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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...
She is sitting on her cot looking very miserable, all hunched over, her hair hanging over her face. She is Still in the Zeon uniform they captured her in. If Sayla has talked to anyone who guards her she would have heard that the prisoner only ever wears her uniform or the uniform Jacinda abandoned that is much too big for her, she refuses to wear civilian clothes or federation prisoner uniforms at all.
Sayla has many strengths. Staring dramatically, and flying fighters are among them.
Making actual plans and using her words kinda aren't.
"You know the entire Zabi family is dead anyway."
Strictly speaking this isn't true, but Mineva's survival isn't well known and the in-laws don't count.
The girl looks up at the barred window in the door and glares. "I knew that before I joined up you idiot! All you earthlings are degenerates that need to be controlled or wiped out whether there is a Zabi in charge or not." She spits at the door but she is not the best spitter, it doesn't go very far and part of it dribbles embarrassingly down her chin, very much ruining the intended effect. She wipes her chin and goes back to glaring.
This was a bad idea but as long as she's here.
"I was born in space and most of the crew is from side 7 even if they weren't born there."
"Federation bootlickers are practically earthlings anyway, I heard side 7 got attacked by the Red Comet and got wiped out. Once we wipe all of you out it can be filled with loyal Zeons instead of Federation dogs." At this point its fairly obvious to anyone with any level of social awareness that the girls heart isn't in it. Shes forcing herself to spit the insults out as vehemently as possible rather than actually being that angry. Just trying to hurt Sayla however she can.
There is something incredibly stupid Sayla could say about exactly where in space she was born and under what circumstances, but she won't.
"Most of it was wiped out, but the rest escaped on the first White Base. If you want to spend the rest of your life in a cell I can't stop you, but you should ask Friedrich and Jacinda how their approach is working out."
And dramatic flounce time.
"Those two are traitors and should be hanged!" The girl yells, taking off a shoe and throwing it at the barred window, impacting with a clang.
Right she is obviously doing horrible at conversations today. So might as well go talk to Amuro.
"So it's kinda interesting having Zeon prisoners on board."
She has totally ever flirted in her life. Ok so that was a lie but no time like the present.
Whyyyyy do things keep coming back to Char. Avoid the topic.
"Jacinda seems fine but talks a bit too much. Did you know" she thinks I'm hot "she was told that Federation captians have harems."
...
Is talking about harems flirting? Probably not.
"Well it sounds like Zeon does a lot of propaganda."
Well maybe just let this conversation die, unless.
"By the way we've been helping the kids build models. Its pretty fun you should check it out some time."
Later on the kids are putting together more of the models with some supervision from Fraw and Hayoto, who are practically their parents at this point. They've basically gone through all of the mobile suits, but are still have a lot of ground vehicles and some planes.
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.