As before, the roundup of missing chapters continues.

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Extra info.

Movement of asteroids from around Jupiter and mars area to areas near earth is a difficult task. This is to gather resources for the building of OE & colonies. Vessels involve in the work are called “slave spaceship”, and the name is not far from the truth.

Robert Stad is a newly arrived worker and brings his whole family along. During marlene’s trial, the fact that an infectious disease was onboard and hopeless situation then was not considered. Union companies responsible for management of the spaceships push all the blame to her and for this reason, they treated her with the latest medical technology. Marlene originally intended to use her own life to atone for the crime. Robert’s death changes her view on life; she wanted to live on, to change the world. Not for herself, but as a tool to achieve this goal. Thus, she agreed when veda ask her to join CB.

The mission was to monitor the hellions. It was marlene that attack the hellion squad first. She blocked a kamikaze attack on the guerilla village by one of the hellion. The hellion exploded and marlene was injuried.

"they treated her with latest technology"

What's that?

nice work, awesome translations!!

That can mean so many things when thought in so many different contexts. :(

*happy thoughts* Lets pretend she was badly hurt and they decide to do their best and make her good as new. Like all happy morale stories should. ;)

In any case, its good to finally know where the asteroids come from. There are limited candidates but good to know which ones now.

I googled tranlate, and found out that the line is pointing on how the authorities (or the higher ups) treated the disease from Marlene using the technology they have so that she survive and that the whole outbreak would be put under the rug forever.

Forget to include the development report info

-One of the characteristics of the 3-thrusters drive of astrea & co is that it is able to extract maximum performance from the GN drive by pushing it to the limit. This puts a large strain on the GN drive, leading to its instability.

-2nd gen units do not use the cone type drive as their designs was not meant for it. Cone type drive heavily affects the 2nd gen unit’s balance.

^I guess Astraea Type B would have that problem then?

Dont think so, none of the type f have the cone drive.

I'm pretty sure that's how they found out about the instability. Since, you know, they were testing it out on the Astraea.

On a related note, is this why the Twin Drive need stabilising as opposed to the two new ones for Quanta working fine? Earlier testing caused lasting defects?

I'm pretty sure that's because Exia and 0 Gundam's GN Drives weren't actually "twin" drives per se, CB was just lucky that the two drives matched well (albeit with instability issues). The new drives made for Quanta, however, were made specifically to match with each other, so I'm assuming that the core components (the TD blanekts) are highly similar to each other making a better matching.

CB still ended up constructing a stabilizer unit for Quanta in the form of Full Saver though, probably in case the manufactured drives encountered instability issues. You can probably make very similar drives, but you can never create twin ones.

That doesn't quite add up. I know Full Saber was an uneeded stabiliser system, but we also know that the Celestial Being was designed to use the original 5 drives by having three spread across the prongs and the last two in the centre synced as a Twin Drive System. So Twin Drive was always in the plan, it just happened to debut in the 00 as acted out. Hence why I'm asking if the sidestories are suggesting that the previous usage and testing in non-Twin Drive Gundams left defects which affected them and were absence when centuries later CB create two fresh ones to put into Quanta.

Uh, except it was never stated that the two drives in the center slots would be synched into a Twin Drive System. Also, why would the Celestial Being, a ship built by the rogue Innovades, have TDS related technologies? Only CB has info on the TDS since the system trap triggered in S1 made it so.

Celestial Being wasn't built by them. It's an ark ship that was hidden behind the dark side of the moon for generations. Ribbons simply hijacked it and made it his base of operations. I'll have to look for the source, but I remember that a guide that came out sometime after season 2 reveals specifically that the Twin Drive setup was intended to be the main power source for the ship once it launched and the Gundams had been retired. It just got put in a Gundam because Ribbons' meddling caused a worst case scenario, hence Aeolia entrusting it to the Meisters he hoped would still continue to fight for his ideal.

Mission Complete 2307-2312 mentions that the GN Drives can be installed on the ship; while it does mention a set can be installed in the center, their functioning as a TDS is an assumption. 2nd Mechanics repeats the basic idea, but seems to back off mentioning specific Drive placements.

As for the original topic, I believe it is just repeating the idea that the tri-thruster cases used by the 2nd-gen Gundams sucked. Even the original 00P issue mentioned something about their output being unstable compared to the 1st-gen cone design.

I was referring to the Astraea with the cone Drive extension, its called Type B I believe.

I do not think this would be the case, the ones that 00 were using was a hybrid of the cones of the 3rd Gen and the three point thrusters of the 2nd gen according to the PG manual. The instability also refers to the 2nd Gens incompatibility with such a design too (since they were designed with the three point in mind, which has better particle thrust output IIRC), so it probably applies less to future designs that were meant to take advantage of the cone design from the getgo (unlike the 2nd Gens).

The reason why Qan(T) does not need stabalisation is likely related to CB's improved design/knowledge of the system after all the data they collected from a very active 00. In addition, I personally theorise that the smoothness is also related to the fact that the actual Drive set they are using were specifically created to function as a Twin Drive pair (in whatever unspecified criteria the Twin Drive needed) as opposed to 00's, whereby the pair with the highest chemistry matching were chosen from a Drive pool of Drives that were not designed from the getgo to function as a Twin Drive pair. I reckon this fact may contribute to the reason on why 00 Qan(T) Twin Drive did not need as much force stabalisation as 00's in addition to the improved system design.

In regards to Twin Drive being used outside of the released system trap at the end of S1, the only mention of any Twin Drive being used outside of the system trap release would be the original plan of CB engineers to create a Twin Drive like system and test it on the Plutone although the idea was dropped due to the impossibility of the system due to the difficulty of synchronising two Drives. Aeolia's Twin Drive System design likely has a much superior theory on how to match the Drive.

I cannot remember specifically whether we were told who created the CB Ship, although we do know that the Innovator group have lived in prior to (cannot remember which source said it though). It was in Aeolia's original plan however, like you said with those 5 slots meant for Original GN Drives.