Joseph Riggs wrote:
IMO, a guy on a supply ship isn't going to be running around with an R&D Proto-
Not just a regular supply ship but one so old that drew unkind remarks from Char. The ship seemed unfit for military use in Char's eye, could the MS be too old and poorly equipped for battlefield use too? Even the opening monologue (showing large Zeon formation and colony drop) didn't show Zaku I. It's quite possible that Gadem's ill-advised charge was the first ever combat deployment of a Zaku I. You can call it limited production run or R&D prototype, it's just semantics. Like many of the X- and YF- series fighters, many of them were built for test flights and never equipped with combat-grade radar and armaments to be battlefield-ready.
And if it was a limited production run, it would make sense to produce weapons
Like I said a few posts ago, it's reasonable to give it predecessors of early Zaku II weapons (machine gun, bazooka, heat hawk) and it seems agreeable not to give it leg missile pods and Magella cannon (Zaku II weapons later in the TV series). But it seems odd to give it Panzer faust (late 0079 on Rick Dom II) and punch shield (0083 on Gelgoog Marine). Actually how come an MS-05 has almost everything that a EMS-10 has? -- Dr. Core -------------------------------------------------- The Gundam Mailing List MK-II [email protected] Archives: http://www.gundam.com/gml Help: Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this in the BODY: help list
