Astray & Murasame Development History

[@milocebatron5249]

Earth Federation: We need a cheap and average unit for our forces to mass deploy Orb: Gundams for everyone!!

[@Errorcutive]

@Joshua Ngau Ajang Then Junk Guild Pulled A China with the raysta starting Orb Vs JG like Bandai Vs Daban

[@ridzwanrahmat1872]

Mobile suit civilian law for gundam

[@JeanLucCaptain]

Ya kinda amazing isn't it? ORB: we can barely get these moving! MASS PRODUCTION ANYWAYS!

[@SoulstrikerV]

@@Errorcutive The funny thing is Junk Guild managed to develop some crazier designs compared to ORB that ended with the Murasame.

[@Errorcutive]

@@SoulstrikerV i think orb top end of the line is the akatsuki gundam, and all thing considering they are buying something for a few fleet and in numbers comes quality so even if its just beam rifle and flight its more than enought to have a beam spam if everyone shoot

[@themagicalrobotprisma2793]

The astray seems to be the eevee of mobile suits

[@nikolasota4162]

Extremely popular and versatile and everyone wants one yea

[@JosephJoboLicayan]

Nah, the GM or Zaku have tons more eeveelutions

[@nargarex2390]

12:43 slap 2 of those dual miniguns (R arm) on each arm and ditch excess weapons to get Heavyarms 😉😉

[@LegionnaireShork]

it is

[@orangeyellow9695]

Unlike the eveelutions, Astray has a wide moveset customisation.

[@duelgundam]

Military suits: uses standard issued weapons. Raysta and Civilian Astray: "Anything I can get my hands on".

[@JeanLucCaptain]

Or bolt on, on tie on, or ducktape on.

[@JeanLucCaptain]

@Joshua Ngau Ajang Red MS: AK-74.

[@jhaybz29]

The Civilan Astray 0 Custom was the funniest Junk Guild be like: "What weapons do you want to equip?" Junk Guild: "Yes"

[@arx3516]

@@JeanLucCaptain no need for that, mobile suits have hands with ipposable thumbs.

[@Sierra-208]

*Picks up the Prototype Kampfer's MG42/MG3 style machine gun*

[@forgeravin4287]

Astray Ranger Roll Call. Astray 1: Sword Master! Astray Red! Astray 2: Weapon Master! Astray Blue! Astray 3: Speed Master! Astray Yellow! Astray 4: Stealth Master! Astray Green! Astray 5: Disguise Master! Astray Mirage! Astrays: We are the Kidou Masters! Kidou Sentai! Astrayranger!

[@frangolemac1160]

Hope Toei offers you a job

[@mercenarygundam1487]

You forgot the Mirage Frame. Disguise Master?

[@forgeravin4287]

@@mercenarygundam1487 Let me fix that

[@mercenarygundam1487]

@@forgeravin4287 Nice

[@KudaGeatsune3821]

Striker master Astray Out (Astray out frame 6th ranger?)

[@dparky1627]

One of your captions has "Engineer explaining to a pilot how dodging works." Was this engineer named Piccolo and he just screamed, "DODGE!"?

[@andrewowens4421]

He probably showed the pilot how to reconfigure his control scheme. "See, it's better if you use the "X" button instead of the side tab."

[@FreeThePorgs]

"orb will not attack another nation, not allow another nation to attack it, and not interfere in the conflicts of other nations." -orb motto Real word "armed neutrality"

[@JeanLucCaptain]

Literally the opposite of the US/NATO/ATLANTIC FEDERATION.

[@SoulstrikerV]

And when this motto fails ... "Three Ships Alliance will attack everyone to solve all your problems." -Three Ships Alliance motto Armed Intervention with Gundams Aeolia must have watched Seed.

[@barrybend7189]

@@SoulstrikerV no he watched Wing and read Asimov's Foundation series.

[@JeanLucCaptain]

@@SoulstrikerV basically!

[@GweAnakJakarta]

nah, just some real life fact, "Peace is having bigger stick than your neighbor"

[@EXADragaon]

Fact: The Civilian Astray 0 Custom was Dengeki Hobby winner and every winner of this competition gets their designs featured or appear as cameo in the manga. It's one of my favorite designs in the whole Gundam franchise.

[@diapason89]

Junk Guild looks like your next-door car dealership.

[@andrewowens4421]

*Slaps cockpit of mobile suit* "This baby can hold so many missiles."

[@MasterArchfiend]

Unfortunately mine just has cars that breakdown in the lot.

[@whybndsu]

This is perhaps my favorite grunt unit since it's basically a truly mass-produced "Gundam"

[@chiiiiie5608]

it's basically a gundam in everything but the name

[@calebzorn839]

The murasame has one of the best flight forms ever created

[@goonerOZZ]

Reminds me a lot to the Zeta Plus

[@zerox8413]

@@goonerOZZ well Zeta Plus is cool... Even R-1 from SRW most likely designed based on Z Plus if you're examine carefully

[@TheHiddenBoss]

Well it does share the same silhouette of the best transformable flight MS in the Universal Century so that’s a given.

[@walterdayrit675]

The Murasame reminds me of the Valkyries from the Macross franchise. Heck, I think they even transform the same way!

[@TheHiddenBoss]

I guess there really was no precursor to the Murasame; no known prototype or test model that came before. ORB really did just make the most successful mass-produced transforming MS from scratch in one try. I’m guessing that one day, a boy with blue hair and a girl’s name was just sitting at a computer drawing up some design plans on his downtime just for the hell of it. Someone later saw the designs and called the boy a genius. I hear that boy is currently a vegetable after a freak accident involving a high-speed jet and a purple-haired pimp from Jupiter.

[@robertdrexel2043]

I actually came up with a G-Weapon predecessor for the Murasame that was a sixth Earth Alliance G-Weapon Prototype on Heliopolis. Basically an extension of the G-Project X300 Frame that totally improved the basic idea of a transformable mobile suit. I have both a sort-of canon explanation for where it was during the anime and an alternative operational history for a fanfiction story idea I have been playing around with over the past several months. The sort-of canon explanation is basically similar to that of the Green Frame and the fifth Astray Prototype in that it was never recovered by the Archangel on that fateful day. Mainly thanks to the transformation system of the prototype was still a bit iffy therefore remained behind in the main factory of the Morgenroete Facility on the Colony. When the colony was destroyed it remained floating in space with the rest of the colony debris till it was recovered by an Orb recovery team a year later well after the end of the war. Using the development data from the prototype they would end up developing the MVF-M11A Murasame First Production Type before it was refined into the MVF-M11C Murasame variant by the time of the Second Bloody Valentine War started. As for the fanfiction operational history of this prototype well I shall keep that close to my chest for now.

[@tylercharles4587]

@@robertdrexel2043 personally, I believe that the Aegis Gundam was it's ancestor, they had to have gotten data on the transforming frame from somewhere, either that or data from the Regenerate.

[@robertdrexel2043]

@@tylercharles4587 Shrug. They have different transformable systems. Orb and Morgenroete could have used the X300 Series Frame as a basis and worked from that to develop the Murasame. I believe I mentioned that I had in mind a precurser G-Weapon for the Murasame which perfected the X300 Frame.

[@shdghost8872]

@@robertdrexel2043 Just announced today the new Eclipse Gundam from the new manga, could be the Predecessor to the Murasame. Its model # is MVF-X08.

[@robertdrexel2043]

@@shdghost8872 New Manga? SEED has something new introduced? That is odd. Do you mean the Princess in the Sky manga? If so that is based well after Destiny if I remember correctly. So this new Gundam would not be the precurser to the Murasame.

[@skyhigh11621]

the civilian astray dssd custom backpack looks like the tallgeeses backpack

[@zerox8413]

Or R-1 from SRW

[@n1ghtmar3w0lf3]

with all the customization i started to think "pimp my gundam" , it gotz rimz,lights and a full entertainment system

[@RadiantBeachShulk]

The Junk Guild truly became the full embodiment of the Anaheim Electronics "Slap a Gundam head on it and it'll sell" mentality

[@thelorebrarian2266]

Super Sentai reference? I love the channel even more now

[@TheHiddenBoss]

Knowing how crazy Lowe can get with customizing, wouldn’t be surprised if he made a gestalt mech out of the existing Frames.

[@UMIF001]

I dont know why But the Astray cockpit design is remind me of Lamborghini

[@themrfives]

The civilian astray is one of my favorite mobile suits of all time!

[@asadler43]

Who else want to see the history of the ginn

[@hybridShinx]

NO

[@blaze_bloom8074]

YES

[@whiteraven1992]

I want to see what led to the development of the DOM Trooper, personally.

[@crytex6441]

The Andrew Waltfeld Custom Murasame is a colour scheme that truly brings out the ferocity of what the suit was capable of. The colour scheme reminds me of fire and flames

[@D.Snom.]

Thank you my good sir I really needed this

[@Moeflyer6213]

In Gundam SEED Freedom, the Murasame was upgraded to Murasame Kai which the wings were changed from forward-swept to the traditional back-swept setting. It was piloted by Mu la Flaga, COMPASS Archangel's MS squadron and Orb National Defense Force

[@samurai_sam3461]

"ZAFT ATTACK!" that's the name of my new punk rock band lolz

[@Dodalalal91]

Looking those 3 girls died in the BF made me sad. :( I still remember their scream when get shoot down. :(

[@nicodalusong149]

Same.

[@hybridShinx]

They didnt, those scenes were complete bullshit

[@Matanumi]

@@hybridShinx nope. They die in every cannon

[@larrychilders6599]

* Laughs in Leo

[@trajano777]

Got myself the book. Thanks! Im enjoying it and dreading the moment i finish it.

[@trajano777]

well i finished it... finished the prequel... now waiting for the other 2 to come out.

[@steffy2]

The ootsukigata 'waverider' looks gorgeous!

[@littlelw319]

if Lowle were to be a real person Bandai, would definitely hire the guy just for his idea of customization lol

[@lordofeggs5427]

Sees red frame Weeb intensifies

[@albertsimmonsjabig3070]

Hey Kakarot197! Great post! I have gotta tell you, whoever does the artwork for those Ryan Tang books really should do a comic or two because those artwork pieces are legendary in design; especially Science and Sorcery 02. Awesome post!

[@ranjitkumardas1]

Leon must have been one of those Naturals who liked the ZAFT uniforms like Toel

[@blazesaber5991]

I really want an 08th ms team like show about cosmic era grunts. Suits like the astray, murasame, dagger, and especially the windam got the short end of the stick in the show when they’re mainly used to give the heroes something to blow up.

[@JosephJoboLicayan]

For a second there I thought Kakarot forgot the Mars Jacket. Loving this series, keep up the good work! Other MS lines you could explore: AC: Leo (please) Daughtress Graze UC: Jegan Dom Gelgopppĺ Axis Suits RX-78, RX-79, RX-80 lineage (theyre all related and basically spans from OYW to post-war)

[@suhanhwang9988]

#KidouSentaiAstrayranger

[@swivelboiiguess6422]

1:41 i am suprised that Bandai hasn't done any Sentai and Gundam crossover kits or that there isn't an actual Kidou Sentai or that those colors never wer in a base Snetai team

[@AnotherMC]

As my first Gunpla kit, the Red frame holds a special spot in my heart.

[@bndahi8251]

if only I could find the HG murasame without spending an arm and a leg..

[@coleviloria3800]

B Ndahi same

[@slufffyg503]

Hopefully they make a new one. Great design but the kits a bit dated

[@redc7146]

None of the experienced military personnel can program an OS, but as soon as the college student shows up everything’s alright.

[@Markus-zb5zd]

Well that was actually his field of expertise he was working on at college

[@xcross5017]

SEED characters:*talks about ORB* *fighting happens* SEED characters:*talks about ORB* STOP TALKING ABOUT ORB EVERY 5 MINUTES PLEASE

[@danielorrego6428]

So many astrays like the hazel madness

[@TheAzureGhost]

Definitly one of my favorite Mass Production Units. Finished all (not mobilesuit locked) content in Gundam Dynasty Warrior : Reborn with this sweet metal baby.

[@filipjudar4781]

As the Astray line is my favorite mass produced unit, I approve of this video

[@latojarb]

You can actually see that most of the Gundams including mass produce ms in Seed series were slim and sexy. Looks like the one that designs them likes fashion models. He3x Hope Bandai, one day will produce these kits even in just HG scale. That Raysta model is a combo of Strike & Astray. Nice video though...

[@SennyBnk]

Man, I love yours job regarding summarization of Gundam lore. Love to listen all those videos of yours. Keep up the great work!

[@firestorm2035]

Orb Union: A Weapon to surpass Metal Gear! (Shows the Ootsukigata)

[@barrybend7189]

I thought you would do the Strike series development?

[@The_Str4nger]

6:55 Metal Gear Rex?

[@Lithiel]

Thanks for making these videos! I’m learning so much which has been a. BIG HELP to me in a Gundam RP server where my character pilots a Windam with the Dopplerhorn ~

[@whitewing2]

I simply can't hide the Smile in my Face when you mentioned Yoon Sefan and Lowe's music started playing

[@reycal22]

To imagine that just a few days ago i was thinking that this would be a good topic for development history!!! #Astray Goodnessssss

[@paolovillanuevamd]

Kidou Sentai Astray Rangers!!! 🤩🤩😋

[@mondobizarrro5468]

MD geist reference made my day! I am proud to own that movie on vhs

[@starman359]

old school brutal anime ...sweet ass movie

[@abrashio]

Did seed every explain why naturals could not pilot mobile suits before Kira OS yet Coordinators were just fine?

[@barrybend7189]

From what I could find in the wiki its due to the Quantum computers that track human subconscious movement parts of the brain. The problem is the system is too twitchy and doesn't respond to naturals so it was modified by kira to have an AI be responsible to help make up the gap in reaction times.

[@TheKing-qz9wd]

I like that Civilian Astray. I was writing up an idea for a heavily modified mass production Zaku 1 being used well into Victory Gundam and F91 timeline. Civilian use mostly because of their ineffectual space combat and non-existent flying capabilities. But they made up for that in other ways. Similar design in the sense of being a Civi suit, but a 150mm machine gun is more than enough to shred an enemy mobile suit with not even half the armor that these Zakus have. So technically they are better than the Civi Astray.

[@yi_hou3092]

I still love how the Mursame takes transformation and Visual Cues from the Zeta Plus

[@bthsr7113]

12:43 The """"CIVILIAN"""" Heavy Arms custom.

[@ToasterCorgiGaming]

I love the Murasame, probably one of my favorite Grunt suits. wish they'd do a remake of the HG kit for the Seed Freedom line.

[@danielloh4483]

So the Raysta is the MS Fan's Raspberry Pi...

[@brotherkhrayn3525]

The first (and hopefully not last) Perfect Grade Gunpla I bought was Astray Red, and I LOVE it.

[@salmay4266]

"Civilian gundam" lol, sounds like something americans will love

[@swakage13x]

Still waiting 3 years for a astray development video

[@NebbyNova]

Huh, never expected a sentai reference in a gundam video like this

[@shadows.82]

Could you please do a development history of all of Celestial Being's gundams by the generation?

[@trippintr]

I wish there was a Murasame prototype which has similar characteristics to that of a Zeta Gundam, but Seed version 😂

[@nugrahadwiky6151]

What a memories... I was always buying M1 Astray when my first gameplay on G Generation Wars, World and Overworld

[@gundamdunham7479]

The Raysta & the Civilian Astray r like the Ez8 of Gundam SEED.

[@bluescat581]

The E-100 series of the Gundam series. Anyone who's played Sonic Adventure/Sonic X should get the reference. Identical mobile suits with different colors with different upgrades later added.

[@bthsr7113]

So the civilian Raysta mobile suits were initially sold with the same loophole as Prince Xizor's personal fighter. All the supporting infrastructure, none of the illegal military weapons. "We'll sell you a craft that COULD deliver a dizzying amount of death, but we will make you promise not to install any weapons into the empty hardpoints. If for some reason you get your hands on military weapons, and break that promise by installing them, we are in the legal clear."

[@Blockio1999]

Seed MSV is a wild ride. Any plans on giving X some Development History love?

[@zqfmgb4335]

Astray Shrike ? Sounds like someone had a death wish. Like seriously, the only riskier name I can think of would be "GM Leo".

[@LordSpleach]

They might as well confirmed the 5th Astray Gundam to be the Purple Frame at this point considering its successor unit.

[@anthonywalker6268]

Your the only video on Gundam seed lore when you look up Gundam seed lore on the 1st page.

[@judeskater93]

I dig the civilian astrays look, sucks that it’s not that strong compared to other mobile suits but I’d probably do something like Leon’s did.

[@ArmanGW]

The Astray is probably my favourite mass production unit

[@XeviousD]

The Ootsukigata reminds me of another unit called the Zetaplus C1.

[@leolied6766]

Ah yes the Mursame,the Zeta Plus A1 of this timeline.

[@zerox8413]

If Zeta plus given Shining Gundam arms and DSS Astray backpack... It would turned it into R-1 like Z-Plus right?

[@delllee4915]

13:03 An Imposter Among Us?!

[@jean-michelbabet5919]

love that video man as an astray fan i did not know about all those things =D

[@faulcondelacy5880]

The entire session2 is Bandai's plot to get rid of the old UC model kits inventory. They succeeded then in Unicon they did even further. RegZ was shown in background only 1 second, yet Bandai still published premium regz uc kit with massively reused old kit components.

[@kalashnidoge]

For the longest time, I have read the Astray as the Ashtray

[@artifact_Antifake]

A S T R A Y R A Y S T A 😂 the improvise dffrently from your POV

[@Zaffr3]

The Murasame has to be one of my favorite suits. It has good balance of beam and ballistic weaponry and the special function of turning into a high speed fighter. While I do like the Re-ZEL more the Murasame is close 3rd to it.

[@YoJeldz]

Murasame is the first kit i had, great video

[@mechanimal1672]

Seed's theme is always about stealin them gundams 🤣

[@Better_Call_Bulba-Saur]

6:13 That caption is just savage! 😂

[@kristoffermangila]

Fun fact: the Murasame's wings were inspired by the NASA X-29.

[@vizcondeification]

The Gundam unit that goes many changes and upgrades.

[@darkdragon0083]

Development history of the Astray Prototypes

[@altmaster8973]

The Civilian Astray DSSD custom head is my favorite, even though it's weapons aren't that great.

[@rushaunj]

Did I mmention.How grateful I am for this video, love astray but love that fact that kira saved orb by fixing their MP units

[@HajimotoSaito]

Ah, the Astrays are my Absolute Favorite. Murasame not Included. I love it more than the Daggers tbh and I love the Daggers a tad too much. I always thought these where pronounced Morgenroete(More-Gen-Row-Wet) and GuAIZ(Goo-Wize). Man can't wait for the Gundam Frames Development History. I have a question for you. Why do you think ORB never used their Coordinators to help Develop the Astray OS? I find it weird as the nation is composed of Both Naturals and Coordinators. Surely the Coordinators in there Military can and is capable and knows the limits of their Natural Countrymen and be able to design the Machines to work for both.

[@AidanRaine]

But Erica Simmons (Orb engineer) is a coordinator and she aided in the creation of Earth Alliance's "G Project" and developed M1 Astray units, Akatsuki. I think she's not good in creating mobile suits OS for naturals, that's why she asked Kira's help on that.

[@ShinyaMerveilles66]

it was less about not having coordinators to work on it and more that making a natural use OS was just that complicated. Morgenroete had help from various sectors and that little "reverse gundamjack incident" but couldnt get the controls quite right till kira came in (who im going to presume was working on such an OS solo both before Heliopolis got attacked and as a "plan b" if he was unavailable to pilot the strike)

[@thesilentedge2123]

Now....anyone want a video on ALL the Astray Variants?

[@Koel_Hellion]

Still find it sad how all the natural astrays test pilots died like 5 minutes before the war ended

[@CD-Gaming]

That Astray 0 looks like someone trying to beat me to the punch with the Mk. II Ultima of the best that unit could possibly be! And I think it's safe to say I now know how the Recon Gundam ought to look thanks to the Murasame! Also those custom designs have given me plenty of ideas on how the Barrage Gundam will look! Hey, pretty much all done! Jus need Prowl, Pursuit and ideas for designs and names for new units and I can start working on Part 2 of my novel!

[@AshuraH]

...you should do a video on the Astray prototypes. Just the Red Frame or Blue Frame by themselves is enough for a single video!

[@LegionnaireShork]

so we're not gonna talk about the giant sword that the astray carries?

[@lordofalltime]

in future "Development History" videos, is there any way that some machines from "Iron-Blooded Orphans" by featured?

[@shadowofchaos8269]

did he do a development history of the tallgeese?

[@ionreaper2226]

as an astray fan boy this was a good video

[@forceraider451]

You know what would be a cool video for him to do? He should do a video comparing the Zaku II and all of its alternate universe grunt variants to see who is the best grunt. Suits like the Leo or Ginn.

[@jakealter5504]

Something tells me that the zaft zakus will be pretty high on that ranking

[@niconicokms1424]

Yes a video on my favourite seed ms line thank you

[@Avalonnerd211990]

Have you ever thought about doing the Knightmare frames from Code Geass i feel your analysis and breakdown would be most interesting

[@shadowgouf]

The Astrays are some solid builds