Nibelung
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| Nibelung | |
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| Nibelung being revealed | |
| Production Information | |
| Manufacturer | |
| Designer | Earth Alliance |
| Type | Energy weapon |
| Model | Anti-aircraft cannon |
| Technical Specifications | |
| Discharge | Energy wave |
| Usage | |
| Affiliation | Earth Alliance |
| Timeline | Cosmic Era |
Nibelung is a powerful anti-aircraft cannon in the Cosmic Era timeline.
Technical Informations
Designed as a anti-aircraft cannon, Nibelung consists of a single tall spire within a concave array of mirrors, which scatter the beams fired from the spire into a wide cone that annihilates everything in flight above it. The cannon is concealed beneath a false mountain and, when revealed, points directly upward to target any units being dropped from space. It is unknown how it really works but from the sight of it it seems to be some sort of combination of ZAFT's GENESIS superweapon and the Cyclops System.
History
The Nibelung system was built underneath a false mountain in Iceland and used to defend Heaven's Base, the Earth Alliance' military headquarters at its time. After Logos' existence was revealed to the world by Gilbert Durandal, the members of the group were assaulted by the people on Earth and the remaining members, among them Blue Cosmos leader Lord Djibril, fled to Heaven's Base. ZAFT however, together with a large number of EA defectors, attacked the base, which was protected by a large number of Mobile Suits and Mobile Armors. When ZAFT launched an orbital drop on the base, Nibelung was revealed and activated, destroying nearly all units dropped from space. The system's activation was however the last success of Logos during this battle as they soon lost to the Gundam-type mobile suits of the Minerva.
| 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 | |
