Comments on: Gundam 00 – The State of GN Drives

By: Bmxcaleb

Bmxcaleb — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:07:18 +0000

to the whole seraphim thing…weve never really seen a gundam explode…and if you have the model the gn drive on it is VERY small in comparison of the other gundams so its likely that the drive was not hit…this is just my opinion though and by all means prove me wrong

By: Knolly

Knolly — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:48:44 +0000

@allelujah_fan

We can only really speculate until we are told otherwise by official sources or the movie, but with the 0 Gundam’s drive, I just kind of decided that it is the most likely drive to have bitten it. It also could be a potential angle to start the movie out on, since they would lose the Twin Drive System. I mean the end of 00 was Setsuna stating they still had something to do, and the preview of the movie is a shot of Jupiter, so maybe the “something” is get the Twin Drive running again?

I’m afraid I don’t fully understand what you mean with Seraphim. You would presume that the GN Drive would have to be in Seraphim for it to utilize the Trial Field, and the Trial Field was still running when Seraphim was shot, so there wouldn’t have been enough time for the GN Drive to bail out. But as you said, the GN Drives are pretty damn resistant, so who knows.

By: allelujah_fan

allelujah_fan — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:36:08 +0000

From my observations, the GN drives can survive quite a bit. I think that while the O Gundam’s drive may be dead, it is also possible that the internal components could have been salvaged and/or repaired. the actual drive itself is rather small when you look at it compared to the rest of the components, so all that they would need is the core. I’d have to assume that the TD blanket could be manufactured again, as it seems to be the component most likely to have taken the damage.

From having drawn scenes like the O Gundam’s “death”, when a bade mounted like Exia’s is goes through the body, it goes in at an angle. What we saw was a clever art trick to hide that. So it is entirely possible that it has survived.

As for the drive from Seraphim…. Who’s to say that since Tieria was using it in “remote control mode” that it wasn’t ejected automatically? Aeolia Scoenberg had the foresight to design the Gundams, you would think he would have left instructions for an self-preservation system with the specs for the all important GN-Drives.

By: Knolly

Knolly — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:42:53 +0000

@PhantomPain

Yeah, I was aware of that, but he didn’t find it anywhere near the Nadleeh if you remember, so it was probably going somewhere, haha. Thanks though!

By: PhantomPain

PhantomPain — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:41:28 +0000

Interesting write-up
just a little comment on the Nadleeh solar furnace
I don’t know if it has any guiding systems or anything but it didn’t return to CB by itself.
SPOILER:

In the Gundam 00F manga Fon found the Nadleeh drive and took it to Fereshte.

By: Knolly

Knolly — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:47:53 +0000

@Gundam00 Fan
1+2. As GNKyrios said, the 00 Raiser had just been using Trans-Am (which wasn’t even fully recharged) to fight the Reborn Gundam, so the drives likely weren’t ready to use Trans-Am again.
3. Also as GNKyrios said, 0 Gundam is not linked to Veda. None of the season 2 Gundams were linked to Veda. The only exception is Tieria linked Seraphim to Veda in episode 24 to use the Trial Field.
4. I’m gonna say Ribbons is dead. You’re right, there wasn’t a “last moment” scene, but I honestly think that showing that would have ruined the dramatic effect of the scene for me, which is probably why the director chose not to show it.

@p90
I agree and doubt the Exia’s drive is damaged. It could theoretically be damaged though… If the beam saber went STRAIGHT through it from that entry point we saw, then it definitely didn’t hit the GN Drive, but if it went in at the right angle it could potentially have damaged it. I’m going with no for Exia, but that doesn’t mean it’s not possible.

And I certainly considered S1 Ep 25 when reaching that conclusion… After that episode I thought that in the second season they wouldn’t have Exia’s GN Drive, but I was very obviously wrong.

By: p90

p90 — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:51:48 +0000

Hi,
I doubt that Exias drive was damaged.
Why? Okay.
You can see that the beamsaber penetrated below the cockpit (maybe 1-2m below the scratch the 0 made. Through this scrathc we could see Setzuna and the whole cockpit.)
As long as Setzuna survived (that the did unless the shown one is a new body or such nonsense) the sabers angle must be quite low.
As we have seen, the drives are inserted in a linear way.
This means it must be above the lower end of the cockpit. And the saber went below it. So it should be untouched.

Second thing is: Look at the explosion in S1 Ep25. That one was ways bigger but bot drives therent even damaged.

By: GNKyrios

GNKyrios — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:10:03 +0000

-because 00 was coming out of Trans-am so they couldnt.
-0 gundam is not linked to Veda, plus it was a plot device

By: Gundam 00 Fan

Gundam 00 Fan — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:04:58 +0000

Nice analysis. I totally agree with everything you said here. I still have four things unanswered:

- Why didn’t Setsuna activate Trans-Am during Exia’s battle with 0 Gundam?
- By the same token, why didn’t Ribbons do the same with 0 Gundam?
- Yet this leads to another question: How could Ribbons pass the retinal scan and got access to pilot 0 Gundam? Keep in mind that he no longer had access to Veda as Tieria had taken over Veda.
- Did Ribbons survive in the explosion? After all, unlike the scenes of Healing and Revival, there’s no scene that actually showed the ‘last moment’ of Ribbons right before 0 Gundam exploded.

Now that Allelujah is no longer with CBs, I wonder if they would try to build another 00 using Exia’s and Arios’ GN drives.