A quick look through the episode summaries on MAHQ confirms my memory that
the first real "contact" with the White Base on Earth from the Feds comes
from General Revil through Lt. Matilda and her supply team. Since he
apparently didn't give any specific instructions at the time other that "get
out of Zeon territory", I'm assuming they took the quickest route out - over
the Pacific. After that, I'm assuming that the Fed command and kinda made
things up as they went along because they didn't quite know what to do with
the crew and their load of secret weapons.
It was obvious that the Fed high command had enough technical data to start
production of the GMs and Pegasus class MS carriers by the time the White
Base made it back to Earth, so they may have decided they didn't need the
crew or the proto types (the Gundam, Guncannon, etc...) anymore by then. It
may have been decided they'd be more useful providing a diversion and
collecting more combat data that could be used as they wandered across Asia
than bringing them "home" to Belfast.
Is there anyone out there who's more familiar with the back-story than I who
can clarify this?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr. Core" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 6:08 PM
Subject: Re: [gundam] Why go West?
Oops, I didn't mean to hit the send button, luckily it was sensible
enough that someone understood it...
To elaborate... After touching down somewhere in current day US, Char
and Garma were chasing the WB away from Jaburo and pushing them deep
into Zeon territory. But that threat was largely gone when Garma died
in Episode 10. So now they are somewhere in current day Washington
state and British Columbia, what's their next order? If their
objective was to keep the RX-series and fancy warship out of Zeon
hands and deliver them to the Feds, taking the flight from BC to
Belfast is relatively quick and easy (takes about 10 hours in a 747).
And in the end they did get to Belfast, and finally Jaburo. I just
wasn't sure what's the purpose to going West (to Japan?). For
repairs? Or the HQ wanted them to harass and distract Zeon's Asia
occupation? Or even to participate in the Battle of Odessa?
Bob Allen wrote:
the no-mans's land of the Pacific and east Asia. I can only guess that
Bright really wasn't well informed about the situation on Earth and
decided
to try and run away from where he thought the Zeon were most likely to
look
for him
Somehow I don't think it was Bright's decision to make. The way the
WB crew were treated in Luna II, the Feds care a lot about their new
toys than Bright's judgment. I think the WB was ordered into Asia,
but who decided that and why?
--
Dr. Core
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