The world of Gundam 00 is basically three roughly coequal superpowers, assorted small fry, and a wildcard.
The Superpowers are the Solar Energy Union (essentially the US, the rest of the Americas, and Australia, Japan, and New Zealand), the AEU (I forget the acronym, but it's the EU, basically), and the Human Reform League (China, India, Indonesia, and much of the rest of Asia). They owe their status (and quite possibly their existence) to the fact that each of them owns a 1/3 share in the Solar Power System, which is an engineering project so massive that its components so far either mentioned or seen on screen include three space elevators and a complete artificial ring around the Earth.
Fossil fuels are not merely obsolete but completely played out - extinct, fin, nada, empty. Any nation that isn't a founding member of one of the three big coalitions is essentially relegated to subsisting on handouts and the relative trickle of 'alternative' power sources.
The new player in the game is Celestial Being, a 'private organization which has control of Gundams', sworn 'not to take action for our own benefit' and to act by whatever means necessary to eliminate war. So far, this has essentially boiled down to showing up and bitchslapping anyone trying to start or continue a fight.
Leaving aside my hindbrain's question about the relative energy loss rates of fiber-optic cables, reasonable-temperature superconductors aren't supposed to be that far off.
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"Reseeestunce ees fiutil. Yoo weeel bee Useemooletud. Borg Borg Borg."
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."
The Superpowers are the Solar Energy Union (essentially the US, the rest of the Americas, and Australia, Japan, and New Zealand), the AEU (I forget the acronym, but it's the EU, basically), and the Human Reform League (China, India, Indonesia, and much of the rest of Asia). They owe their status (and quite possibly their existence) to the fact that each of them owns a 1/3 share in the Solar Power System, which is an engineering project so massive that its components so far either mentioned or seen on screen include three space elevators and a complete artificial ring around the Earth.
Fossil fuels are not merely obsolete but completely played out - extinct, fin, nada, empty. Any nation that isn't a founding member of one of the three big coalitions is essentially relegated to subsisting on handouts and the relative trickle of 'alternative' power sources.
The new player in the game is Celestial Being, a 'private organization which has control of Gundams', sworn 'not to take action for our own benefit' and to act by whatever means necessary to eliminate war. So far, this has essentially boiled down to showing up and bitchslapping anyone trying to start or continue a fight.
Leaving aside my hindbrain's question about the relative energy loss rates of fiber-optic cables, reasonable-temperature superconductors aren't supposed to be that far off.
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"Reseeestunce ees fiutil. Yoo weeel bee Useemooletud. Borg Borg Borg."
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."