Anonymous
6/7/2025, 11:21:22 AM
No.23306254
>>23306219
>A thing I've not found convincing about GQuack's setting is the idea that Zeon would be too broke to try anything for years. This is a setting where Zeon won the OYW, meaning it didn't lose as many soldiers, mobile suits, territories, etc. as it did in the original series. GQuacks has the Solar Ray only being created just now, yet in MSG 0079 Zeon was able to create it even when losing the war and pushed back to A Baoa Qu.
Well...2 scenarios come to mind.
1. Wars are paid for by borrowing money. Countries sell "war bonds" (an IOU with a promise to pay back with interest) to banks, wealthy individuals, and citizens. These bonds are paid back with interest when the war is over. I'm guessing Zeon borrowed a ton of money, and needs to pay it back to keep their financial system running. Original Principality of Zeon never needed to do this because their government collapsed at the end of the OYW. So Principality bonds are worthless.
Kind of like how modern Communist China no longer recognizes Chinese bonds sold pre-1949 "Republic of China" bonds. The bonds are now worthless and can't be redeemed.
Or how modern Russia will no longer pay for old Soviet Bonds. They declared in the mid 2010s that all Soviet bonds have been "paid" and they won't allow anyone to redeem them anymore.
2. The 2nd Option is that Zeon is spending MASSIVELY behind the scenes. Building lots of ships, mobile armors, new Asteroid bases, or expensive special projects. Imagine Zeon having to pay to build a new Solomon Asteroid base. Or maybe several Axis bases like Axis 1, Axis 2, etc. Or a huge army of upgraded Big Zams in secret.
That despite all the resources looted from Earth and Odessa, it's not enough to cover all the massive Zeon spending. Similar to how the USA and Soviet Union kept spending so much money on the military during the Cold War (1950s to 1990s) despite never going to actual war.
>A thing I've not found convincing about GQuack's setting is the idea that Zeon would be too broke to try anything for years. This is a setting where Zeon won the OYW, meaning it didn't lose as many soldiers, mobile suits, territories, etc. as it did in the original series. GQuacks has the Solar Ray only being created just now, yet in MSG 0079 Zeon was able to create it even when losing the war and pushed back to A Baoa Qu.
Well...2 scenarios come to mind.
1. Wars are paid for by borrowing money. Countries sell "war bonds" (an IOU with a promise to pay back with interest) to banks, wealthy individuals, and citizens. These bonds are paid back with interest when the war is over. I'm guessing Zeon borrowed a ton of money, and needs to pay it back to keep their financial system running. Original Principality of Zeon never needed to do this because their government collapsed at the end of the OYW. So Principality bonds are worthless.
Kind of like how modern Communist China no longer recognizes Chinese bonds sold pre-1949 "Republic of China" bonds. The bonds are now worthless and can't be redeemed.
Or how modern Russia will no longer pay for old Soviet Bonds. They declared in the mid 2010s that all Soviet bonds have been "paid" and they won't allow anyone to redeem them anymore.
2. The 2nd Option is that Zeon is spending MASSIVELY behind the scenes. Building lots of ships, mobile armors, new Asteroid bases, or expensive special projects. Imagine Zeon having to pay to build a new Solomon Asteroid base. Or maybe several Axis bases like Axis 1, Axis 2, etc. Or a huge army of upgraded Big Zams in secret.
That despite all the resources looted from Earth and Odessa, it's not enough to cover all the massive Zeon spending. Similar to how the USA and Soviet Union kept spending so much money on the military during the Cold War (1950s to 1990s) despite never going to actual war.