Terminology
The Alternative Projects (オルタネイティヴ計画, "Orutaneitibu Keikaku"). A series of projects originally beginning with the objective of finding a way of communicating with the BETA.
Alternative I
The finding of a way to understand the
BETA by analysing their language and ways of thinking. Ended in utter failure.
Alternative II
The capture and subsequent dissection and analysis of BETA. Many lives were sacrificed for this to come to pass, and all that came of the research done on the samples was the conclusion that the BETA are carbon-based life-forms.
Alternative III
Started due to the 1973 invasion. The finding of a way to understand the BETA through the use of ESP. Since the psychics' powers only covered a limited range, they had to enter the hive themselves in order to get thought readings from the BETA. Because of this, the survival rate of the psychics was only 6%。 All attempts to communicate with the BETA through the use of thought projection failed (they were ignored), and all they managed to get was the information that the BETA did not see the humans as life forms (through the readings).
Alternative IV
Started in 1995. The finding of a way to understand or communicate with the BETA through the use of the 00-unit.
Alternative V
First proposed by the American army in 1995 as a fallback in the case of the failure of Alternative IV. 100000 people were to be selected and allowed to flee Earth through the use of immigrant spaceships, while the rest of humanity stays on to fight the BETA to the bitter end, using a large number of G Bombs. Also known as Operation Babylon. The immigration ships were not really expected to survive to find another habitable planet; this was simply something added on to the plan in order to get the UN to agree with it. Regardless, when it is executed at the end of Unlimited, the ships do manage to find their way to a habitable planet (the status of Earth after the initiation of Operation Babylon, though, is unknown). A similar plan is prepared in the case of Operation Ouka's failure, but it is not the same thing; It is known as Operation Trident.
Element G
A previously undiscovered element recovered from the BETA drop units in Canada found after analysis by professor William Grey at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The G comes from his surname.
Eleven types of Element G have been discovered so far. Grey Six has negative mass, Grey Nine is super-conductive at above room temperature, and Grey Eleven is used in the G Bombs and the gravity-defying Moorcock-Lechte engine.
HI-MAERF Project
XG-70b Susanoo #2 (凄乃皇弐型, "Susanoo Nigata").
The second prototype "strategic high maneuver aeronautic fortress" created in America's 1975 HI-MAERF project.
Over five times taller than a senjutsuki (around 100 metres). Equipped with a Moorcock-Lechte engine, Rutherford Field (which deflects laser attacks in a way similar to the distortion fields of Nadesico), and a particle cannon powerful enough to blow away an entire hive monument in a single shot.
Created to clear out entire hives on its own, but due to the Rutherford Field, it cannot be piloted by humans.
The project was abandoned after the invention of G-bombs, and the unit was taken for use in the Alternative project, with the Japanese name being added on after that. Its original, American name (if it had one) is unknown.
Piloted by the 00 Unit in the Sadogashima hive battle. When it is self-destructed, it vapourizes not only the hive but also the entire island it was on.
XG-70d Susanoo #4 (凄乃皇四型, "Susanoo Yongata")
A product of the HI-MAERF and Alternative projects, created to be powerful enough to clear out entire hives on its own, and what a completed Susanoo #2 would have been. Hidden away deep under the Yokohama base, to be mankind's trump card in the Original Hive battle.
Even bigger than the #2, over eight times taller than a senjutsuki (about 160 metres). In addition to a Moorcock-Lechte engine, particle cannon, and Rutherford Field like the #2, it is also armed with 2700mm railguns, 120mm gatling guns, 36mm chain guns, and VLS2 missile launchers loaded with armour-piercing homing bunker buster missiles, among other things. Due to time restrictions, though, many of the weapons are unable to be made operational by operation Ouka.
With the problems with the Rutherford Field fixed, it can be safely piloted by humans.
It is piloted by Takeru, Kasumi and Sumika in operation Ouka.
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