Neutron Jammer
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| Production Information | |
| Manufacturer | ZAFT |
| Designer | PLANT |
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| Affiliation | ZAFT |
| Timeline | Cosmic Era |
Neutron Jammers (also called N-Jammers) are devices used in the Cosmic Era timeline.
Technical Informations
An N-Jammer is a device which suppresses nuclear fission reactions by blocking the movement of free neutrons (it is probable that nuclear fusion, which does not rely on neutron emission, would be unaffected by an N-Jammer, however current nuclear fusion technology relies on a nuclear fission reaction to attain the correct temperature for fusion to occur, thus the N-Jammer works on nuclear fusion as well). They have a vast effective range, allowing a small number of these devices to cover the entire planet Earth. As a result, all nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants are rendered useless on the surface. A side effect is their ability to disrupt radio waves as well, which restricts the range of radar and conventional communications. As a result, space warships are equipped with these devices as an electronic countermeasure
History
After the nuclear attack on Junius Seven by the Earth Alliance PLANT created the N-Jammers to prevent any side of using nuclear weapons again. The project was supervised by Supreme Council member Orson White. On February 22, CE 70, ZAFT used the N-Jammers for the first time during the battle for the space station Yggdrasil. On April 1 of the same year, ZAFT launched Operation Uroboros with the first phase being the scattering of countless N-Jammers accross Earth's surface. Since Earth relied on nuclear fission as its primary power source, the nations on the planet were plunged into a severe energy crisis called April Fool's Crisis as a result. During the winter of CE 70-71, at least hundreds of thousands of Naturals died on Earth because of lack of energy for heating, due directly to the presence of N-Jammers on Earth.
Since the N-Jammers prevented ZAFT from using nuclear technology as well, they searched for a way to cancel their effect. This resulted in the creation of the Neutron Jammer Canceller, a device which blocked the effects of the N-Jammers in a small area. Although ZAFT hoped to gain the upper hand against the Earth Alliance with this technology, it eventually fell into the EA's hand, resulting in a mass-use of nuclear weapons against PLANT. Despite both sides using nuclear weapons again, peace was eventuall achieved.
After the wars end, the Treaty of Junius was signed between both sides, which, among other things, outlawed the use of N-Jammers in combat, either in a defensive role or as a weapon. Also the long and costly process of digging out all N-Jammers on Earth begun at this time.
Trivia
- Its effects appear to be analogous to the Minovsky Effect in Universal Century.
- When the famous Super Robot Wars series decided to have Mobile Suit Gundam Seed collected into it's game, some users pointed out that having N-Jammers will make other Nuclear powered units not able to move. However, since all other Gundam series units uses Nuclear fusion as their power source and Laser activated nuclear warheads as nuclear weapons, this is not a problem.
| 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 | |
