The Core Block System is a unique mobile weapon module system designed to have any mobile weapon (traditionally mobile suits) be created or operated through the combination of multiple predesignated weapon modules guided by the pilot operating the "Core" module.
Overview
Traditionally, a mobile weapon uses one of two variants of this system:
- A mobile weapon can be created through a series of weapon modules, which includes a Core module for the pilot (typically in the form of a stand-alone fighter plane). While the pilot operates the Core module, he/she can coordinate the modules into combining into the desired mobile weapon, with the Core module at its base.
- A mobile weapon can be created by having a detachable Core module that houses the pilot, and the entire mobile weapon frame that can only activate when the Core module is attached. The pilot operates the Core module to dock, or "plug-in", to the mobile weapon frame, activating the mobile weapon.
Once the mobile weapon is active, the pilot operates the entire mobile weapon through the Core module, and can also detach or recombine any module(s) from the mobile weapon as needed.
Universal Century
In the Universal Century timeline, the Core Block System was first developed by the Earth Federation in their top secret Project V in the form of the FF-X7 Core Fighter. This feature allow the usage data of a mobile suit to survive even if the mobile suit itself was destroyed. The mobile suit (usually the RX-78-2 Gundam) could be separated and recombined in mid-air.
The Core Block System was used in the Gundam Development Project's RX-78GP01 Gundam "Zephyranthes", its Full Burnern upgrade, and the Zeta Project's hulking MSZ-010 ΖΖ Gundam. In addition, the Primrose emergency pod from Advance of Zeta: The Flag of Titans has a similar concept to the Core Block System, but is unable to combine with the mobile suit after separation.
The Core Block System in the Universal Century would see a brief resurgence during the UC 0130s when SNRI developed the Crossbone Gundam series which used a "plug-in" type Core Fighter.
Afterwards, the Core Block System was not used (due to development in Newtype technology) until the Zanscare War. Although it was mostly featured in the League Militare's prototype mobile suit LM312V04 Victory Gundam, it nonetheless proved that the concept can be economically effective and even allowed the LM to produce the individual components separately. It also enabled the Victory Gundam and the Victory 2 Gundam to replace damaged parts during combat, by separating then recombining with the new module part.
Earth Federation
- RX-75-4 Guntank (FF-X7 Core Fighter)
- RX-77-2 Guncannon (FF-X7 Core Fighter)
- RX-78-2 Gundam (FF-X7 Core Fighter)
- RX-78-3 "G-3" Gundam (FF-X7 Core Fighter)
- RX-78GP01 Gundam "Zephyranthes" (FF-XII Core Fighter II)
Principality of Zeon
Anti Earth Union Group
- MSZ-010 ΖΖ Gundam (FXA-07GB Neo Core Fighter)
- MSA-0011 S Gundam (FXA-08GB G-Core)
- MSA-0011(Bst) S Gundam Booster Unit Type
- MSW-004 Gundam [Kestrel]
Crossbone Vanguard
Crossbone Vanguard/Serpiente Tacon
League Militaire
Future Century
Simplified versions of the Core Block System are used in Mobile Fighter G Gundam's core lander as "hovercrafts" containing the backpack for the Mobile Fighter. All Mobile Fighters known to participate in the 13th Gundam Fight used the Core Lander. (Please see List of Future Century Mobile Units for a list of the Gundams)
CC (Seireki)
Only two suits are known to use the Core Block System in the Correct Century: the WD-M01 Turn A Gundam uses a waist-mounted cockpit fighter, while CONCEPT-X 6-1-2 Turn X uses detachable head and body parts.
- WD-M01 Turn A Gundam
- CONCEPT-X 6-1-2 Turn X
Cosmic Era
In the Cosmic Era, ZAFT uses a variant system, called the "Core Splender System", for the ZGMF-X56S Impulse Gundam. The Impulse's Core Splendor System is mostly identical to the Victory and Victory 2's Core Block System, but the Impulse's individual Silhouette Packs could be flown into the battlefield via a unmanned Silhouette Flyer which carries the desired part or pack.
Anno Domini
Main article: Core Block System(Anno Domini) In the Anno Domini era, the modular Core Block System is first used by GNY-004 Gundam Plutone, which appears in the sidesstories, Mobile Suit Gundam 00P and Mobile Suit Gundam 00F, and later in the main anime series Mobile Suit Gundam 00 by GNW-20000 Arche Gundam and most of the GNZ series of mobile suits. The Innovators used the data from GNY-004 Gundam Plutone when developing these suits, and as a result most of them have a plug-in core fighter containing a GN Drive as the propulsion system. Variants of Gundam Plutone, Arche Gundam and GNX-803T GN-XIV equipped with such system also appeared in other sidestories.
- GNW-20000 Arche Gundam
- GNY-004 Gundam Plutone
- GNY-004B Black Gundam Plutone
- GNZ-001 GRM Gundam
- GNZ-003 Gadessa
- GNZ-005 Garazzo
- GNZ-007 Gaddess
- GNX-805T/CF GN-XIV Core Fighter-equipped Type
Advanced Generation
In the Advanced Generation timeline, the first mobile weapon to incorporate the Core Block System was the EFF's AGE-3 Gundam AGE-3 Normal: it used both a Core Fighter and the G-Cepter - a separate transformable unit capable of autonomous flight. This system was utilized in switching between the suit's armor wears, eliminating the need for the AMEMBO. However, both the Core Fighter and the G-Wears required a pilot each for a successful docking. The Xvm-fzc Gundam Legilis would later acquired this technology from the data taken from the AGE-3 Orbital. The AGE-FX Gundam AGE-FX, on the other hand, uses the Core Fighter to simply attach to the back of the suit (rather than docking and combining with another module) to both operate it and serve as its main propulsion. .
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