Kludgeocracy refers to the hidden costs of government complexity. It was coined by Steven Teles in his paper
Passages
:Similar stories could be told in a variety of other policy areas, where liberals got bigger government, but conservatives funneled benefits to business while keeping liberals from reaping political credit. The conclusion of the last three decades of ideological trench warfare is that the American public got a more active, but also incoherent and frequently ineffective, state. - Steven Teles
:Conservatives over the last few years have increasingly claimed that America is, in Hayek’s terms, on the road to serfdom. This is ridiculous, for it ascribes vastly greater coherence to American government than we have ever achieved. If anything, we have arrived at a form of government with no ideological justification whatsoever. - Steven Teles
:Making kludgeocracy into a recognized public problem will be an uphill battle. First, ordinary citizens need to be helped to see the problem, to recognize its manifestations in their ordinary lives. When they get frustrated trying to figure their way through federal education aid programs, or flustered trying to understand their taxes, or perplexed at the complications of our civil litigation system, they need to recognize their problem as a part of a larger system that connects up to other, seemingly unconnected grievances. This is, quintessentially, the work of public intellectuals, bloggers, researchers, and entrepreneurial politicians. Only the shapers of public debate can help the public recognize that the source of the insider dealing and special interest politics they detest is the policy complexity that their own ideological incoherence helps to create. - Steven Teles
:Only, in short, when Americans give a name to their pain — kludgeocracy — are we likely to get a government that is simpler, more effective, and better for democracy. - Steven Teles
See Also
*Demonstrated preference
*Government success
*Other people's money
*Privatizing profits and socializing losses
*Rational ignorance
*Rent seeking
*Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor
*Tax choice
*The Logic of Collective Action
Passages
:Similar stories could be told in a variety of other policy areas, where liberals got bigger government, but conservatives funneled benefits to business while keeping liberals from reaping political credit. The conclusion of the last three decades of ideological trench warfare is that the American public got a more active, but also incoherent and frequently ineffective, state. - Steven Teles
:Conservatives over the last few years have increasingly claimed that America is, in Hayek’s terms, on the road to serfdom. This is ridiculous, for it ascribes vastly greater coherence to American government than we have ever achieved. If anything, we have arrived at a form of government with no ideological justification whatsoever. - Steven Teles
:Making kludgeocracy into a recognized public problem will be an uphill battle. First, ordinary citizens need to be helped to see the problem, to recognize its manifestations in their ordinary lives. When they get frustrated trying to figure their way through federal education aid programs, or flustered trying to understand their taxes, or perplexed at the complications of our civil litigation system, they need to recognize their problem as a part of a larger system that connects up to other, seemingly unconnected grievances. This is, quintessentially, the work of public intellectuals, bloggers, researchers, and entrepreneurial politicians. Only the shapers of public debate can help the public recognize that the source of the insider dealing and special interest politics they detest is the policy complexity that their own ideological incoherence helps to create. - Steven Teles
:Only, in short, when Americans give a name to their pain — kludgeocracy — are we likely to get a government that is simpler, more effective, and better for democracy. - Steven Teles
See Also
*Demonstrated preference
*Government success
*Other people's money
*Privatizing profits and socializing losses
*Rational ignorance
*Rent seeking
*Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor
*Tax choice
*The Logic of Collective Action
Bill Ellis is a professor, author and researcher who contributes to the Journal of American Folklore (JAF).
Biography
William Ellis was born January 3, 1950 in Roanoke, VA and spent his childhood in Roanoke, as well as in Portsmouth, Ohio when his father was transferred to a section branch with the Norfolk & Western Railway. Growing up in Ohio, he was introduced to many stories, especially those told by his family, which had a strong respect for ‘traditionality.’
Folklore
He became interested in folklore while an undergraduate at the University of Virginia. His main interest was in Medieval Studies, for which he received a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in June 1972. He chose to attend graduate school at Ohio State University due to a group of talented faculty members in Medieval Studies, such as Francis Lee Utley, who led the group. Dr. Ellis took his first folklore course when many of the faculty were unavailable for him to study under. The folklore course helped him understand that many of the things that interested him about medieval literature were still current in contemporary folklore, with the difference being that the folk elements in medieval literature had been studied quite a bit, whereas the same things in contemporary folklore were not being studied at all. So, at a fairly late point in his graduate career, he changed his dissertation to a subject in folklore, and in December 1973, he graduated with a Master of Arts (M.A.) in English. He continued his education at the Ohio State University and in August 1978, he received his Ph.D. in English. Since then, he has been an influential folklorist whose work has gravitated toward folk-belief and contemporary legend. He has been working at the Pennsylvania State University (PSU), since 1990, as a professor in English and American Studies, and is currently teaching with the PSU World Campus.
Even though he is affiliated with the Lutheran Church, he does not write his books from a doctrinaire Lutheran point of view. He is a fact-by-fact ethnographer and historian who conducts his research based on its cultural importance to society. One aspect of Dr. Ellis’ work is the way in which he argues that there is an element of the human mind that wants to mythologize or romanticize the world we live in. He states, “the mundane is what we contend with and deal with on a daily basis, but in order to live we need to have some kind of devil’s half-acre where we can go and we can have some kind of out-of-the-normal adventure, but in a way that is strategically designed so that It doesn’t become too intense and it doesn’t become a replacement for everyday reality.”
Dr. Ellis has advancedthe understanding of what Linda Degh and Andrew Vazsonyi called, ostension. Dr. Ellis describes ostension as “literally enacting part of a narrative.” He has discussed ostension in depth and was instrumental in getting it into the mainstream, as well as demonstrating that it is widely adaptable in different contexts, other than what was originally implied. He was also instrumental in the work he did for the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research (ISCLR), where he was the editor of the FOAFTale News from 1989 to 1994, and as the President from 1994 to 1999. His editorial job with ISCLR helped to hold the group together, and made it clear that the ISCLR was doing important work that needed to be done. The work conducted by ISCLR broke out of the insular English folklore studied by English scholars, and American folklore studied by American scholars. In other words, it made folklore much more of an international discipline.
Ellis states that “folklore is the part of culture that people choose to preserve,” and this choice is important. “As soon as you choose not to do something, it simply disappears, but if somebody forces to do something it’s not folklore either.” Folklore is a relatively new discipline, first proposed by William Thoms on August 12, 1846. Therefore, it’s still being defined and is still misunderstood. Part of the reason is that the methodologies being used in folklore “are mystifying and poorly understood by those who are actually evaluating our work,” says Dr. Ellis, and the folklorist’s “main responsibility is to get people to understand the significance of the things that they do and take for granted on a daily basis. We all tend to be farsighted. We can see the significance of other peoples’ cultures very easily because we recognize the differences, but we live and we swim in our contemporary life, and, like a fish that doesn’t understand what water is, most people don’t understand what folklore is. So, it’s the folklorist’s job to look at the normal mundane everyday sorts of things, which are immensely important, because they’re the things that people choose to do and continue to do on a daily basis.”
Education
Ph.D. Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (English), August 1978.
M.A. Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (English), December 1973.
B.A. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (English), June 1972.
Work experience
Fall/2008 - Present - Instructor, American Attitudes Toward Religion and Business Writing, The Pennsylvania State University World Campus,
University Park, PA.
Fall/2009 - Professor, Basic Writing, Wor-Wic Community College, Salisbury, MD.
2004-2009 - Professor, English/American Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, Hazleton, PA.
2006-07 - Visiting Professor, English, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. (2 courses, one on folklore and Japanese manga/anime and one on contemporary legend)
1990-2004 - Associate Professor, English/American Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, Hazleton, PA.
1984-1990 - Assistant Professor, English/American Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, Hazleton, PA.
1982-1983 - Supervisor, Center for Textual Studies, Ohio State Library, Columbus, OH.
1982 - Visiting Assistant Professor, Folklore Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (summer course on midwestern folklore)
1973-82 - Graduate Teaching Assistant/Lecturer, Ohio State University, various campuses
Community Services/Committees
Information Director and Webmaster, Eastern Shore Chapter, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans (a religious-based fraternal organization).
Curator/Webmaster, Sensei's Anime Gallery, a web-based exhibition of Japanese animation art. Available: http://sensei.rubberslug.com/gallery/home.asp
Awards
Commonwealth College, Penn State University - Excellence in Academic Integration Award for extraordinary achievement in the integration of teaching, research, and service, April 2004.
Hazleton Campus, Penn State University - Butler Technology and Teaching Award for excellence in using computer-mediated instruction in the classroom and demonstrating its effect in promoting student learning, May 2001.
Works
The Global Grapevine: Why Rumors and Legends about Immigrants, Terrorists, and Foreign Trade Matter. Coauthored with Gary Alan Fine (Northwestern University). New York: Oxford University Press, in production.
“Whispers in an Ice Cream Parlor: Culinary Tourism, Contemporary Legends, and the Urban Interzone.” Journal of American Folklore 122 (2009): 53-74.
"Sleeping Beauty Awakens Herself: Folklore and Gender Inversion in Cardcaptor Sakura." The Japanification of Children's Popular Culture: From Godzilla to Spirited Away. Ed. Mark I. West, pp. 249-266. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2008.
“Death by Folklore: Ostension, Contemporary Legend, and Murder,” Western Folklore 48, no. 3 (July 1989): 201-220.
“The Devil-Worshippers at the Prom: Rumor-Panic as Therapeutic Magic,” Western Folklore 49, no. 1 (January 1990): 27-49.
“The Highgate Cemetery Vampire Hunt: The Anglo-American Connection in Satanic Cult Lore,” Folklore 104, no. 1/2 (1993): 13-39.
“Kurt E. Koch and the "Civitas Diaboli": Germanic Folk Healing as Satanic Ritual Abuse of Children,” Western Folklore 54, no. 2 (April 1995): 77-94.
Lucifer Ascending: The Occult in Folk and Popular Culture. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2003.
Making a Big Apple Crumble: The Role of Humor in Constructing a Global Response to Disaster. New Directions in Folklore 6 (June 2002). Available: http://www.temple.edu/english/isllc/newFolk/journal_archive.html#sixth.
Aliens, Ghosts, and Cults: Legends We Live. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2001.
Raising the Devil: Satanism, New Religions, and the Media. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2000.
Biography
William Ellis was born January 3, 1950 in Roanoke, VA and spent his childhood in Roanoke, as well as in Portsmouth, Ohio when his father was transferred to a section branch with the Norfolk & Western Railway. Growing up in Ohio, he was introduced to many stories, especially those told by his family, which had a strong respect for ‘traditionality.’
Folklore
He became interested in folklore while an undergraduate at the University of Virginia. His main interest was in Medieval Studies, for which he received a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in June 1972. He chose to attend graduate school at Ohio State University due to a group of talented faculty members in Medieval Studies, such as Francis Lee Utley, who led the group. Dr. Ellis took his first folklore course when many of the faculty were unavailable for him to study under. The folklore course helped him understand that many of the things that interested him about medieval literature were still current in contemporary folklore, with the difference being that the folk elements in medieval literature had been studied quite a bit, whereas the same things in contemporary folklore were not being studied at all. So, at a fairly late point in his graduate career, he changed his dissertation to a subject in folklore, and in December 1973, he graduated with a Master of Arts (M.A.) in English. He continued his education at the Ohio State University and in August 1978, he received his Ph.D. in English. Since then, he has been an influential folklorist whose work has gravitated toward folk-belief and contemporary legend. He has been working at the Pennsylvania State University (PSU), since 1990, as a professor in English and American Studies, and is currently teaching with the PSU World Campus.
Even though he is affiliated with the Lutheran Church, he does not write his books from a doctrinaire Lutheran point of view. He is a fact-by-fact ethnographer and historian who conducts his research based on its cultural importance to society. One aspect of Dr. Ellis’ work is the way in which he argues that there is an element of the human mind that wants to mythologize or romanticize the world we live in. He states, “the mundane is what we contend with and deal with on a daily basis, but in order to live we need to have some kind of devil’s half-acre where we can go and we can have some kind of out-of-the-normal adventure, but in a way that is strategically designed so that It doesn’t become too intense and it doesn’t become a replacement for everyday reality.”
Dr. Ellis has advancedthe understanding of what Linda Degh and Andrew Vazsonyi called, ostension. Dr. Ellis describes ostension as “literally enacting part of a narrative.” He has discussed ostension in depth and was instrumental in getting it into the mainstream, as well as demonstrating that it is widely adaptable in different contexts, other than what was originally implied. He was also instrumental in the work he did for the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research (ISCLR), where he was the editor of the FOAFTale News from 1989 to 1994, and as the President from 1994 to 1999. His editorial job with ISCLR helped to hold the group together, and made it clear that the ISCLR was doing important work that needed to be done. The work conducted by ISCLR broke out of the insular English folklore studied by English scholars, and American folklore studied by American scholars. In other words, it made folklore much more of an international discipline.
Ellis states that “folklore is the part of culture that people choose to preserve,” and this choice is important. “As soon as you choose not to do something, it simply disappears, but if somebody forces to do something it’s not folklore either.” Folklore is a relatively new discipline, first proposed by William Thoms on August 12, 1846. Therefore, it’s still being defined and is still misunderstood. Part of the reason is that the methodologies being used in folklore “are mystifying and poorly understood by those who are actually evaluating our work,” says Dr. Ellis, and the folklorist’s “main responsibility is to get people to understand the significance of the things that they do and take for granted on a daily basis. We all tend to be farsighted. We can see the significance of other peoples’ cultures very easily because we recognize the differences, but we live and we swim in our contemporary life, and, like a fish that doesn’t understand what water is, most people don’t understand what folklore is. So, it’s the folklorist’s job to look at the normal mundane everyday sorts of things, which are immensely important, because they’re the things that people choose to do and continue to do on a daily basis.”
Education
Ph.D. Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (English), August 1978.
M.A. Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (English), December 1973.
B.A. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (English), June 1972.
Work experience
Fall/2008 - Present - Instructor, American Attitudes Toward Religion and Business Writing, The Pennsylvania State University World Campus,
University Park, PA.
Fall/2009 - Professor, Basic Writing, Wor-Wic Community College, Salisbury, MD.
2004-2009 - Professor, English/American Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, Hazleton, PA.
2006-07 - Visiting Professor, English, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. (2 courses, one on folklore and Japanese manga/anime and one on contemporary legend)
1990-2004 - Associate Professor, English/American Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, Hazleton, PA.
1984-1990 - Assistant Professor, English/American Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, Hazleton, PA.
1982-1983 - Supervisor, Center for Textual Studies, Ohio State Library, Columbus, OH.
1982 - Visiting Assistant Professor, Folklore Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (summer course on midwestern folklore)
1973-82 - Graduate Teaching Assistant/Lecturer, Ohio State University, various campuses
Community Services/Committees
Information Director and Webmaster, Eastern Shore Chapter, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans (a religious-based fraternal organization).
Curator/Webmaster, Sensei's Anime Gallery, a web-based exhibition of Japanese animation art. Available: http://sensei.rubberslug.com/gallery/home.asp
Awards
Commonwealth College, Penn State University - Excellence in Academic Integration Award for extraordinary achievement in the integration of teaching, research, and service, April 2004.
Hazleton Campus, Penn State University - Butler Technology and Teaching Award for excellence in using computer-mediated instruction in the classroom and demonstrating its effect in promoting student learning, May 2001.
Works
The Global Grapevine: Why Rumors and Legends about Immigrants, Terrorists, and Foreign Trade Matter. Coauthored with Gary Alan Fine (Northwestern University). New York: Oxford University Press, in production.
“Whispers in an Ice Cream Parlor: Culinary Tourism, Contemporary Legends, and the Urban Interzone.” Journal of American Folklore 122 (2009): 53-74.
"Sleeping Beauty Awakens Herself: Folklore and Gender Inversion in Cardcaptor Sakura." The Japanification of Children's Popular Culture: From Godzilla to Spirited Away. Ed. Mark I. West, pp. 249-266. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2008.
“Death by Folklore: Ostension, Contemporary Legend, and Murder,” Western Folklore 48, no. 3 (July 1989): 201-220.
“The Devil-Worshippers at the Prom: Rumor-Panic as Therapeutic Magic,” Western Folklore 49, no. 1 (January 1990): 27-49.
“The Highgate Cemetery Vampire Hunt: The Anglo-American Connection in Satanic Cult Lore,” Folklore 104, no. 1/2 (1993): 13-39.
“Kurt E. Koch and the "Civitas Diaboli": Germanic Folk Healing as Satanic Ritual Abuse of Children,” Western Folklore 54, no. 2 (April 1995): 77-94.
Lucifer Ascending: The Occult in Folk and Popular Culture. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2003.
Making a Big Apple Crumble: The Role of Humor in Constructing a Global Response to Disaster. New Directions in Folklore 6 (June 2002). Available: http://www.temple.edu/english/isllc/newFolk/journal_archive.html#sixth.
Aliens, Ghosts, and Cults: Legends We Live. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2001.
Raising the Devil: Satanism, New Religions, and the Media. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2000.
VMproject is a project management software created by the company VersusMind based in Nancy, France. Since 2009, the company has a second office in Luxembourg.
VMproject is a SaaS software (Software as a Service) accessible online so it doesn’t need to be installed. It has a forward-looking view that calculates the time depending on what it had been expected and what it has happened in fact. This view adjusts in real time the time and the budget linked to each task in order to show what it is the most probable to happen.
The software is also available in French.
The various view
There are various possible view in VMproject :
My view
This view permits to visualize various tasks, expenses, allocated time, meetings and files linked to projects. It also has a logbook “What’s up ?” where all the actions made on the project appear and where each member of the project can write a comment. You can display all the elements of all the projects or only of one project.
Planning
The various tasks and under-tasks of a project are displayed in a Gantt chart. So, it’s easier to see the progress of each of them. It’s possible to put a constraint between two tasks or to move elements of a project in another project. You also can manage the Gantt chart either making modifications directly on the chart or using the control board below.
Dashboard
The dashboard is the part that gathers all the numerical information of the project. They are sorted out and organized into charts. When we select a project, the charts show :
- The progress of the projects
- The overdue tasks
- The monthly planned workloads
- The planned and the real budget
- The statement of the tasks
When we only select one project, the charts show :
- The rest of the workloads
- The evolution of the budget
- The plan of the workloads
- The progress of the project
- The workloads depending on each under-project
- The statement of the tasks
- The workloads per resource
- The workloads per resource per week
- The planned and the real budget
- The difference between the budget and the planning
Reports
This view is only accessible for the manager of the account and the project manager. It permits to generate hourly, general and monthly reports concerning the work made by the team on one or several projects.
This view also permits to visualize the distribution of the work per resource and per month.
VMproject is a SaaS software (Software as a Service) accessible online so it doesn’t need to be installed. It has a forward-looking view that calculates the time depending on what it had been expected and what it has happened in fact. This view adjusts in real time the time and the budget linked to each task in order to show what it is the most probable to happen.
The software is also available in French.
The various view
There are various possible view in VMproject :
My view
This view permits to visualize various tasks, expenses, allocated time, meetings and files linked to projects. It also has a logbook “What’s up ?” where all the actions made on the project appear and where each member of the project can write a comment. You can display all the elements of all the projects or only of one project.
Planning
The various tasks and under-tasks of a project are displayed in a Gantt chart. So, it’s easier to see the progress of each of them. It’s possible to put a constraint between two tasks or to move elements of a project in another project. You also can manage the Gantt chart either making modifications directly on the chart or using the control board below.
Dashboard
The dashboard is the part that gathers all the numerical information of the project. They are sorted out and organized into charts. When we select a project, the charts show :
- The progress of the projects
- The overdue tasks
- The monthly planned workloads
- The planned and the real budget
- The statement of the tasks
When we only select one project, the charts show :
- The rest of the workloads
- The evolution of the budget
- The plan of the workloads
- The progress of the project
- The workloads depending on each under-project
- The statement of the tasks
- The workloads per resource
- The workloads per resource per week
- The planned and the real budget
- The difference between the budget and the planning
Reports
This view is only accessible for the manager of the account and the project manager. It permits to generate hourly, general and monthly reports concerning the work made by the team on one or several projects.
This view also permits to visualize the distribution of the work per resource and per month.
This is a list of fictional weapons from the Japanese anime television series Mobile Suit Gundam.
Protagonists (Earth Federation)
Mobile suits
Gundam
2 vulcan machine guns in the head
2 beam sabers on back (one can be used as a beam lance)
1 beam rifle
The RX-78 is the new mobile suit that the Earth Federation has invented and it is piloted by Amuro Ray. It has self learning capabilities that allow it to learn in battle. It will remember what it does and how it fought before and allow it to adapt to battle conditions. The Gundam has multiple transformations and with its new upgrades it can change to G-bull and other forms.
Guncannon
Guntank
GM
Other
Ball
Antagonists (Zeon)
Mobile suits
Zaku I
Zaku II
Gouf
The MS-07 first appears when Ramba Ral arrives on Earth to avenge the death of Garma Zabi. Ramba Ral and the Gouf proves to be a formidable foe for the White Base crew, as it is far more powerful than the Zakus that the crew have fought, up until that point. The Gouf is armed with a 75 mm machine gun hand and "heat rod", which could be used as a superheated slicing weapon or as a grappling weapon with a powerful electric shock effect. It also has a powerful heat sword, an improved heat-based weapon from the Zaku's heat hawk. The Gouf could also use the standard Zaku II weapons, such as 120 mm machine gun or 280 mm bazooka. Amuro in the Gundam eventually destroy Ramba Ral's Gouf, however the mobile suit soon becomes a mainstay of the Zeon ground forces.
Dom
The MS-09 is the successor to the Zaku II and Gouf mobile suits, and far surpassed both in terms of performance. Developed as a heavy-type, high performance mobile suit, the Dom's chief new features included ground effect hover jets that allowed it to skim battlefield surfaces at high velocity and a torso mounted scattering beam gun used to disorient opponents. The MS-09 Dom, equipped with Zeon's latest technologies, could easily outperform the Federation's new mass production mobile suit, the RGM-79 GM. The first three Dom units shipped out were assigned to the Black Tri-Stars, who had been sent to aid Captain M'Quve's Odessa mining base. However, all three units were destroyed by Gundam's pilot Amuro Ray after only two battles.
Rick Dom
When the battle shifted back to space, the Dom was re-designed from ground combat to space combat. The space-type version, the MS-09R , had the jet engines replaced with rocket thrusters. The Dom series became the mainstay front line unit for the rest of the One Year War. It was supposed to be replaced by the excellent Gelgoog, but the war came to a close too quickly, causing the Dom series to remain the front line mobile suit until the war's end.
Gelgoog
Gyan
The YMS-15 was developed for and piloted by M'Quve, who used it during an operation in Texas Colony to lure out and destroy the RX-78-2 Gundam. The Gyan was designed for melee combat and was armed with a powerful beam sword that resembles a modern fencing sword, and a small round shield that was also capable of launching a large number of floating mines. M'Quve, during his melee with Amuro, pilots the Gyan with a style reminiscent of fencing. Despite the Gyan's upper hand in melee combat the Gundam and Amuro prove to be too powerful and the suit is destroyed along with its pilot.
Gogg
MSM-03
Acguy
Following Zimmand Company's Gogg, the Zeonic Company produced their own amphibious mobile suit for the Principality of Zeon, the MSM-04 . Acguys used many of the same parts and components as the Zaku II, including twin ultracompact fusion reactors. However, even with the twin reactors, the Acguy left only a trace heat signature, making it effective for stealth operations. Several Acguys were used on a covert mission to sneaked into the Federation's Jaburo General Headquarters and destroy the Federation's mobile suit production facilities, which were being used to produce their RGM-79 GM mobile suits.
Z'Gok
The MSM-07 is an amphibious mobile suit produced by the Principality of Zeon during the One Year War. Its design is similar to that of the Acguy, but is better armed. Its arms house beam weapons and are each tipped by three claws for melee combat. The head of the Z'Gok also fires projectiles. Notably, a team of Z'Goks attacks Jaburo during the main offensive with Char Aznable among them piloting one that is painted red.
Zock
The MSM-10 makes its sole appearance during the assault on the Earth Federation's headquarters at Jaburo in Mobile Suit Gundam. It accompanies Char Aznable and his custom Z'Gok, as well as a small assault team of amphibious mobile suits. The Zock is a larger green suit armed with four beam weapons on both sides of its torso and one on its head. The Zock is destroyed during the Jaburo attack by Amuro Ray while covering Char's retreat.
Zeong
Mobile armours
Adzam
The MAX-03 is the first mobile armour to appear in Mobile Suit Gundam. Amuro first sees the Adzam as it transports M'Quve and Kycilia Zabi during an inspection of M'Quve's mining operations around Odessa. Amuro later engages the Adzam when he attacks one of the facilities with Gundam. The Adzam nearly disables Gundam, however, the operators underestimate Gundam's durability and end their attack thinking that suit is no longer operational. This allows Gundam to break free and destroy the Adzam, though M'Quve and Kycilia survived the encounter.
Grabro
The MAM-07 is an underwater mobile armour assigned to Char's "Mad Angler" submarine squadron. It attacks White Base as the ship crosses the Atlantic Ocean and inflicts heavy damage. It is eventually destroyed by Gundam during the attack.
Bigro
After White Base leaves Jaburo to act as a decoy for the Federal Fleet, it is soon attacked by a Zanzibar-class warship commanded by Char and supported by the MA-05 and two Rick Doms. The Bigro proves to be a difficult opponent for Sayla and Amuro. But after a quick conversion to Gundam, Amuro finally destroys the mobile armour.
Zakrello
The MA-04X makes a very brief appearance following the destruction of Bigro. The Zakrello engages White Bases mobile suits in order to avenge the Bigro's fallen pilot, but is quickly dispatched by Amuro in the Gundam.
Braw Bro
MAN-03
Elmeth
The MAN-08 is the Newtype Mobile Armor piloted by Lalah Sune. It features a psy-commu control system and independent "bit" mega particle cannons that are quite deadly, as well as two mega particle cannons on the ship's main body, and is designed solely for space combat. Only a single Elmeth appears in the series, and is destroyed in combat with the Gundam.
Big Zam
The MA-08 is often seen as the most powerful defensive unit in Mobile Suit Gundam. It is the only unit equipped with an I-field generator that can block off mega-particle cannon blasts, even those fired from warships. The time limit (20 minutes) on the I-Field generator before it overheats was not seen in the anime, but only in the official guide books, since it was destroyed by the series' protagonist team before then. Its weapons consist a of massive mega-particle cannon that can easily destroy large battleships, 28 smaller mega-particle cannons, missiles, two large caliber gun, and detachable claws on its legs used for destroying aircraft. The Big Zam only appears in the anime in a single episode under the control of Dozle Zabi who uses it as a distraction to allow more time for evacuations from Solomon. The Big Zam proves to be invincible against even the Gundam until its I-Field generator is disabled by a kamikaze attack from a core fighter. Despite its lack of appearances, it often appears in video games based on the series.
Protagonists (Earth Federation)
Mobile suits
Gundam
2 vulcan machine guns in the head
2 beam sabers on back (one can be used as a beam lance)
1 beam rifle
The RX-78 is the new mobile suit that the Earth Federation has invented and it is piloted by Amuro Ray. It has self learning capabilities that allow it to learn in battle. It will remember what it does and how it fought before and allow it to adapt to battle conditions. The Gundam has multiple transformations and with its new upgrades it can change to G-bull and other forms.
Guncannon
Guntank
GM
Other
Ball
Antagonists (Zeon)
Mobile suits
Zaku I
Zaku II
Gouf
The MS-07 first appears when Ramba Ral arrives on Earth to avenge the death of Garma Zabi. Ramba Ral and the Gouf proves to be a formidable foe for the White Base crew, as it is far more powerful than the Zakus that the crew have fought, up until that point. The Gouf is armed with a 75 mm machine gun hand and "heat rod", which could be used as a superheated slicing weapon or as a grappling weapon with a powerful electric shock effect. It also has a powerful heat sword, an improved heat-based weapon from the Zaku's heat hawk. The Gouf could also use the standard Zaku II weapons, such as 120 mm machine gun or 280 mm bazooka. Amuro in the Gundam eventually destroy Ramba Ral's Gouf, however the mobile suit soon becomes a mainstay of the Zeon ground forces.
Dom
The MS-09 is the successor to the Zaku II and Gouf mobile suits, and far surpassed both in terms of performance. Developed as a heavy-type, high performance mobile suit, the Dom's chief new features included ground effect hover jets that allowed it to skim battlefield surfaces at high velocity and a torso mounted scattering beam gun used to disorient opponents. The MS-09 Dom, equipped with Zeon's latest technologies, could easily outperform the Federation's new mass production mobile suit, the RGM-79 GM. The first three Dom units shipped out were assigned to the Black Tri-Stars, who had been sent to aid Captain M'Quve's Odessa mining base. However, all three units were destroyed by Gundam's pilot Amuro Ray after only two battles.
Rick Dom
When the battle shifted back to space, the Dom was re-designed from ground combat to space combat. The space-type version, the MS-09R , had the jet engines replaced with rocket thrusters. The Dom series became the mainstay front line unit for the rest of the One Year War. It was supposed to be replaced by the excellent Gelgoog, but the war came to a close too quickly, causing the Dom series to remain the front line mobile suit until the war's end.
Gelgoog
Gyan
The YMS-15 was developed for and piloted by M'Quve, who used it during an operation in Texas Colony to lure out and destroy the RX-78-2 Gundam. The Gyan was designed for melee combat and was armed with a powerful beam sword that resembles a modern fencing sword, and a small round shield that was also capable of launching a large number of floating mines. M'Quve, during his melee with Amuro, pilots the Gyan with a style reminiscent of fencing. Despite the Gyan's upper hand in melee combat the Gundam and Amuro prove to be too powerful and the suit is destroyed along with its pilot.
Gogg
MSM-03
Acguy
Following Zimmand Company's Gogg, the Zeonic Company produced their own amphibious mobile suit for the Principality of Zeon, the MSM-04 . Acguys used many of the same parts and components as the Zaku II, including twin ultracompact fusion reactors. However, even with the twin reactors, the Acguy left only a trace heat signature, making it effective for stealth operations. Several Acguys were used on a covert mission to sneaked into the Federation's Jaburo General Headquarters and destroy the Federation's mobile suit production facilities, which were being used to produce their RGM-79 GM mobile suits.
Z'Gok
The MSM-07 is an amphibious mobile suit produced by the Principality of Zeon during the One Year War. Its design is similar to that of the Acguy, but is better armed. Its arms house beam weapons and are each tipped by three claws for melee combat. The head of the Z'Gok also fires projectiles. Notably, a team of Z'Goks attacks Jaburo during the main offensive with Char Aznable among them piloting one that is painted red.
Zock
The MSM-10 makes its sole appearance during the assault on the Earth Federation's headquarters at Jaburo in Mobile Suit Gundam. It accompanies Char Aznable and his custom Z'Gok, as well as a small assault team of amphibious mobile suits. The Zock is a larger green suit armed with four beam weapons on both sides of its torso and one on its head. The Zock is destroyed during the Jaburo attack by Amuro Ray while covering Char's retreat.
Zeong
Mobile armours
Adzam
The MAX-03 is the first mobile armour to appear in Mobile Suit Gundam. Amuro first sees the Adzam as it transports M'Quve and Kycilia Zabi during an inspection of M'Quve's mining operations around Odessa. Amuro later engages the Adzam when he attacks one of the facilities with Gundam. The Adzam nearly disables Gundam, however, the operators underestimate Gundam's durability and end their attack thinking that suit is no longer operational. This allows Gundam to break free and destroy the Adzam, though M'Quve and Kycilia survived the encounter.
Grabro
The MAM-07 is an underwater mobile armour assigned to Char's "Mad Angler" submarine squadron. It attacks White Base as the ship crosses the Atlantic Ocean and inflicts heavy damage. It is eventually destroyed by Gundam during the attack.
Bigro
After White Base leaves Jaburo to act as a decoy for the Federal Fleet, it is soon attacked by a Zanzibar-class warship commanded by Char and supported by the MA-05 and two Rick Doms. The Bigro proves to be a difficult opponent for Sayla and Amuro. But after a quick conversion to Gundam, Amuro finally destroys the mobile armour.
Zakrello
The MA-04X makes a very brief appearance following the destruction of Bigro. The Zakrello engages White Bases mobile suits in order to avenge the Bigro's fallen pilot, but is quickly dispatched by Amuro in the Gundam.
Braw Bro
MAN-03
Elmeth
The MAN-08 is the Newtype Mobile Armor piloted by Lalah Sune. It features a psy-commu control system and independent "bit" mega particle cannons that are quite deadly, as well as two mega particle cannons on the ship's main body, and is designed solely for space combat. Only a single Elmeth appears in the series, and is destroyed in combat with the Gundam.
Big Zam
The MA-08 is often seen as the most powerful defensive unit in Mobile Suit Gundam. It is the only unit equipped with an I-field generator that can block off mega-particle cannon blasts, even those fired from warships. The time limit (20 minutes) on the I-Field generator before it overheats was not seen in the anime, but only in the official guide books, since it was destroyed by the series' protagonist team before then. Its weapons consist a of massive mega-particle cannon that can easily destroy large battleships, 28 smaller mega-particle cannons, missiles, two large caliber gun, and detachable claws on its legs used for destroying aircraft. The Big Zam only appears in the anime in a single episode under the control of Dozle Zabi who uses it as a distraction to allow more time for evacuations from Solomon. The Big Zam proves to be invincible against even the Gundam until its I-Field generator is disabled by a kamikaze attack from a core fighter. Despite its lack of appearances, it often appears in video games based on the series.