hi everyone gundam facts here for ninth and brand new episode of our special edition lore of the universal century today we're going to the mysterious area taking place before the one year war in an attempt to answer a particular question which is yep in this video we are going to present the origins of Zeon mobile suits and the development line which led to the creation of the Zaku series in this video we will exclusively address the mobile suits of the regular UC continuity and not the origin continuity this mean no Waff no Bugu because they are from a distinct timeline even if they have often a counterpart in the regular UC now time to dive in our subject The year is UC68 the group of colonies located the farthest from earth Side 3 or Munzo declare its independence from the earth's federation and its rebirth into the Principality of Zeon for the people of Side 3 this unrecognized independence was a synonym of great joy but what they didn't realize was the dramatic consequences it would have for the entire UC soon enough it became clear that federation and Zeon could never coexist peacefully for the federation the very existence of Zeon was intolerable as it loosened its grasp over the colonies and fragmented its authority and power on the other side the ruling Zeon family the Zabis backed by the local aristocracy crave the richness of earth and secretly the independence of Zeon became nothing more than a desperate pretext to usurp the earth's federation of its ruling title however the ruling cast of Zeon was aware that because of their fewer resources and population they were outnumbered by ten to one furthermore total victory would mean size earth itself and without proper sea or real ground in the colonies creating an adequate air and naval force would be impossible without a very powerful and adaptable wonderweapon thus started Zeon 10 years long race to arms with the final results being the mobile suits UC71 active research to create this wonder weapon finally started to achieve this the army weapon development bureau was created and to assist it local private companies were solicitated with three of them actively answering the call these companies were respectively Zeonic specialized in space pods Zimmad specialized in propulsion systems and MIP specialized in beam weaponry very quick all three of them started their own development ideas and submitted them to the development bureau in the initial stage all three of them proposed several dozens of concepts but in the end only two of them were retained and presented to the top brass of the principality the first was MIP new creation the forefather of all mobile armors the MIP-X1 45* meters long this decisive weapon had been created by updating a pre-existing design which was a spacecraft used in the asteroid mining this fighter had been overhauled with additional verniers which granted it higher mobility and it received a prototype jet engine enabling it to hover inside the colonies additionally the MIP-X1 was outfitted with a powerful mega particle cannon which had an output similar to a battleship main gun its contender the ZI-XA1 aka the AMBAC Space Pod was a creation of Zeonic and was essentially a retrofitted and highly modified space pod that the company had used for years in comparison with the MIP-X1 the AMBAC Space Pod seemed like a joke and it's only assets a monoeye camera and two limbs pale assets to win the competition however those who thought like that were proven completely wrong with an intelligent combination of thrusters and weight distribution the AMBAC Space Pod could capitalize on what Zeonic called the Active Mass Balance Auto Control which used the reaction generated by the movement of a limb at high speed to control the altitude of the space pod the result was a highly maneuverable vehicle with high mobility and with a far lower fuel consumption than a regular mobile weapon with a single limb movement the AMBAC Space Pod could rotate by 180 degrees in less than 3 seconds while the MIP-X1 could only achieve this with the help of two verniers and its rear thrusters these characteristics made the AMBAC Space Pod a revolutionary design and during a demonstration Gihren Zabi himself praised the vehicle effectively putting Zeonic at advantage over MIP but also Zimmad who was now really lagging behind its two adversaries still a whole portion of the Zeon topbrass was fonder of the MIP-X1 and its big canon and Zeonic was ordered to continue research and create something that would completely outperform the MIP-X1 else it would be the one to be definitely adopted with this middle success in mind Zeonic officially started the ZI-XA series and development restart at last immediately Zeonic engineers had come to the conclusion that it was the AMBAC abilities that had made the AMBAC space pod so successful and they quickly realized that a humanoid shaped weapon with four limbs for active AMBAC control had an enormous potential following this direction they continued the ZI-XA line and few months later they completed the successful model to the ZI-XA2 dubed the Humanoid Walker this new creation was a drastic departure from the AMBAC Space Pod and was closer to what future mobile suits would eventually resemble widely similar to its descendant the Zaku I the Humanoid Walker was nonetheless too crude to be called a mobile suit or even a robot and it was more of a walker than anything else as it was meant for work under gravity even worse it didn't even add arms but only balancer weights to stabilize it during experimental runs despite that it was not a scarecrow machine and its structure did not relies on a simple box assembly but on many curved surfaces for an enhanced rigidity additionally it replaced the fully mechanized limb articulation of the AMBAC Space Pod with a pulse system which enabled smoother limb movement and would be inherited by all future mobile suits still it was far from being an autonomous machine and its numerous holes on the body are a testimony that it needed to be connected to an outside generator to remain active as soon as it was completed Zeonic moved to the next stage of the ZI-XA line and with the help of the professor Torenov Minovsky and other civilian companies they managed to create a refined variant the ZI-XA3 the ZI-XA3 was essentially a more advanced ZI-XA2 but with arms and pinchers serving as hands in addition its power sources were not any more external but downsized in the form of a back mounted high capacity generator which enabled it to walk unassisted still the ZI-XA3 was nowhere perfect and the trial test initially proved disastrous it took ZI-XA3 two years to eventually refine it into a decent form and this resulted in an increase in size from 10 to 14 meters in UC3 the ZI-XA3 was on secondary modified was finally presented to the development guru among the new additions were a large armored frame and the replacement of the n-finchers with regular and manipulators once completed it still took several months for the zeixa tree to complete the working test without crashing but it eventually ended up being a success upon presentation to the development bureau the zaixar tree quickly gained the ungrathful moniker of crabman and upon seeing it giren zarby mocked the design which she found ridiculous yet the crab man easily surprised the mip x1 and after few debates it was decided that the krabband line would be the one to be adopted by the army this was the first success of mobile suits of removal armor and it ended up the mobile armor development line for almost a decade with the mip x1 going back to storage the ironic then remained the zaixa 3 as the mobile 201 ms 01 and craig christianized it as the first ever produced mobile suits still the crabman was far from being a real war machine and its mobility and propulsion left much to be desired in that same year of uc73 the mobile suit line continued with the creation of a model designed to fix some of the kramband flows to ms-02 aka the immobility test type as its name indicates the high mobility test type was a sort of upgraded version of the cropman with enhanced mobility mobility it achieved through the removal of the additional armor layers and increased propellant capacity aside that not much is known about the mobile 2-0-2 but it seemed this particular model was the first one to succeed in obstacle parkours and that it was later the first one to be able to use the end manipulators for more complex tasks such as picking up cubes later that year they only completed a new success through to ms-03 they would eventually go to pull the prototype mobile suit and much later the prototype early zaku like the ms-02 the ms-03 is mostly surrounded in mystery but the 8 mobile suite team bonus video gave us information about it the ms-03 was the real first introduction of the zaku series and the first unit to be really considered for live combat unlike the ms-01 and ms-02 the ms-03 was enlarged by two meters and now stood at approximately 17.5 meters this increase in size enables xeonic to install a reactor inside the torso although it was far from being optimal in the end zion manufactured four of these units with something orange or the blue and with one of them having a lighter frame than the orders the ms-03 soon by the space trials and now the zaku series could start in the origin continuity the vath serve as the equivalent of the ms-03 but there are some differences between them first the vaf is far more advanced and more effective than the ms-03 and its production was limited to only one prototype while the ms-03 and the winter 4 units production aside that the other differences is that the valve was produced in uc74 and not in late uc73 that it already used a diverse arsenal of weapons arsenal that the regular continuity zaku would struggle to acquire as we will now explain the year is uc74 after a few months spent improving the ms-03 xeonic presented their brand new addition to the mobile suite line the ms-04 prototype zaku in comparison with all its predecessors the ms-04 was in a wall of the leak while it was developed from the ms-03 improvements over the propulsion system and thrusters had given it twice the mobility of the ms-03 something which was astonishing since no armor was cropped to increase mobility actually the steel alloy armor frame had been almost completely redesigned which resulted in a bulkier look which offered better resistance against ballistic or super heated weapons yet it wasn't this mobility node is improved defenses which make the prototype saku a completely revolutionary machine since the xyx a2 miniaturization of the power source have proceeded smoothly and the final result of these three years of art labor finally paid through its cooperation with the task company xeonic was able to obtain what they call the das x7 which was a miniaturized thermonuclear reactor which could be integrated inside the tools of the ms-04 and power the wool suit without the need of external power sources no additional backpack generators the concept of having a small thermonuclear reactor as a superpower surely paved the way to the success of mobile suits as a wall as the backpack could now be used exclusively to mount propulsion systems making the suit faster and more agile with these assets the prototype zaku proved itself to be the first of the mobile suit line to be not just considered for live combat but actually capable of it to achieve this the ms-04 received a brand new chu weapon which was a 100 millimeter machine gun the ozark machine gun this weapon is actually the direct predecessor of the infamous 120 millimeter zaku rifle which would go to become a standard weapon in zion arsenal despite all of that the ms-04 was like most of its predecessor a [ __ ] in its own way first the prototype zaku was extremely costly and it was all but fit for mass production secondly zeonic engineers have been kind of anxious about protecting its arms and they have basically designed the ms-04 with so much armor on the arms it had difficulties moving them at all aside that the ms-03 proved during simulation that the 100 millimeter machine gun was not enough to deal with warships and that another more powerful weapon was needed at the end of the day the ms-04 still needed to be refined for a possible mass production plan and the only was for to continue development in the origin continuity the prototype zaku is replaced by the similar looking but chunkier boogie which saw almost the same problems we talked earlier but was still put to limited production something the prototype saku unfortunately never reached for one year zeonic engineers dedicated themselves into refining and simplifying the design behind the prototype cycle and all this artwork eventually paid off as in the uc75 xeonic presented a new breakthrough the ms-05a aka the zac 1 type a later known as the zaku1 early type in comparison with the ms-04 the zaku1 early type was more streamlined lighter and it replaced the zaix7 reactor with the more powerful thus m88b his next generator was like the sussex 7 an almost unlimited power source but more stable and which could be air cooled or hydrogen cooled rather than being exclusively hydrogen cooled overall the zaku early type remained cheaper than the prototype zaku is your two pilots and it also introduced some small assets which made big differences first its monolith camera was not anymore the only camera system and it worked in conjunction with other cameras disseminated all over the armor which gave the pilot a better visibility secondly it was outfitted with infrared another sensor which would have facilitated communication now because of minowski effect blocking both types of communication these two new additions became kind of worthless or at least not as effective than what they hoped it could have been finally the last addition was an early version of the zaku bazooka named the initial type which corrected the firing power of the ms-04 when xiaomi presented the zakuan early type to the development bureau they were met with a slight problem the zaku one early type was not any mode alone in the competition through all these years zymat had been able to perfect their own mobile suit the ems zerufu zuda stat wise both suits were not too far from each others except the zaku one was 1.8 times cheaper however zeiman master level propulsion systems had provided the zuda with the revolutionary jupiter engine which was a backpack engine relying on zinc and lead fusion rather that alien tree combustion for propulsion this engine gave to zuda unprecedented mobility and for the first time zionic on the zaku series felt threatened still zernik was able to resolve this crisis by leaking to the top rust that the jupiter engine making it stable if overused during the official threat demonstration of the zuda zeonika accusation proved correct when the zoo that is integrated in front of a world bunch of the xion top officials with the zuda out of the picture the development guru approved the mass production of the zakuan early type into what would be known as the zach 1 b type which is your average standard set 1. before that 27 early types had already been produced and most of them would live long enough to see the start of the one-year war aside these 27 a-types an unknown but far more important number of sakura-1 b-types were manufactured production of the b-type continued for the two following years until xeon possessed a real small army of mobile suits in uc77 ziontopras colluded that a more powerful mughal suit would be needed to fight the federation on a more equal footing and thus they decided to stop the production of the zaku one but not before solicitating the awning for a successor version almost immediately zeonik presented the new model that had been working since the completion of the zaku1 b type the new entry to the zaku series the ms-06a the zaku2 a-type also known as the zakutu first mass production type this mobile suit was the first representative of the zappo2 family and it distinguished itself from its future brethren by gets two round shoulder armor which used the pauldron of the second one rather than the future shoulder shield or spiked shoulder to be fully honest the zaku2 first mass production type was more of a glorified upgrade of the zach one rather than a fully new and revolutionary machine still it had a superior overall performance because of its increased armor and improved frostus other than that it replayed the zarza m8b reactor with a slightly upgraded version those r7 and it also introduced external power cables for better over responsiveness in august 2677 production of the type a zaku ii officially started at the zionic zoo ct factory at that time zernik expected his mobile suit to be the end result of all these years of labor and the model which would be definitely adopted by the zeal army however things didn't proceeded as planned real admiral kasilya zabi which had became the new director of the army development bureau considered the design to be insufficient to meet our expectation and for one particular reason nobody could have anticipated basically caesarea argued that should the federation ever develop mobile on their own that a-type would be left without options standard fist in close combat and this was a risk that couldn't be overlooked with this argumentation the already built first mass production models were relegated for training duty and xeronic was forced once again to go back to the drawing board in a matter of weeks they came back with the zakutu b type which was an almost unmodified zakuto first mass production type which which was this time equipped with a solid new plunge race weapon to eat up this weapon was an axe-like weapon which could be superheated to increase its sharpness and use the thermal energy of the thermonuclear reactor delivered through the zaku ends now the b type may or may not have been the model introducing the use of the spike's shoulder and shoulders shield but since we can say that for sure it remained unsure in september uc77 the xeon top brass confined to zionist that the principality puts an end to wartime readiness and that the incoming war would likely see the federation ships employing nuclear missiles and that the principality should be prepared to do the same despite limited stocks the oi officers had hopes in a particular concept which was zarko's using nuclear warrants and asked the company if it was a feasible concept to meet such demand xiaomi credits on extensively the zakutu a and b type and by the end of the month they brought the new success in front of the generous stuff this new mobile suit was the zaku2 c-type also known as the zaku2 early type equipped with a spiked shoulder for ramming attacks and a shoulder shield for defense purposes to type c at the iron of lucertility and its predecessors but as was not even the tip of the iceberg the type c was effectively designed to work in conjunction with a special nuclear bazooka derived from the initial type bazooka and which could be used in two firing boats the first one simplified nuclear warheads which enabled the zakuz to damage multiple salamis in a single hit as the federation use formation with a 25 kilometers distancing its ships the second mode was the actual precursor of the gp02 nuclear bazooka and condensed the nuclear blast into a controlled destructive fire with shorter range the perspective of a nuclear-based warfare the ironic engine is the type c with a triple layer composite armor made of a mix of lead and super arts still alone supposedly to improve the pilot protection against surrounding nuclear blast and radiation to reduce the chance of leaks the cockpit was surrounded by a layer of anti-radiation liquids which increase the pilot chance of not catching cancer in the short run now folks i honestly think the lead layers were a pretty bad idea because instead of cancer xeon pilots would have died of lead poisoning but hey that's not the topic of today because of all these measures to type c gained a whiff largely surpassing its predecessor but at least it protected the pilot soon xeonto brass approved the type c and in january uc78 its mass production officially started one year later the one year war begun and at that time the type c made the bulk of the principality forces during the one-week battle his machine and its nuclear bazooka committed many atrocities but this dark history was overlooked because a certain number of top aces such as star arsenal johnny ryden origin matsunagar popularized the machine due to their outstanding performance with it during the battle of loon on january 31 uc79 zeon signed the antarctic treaty and this rendered the zaku-2 early type obsolete and its complex radiation shielding systems when are useless as the nuclear bazooka was banned alongside all nuclear weapons zionic replied to this by creating a model without all these protections and a new generator which turned to be the lighter zakutu f-type aka mosseno the regular zaku successively the f-type would spawn manuals with zakuz and also mobile suit as well but that's outside today topics and now and we have now completed today's topic and i hope you'll like it this will be all for today's video but stay tuned for future log content delivered on the same channel hit the like button and most importantly comment and subscribe and if we really love the challenge to flourish so long follow new types until the time of our next special edition you
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