| White Base | |
|---|---|
| First appearance | Mobile Suit Gundam Ep. #01, "Gundam Rising" |
| Information | |
| Affiliation | Earth Federation |
| Launched | UC 0079 |
| Combat vehicles | RX-78-2 Gundam, RX-77 Guncannon, RX-75 Guntank FF-X7 Core Fighter × 6, FF-X7-Bst Core Booster × 2 |
| Auxiliary vehicles | Gunperry transport plane × 1, launch shuttle × 2 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class | Pegasus Assault carrier |
| Registry | SCV-70 |
| Armaments | 580mm dual main cannon Dual-barrel mega-particle cannon × 2 Bow missile launcher × 24 Stern missile launcher × 6 |
| Defenses | Anti-aircraft machine gun × 36[1] |
| Maximum speed | Mach 12 (atmospheric flight)[2] |
| Propulsion | Thermonuclear rocket engine x 8, Minovsky Craft System |
| Power | 404,525 kW / 550,000 hp |
| Mass | 68,000 tons[2] |
| Length | 262 metres (860 ft)[3] |
| Width | 202.5 metres (664 ft)[3] |
| Height | 93 metres (305 ft)[3] |
The SCV-70 White Base (ホワイトベース Howaito Bēsu), also nicknamed Trojan Horse (木馬 Mokuba), is a fictional spaceship from the Japanese science fiction anime series Mobile Suit Gundam. It serves as the mothership of the protagonist Earth Federation crew members and the famous RX-78-2 Gundam mobile suit. Various spin-offs are designed after it, including a whole class of ships called the Pegasus-class assault carrier, and it has inspired ships in the sequels like the Argama-class in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam and Archangel-class in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED.[4]
Other non-Gundam spaceships, such as the transformed mode of Fortress Maximus from the Transformers series, are possibly also inspired by White Base's design.
- ^ "Gundam Official: White Base". Bandai America, Inc. Archived from the original on April 18, 2009. Retrieved July 25, 2009.
- ^ a b 『アニメック』第6号、ラポート、1979年8月、18頁。
- ^ a b c Kunio Okawara・Kenichi Matsuzaki監修『ファンタスティックコレクション・スペシャル 機動戦士ガンダム・マニュアル』朝日ソノラマ、1981年3月。
- ^ Otona no Gundam Perfect, Nekkei Entertainment