Newtype (Gundam)
Newtype are a species that feature in Gundam.
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History
The Newtype (Japanese: ニュータイプ, Hepburn: Nyūtaipu?) were a new stage of human evolution that developed as mankind began to colonise space. Their emergence was based on the theory that humanity had begun to evolve to living in space. The prevailing theory was originally conceived by Zeon Zum Deikun who proposed that as humanity began to expand into space that all latent abilities would blossom in order to adapt to the great void of space. He also believed that their emergence would lead to mankind being able to understand one another without any misconceptions.
Not long into their discovery, the combat potential of the Newtype is quickly exploited by various military factions. Various technologies allowed these Newtypes to control remote weapons known as "bits" and "funnels", and other psychically controlled weapons. Some systems even allow Newtypes to control entire Mobile Suits or Armors just with the power of their mind, although this would take an exceptionally powerful Newtype to make possible. Many types of interfaces have also been designed for Newtype use, such as the cinematic Psycoframe.
As time passed, the number of new naturally occurring Newtypes remained fairly stable. However, as their destiny had been transformed from the 'future of mankind' to living weapons forced to fight in war, artificially created Newtypes began to outnumber them.
Pioneering work on the Newtype phenomena were conducted by the Principality of Zeon and the Flanagan Institute during the One Year War. After the war, Principality of Zeon's research on Newtypes fell into the hands of the Earth Federation Forces, and they set up several Newtype Labs to carry on the research. One area of research for these labs was the enhancement of normal humans into Newtypes via artificial means. Newtypes created through this manner were known as 'Cyber Newtypes'. These Cyber Newtypes were successfull to a certain extent, and were deployed in combat. However, the earliest Cyber Newtype all suffered from mental instability due to the conditioning they received to be more effective in combat, the best examples of this phenomenon are Four Murasame and Rosamia Badam, both of which suffered from heavy moodswings and chronic debilitating headaches, making them both difficult to control and deploy in combat. In the years following the Gryps Conflict however, the process of creating Cyber Newtypes eventually refined to the point the results no longer suffered physical or mental defects, producing such results as Gyunei Guss and Full Frontal, both of which operated with extreme skill and clarity.
Overview
Non-enhanced human beings, by retronym , became known as Oldtype.
They were known to had evolved a heightened degree of mental awareness with this being believed to had evolved to allow them to adapt to life in space. Their high degree of focus and spatial awareness was to such a level as to be almost akin to a sixth sense. Newtypes were shown to be capable of empathically capable of detecting other members of their kind. In addition, they were sensitive to the hostile intentions directed to them by the others allowing them to react before someone else could engage in a hostile action.
Some Newtypes also exhibit telepathic abilities or use psychokinesis.
The majority of Newtypes tended to emerge among the Spacenoids that were humans that lived among the space colonies.
It was stated that the exploitation of the Newtype was due to fear of them by the Oldtypes as they represented humanity's next step of evolution whilst the Oldtypes were merely relics of the past.
This equipment was termed Psycommu system and machines installed with this equipment demonstrated overwhelming force in combat.
Members
- Amuro Ray :
- Sayla Massv :
- Mirai Yashima :
- Char Aznable :
- Lalah Sune :
- Challia Bull :
- Fraw Bow :
- Kai Shiden :
- Katz Kobayashi :
- Kikka Kobayashi :
- Letz Kobayashi :
- Matilda Ajan :
- Icelina Eschonbach :
Notes
- Newtypes featured in the setting of the Mobile Suit Gundam Universal Century universe.
- In Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, a similar concept was introduced in the form of Coordinators whilst Mobile Suit Gundam 00 had the Innovators.
Appearances
- Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn:
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