Gamma Emission by Nuclear Explosion Stimulate Inducing System

GENESIS
GENESIS
Neo-GENESIS inside Messiah
Production Information
Manufacturer	ZAFT
Designer	ZAFT
Type	Energy weapon
Model	Superweapon
Technical Specifications
Discharge	Energy beam
Power source	Nuclear energy
Control systems	Control panel
Usage
Affiliation	ZAFT Junk Guild
Timeline	Cosmic Era

GENESIS (Gamma Emission by Nuclear Explosion Stimulate Inducing System) is a powerful superweapon in the Cosmic Era timeline. Over time, three different versions of the weapons appeared.

Technical Informations

GENESIS is a huge gamma ray cannon which uses multiple nuclear devices with Neutron Jammer Cancellers to produce a massive burst of gamma radiation, which is reflected back by an external alignment mirror and focused by a second mirror into a laser beam. This laser is sufficiently powerful that if it were to hit Earth, a great part of the surface would be destroyed and nearly all life on the planet would be exterminated. It causes human bodies closest to the shot to inflate and explode. The external mirror is severely damaged in the blast and must be replaced for another shot to be fired. The original GENESIS as well as GENESIS Alpha were also protected by multiple layers of Phase Shift armor, capable of even withstanding a hit from a Positron Blaster Cannon and could be concealed by Mirage Colloid.

The third GENESIS unit, Neo-GENESIS, has the notable feature that it's the only one out of all three units that does not require its mirror to be replaced, thus making it able to fire more rapidly than its predecessors. However, Neo-GENESIS still needs to be charged beforehand. Because of the lack of the need to replace the mirror and that it's mounted on the Mobile Space Fortress Messiah Neo-GENESIS is more mobile and thus more of a danger to any enemy troops due to it being able to reposition itself for better effect on the battlefield whilst firing at a much faster rate than earlier types. It however isn't as powerful as the other two units due to its smaller size, but nevertheless powerful enough to destroy a fleet with a single shot.

Originally GENESIS was intended to be used as a propulsion system for ships to reach far away places in the solar system. To work this way, the external mirror is removed and instead a similar mirror mounted on a ship reflects the beam. This beam would then hit the mirror of the ship and grant it great speed, allowing it to travel much faster than any other ship. This effect was so far only used once.

History

GENESIS

The original GENESIS was built under the orders of Patrick Zala as ZAFT's ultimate weapon. The weapon was stationed behind the ZAFT space fortress Jachin Due and thus protected by not only the ZAFT garrison but by the satellite itself. GENESIS was first deployed in September CE 71 after the nuclear attack of the Earth Alliance on ZAFT’s other space fortress, Boaz. With its first shot it destroyed a great part of the Alliance’s fleet and thus forcing them to retreat for a short time. On the next day the superweapon fired its second shot on the Ptolemaeus lunar base not only destroying it completely but also wiping out over half of the Earth Alliance reinforcements fleet. The third shot was intended by Patrick Zala to fire on Earth (the target being Washington D.C., capital of the Atlantic Federation) but before it was able to fire, Patrick Zala was shot by one of his officers. Patrick’s son Athrun Zala flew his ZGMF-X09A Justice inside the weapon, where he detonated his mobile suit, thus destroying GENESIS shortly before it was able to emit the destructive burst. Only a small amount of energy was emitted which destroys the badly damaged ZGMF-X13A Providence.

GENESIS Alpha

GENESIS Alpha was another GENESIS unit (perhaps created before the one used by Patrick Zala) which was at first under the command of ZAFT member Ash Grey. Ash used it to give his ZGMF-X11A Regenerate a boost which allows the suit to travel at very high speed. Nevertheless Ash was defeated and GENESIS Alpha was taken over by the Serpent Tail, who at first tried to destroy it but later it became the base of the Junk Guild. The Junk Guild ship ReHOME used it after the war to fly to Mars. At one point the Earth Alliance invaded GENESIS Alpha and found the ZGMF-X12A Testament in it, which they then took with them. In late CE 73, an alliance of the Junk Guild, the Serpent Tail and Rondo Mina Sahaku used GENESIS Alpha in a failed attempt to avert the "Break the World" terrorist attack by pushing the remains of Junius Seven away from Earth. However, Ash Grey, now a brainwashed Earth Alliance pilot, used the RGX-00 Testament's Mirage Colloid virus spreader to alter their targeting data, nearly causing the Junk Guild to fire GENESIS Alpha at Earth instead. While this potential disaster was averted, in a later battle Ash broke free of his brainwashing and caused GENESIS Alpha to destroy an Earth Alliance base just before committing suicide. In response, the Alliance staged a full-scale attack on GENESIS Alpha, but the Junk Guild abandoned the base and activated a self-destruct system to prevent its capture.

Neo-GENESIS

In CE 74, a third GENESIS unit was built within ZAFT's Messiah, called Neo-GENESIS. It was smaller than the other two units but still packs a lot of power. Neo-GENESIS would be fired twice, once at the Orb Fleet attacking Requiem, which destroyed about half of the fleet, and the other at the Archangel and Eternal, which instead destroyed two Nazca-class destroyers, the Albose and the Barton, both being part of ZAFT's lunar fleet. Neo-GENESIS, alongside the mobile fortress Messiah, were destroyed at the end of the Second Bloody Valentine War by Kira Yamato's ZGMF-X20A Strike Freedom.