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Honorable mention: the power of friendship and/or love in G Gundam. This let's the gundam power up to whatever power level it needs to defeat the enemy of the day

Fast charging, truly ahead of its time.

The Unicorn and Turn A were just built different. If you were up against them with the pilots able to use their full potential, good luck!

I love the GN Drives - a semi-perpetual engine that can provide Celestial Being Gundams lots of power as long as they're not pushed to their limits. And it took Celestial Being's Jupiter expedition 20 years to make five of them before sending them to the organization and taking themselves out to protect the secrets of the GN Drive during 200 years of planning and building up their strength until Exia's public debut to the world.

I would take the GN Drive even without the Trans-AM system. Infinite energy, infinite particles that can be utilized offensively, defensively or as thruster fuel, while also serving as a general purpose electronic warfare, and the drive itself is an omnidirectional propulsion system, and all of this comes in an incredibly compact package! It's just perfect!

The sound effects of the GN drives will always be iconic to me, Although turn A does deserves the top spot because its artificial black hole power source is insane and I love how this and the turn X are shrouded in complete mystery about where they came from and who built them.

You forgot to add that GN Drives don’t have to just power their suits. Like Ahab Reactors, you can plug a Gundam unto your ship and give it Trans Am as happened in 00. Its why I just love how cool and versitle the GN drive is. Heck, you don’t even need the drive itself. You can just use the GN particles to power a limited battery too if you cant spare the drive. Its sooooo cool

I love ibo technology, it went so forward that it loops around and goes back to oga bonga big metal stick

The Turn A Gundam is truly the most frightening washing machine out there... Kidding aside, I favor the GN Drives (or as I prefer to call them, Solar Furnaces) from a lote perspective because it allowed the Gundams from the 00 series to do a lot of crazy stuff (the very first episode even has a scene where the bystanders are in awe as to how the exia could fly while being in a pose that looked like it fell from a high shelf). And don't get me started on the Trans Am system being a reference to both the Nobel/Noble Gundam and Char Aznable. My only problem with the Solar Furnaces is that for Gunpla purposes, you need to get a LED unit for them (which are usually sold separately from the actual model kit).

I've seen Turn A's black hole reactor been referred to as a Degeneracy Reactor, though it's the same thing. One thing worth noting that it being very small is why Turn A has all the space in the chest for high-powered munitions. Also fun fact, but the theoretical concept of powering a MS via a black hole has been speculated about all the way back in UC, though only in the sense of being something absolutely unreasonable and crazy.

With all that power in your body you choose this life? Turn A: yes, it's a peaceful life

I think the photon batteries deserved a mention, they may not be infinite but they sure pack a punch with the things they can power and the amount of time they can power it

Turn A is my favourite because its technology is based on real world science, hypothetical super engineered technology that were thought of decades ago. Blackhole engines and nanomachines have been hypothetical technologies since the days of Arthur C Clarke. Turn A's charm is how over the top and yet grounded and realistic it is at the same time, the most powerful Gundam is theoretically possible in an extreme far future.

An interesting fact to notice is that it has been documented that an unnamed type of reactor was developed around the U.C 200s was in use by the mobile suits of the era that has only been mentioned in interviews by Kouichi Inoue during G-Saviour's development but the details are vague besides "being more advanced than the Minovsky Fusion Reactors"

And one thing I want to add about the GN Drive is that their output is constant. As in, they produce a specific quantity at any given time which is less than what the machine actually needs for normal function. This is why they have the GN Condensers which act as a buffer and fuel tanks to store the excess particles while the machine is idle to then be used when need be. And Trans-AM of course lifts the cap that is usually in place on how much the machine can use from the condensers at any given point to boost their performance. And when the tanks are empty, the mobile suit only has the slow trickle from the engine to rely on until the tanks have been refilled.

Next topic should be the most absurd colonies or space stations. For the best reactor for me would be either Ahab or GN reactor since both are semi perpetual reactors that is durable and has enough flair to justify its use on mobile suits. GN = Glitter drive!

While the canonicity of the beam rifle's up in the air, we know the Turn A is capable of teleportation-like speeds, powering a Psycommu System strong enough to cause Axis Shocks/Psycho Fields on level of REVERTING THE PLANET'S TIME, and the thing is BASICALLY SENTIENT. That requires a HOLY FUCKTON of a power output. Light of Life Special is a fuckin' Trip.

GN drives are my favourite without question, but it does make me wonder if there’ll be a system that could potentially create energy out of nothing in a future series.

The Turn-A's reactor is flat out unrivaled. Would LOVE to see it in action going all out. The Minovsky reactor is what got it all started though. Not actually surprised at the power potential of the twin GN Drive system.

I’m happy to see my boy Turn A as #1

I personally think G-Reco Photon Battery could be up there with the crazy weaponry it could powered like Photon Torpedo's antimatter and Moonlight Butterfly It just no one in the series and IRL knew how it work so it hard to have an actual measure

Wait, I thought the M-Particles was used to keep the containment field to keep the reaction contained? It was using the particle in lieu of magnetic containment that they were able to miniaturize the reactor. And, yeah, the Unicorns, its not the reactor, its the freaking newtype pilot and assisting psychoframe. Also, you left out the inertial dampening features of the GN Drives and the Ahab Reaction also have that ability, IIRC. I go with the GN Drives. They also turn people into Innovators.

Turn A in the thumbnail? We’re in for a good time.

I'm just gonna say the deuterion engine is my favorite. Especially how feasible it is with modern day technology. We have the zues nuclear reactor that's really compact and we also have ARCHAX, that japanese mobile armor/suit like thing that's being sold for 3 million dollars. Now... Let's double the ARCHAX size and fit that reactor inside XD

Personally I love the Ahab reactor. The combination of artificial gravity with the effectiveness of Nanolaminate Armor substantially changes the look and feel of the the Post Disaster universe -- from Mobile Suit to spaceships and colonies. The irony of these technological advancements leading to an age where medieval weapons are suddenly viable again is very Dune-esque. I also love the way they depict Ahab Waves as having this instantaneous EMP effect, not only does it make the Ahab reactor feel more real but it shapes the kinds of places you can have military bases and stage battles. It's good worldbuilding all-around.

Genuinely love the GN Drive and Gundam 00 overall, the sound of it whirring is so soothing

Another banger haha who knew talking about reactors would be so engaging

tbh, i always like the concept of power supply in gundam seed. it always makes sense practically for me. the Strike have soo many features that drain the power so easily, that's why the sword backpack has it's own battery, and the Launcher backpack have it's own battery on the cannon. that's also why Strike was more efficient with aile backpack, since it's boost it's speed and not draining the battery too much. while a high perfomance machine like freedom that blast beam like there's no f**king tmr, definitely need a rly high output power supply. so what's the solution? a nuclear power mobile suit ofc.

Definitely GN Drives are my favorite, I've been thinking of a Trans-Am equipped suit that has GN condensers to be used after Trans-Am to enable it to fight back while the drive replenishes particles.

I assume that the Unicorn NT-D power output is some combination of Minovsky Physics but also Psychoframe Light BS which is why it seems to be limitless. Which, as a question, do they ever explain the limits of Psychoframe? I always liked the idea that in CCA we had full psycommu-framed MS that could move and react at the speed of thought, but the little piece of Psychoframe that Chan held onto and participated in the "Miracle" that Amuro and Char pulled off always seemed like a Deus Ex kinda device.

My top 3 will be like this... 1. DGHCP 2. Ahab Reactor 3. GN drive Why I put GN drive below Ahab Reactor when both supplies almost unlimited energy? Simple, GN drive lose to Ahab Reactor in term of DURABILITY. Overworked GN drive to the limit will result in it's destruction. Even the twin system one. BUT.... Ahab Reactor have no fear of that. With it's indestructible trait you can work Ahab Reactor to the limit without fear. That includes the twin type who boast to have far superior output than a single one. The only problem you will face is the heat from Ahab Reactor 🗿

Yay for brief BuCUE represenation during the SEED power supply image!

Yea gn drive for days. mostly because we know quite a bit about it.

What I love about th GN Drives is... Everything honestly. The Gundam 00 makers went as far as describing how it works almost completely. It looks beautiful with the GN Particles emitted and the sound is easily recognizable.

Sakibure has more refined GN Drive developed from 00 Qan[T] 50 years later after good terms with Celestial Being

Love the GN Drives so much! Such a cool and exciting concept for my favorite series of mobile suits! Funny you mention a Triple Drive system, though, since I once kitbashed some spare GN Drives I got from a 00 gunpla kit to the 1.5 Gundam to make a triple drive Gundam that I called the Trinity Gundam. Heck, even gave it a second Buster Rifle that I got from the leftover parts from a Reversible Gundam kit. Legit, this would be my gunpla I'd pilot if GBN was ever a thing.

8:28 in 2017 the average use of KW was 1125, so if the original gundam plugged into the grid would be able to power miami and them some

I still think it’s hilarious in the 00 movie that everyone in the theater looks like the movie is the coolest things ever And Saij is just there sipping his drink cuz he was literally getting piggybacked on a giant mechs suit while riding a spaceship in the real deal war

Love these videos :) You need to either make another shields, video or do one about different types of funnels

IIRC the deuterion engines used by the Legend and Destiny were different from the ones used in the Strike Freedom and Infinite Justice due to how they drew energy from the engine. the Legend and Destiny drew energy from a battery that drew energy from the reactor - basically a self-charging battery while the Strike Freedom and Infinite Justice drew energy directly from the reactor with the battery acting as an emergency back-up incase something went wrong.

I too personally prefer the GN Drives over most others, aside from how unique it makes the mobile suits look while active, but if you just ask my brain, it'd probably say something simple like, "GN Drive good. It spews out kewl sparkly sparkles and Trans-Am makes Gundams go BRRRRRRRRRR!!!!"

The reason why almost all gundam frames in IBO uses melee weapons to fight was because of the infinite energy provided by their double Ahab reactors, making them able to fight for non-stop (if the pilot is very reckless or being like Ein). Also one more thing about Ahab reactors: infinite electricity when plugged into any base, saving up ton of money from the electricity bills 💀

In terms of secondary effects, I'd have to give it to the GN drives and derivatives. But the classic Minovsky reactor would be a basic inclusion in any machine I were to try and build. I'm currently working on a kit bash from a Kshatriya, Psycho Gundam, a supernova Heavyarms and a pair of 00s. The GN drives are small enough to mount on the wing binders without looking too out of place.

If i recall correctly the power output of the Unicorn in destroy mode was boosted so high because of the Psyco-frame, and the user's energy it channels, not because of the reactor. So the Unicorns max output is because of Newtype shenanigans.

I think the reactor on the unicorn was probably similar or slightly stronger than its reported output in unicorn mode, but when the ntd was active, the psycoframe is able to turn thoughts into kinetic energy, therefore allowing a weak reactor to have performance way way higher than expected. That is probably the origin of "unmeasurable" as well, since the psycoframe reacts differently based on the pilot.

Think whatever the hell they were using to power the Mobile Fighters in G Gundam deserved an honorable mention.

This reminds me, I was rewatching some of your older Top 5 videos, & was curious if you could do "5 More Most Brutal Deaths" in Gundam? Or if people have a sense of humor, "Top 5 Unintentionally Funny" or "Most Satisfying Deaths". I ask because GWitch & turning that guy into ketchup/catsup deserves some sort of mention.

Unicorn one is so cool, also love those designs pictures.

I also like that the ahab reactor lessens the g force felt by the pilots so it kinda make sense why the gundams can full throttle moving and evading fast when fighting an MA

I think the Unicorn units' nearly uncomprehensible capabilities have more to do with psychoframe being capable of bending reality, than with the construction of the more mundane components.

Yeah the GN drives are my favorite as well, not only for the same reasons as you like them but as well as they also look cool as crap, not just the art of them but also the flight from them, and they are also the key to how to turn into a true innovator.

Can't get much better than a virtually infinite power source. I may be biased, but there's no real proof of that.

I like the msic during the Unicorn segment.

noo wayyy Gundam reactors episode dude soo cool

As you can see from my avatar, I like the GN Drive best. I even take the verniers from models I like and install them 'backwards' to convert them into micro drives. They're powerful, compact, and if you up the purity, they can enable self-repair or select-distance jumping via Quantization. In my opinion only a Unicorn-series can do what a quad-core or higher GN-driven gundam can do. And you need at least that much to get protection from the Turn-A's _Moonlight Butterfly_ .

My favorite would be the GN Drives. The particles flowing from them just look so beautiful IMHO. Plus, with the true GN Drives used by Celestial Being are pretty good as medical technology, being able to heal Louise Halevy's GN Tau poisoning and also providing a mental link between her and Saji (although the latter, if I remember right, wasn't as effective since Louise did try to strangle Saji before falling unconscious). Really, the GN Drives are surprisingly versatile but I do understand Celestial Being's justified paranoia in not sharing the tech given human nature and whatnot.

I never knew Turn A was that powerful. They really need to make a prequel to Turn A. Like what the heck did that suit faced off against during the Dark history times. That's insane 😮

It's the GN drives for me. It's better than a nuclear reactor while being a clean source of energy and won't turn the area into a nuclear disaster when shot down. It eliminates the need for thrusters to be installed on your mobile suits therefore freeing up space for more weapons and such. If I can have a GN drive installed in my house, I can turn my AC on and every electronic appliance I have all day everyday, not worry about electric bills and still won't consume 1% off the GN drive's power. Now if I had it on my car...

Having first been exposed to the GN Drives via games and the Build Divers anime, I was shocked to find out that they're actually interesting and had genuine drawbacks that Build Divers instead completely ignored for the sake of "CONSEQUENCE FREE POWER UP GOOOOOOOOOOO!"

One mild bit of pushback: The minovsky particle field wouldn't keep the reaction going forever, it would simply sustain it so long as there was viable He-3 fuel. Minovsky particles could be used to form lattices in a magnetic field, and would repel each other in ways that don't necessarily make sense magnetically, as well as forming lattices on their own with no help until they dispersed. This was used to contain superheated Helium 3 fuel to sustain fusion. The early Minovsky-Ionesco reactors were "conventional" fusion reactors, but they led to the discovery of the Minvosky particle. That magnetic lattice created by the minovsky particle that the He-3 reaction created as a mystery byproduct was used to create a much smaller, much more compact plasma containment. This same principle was also used to contain plasma in a fixed "Blade", such as a beam sabre(this is also why beam sabres "clash", their minovksy fields are repelling each others' contained plasma), and to contain small and short lived magnetic containment systems for plasma shots accelerated through rotating magnetic coils, or, as you know them better, the Beam Rifle. The fact that these technologies rely on these minovsky lattices led to such developments as the I Field, which was simply a lattice of minovsky particles sustained by a machine's reaction power creating a potent magnetic field and holding those particles nearby until they were exhausted, and the Smart Beam Rifle, which would use the magnetic conductivity of a beam shot to bend the shot as much as 30 degrees mid-firing, creating a beam rifle that could shoot around corners. It also lead to, in the One Year War, the creation of Minvosky Dispersion warheads, built to blanket a space in minovsky particles, which would self-sustain a magnetic field until they dispersed fully, creating a blanket of space where beam weapons wouldn't work properly.

Random list idea, have you done youngest/oldest Gundam/MS pilots?

For the twin drive system (the original "flawed" one) i think that at one point, Ian Vahsti mentioned that the problem was a framing error when synchronizing the GN drives. In that case I don't understand if that was an error that could only be resolved with the 0-Raiser or if it was an error that could be resolved without the need for the 0-Raiser and leave it only as a power-up unit.

Always the count down to the world's strongest washing machine. Love it.

Idk if its important but the GN Drives also have a lightening effect that I'd imagine helps with speed and mobility.

By current understandings of physics, the Phenex traveling at light speed, and therefore the upper bounds of the Unicorn too, would mean its maximum power output is infinity. As in, it could exert an infinite amount of energy at any moment in time. Yikes.

A triple GN drive Gundam does exist, in the form of the Raphael Gundam with its triple GN drive Tau's. Sadly it doesn't have the same capabilities due to using the Tau drives instead of true GN drives.

Honestly the peak of minofsky reactor technology was the Psi reactors from Gaia gear in the early uc200s in the series of the same name Basically the idea is since reactors in general gives off minofsky particles why not make one that can passively absorb minofsky particles to improve output and complement other reactors of the same type hence why the Gaia gear alpha had 4 installed for around 14,000kw The man machine that weaponized that concept was the Gids geese that can use its M barrier in conjunction with it's improved psi cycle reactor can also absorb the minofsky particles from hostile beam shot to recharge the reactor and all weapons and systems on board giving it potentially indefinite operation time in combat

I hope you make a theory video for Gundam Requiem for Vengeance. I've been able to figure out a few things. The Gundam in the upcoming anime may be partly based on the Gundam Ground Type, may have the model number RX-78EX, seems to use the RX-77-2 Guncannon's beam rifle, has three backpack mounted beam sabers along with a backpack mini-gatling gun, and belongs to the EFGF. I've also noticed the Zakus used by the Red Wolf Team may also have Pile Bunkers on their shields, judging from how they look. That's sadly all I've been able to figure out. But I bet you could get way more info.

Yeah this reminded me where's the PBandai Turn-A (Intergalactic War Use Ver.)

• Information about how the DHOG furnace works: Unlike ordinary fusion reactors, which generate energy by a core reaction, the DHOG degenerates the energy extracted from the surrounding space with an I-field force field, confines it inside the furnace and converts it into power, using the surrounding energy at the expense of its activity such as taking heat from space. Naturally, the active furnaces are extremely cold and are protected in multiple layers by thick insulation blankets so that they do not adversely affect the fuselage, but in front of a beam saber that melts even the armor plate, it was as good as thin paper.

what do you think about photon battery systems like in G Reco? the mystery behind them always appealed to me and after rewatching on Gundaminfo i was reminded how the tech is basically on the path to Turn A and the Black History. Any theories from you, @kakarot197?

0:05 *Meanwhile Char* : "It's not powerful if it can't hit me"

Ngl the ahab reactors are the coolest ones to me. Imagine this, the generator so good after the collapse of society its still being used. Plus I like how its used in the setting like a proper treasure to be found and taken, or how technology has already peaked and all thats left is only scraps of what was once a technologically advance society.

not sure why, but when you mentioned the Ahab reactors being regulated by gjallarhorn, it reminded me of the overseer faction in Last Exile, (spoilers) i forget what any of the names were, but they were basically war profiteering and pulling a hunger games on the two halves of the colony world, influencing a civil war to go on indefinitely, providing grav drive cores for both sides sky ships and holding the power to quite literally yoink them from the engine rooms at any time, dissengaging from the frame and basically dropping the rest of the ship onto the crags below

I have to agree with the GN and I especially love how trans-Am was not a get out of jail free card there was always a little bit of suspense with its use because if you run out in mid-battle it's practically a death sentence

I just realised that the Trans Am system of the GN drives is pretty much the Haste spell from DnD...

my concept of perfect gundam energy system: Gundam frame's twin AHAB reactor for main power the mobile suit, reinforced with a single unit of GN Drive as energy weapon's power source and thruster, coupled with Psychoframe (obviously with NT-D in mind) between 2 generators... a single Rifle Bit can do damages equal to a Buster Rifle... and a spraygun sized railgun could be deadly just like a full sized Dainsleif.

Trans Am = Char Mode And nobody is convincing me otherwise. 😉 (I really do love Trans Am, though) And I had no idea how incredible Ahab Reactors were. I've seen all of IBO, but clearly, my understanding of its technology has been less than complete until today. So yeah. Nice video! Looking forward to the next one.

My favorite is the GN drive because it is insanely versatile, and a semi-perpetual motion reactor (with pseudo batteries, known as GN condensers).

I was just waiting for the unicorn to come up in this. I’ve known about the destroy mode generator shenanigans for years now and often wondered if it was immeasurable because it blocked off a port needed to measure the output or if it was really just THAT powerful and if so what would happen if you hooked it up to some of the more power hungry weapons in universe or out of we decided they could be compatible for rule of cool’s sake.

Yeah I kinda love the gn-drive too. They give enormous amount of energy, but they were also the catalyst for human to evolved into innovator.

the fact the mansa had more output then the kshatryia which was basically a successor to it is nuts but the mansa is basically a small mobile armor not so much a mobile suit the geymalk is surprisingly only 8-9k output wise despite being a floating beam cannon battery w funnels which surprised me

As a old time AC fan, that hit hard at the start

Honorable Mention to the Greipe from Wing's Side Story: G-Unit. For absolute unknown reasons, it has 2.5x the energy output of the V2 and is currently the 3rd highest in that field only under the Turn A and Turn X. However I understand why it isn't included, because we don't know what its power supply is, it just is that strong for some reason.

I think if we take what narrative said, I think it using the psycho frame to time loop the generator. Also I think in universe there just compensating for dwindling resources too.

I’m currently watching my way through Turn A Gundam on GundamInfo and it’s powered by an artificial black hole? That’s terrifying and amazing.

I also find the GN Drives and Ahab Reactors awesome. I am curious on everyone's opinion though, if a multiverse built gunpla using both of these engine types were used: How broken would it be in specs?

I always hated when insee people aruge which gundam is the strongest. There's a correct answer that people just refuse. Thank you for stating that answer

My favorite was the satelite system used by the Gundam X. Apparently, rectenas are real life things. They convert microwaves into electrical power. I guess it doesn't count if the mobile suit's power generator is external.

The GN drive is the best power supply, imo. Plus you have cool gn condensers on your ms as well as shiny particles lol

I will die on the hill that the unicorn units would beat turn A. The whole green space magic would dismantle midnight butterfly because those are nanomachines(son) and the newtype power isnt and itll just turn back time and revert them into what they originally where. With a wave of a hand mind you.

I like how most of these are represented in Gundam Breaker 3's orange abilities as the best of whatever stat they increase. In fact, Ahab Reactor and DHGCP do the same thing of increasing your suit's thruster capacity by 5000 points.

It's all fun and games until an Ide powered GM screams at you from a distance

gundam particles are cool but you gotta love them kojima particles

Have to remember that Twin Drive Systems have a lot of bullsh*t abilities like teleportation and turning everyone naked, etc.

The G-Self run on two Solar charged batteries that each have enough electricity to power up a city the side of Moon City in Turn A for a month each. And that thing came from the same universe as the UC so weird that it got let out.

Honorable mention to the Photon power of the G-Self; including the G-Self Perfect.

"If you don't have the energy to power them, they're (the weapons) are useless" Yep; this has been demonstrated before. The reactors of the failed attempt at mass production Double Zeta Gundams were just not adequate enough for the very energy intensive head cannon. Similar case with one of Gelgoog's prototypes; R-2S Zaku Late Production type. Except it needed a buddy mobile suit to fire the built in cannons at all. Then there's the issue of Hi-Zack not having more than one beam weapon at a time. Though ReZeon did patch that issue with their improved model.

I think utilisation wise it is Strike Freedom. With portable nuclear reactor as small as it MS, it can technically move fast, even inside the atmosphere, as well as it can spam beams like there's no tomorrow. If I remembered correctly, GN drives needs charging also or maybe it was maintenance.