Quote Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
I'm finding it entirely plausible Billy came up with a way to manifest Trans Am, and basically every point Kraco said.

First thing I'd like to clarify with Ryll is where did they say the stuff about "surface imperfection"? And what was that in regards to?

From what we saw in Season 1, the only difference between Fake and Real GN drives was the self-regenerating ability. The power output was the same, or even superior when you look at Nena's suit. The key was the recharge.
I do my best not to repeat what I can't back up.

Gundam 00 Season 1 Eps 17. 16:24-17:03. Eifman is immediately killed afterwards. All of these thoughts are internal. I will admit that he is typing on a computer, so there is the remote possibility that this was linked to his computer back home, allowing Billy to find these "notes." The screen displays information on the GN particles.

Herein, Eifman hypothesizes that the ONLY place true GN drives can be developed is Jupiter, and that they must be 120 years old from the mission back then. He determines Aoelia Schernberg's true goal, and then his computer blanks out. Depending on your point of view, one could assume that his session there was destroyed, the notes lost or that he was fast enough to hit 'save' and send it on home before the Trinities blasted him to atoms. However, assuming his computer was hijacked by Alejandro (more likely Ribbons or another Innovator), the data was more likely lost than sent to a safe place where Billy could find it.

I did get the buzzword wrong though. It was Topological defects that make the true GN drives what they are. Superconduction, liquid crystals, magenetic flux tubes, etc.
Topological defects --> topographical defects --> surface imperfections.

Soon after that, Veda got hacked, and sent a code that unlocks Trans Am in those trusted with the original GN Drives. In other words, these GN drives were built with Trans Am built in, and previously locked, while Fake GNs didn't.

The above two points are true, but do not necessarily have a causal relationship.

1) Real GN drives being perfect -> particle regeneration
2) Real GN drives being built with locked Trans Am -> Unlockable Trans Am

The Fake GN drives still aren't perfect, and can't recharge, but that doesn't stop it having Trans Am.
It's entirely plausible that after 4 years of playing with Fake GN drives and observing such particles, the Federation would have enough data to make, in essence, a high output GN drive possible.

Added to the fact that Eifman was simply observing GN particles back in his studies to find their properties, he could have easily hypothesised something that was completely impractical (until now) while he discovered their very basic properties.

Crux: Billy said he proved Eifman's theories. It could have been as simple as "Based on the observed properties, GN particles seemed to be influenced by X, and by manipulating X, GN drive output may increase."

Billy would have had to both prove and implement that. Eifman came up with a thought. Billy carried it though.
DDBen and I are not denying that Billy could have figured out Trans-Am. What we are calling bullshit is that Billy claimed Eifman led him there. (And that he even knows the name for it.)

There are plenty of ways that a Fake GN drive could pull off Trans-Am. Nena's fake GN drive had an absurd capacity/output, far surpassing anything the Gundams could do until the 00-Raiser came into being. I could go into the Thrones having red GN particles versus the fake-GN drives having orange GN particles all day, but we'll save that for another time.

While it is too soon to say how the Trans-Graham is supposed to work since he only turned it on as the eps ended, one thing had damn well better happen. Since the Weeaboo Masarou doesn't have a regenerating drive, that mobile suit had better drop like a fucking brick when Trans-Graham runs out. His GN drive should be completely dead. Gundams run on low power and struggle to rebuild GN particles as 'only they can' [Eifman, s1e17 16:24-16:45, Sunrise Inc. 2008].

The Throne GN drives can't regenerate, the fake GN drives can't regenerate. They exhaust that much power that quickly, they won't run. We saw a little bit of that in the Thrones last season.