
Kaynethkay @Kaynethkay Follow Recently, I’ve been seeing the term “colony drop” a lot, so I researched it and found out it’s quite an inhumane act of mass slaughter, which suddenly sparked my interest in the Universal Century. April 23, 2025, 23:47 – 56,000 views Kaynethkay @Kaynethkay Follow I’ve heard that Gundam represents war and that both sides have their reasons… but isn’t it already ethically a “loss” if you drop a colony…? (A super heated tweet a day later) April 24, 2025, 0:09 – 28,000 views
They are dropping colonies after massacring the same space immigrants, so the points are doubled.
It’s bizarre that the federation is still continuing the war even after all that.
I think it’s unreasonable to play soldier with Zeon.
The discussion about whether to recognize independence or not has turned into a matter of unforgivable actions.
Actually, I’ve secured the agreement of the residents and I’m dropping the colony.
But in the play, it seems like everyone doesn’t really care that much, so probably in the Universal Century, human life is very cheap.
It’s not surprising that the Zeon aliens are more disliked from the other side, but I wonder why it just gets brushed off.
What do you mean Sydney was blown away!
The cause of the war is the oppression of the federation.
In order to unleash the anger of justice, we need Zeon to commit heinous acts.
Conversely, if Zeon hadn’t dropped the colonies, it would just end with the Federation being terrible for not allowing independence.
The Federation believes that justice is not right, but the Zeon thinks that evil is right.
Before the colony drop, Zeon killed the colony residents, resulting in half of humanity’s death, which is one of the most heinous acts in the series, all done in about six months.
“Just killing hundreds of millions of people to raise the sea level by a mere 10 meters, and saying it’s a purification of Zeon—those federal bastards have no compassion at all!”
The original Gundam… you should watch it…!
It’s alright because we have already exterminated all the anti-Zion space immigrants, so there is no one left to criticize us.
The root cause is simply too many people!! Since the Earth has its limits, let’s go to space!! That’s it.
There are too many people on Earth, so it would be better if the number decreases somewhat, according to the decision.
I don’t know much about Gundam either, but the enemies called the Zeon army used bombs to drop on people’s homes and killed a lot of people, right? That’s what’s called colony dropping, isn’t it?
I wonder if the colony side thinks of the frontier side as if they’re the representatives of space immigrants.
I understand.
Rather than dropping it, I will land it.
It’s amazing that they call it the Republic of Zeon and then get away with it.
Due to oppression, all we can do is secretly prepare a massive fleet and new weapons that could turn the entire Federation against us…!
I have recently come to think that the establishment of a unified government on Earth is such an incredible achievement compared to reality, and that the Federation is truly remarkable.
It seems that humanity is suffering some terrible damage, but if they are a force resisting the enemy ◯◯, then that means they are heroes, right?
It tends to be that way, as examples of anti-American and anti-Israel terrorism show us.
Even if it’s a setting for half of humanity dying, isn’t it a bit too much? No one among the staff at that time tried to stop it.
Not me.
Asakura said to do it.
I didn’t know.
It’s nothing to worry about…
They discriminate against victims of colony destruction as refugees and forcibly push them into poorly conditioned foreign troops.
Humans on Earth are so noisy just because the sea level has risen by a meter…
I think the design of the first generation, like Musai’s bridge and Zaku’s, represents villains in a typical villainous way, so it feels like both sides have their own rationale.
It’s true that both sides have their reasons, and I often hear similar things, but in Gundam, the opposing factions tend to be the ones committing horrific acts.
It’s scary that I’ve been doing Zion is beautiful for over 10 years now.
The setting in which most of the population has been migrated to space, combined with the fact that the Zeon declared war rather unilaterally and the population was halved within a week, leads to the conclusion that nearly all those who were killed were space immigrants…?
Surprisingly, there are situations where one-sided wars can start due to power balance and if you win, it’s like the official army wins, which seems to deceive people in a way.
It’s amazing that Zeon is already attacking a colony in the first episode.
Gundam is clearly a super robot, and Zeon is an evil empire.
We must not forget that the one-week war, in which the colony drop occurred, was an extinction war that utilized all types of ABC weapons.
Despite being under oppression, Zabi was able to prepare such a military power.
…Isn’t the poverty of the Side 3 residents mainly due to this military expenditure?
They killed the residents inside to drop the colony, right?
Jinneman: “Well, the Federation is quite something…”
Let’s use poison gas!
There were also those who tried to nuke Side 6, which is neutral.
If we had fallen to Jaburo, the war would have ended right away, right?
Isn’t it because the Federation resisted for no reason that it got disconnected?
It’s crazy that they dropped it with the residents inside, instead of using an unmanned colony during construction.
Inject poison gas into the colonies that sided with the Federation!
Drop one of the colonies that massacred the residents towards the Federal Army’s headquarters to conduct a man-made meteor strike!
The settled colony in eastern Australia and the four sides are devastated! Half of the total population has died!
Humanity was terrified by the actions of the Zeon aliens…
The Daikun era may have been good, but the Zabi era is clearly an evil empire.
I provided false information to the execution unit of the poison gas to carry out a massacre!
It’s seriously crazy.
Look at the sinister design of Zoom City.
There’s no way that those guys living in a place like that are righteous…
Well, since it was created in an earlier era, it’s only natural that it has a slightly dated feel.
Mr. Zabi’s top man, Mr. Gihren, is someone who originally wants to reduce the population…
I wanted to reduce it to a number that can be governed within the realm of the human intellect.
This is a war, so the reasoning that both sides are at fault is only used to overlook the faults of the camp in power and to sweep things under the rug, which is problematic.
Isn’t there any nice asteroid that doesn’t have to be a colony? Space is vast, right?
The possibility of wiping out all the inhabitants to drop the colony is more ethically concerning in modern times than actually dropping the colony itself.
It’s definitely a fusion of the evils of the Japanese Empire and the Nazis.
As a whole, they are some dangerous totalitarian guys, aren’t they, from start to finish?
On the other hand, X humanitarianly dropped the colony while the people inside were still alive.
The Federation is also killing all the inhabitants of the colonies, so it’s safe.
The depiction of colony residents leading up to the colony drop in the origin anime is quite tragic.
The Federation is creating new weapons in a neutral colony, and the Zeon are attacking it, so from the very first episode, both sides have no regard for the rules…
The idea that Zeon dropped colonies and massacred humanity is a retcon, after all.
Even though we’re advocating for space immigration independence.
It’s quite realistic how the opposing faction easily kills off the same space immigrants.
An unprecedented folly in history where half of humanity died within a week (most of which was due to preemptive nuclear attacks by Zeon on other colonies).
The X world is a bit too dangerous…
Throughout the Universal Century, too many things are dropping on Earth from time to time.
It’s barbaric to drop a colony.
Let’s throw in Genesis and Requiem.
It would be good to shoot the solar ray toward the Earth.
I think it would be understandable for the Zeon soldiers to be scolded more if they were sneaking around in the colony.
If you drop it once, the reputation stays the same no matter how many times you drop it afterwards, so it might be fine to drop it more and more.
There are mixed opinions on this.
It’s not that I killed all the inhabitants just to drop the colony or anything like that.
It’s been only three years since the war, and even now, we aren’t on the side of the Federation; we’ve been beaten up by the Federation soldiers.
It’s not that the Federation is unpopular, but rather that there are no anti-Zeon sentiments.
If we seize the colony and turn it into a weapon, the residents will resent us.
We need to eradicate it from the root to prevent future troubles.
I can’t remember the exact setting, but there was definitely something about launching nuclear strikes on a colony to establish side control.
Did you think Seema would put everyone to sleep with sleeping gas and transport them out of the colony?
Or were you planning to let me die in the colony drop without suffering while I slept?
In any case, the impact as a hook for the story is tremendous.
America that dropped the nuclear bomb is just.
Is it correct to say that Ghiren was the one who led the colony drop?
Giren believes that nothing can be done without reducing the population.
In the first place, it feels like reducing the number of uncooperative external sides is being done under the guise of a just cause.
Let’s launch a suitable island or rocket to hit the colony as retaliation.
It can’t be helped; saying that 5 billion people died is just not believable.
I wonder how people interpret “Even the Zeon in Gundam has its own righteousness.”
The warriors of Zeon are amazing because they can justify the deaths of countless civilians for the sake of their cause, saying it is also for the greater good.
Half of them are already dead, so who cares… just drop it!
Taking the wrong actions for the right reasons.
I’m not interested in the director Gundam of Mobile Suit Victory Gundam.
Well… if I can’t be a good kid, isn’t there no need for me in humanity, Earth, or even the universe…?
Well, we also instructed that the gas to be injected into the colony was to be a sleeping gas, so it was probably changed to poison gas on the site without authorization. That’s terrible! The executing unit is guilty of war crimes!
I understand that the cause lies with the federation, right?
But it’s excessive.
Fundamentally, we must not forget that the ideology of superiority held by Zeon is not about space immigrants evolving and being superior, but rather that Side 3 has evolved and is superior.
The people on the other side are monkeys.
If immigrants were to declare independence on their own, it’s only natural to get angry.
It’s the property of Colony Earth, so it’s theft.
Even among the Zeon soldiers, there were people who thought that dropping colonies was just too much, right?
The depiction of the colony falling has been there from the beginning, but the intention of it being dropped is a later addition.
Isn’t it lame that they’ve gone that far and still can’t win?
Well, it’s quite common in history for someone who looks like a warrior to be committing massacres seamlessly.
I feel like for quite a while, everyone wasn’t really paying attention to the narration about half of the population dying.
“I can only say that it’s because it was portrayed that way, but when I think, ‘But the Federation… the Federation is also terrible…!’ it makes me wonder why they give Zeon a certain level of legitimacy in their depiction.”
It’s really sad for Shima, so no.
It’s really terrible that even if the one who drops the colony wins, life in the colony hasn’t improved because they’re still poor.
It is established in the official history that Zeon is poor.
Until we dropped the colony, there were so many people that we were at the level of building colonies in space and abandoning people.
Humanity was frightened by its own actions as it was reduced to half due to war.
Hearing only that doesn’t explain that one side was unilaterally committing genocide.
In other words, when I think about it now, it’s pretty crazy to think that a country that is doing something so obviously like a parody of Nazi Germany is actually considered just!
The federation has been expelling people into space for decades, squeezing heavy taxes from space immigrants and resources, and steadily building up hatred.
As a result, it turns out that neither side is good or evil, since it brought everything related to the colony drop to a head in one go.
Of course, there will be narration that says humanity was frightened.
Unfortunately, there are colonies where caveman-level monkeys live… Right, Moon Moon?
Is Asakura part of the Gihren faction or the Kyshiria faction?
Isn’t the position we’re in quite something?
It was supposed to end with destroying Jaburo by crashing a colony into it, but there was a hell of a resistance.
When watching the first one, tired soldiers from the war appear from time to time.
The United States considers it just to drop incendiary bombs on cities inhabited by civilians and to annihilate everyone with nuclear weapons, as it has the righteous cause of defeating the evil Japanese Empire.
As expected, 3 billion people wasn’t enough.
If you’re aiming for the victory of justice, you must kill over 9 billion.
I didn’t understand the scale of Australia, so the level of damage was on par with just dropping nuclear bombs on the British operation.
Colony drop?
Is it the fire of the Megid that was unleashed by God?
There are still countries today that say they are only retaliating for the killing of civilians…
It’s understood that Zeon is bad, but isn’t it also true that only a handful of people in Zeon were directly involved in the colony drops?
Compared to other colonies, Side 3 has mysteriously strong military power.
It’s a bit scary that there are people who have distorted the setting to think that Zeon is so beautifully brainwashed that they intentionally haven’t dropped any colonies or haven’t caused half of humanity to go extinct, almost like real conspiracy theorists.
I thought the Earth was rich and came here, but it seems different and there are bugs, so I just want to go back to space quickly.
I’ve never seen anyone say that Zeon is justice.
It seems that there are many people who like Zeon’s characters and MS.
Half of the total population passed away in six months…
Unleash the anger of justice, Gundam!
But you know, the Federation is doing similar things against Granada with the Zeek Axe, so it’s not like only Zeon is executing crazy strategies.
Isn’t Sydney worth more than the lives of hundreds of millions of people in the colony?
If Australia had been hit that hard, a nuclear winter would likely occur.
The colony is being exploited! Self-reliance! → I understand.
Turning other colonies and their residents into mass weapons → not good
When I watched the series without touching the original, I got the impression that they were dropping colonies and other things left and right, but once I saw the original, it was so bad that I thought their sense of ethics became really loose right from the start.