Mobile Suit Gundam Eight - Vol. 1 Ch. 1

[MangaDex]

 

[Mathias]

Had to previously look for this chapter on another site. Love it when Gundam actually includes aliens.
Thanks for the read.

 

[mysteana]

Re-reading Ch.1 makes me wonder even more on how did we get from long-term/generational exploration ship preparation, internal politics, and terrorism to "Four years later, Earth has been eradicated by aliens. Humanity is facing extinction or at least one hellaluva of a genetic bottleneck event, and MMC may or may not have knocked up FMC"

 

[drvfd]

Reading the first chapter reminds me of Muv Luv, when earth get overrun by beta

 

[Mathias]

Re-reading Ch.1 makes me wonder even more on how did we get from long-term/generational exploration ship preparation, internal politics, and terrorism to "Four years later, Earth has been eradicated by aliens. Humanity is facing extinction or at least one hellaluva of a genetic bottleneck event, and MMC may or may not have knocked up FMC"

It's totally the Space Whale thing they got in ch.2. It's all connected.
But what interests me is the chain of events that led to this.

 

[mysteana]

It's totally the Space Whale thing they got in ch.2. It's all connected.
But what interests me is the chain of events that led to this.

Oh totally, the alien space whale is absolutely the genesis of what's going to go wrong. But as you said, HOW did it get there is the interesting bit

 

[MonstaMaps]

it's like gundam crossed with knights of sidonia

 

[TheWritingWriter]

„Please stay safe“ yeah something tells me he won’t. Can’t say if it’s because he‘s being surrounded by aliens in a severely damaged MS tho

 

[arcsalvo]

If humanity's down to 236 people, unless the advances in biology also include how to deal with recessive genes in such a way that inbreeding is no longer a concern... humanity's extinct anyway.

Species need about 4,000 genetically distinct people to maintain a stable population. As little as 1,000 extremely genetically distinct people capable of childbirth can apparently be okay for several generations, but only if they rejoin a larger population eventually, and the breeding pairs need to be picked very carefully to minimize inbreeding.

That's one of the issues with post apocalyptic settings that so many authors don't think about. The sheer amount of genetically distinct people needed to keep healthy populations alive and viable. It's one of the main reasons why there wasn't more conflict and fighting amongst humanity in the past. If you need your neighbors to keep your genetics different enough not to have inbreeding problems, you can't fight them all the time.

Peace and trade are necessary just to make it safe to have children, and for those children not to die of hemophilia or sickle cell anemia or other inbreeding diseases and such.

 

[Wanderer00]

So i wonder, is it worth for me to get into this? I'm not really a fan of stories where the MC dies at the end, which looks likely here, and unless they find a miraculous solution humanity looks doomed too with only 258 left.