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Who built the Turn X? We may finally have the answer!

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Who built the Turn X? We may finally have the answer!

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GSE PodcastWho built the Turn X? We may finally have the answer!. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.

Hello my fellow engineers, or rather my fellow detectives. Today I would like to discuss the evidence I gather that points out a strong possibility of the true origins of the concept X. 612 turn X. The result, just my shock you. So this video will be a breakdown of clues and the evidence that may point us towards who truly created the turn X. So my fellow investigators, let's get into it. Now to start off we know there's a lot of things that happen throughout the Universal Century. We saw the one year war in UC double-79, which that alone was the largest and most devastating conflict of the entire Universal Century, as well as events like the Axis Shock and UC double-93. But all of this conflict and constant draining of resources eventually led to the collapse of the Earth Federation. And you see 218. Now eventually two processors to the Federation eventually emerge that being constant and the sentiment-free new league, constant rule the Earth government, were as a sentiment-free new league control

side 1 and 4 along with the linear cities. Now I won't get too deep into G's savior, but it does become very important when we look to see what happens in the later timeline. And as a heads up, things are about to get very dark so please, prepared your ears. Consent was facing a major food crisis and the discovery of the new enzyme could have solved the problem. However, constant also wanted to use the discovery to control the food supply as well as the colonies. Well, things didn't work out too well for them, as the colonies were able to fight off consent thanks to the G's savior. Now skip it ahead further into the Universal Century, continue devastating wars as well as the constant draining of resources pushed the Earth to his breaking point. Now we don't know exactly how bad things became, but I'm sure civil wars were breaking out as well as countries attacking other countries over whatever food supply and resources they could find. Now as technology advanced so did the death toll on the battlefield,

but Earth eventually did find a solution or at least they believed they did. Now we don't know exactly how this got established, but what I would like to believe what happened was that there was a war between these different factions and the losing faction literally became cattle for the other side and yes, you heard me right, cattle. This group of people will become known as the Cuntala. They were treated as the lowest class of society and honestly I can't even describe just how horrible their fate was during this era. The Cuntala was literally used as substitute food for the privilege and during this time just cannibalism just became more increasingly common with these groups of people being heard it together slaughtered and used as a source of food. Yeah I told you this was going to get dark. For reasons unknown, the surviving humans eventually migrated to South America. This could be because it was one of the last places on Earth that still had any sense of greenery. These survivors discovered and restored an old relic left behind in the old

world and would eventually become known as the capital tower. The capital tower was a space elevator and one of the last structures of its kind on the planet. It allowed travel from Earth to stations located above the planet's orbit and the old space colonies were also gone. It is unknown rather they suffered a similar fate because of the seamlessly endless war but with garless there were no longer around. For at least the people of Earth thought that. If we know anything about space noise in the universal century timeline we know they are a stubborn bunch. The remaining survivors in space created a nation formed from surviving colonies and centered around a massive asteroid base located just behind the moon. Toa Shinga it was called. It still possess a significant amount of technology left over from the universal century. The survivors of Earth and those remaining in space eventually began working together to restore the planet. Toa Shinga created Venus glow which consisted of a group of space colonies and an independent

faction known as Hermes Foundation both helped create a new power source that would replace a conventional energy system used during the universal century. This new power source was known as the photon battery. So photon batteries are the primary energy source used throughout civilization. Now unlike the Manusky reactor used during the universal century photon batteries are much more compact, extremely powerful however they must be rarely supplied from space since that's the only place it could be manufactured. Now because of this photon batteries became one of the most important resources in rebuild in the world and with the universal century era coming to the end humanity entered a new age known as the reguel century. And honestly besides the space noise and earth noise finally working together I think one of the best things about this new era is that the earth no longer had to resort using people as cattle and yeah I understand things really got desperate and I'm glad that part of humanity's history was less behind. With the world slowly healing many of the surviving people across the earth began forming new nations. The group living

around the capital tower eventually became known as the capital territory whose responsibility was to help divide evenly the photon batteries across the globe. No group gets more than the other. An independent faction known as the capital guard was also formed to protect the tower because by this point the capital tower has initially became the lifeline of earth. No nation would dare to attack it because everyone understood that this was the one structure keeping the world supplied with energy and frankly keeping humanity alive. Taoist Nga Stoepers says blue prins sector go data and mobile sir technology left over from the universal century. This collection of technology became known as the rose of hermys blueprints and very small portions of this technology was eventually given to the people of earth. However there was one major condition attached to all of this reinforced by the new belief of the new SU cord religion. Humanity was not supposed to advance beyond the technology it has been given. So many of the mobile suits you saw on screen such as the

CA MS 02 Casteth and the YG 111 Gundam G-Self were actually designs at one point that existed during the universal century. Now these machines were built according to the blueprints but I believe there were still some modifications made to them. One obvious example would be the cockpit since it still needed to follow a universal standard this would make it the basic layout as well as the controls similar for one mobile suit to another making them easier for pilots to operate. They were also needed to have special connectors for the photon batteries and I believe their actual performance could differ from what we originally see from the blueprints. Now we also even see Taoist Nga make performance improvements to the G-Self while considering plans to mass produce it although those plans ultimately did not work out for them. So at this point in the video you may be wondering what does this have anything to do with the TernX and to be perfectly honest with you to spout everything. G-Reco may have basically told us who most likely developed the TernX

without even directly saying it. The events and the details I just went over may actually explain why the TernX was built in the first place. So for starters photon batteries were the main power source of this era however nobody outside of Venus globe knew how exactly how to produce or even build them. A fill save was said to be put into these photon batteries which went along with the taboo against advancing technology. If anyone tempted to open or even tamper with the photon battery it would explode. But more on that later Venus globe also had a science division that honestly wore rogue but they're developing mobile suits as well as weapons based on G-type mobile suits from the past. And even improving that technology despite not always fully understanding how it works. But the people living at Venus globe generally cared about restoring the earth and the problem was that living so far out in space near Venus caused mutations to the human body over time. The president of Venus globe for example was around 200 years old because of these mutations

and the effects of living in that environment his body became severely deformed. But there was also a conversation between the president of Venus globe and the megafauna crew that really weighs my eyebrow. To break it down he explained that he wanted to be in his globe to eventually be completely covered in photon batteries, storing enough energy to last somewhere between 10 to 20 thousand years. When he was asked what they could possibly do with that much energy he gave a very interesting example moving the earth to a younger son. And then for a brief moment one of the people from Venus globe displayed a map of the galaxy. So what if they accumulated a no proton batteries continue advancing their technology and eventually begin exploring beyond the galaxy. There's even more evidence supporting my theory that the turn X may originate from Venus globe and that evidence comes from their science division, GIT laboratory. Now GIT study

technology originating from the universal century taken systems that were already thousands of years old and not only recreating them but modifying them and even approving upon them. One of the best examples of this was the VGMM GF10 Gundam G Lucifer. Now we do see some familiar features on the G Lucifer that clearly resembles technology we've seen from the past. This includes his phonos and his monoi system. However you may have noticed another feature one that we have seen on two very important mobile suits before. That's right the G Lucifer had a moonlight butterfly. Now GIT or GIF you want to call them that was known for modifying and experimenting with technology from the past so it is very possible that these nanomachines originally had another purpose before eventually being weaponized. But here's what makes the G Lucifer so interesting. We only see it use his moonlight butterfly for literally a second. Now why it activated? I'm not

completely sure. Maybe it was used to repair his phonos or even repair the mobile suit itself after taking some damage. Maybe at this stage it was never meant to be a weapon at all and instead function more as like a defensive or even a restoration system. But the important thing of this is that Venus Globe had access to the moonlight butterfly technology. Now granted this appears to have been a much weaker or even a less developed version of the system. But the G Lucifer was also a prototype so perhaps the engineers at GIT were still trying to understand exactly how the technology worked. And maybe what we see on the G Lucifer was actually closer to an earlier or maybe the original or somewhat a primitive version of the moonlight butterfly system before eventually became the devastating weapon we know from the Ternet and from the Tern X. But let's get ahead. Wouldn't Venus Globe eventually let the solar system or Earth or Tern... Washinga managed to either reproduce photonobatteries or just return back to the menusky reactors. After generations of traveling through D space perhaps Venus Globe eventually discovered a better solar system,

one with a younger star and a world that could potentially support humanity. But I'm going to go to the chase. My theory is that what's the new world was discovered Venus Globe sent a reconnaissance mobile suit back to the Earth's sphere. That being the Tern X. Now perhaps the Tern X even had the ability to teleport into the system. Its mission may have been to inform the people of the Earth that a new world had been discovered, one with abundant resources, clean air and the potential for humanity to start all over. But whenever or however when the Tern X arrived I believe it created fear throughout the Earth's sphere. Humanity may have completely forgotten about the people of Venus Globe after so many generations had passed. So when this unknown machine appeared, carrying technology far beyond anything they possess, the people may have believed they were facing some kind of outside threat. By this point the people of the Earth's sphere may have only had access to the rows of Hermes Blueprints and whatever surviving technology they could recover from the past. That could help explain why we see so many mobile suits that resemble machines from the Universal Century, Sessasni MS, O6, Borgionon and the Terni Gundam series. Now this could also

explain why we see so many Zaku 2 like machines during the period of Terni Gundam because if humanity was relying heavily on the rows of Hermes Blueprints then that could simply explain why there were so many reproduced designs during the period. And as a reminder the Cassath and the G-Soph were built from these Blueprints. The Tern X was either captured or welcomed to the Earth's sphere, maybe its pilot was even tricked into cooperating while engineers study or even reverse engineer the machine which eventually resulted in the creation of the System A 99 Terni Gundam or the so-called Brother of the Tern X. Eventually a war did break out and divided the Earth's sphere between those who support the Tern X and those who supported the Tern A. Now there was something that always bothered me about this. If the Tern A was built by the Earth's sphere why would this pilot activate a moonlight butterfly and destroy the civilization it was supposedly created to protect. So this leads to another part of my theory. What if the original pilot for

the Tern X eventually became the pilot of the Tern A. Now some of you may not know this but the final battle of the Tern machines took place on the Moon. But why the Moon? Well for those who don't know the Moon also had a mysterious system that looked almost like a gate or possibly even a teleporter. And what we see the system activated in the manga is something actually comes through it. Personally I like to believe that this being may have been a heavily mutated descendant from the people from Venus Globe changed after countless generations of living and evolving far away from the Earth. But let's talk about the Tern A using his moonlight butterfly and humanity. Now I believe the Tern A may have activated the Moon Light Butterfly for one of two reasons. So with the first possibility when the Moon Light Butterfly was activated the Moon itself was not affected because if the gate remained operational perhaps the attention was to allow the descendants of Venus Globe to eventually return to the Earth and help humanity rebuild without any advanced technology that had repeatedly driven civilization towards its destruction. Or on the same topic maybe the goal was even simpler than that maybe it was to force the people

over through the gate and relocate humanity to this new world. And for the second possibility it's a little dark. Now what if the Yersphere was preparing to send an army through the gate? Maybe humanity fear this unknown civilization because of his technology had advanced so far beyond their own instead of seeing the gate as an opportunity for a new beginning the Yersphere may have viewed it as a possible threat. And perhaps the pilot of the Tern A realized exactly where this was heading humanity was about to repeat the cycle all over again but in a galaxy far far away. So my fellow detectives I really like to hear your thoughts on this. Who do you think actually built the Tern X? Was it Venus Globe? Could have been the descendants of Judo and the people who left the Yersphere after going to the Devil's Ada or do you think the Tern X came from an entirely different branch of humanity? Let me know your theories below and as always if you like to see more going to be content hit that like and subscribe. Farewell my fellow engineers.

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