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NOTE - I'm not doing the mecha of the Gundam multiverse; just the spacecraft. This is Mandel's Fighting Starships after all, not Mandel's Fighting Mecha. I'll let someone else take on that particular topic. (REM)

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XPS port by Metalscourge18XD of the GMOD version by Blaze, who by his own account ripped and ported them himself from various Gundam franchise video games. Gwazaine originally created by Yoshiyuki Tomino with assistance from Kunio Okawara and Hajime Katoki for the original Mobile Suit Gundam anime TV series and subsequently reused (sometimes in modified form) for later installments in the long-running Gundam anime franchise. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. You can get the XPS version from Metalscourge18XD's dA page at the link below:

Gwazine was the replacement for the older Chivvay as the primary space battleship class of the space fleet of the Principality of Zeon during the One Year War. It was Zeon's answer to the Earth Federation Magellan and proved superior to it in several important ways. It was heavier armed and armored, had both an excellent heavy weapons battery and a good close-in defensive battery, and was also the first major space battleship class fielded by anybody that was built to operate mobile suits from the keel up. Each Gwazine by itself was considered the operational equivalent of three Pegasus class mobile suit carriers or two Magellans combined, and that should tell you something about how much respect the Earth Federation had for it. It was also the large space battleship and second largest combat starship type of any kind fielded by anyone during the One Year War, with only the Zeon Dolos class heavy carriers being bigger. All that said, Gwazine was not perfect. They were so big that it took a lot of resources for the resource-poor Zeon to build them, which is why they fielded so few of them during the war. They had slow acceleration and were not very maneuverable given their size and mass and despite their streamlined design, which was more for atmospheric operations than anything else. Also, and to borrow the old video gamer's joke, "the bigger the ship the bigger the target" -- and this was particularly true of Gwazine given its large size, high mass, slow accelleration, and sluggish maneuverability. At least two were known to have survived the Battle of A Baoa Qu, which officially marked the end of the One Year War, although both were in bad shape. Both found refuge with various Neo Zeon elements and were eventually rebuilt for further use. One was eventually cornered and destroyed during Operation Stardust in UC 0083, but the second lasted longer and had an interesting history all of its own that I'll let you look up for yourself. It too was eventually destroyed in combat with Earth Federation forces sometime in the late UC 0080s or early UC 0090s (although the exact date remains uncertain), but not before the Neo Zeon group who had it successfully reverse-engineered it while rebuilding it and then developed the successor Gwanban and Gwadan class space battleships based on what they had learned. It should also be noted that the Neo Zeon Rewloola class space battleships that rose to fame in the UC 0090s were also based on the older Gwazine (see separate entry for more info).

Gwazine is canon, as it was originally developed for the Gundam TV series and has since been reused (sometimes in modified form) in other forms of Gundam franchise media.

Description

NOTE - I'm not doing the mecha of the Gundam multiverse; just the spacecraft. This is Mandel's Fighting Starships after all, not Mandel's Fighting Mecha. I'll let someone else take on that particular topic. (REM)

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XPS port by Metalscourge18XD of the GMOD version by Blaze, who by his own account ripped and ported them himself from various Gundam franchise video games. Gwazaine originally created by Yoshiyuki Tomino with assistance from Kunio Okawara and Hajime Katoki for the original Mobile Suit Gundam anime TV series and subsequently reused (sometimes in modified form) for later installments in the long-running Gundam anime franchise. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. You can get the XPS version from Metalscourge18XD's dA page at the link below:

Gwazine was the replacement for the older Chivvay as the primary space battleship class of the space fleet of the Principality of Zeon during the One Year War. It was Zeon's answer to the Earth Federation Magellan and proved superior to it in several important ways. It was heavier armed and armored, had both an excellent heavy weapons battery and a good close-in defensive battery, and was also the first major space battleship class fielded by anybody that was built to operate mobile suits from the keel up. Each Gwazine by itself was considered the operational equivalent of three Pegasus class mobile suit carriers or two Magellans combined, and that should tell you something about how much respect the Earth Federation had for it. It was also the large space battleship and second largest combat starship type of any kind fielded by anyone during the One Year War, with only the Zeon Dolos class heavy carriers being bigger. All that said, Gwazine was not perfect. They were so big that it took a lot of resources for the resource-poor Zeon to build them, which is why they fielded so few of them during the war. They had slow acceleration and were not very maneuverable given their size and mass and despite their streamlined design, which was more for atmospheric operations than anything else. Also, and to borrow the old video gamer's joke, "the bigger the ship the bigger the target" -- and this was particularly true of Gwazine given its large size, high mass, slow accelleration, and sluggish maneuverability. At least two were known to have survived the Battle of A Baoa Qu, which officially marked the end of the One Year War, although both were in bad shape. Both found refuge with various Neo Zeon elements and were eventually rebuilt for further use. One was eventually cornered and destroyed during Operation Stardust in UC 0083, but the second lasted longer and had an interesting history all of its own that I'll let you look up for yourself. It too was eventually destroyed in combat with Earth Federation forces sometime in the late UC 0080s or early UC 0090s (although the exact date remains uncertain), but not before the Neo Zeon group who had it successfully reverse-engineered it while rebuilding it and then developed the successor Gwanban and Gwadan class space battleships based on what they had learned. It should also be noted that the Neo Zeon Rewloola class space battleships that rose to fame in the UC 0090s were also based on the older Gwazine (see separate entry for more info).

Gwazine is canon, as it was originally developed for the Gundam TV series and has since been reused (sometimes in modified form) in other forms of Gundam franchise media.