what's the advantage of all these balls(including the cockpit)

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>>15040696
Presumably less stress on the joints than a typical hinge joint
They were designed for amphibious use and were reverse engineered from Zeon's aquatic suits

>>15040696
Having a lot of balls makes it the /m/anliest mobile suit

>>15040696
easier to draw

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>>15040696
>balls

You mean the joints? It's to provide a greater degree of motion when the MS bends its arms and legs. Other MS have it, too.

>>15040696
Balls are more pressure resistant, and it feature a panoramic cockpit so build it inside a ball would be the fastest solution than build it from scratch.

can someone tell me what daryl is piloting S2? or did i get everything wrong and he isnt the protagonist and was just a side character and that everything revolves around gundams?

>>15041037

A buff Acguy

>>15040696
he's pretty ugly

>>15041430
really? isnt he the protag and he gets a shitty basic MS?

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>>15040702
>Presumably less stress on the joints than a typical hinge joint
But how in the hell do they actually work?

>>15040739
>You mean the joints?
Nope, Joints are also Balls...

>>15040747
>Balls are more pressure resistant, and it feature a panoramic cockpit so build it inside a ball would be the fastest solution than build it from scratch.
Pretty much why I'd use an armored Ball as a cockpit.

>>15040747
Yeah but why use a ball when spherical cockpits already exist a la Sazabi, Nu, Mk II and others?

>but muh mass production

Those are just examples.

>>15041037
He and Io are co-leads of the series. During next arc Io has Atlas gundam and a GM Kai, Darryl has an Acguy. We get story from both perspectives same as the thunderbolt sector arc.

>>15041601
Because thunderbolt doing its own thing with mechanical designs. Plus the ball is more like a core that the MS parts are attached around rather than being just a cockpit/escape pod.

>>15041595
Isn't the ball bigger than most mobile suits chests?
Is the atlas Gundam the size of unicorn or did Thunderbolt retcon the size of balls?

>>15041618
A ball is still too impractical to use as such an integral part. A standard panoramic spherical cockpit would have been more efficient.

>>15041631
>A standard panoramic spherical cockpit would have been more efficient.
But do they even have those at this point in the Timeline?

>>15041859
They had basic panoramic cockpits as of War in Pocket but the spherical cockpits don't show up until a little before Zeta.

Jeez thats one ugly Gundam.

Ugliest Gundam ever?

This definitely doesn't look like a early UC mobile suit...

>>15042031
yeah, it's more fit for AU UC

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