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Although they were saying that 10,000 years had past since the start of the Universal Century... Which has me a bit confused then -- they said 2000 years has passed since Earth went to hell. Which means that the UC lasted for 8000 years to that point? So they're saying it was like 7800 more years of space conflicts after all of the UC Gundam series' wrapped up before this? Where does that leave Gundam X then, which was "After Colony 15" or whatever?
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The implication is that Earth's "Dark History" is an endless cycle of technological development & regressions. UC ended with the departure of the colonies from the Earth sphere, which apparently led to one of these technological regressions, while the creation of the Turn A and the activation of the Moonlight Butterfly led to another.
Most people think that Gundam X (along with G Gundam and Gundam Wing, both of which have brief cameos in this show also) should take place somewhere in between those two events.
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Stuff doesn't seem to add up that they would use basically the same Zaku design for 8000 years. And if only a few of the colonies were dropped on Earth and many survived, why did the "Moonrace" technology regress apparently compared to some of the excavated tech?
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The Zakus and other dug up suits were deliberately buried by previous inhabitants of Earth and were protected by nanites so they would not deteriorate (that's why they were able to last for thousands of years). (IIRC they either wanted to preserve them as another form of Dark History or some other cheesy reason)
And as for the Moonrace, the lack of warfare and competition probably led to a decline in mobile suit designs in the thousand year between the last MB event and now.