Aaanndd that draws attention to the other white elephant in the room.
Why do you want to have a full-size Gundam? I mean, one thing the geeks in Fenspace might not quite have a handle on, is that if you can successfully build a giant combat robot which can be mass-replicated by anyone with the sudden need to have a giant combat robot available, two things happen:
1) Anyone with an axe to grind starts building giant robots. Before you think that's cool, think about what that would mean.
2) How long do you really think governments would turn a blind eye to these weirdos flying around in space with giant robots armed with heavy guns and beam swords, before they decided this whole 'fandom in space' thing constituted an unreasonable threat to international security, and acted militarily? I'd give it less than a week, even if they had to kitbash something together with the "banned substance" tricked out with as much lethal force as they could arm it with. The moment you put a device which just screams "military" into the mix, the governments will stop pretending the Fens don't exist, will officially recognize the threat they pose, and will take military action against them, even if it means adapting their weird pseudoscience chemical to do so.
Edit: drat, now my imagination is fleshing out a short story involving the military getting into the act once the governments have positive proof the weirdos space-side are introducing military tech.
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Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do.
Why do you want to have a full-size Gundam? I mean, one thing the geeks in Fenspace might not quite have a handle on, is that if you can successfully build a giant combat robot which can be mass-replicated by anyone with the sudden need to have a giant combat robot available, two things happen:
1) Anyone with an axe to grind starts building giant robots. Before you think that's cool, think about what that would mean.
2) How long do you really think governments would turn a blind eye to these weirdos flying around in space with giant robots armed with heavy guns and beam swords, before they decided this whole 'fandom in space' thing constituted an unreasonable threat to international security, and acted militarily? I'd give it less than a week, even if they had to kitbash something together with the "banned substance" tricked out with as much lethal force as they could arm it with. The moment you put a device which just screams "military" into the mix, the governments will stop pretending the Fens don't exist, will officially recognize the threat they pose, and will take military action against them, even if it means adapting their weird pseudoscience chemical to do so.
Edit: drat, now my imagination is fleshing out a short story involving the military getting into the act once the governments have positive proof the weirdos space-side are introducing military tech.
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Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do.