Mobile Suit Gundam: Starblazers Edition
Universal Century 0079: Mankind lives among the heavens in colonies called Sides. However there is a dark force approaching from beyond the stars. The Gamilon Empire has declared war on the Earth Federation. Mankind will be caught in a conflict that rages from the earth to the stars.
The future depends on a ship called White Base and its secret weapon: A homeless boy with powers beyond comprehension. His name: Amuro Ray. His weapon: Gundam. Now a crew of orphans and rejects will change the face of history or die trying.
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Battle at Side 3
UC 0079.01.03 \ Side 3, Republic of Zeon Defense Force Ship Musai
"Minovsky particle density is thinning!"
"Enemy fighters are approaching, 10 mega-meters!"
"Above our bow! Mobile suit team, counter!" One crimson Zaku II and a group of Zaku Is hurriedly intercepted the cobalt colored enemy fighter squadron before they reached the Musai.
Captain Bastinade Ades took this opportunity to quickly look at his situation table. 15 friendly IFF tags were all that remained of Zeon's once proud fleet. Over 1000 ships destroyed and countless Closed Type Island Three colonies decimated in a few hours.
The enemy appeared out of nowhere and attacked Side Three without mercy. They only sent one transmission before their opening volley: 'Humans, you will die so that Gamilon may live.'
Suddenly, a blinding light filled the bridge of the Musai. The closed type Island Three colony Sweetwater just went up in a devastating explosion. Side Three's space colonies were being cut to ribbons. Hundreds of millions of Zeon citizens were dieing in the cold vastness of space.
Ades slammed his fist so hard on the situation table that the glass cracked and cut his hand. "Sir, communiqué from Space Fortress A Baoa Qu: Gamilon forces have entered A Baoa Qu. All forces retreat! Save yourselves and Hail Zeon!"
Ades looked out and saw secondary explosions rippled through the space fortress. All seemed lost but Zeon Zum Diekun's dream must still live on. "Recall Char's mobile suit team. Have them cover our retreat! We are withdrawing from the combat zone. Spread Minovsky particles to cover our retreat!"
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UC 0079.01.13 \ Side 5, Loum District, EFSF Ananke
Lieutenant General Revil puffed on his Cuban cigar as he looked at the 1st Combined Fleet from the Ananke's bridge. Over 400 Earth Federation warships surrounded Revil's teal painted Magellan command battleship. Elements from the 1st through 6th Earth Federation Attack groups stood poised to face off with the aliens identified as Gamilians.
Flashes in the distance herald the arrival of the enemy fleet. General Revil quickly looked at his situation table before the spreading of minovsky particles. Over 500 olive drab, blimp shaped Gamilon warships entered Side 5 space. "General Revil to the 1st combined fleet: The Earth's fate lies in this battle. I'm counting on you, good luck!"
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UC 0079.01.14 \ Side 5, Loum District, EFSF Drake
Captain Copemann struggled to keep himself in his seat as the air rushed out of the large gash in the front of his bridge. Copemann breathed a sigh of relief that he and his crew's normal suits were working fine. Otherwise, he'd be dead about now from asphyxiation. Something billions of civilians were dieing from at this very moment "Status on the colony!?"
"The enemy is still towing the Watohoat colony towards Earth! I believe they mean to drop it on Earth!"
Copemann's eyes widen in disbelief. If an intact Island Three colony were to crash unto the Earth the result would be devastating! Not only will millions of lives would be lost in an instant but Earth's climate will shift dramatically. The Colony Drop could even bring about a nuclear winter, killing billions more.
"We can't let those bastards drop a colony on Earth! We're going to have to break through 'em! Where's our Black Tiger support?"
"Sir, the colony is now accelerating towards earth!"
Copemann rose up out of his chair. "Shoot those Gamilon leeches off that colony! Take out those blimps before they accelerate the colony any further!"
Copemann's Salamis-class cruiser unleashed a salvo of cannon and missile fire on a Gamilon destroyer attached to the Watohoat colony. However the colony cracked in half from the resulting explosion. The remaining Gamilon destroyers detached from the colony as half of the island three colony continued it's uncontrolled decent into Earth's atmosphere.
The remaining Earth Federation forces watched in horror as the Australian continent was turned into a large impact crater.
Chapter One: Gundam Rising!
Captain Abraham Avatar readjusted his arm sling as he looked at his new orders.
Earth Federation Space Force Priority Transmission
Las Comm 91763L-07
Encryption Code: Blue
Public Key: File/Order/
From: General Thomas Revil
To: Captain Abraham Avatar, Commanding Officer, SCV-70 White Base, EFSFID: 0588874
Subject: Project V
Classification: Top Secret
/Start File/ Decryption Protocol/
General Revil to Captain Avatar-Eyes only
Hello old friend, I am sorry that you lost your former ship, the Argo, in a skirmish over Luna II. However I want you to use your new ship, and pick up the V project mobile suits from Side 7. I'm happy to tell you that your new ship, the White Base is specifically designed to handle mobile suits and a few other toys we were able to acquire from the Gamilons.
Since the White Base has a mix crew of raw recruits and members form your old ship I want you to treat this mission as a shakedown cruise. If the V project is truly successful then mobile suits will be front and center in future engagements. Once you return to Luna II wait for further orders. God speed.
/End/
"Once more unto the breach." Captain Avatar sighed.
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"Doctor Ray?" Ensign Bright Noah entered Doctor Tem Ray's quarters. The lead engineer of the V Project was donning his normal suit when Bright entered. "We'll be entering Side 7 in one hour."
The ship had gone to Combat Alert two, requiring everyone to put on their normal suits and stand by for possible combat. It is Bright's job to keep Doctor Ray alive on this particular mission.
"Thank you ensign." Tem grabbed his laptop and his helmet. "Shall we head for the emergency bridge?"
"Yes sir."
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Crewman Mark Venture breathed a sigh of relief after the combat drill was over. He even took off his helmet and let it float next to him.
"Watch your course heading Venture." Ensign Derek Wildstar ordered as he rechecked his weapon console.
"Right Wildstar, we wouldn't want to accidentally join Vice Admiral Tianem's assault force headed for A Baoa Qu. There are too many nuggets aboard." Venture wise cracked.
Laughter briefly broke out in the bridge. "Hey Dashel, did you see that." Operator Christopher Eager pointed to the radar screen above them. Dashel Jordan looked up and nodded.
"Yeah Chris looks like something is shadowing us." Dashel replied.
Derek Wildstar looked up at the operators. "Can you ID the contact?"
Eager's fingers pounded on his keyboard. "I only have intermittent contact. Minovsky particle interference is making it difficult to identify the bogey."
"Get the captain up here and bring the ship back to combat alert 2."
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UC 0079.08.18 \ Side 7, Gamilon Expeditionary Force Warship Ra Chutter
"General Domel," Major Bane began. "We've spotted an unknown Earth Warship heading for one of their incomplete artificial habitats. Its current speed indicates that it is equipped with wave motion engines…"
"This does not concern me Major Bane." Domel interjected. "This ship is another useless gesture like their two other assault groups. I'm busy with my conquest of their Jupiter colony. Eradicate the colony and ship if you feel like it. Hail Desslok!"
"Hail Desslok and long live Gamilon!" Bane replied.
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Amuro Ray sat in his underwear, tinkering with his microscope when a knock on his door finally caught his attention. His good friend, Fraw Bow started him blushing as Amuro's Haro bounced and chirped next to her. "Sorry Amuro. I didn't mean to stare. An evacuation order has been issued. We're to head for the nearest shelter at once." Fraw stated as she closed the door behind her.
Amuro scrambled to put on a fresh change of clothes as Fraw waited outside. Meanwhile, Fraw spotted Hayato Kobayashi getting ready to evacuate next door. "Hayato, why didn't you warn Amuro about the evacuation?" She never expected Hayato to be so rude to a neighbor.
The short teen rolled his eyes before replying bitterly, "If it weren't for military engineers like Amuro's dad we wouldn't be evacuating anyways." And with that Hayato drove off in his electric car.
Fraw shook her head in amazement, "The nerve of some people."
The door behind her slammed shut. Finally, Amuro exited his house and drove himself, Haro and Fraw to the nearest shelter located next to Side 7's space port.
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"What are those things Swamel?" Swamel, Camel, and Famel of the 1st Gamilon attack wing watched from concealed positions as humanoid machines were being prepped for transport.
"The humans call them Mobile Suits. A group of humans that called themselves Zeon used them effectively against us in our first invasion of the Earth Sphere." Swamel replied as he brushed his fingers over his deep, blue scar running the length of his face. A red mobile suit gave him that scar and wiped out his squadron to boot.
"But, we defeated the Zeons and their vaunted Mobile Suits."
"Yeah, after sustaining 80 per cent casualties." Swamel corrected. He'll have to avenge his loss. "Famel, Camel, return t the ship. I'll destroy these monsters!" Swamel quickly hopped into his boomerang shaped fighter and zoomed toward the enemy.
"I won't let you have all the glory! Hail Desslok!" Famel's cobalt fighter followed, guns blazing.
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In an emergency shelter, civilians, including Amuro and Fraw, stood huddled. They could feel the explosions ripple through the concrete flooring. Many were praying and hoping they won't die here, not yet. An enemy attack was no doubt under way. The civilians will need to be evacuated onto the new warship if there was any chance for survival. Amuro knew this.
Squeezing Fraw in a reassuring hug Amuro said to her, "I'm going to find my father, and tell him to order an evacuation onto the warship." As he ran out of the shelter, they all saw a Gamilon Fighter overhead firing on the Federation defenses. Flame and smoke enveloped the Federation's weak defenses.
Amuro drove off in his electric car, and came across some soldiers in a jeep. "Hey! You! Get back to the shelter." They yelled at him.
They then tried to get into an underground bunker, but a missile struck next to their jeep killing them both. Among the shrapnel and debris that shot out towards Amuro was a large classified book entitled Project V. He opened it and discovered it full of instructions for the Federation's special mobile suit: the Gundam.
With this book in hand Amuro finally found his father, who is wearing a normal suit. Tem pointed behind Amuro saying, "Get in White Base with the rest of the civilians." As his father ran off Amuro looked back at the ship his father pointed to.
The White Base resembled a white sphinx with intermittent CIWS fire pouring out its turrets. As Amuro surged forward, toward the white sphinx Fraw shouted for Amuro to hurry and join her with the evacuess. However as she left the group of evacuees, a missile struck the crowd, sending her flaying towards Amuro.
"Fraw! Fraw!" Amuro rested his hand on her neck, checking for a pulse. She was okay, but the rest of the crowd, including her mother and grandfather, were killed in an instant.
"Mama! Mama! Nooo!" Amuro tried his best to calm the devastated Fraw. This wasn't the time to mourn now. Not with Gamilon Fighters hovering around shooting at anything that moved. After a couple of minutes he finally got Fraw to make a run for the spaceport, before she shared her family's fate.
"Those god damn Gamilians!" Amuro did the only thing he could think of. He found the mobile suit outlined in the manual he'd been carrying. After pulling off the tarp Amuro briefly stared at the finely tuned machine. The schematics did not do the Mobile Suit justice. "Gundam." Amuro said in amazment.
After jumping into Gundam's cockpit and he used the manual to try to operate it. Famel, flying low over the destruction and carnage he unleashed on the colony, noticed the movement from the white mobile suit with a blue torso, and tooks aim, but Amuro quickly countered hurriedly and fired Gundam's vulcan cannons and scared Famel for a moment. Famel quickly recollected himself and returned fire, but he soon realized that the Cobalt's machine gun has no effect on the white mobile suit. "There is no way that is possible!"
Amuro quickly flipped through the pages of the manual and finally got Gundam on its feet. "I think I'm getting the hang of the system."
Amuro acquired a target lock on the Gamilon fighter and pulled his trigger only to become terrified when the vulcans ran out of ammo. "W-what do I do now?" Amuro again flipped through his manual as he looked for other weapons as Famel moved in for the kill.
Before Famel could do anything though, Amuro managed to activate one Gundam's beam sabers. Which Amuro quickly used to slice Famel's fighter as he swooped down. Unfortunately the saber's violet beam hit the fighter's engine and the resulting explosion blew a hole in the colony's wall. The resulting hull breach sucked Tem Ray and another engineer into space.
Amuro then noticed another enemy fighter closing on him and the Gundam. "I can't do that again." Amuro then targeted the enemy fighter's cockpit, and threw the beam saber at it killing the pilot. As Bright got the rest of the evacuees on White Base, and, looked on, he saw the RX-78-2 Gundam take out two Gamilon fighters with ease and with minimal weaponry.