Quote Originally Posted by masamuneehs
Right, that's the problem. The Gundams need to put in work down on the ground, or wherever else they're needed. You might as well make another Gundam than build a solar furnace for a freaking ship that doesn't do anything (unless you just want it to be captured).

Like i said before, there really is no need for a flagship except to house Veda and Sumeragi. They can supply the Gundams without it, as we've seen, and communicate mission orders to them.

A Gundam purely to defend the ship is also an absurd waste of resources and further proves that having a flagship is just a bad idea in the first place.
except in having the gundams come back to space to recharge the ship they are send in cargo containers why they are not maned making them extremely easy to capture. Thats a enourmous risk.

One would imagine if the ship had its own power supply they could at least give it some weapons to defend itself instead of a shield with a very finite amount of power.

Also a Gundam for defense would be more of a last resort the pilot doesn't have to be perfect for a unit that doesn't have to actively go seeking out combat. To find the ship period it cost absurd amounts of money because they had to use thousands of probes to do it and they still failed completely.

Also your correct there is no reason for the ship they have its certainly not a flagship its a transport. A flagship would be a active warship that thing only has shields and is clearly not needed in any way for the missions they have completed so far. It does provide a place to hide the gundams in space and repair/upgrade them at least. Still it seems moronic to have a Gundam repair bay that requires them transporting the Gundams in crates up one of three elevators controlled by the enemy.