Mirage Colloid
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| Mirage Colloid cloaking system | |
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| Destiny's Wings of Light | |
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| Timeline | Cosmic Era |
Mirage Colloid is a sythetic particle which is used for a variety of purposes in the Cosmic Era timeline.
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Technical Informations
Colloid particles are a particulate gas made up of microscopic prisms. These prisms can be used to bend different forms of energy, allowing it to be used for a variety of military purposes. Over the years, several different technologies using Colloid gas have been developed.
Mirage Colloid stealth system
The first use discovered was as a stealth device, and this technology was incorporated into the GAT-X207 Blitz. With the Mirage Colloid system activated, the mobile suit was covered by the particles, which bent light and radar waves around it, rendering the Blitz invisible to both visual and electronic detection.
Geschmeidig Panzer
The next development of Mirage Colloid was the "Geschmeidig Panzer" energy deflection armor. This system utilized different Colloid particles to bend energy beams away from the mobile suit, providing excellent defensive capabilities. The "Geschmeidig Panzer" pods can also deflect water for use as a propulsion system. This system can also be used on a much larger scale inside space colonies to bend massive energy beams.
Mirage Colloid Virus Spreader
While the initial advances in Mirage Colloid technology were made by the Atlantic Federation, a more novel development came from another source: the Mirage Colloid virus spreader, created by the defense conglomerate Actaeon Industries and utilized in their prototype NMS-X07PO Gel Finieto. This system used Mirage Colloid particles to access the operating systems of nearby mobile suits and infect them with a computer virus, unimpeded by Neutron Jammer interference. However, the Gel Finieto was otherwise lightly armed and generally unremarkable, and there was little military interest in the mobile suit.
Wings of Light
The Wings of Light (Hikari no Tsubasa), used by ZAFT's ZGMF-X42S Destiny, are the most recent technology to incorporate Mirage Colloid. While their primary function is as a propulsion system (using a variant of the Voiture Lumiere propulsion system), which gives the suit acceleration superior to any contemporary mobile suit, they also incorporate a Mirage Colloid holographic system. This system spreads Colloid particles, leaving a trail of visible after-images that can confuse enemy sensors. However, the power requirements of the Wings of Light are very high, and even Destiny's Hyper-Deuterion Nuclear Reactor cannot sustain them for more than brief periods.
Another form of the Wings of Light can be found on the ZGMF-X20A Strike Freedom; they can only be activated when its DRAGOON pods are deployed. Other than a cosmetic feature, however, they serve no other known purpose, and do not cause immense drain on its nuclear reactor unlike Destiny's. Rather, they are simply due to the fact that the thruster layout on Strike Freedom's "wings" is similar to that of the Destiny.
History
Colloid particles were first discovered by the Earth Alliance's Atlantic Federation, who used it first on the Blitz during the first Bloody Valentine War. When the Blitz was stolen, ZAFT copied this technology and used the cloaking technology on their large GENESIS superweapon. When the Blitz was destroyed, its severed arm was salvaged by Rondo Ghina Sahaku, which granted his MBF-P01-Re<AMATU> Astray Gold Frame Amatu access to the Mirage Colloid cloaking technology.
During the first war, the EA also first created the Geschmeidig Panzer technology, which they first used on their GAT-X252 Forbidden and its descendants, the GAT-X255 Forbidden Blue, GAT-706S Deep Forbidden and GAT-707E Forbidden Vortex. During the Second Bloody Valentine War the Earth Alliance later loaded extra-large Geschmeidig Panzers in abandoned O'Neill type space colonies for use with the Requiem beam cannon. While the beam cannon is located at the Daedalus lunar base, it is possible for the Requiem to freely aim at any target in the Earth Sphere by changing the positions of the colonies and bending the beam between each point.
At the end of the Bloody Valentine War, the Treaty of Junius was signed by representatives of the Earth Alliance and ZAFT. One of its provision banned the use of Mirage Colloid technology, seemingly putting an end to further development of this highly versatile particle. Nevertheless, development of this technology continued in secret and eventually, several new units using this technology were produced and fielded.
In CE 73, the top secret Earth Alliance battleship Girty Lue used its illegal Mirage Colloid stealth system to launch a sneak attack on ZAFT's Armory One base and steal three prototype Gundam mobile suits. The cloaking system was also used on the undercover GAT-SO2R N Dagger N mobile suit. The EA also produced further versions of the Mirage Colloid Virus Spreader despite the poor reputation of the Gel Finito. These new spreaders were later installed into two mobile suits: the first was the ZGMF-X12A Testament and the second the ZGMF-YX21R Proto Saviour. Both were ZAFT-produced mobile suits which fell into the hands of the Earth Alliance.
Trivia
- The Mirage Colloid technology has many similarities to the Minovsky Technology of the Universal Century.
- The Colloid particles are also similar to the GN Particles used in the Anno Domini timeline.
| Cosmic Era technology | |
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| Standard technology Deuterion Beam Energy Transfer System | Lightwave Barrier | Mirage Colloid | Phase Shift armor | Positron Blaster Cannon | Positron Deflector | |
| Mobile Suit technology DRAGOON system | G Project | METEOR | Second Stage Series | Striker Packs | |
| Superweapons Cyclops System | GENESIS | Hyper-Deuterion Nuclear Reactor | Neutron Jammer | Neutron Jammer Canceller | Neutron Stampeder | Nibelung | Requiem | |
| Human enhancements Coordinators | Extended humans | Newtypes | SEED factor | |
