Ridiculous character working for a soulless corporation that turned out to have a heart of gold. Would’ve loved to see him spread his own wings and forge his own path. But it seems he did just that by looking after his crew.
At first I thought he was just a generic angry military man, but over the course of the game he easily ranked in my top 3 favs of the game. Salute to one of the greatest soldiers on Rubicon o7
I FUCKING LOVE DADDY G1 MICHIGAN I FUCKING LOVE DADDY G1 MICHIGAN I FUCKING LOVE DADDY G1 MICHIGAN I FUCKING LOVE DADDY G1 MICHIGAN I FUCKING LOVE DADDY G1 MICHIGAN I FUCKING LOVE DADDY G1 MICHIGAN
I don’t know why but I’m so obsessed with “Intercept the Redguns” from a narrative standpoint. At this point, Balam Industries is completely screwed now that Arquebus Corporation possesses the scavenged PCA tech to drive them off-world, pretty much all the Redguns have either deserted or were killed off and many of the lesser grunts and MTs were wiped out by the Watchpoint’s defenses and mass desertions occurring and all G1 Michigan has left of his forces are his most fanatical MT squadrons taking on a pointless mission of trying to take down Raven and hopelessly charge through NEPENTHES. But does he turn tail and run? No, he orders his soldiers to charge into battle against a single pilot of mass destruction (C4-621 Raven/V.IV Rusty) for a hopeless battle in the service of an uncaring corporation and dying senseless deaths on the battlefield, par for the course in the world of Armored Core. Sure, Michigan could’ve read the room and knew this to be a lost cause and joined the withdrawal from Rubicon 3 to face the wrath of Balam’s higher ups for his failure but he’ll be damned if he wasn’t going all in to “bag the big one” and take a shot at eliminating the Wall Climber, the Worm Killer and the only G13 who has lived this long. Even when he dies, does his MT squadron break and try to flee? No, they assert that Michigan gave it his all, stand their ground and continue to fight. If 621 dies, Michigan wastes no time calling in relief teams to the front to tend to the wounded. Even Handler Walter doesn’t sound ecstatic about killing Michigan off, simply telling 621 to get the job done. They must’ve known each other back on Jupiter when Walter was sent there as a boy before the Fires of Ibis erupted. I’m almost reminded of Stannis Baratheon and his ill-fated March to Winterfell from Game of Thrones (TV Series only! Book Stannis is very different and much more successful). Forces depleted from mass desertions and facing overwhelming odds with no hope of victory but goes down fighting. I so wish there was a route to side with Balam all the way, maybe a DLC or “AC6.1” game like For Answer and Verdict Day where we have more options to side with the other factions such as the PCA or BRANCH.
I love the passion and it is a very interesting mission. After all there is a lot of story that has lead up to this point, the truth of being a mercenary is one day you will fight a friend along with as you have already written out here a load of other bits that make this almost a final page of a really good book.
Red Gun felt like anime protagonist faction. I got the feeling the student pilot is the MC while the Red Gun are pseuso family he bond with and stuff. Ofc, we exist and swiftly put a stop to that before it happen
The Red Guns was his way of giving those that needed a second chance on life when society has turned their back on them. Another interesting lore video ACL! ^_^
I love D.C. Douglas’ iconic, hammy performance as Albert Wesker, and he likewise knocked it out of the park in AC6 as a stereotypical yet endearing drill sergeant-type character.
I know him as Azrael in Blazblue, and I jokingly said to a friend (who is the one who got me into Blazblue and AC) that Azrael is actually the one piloting
If you read the huxley item description it tells you that it’s made from stolen balam tech. i personally like to think that michigan isnt lacking in the intelligence department, but rather refuses to act in balam’s best interest. As proven by how he was serving in furlong for most of his career. I personally theorize that michigan did have a part in the development of steel haze and personally handed rusty the tech needed to develop the huxley. Also evident by their little banter during the ice worm mission.
Sure i don't see anything wrong with your theory and well i think the ice worm lines where just the red gun commander surprised to see a solider doing their job well. After most of the people under Michigan's commander you could say were not skilled soldiers. But like the theory so i say go for it.
Well if we going off what we can from the war and parts, its suggested from thier parts that Furlong was winning thanks to thier missiles. So maybe Balam once they lost or managed to get peace they decided to buy from them as well if these missiles could beat them, they surly to be able to take out thier foes. But again just thoughts.
@@armoredcorelore It probably may have been Michigan himself who brokered the deal to use Furlong's weaponry. Or they might be bankrolling a third party who supplies them with the weaponry in the meantime, as Balam could be developing their own missile tech in the background.
Very possible, connections as someone once told me is very important in the business world and i imagine its the same in ac's world. But as you say may we have a third party at work here being the middle man or we dive into the world of shares like ac4 and its corporations.
I doubt that Michigan piloted Liger Tail in the Jupiter war, as it's head for example was made on Michigans request, by Balam. I doubt Balam would take a custom Order by their enemy
True, in fact as time has gone on since this video it seems either furlong was using baws armored cores or the just had the power of thier armored fleet to work with.
I will forever choose to believe his username on whatever email service Balam used was MeanOldMichigan. I saw that tease at the end, by the way. Back to NEXTs?
Like it fox eye and trying again at a video idea i did a while back with 4gen. After all Vero nork is not that heavy on lore, but they might work in another video type.
In a lot of ways, G1 Michigan is, after the original Raven and 621, the most important character for shaping the story of AC6. You briefly mention that his treatment of G5 Iguasu is a large part of the reason why G5 did what he did, which means that he's a large part of the reason that, should 621 pursue the Coral Release ending (Interestingly, also the only ending in which Michigan isn't confirmed to have died) Iguasu joins Allmind and eventually causes Coral Release.
True there are a lot of moving parts in this story that make it move. And ah yes the allmind route i admit the more i look into the more i dislike it. Don't get me wrong, its just a personal feeling about it.
Fuck i loved michigan so much... Him getting put down hurt so bad especially since if uts not us its Rusy, and Rusty also had high respect for Michigan, more than any other vesper. Really wish we could have chose balam. Killing Red in the allmond mission really hurt.. fuck i loved the red guns. I even liked Iguazu. Poor guy never seen what he was capable of, so he always thought less of himself.
Ah the world of ac, it cold, dark and people the fans like have to die. DLC could be great to expand on a lot of subjects like the Jupiter war, the four islands.
My guy used quads. How did he die of a bad fall?? 😂 L+ratiod+can't hover+get raven-ed+average Balam employee+ G13!!!!! + YOUR ABILITY TO RUIN OUR FIELDTRIPS IS UNCANNY!!!! Edit: Grammar
Arquebus: “so we get all the PCA’s ships, ACs, weapons, ammo, and bases. In return, Balam gets to fight the ice worm” G1 Michigan: “Sounds like a good deal” 😂 Maybe Walter is right. Michigan is pretty dumb.
EDIT: ITS A FAN FICTION THE AUTHOR JUST CLARIFY IN REPLY i don't know if this canon but onsub arena mod that make all unused ac content as arena fight. its revealed that one of the red gun(maybe gun10 if im remember) is michigan son. even tough he not a fighter he is more into a mechanic that doing the maintaince on ac and mt
Its something I'll have to take a look at myself. But the issue with unused content like this is it a bit of grey area in terms of lore. After all its not used in the game and was hidden away in a way that most people would not ever see it. But I'll leave that choice up to ac fans themselves about how cannon they are as i think that is the fair way to approach this.
Author of Sub-Arena mod here. I want to clarify that it's my own lore, not cut content nor do I claim that it is cut lore, G10 Mackinac while named after the strait that connects to the Michigan lake irl and a character that I like, is still a fan created character, I made him up as a pilot behind the training exercise Tetrapod AC. Likewise the callsigns of all the Redgun ACs in that mod bar Hakra's are also created by myself, but even Hakra has their AC name, backstory and weapon loadout made up by myself rather than going off of any cut content.
@@armoredcorelore Thank you for the kind words it's awesome hearing that from you! Currently working on the 2.0 content update which I plan to get out sometime this or next week, so more fan lore and such then!
@@armoredcorelore in the end I only took the job so he'd fall to a fellow redgun. Knowing what would happen it seemed somehow nobler than letting him die to Arquebus' dogs.
Thank you for the kind praise and well i do have some ideas in the back of my mind. To be honest i made a promise to cover chromhounds so i might dive into that for a bit and i also have asked a mod creators permission to talk about the lore of thier mod. But i am keeping that under the hat for now since i need to see how i want to present it. And well i have dipped my toes into can you beat ac4 as videos so maybe more of them.
Tough one to answer. I would hope so, but i think we have a lot of mecha movies and anime already out which means it might not be the best invest for fromsoftware.
Here my guesses : Maybe once he lived as a middle, and raise and take a military and became furlong commander during jupiter war. After the losses of his life, he still his own life and a patriot will decide to join redgun ever since.
Honestly i do dislike this little thing fromsoftware does, they create these wonderful characters and some you get book loads of lore on and other its a bit of text, a few lines and then nothing.
I get that and honestly i think finishing ac6 first gives a viewer more to come to the videos with. That said i hope we you are done, you'll come back and share you thoughts on the videos and the subject. Good luck Raven.
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Ridiculous character working for a soulless corporation that turned out to have a heart of gold. Would’ve loved to see him spread his own wings and forge his own path. But it seems he did just that by looking after his crew.
I like to think he put himself in this position to aid his past crew and now was doing the same for the people in balam working under him.
The Chaddest Chad of all Armored Core Chads.
Also “Died of a bad fall.”
Legendary.
Chad of ac chads confirmed.
I am G1 Michigan and I approve this maessage
First Allmind, then a vesper and now the hell on fours leg himself. Its an honour.
@@armoredcorelore ITS AN HONOUR TO BE COVERED G13 KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK
At first I thought he was just a generic angry military man, but over the course of the game he easily ranked in my top 3 favs of the game. Salute to one of the greatest soldiers on Rubicon o7
*Salutes*
He is THE generic angry military man and we love him for it
I warned him about those stairs, bro
I should not have laughed at this. But i did ha ha.
"Bro".
LMAO
Michigan canonically said, “Ay Yo the pizza is here” twisted his ankle
Then proceeded to die of a bad fall
I FUCKING LOVE DADDY G1 MICHIGAN I FUCKING LOVE DADDY G1 MICHIGAN I FUCKING LOVE DADDY G1 MICHIGAN I FUCKING LOVE DADDY G1 MICHIGAN I FUCKING LOVE DADDY G1 MICHIGAN I FUCKING LOVE DADDY G1 MICHIGAN
I feel your telling me you may like this character.
G1 Michigan is the best character after V. IV Rusty
walter is number one
G1 is number two
V.IV is a cummunist
Man even cracked a last joke while he's dying, what a legend
Tough to the end.
I don’t know why but I’m so obsessed with “Intercept the Redguns” from a narrative standpoint. At this point, Balam Industries is completely screwed now that Arquebus Corporation possesses the scavenged PCA tech to drive them off-world, pretty much all the Redguns have either deserted or were killed off and many of the lesser grunts and MTs were wiped out by the Watchpoint’s defenses and mass desertions occurring and all G1 Michigan has left of his forces are his most fanatical MT squadrons taking on a pointless mission of trying to take down Raven and hopelessly charge through NEPENTHES.
But does he turn tail and run? No, he orders his soldiers to charge into battle against a single pilot of mass destruction (C4-621 Raven/V.IV Rusty) for a hopeless battle in the service of an uncaring corporation and dying senseless deaths on the battlefield, par for the course in the world of Armored Core. Sure, Michigan could’ve read the room and knew this to be a lost cause and joined the withdrawal from Rubicon 3 to face the wrath of Balam’s higher ups for his failure but he’ll be damned if he wasn’t going all in to “bag the big one” and take a shot at eliminating the Wall Climber, the Worm Killer and the only G13 who has lived this long.
Even when he dies, does his MT squadron break and try to flee? No, they assert that Michigan gave it his all, stand their ground and continue to fight. If 621 dies, Michigan wastes no time calling in relief teams to the front to tend to the wounded.
Even Handler Walter doesn’t sound ecstatic about killing Michigan off, simply telling 621 to get the job done. They must’ve known each other back on Jupiter when Walter was sent there as a boy before the Fires of Ibis erupted.
I’m almost reminded of Stannis Baratheon and his ill-fated March to Winterfell from Game of Thrones (TV Series only! Book Stannis is very different and much more successful). Forces depleted from mass desertions and facing overwhelming odds with no hope of victory but goes down fighting.
I so wish there was a route to side with Balam all the way, maybe a DLC or “AC6.1” game like For Answer and Verdict Day where we have more options to side with the other factions such as the PCA or BRANCH.
I love the passion and it is a very interesting mission. After all there is a lot of story that has lead up to this point, the truth of being a mercenary is one day you will fight a friend along with as you have already written out here a load of other bits that make this almost a final page of a really good book.
Red Gun felt like anime protagonist faction. I got the feeling the student pilot is the MC while the Red Gun are pseuso family he bond with and stuff.
Ofc, we exist and swiftly put a stop to that before it happen
621 the villain that ruined a kick ass anime.
The Red Guns was his way of giving those that needed a second chance on life when society has turned their back on them. Another interesting lore video ACL! ^_^
Thank you love ark and well he certainly seemed to be with a few red guns and mt pilots.
I love D.C. Douglas’ iconic, hammy performance as Albert Wesker, and he likewise knocked it out of the park in AC6 as a stereotypical yet endearing drill sergeant-type character.
Did he really?! Well the more you know.
I know him as Azrael in Blazblue, and I jokingly said to a friend (who is the one who got me into Blazblue and AC) that Azrael is actually the one piloting
Nobody is ever born cool , nobody except Michigan and Walter
Always rules to the expectation ha ha.
I loved this guy, i didn’t expect such a legend to die of a bad fall 😢
Its the way he wanted to go.
GO GO GO, FOLLOW MICHIGAN!
I AM A MAGGOT SIR! ha ha i do love the mt pilots lines.
If there is ever to be a DLC with the bestest ending, if I can't save all, I'd like G1 Michigan to be counted amongst the ones you can.
New world order, 621, G1 and a bunch of others become the new faction of power on Rubicon 3.
If you read the huxley item description it tells you that it’s made from stolen balam tech.
i personally like to think that michigan isnt lacking in the intelligence department, but rather refuses to act in balam’s best interest. As proven by how he was serving in furlong for most of his career.
I personally theorize that michigan did have a part in the development of steel haze and personally handed rusty the tech needed to develop the huxley. Also evident by their little banter during the ice worm mission.
I wonder why Balam almost exclusively uses Furlong missile batteries, then.
Sure i don't see anything wrong with your theory and well i think the ice worm lines where just the red gun commander surprised to see a solider doing their job well. After most of the people under Michigan's commander you could say were not skilled soldiers. But like the theory so i say go for it.
Well if we going off what we can from the war and parts, its suggested from thier parts that Furlong was winning thanks to thier missiles. So maybe Balam once they lost or managed to get peace they decided to buy from them as well if these missiles could beat them, they surly to be able to take out thier foes. But again just thoughts.
@@armoredcorelore It probably may have been Michigan himself who brokered the deal to use Furlong's weaponry. Or they might be bankrolling a third party who supplies them with the weaponry in the meantime, as Balam could be developing their own missile tech in the background.
Very possible, connections as someone once told me is very important in the business world and i imagine its the same in ac's world. But as you say may we have a third party at work here being the middle man or we dive into the world of shares like ac4 and its corporations.
He didn't die in the fight, he just fell pretty bad.
Ha ha.
Daddy Mochigan's adivices are very useful and practical! Just ignore those insults.
I feel the insults just make the advice better ha ha.
I doubt that Michigan piloted Liger Tail in the Jupiter war, as it's head for example was made on Michigans request, by Balam. I doubt Balam would take a custom Order by their enemy
True, in fact as time has gone on since this video it seems either furlong was using baws armored cores or the just had the power of thier armored fleet to work with.
I am totally not biased when I say: Michigan4lyfe.
I mean username checks out, Go Michigan!
That whole "Died of a bad fall" thing.
One of these days it'll become a meme....
One day....
Fell in love with the red guns and embraced the gun 13 name for my mech going so far as making custom G13 logos lol.
They are a cool group and nice!
I will forever choose to believe his username on whatever email service Balam used was MeanOldMichigan.
I saw that tease at the end, by the way. Back to NEXTs?
Like it fox eye and trying again at a video idea i did a while back with 4gen. After all Vero nork is not that heavy on lore, but they might work in another video type.
In a lot of ways, G1 Michigan is, after the original Raven and 621, the most important character for shaping the story of AC6. You briefly mention that his treatment of G5 Iguasu is a large part of the reason why G5 did what he did, which means that he's a large part of the reason that, should 621 pursue the Coral Release ending (Interestingly, also the only ending in which Michigan isn't confirmed to have died) Iguasu joins Allmind and eventually causes Coral Release.
True there are a lot of moving parts in this story that make it move. And ah yes the allmind route i admit the more i look into the more i dislike it. Don't get me wrong, its just a personal feeling about it.
Fuck i loved michigan so much... Him getting put down hurt so bad especially since if uts not us its Rusy, and Rusty also had high respect for Michigan, more than any other vesper.
Really wish we could have chose balam. Killing Red in the allmond mission really hurt.. fuck i loved the red guns. I even liked Iguazu. Poor guy never seen what he was capable of, so he always thought less of himself.
Ah the world of ac, it cold, dark and people the fans like have to die. DLC could be great to expand on a lot of subjects like the Jupiter war, the four islands.
He is a badass he is G1 Michigan nice work man
Badass indeed and thank you.
1:40 He doesn't have Liger Tail before, all 033 parts are new designs after he's at Balam.
Which is why i said he piloted a tetrapod ac during the war that may or may not have been Liger tail.
ATTACK!!! GET IN THERE YA MAGGOTS!!!!!!!
Just warms my heart ha ha.
Gigachad Michigan, wish there was a Balam route where we could keep the redguns alive.
Would have been cool.
He really was a cool character. Awesome post!
He certainly was and thank you. Looking forward to your next drop too.
Michigan is a tough as nails state
He certainly is.
My guy used quads. How did he die of a bad fall?? 😂
L+ratiod+can't hover+get raven-ed+average Balam employee+ G13!!!!! + YOUR ABILITY TO RUIN OUR FIELDTRIPS IS UNCANNY!!!!
Edit: Grammar
one of the best characters of all time
He certainly has won the hearts of many pilots for a guy who is mostly a voice for most the game.
Arquebus: “so we get all the PCA’s ships, ACs, weapons, ammo, and bases. In return, Balam gets to fight the ice worm”
G1 Michigan: “Sounds like a good deal” 😂
Maybe Walter is right. Michigan is pretty dumb.
Ah sometimes the best deals are not made by people in charge.
G1 is the whole reason why AC 6 doesn't feel Last Raven for me
i want Michigan die along with me like Oracle did at certain endings
I get that. Although I think LR really was something different from the game we have now.
Thank you for another lore video!
Thank you =)
I just got done with a ranked match against someone using Liger Tail while I was running my Astghik+ build.
Nice, how'd it go Tusk?
@@armoredcorelore I got the second round but he won the match. But it was a good one
@@PinkTuskedMammoth Oh sounded like a close on. I might dare tread into PVP one day.
EDIT: ITS A FAN FICTION THE AUTHOR JUST CLARIFY IN REPLY
i don't know if this canon but onsub arena mod that make all unused ac content as arena fight. its revealed that one of the red gun(maybe gun10 if im remember) is michigan son. even tough he not a fighter he is more into a mechanic that doing the maintaince on ac and mt
Its something I'll have to take a look at myself. But the issue with unused content like this is it a bit of grey area in terms of lore. After all its not used in the game and was hidden away in a way that most people would not ever see it. But I'll leave that choice up to ac fans themselves about how cannon they are as i think that is the fair way to approach this.
Author of Sub-Arena mod here.
I want to clarify that it's my own lore, not cut content nor do I claim that it is cut lore, G10 Mackinac while named after the strait that connects to the Michigan lake irl and a character that I like, is still a fan created character, I made him up as a pilot behind the training exercise Tetrapod AC.
Likewise the callsigns of all the Redgun ACs in that mod bar Hakra's are also created by myself, but even Hakra has their AC name, backstory and weapon loadout made up by myself rather than going off of any cut content.
@@Deadput thank you for clarification bro
@@Deadput Thank you for clarifying Deadput =) and can I say very good work on the mod. It's quite fun to play.
@@armoredcorelore Thank you for the kind words it's awesome hearing that from you!
Currently working on the 2.0 content update which I plan to get out sometime this or next week, so more fan lore and such then!
Warrior Jar Alexander.....but angrier.
I will not lie i had to look up who this is. And a man in a jar weird, but kind of cool.
@@armoredcorelore he is basically what iguazu wanted, a caring bro warrior
let's go new sleep story!
Have a good night =)
Love your videos :)
Thank you the kind words :)
I loved Gun 1 Michigan
He is quite the character.
@@armoredcorelore enough so that I only took the job to kill him on my third playthrough.
@@captainteutonica5474 Dedication.
@@armoredcorelore in the end I only took the job so he'd fall to a fellow redgun. Knowing what would happen it seemed somehow nobler than letting him die to Arquebus' dogs.
Another amazing video like always I have to ask what are you planning to do next when you're done with the armored Core franchise
Thank you for the kind praise and well i do have some ideas in the back of my mind. To be honest i made a promise to cover chromhounds so i might dive into that for a bit and i also have asked a mod creators permission to talk about the lore of thier mod. But i am keeping that under the hat for now since i need to see how i want to present it. And well i have dipped my toes into can you beat ac4 as videos so maybe more of them.
FINALLY
The hell on four legs has arrived!
I don't agree at all that the Red Guns is the reason why he ended dead, it was his terrible superiors and intel team.
And that's good. Different opinions and ideas make the world more interesting.
Based American
Hey do you think Japan will make an armored core movie
Tough one to answer. I would hope so, but i think we have a lot of mecha movies and anime already out which means it might not be the best invest for fromsoftware.
True but at least it would do better than pacific rim
That i would agree.
Here my guesses : Maybe once he lived as a middle, and raise and take a military and became furlong commander during jupiter war. After the losses of his life, he still his own life and a patriot will decide to join redgun ever since.
Honestly i do dislike this little thing fromsoftware does, they create these wonderful characters and some you get book loads of lore on and other its a bit of text, a few lines and then nothing.
sad i have to avoid your vids cause i aint done with ac6 yet
I get that and honestly i think finishing ac6 first gives a viewer more to come to the videos with. That said i hope we you are done, you'll come back and share you thoughts on the videos and the subject. Good luck Raven.