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The Zock plan is finalized on August 23, shortly after the Battle of Midway. The Acguy plan is finalized on August 2, one month before its experimental deployment begins. Full-scale mass production and deployment of amphibious mobile suits begins in July. The Z'Gok plan is finalized on April 30, shortly before the deployment of the Gogg. What that last item suggests is that some of these mysterious "rollout dates" on the Japanese timelines may actually work better as the date the plan was drafted. The Acguy's development plan was drafted after that of the Z'Gok, but its experimental combat deployment began in September, only one month after the drafting of the plan. We're told that Zimmad began development of amphibious mobile suits (namely the Z'Gok) one month after the Gogg. The Zeon Military File CD-ROM has some more hints. The Mobile Suit Museum Catalog also says that the first shipment of the Z'Gok from the California Base takes place in August, prior to an attack on the Jaburo base - presumably the one that EB 39 says takes place in September. What's more, the Acguy is supposed to have been completed pretty quickly relative to the Z'Gok. In this case, the rollout date for the Gogg could be plausible, but that of the Z'Gok isn't. As per EB 39, the Battle of Midway (August 11-14) was the first use of them in a major battle. There's also a general consensus that the Gogg was initially deployed in late May, and mass production and full-scale deployment of the MSM series began in July. is that Zeon essentially began development of amphibious mobile suits when it launched the Earth invasion operation in February, U.C. The current claim, from the MG kit manuals etc. I touched on the Gogg's development history in this thread. MSM-04 Acguy production start: August 2, U.C. YMS-09 Prototype Dom rollout: June 4, U.C. Many of the timelines on the Japanese and Chinese fan sites include the following dates. There's one set of data whose source continues to elude me, though. (After all, we now know when the animated version of Unicorn ends.) As part of this, I've been poring over a lot of the old obsolete timelines that have been absorbed into the current versions, and after all these years I've managed to obtain a copy of B-Club issue 50, which has some rare timeline info about the Char's Counterattack mobile suits. So I'm working on a big overhaul of my UC timeline.
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