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Pluma

Hashmal's Pluma

Harael's Pluma front

Harael's Pluma

The Pluma (プルーマ Purūma?) is the unmanned subunit of a mobile armor introduced in the second season of the TV anime Mobile Suit Gundam IRON-BLOODED ORPHANS.

Overview[]

Although it looks similar to a mobile worker, the Pluma is actually a small, unmanned, sub-unit produced and commandeered by the large, unmanned mobile armors.[1][2][3] It is possible for the Plumas produced by a mobile armor model to be distinct from those produced by another model of mobile armor.[1][3] The offensive ability of a single Pluma is low, but as it move in groups, they can easily decimate production plants, human beings and even mobile suits.[4] The Plumas are not powered by Ahab Reactor, but instead receive power from an external source, such as their parent mobile armor.[1][3][5] As they operate based on orders from the mobile armor, they will stop functioning if the latter is destroyed.[1][4][6]

Aside from serving as attack units, and protecting their parent mobile armor, the Plumas also carry out other functions such as scavenging - collecting resources such as fuel, propellant, and other materials to resupply and even repair the mobile armor.[2][6][7] The mobile armor in turn can manufacture new Plumas with these resources.[2][5][6] With enough time and materials, the number of Plumas can multiply infinitely.[2] Data of the surrounding area collected by the Plumas are also transmitted in real time to the mobile armor.[1] Despite the Plumas having a form distinct from their parent mobile armor, from a system point of view, they are still considered a part of the mobile armor.[1]

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Notes & Trivia[]

  • Plumas are similar to Sid Slaves of Sid from Mobile Suit Gundam AGE: Memories of Sid as a swarm of smaller robots that aid a larger automated mobile armor.
  • The Mobile Suit Gundam IRON-BLOODED ORPHANS G mobile game depicted the mobile armors Ananel and Nemamiah as having the same Plumas, but in different color schemes. While this seemed to suggest there are mobile armors that produced similar Plumas, it should be noted that the game often reused game assets and weapon animations even when they do not fit the scene, so depiction of the two mobile armor's Plumas might not be fully accurate.

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 High Grade Hashmal model kit manual
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Mobile Suit Gundam IRON-BLOODED ORPHANS Episode 36, Stained Wings
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Mobile Suit Gundam IRON-BLOODED ORPHANS Urdr-Hunt Episode 5
  4. 4.0 4.1 'Mobile Suit Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans Mechanical Works' Book
  5. 5.0 5.1 'Mobile Suit Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans Mechanics & World 2' Book
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 'Mobile Suit Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans Second Season Completion' Book
  7. 'The Document of Mobile Suit Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans 2' Book
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