Gundam ZZ original pilot(s)?

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Mafty
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Gundam ZZ original pilot(s)?

So what exactly was the original plan for the ZZ Gundam? Roux claims she will be the pilot, yet Judau ends up as the (Main) pilot. Roux appears to have been in the resistance for longer(though it isn't clear if she was part of the Gryps War), and has pilot training. Given the lenght of time it would take to design and build a Gundam, this raises some questions. Was the ZZ supposed to be replacement for the Zeta(like the Alex was to the Rx78)? Was it supposed to be for Kamille(after all most could see a new war with Axis brewing)? Would Roux have been a replacement pilot to the AEUG and co-pilot of the ZZ? Since it has so many combinations, who would the other pilots have been?
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Re: Gundam ZZ original pilot(s)?

Mafty wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 12:16 am So what exactly was the original plan for the ZZ Gundam?
There doesn't appear to have been a specific plan for it except to be a design study for a next-generation MS.


Mafty wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 12:16 am Was the ZZ supposed to be replacement for the Zeta(like the Alex was to the Rx78)?
Production-wise, the ZZ was just supposed to be a new main mecha for a new series... with no deeper meaning than that.

In-universe, no... Anaheim Electronics had three separate Next Generation Mobile Suit development activities running in parallel in the mid-to-late UC 0080's. One for conventional Mobile Suits that yielded designs like the Rick Dias, one for a basic transformable mobile suit series that yielded the Methuss, Delta/Hyakushiki, and Zeta Gundam, and an advanced transformable mobile suit program that yielded the stupidly unworkable-at-the-time Theta Gundam concept later known as the Double Zeta. Development of the Double Zeta had been going for at least two years when the Zeta was finished and delivered, but was shelved for all the usual reasons.


Mafty wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 12:16 am Was it supposed to be for Kamille(after all most could see a new war with Axis brewing)?
It doesn't seem to have been developed with any specific pilot in mind.


Mafty wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 12:16 am Would Roux have been a replacement pilot to the AEUG and co-pilot of the ZZ?
Maybe?


Mafty wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 12:16 am Since it has so many combinations, who would the other pilots have been?
Considering the supply and manpower shortages at the time, if they didn't have Judau and the others... probably nobody.
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