Angel Halo (エンジェル・ハイロゥ Enjeru Hairou?) is a psycommu fortress, with a control ship in the middle. It appeared in the Mobile Suit Victory Gundam series. It also appears in the Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam: Ghost manga.
Overview[]
While other psycommu systems merely read brainwaves and translated them into machine code to control weapons, the Angel Halo harnessed the power of twenty-thousands "Psychickers", humans who had been mentally conditioned into following Zanscare's philosophies, all controlled by a single Newtype in the middle. Through this massive combined amount of mental energy, the Angel Halo had the power to "devolve" the human mind through the use of "psycho waves". While initially promoted by Fonse Kagatie and as a means of using Maria Pure Armonia's Newtype abilities to erase any violent thoughts or urges in mankind, the truth was in fact much more sinister. What Maria did not know was its true ability was to trigger mental regression to an infantile state in all living things on Earth, causing them to fall into a deep, year-long sleep. Upon Angel Halo's landing on Earth, the effects of the fortress would cause rapid cellular degeneration, premature aging and death of all those put to sleep by its waves.
In early developmental plans, an extraterrestrial bacterium called "Angel Call" would be released to eliminate humanity. The Angel Call was later deemed too dangerous after attempts to develop a vaccine were unsuccessful and thus was not implemented into the Angel Halo.
The Angel Halo had no outer defenses and was only guarded by a Zanscare fleet. However, the effects of the structure's systems prevented potential attackers from getting close. The cold sleep-induced Psychickers lined every portion of the rings, which discouraged direct attacks by the League Militaire on the fortress itself, though Psychicker casualties mounted in the thousands by the end of the battle.
History[]
Crossbone Gundam Ghost[]
According to Curtis Rothko, the Angel Halo was originally conceived as a joint effort between the Jupiter Republic and Zanscare Empire to transport 100,000 Jovian immigrants to the Earth Sphere. However the Zanscare Empire quickly seized Angel Halo, and turned it into a weapon.
Victory Gundam[]
The Angel Halo was used by the Zanscare Empire in an attempt to tranquilize and eradicate all life on Earth. Using the unwitting Queen Maria's prayers for peace as a trigger for the Psychicker's abilities, the psycommu system was proven dangerously effective as it approached Earth. However the interference of the League Militaire in destroying the numerous rings to the fortress, in addition to the efforts of Maria's daughter Shahkti Kareen and Üso Ewin led to Angel Halo's dismantling and destruction, resulting in the death of both the Zanscare Empire's leadership and its armed forces.
Crossbone Gundam Dust[]
Debris from Angel Halo still remains in space, as various parts begin to enter the Earth's atmosphere, either burning up on entry or crashing onto Earth.
G-Saviour[]
The wreckage eventually fell onto Earth, creating a large impact zone near Czechoslovakia. Seventy years later, during the events of G-Saviour, the Congressional Armed Forces hid a secret mobile weapon factory inside the wreckage.
Trivia:[]
In the manga Mobile Suit Gundam Walpurgis appears a psycho weapon made by Scirocco call it Psycho Flare (Orpheus), the weapon has a strong resemblance to the Angel Halo in both abilities and appearance hitting at some kind of connection.
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