#operation british

[emma-dennehy-presents]

Aaaaare you going to Jaburo Fair?

Aaaaaamuro Ray, Ramba, and Char

Reeeeemember me to the Aussies that there

The cooooooolony drop left them a deep scar

[uccalendar]

January 10, UC 0079 – 8:41 AM

The front section of Island Iffish strikes Sydney, Australia with a force of 60,000 megatons, creating a 500 km wide crater that will come to be known as Sydney Bay.

[grayrazor]

It’s a bit of a lapse how they send Kamille to Glasgow to keep him out of the way of a Colony Drop targeting Dublin. An object that size being thrown at the Earth should be closer to a Dinosaur-Killer Asteroid, make a nuclear bomb look like a firecracker. Nowhere in the British Isles would be safe, probably nowhere in Western Europe.

Maybe I'm a bit thrown off because later Gundam media like 08th MS Team and Gundam: The Origin had more hard sci-fi sensibilities, showed the Operation British colony drop killing billions of people with tsunamis and climate change beyond just the initial impact fireball. A massive crater where Sydney, Australia used to be and snow falling in the jungles of Southeast Asia

Nevertheless, it’s kinda weird how normal Earth looks in Gundam Unicorn and Hathaway, how there’s still an overpopulation problem. After the various massive impacts between MSG and Char’s Counterattack, Earth should be a wasteland, in the middle of the biggest mass extinction since The Great Dying. Maybe that plays a bigger role in Gundam F91, Gundam Crossbone, and Victory Gundam. I haven't gotten around to those yet.

[profoundtrashwizard]

This is an O'Niel cylinder (designed by April O'Niel in between helping the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and her job as a reporter).

And imma drop it directly on Washington!

Colony drop baby!!!

[arcticdementor]

A moment of geekery:

So, I'm seeing people on a forum I frequent talking, in the context of current Middle East conflicts, about the validity of attacks on "hardened" underground military facilities, in light of ethical issues around civilian casualties resulting from trying to hit legitimate military targets. At least a couple of people assert, quite plainly, that as long as such an attack has a reasonable chance of actually taking out the valid military target, surface civilian casualties resulting from taking out that target — or even from a miss — are acceptable.

And my nerdy ass is reading this, and thinking that this argument would justify Zeon's attempt to take out Jaburo via Operation British.

[julysouthblood]

I’ve seen an awful take about gundam multiple times and I gotta talk about it. I keep seeing people say that “the gundam team keep trying to humanize Zeon soldiers and citizens but they also keep bringing up the colony drop so they’ve written themselves into a corner and it leaves a bad taste” like???

That’s the fuckin point fuck nugget

The point is to show that no matter how nice these people are or how much they say they dislike the actions of Zeon, they still stick around and still fight for Zeon after the drop. They are complicit and either support it or at best didn’t care. That’s the point.

[ray-saint]

Operation British as seen in Gundam Unicorn.

[gundamexplored]

Battle of Loum