Gundam 00: Awakening of the Trailblazer/Headscratchers


 * Why is 00 Qan[T] considered rivaling Turn A in the first place?
 * 00 Qan[T] may not as powerful as the Turns in terms of raw destructive capabilities due to Moonlight Butterfly, but it's a very close second. Just think about it: In the whole Gundam multiverse so far, only the Turns and 00 Qan[T] have the capability to mess up an entire alien fleet by themselves.
 * Furthermore, the range of the Qan's teleportation ability is far greater than the Turn A's, and creative use of that ability allows the 00 Qan[T] to also teleport its attacks into cockpits and escape the range of the Moonlight Butterfly. Not to mention its weaponry is much more variable than the Turn A's and packs a far greater punch in terms of attacking multiple targets simultaneously (the Turn A has to rely on the Moonlight Butterfly to do mass damage, and it's indiscriminate).
 * Theoretically, a dense GN Field might even be capable of blocking the Moonlight Butterfly when you think about it... both operate on a nano-scale (particles vs nanomachines), thus evening the playing field between the Turns and the Qan[T] considerably.
 * The heavily-GN Particle infused armour on 00 verse gundams in general will cause trouble for the Moonlight Butterfly. GN Particles are exotic matter derived from topological defects, and will not play nice with things that operate on the molecular scale. Nanomachines are precision devices, and don't cope well at all with things way outside the design specs. Add in the known effects of high GN particle density on unshielded electronics, and the Butterfly might not work at all on Gundams, and certainly will lose it's instant kill effect. I'd wager a Twin Drive unit in TRANS-AM would be largely immune until TRANS-AM runs out.
 * The Quantum Sword is the most powerful mobile suit weapon in any Gundam series. If you leave out the Raiser Sword, it's the most powerful by several orders of magnitude. The thing is a beam saber big enough to be mistaken for a superweapon Wave Motion Gun. Remember, it's an upgrade of a ground-to-geosynchronous orbit weapon. If you fired it straight down, instant volcano. A glancing hit from it's predecessor killed the second Memento Mori, when the first one survived an entire Trans-Am condensed into a single shot from Seravee.
 * The ELS-upgraded version may also be flat-out immune to the Moonlight Butterfly. Technology-destroying nanites versus the ELS's shapechanging, regeneration and assimialtion is probably going to be a stalemate. Best case scenario for the Turn A in a fight with ELS!Quant is the regeneration function canceling assimilation and the ELS negating the Moonlight Butterfly.


 * The only means Setsuna had of communicating with the ELS was Veda: It was needed to process the large volume of information the ELS were sending into his brain. That established, how was the Veda terminal in the 00 Qan[T] able to function light years away from the Earth, when Setsuna needed to go to the ELS home world in order to understand them better?
 * Quantum communication is presumably instantaneous and perfect, regardless of things like range and light-speed delay.


 * So did... did Tieria just kinda be off with Setsuna during the 50 year time skip? Like, just uploaded to the 00 Quan[T]? Poor guy.
 * If, as the above question supposes, quantum communication is instantaneous, then Tieria could easily jump back and forth between the Qan[T] and Veda back in the Earth Sphere without missing too much on either end.