Super Robot Wars CS, A Quest
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khan2012
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Without going into details, I will say the other series in the SRW setting you're coming from won't be relevant for a hot minute. It's gonna be focused on the Trails setting for a while.
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As someone who's never watched any trailers of the 'trails' series of games, let alone played them, what are the basics of that side of the crossover? Especially since it seems we'll be spending quite a bit of time there.
khan2012
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Ok so. The world of Trails/Kiseki is a fantasy world with more advanced technology, along the lines of Final Fantasy magitek. The Cold Steel games are set in the Empire of Erebonia, which is an agressive militaristic state struggling against the secret society known as Ouroboros. The protagonists are Rean Schwarzer and the other members of Class 7 of Thors Military Academy, a bunch of students who get in way over their heads and stumble into these conspiracies. I'll be explaining a lot more as we go along- you'll be finding out stuff as the protagonist finds it out.
khan2012
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Side note: Amuro's pretty clearly winning but I'm gonna leave the vote open in case there's a turn around and to give me more time to write. I'll hopefully be able to buy enough time to get the next post up within a day of the vote closing lol.
For a real broad strokes overview (which will still be a bit long because we're talking 11+ games that focus a lot on worldbuilding): It's set on a continent called Zemuria (and more specifically its western half so far) which is (pending the start time of this quest) about 50 years removed from a technological revolution referred to in-universe as the "Orbal Revolution" which is when it was discovered how to harness some natural resources called Septium to build devices called Orbments that use Orbal Energy to do... damn near anything you can think of (lighting, heating, power, vehicles, the internet) and has spread and advanced in the ensuing decades. Perhaps its biggest appeal is that it is essentially a naturally renewable source of energy. If you deplete an Orbment of energy, it will naturally recharge given time. It basically crowded out and stalled other lanes of tech because Orbments were just more efficient. For example, diesel engines explicitly exist in the setting but are seen as basically antique oddities because they're less efficient and pollute. Gunpowder and its use in weaponry is still around but went from being the thing to far more of a niche replaced by orbal weapons (both personal and vehicular.) There are even "battle orbments" which are basically personal units that just by possessing/operating them you can cast what is essentially magic.
Assuming the timeframe is approximately the time of Trails of Cold Steel, we're also about 10-15ish years into orbal airships being invented - both for military use and as civilian transportation. And the current cutting edge of orbal tech would probably be considered the "Orbal Network Project" which is basically the invention of the internet - though still in a testing phase and not quite ubiquitous yet though it's acknowledged it almost certainly will be soon.
And as a final note on the tech front, it should be noted that we're talking about the current society. A little over 1200 years before Cold Steel there was (it collapsed; no one is exactly sure how or why) a super advanced society generally referred to as "Ancient Zemuria" that had tech that goes way further into the fantasy/sci-fi realms and would make Orbments seem like cute kids' toys and often break the "rules" that the in-universe scientists think they've figured out.
On a more political/organizational side: Western Zemuria has a number of polities around, but the two major superpowers are the Erebonian Empire and the Calvard Republic.
Erebonia: The Empire is an aggressive militaristic nation that is also facing some internal tension as it was long run by an extensive nobility system leading up to its Emperor but in recent decades the commoners have been pushing for reforms to that system. (Per the developers it is based on Prussia/Germany which isn't really hidden by the fact that the Chancellor of the Empire at the time of the series start has gained the moniker "Blood and Iron Chancellor")
Calvard: A Republic that is Erebonia's rival superpower. It was probably most inspired by France in that it became a Republic after a Revolution overthrew the king and transformed it into a democratic republic.
Crossbell: A buffer zone that lacks independence and is claimed by both Erebonia and Calvard as rightfully theirs and who levy taxes against it. It's also been fought over for centuries because it is a natural commerce hub for the entire Western continent. It was granted status as an autonamous zone some 70 years prior but is prevented from having an army by the two major powers. It does possess a defense force but is prevented from having anything like tanks or airships.
There are a number of others, but I'd be making this much longer if I went on.
A notable quirk though is a non-governmental agency that operates throughout the continent - The Bracer Guild. It's a group that dedicates itself to protecting civilians above all else and takes on requests from the mundane ("Help me find my lost cat!") to escort missions to investigations. The reason it is allowed to operate by the various governments is that they are forbidden from interfering in military or political affairs (barring extreme cases like if they're attacking a civilian in broad daylight.)
There's plenty more I could write that I would still consider prety basic to the setting but this is definitely starting to get too long LOL.
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afreaknamedpete
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[X]Amuro Ray
CHAR GA KURU
CHAR GA KURU
[X] - Ange. You've lost everything before. Torn from your life in the lap of luxury as a princess, you suddenly found yourself sent to a prison island for Norma, an underclass who you once thought subhuman. Forced into the fight against fearsome dragons without training or preparation, you had to fight or die. You chose to fight, and you haven't stopped fighting since. Against the dragons, against your old family, against your psychotic comrades, against the creator of the world himself. Piloting your mysterious machine Vilkiss, you're going to survive at all costs. Anyone who gets in your way is going to regret it.
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[x] - Ange. You've lost everything before. Torn from your life in the lap of luxury as a princess, you suddenly found yourself sent to a prison island for Norma, an underclass who you once thought subhuman. Forced into the fight against fearsome dragons without training or preparation, you had to fight or die. You chose to fight, and you haven't stopped fighting since. Against the dragons, against your old family, against your psychotic comrades, against the creator of the world himself. Piloting your mysterious machine Vilkiss, you're going to survive at all costs. Anyone who gets in your way is going to regret it.
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[x] - Ange. You've lost everything before. Torn from your life in the lap of luxury as a princess, you suddenly found yourself sent to a prison island for Norma, an underclass who you once thought subhuman. Forced into the fight against fearsome dragons without training or preparation, you had to fight or die. You chose to fight, and you haven't stopped fighting since. Against the dragons, against your old family, against your psychotic comrades, against the creator of the world himself. Piloting your mysterious machine Vilkiss, you're going to survive at all costs. Anyone who gets in your way is going to regret it.
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[X] - Amuro Ray. The Federation's legendary White Meteor, you've fought on every battlefield the Universal Century has to offer for the past decade and a half. You thought the Axis Drop was going to be your last battle, stopping your sometime friend and longtime rival Char Aznable from wiping out all life on earth. Instead, just as you pushed the fragment of Axis away from earth, the light of the Psycho-Frame transported your heavily damaged Nu Gundam to this new world. With Char safe and sound in his escape pod in the Gundam's arms. Joy.
I think that's smoke as in he wanted to finally kill the bastard. I mean the fact that Char and Amuro are enemies is part of the reason AIs based on them in the U.C timeline always fight.
I always saw it as a tragic song based on how the whole Second Neo-Zeon War was a tragedy brought about by Char's crazy nihilism and his obsession with proving he was the better pilot then Amuro which cost millions of people their lives and ended for Char the same way all his duels with Amuro ended up going. It was a tragedy on Amuro's side because he had mastered himself and was living his life his terms with a love and even a kid on the way in the Written version of the story that he lost because of Char's crazy.
4WheelSword
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No they wanna do kissy-wissy times together
I think all the times they have tried to kill each other and Char's thing for younger women shoot a hole in your desire for them to kiss my friend, not to mention Amuro goes for health relationships while Char has no idea what those are.
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afreaknamedpete
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CHAR: Lalah Sune was a woman who may have become a mother to me!
AMURO: What about me Char? Who am I to you!?
CHAR: Amuro... you are... my most precious, hated rival...
AMURO: Char... you killed all those people... for me...?
CHAR: I hate you so very much...
AMURO: Char...
CHAR: Amuro...
4WheelSword
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kissy kissy mwah mwah smoochy boys
This is what gay sex is
CHAR: Lalah Sune was a woman who may have become a mother to me!
AMURO: What about me Char? Who am I to you!?
CHAR: Amuro... you are... my most precious, hated rival...
AMURO: Char... you killed all those people... for me...?
CHAR: I hate you so very much...
AMURO: Char...
CHAR: Amuro...
If you ignore the fact that if Char's newest Younger Women obsessed with him had not interfered Char would have ended up full of lead instead something else at the end of that fight. I will repeat, of the two Deikun siblings Amuro much prefers to spend his time with Sayla who is sane versus her crazy brother who just won't die or leave him alone.
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4WheelSword
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He's going to fuck amuro.
If you mean fuckup his life, he's already done that which is the reason Amuro would prefer he was a crisp corpse floating around Earth right now.
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View: https://youtu.be/ReCqIymqV9A?si=EwL116hSId1fEvZm
Me when I romantically gaze longingly at the person I haven't seen in seven years. Our reunion accompanied by the sun and music, while I grip the phallic instrument in my cockpit at the sight of them.
Remember any reanimated scene in New Translation is directly by Tomino
That is a very weird way to look at that scene my friend which also ignores everything else related to Char and Amuro relationships with the other people in their lives and the fact that they were literally just trying to kill each other since we are getting them right after the Axis shock event.
Surprise and the current situation is the reason for the look that you are referring to and Amuro natural reaction when he in encounters Char is to prepare for a fight because of all the times the man has tried to kill him which explain him holding the controls of the suit he's in hard. It is clear in the Zeta Anime that Amuro does not really trust Char at the start and is only grudgingly willing to work with him later on. I don't think I need to explain that they are enemies in Char Counterattack which is when we are pulling them from.
Tomino also directed all of Char Counterattack and was clear about their being enemies and Char being obsessed to a crazy degree with killing Amuro.