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0:00 [Music] hey guys Kakarot 197 again with another question of the week now I don't think anyone is going to blame me um when I tell you that I'm taking a little bit of a break from covering all of the model numbers and instead I decided to tackle some more normal questions that I found very interesting and the one that I'm going to be tackling in this episode is Dennis's Quest I saw this interesting question on Twitter what if the mobile suit that didn't get stolen by zaft wasn't a strike but one of the other Gundams instead okay so the setup for this question would be very simple for each
0:46 of the four situations the strike gunam would simply switch places with the other G weapon that then in that scenario would be Kira's Gundam this then means that for Simplicity sake the strike would be piloted by the or pilot of the machine Kira gets his hands on so the first thing to tackle then is something that would happen for all four of the situations zaft gets their hands on the strike gundam but unlike what you might be expecting this could actually be a worse situation for zaft because let's not forget how the strike was when it first launched it only had the built-in Weaponry being the um Eagle stellon guns and the two armor
1:31 schneiders or in Kira's [Music] words the Za boys needed to get their hands on the Gundam so I think it's highly likely that either a they wouldn't know to go look for the striker packs because they simply assumed that well that's it this is the strike gunam it's still under construction and the weapons disting has simply aren't done yet or B they simply don't have the time to go look for the striker packs and they would much rather just bail out with those machines they already have
2:17 and make sure they get those to base this would then give orb and the alliance the time to go ahead and destroy the striker packs to prevent them from falling into zap's hands also I'm going with the assumption that the strike gundam only contains enough information to dock with the striker packs and that it doesn't contain their full information as a precaution for should it get stolen so I don't think zap would get their hands on Striker packs anytime soon nor would they immediately be able to produce their own ones which would be a possibility but only until much later and talking about developing mix did today's video is brought to you by final gear the mech style strategy RPG set in
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4:36 versatile the striker packs were but in our new scenarios at least the ones where he survives he's going to show the world the power of something else and the best example I can give for this is the blitz Gundam if Kira had gotten the blitz Gundam I think Gundam Seed would have turned out way different first of all the battle with Miguel this is something that does not just go for the blitz gunam but for all of the other gunam as well Kira now has access to beam rifles and beam Sabers so I don't think Miguel would really get a second chance in any situation so good job Kira you're saving sunrise on Celebrity voice acting costs um as far as driving off L crus
5:25 goes I think that would more or less be the same except in the case of the blitz gunam it might have taken a bit longer because he didn't have access to the Agy and he would have had to do it with other beam rifles but we'll just say that he still manages to hit lrus and lrus is again quite surprised that they managed to pack quite a powerful punch into just a normal sized weapon and now it all depends on how smart the folks on the Archangel were or maybe more specifically how smart they would be about using the Mirage colloid I think it's a fair assumption to make that zaap would have had no idea about the Mirage colloid that could turn the blitz invisible to both the naked eye and two
6:11 sensors so if I were them I would keep that as my Ace in the Hole in the next battle Kira is going to be facing off against a couple of Jens and the egis now this I think would have turned out one of three ways either they told Kira not to use Mirage colloid and simply rely on its pH shift armor because the reasoning would then be the threat isn't high enough yet so we're going to keep that Mirage colloid as I said as our A's in the hole or on the other hand they might have thought that because it was just the egis and a couple of Gins that this would have been the perfect opportunity to take out the egis so they ordered Kira to sorty with the Mirage
6:57 koid active and to snipe the before it ever realized what was going on Kira would then either obey the orders because he convinced himself that it was impossible that athine was in that machine and well because he shot him before he would have known what the hell was going on uh that would have been the end of it or he does not go along with that plan because he thinks athine is in that Gundam which would then be option three and things kind of play out as they do in the anime But whichever option here is chosen I think that even when zaft learns about the Mirage colloid I think Kira is going to be able to shoot down more of the Gundams because of it which would then have an enormous Butterfly Effect later
7:45 on in the series here are a few of the highlights Admiral halberton the dude who spearheaded the G project would still be alive along with his eighth Fleet which would then mean that the Archangel received way better treatment than they did in the series later on and this probably would have prevented them from deserting something which then would have put orb in a way tighter spot also the folks on the Archangel never would have gotten in contact with gagal and friends because they wouldn't have made that disastrous re-entry that forced him to land in the middle of Zap control territory as for the alliance's main machine then it probably would have been something like the end dagger n but then without the nuclear reactor and
8:30 because this is going to be the mass production machine probably also without the Mirage colloid and I guess it would now then be called The Blitz dagger now of course we must also have a blitz variant with Mirage colloid for the Special Operations forces and this would then be this universe's equivalent of the 105 dagger so um the 207 dagger in our story on zaap side then they would now not have access to Mirage colloid which was used to hide Genesis which I believe did play a role in the surprise effect that that thing had the first time around so in this version of the anime the Earth Alliance would have been
9:17 significantly stronger however zaft would have also been way stronger because with everything that's going on laus now wouldn't have stolen the free for Kira who is still with the Earth Alliance presumably which then means that aine and the Justice wouldn't have gone after him and they also wouldn't have deserted the clear loser then in this situation is orb this probably would have been one hell of a climactic final battle then because it would have seen the Earth lines at maximum power and zaft at maximum power going head-to-head with each other and they the nukes would probably be raining down then for a more anticlimactic ending we go with the
10:04 Buster Gundam as much as I like the Buster as a Gundam it is a long range support Mobile Suit so I'm afraid that Kira bias Lonesome even with the support of the mobia zero and the Archangel would get quickly overwhelmed in the battles where they had to phase off against the other four Gundams he would either get captured or killed the obvious end result for either of these situations then is both the Archangel and the mobus zero being destroyed and the Earth Alliance losing out on a lot of data the only Silver Lining I can see here for the Earth Alliance is for the Eurasian Federation whose Hyperion series could now become
10:50 the main machine which is well a unit that definitely deserves more love and now on to one of my favorite scenarios what if Kira got the egis and aine got the strike now since the egis in a way combines all three Striker packs I think the main course of events would have been relatively the same with the big difference being the mass production unit that the Earth Alliance would end up using instead of the strike dagger it would now be the Eis dagger a unit that I believe would have been much more useful for the Earth Alliance now get this the big problem for the Earth
11:37 Alliance and their natural Pilots is that they could not pilot mobile suits however they could pilot mobile armors so if you're going to be making a mobile suit for your pilots who are having a hard time with mobile suits why not give it a mobile suit that could also become a mobile armor and is therefore significantly easier to Pilot in at least one of its two modes they could have lowered the power of the silam main Cannon added some Vulcans for mobile armor mode uh Stripped Away the phase shift armor like did it with the strike dagger and voila the perfect mass production unit for the alliance in space then for on Earth they could have
12:24 tried to make one that could fly for extended periods of time and what could be a better non-transformable partner mobile suit for this transformable Mobile Suit than the Hyperion series oh and what about aine and his mostly weaponless strike well he's not just going to keep using it Asis at first he would probably be using the Gin weapons that were lying around like a heavy assault machine gun or a bazooka but then he would probably get an assault trout upgrade similar to what they did with the duel and maybe even a reverse engineered dual beam rifle so the strike gundam is going to be in the fight which then makes me wonder in their final well
13:09 final climactic battle with their original Gundams would now Kira be the one to blow himself up anyways finally we then have Kira getting the Dual Gundam and I think it's fair to say that probably the least would change here I sure Kira would lose access to the Striker packs which could prove disastrous in that one battle where Aon tried to uh steal him acquire him however you want to call that and a striker pack change was a thing that saved him but the butterfly effect could then have prevented that situation from happening in the first place because at that point isach would still be piloting the underpowered strike without the striker packs because even if we were to
13:55 upgrade the striker pack with the assault shout down the line as this point in the series there is no talk of the assault trout yet the big difference then would be that the Earth Alliance would now be using the Dual dagger as their main machine rather than the stri dagger and variant so whichever Gundam Kira gets his hands on it would definitely be interesting to see how Mobile Suit development would be affected in the long run because now the Earth Alliance no longer had a striker pack compatible mobile suit and especially in the case of the Blitz and the egis they now had another golden feature that they could focus on for future mobile suits and for zap then
14:40 even though they were the ones who now had the machine with the striker pack compatibility it is highly likely that because they couldn't get their hands on the striker packs that they would have just kind of used it like they used the Dual Gundam and also another thing to add to this is is that depending on the situation at the end of the war they could be in a position of power what I mean by this is that one of the reasons for the construction of the impul Gundam and The Wizard packs was that at the end of the first Bloody Valentine War they signed an Armistice where they stipulated how much mobile suits each side could have and for zaap this clearly meant limiting their military
15:27 power so in instead of having many mobile suits that could do many different things each they went with one main Mobile Suit Zak Warrior and for the Gundam the impulse Gundam which could then use many different packs for different um operations or like different uh tasks on the battlefield which would then circumvent those limitations of the Armistice we only have one mobile suit but we have to exaggerate 10 different packs to make it do different things however with these new scenarios zaap could have been way closer to winning meaning they were in more of a position of power meaning that they then could have pushed for having
16:12 as big of an army as they wanted however as always with these what if scenarios it is impossible to tell exactly what would happen due to the butterfly effect so that's where I'm going to end this video but let me know down below which one is your favorite scenario and how you think it would play out and of course if you have any questions you would like me to answer in a future video leave those down below as well a big thanks to final gear for sponsoring this video links to the game down below as always a big thank you to the patreon supporters I hope everyone watching has a great day and I'll see you all next time [Music]
