Update!:

Update!:

Known:

Barbatos (4th Form) - stated to have been restored to its form from the Calamity War (though not it’s performance).

I confess I’ve been having some difficulties placing this one. The 6th Form resembles the original concept design and I kept mixing up its frame design with that of its successor, the Gundam Barbatos Lupus (which has different feet). I couldn’t shake the idea that Maruba might have re-armed or had to repair parts of it (There’s a thought, I wonder if there’s (or will ever be) a Gundam Frame that’s been repaired with parts of another Gundam frame).

Though I will add that this is only the form of the Mobile Suit. We still don’t know if it had any specialist weaponry (who knows, it may still be buried on Mars somewhere).

But I’m reasonably confident that’s Barbatos.

Huh. So I had a think about this a while ago, with an eye towards putting together a Model Display, but what Gundam Frames look like they did in the calamity war? So if you were gonna put together a display of Calamity-War Era Gundam Frames, what would it look like?

Though this list is mostly focused on Gundam Frames, since they’re the ones we know the most about about in relation to the calamity war, I would like to quickly call out the the base Hugo is explicitly stated as being a thing during the Calamity war, if you wanted some grunts to back up your gundam’s.

Also, as of writing I haven’t seen any of Urdr Hunt, and I’m working mostly of what’s stated in the model kit manuals for suits from those. So if someone offhandedly mentions the calamity war in that, I don’t know about it.

Known - suits that we explicitly know to have existed as they are now during the calamity war.

Bael - piloted by Agnika Kaieru during the calamity war, presumably the first deployed, with Mcgillis explicitly restoring it for his coup.

Flauros (Calamity War Ver.) - explicitly is as it appeared in the calamity war.

Kimaris Vidar - The only version of Kimaris stated to have existed since the calamity war. It’s possible the others did as well, but I can’t say for certain.

Asmoday/Asmodeus - explicitly called out as being the same as it was in the calamity war, and the suit that prompted this whole thought experiment.

Marchosias - explicitly as it was in the calamity war.

Possible - Suits that you could make the argument they look the same as they did in the calamity war, but not explicitly known.

Astaroth Origin - I assume so? Due to the name “origin” and presence of Nanolamiate sword? But honestly it’s only stated that the Warren family recovered it, so they could’ve done some restoration work in the interim. Hence me hedging my bets and putting it here.

Barbatos (1st form) - I’m assuming it’s appearance in the first episode is how it was excavated, I don’t think Maruba would armour it if he was just gonna use it as a generator, and Gundam frames are impressive enough I don’t think he would for a buyer either.

Dantalion - It’s design can’t have changed much since the calamity war, since it’s build around utilising such a wide variety of optional equipment. Another one I’m just uncertain enough about to put here.

Gremory - As with Dantalion, we know it’s design can’t have changed much since it’s built around the Nanolaminate Coat and Battle Anchor. Though you might choose to restore the battle anchor, I don’t think it’s strictly necessary. Another example of me hedging my bets.

No - suits that we explicitly know looked different during the calamity war

Gusion - recovered by the Brewers and armoured with what they had available, ditto when Tekkadan armoured the Gusion Rebake. All we know is that it probably had long-range weaponry (Dainsleif?).

Vual - Recovered by Rosario Leone armourless, later armoured by him and Ville Klassen.

Honestly most of the ones under Possible I’m confident enough about, I just can’t find anything that makes it explicit that they haven’t changed since the Calamity War. I reckon the Astaroth Origin (minus the Warren family markings) and Gremory’d for right in though.

Gandalf wearing white trainers is also pretty rad. Also props to whoever played Gollum.

Y’know, I give seed a lot of guff for its mobile suit designs. About how so many of the Gundam’s look so similar, how a lot of the suits are just knock-offs of U.C. ones, how they tend to be reduced to a “bigger-stick” design philosophy. But Y’know what I really appreciate?

Hip-mounted railguns. A solid projectile weapon in an age of beam weapons, a extra gun to break up what could be a fairly plain hip design and it enables a bunch of cool poses, since it’s a hands-free weapon so they can be basically anywhere.

Metropolis 2050 #4 (1984) (Robert McCall)

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Star Wars: X-Wing - Rogue Squadron #1 (The Rebel Opposition) Cover Art by Dave Dorman