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Description
Model number: ZGMF-X42SNCode name: New Destiny Gundam
Unit type: prototype assault mobile suit
Manufacturer: ZAFT (Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty)
Operator: ZAFT
First deployment: C.E. 76
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Dimensions: overall height 19.15 meters
Weight: max gross weight 79.44 metric tons
Armor materials: unknown
Powerplant: ultracompact hyper deuterion nuclear reactor, power output rating unknown
Propulsion: "Voiture Lumiere" propulsion system, can create wings of light
Equipment and design features:sensors, range unknown; Mirage Colloid system; Variable Phase Shift (VPS) armor; Neutron Jammer Canceler
Fixed armaments:2 x MMI-GAU26 17.5mm CIWS, fire-linked, mounted in head; 2 x MX3351 "Solidus Fulgor" beam shield generator, mounted on forearms; 2 x RQM70F "Flash-Edge 3" beam boomerang, mounted on shoulders, hand-carried in use; MMI-814 "Arondight II" anti-ship sword, stored in right hip, hand-carried in use; M3000GX high-energy long-range beam cannon; stored in left hip, hand-carried in use; 2 x MMI-X340 "Palma Fiocina" beam cannon, mounted on palms; 10 x MMI-X430 Beam Fingers, mounted in fingers
Optional hand armaments: MA-BAR84/S high-energy beam rifle, power rating unknown
After the defeat of Shinn Asuka and Gilbert Durandal at the hands of the Clyne faction, the original ZGMF-X42S was heavily damaged, and in need of serious repair. The machine was brought back to the Archangel in order to extract the pilot, and make repairs as needed. While Shinn Asuka was saved the machine was damaged far beyond the Archangel's ability to repair it and was thus considered to be scrap metal. When the ZGMF-X42S Destiny Gundam's remains were brought back to Armory One and the machine was transferred, unknowingly, to the Durandal Loyalist faction of ZAFT's military composed mostly of former FAITH members the Destiny Gundam was repaired secretly at an underground Hangar in Armory One. The Machine was in poor condition and was missing several of it's original armaments but teams of Engineers worked around the clock to restore and improve the original Destiny Gundam. Using data from the original blueprints the Destiny's weapons were upgraded to match the firepower of the Strike Freedom and Infinite Justice and new weapons were added tailored to the original pilot, Shinn Asuka's, close combat fighting style.
To maximize the unit's agility, the Arondight Anti-Ship Sword, and the High Energy Beam Canon were both moved to the units hips, which forced the designers to relocate the hip mounted vernier/Mirage Colloid spreaders to the rear skirt armor. This had a negative impact on the units ability to produce after imagines so venting systems were added all over the unit to make up for this uneven dispersion rate. The new changes not only restored the Destiny's ability to produce after images but allowed for the traditional original purpose of the Mirage Colloid's ability to be utilized allowing the Destiny Gundam to cloak itself for extended periods of time. The relocation of the original verniers also proved a windfall to the team as they helped to increase the machines overall speed. Other changes included small beam emitters in the unit's fingertips which the design team engineered initially to work in conjunction with the Palma Fiocina to help shred a mobile suit's head or cockpit, but realized quickly the emitters themselves worked well as a surprise melee attack all their own and didn't require as much power output as the upgraded Palma Fiocina.
Upon completion of the Destiny Gundam's rebuild the design team christened the machine the ZGMF-X42SN New Destiny Gundam. The name was chosen as a symbol of hope to bring an end to the constant stagnation of ZAFT's technological progress, as well as the philosophy of total pacifism, that they believed the Clyne faction was preaching. During a routine training mission outside of Armory One, Instructor and former pilot of the Destiny Gundam, Shinn Asuka went missing after his mobile suit malfunctioned. The official report of the incident went down as a malfunction in the suits cooling system which lead to the unit overheating resulting in an explosion that killed Commander Asuka. In Truth Shinn had been persuaded to join the Durandal Faction after a terrorist attack by the reformed Blue Cosmos caused the death of his fiancee Lunamaria Hawke. Shinn would be given the New Destiny Gundam, and would use it throughout the remainder of the conflict as his personal mobile suit repainted in a black on grey color scheme.
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This is an awesome suit and great side story to go with it. Seed has lots of lovers but it seems an equal amount of haters. But its good to see people who do not seem to like C.E. try to improve designs in mecha and story. Shows to me that even the haters must feel some connection with C.E. otherwise why bother? Kudos for this redesign I actually like it more than Wanckymodder84's redesigned Destiny. I would like to see it in Shinn's revised dark colors.
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Just Saw the pic with Shinn's new colors...looks good!
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the irony in that the seed destiny storyline was wrapped up in a game, and that they managed to fully repair the destiny anyway.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD4BGE…
nonetheless, nice artwork.
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Clyne faction preaching total pacifism? The same Clyne faction that built two of the most powerful weapons in the whole time line? Good one.
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Well that is the irony of Gundam SEED Destiny, the faction that founds Durandal having super weapons too risky stole the plans for and built two super weapons of their own. It's one of those awesome little hypocrisies you can't ignore.
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It's not as ironic so much as a parody of Anaheim Electronics in U.C., the so-called "Merchants of Death".
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For it to be a parody, it would have needed to be done intentionally. The hypocrisy of the Clyne Faction is just sort of accidental as far as I can tell.
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NOOOO! Shinn made up with Kira!! That was like the best ending it has! Gahhh...Destiny Gundam was my favourite gundam, and I have to say, I'd rather stick to the Old Destiny.
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No, Shinn making up with Kira was god awful, in fact the pandering to Kira period was really just infuriating. Kira was right even when he was just massively wrong by any application of common sense, hence why Destiny infuriates me so much. I swear if it wasn't for the Mecha I've give it the Sonic fan treatment of Sonic the Movie, or the Tsukihime fans treatment of the first animated OVA's and just pretend the series never existed.
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Eh, SEED started off so-so and then spiraled downward during the last Strike vs. Aegis fight and never recovered and all of the spin-offs and sequels only made things worse, games series like Super Robot Wars and SD Gundam G Generation provide possibly the only official redeeming factors that the CE timeline can afford. The only thing going for it are the machines, Gundams and all, the concept of "Coordinators" only illustrates the peak, and not an inch more, of human ability (not to mention being more mentally unstable than usual) and not the possibility of future hopes like "Newtypes". If characters from Gundam timelines like UC and AW were piloting those machines then the story would be very different.
On another note, why is there more SEED fanfiction than Gundam Wing or G Gundam? Is it because it was newer and cuter (relatively speaking) than the older shows?
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Okay, I didn't exactly understand the last part of your speech, and I personally prefer Shinn and Destiny to Kira and Strike Freedom. But I have a feeling if Shinn is going to pilot something and gets thrashed by Kira again, then why don't he join up with Kira and fight a new enemy? That's how I feel.
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Under a competent writer Shinn wouldn't ever get thrashed by Kira, or Athrun, but Destiny wasn't competently written for most of it's stretch.
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So what? Are you saying it should have been the other way around? That Shinn should have been the one to beat Kira and Athrun? Personally, I really just don't see what everyone's problem with Kira is. Honestly, just because SEED & SEED Destiny focused more on the darker aspects of war, rather than some epic quest...
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The reasons are simple, the Clyne Faction are massive hypocrites, thanks largely to poor writing. It had nothing to do with Darker Aspects of War, Destiny wasn't mature enough to address such things, it uses them as fillers fodder for the most part.
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If that's what you think, then you clearly haven't seen the whole thing; start to finish.
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I have seen the whole thing start to finish, Kira and company continually make things worse for like half the series and we're just magically expected to forgive them. Like, how many crew members do you think Kira killed when he blew up the Minerva's Tannhauser? And his continued interference in battles leads to the death of how many pilots? Heine for sure, he also nearly gets Luna killed, and thanks to fighting ZAFT forces at the second battle of ORB he helps the guy who tried to nuke the PLANTs and has a massive super weapon ont he dark side of the moon, reach said massive super weapon. All the while proclaiming ZAFT's attack on Orb Unjust even though Orb was aiding an international war criminal. And Cagalli's high and mighty speech berating Durandal for building new MS, at the start of the series? Massive hypocrisy on her part, given she was hiding a nuclear powered super weapon on her supposedly neutral nation's shores.
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By 'international war criminal', you mean Lacus?
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I mean Djibril. Orb, protected Djibril, which is why ZAFT invaded them and then Kira, Athrun, and Cagalli fight ZAFT, to protect Orb even though ZAFT's entire justification for invading Orb was to capture a War Criminal they were hiding. That's also discounting the fact Orb had openly declared war on ZAFT much earlier in the series and even fired on the Minerva as it was leaving ORB's port, but through all of this, you're supposed to feel it was wrong for ZAFT to invade Orb it's just terrible writing, and it paints the obviously wrong Side as the good guys.
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1. Did Kira and Co. even know Djibril was in ORB? Why are you so sure it was Djibril Kira and Co. were protecting, specifically, and not the country of ORB and its people as a whole?
2. Durandal WASN'T one of the good guys. I mean, really, the guy was (for starters) regularly hallucinating that he was playing chess and having a civil conversation with Rau Le Crueset. Y'know...the guy who wanted the ENTIRE HUMAN RACE dead. And his little Destiny Plan thing? Would have resulted in a world/galaxy without freedom. Even if he had noble intentions for it, he was enforcing it using the same nuclear weapon Patrick wanted to use on Earth.
3. Orb declared war on ZAFT? If so, it wasn't Cagalli, who ordered it.
4. It really doesn't matter. GSD isn't really about heroes and villains. It's about belief and the cycle of hatred. The Earth Alliance, Blue Cosmos and LOGOS hated the Coordinators and vice versa. Kira, Lacus and their comrades were fighting for the sake of peace. That's all.
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1. ZAFT announced why they were doing it before they did it, and even if they didn't Orb had been at war with ZAFT since episode 10, ZAFT doesn't really need a reason to invade Orb when Orb declared war on ZAFT first as part of a joint collaboration with the Earth Alliance.
2. Those weren't hallucinations those were flashbacks to before Destiny, when Durandal actually knew Rau, and the two had fundamental disagreements on Mankind, of course that was back when Rau wasn't quite so unhinged either. Other things of note, the Destiny Plan was Word of Godded in a interview with Mitsuo Fukuda the shows director to actually work and create peace and not be evil. But even if you don't trust Fukuda's Animage interview the Destiny Plan was used on Mars, as we learn in Destiny Astray, and there was no mass genocide/oppression on the Mars colony that used the Destiny Plan. Agnes is even the one who gives Durandal the idea for the Destiny Plan, so we know this wasn't something Durandal was planning from before the start of the show.
3. Cagalli was still in charge of Orb during Episode 10, and she was too weak to stop Yuna Roma from siding with the EA, that's a pathetic spineless leader who's little more than figure head right there. And why are you just brushing off the fact that Orb declared War on ZAFT, the fact that Orb declared war on them, and spent most of the Second Bloody Valentine War fighting ZAFT was all the reason ZAFT needed to invade that tiny little country and yet ZAFT holds off until Orb starts defending a blatant war criminal, that doesn't make ZAFT or Durandal look evil, it makes Kira, Athrun, and Cagalli look delusional however, that they can think such a military action is unwarranted after all Orb has done to ZAFT to this point, even if we ignore harboring an international War Criminal.
4. If you believe Destiny is about breaking the cycle of hatred then you need to propose something to actually break that cycle, now, newer CE manga have come out to sort of dismiss this blatantly obvious fact, but Kira, Lacus, Athrun, and Cagalli, did nothing to actually fix the problems present in the CE timeline. Terminals entire stated plan to fix all these issues was to change nothing, and just hope it all fixed itself, that doesn't actually break the cycle of anything, because if you remember they set up the current system last time around they still ended up setting up the events of the Second Bloody Valentine War. Destiny is incredibly poorly written in it's every facet, but it doesn't make Terminal/Three Ships Alliance look heroic by any means, heck it tries to paint Durandal as the villain, but has Terminal act so counter intuitive to common sense that it's impossible to see Durandal as actually evil, if we actually think about what he did in the series. He was definitely shady, but he also didn't protect War Criminals either.
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You just don't get it.
1. Cagalli had NOTHING TO DO with Orb's defense of Djibril. That falls to her would-be fiance, Yuna Roma Seiran. He took command of Orb after Cagalli was taken by Kira, and galvanized Orb's forces against ZAFT, all to not only gain favor with the Earth Alliance (not because of a hatred for Coordinators, but a desire for more prestige), but to appease the two people he feared most: Djibril and Neo Roanoke
2. Yes, actually, they WERE hallucinations. 'Fundamental disagreements'? It was Rau, himself, who influenced Durandal's way of thinking. You need to understand, that the Destiny Plan is nothing but a totalitarian nightmare, where noone will be able to make their own decisions.
3. Cagalli returned in the Strike Rouge alongside Kira and the Archangel to stop BOTH ORB AND ZAFT FORCES from fighting and, in response, was fired upon by BOTH SIDES. And y'know, with this talk about Djibril being a 'war criminal' I really do doubt you're as knowledgeable about Gundam Seed Destiny as you claim. Maybe to the Coordinators and especially ZAFT, yes, Djibril was a war criminal. But to Blue Cosmos, LOGOS, and the Earth Alliance he was The Man in Charge. Don't get me wrong, now; Djibril was a total sociopathic freak, who deserved his fate.
4. Aaaaand with that, you have effectively proven that you may have watched Gundam Seed Destiny, but you weren't paying attention to anything that didn't have to do with ZAFT. You said that the actions of Lacus, Kira, Athrun and Cagalli were the ones who caused the outbreak of the Second Bloody Valentine War? That was due to the actions of a few remnants of Patrick Zala's anti-Natural movement. They dropped the wreckage of Junius Seven on Earth. The Three Ships Alliance didn't even get involved in the second war in any way, until not long after the assassination attempt on Lacus was foiled by Kira.
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Also, because I feel point 2 on my end needs more exposition. The word of Godm Mitsuo Fukuda confirmed Durandal's Destiny Plan was not evil. Destiny and Delta Astray further confirmed the Destiny Plan was already in use in the CE timeline before SEED Destiny, and it doesn't oppress people. It was in no way totalitarian, that was something the Termina/TSA came up with based on a Journal entry that wasn't from a Journal they could even prove belonged to Durandal, it was simply found at a place Durandal was once employed so it must have been him, even if it wasn't. The story is shoddily written, and the story is full of plot holes and despite trying to push Terminal as the good guys if you spend any time analyzing most of their actions, you realize they do worse things than they claim Durandal does.
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Perhaps, but is Mars truly all that wonderful in that timeline?
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1. Tone down the arrogance dude, I'm trying to speak to you calmly, I expect the same courtesy. Now, you don't actually seem to be reading my posts. First of all, Cagalli is the LEADER OF ORB, if she's not pulling the strings she still ultimately is the one responsible for all of Orbs bad decisions. You don't get to go, well, that wasn't my call so it's not my fault, when you're the leader of a nation. She's the boss, if your logic applied to real life, Obama would have no fault for the NSA spying, drones accidentally killing Civilians etc, because he wasn't directly involved in it. I don't check my logic at the door just because I'm watching an anime. Seriously, buck stops at Cagalli's desk, if she's letting someone else drag HER country into a war, guess who's at fault for that? Her.
2. No, they were Flashbacks, that's Rey appears in them as well. Durandal wasn't hallucinating Rey and Rau, he was remembering conversations he had with Rau and this also served as an origin for Rey the true last Newtype in CE.
3. Cagalli, Kira, and Athrun returning to try and stop both Orb and ZAFT massively aids Djibril's escape. You can argue they had good intentions, but the saying is the path to hell is paved with good intentions for a reason. Just because Kira, Athrun, and Cagalli wanted to protect Orb doesn't ultimately change the fact their efforts caused ZAFT not to reach Djibril, which allowed Djibril to escape to the Darkside of the moon, where he had built a super weapon to wipe out the PLANTS. yeah, that's on the 'Good Guys'
4. No, see, you didn't get what I was saying, but yes they did. Here's why I remember SEED Destiny better than I wish I did. Cagalli and Orb actually served as the mediators between the first Bloody Valentine Peace Agreement the Junius Accord in some subs, Junius Treaty in others, that's the reason Cagalli was there at ZAFT's Armory One it wasn't just a diplomatic mission she was there to see if there were any treaty violations on Durandal's part, where she also berates Durandal for building new Gundams. Though the Junius Treaty which outlaws N-Jammer and Nuclear weapons/Powered Mobile Suits was followed to the letter by Durandal, it doesn't stop Cagalli from hiding one inside her 'Nuetral' Nation's boarders.
Now, why are Cagalli and company responsible for the Second Bloody Valentine Conflict? Because A. Lacus just disappears and abandons everyone after she helped dispose Athrun's father and rather than stick around to help stabilize things the first time, which ya know she's actually good at, hence Meer. So she and Athrun probably could have nipped the Zala loyalists in the bud before they even did anything, but it wa smuch easier for both of them to simply go into hiding leaving most of the rebuilding to everyone else, so Cagalli could later complain it about to Durandal in the worlds most hypocritical fashion. But then, Cagalli was living in a vacuum where ZAFT was the only group building new weapons despite massive undertakings by the EA to build up war forces to take on ZAFT. And at the end of Destiny? they just the same things that lead to the creation of factions like the Zala loyalists. They deposed a publicly well liked figure, on flimsy evidence, and revealed none of their 'reasoning to anyone' making it look like a simple coupe de'tat. The real kicker is they don't change anything that creates the endless cycles of war, they don't eradicate Blue Cosmos, Durandal did most of the work there, they didn't make Coordinators more trusting of Naturals, and the did nothing to eliminate the inequality between the two groups over all, which were the main contributing factors to repeated wars in CE anyway.
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Exactly! I felt he would have been able to fight better with the Impulse Gundam and its Silhouettes...I mean, he was able to utilise the different weapons effectively.
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Very cool bio for the new destiny gundam.
Is this an actual fanfictiom you are working on? Where could i find it? Im veru curious to see how shinn fares in your story
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Just some head cannon of mine. I haven't written fan fiction in YEARS, I actually think all my stories were pulled off FF.net a long time ago, which is good because they were pretty terrible. But, no it's just some ideas I have floating around to justify the existence of things I make.
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Very nice man! Dig the story you made to go with the mobile suit and dig the redesign!
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Thank you very much, I do my best to try and build a compelling narrative within the short scope of my mecha profiles so I'm glad you like that as well as the design.
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My goodness, it's an awesome design! Even if Destiny was a multi-pupose mobile weapon, Shinn preferred it fr close combat. So, more sword is a good choice!
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In the words of Wackymodder84 who hates this mobile suit with a burning 'Finger' XD Passion,'That's what you call originality!!!'
I do dig this than the shitty original design. The fun fact about this mobile suit is that it was originally a Freedom Gundam design. Why Morosawa and Fukuda decided to use this design for Destiny is way beyond me. Looks like Kunio Okawara didn't want to design mobile suits for such lousy staff members at the time I gotta feel sorry for the guy.
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In my opinion Okawara's kind of gotten pretty damn lazy with how he designs mecha, but then I've always been a bigger Katoki fan, since I like his slimmer looking designs.
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Mmmm..guess you're right dude.
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Yeah, my biggest problem with Okawara is that if he's not drying something that looks like a bunch of cardboad boxes stacked together he's not drawing much of anything, I've just never been as much of a fan of his work, and I guess it kind of shows in how much like a jerk I sound when I talk about him.
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Well,if you think about it,he drew almost every Sunrise mech including Obari's mechs like Gravion. Guess somebody has gotta be his apprentice either way. He's getting a little rusty or old but old is not an excuse.
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Cool design, but i gotta ask: where can i get to read the rest of the story? reading though the fluff of the Ms got me curious.
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Sadly you can't read the story anywhere it exists only a concept in my head that I use to explain the existence of some of my designs.
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Thanks anyway, I'd love to see your concepts written out somewhere though
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