This article is about the mobile suit. For the anime series this unit is named after, see ∀ Gundam. SYSTEM ∀-99 ∀ Gundam (called "Turn A Gundam", aka "∀", "White Doll", "White Devil", "Mustache") is the titular mobile suit of ∀ Gundam. It is piloted primarily by Rolan Cehack.
Technology & Combat Characteristics
The ∀'s main propulsion was provided by an I-field Beam Drive System, which left the suit completely hollow and allowed it to be filled with extra armaments and rocket thrusters. Standard armament consisted of two beam sabers and a beam rifle. The ∀ was also equipped with an I-Field barrier which could protect it from various sorts of attack, including nuclear weapons. It is also capable of bending light and hence creating an illusion of it vanishing from one place and reappearing in another.
Its on-board nanomachines are capable of an attack named "Moonlight Butterfly" (named after the effects of the attack when active). It is said that the attack has 3 requirements, the nanomachines, the energy to use them and finally the program to activate it. At full power, the Moonlight Butterfly can cover a wide range (from Earth to Jupiter), while turning most if not all technologies into silica dioxide (sand). The nanomachines have the ability to do subatomic alteration by changing atomic numbers of elements. However, in Correct Century 2345 (the time the series takes place in), the Turn A only had the nanomachines and the program. The Turn A did not possess sufficient amount of energy to activate the Moonlight Butterfly on its own and required energy from an outside source, namely the CONCEPT-X 6-1-2 Turn X. Contrarily, the Turn X only had the sufficient amount of energy for the usage of Moonlight Butterfly and lacked the nanomachines and the program.
The ∀ was originally designed for interstellar warfare. Unlike mobile weapons from previous time-lines, the ∀ Gundam is powered by a DHGCP power plant (Discontinuous Hyperoscillation Gauge Collapsing Pile) which is essentially an artificial black hole. The power plant leaves the chest cavity of Turn A empty, allowing various equipment to be placed inside, as evidenced by the ∀ holding nuclear warheads within the cavity. To further enhance its combat power, the ∀ Gundam also has a large support unit called the DOC Base (Device Operation Control) which hold various armaments for the ∀ Gundam, allowing it to be quickly refit according to the situation at hand. One of the DOC Bases was discovered in the series, although it was more or less rendered unusable by the Moonlight Butterfly, with the only surviving and usable weapon being the hyper hammer, having been heavily coated with nanomachines, thus preserving it.
It is also capable of total regeneration of both itself and its pilot, by using the same nanomachines that the Moonlight Butterfly uses. However, this is not instantaneous and it requires time. Also, this ability was speculated to be an technology adoption of the DG cells of the Devil Gundam. Turn A also possess the ability to warp beam shots directly into enemy cockpits with unspecified limitations. It is confirmed that beam shots with outputs exceeding this beam warping ability's power consumption are not able to be warped by the Turn A. Also teleportation is also noted (which only occurs in the novel of dark history and never shown in the series itself, nor are they firmly placed in canon.).
Armaments
- Beam Cannon
- Beam Rifle
- Like many other Gundam type mobile suits the Turn A makes use of a Beam Rifle. The rifle presumably works by using compressed Minovsky Particles to melt through any armor. As the Minovsky particles destroy matter on a molecular scale, the beam rifle can penetrate even the thickest armor and destroy its target with a single shot. The exact way the Turn A's rifle works, or what its power rating is.
- Beam Saber
- The beam sabers are assumed to use Minovsky particles held in place by an I-Field to form an effective cutting surface that can slice through nearly any material. The particles for the beam sabers are stored by E-cap in the hilt of the saber, which is recharged from the Gundam's reactor when the saber is returned to its socket. Once activated, beam sabers do not rely on the mobile suit's reactor. The beam saber is most often used for close range combat or as an emergency weapon once all other ammunition has been depleted. They are stored in recharge racks on the back of the shoulders. Loran has a habit of using these as his main weapon because he has a pacifist outlook, so he uses them to cut around the cockpit and as to not cause collateral damage by using the beam rifle.
- Gundam Hammer
- The Gundam Hammer is a melee weapon that resembles a medieval flail. The Gundam Hammer was essentially a large spiked ball attached to a chain. The sheer mass of the hammer coupled with the sharp protrusions make the hammer a very effective melee weapon.
- Minchi Drill
- Multi-Purpose Silo
- These silos are used to store missiles of an unknown origin or type. Two of these silos were used to store nuclear warheads for a time.
- Shield
- The Turn A, like many other mobile suits mounted a shield on its left arm. This shield is used to block attacks that for what ever reason the pilot can't dodge.
System Features
- I-Field Barrier
- Moonlight Butterfly System
- Nanomachine Regeneration System
- Teleportation System (non-canon)
History
After accompanying the Willgem to the Moon, Rolan finally learned the dark truth about the ∀'s past, that the ∀ had been responsible for the destruction of Earth's history by unleashing its "Moonlight Butterfly" attack, spreading nanomachines across the Earth's surface (And through space, to Jupiter, with the exception of the moon) and turning all technology into sand. After learning of this truth Rolan also discovered several features of the ∀ that he was unaware of, most notably that the cockpit was a Core Fighter capable of separating from the ∀; also Rolan discovered the ability to make the ∀ vanish from sight by means unknown. During the ∀'s final battle with the Turn X, both machines unleashed their Moonlight Butterfly systems at one another; Both Loran Cehack and Gym Ghingnham escaped unharmed and subsequently engaged in a short sword fight, but both machines were encased in a large cocoon for the moonlight butterfly from both machines were of equal strength and thus both suits were unable destroy each other.
Pics Gallery
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Trivia
- ∀ Gundam was chosen to be the 100th Master Grade model of Gunpla (abbreviation of Gundam Plastic Model) and at an earlier time, the first release of the ∀Gundam DVD box set was announced.[2][3]
- The Hajime Katoki Version of the suit sports a different design as well as redesigned mouth-piece, which more closely resembles that of a normal Gundam.
References
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External Links
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