I do think Mobile Suits could be easier built for use in space. I just think it would be hard to have them be to the same scale and weight if they were real and used on the surface. I mean, that's a lot of mass to move, I can't see something as massive as a Mobile Suit being able to run, or jump that well, without the ground under it giving way. 
I guess they could use something like a back pack, that would be self sealing, like fuel cells on an Apachie. But then I doubt that would protect against an RPG or shoulder launched missile. Even if the armor could take that kind of hit, without fuel it's useless.
That's true, I think the ultra compact fusion reactor was only possible because of the Minovsky particle, right? Maybe the Large Hardron Collider will bring about stuff like that, who knows
For the RX-79g...
Dimensions: overall height 18.2 meters; head height 18.0 meters
Weight: empty 52.8 metric tons; max gross 73.0 metric tons
Armor materials: lunar titanium alloy
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 1350 kW
It's such a small contact patch compared to it's weight. Then again, I don't know how big of feet it really has...
Meh, but I just looked and an Abrams M1 is 60 tones, so perhaps I'm being to harsh. And, one more interesting thing about the Abrams, it's output from it's gas turbine engine is 1,119kW the output for the RX-79g being 1,350kW. Not that Sci-Fi will transfer to science fact, but maybe it all more feasible than I thought. The output numbers for the RX-79g are likely to just be arbitrary numbers thought up, but I wonder if that gas turbine turned an electric generator, could it make enough power to run something like that? Or how much power would something like that even take to run. But then it could not operate outside the atmosphere, still would need a reactor to make the electricity. Not that I expect an answer, just wondering really.
But in other series like the less believable Wing, the suits like Zero being a more feasible, but still heavy 8.0 Metric tones and 16 meters tall. Maybe it could fall somewhere in the middle?
It would be pretty cool if it were possible. I like the idea of Space Colonies too.
This can't be any more lame than wishing lightsabers were real right?
). Some, rather most of the technology is already available here and is in use but the difference being the capabilities and resources used to maintain everything. The propulsion on the other hand is one of those things that push the boundaries. Pilots can barely withstand go faster than the speed of sound without disorientation, the typical mobile suit, or even the more advanced core fighters are leaps and bounds quicker, more agile, more precise, and nearly weightless in flight (again, due to the Minovsy particle, GN Particle, and whatever SEED used).
And as far as beam weapons go.... I think they are overrated
But then I do generally have a strong bias to kinetic energy based weapons (bullets, missiles, etc) due to the amount of energy something so cheap can release upon impact. An artillery gun sized rail gun firing a solid tungsten projectile the size of a typical artillery round could unleash the power of a 2000 lb bomb upon impact. Beam weaponry is also extremely limited by the earth's atmosphere, which can weaken a beam over distance. The YAL-1 Airborne Laser, which is a Boeing 747-400 freighter rigged with a 1 Mw output chemical laser requires a 6 ft diameter adjustable mirror to help compensate for the earth's atmosphere. This allows it to fire its beam at missiles up to 200 miles away. On the other hand the entire system is so large it requires the aforementioned 747-400 to carry it all. Also the chemicals used to generate the beam are rather toxic and reactive, which limits the platforms the system could be used on. Particle beam weaponry like in most mech based series would require enormous amounts of energy to be put into them to release an effective beam. City destroying beams of doom will probably stay sci-fi for several more generations. Oh, and real beam weapons tend to be invisible to the naked eye
I think I want to make a 1/100 Gouf Custom, just in a lighter blue, sun baked paint look I guess? Kind of like the color of the new 
Reading my entire user name like that makes me sound like a robot.
Very cool man, love the little details they throw in. It's not a pearl kit is it? Maybe I just need to go to sleep
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