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It is the year 80 of the universal century, the first day of which was the end of the One Year War.
Humanity had moved the majority of its population into enormous colony cylinders in space at the LaGrange points of Sol before the start of the one year war. It was the first war in space and the first use of giant man-shaped machines of war, called Mobile Suits. The war began when the colony of Side 3, known as the Principality of Zeon, declared war on the Earth Federation with the stated cause of declaring freedom for Spacenoids from the rule of the Earth Federation. But the leadership of Zeon cared only for its own people and used deadly gas attacks on colony cylinders to empty them out for use by their own population, or outright destroyed colonies, killing billions. The Earth Federation retaliated with its own weapons of mass destruction in space, causing immense collateral casualties. The final use of WMDs had been the Principality of Zeon dropping an entire colony cylinder to earth from space, destroying the city of Sydney and permanently changing the climate for much of Asia and completely ruining the habitability of Australia. Half of all humanity died before a treaty was signed banning the use of WMDs and chemical weapons, and this was all in the first few months of the one year war.
But now the one year war that resulted in the extinction of fully half of humanity is officially over. The Principality of Zeon falls with the death of its autocratic leaders, the Zabi family, at the hands of the ace Zeon pilot Char Aznable "the Red Comet", and so the Republic of Zeon takes its place. The Earth Federation and the Republic of Zeon sign an armistice and the war officially ends. But, not all the fighting has ended quite yet...
The federation war hero Amuro Ray, pilot of the legendary mobile suit the Gundam, and his fellow crewmates from the now destroyed space carrier ship the White Base cannot relax just yet. While the leadership of the Principality of Zeon is dead, many pockets of Zeon soldiers fight on in the name of the dead Zabi family. The crew of the White Base are assigned a new and improved ship, The White Base Kai, given new crew to replace their losses during the war, and the Mobile Suit Gundam is replaced, before being sent on a mission of crushing leftover pockets of Zeon resistance. Months pass of relatively uneventful combat, the new White Base Kai and the replacement Gundam more than enough to destroy the odd guerilla fighter piloting outdated Zeonic Zaku II mobile suits, when the Earth Federation gives them a new mission...
Hayato Is having fun making old type federation tanks, they have a lot of fiddly bits the kids had trouble with, simplicity of design was not a core concept of federation design teams back when these were made, gluing little machine gun turrets and little soldiers to the turret nests on the front of the tank. He thanks Fraw for the snacks with a shy smile, ever since he got injured that one time during the war they had gotten real close and he felt lucky to be around her, and it was nice to see Fraw so relaxed now everyone she cared about wasn't constantly in danger.
Fraw really is feeling a lot more relaxed these days. All of the combat was nerve-racking. Also, she's pretty sure the kids wont get into any more secret bomb plots here.
Amuro and Salya will come in just as the snacks are finished. It sounds like he was just wrapping up an explanation of the modeling project for her.
"Oh hey Amuro. Fraw got me to help with the kids project too." He holds up a half finished tank in demonstration.
"We've got plenty of vehicles left, and someone in logistics must have decided to put in some scenery pieces from a railway model kit or something because we've got a few houses, they very much arent the right scale for all the mobile suits and vehicles though. I don't think the kids will care." The fact that all the vehicles were to scale was a bit of a downside because while the mobile suit models were just the right size for your hands, the tiny little dune buggies and 2 person cars were tiny. The only regular vehicles getting big enough to be properly playable with were the APCs and then the tanks and aircraft.
Hayato hands Sayla one of the scenery kits. "We can just say it's a redwood tree if anyone asks why it's so big compared to a Gundam." He jokes conspiratorially. He goes back to building his tank, for once in his life he's glad his hands are small because gluing on the human-sized LMG turrets at 1/100 scale was fiddly work.
And so the days pass until they are close enough to Pluto that Bright puts the ship back into warzone mode.
"We're picking up signs of enemy activity on the near side of Pluto. To much I-field interference to get detials, but this far out thats suggestive by it's self."
Ace pilot Kai Shiden rocks up to the hangar bay and puts out his cigar. The Guncannon's reflection in his antique aviator glasses is magnificent even as he takes them off to put his pressurized normal suit on.
"Hey Hayoto. You ready to see some action?"
"Kai you don't look nearly as cool as you think with those glasses you ordered, and I know for a fact you don't even smoke!"
Hayato finally has a normal pressurized suit that fits and wasn't actually a children's model, he was 16 now and not as incredibly short as he had been when he started piloting. So that was something Kai no longer could tease him about. So it was time to tease him back a little.
He hops in the cockpit of the new mobile suit they had been sent. It was much nicer than the old Guntank cockpit and a bit different than the Guncannon one. He had been spending so much time during the trip in the simulator getting used to a machine that could rival the original Gundam, and he thought he had the hang of it. The GM Sniper II was a much more powerful machine than any he had piloted before but since it was customized for long-range assault all he really had to worry about was aiming and firing and running away if anyone got close. The GM Sniper II couldn't eject the cockpit like the Guncannon and Guntank could but it sure was fast enough to outrun any trouble.
"Hey Kai, it's just like when we first started and I would cover you with the Guntank. Let's roll."
Kai totally looks cool in his glasses, totally.
He gives one of his little laughs and responds, "Sure except now we know what we're doing."
Amuro and Sayla share a brief look as they get into their paired vehicles.
John Job doesn't even bother with that before hopping into the second Guncannon.
As the Mobile Suits and G-fighter sortie out and get closer, they can see flashes of mega particle cannon fire. There was a fight already going on.
Bright will order Mirai to continue bringing them forward but slowly while the mobile suits advance in front of them. He'll also ask the suits to gather more info. The suits are free to engage if fired upon or if if they get a really good opportunity, but he makes it clear that plan A is to let the people already fighting take each other out.
Char could feel a familiar pressure on his mind just as an outdated Zaku II tried to cleave the arm from his Mobile Suit. A very familiar pressure, the one his rival during the war, Amuro Ray the Gundam pilot gave off.
"Amuro what are you doing so far out?" He muses to himself, while expertly dodging the attack just in time. His Gelgoog Command type probably could have weathered the hit on its armour but it would have weakened it, and there was no point in taking chances. Char stabs his beam saber through the cockpit of the Zaku II and breaches the reactor, thrusting away before the Zaku exploded into shrapnel and pink mega particle smoke.
Even as he took out the Zaku II there were still at least two dozen enemy mobile suits bearing down on him with machine gun and mega particle fire, now that they didn't have to worry about hitting their comrade. "Char you sure are fucked now, Should have just gone and hidden after the war instead of joining up with these crazies." He mumbles to himself as he dodges another mega particle beam. It had been a bad decision to come here.
He had drifted without purpose for a little while after the end of the war until he met some soldiers that had formerly been under his command. A Zeon command signal had been sent out calling for Zeon army remnants to join them and those soldiers had decided to obey the order, and not wanting to abandon his old comrades Char had decided to follow them there. The commander in charge of these remnants had sent them all on a months-long trip to pluto by cannibalizing hundreds of Mobile Suits for their reactors to make engine boosters. When char and his comrades had finally arrived they had found out that the commander in charge had found a superweapon on a moon of Pluto and intended to destroy the Earth with it, not just rend it uninhabitable for humanity but fully blow it up.
Char and a couple of buddies who were not okay with that plan had snuck into their mobile suits and launched an attack on the forces supporting the genocidal commander. Chars initial group of 10 Mobile Suits had been whittled down to a measly 4, and those 4 only survived because Char had been taking all the enemy Mobile Suits attention. They had crippled 2 Carriers and taken over 15 mobile suits down with them though, but it was looking like they wouldn't win at this point.
Char radios his remaining allies. "In a short while, some federation Mobile Suits are going to arrive, You are going to retreat towards them while trying to contact the Gundam, do NOT engage the federation suits, tell the pilot of the Gundam that Char Aznable requests help destroying an earth killer." One of the pilots is about to speak out in anger when Char cuts him off. "This is not the time to hold grudges from the war, this weapon needs to be stopped first and we need reinforcements. We should be glad the federation just happened to provide some. I will hold the enemy forces at bay until you can get to the reinforcements."
The Federation IFFs just now appeared on the sensors of Chars forces. They were amazed he knew this would happen in advance and so followed his orders and pulled back, even though it stung them to leave Char by himself holding off nearly two dozen enemy mobile suits. "Go now!" Char yells to his allies as he rushes for one of the Rick Doms in the enemy group.
4 Zeon Mobile Suits with red stripes painted on their arms are heading towards Amuro and the others, they are also close enough to the fight to see 4 ships, two of those are crippled however, a lot of mobile suit wreckage and at least 20 active suits with Zeon signatures battling over a base on pluto. One of those suits fighting over pluto is a very familiar shade of red.
Laser comms are being hailed at the Gundam.
Are people actually going to surrender without a fight for once. This is nice but also something he doesn't properly know who to deal with.
"Hello, this is Amuro please state your intent."
A panicked Zeon soldier appears on screen. "Char Aznable requests help with destroying an Earth killer. We were supposed to tell the Gundam pilot that and not attack. He told us to retreat towards the feddies but he can't hold out alone against them all, they want to shatter the Earth! You have to help!." The pilot has heard how fast the Gundam is and knows it can get back to help Char faster than they could. He doesn't know why a federation pilot might want to help Char but Char did say to use his name so maybe they knew each other.
Ok, so the Char angle is complicated to say the least but it does kinda help and earth killer sounds really bad. So he'll relay it to the rest of the White Base and the other pilots to move in.