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Revision as of 02:22, 19 August 2011

Satellite System
Gx-9900-satellitecannon
GX-9900 Gundam X, Satellite Cannon in firing position
Nrx-0015-hc-satellitelauncher
Satellite Launcher in firing position
Production Information
Manufacturer United Nations Earth
Designer United Nations Earth
Type Energy weapon
Model Mobile Suit weapon
Technical Specifications
Discharge Energy beam
Power source Super-microwave energy beam
Control systems G-Controller
Usage
Affiliation
Timeline After War

The Satellite System is a powerful weapon system in the series After War Gundam X which was developed by the United Nations Earth during the 7th Space War. In the After War era it is the most powerful Mobile Suit weapon in existence.

Technological Informations

SatelliteSystem

Satellite System on Lunar Base.

The Satellite System consists of several pieces of technology working together. One part of the system is a lunar solar power station on the moon, which not only holds the power source for the Satellite Cannon but also the remains of D.O.M.E., the first Newtype. On this station a large dish is mounted, which can send a super-microwave energy beam to a Mobile Weapon capable of sending a signal to the station and receiving the beam. After the Mobile Suit or Mobile Armor received the beam, a microwave pulse is then sent along the laser circuit's path and into the collection fins of the mobile weapon. Afterwords an energy beam is fired from the Satellite Cannon installed on the unit which is capable of destroying a Space Colony with a single shot. In AW 0015, GX-9900 Gundam X pilot Garrod Ran deliberately missed the microwave beam, which then hit a sea, causing a massive explosion.

One massive problem of the system was the fact, that the microwave beam could only be sent if the moon was in sight. To counter this problem, several relay satellites were positioned in Earth's orbit that allowed a Gundam X to receive the microwave from any location.

Over time several versions of this system have been developed, each system having its own unique use.

GX-9900 Gundam X

The first mobile suit to be outfitted with the satellite system. To operate the system from this suit, a Newtype pilot is required, who would send a signal to the lunar station through the Flash System, which would then send the energy beam. Also to arm and fire the Satellite Cannon, a removable G-Controller is required. On the Gundam X, the sending and receiving process takes 4.03 seconds.

FX-9900 GX-Bit

The GX-Bits used the same satellite cannon installed on the Gundam X. Since the GX-Bits were unmanned Bit Mobile Suits, their satellite system was used from the main Gundam X controlling the Bits. Despite being only Mobile Bits, the firepower of their satellite cannon was the same as the one of the main unit.

GX-9901-DX Gundam Double X

In AW 0015 an upgraded version of the satellite system, known as the Satellite System Mk. II is incorporated in the new GX-9901-DX Gundam Double X of the New United Nations Earth. This system doesn’t require the Flash System to contact the microwave station. Instead, the recorded brainwaves of former Gundam X pilot Jamil Neate are stored inside the computer of the Double X and thus anybody can use the satellite cannon. To use the weapon however, a G-Controller was still required.

The Gundam Double X also features a Twin Satellite Cannon, which doubles the destructive power of the beam.

NRX-0013-CB Gundam Virsago Chest Break/NRX-0015-HC Gundam Ashtaron Hermit Crab

The upgraded Gundam of the New UNE feature their own version of the Satellite Cannon, called the Satellite Launcher. For this system to be used, a Satellite Cannon is mounted on top of the Gundam Ashtaron Hermit Crab while in its Mobile Armor configuration. The Gundam Virsago Chest Breaker can then stand on this firing platform and deploy its collectors to gather energy to fire the weapon.

History

Developed during the 7th Space War, the first version of the Satellite System was installed in the newly built Gundam X of the UNE. One such suit was piloted by young Newtype Jamil Neate, who used his Gundam together with several GX-Bits to destroy one of the colonies which the SRA planned to drop on Earth. This however only triggered the massive colony drop that ended the war and nearly wiped out the population on the planet. Around the same time most of the relay satellites in orbit were also destroyed.

15 years later one Gundam X is found by 15 year old boy Garrod Ran, while he escapes with Newtype girl Tiffa Adill. Since Garrod isn't a Newtype, he needed help of Tiffa or sometimes even Jamil to use the Satellite System from his suit. However his Gundam was soon critically damaged by the RMSN-008 Bertigo, which also destroyed the Satellite Cannon on the suit, rendering the system on it useless.

Around AW 0015, the New UNE found the remains of Jamil's old Gundam X and discovered, that his brainwaves were stored inside the computer of the suit. Using the remains as well as the stored brainwaves, the UNE developed the Gundam Double X with the upgraded Satellite System. This suit however was later stolen by Garrod Ran, who then claimed it as its own suit.

When it turned out in AW 0015 that the SRA still existed, the New UNE upgraded the Gundams of Shagia and Olba Frost, who themselves added an optional Satellite Cannon on the Gundam Ashtaron Hermit Crab, which could only be used together with the Gundam Virsago Chest Breaker. During the 8th Space War, the frost Brothers seized control of the microwave station on the moon from D.O.M.E. and used their cannon to kill the leaders of both the UNE and the SRA. They then attacked Garrod's Gundam Double X, who at the same time fired the Twin Satellite Cannon on his Gundam Double X. The resulting explosion crippled all three Gundams beyond repair and destroyed the lunar station.

In AW 0024 another Gundam X was found by a group of Vultures. Also in the same year it turned out that one of the relay stallites, named BATEN, survived the war and later would get modified, enabling it to send a microwave beam by itself, although BATEN can only provide 30% of the energy which could be sent from the lunar station.

Mobile Weapons that use the Satellite System

Trivia

  • In Super Robot Wars Alpha Gaiden, the Satellite System was implimented as it was in the series - that it could only be used while the Moon was full. However, it was subsequently dropped when it reappeared in Super Robot Wars R, where the Satellite System could be used in broad daylight and all the way on Mars.