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AC
001
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Several nations establish
permanent space stations in
geosynchronous Earth orbit. This is
the first year of the After Colony
(AC) calendar.
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AC
020
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The colony A02026 is constructed
at Lagrange point 5. This colony
will later become the home of the
fierce and mighty Long clan when
they are exiled from Earth by their
fearful government.
Source: Endless Waltz novelization,
Episode Zero
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AC
022~
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Space colony construction begins
at Lagrange point 1. Due to
difficult working conditions and
conflicts between the sponsor
nations, construction is greatly
delayed.
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AC
050~
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Earth's nations begin withdrawing
from space, until the countries of
the Middle East - leaving the oil
industry and looking for a new
enterprise to invest in - join the
colony project. Colony construction
begins at the other Lagrange points.
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AC
070
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Due to a shortage of colony
construction materials, disputes
break out between Earth's nations.
The Middle Eastern nations intercede
and negotiate an end to the
conflicts. Construction resumes,
using asteroids as raw material.
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AC
087
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The colony V08744 is constructed
at Lagrange point 2.
Source: Endless Waltz novelization,
Episode Zero
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AC
102
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An Island 2 type colony is
completed at Lagrange point 1 (L-1).
With this success achieved, the
colony project goes on to construct
population centers composed of
multiple colonies, popularly known
as "colony clusters."
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On Earth, international disputes
continue to escalate. Civilians flee
the conflict by emigrating to the
colonies, and soon 15% of the human
population is living in space.
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AC
130~
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With Earth's territorial lines
redrawn, the conflicts die down.
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AC
133
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In the process of negotiating a
lasting peace between the warring
nations, the "United Earth
Sphere Alliance" is
established. In order to keep the
peace - and deal with nations that
oppose the new world government -
the Alliance Forces are formed. One
of the Alliance's key financial
supporters is the
military-industrial combine called
the Romefeller Foundation.
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AC
140~
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One by one, Earth's nations join
the Alliance. As their mother
countries join, the colonies are
also enrolled, willing or not. The
colonies are critical of the
Alliance and its intentions, and the
Alliance decides to respond with
force in order to silence its
critics.
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AC
147
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In the name of peace and justice,
the Alliance invokes the authority
of its member nations to forcibly
seize control of the colonies.
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AC
149
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The Alliance assembly transfers
control of the
previously-independent colonies to
the mother countries that originally
constructed and settled them. These
nations then kindle a new colony
emigration boom.
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AC
150~
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The colonists, favoring autonomy,
become increasingly dissatisfied
with Alliance control.
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AC
165
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In order to peacefully oppose the
Alliance, the citizens of the
colonies elect Heero Yuy as their
representative. His charismatic
leadership strengthens solidarity
between the colonies.
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AC
170
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Colony leader Heero Yuy's
policies of demilitarization and
non-violence are well-received by
many of Earth's nations.
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AC
173
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OZ, a subsidiary of the
Romefeller Foundation, begins
development of humanoid weapons
known as "mobile suits."
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AC
174
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Colony leader Heero Yuy makes a
goodwill tour of Earth's nations,
laying the groundwork for colonial
independence.
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AC
175
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Scientists Doctor J, Professor G,
Doktor S, Instructor H, Master 0 and
Howard complete the first
combat-ready mobile suit. This
prototype Leo is also known as the
Tallgeese.
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On April 7, colony leader Heero
Yuy is assassinated by an unknown
gunman. The leaderless colonies are
thrown into chaos, and the Alliance
plans a second military
intervention. In reaction to the
assassination, the Tallgeese
developers quit the mobile suit
project and disappear.
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The Romefeller Foundation's OZ
subsidiary becomes a secret society.
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AC
176
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The Romefeller Foundation's OZ
subsidiary begins production of a
scaled-down version of the mobile
suit Leo.
Source: Encyclopedia of Gundam Wing
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The Alliance forms its first
mobile suit force, the Special
Mobile Suit corps or
"Specials." The Specials,
made up of Romefeller Foundation
employees, are essentially a front
for the secret society OZ.
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Under the pretext of suppressing
the chaos in the colonies, the
Alliance again sends in the
military. Mobile suits are first
used in combat. All colonies are
placed under military supervision,
and communication between colonies
is prohibited to prevent future
collaboration.
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AC
180
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Doctor J, Professor G, Doktor S,
Instructor H and Master 0 design the
Wing Gundam Zero. OZ discovers their
whereabouts, and they are forced to
end their collaboration, split up,
and go underground.
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OZ begins development of the
"Zodiac" series of mobile
suits, which eventually includes the
Tragos, Aries, Pisces and Cancer.
Source: Encyclopedia of Gundam Wing
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Quatre Raberba Winner is born.
Unlike his 29 sisters, he is born
naturally rather than being a
test-tube baby. Though genetic
engineering has largely solved the
reproductive complications that
plagued the previous century's space
colonists, the Winner family objects
to this engineering on religious
grounds; Quatre's mother dies in
childbirth. Father Winner never
tells his son of the circumstances
of his birth, instead letting Quatre
believe that he is a test-tube baby
like his sisters.
Source: Endless Waltz novelization,
Episode Zero
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AC
182
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The Alliance decides to stage a
military intervention in the Sanc
Kingdom, an advocate of Heero Yuy-style
total pacifism. The capital falls in
one day. King Peacecraft is killed;
Princess Relena is rescued and
adopted by his trusted aide Darlian,
while Prince Milliardo's whereabouts
are unknown.
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Conflict breaks out in Eastern
Europe. The Bloom family's wagon is
caught in the crossfire between
Alliance forces and rebels;
Katherine Bloom (age 4) survives,
but her parents and her baby brother
Triton (age 2) are believed to be
killed. Katherine is taken in by her
parents' circus troupe.
Source: Endless Waltz novelization,
Episode Zero
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AC
187
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A virus breaks out at L2's V08744
colony. An antidote is developed,
but is not provided to the poorer
and less desirable colonists. Among
the unwanted is a gang of orphans
led by a boy named Solo; a member of
his gang steals the antidote from an
Alliance base, but too late to save
Solo. Dying, Solo promises to be
with his friend forever, and the
seven-year-old boy thus adopts the
name "Duo." Though Duo
didn't get enough antidote for
himself, he never contracts the
virus, and attributes this to Solo's
watching over him.
Source: Endless Waltz novelization
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After this, Duo and his fellow
urchins are taken in by V08744's
Maxwell Church. While the other boys
are soon placed with foster homes,
Duo ends up living at the church
with the Reverend and kindly nun
Sister Helen. Since Duo refuses to
have his long hair cut, Sister Helen
braids it for him. Ever the
theological quibbler, Duo maintains
that he doesn't believe in God, but
he believes in the god of death as
he's seen his handiwork many times
in his short life.
Source: Endless Waltz novelization,
Episode Zero
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AC
188
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Revolts break out in many
colonies, and are ruthlessly crushed
by the Alliance.
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At L3's X18999 colony, which is
still a year from completion, Quinze
leads an uprising. He and his
followers steal eight Alliance
mobile suits and attack Alliance
military installations. Brigadier
General Septem, the ranking Alliance
officer at the colony, permits
Specials officer Treize Khushrenada
and three of his cadets, including
12-year-old Lucrezia Neun, to join
the battle. Treize's forces handily
outmanuever and defeat the rebels,
though Treize is injured when he
uses his mobile suit to block a
bazooka shot aimed at Septem's base.
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Meanwhile, assassin Adin Lowe and
his young ward have arrived at
X18999. Adin's last assignment is to
eliminate Septem. The assassination
attempt fails, and Adin proceeds to
rig the Alliance base's armory with
explosives. Before he can detonate
the charges, the hitman is mortally
wounded, and it falls to his ward -
the boy later code-named Heero Yuy -
to trigger the explosives.
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After the X18999 crisis, Treize
spends some time recovering in
hospital, where he meets nurse Leia
Barton. Leia's father, Barton
Foundation head Dekim Barton, is
reported killed in the conflict.
Adin's ward is adopted and trained
by Doctor J.
Source: Endless Waltz novelization,
Episode Zero
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Another uprising takes place at
L2's V08744. Rebels seize the
Maxwell Church, and when the
Reverend urges them to lay down
their arms and follow Heero Yuy's
path of peace, they accuse him of
being an Alliance spy. The rebels
agree to leave the church if Duo can
steal them a mobile suit, but when
he returns to the church with his
booty, he finds that the Alliance
has attacked and razed it. 245
people are killed in the
"Maxwell Church Massacre,"
including the Reverend and Sister
Helen.
Source: Endless Waltz novelization,
Episode Zero
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At A0206, Master O, Chang Wufei's
tutor, disappears from the Chang
family's house. Dekim Barton
commissions him, and his four fellow
scientists, to develop an advanced
mobile suit - a Gundam - for the
resistance scheme known as
"Operation Meteor."
Source: Endless Waltz novelization
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AC
189
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L3's X18999 colony is completed.
Mariemeia Barton is born here; her
mother is Leia Barton, and her
father's identity is unknown.
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Zechs Merquise and Lucrezia Neun
graduate from the Specials' Lake
Victoria academy, with the highest
and the second highest marks in the
academy's history, respectively.
Source: Endless Waltz novelization
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AC
190
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On Earth, a nameless ten-year-old
boy fights against the Alliance as
part a team of mercenary mobile suit
pilots. His team is wiped out in a
failed ambush, its location betrayed
by an Alliance spy. The spy is
revealed to be a girl named Middie
Une, traveling with the mercenary
corps, who spies to support her sick
father and three brothers.
Source: Episode Zero
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AC
191
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At
X18999, Leia Barton dies of an
illness.
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On April 8, terrorists steal
prototype Aries mobile suits from
the Alliance's JAP point base.
General Catalonia, commander of the
Specials (and leader of the secret
society OZ), dispatches Treize (age
19) and Zechs (age 15) to quash the
rebellion. A terrorist captures
eleven-year-old Relena Darlian,
daughter of the Alliance's
vice-minister for foreign affairs,
and holds her hostage; she is
rescued by Zechs. Zechs, in
actuality Milliardo Peacecraft of
the Sanc Kingdom, recognizes his
long-lost sister but does not reveal
his identity to her.
Source: Endless Waltz novelization,
Episode Zero
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AC
192
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Howard and Professor G, both
members of the salvage organization
known as the Sweeper Group, complete
the huge space ship Peacemillion and
hide it on the lunar surface. Howard
then goes to Earth to work aboard a
salvage ship, while Professor G and
his Sweeper cohorts remain in space.
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On the return trip, the Sweepers
discover a stowaway and bring him
before Professor G. The stowaway
gives his name as "Duo
Maxwell." Professor G replies,
"What, like Maxwell's
Demon?" - to which Duo
responds, "I'm no demon, I'm
the god of death!"
Source: Endless Waltz novelization,
Episode Zero
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AC
193
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Treize Khushrenada becomes leader
of the secret society OZ, and
commander of the Specials.
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A shuttle carrying Quatre Raberba
Winner is hijacked by a gang of
renegades known as the Maganac
Corps. Using the Winner family's
captured ships, and with the tacit
blessing of father Winner, the
Maganac Corps plan to ferry workers
from the resource satellite MO-III
back to their families on Earth.
Unwilling and unpaid, the MO-III
workers have become virtually
prisoners on the satellite.
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Feeling an affinity for the
warm-hearted and closely-knit
Maganac Corps, who are all test-tube
babies as he believes himself to be,
Quatre helps them in their rescue
mission. He saves Maganac leader
Rasid from a traitor and fights off
Alliance forces to guard their
escape, winning the Maganac Corps'
eternal respect and gratitude. The
Maganac Corps escort the rescued
workers to Earth, while Quatre
brings Instructor H back home with
him.
Source: Endless Waltz novelization,
Episode Zero
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AC
194
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Specials ace Zechs Merquise
receives the first two-rank
promotion in the organization's
history, and acquires the nickname
"Lightning Baron."
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Doctor J has given his ward, the
boy later code-named Heero Yuy, an
extensive course of training to
prepare him for Operation Meteor.
Heero carries out a sabotage
mission, blowing up an Alliance base
inside a space colony. Due to his
miscalculation, the explosion causes
civilian casualties, including a
little girl and her puppy whom he
had met earlier in the day. When the
remorse-stricken Heero buries the
dead puppy, Operation Meteor
mastermind Dekim Barton demands that
Doctor J re-train his agent to
eliminate such useless human
weaknesses.
Source: Endless Waltz, Endless Waltz
novelization
The Alliance condemns the aging
colony A0206. Rather than attempt to
resettle its inhabitants, the fierce
Long clan, General Septem orders
that they be wiped out with
biological weapons. Treize,
preferring conventional warfare,
dispatches a Specials force to
destroy the colony before the
Alliance's biological weapons unit
arrives. Long Meirang, granddaughter
of matriarch Ron Shirin, battles the
Specials mobile suits using a
reconstructed Tallgeese; her
husband, the scholarly Chang Wufei,
comes to her aid in the incomplete
Shenlong Gundam. The Specials'
attack is repulsed, and the
Alliance's biological weapons are
destroyed. Alliance officer Sally Po
reports that the mission was
successful, ensuring that A0206 will
be left alone in future.
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Meirang, mortally wounded in the
battle, dies in Wufei's arms. Wufei,
who had once mocked his wife's
conviction that she was the
reincarnation of the legendary hero
Nataku, gives this name to the
Shenlong Gundam in Meirang's memory.
He tells Master O that he will pilot
the Shenlong as part of Operation
Meteor.
Source: Endless Waltz novelization,
Episode Zero
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AC
195
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At each colony cluster,
anti-Alliance rebels prepare for
Operation Meteor. Planned by Dekim
Barton and coordinated by Quinze,
the plan involves dropping a space
colony on Earth to create a climatic
catastrophe and global chaos. Then
five super-advanced mobile suits,
the Gundams, will be sent to Earth
to seize control of the planet. The
space colonists will thus become the
rulers of the human race.
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At the L3 colony cluster,
designated Gundam Heavy Arms pilot
Trowa Barton realizes that Doktor S
and his aides are trying to subvert
his father's plan. When he threatens
to rat them out to Dekim, he is shot
and killed. A nameless mercenary,
one of the mechanics working on the
Heavy Arms, volunteers to take
Trowa's place and assume his name.
Source: Endless Waltz, Endless Waltz
novelization, Episode Zero
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Aboard a Sweeper Group ship, Duo
Maxwell decides he can't stomach
Operation Meteor's genocidal
blueprint. He attempts to blow up
the Gundam Deathscythe and thus
derail the operation, but finds that
Professor G has defused his bombs.
Professor G urges Duo to steal the
Deathscythe, telling him to go to
Earth and there join forces with
Howard.
Source: Endless Waltz, Endless Waltz
novelization
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At the L4 colony cluster, Quatre
Raberba Winner and Instructor H have
completed the construction of the
Gundam Sandrock. As the final
instructions for Operation Meteor
arrive, Instructor H smashes the
display and tells Quatre to do as
his own conscience dictates.
Source: Endless Waltz, Endless Waltz
novelization
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At L5's A0206 colony, Chang Wufei
likewise rebels. Realizing that Ron
Shirin plans to drop the ramshackle
colony as part of the operation, and
disapproving of the planned mass
destruction, he takes off for Earth
with the Shenlong Gundam to fight
for justice.
Source: Endless Waltz, Endless Waltz
novelization
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On April 7, "Operation
Meteor" begins - apparently
ahead of schedule. Five Gundams
descend to Earth and begin attacking
Alliance military bases and
factories. Their goal is to cripple
the secret society OZ.
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On May 19, the Gundams attack an
Alliance meeting at the New Edwards
base. The Alliance's military
leaders, who had that very day
decided to begin disarmament and
make peace with the colonies, are
killed. OZ then discards its
Specials cover and launches
"Operation Daybreak",
overwhelming the Alliance's
terrestrial forces and seizing
control of Earth.
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In September, Treize resigns as
leader of OZ under pressure from the
Romefeller Foundation. OZ splits
into Romefeller and Treize factions.
The Foundation launches
"Operation Nova," dropping
mass quantities of mobile dolls to
Earth to eliminate the Treize
faction and any other resistance.
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On December 24, the Eve Wars
begin. White Fang (a movement
fighting for the independence of the
space colonies, led by Quinze and
the erstwhile Zechs Merquise) and
the World Nation (the Romefeller
Foundation's world government, now
led by Treize Khushrenada) begin a
massive space battle. Treize is
killed in battle, and the World
Nation surrenders. White Fang's last
gambit, an attempt to drop the space
fortress Libra on Earth, is foiled
and Zechs disapears. Representatives
of the space colonies make peace
with the World Nation, and the Earth
Sphere Unified Nation is
established.
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AC
196
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Terrorists blow up a conference
at which delegates of all the space
colonies have gathered. The
terrorists turn out to be remnants
of the White Fang resistance group,
led by a man named Sogran. Our
heroes discover that Sogran is
sponsored by a Romefeller Foundation
subsidiary, with the ultimate aim of
stirring up another war so that
there will be a market for its
military hardware. Sogran and his
backers are exposed, and their
followers turn on them.
Source: Blind Target
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On December 25, at the L3 colony
cluster, the space colony X-18999
declares war against the Earth
Sphere Unified Nation. Its leader is
Mariemeia Barton, who declares that
she is the daughter of Treize
Khushrenada and rightful ruler of
the world. Quietly backing her is
Dekim Barton, who plans to give his
original Operation Meteor another
try...
Source: Endless Waltz
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