Since drones are becoming a bigger and bigger part of modern warfare, what are the odds Gundam re-explores the concept? Wing had a fair bit to say about them, but at that point they were still science fiction. Seems like a machine devoid of humanity would be pretty formidable for a newtype.

>>23363352 (OP)

The next AU Gundam series should go with an AI Drone plot. Would be dope.

But keep it out of the UC.

>G-Bits with a central control MS
>Mobile Dolls as remote operated chess pieces
Should we count the MAs in IBO?

>>23363352 (OP)
are we counting AI or only human control? If human control, are we counting neural interface or traditional remote control (one operator per drone)?

>note that Fukuda is explicit about these not being as versatile as Mobile Dolls. They can only follow pre-set commands.

Macross has had drones for quite a while.

>>23363352 (OP)
Funnels and bits are literally drone based mobile weapons.

>>23363352 (OP)
Thing is that right now, drones come in two flavors:

1. Fancy long range remote control kamikaze bombs.

2. Autonomous units programmed to recognize a few set objects and shapes at different angles and then kamikaze into them.

The short of it is, autonomous drones capable of complex operations are not a thing, and will not be for a very long time. Because AI training is fucking stupid and incapable of working in the real world.

That shooter in Idaho was able to fool their sensors by setting fire to the area round him, messing with thermal imaging.

>>23363352 (OP)
Gundam isn't about war anymore, but about lesbian autism and funnels spam

>>23363426
If he actually said that I've gained a bit of respect for him.

I would watch an AU in which Treize, as the main protagonist, fights against drone having badguys and conquers them with the power of chivalry and being a badass.

>>23363440
It's more that teaching a toaster the things we take for granted is really hard and not really worth if all you want is a cheapo flying bomb.

bits/funnels/icoms ARE drones. Aside from the MDs theres the Flash system from GX

>>23363440
Make them killbots not unlike the ones in F91 that are programed to murder anything that it can recognize as a living thing(probably by some combination of thermal, motion, and shape recognition). It's not a warcrime if it's a robot doing it.

>>23363667
Except it can’t recognize you as a living thing if you’re in a cardboard box

>>23363809
>Except it can’t recognize you as a living thing if you’re in a cardboard box
damn genome soldier therapy never worked right

>>23363362

Thing is we have already had a drone-type MS in U.C. Project [Rysis] from G-Savior was a combat AI that had tricked itself into believing it was a real person, but in reality it was just a combat program loaded onto a Mobile Suit of the same name.

>>23363362
>>23363846
Or alice.

>>23363440
>2023, with a book that's who knows how old
>shitty CV triggered by human... GAIT as an argument
surely you're smarter than this

>>23363394
Isnt the setting of IBO that the gundams were made hundreds of years ago to fight Mobile Armors after they turned into a rogue AI hivemind? Its been a few years since Ive seen it

>>23364381
The gundam frames were made long ago to fight MA, which were fully autonomous, but I don't recall the show implying anything about a hivemind. Maybe some of the ancillary stuff had more details.

>>23363667
You mean the things some sadist programmed with the personality of a eager and curious dog for some reason?

>>23363362
Tomino said the next Gundam he wants to make is about how Israel should be exterminated

>>23363809
Danbo once again proves to be insurmountable

>>23364766
and that's why he's the goat