GN Beta Drive

== Overview== The GN Beta drive is a derivative of the GN Alpha drives used by Celestial Being's primary Gundams. Three Beta drives were produced for use by "Sundial Group," a subsidiary of Celestial Being similar to the "Fareshte" organization.

The Beta drive is smaller than the Alpha drives used by Celestial Being's main Gundams, and the Tau drives later used in mass-produced Mobile Suits. While the Beta drive is capable of indefinite GN particle generation, its rate of output exceeds its rate of generation, limiting its operational time to 48 hours before needing to stop and allow it to regenerate its GN particle reserves.

Production
Unlike the Alpha drives, the Beta drives were not manufactured in a high-gravity Jovian environment. Instead, they were manufactured in a simulated high gravity environment within a small Celestial Being asteroid base set into a slingshot orbit, allowing the asteroid's centrifugal* force to provide high artificial gravity.


 * Don't worry, physics/engineering majors, I'm fully aware that "centrifugal force" isn't really a thing, and is simply a means of expressing two opposing inertial forces in motion. -OP

Design
The GN Beta drive was designed by Geoff Herndon (Tekka Croe) for use in his original Gundam 00 side-story: ''Gundam Dawn. ''Its tri-axial design (as well as the exploded view presented in the reference art) was influenced by the GN drives mounted in the 00 Gundam