Archetype (Unified Century)

The Archetypes are a pair of presumably alien corpses found on the outskirts of the Solar system. They feature heavily in the Unified Century and are the origin of the GU technology.

Characteristics
The two Archetypes found are a massive, amorphous mass of ostensibly living metal, capable of assimilating any object they come into contact with. However, this ability is reduced by the lack of conscious control the masses have, making them clinically dead and causing them to be classified as corpses despite the living metal itself still being somewhat active.

List of Active Archetypes

 * Archetype 01 - originally discovered by the Earth Sphere Federation, it was turned over to Celestial Being after an attempted robbery of it by Red Knife. Much of the original mass was used to create GU-based technologies, while the rest was used for a testbed GU-based mobile suit; GU-0 CED Gundam. 01 would end up being traded over various mobile suits, ending in GU-000F CED Fafnir.
 * Archetype 02 - original discovered with 01, 02 was stolen by Red Knife and experimented with, eventually coming upon GU particles and their later applied technologies. The original mass of the 02 was taken from it to produce many of Red Knife's mobile suits, namely the mass production ASO-1 Flag OP unit. 02 would be put into the ASO-GU AT Gundam before being traded to the GU-0000 EVA Gundam and finally the GU-000F EVA Fafnir.

Trivia

 * The Archetypes are supposed to be the Unified Century equivalent to the ELS featured in the movie Mobile Suit Gundam 00 -A Wakening of the Trailblazer-.