Quote Originally Posted by Kraco
I reckon Eifman only noticed some theoretic possibility there, nothing more. Billy probably found a way to apply that theoretic observation. If it's the trans-am, it only means something that has been done throughout the human history many times over: Something developed independently in two different places.
Except...there's a flaw with this development.

Eifman himself hypothesized that the GN drives exist from a thought-lost expedition to Jupiter. That the "surface imperfections" (I believe the translation used) on the inside of the GN drive were only possible to create in that environment. That's when he made the connection, and immediately the message appeared on his screen, and the Thrones killed him.

There simply was no time for him to have sent this data anywhere, especially home. He wasn't dictating to his backup drives at home (Billy said he found notes, I don't know if the word used in Japanese indicated hard copies or electronic).

Billy should not have been able to have any research to build this upon.

If he had said, "I made this up myself after studying more of the Gundam's movements, it should make you equivalent to a Gundam," maybe I would understand. Billy is supposed to be uber-smart. (Not enough to figure out his drunken sex slave was a member of CB). But having gotten this information from Eifman is total bullshit.

Billy shouldn't even know it's called "Trans-Am."

The only way this would have been possible is if Ribbons leaked it all out. If that were the case, Innovators would certainly be the first to have this.