#minovsky particles

[heather-m-quigley]

[heather-m-quigley]

i could not remember where this happened without help, i narrowed it down to either tomo-chan is a girl or bofuri s1. turned out it was the additional time for blue lock 20

if you don't know, that was a gundam reference.

i wouldn't have caught it either if i didn't get into old school gundam like a month before this episode aired. 😅

[gundamexplored]

"In order to improve the performance of Mobile Suits, such as enhanced firepower, heavy armor and reinforced thrust, magnetic coating and psychommu technologies developed out of Minovsky physics. However, most of these methods would always lead to body scale issues, body weight and other related problems. In order to solve these problems, other modifications had to be made, but this continued into a never-ending vicious cycle after a mobile suit was considered 'complete’.”

- Gundam Fact File #27; ‘MS Development History'

[gundamexplored]

"In the old days an armada with so many cosmo fighters would have been more than adequate for the task at hand, but cosmo fighters had been designed for the radar age. Widespread use of Minovsky particles had made radar ineffective, and rendered former former tactic obsolete. Instead of hit--and-run attacks, true close-quarter combat had become the norm. Even homing missiles were nearly useless. As a result, when the Principality of Zeon had first developed it's Zaku model mobile suit, it had gained an overwhelming advantage. The Earth Federation Forces continued to manufacture and deploy cosmo fighters only because they had no choice; they development and production of mobile suits had lagged too far behind that of Zeon." - from Mobile Suit Gundam: Escape; by Yoshiyuki Tomino