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Topic Started: Oct 30 2011, 10:58 AM (1,267 Views)
HomelessOne
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Mothership

[Flit Chapter]
A gigantic type of mothership operated by the Unknown Enemy which exceeds 1000 meters in length. The vessel's distinctive three-pronged hull carries upwards of 30 Mobile Suits, and is armed with a staggering number of beam weapons. It is equipped with advanced stealth technologies, including optical camouflage.

One ship of the line was the Fa Bose, which appears to have been the ship encountered by the Diva near the colonies of Nora and Fardain. In each of these encounters, the incredible might of the ship and its complement nearly overwhelmed the Federation vessel. The Fa Bose was ultimately destroyed during the battle at Ambat, struck down by the Diva's new Photon Blaster Cannon.

[Asemu Chapter]
The class is still in service during the AG 140s, with a number of vessels in use by the Earth Occupation forces. One notable vessel was the Fa Menas, colored red and serving as the mobile headquarters of Zeheart Galette.

Armaments:

???: An absurd number of beam cannons are mounted on the hull.


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Battleship

[Flit Chapter]
A smaller class of UE space vessel. Three of these ships are docked on each mothership, although they have also been witnessed carrying out independent operations. While each possesses only a fraction of the mothership's firepower and carrying capacity, they remain an incredible threat to Federation fleets. Each vessel is equipped with an array of beam weaponry, and advanced stealth technologies that allow them to strike with impunity.

[Asemu Chapter]
The class is still in service in the AG 140s, with a number of vessels in use by the Earth Occupation forces.

Armaments:

???: Nine beam cannons are mounted on the bow.


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New Model Fighting Ship

[Kio/Three Generations Chapter]
A remodeled variant of battleship first encountered in AG 164, for use in space and on Earth. These ships are durable enough to complete unassisted atmospheric reentry, and can sustain flight under gravity. While not as formidable as the Motherships, these vessels comprise the majority of the Vagan fleet participating in the invasion of Earth.

Notable vessels include the Fa Zard and Fa Ganta, distinctly-colored vessels operated by Zeheart Galette and Zenald Beyhart respectively.

Armaments:

???: Nine beam cannons are mounted on the bow.

???: 18 beam cannons mounted on the wings and bottom of the ship.


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Downes

[Asemu Chapter]
A massive space fortress that serves as the HQ of the Vagan's Earth Occupation force. The Downes is capable of supporting multiple motherships in addition to carrying its own Mobile Suit forces. It is equipped with optical camouflage like other Vagan ships, and a massive defensive measure called the Gigantes Shield that is capable of withstanding fire from the Federation's Photon Ring Ray.

Armaments:

???: An absurd number of beam cannons are mounted across the hull.
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SonicSP
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So are we just gonna call it "Ship" now?
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HomelessOne
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Until we get an actual name for it, I think the title is perfectly accurate.
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SonicSP
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How about UE Ship? It appears to be on the UE's side afterall and "Ship" sounds too general in my opinion even if there's only one enemy faction in AGE so far.
Edited by SonicSP, Oct 30 2011, 06:33 PM.
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Ideon
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Well we're already in the UE subforum, so that might be a tad redundant.
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I wonder if it's stealth and not a full on teleport.
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Kyosuke Nanbu
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The world needs only one Small Boss!
It's the "S.S. More Powerful Than Batman, Superman Spiderman And The Incredible Hulk Combined".

Though on a serious not that ship gave me serious Vandread vibes....
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An interesting question is what was it doing in the area? Whilst it's not impossible the UE are actively shadowing the Diva, the ship and forces were in an asteroid belt. Is it possible Flit and Woolf stumbled on the UE mining resources and the Gafrans were dispatched purely to silence them? If the UE are non-human piloted mobile suits, it might even be a factory ship that was mining said resources to produce more.
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If nothing else, the UE aboard certainly didn't seem all that interested in dealing with the Diva's units. They did pick the fight, but they made very little effort to pursue once they had lost sight of the Gundam and Genoace.
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Kyosuke Nanbu
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The world needs only one Small Boss!
Seemed like they were more eager with getting out of the area than dealing with them.
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Looking at the ship design as a whole, even if the UE doesn't turn out to be aliens, we can at least say they had alien looking ships because I think the ship really scream alien among the already alien like designs of the UE.
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http://i.imgur.com/9jjz4.jpg

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Doesn't set anything in stone, but it says its "dozens of times" bigger than the EF's ships and is "more than 1000 meters". Also can carry "a high number of MS's", which I guess we already know...
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I'm sad to see the Fa Bose go; it was a really interesting, distinct ship design.

I now have to wonder just how many of the smaller ship-types exist. I had expected fleets of 'em at Ambat, but it seems entirely possible that the three docked on the Fa Bose were the only ones.
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Glad to see that those three weren't the only ones.

What do people think of this thing? It's certainly...something. Love how they inexplicably slapped a UE head onto it. Given the Fa Bose, I wouldn't be surprised if the four 'arms' are ships.

Speaking of the Fa Bose; I notice that these two ships in the pre-OP appear to be colored like it, but this one certainly isn't.
Edited by HomelessOne, Jan 30 2012, 04:22 PM.
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I'd wager the big thing is a Space Station of some sort rather than a ship and you're probably spot on with ships. Maybe it's a Vagan dock of some kind where ships can be maintained and resupplied. I like it's design though, the head is an amusing touch. =1

I think the Red Fa Bose-Class is probably just meant to be a fun eyecatch rather than anything that'll turn up later on. =o
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This is actually pretty impressive:
http://i.imgur.com/MabMg.jpg

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http://i.imgur.com/FMzM8.jpg

You know...during the battle outside Fardain, the Fa Bose fielded upwards of 30 Mobile Suits. With Vagan committing five Motherships to the attack on Big Ring, that means they've potentially invested more than 150 MS to the operation. If Zeheart fails to at least damage Big Ring, I can't see how they'd leave him in command.
Edited by HomelessOne, Mar 4 2012, 06:22 PM.
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SonicSP
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Honestly, if they knew the truth that he let go of the AGE System twice, they would have have discharged him already I think.
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Oh so there were only 5 battleship classes? I thought they had like 20 judging from some of the purple crosses triangles in the background from some of the shots.

By the way, was the Fa Bose the one which was sunk at Ambat, or was it just the one back it Fardain.
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The ship sunk at Ambat was referred to as the "Fa Bose", which led me to believe it was the name of a specific vessel. But with Zeheart using "Fa Bose" in reference to the one destroyed at Big Ring I guess it could be the name of the ship class, although the official site still just calls it the Vagan Mothership.
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Any chance its both the name of the class and the specific ship, as far as the Gen I we knew was concerned?
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It seems that in the most recent episode, Zeheart refers to the winged Veigan cruiser as "Fa Zeos" or something like that.

We can confirm that besides the 9 turrets already present on the non-winged version (6 single-barrel turrets and 3 double-barrel turrets), this version has 16 more turrets, including 4 on the bottom of the ship and 6 beneath each of the large wings, bringing it to a total of 25 beam turrets. It's currently unknown if these are single or double barrel turrets, though it seems that the 4 at the bottom of the main body are firing individual beams.

It also has a catapult on the bottom of the front part of the main body of the ship and it is seen launching at least 5 Danazines. If it follows the trend seen on the two previous arcs, it should be able to carry at least 6 MS, such as in the battle at Minsry, where two of the non-winged cruisers deployed a total of 12 MS.

I do should mention that when Zeheart's ships first arrvies at Olivernotes, there are a total of 43 MS around it, including the Ghiraga and its two purple Danazine escorts, the rest being regular Danazines. I think these units are not actually part of the Fa Zeos MS complement, but rather units that descended throguh the atmosphere along with the ship, with the Zeheart's unit probably being the lone exception, in which case, his unit might as well be the 6th MS carried by the cruiser.

At least 15 such ships can be seen appearing beside the large beam weapon that destroyed Big Ring. It would be interesting to see if in the furute these ships are seen capable of docking with the Fa Bose class ships, replacing the non-winged version.
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Oh, this does remind me. The Gundam AGE x3 radio show mentioned Zeheart's red-colored Mothership is named the "Menace", apparently. More literally Jisho says "Menas", but actually googling it pings things like Star Wars Ep1.
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Fa Zard(Zeheart) and Fa Santa(Zanald)

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/2504/zerorawsgundamage35tbs1.jpg
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I think these Fa Zeo Class Cruisers carry Fifteen Mobile Suits as evidenced by the a single ship and fifteen MS call-out before the battle.

Also I think the Fa Bose we see destroyed at Ambat and the one that is destroyed at Big Ring are basically the same name. Basically the Vagan builds another ship and names it that. Which makes that name really a unlucky name if both ships of the name were destroyed.
Edited by Deathzealot, Jun 10 2012, 07:31 PM.
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balofo

Fa Ganta is Zanald's ship
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E08

Chapter 8 of Unknown Soldiers mention that Vagan's ship has a deployment(?) hangar (出撃用のハンガー) in which MS are suspended (read:hanging).
Edited by E08, Mar 17 2013, 07:35 AM.
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Oh, I never did comment on this.

http://i.imgur.com/0jlWfQh.jpg

AGE Mechanics and World presents non-names for the smaller Vagan ships: "Vagan Battleship" (senkan) and "New Model Fighting Ship" (sentoukan), more or less.
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