursor of the gp02 nuclear  bazooka and condensed the nuclear blast into a   controlled destructive fire with shorter range the  perspective of a nuclear-based warfare the ironic   engine is the type c with a triple layer composite  armor made of a mix of lead and super arts still   alone supposedly to improve the pilot protection  against surrounding nuclear blast and radiation   to reduce the chance of leaks the cockpit was  surrounded by a layer of anti-radiation liquids   which increase the pilot chance of not catching  cancer in the short run now folks i honestly   think the lead layers were a pretty bad idea  because instead of cancer xeon pilots would   have died of lead poisoning but hey that's not  the topic of today because of all these measures   to type c gained a whiff largely surpassing its  predecessor but at least it protected the pilot   soon xeonto brass approved the type c  and in january uc78 its mass production   officially started one year later the one year war  begun and at that time the type c made the bulk of   the principality forces during the one-week battle  his machine and its nuclear bazooka committed many   atrocities but this dark history was overlooked  because a certain number of top aces such as   star arsenal johnny ryden origin matsunagar  popularized the machine due to their outstanding   performance with it during the battle of loon on  january 31 uc79 zeon signed the antarctic treaty   and this rendered the zaku-2 early type obsolete  and its complex radiation shielding systems when   are useless as the nuclear bazooka was banned  alongside all nuclear weapons zionic replied   to this by creating a model without all these  protections and a new generator which turned to   be the lighter zakutu f-type aka mosseno the  regular zaku successively the f-type would   spawn manuals with zakuz and also mobile suit  as well but that's outside today topics and now and we have now completed today's topic and  i hope you'll like it this will be all for   today's video but stay tuned for future  log content delivered on the same channel   hit the like button and most importantly  comment and subscribe and if we really   love the challenge to flourish so long follow new  types until the time of our next special edition you

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