Speaking of the anime informing #StarKnight, the folks at GundamOfficial have put forth the movie compliations for Parts 1 and 2 of Thunderbolt online again. You can watch, free and legally, both "December Sky" and "Bandit Flower" for an indefinite time. If you haven't seen them yet, here's your shot; I do intend to get this on Blu-Ray as I am able and I would love to see them get on Toonami in the near future. I'm embedding the subtitled versions, but dubbed ones are available at the YouTube channel (of course).
While #StarKnight goes for a far more hopeful tone than the typical Gundam franchise melancholy, despair, and (too often) nihilism (which does show up here, by the way) this does have elements you can expect to see starting with Reavers of the Void. First, fleet combat is very much informed (as Gundam is) by the advent of the Carrier and the rise of strike fighters in importance. Combat in asteroid and debris fields, negotiating around wreckage, is a big part of the first book's events and the Red Eyes Pirates are regular users of such hazardous spaces for staging operations.
As for the ships shown in the films, you see what a mecha carrier looks like early on. (Both Federation and Zeon versions, actually.) The Federation carrier in particular is a very simple design with all the defensive capability of a babe in the woods, something well within the capabilities of non-state actors in Galactic Christendom such as Red Eyes (and even his carriers have point-defense weapons, something the Federation ships lack).
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