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>Without Anaheim fanning the flames, the AEUG gets nipped at the bud, Char doesn't get a Sazabi and its army of Dogas, and Mafty is deprived of the Xi and Messers. You might have some flare-ups, but they would be forced to operate old salvage.
This would mean Axis Zeon and any group with in-house engineers would get huge demand. The RFs of Mars Zeon and other assorted groups may still happen and would be in exceptional high demand if they can come early. I get the feeling without Anaheim, Zeonic and Zimmad corp would scatter and bits of MS production knowledge scattered everywhere, along with many in-house groups like Karaba's boys who made the Dijeh would be more prominent.

So if
>The RF Series technology has been open-sourced, and its dissemination continued throughout the Earth Sphere even after the end of the Oldsmobile War. Mass production would not be difficult if mobile worker production facilities are available.
does this mean people started making original RFs due to the whole RF thing being open source? The captured early RF Zaku in Fastest Formula was analyzed and they said it was made from parts so universal that a civilian car factory with the right materials and blueprints could've made a machine more than capable of tackling Jegan Normal Types and in the manga can give Heavyguns a hard time too. And space is filled with asteroids to mine and this entry says the know-how is disseminated.

Does this mean over time, people started making their own forks and offshoots like usual open source stuff? Some colony with a ton of GMs trying to upgrade in secret, a bunch of pirates disguising their machines as Titans or Axis era machines, or even a loony factory-colony owner trying to sell bootleg versions of patented or trademarked Anaheim models like Jegans? Which all might actually be better than the originals? Have Anaheim or even second-hand salesmen lost customers because colonies wanting defense told them
>Nah, we made this open source shit with parts you can find anywhere rather than buy your overpriced name brand mechs.
Is late UC just filled with random outdated-looking machines that are better than Jegans?