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A/N I'm making corrections to this fic so I figured I'd post the timeline as well. See Chapter 1 Authors Note for full details Also the themes for this fic are Frontline by Pillar, Breaking Benjamin-Unknown Soldier, Soldiers by Drowning Pool, and Indestructible by Disturbed, none of which I own.
Mobile Suit Gundam Seed
Allegiance
Preface timeline
C.E. 61
After surviving a terror attack by an anti-Coordinator organization within the PLANTs, Patrick Zala sends his son Athrun to attend a preparatory school at the lunar city Copernicus. Here, Kira Yamato and Athrun Zala meet for the first time.
C.E. 63
The PLANTs' energy production department is destroyed by Blue Cosmos terrorism. The PLANT Supreme Council proposes a temporary suspension of exports, but the sponsor nations reject the suggestion, sending the PLANTs into a severe energy crisis. When the PLANTs' engineers carry out a coordinated sabotage campaign, the sponsor nations respond by threatening the PLANTs with their fleet of mobile armors.
Within the PLANTs, calls for autonomy grow louder. Siegel Cline and Patrick Zala become leaders of a Supreme Council faction which seeks independence from the sponsor nations. Research into the military applications of mobile suits begins.
C.E. 65
The first prototype mobile suit is secretly rolled out. The Zodiac Alliance steps up its activities and attracts more sympathizers, changing its name to the Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty (ZAFT).
C.E. 67
The GINN, the first fully functional mobile suit, is completed. A section of Maius City is secretly converted and begins production of mobile suits.
C.E. 68
Siegel Cline is elected chairman of the PLANT Supreme Council. The PLANT Supreme Council, now dominated by ZAFT members, votes to make autonomy and trading independence its highest priorities. The sponsor nations respond with a show of armed force, but the PLANTs carry out a military expansion of their own, and a standoff ensues.
Blue Cosmos grows in strength. Its ranks expand to the hundreds of thousands, and persecution of Coordinators living on Earth intensifies. As a result, almost all Coordinators emigrate to the PLANTs.
Chairman Cline makes secret arrangements to exchange imports of food and exports of manufactured goods with the United States of South America and the Oceania Union. Learning of these arrangements, the sponsor nations demand the dismissal of Chairman Cline, the dissolution of the PLANT Supreme Council, and the complete renunciation of autonomy for the PLANTs. These demands are rejected by the PLANTs.
In response to the Mandelbrot Incident, ZAFT is reorganized under Patrick Zala's leadership, and combined with the PLANTs' domestic security operations to become a military organization equipped with mobile suits.
A biohazard breaks out inside the Mendel colony at Lagrange point 4. Numerous casualties ensue, and the colony is abandoned, and then sterilized with a massive bombardment of X-rays. The involvement of Blue Cosmos is rumored.
Patrick Zala calls Athrun back from Copernicus. Due to the deteriorating situation, the Yamato family also leaves Copernicus, and relocates to the resource satellite Heliopolis.
C.E. 69
Chairman Cline orders PLANTs seven through ten of Junius City remodeled for agricultural production. The sponsor nations, determined to prevent the PLANTs from producing their own food, begin intimidation maneuvers. At this point ZAFT and its mobile suit forces make their combat debut, overwhelming Earth's mobile armors and driving the forces of the sponsor nations out of the PLANTs' airspace.
2.8
Despite the danger of conflict Kira Yamato arrives at the PLANTs to visit long time friend Athrun Zala, staying with his friend's family at the Zala estate on Aprilius One.
2.9
Kira Yamato and Lacus Cline meet for the first time. The two quickly become close friends. The Yamato Family (Haruma and Caridad Yamato) are killed at an outdoor mall by armed gunmen, Blue Cosmos claims responsibility.
After conversing with Representative Athha of Orb, the Zala's accept young Kira as a member of their family by formally adopting him. Kira also learns from Representative Athha that he has a twin sister, Cagalli, who Representative Athha has raised as his own daughter. Though still grieving Kira is happy to learn this, he is also happy to have been accepted by Athrun's family. The friend he considered a brother was now his brother in fact. Kira and Cagalli speak via video conference for the first time, the first time of many.
3.5
Athrun introduces Kira to Dearka Elsman, Nicol Amalfi, and Yzak Joule.
5.6
Captain Halberton of the Atlantic Federation's 4th Fleet (which will later become the 8th Fleet of the Earth Alliance) recognizes the mobile suit's effectiveness in space combat, and proposes the development of the "G-Weapons." Halberton's proposal is rejected by his superiors, but some of them provide assistance so that the project can proceed in secrecy.
10.6
Chairman Cline issues demands for complete autonomy and trade equality to the sponsor nations. The PLANTs promise to halt resource exports to Earth should no response arrive by January 1 of the following year.
C.E. 70
1.1
As they meet with representatives of the sponsor nations, PLANT Supreme Council members are targeted by a terror attack, and one council member is slain. Blue Cosmos claims responsibility, but when it becomes clear that the sponsor nations were behind the attack, the PLANTs halt all resource exports. The sponsor nations, which have become dependent on the PLANTs for all such production, are rendered destitute.
2.5
The Tragedy of Copernicus. At the urging of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, negotiations take place at the lunar city Copernicus. A terrorist bombing claims the lives of the sponsor nations' representatives, the Secretary-General, and the rest of the United Nations leadership. The PLANT representative, Chairman Cline, is delayed by a shuttle malfunction and escapes the bombing.
2.7
The Alaska Declaration. The Atlantic Federation announces the establishment of the Earth Alliance.
2.8
Representative Athha announces that the Orb Union will remain neutral and independent. Lenore Zala cancels her yearly trip to tour the Junius farming PLANTs to be with her adopted son Kira to help young Coordinator recuperate from an illness. This decision unknowingly saves her life.
2.11
The Earth Alliance declares war against the PLANTs, and an invasion force sets out from the Ptolemaeus lunar base. Meanwhile, Blue Cosmos loyalists in the military secretly load a nuclear missile aboard the mobile armor carrier Roosevelt.
2.14
The Bloody Valentine. ZAFT mobile suit forces repel the Earth Alliance attack. However, the agricultural colony Junius Seven is hit by a nuclear missile, and 243,721 people lose their lives in this tragedy.
2.18
At a national memorial for the Bloody Valentine victims, Chairman Cline swears to resist the Earth Alliance to the very end, and offers to give trading preference to nations which decline to join the Alliance. The Oceania Union and the United States of South America accept Cline's offer. Defense Chairman Zala also publicly eulogizes the Yamato's and publicly announces the adoption of Kira, now Kira Yamato-Zala. He also declared Zaft's intention to eradicate Blue Cosmos by any means necessary. Though the Zala's adoption of Kira continues to be unknown outside of PLANT and the upper echelons of the Orb Government.
2.19
Earth Alliance forces launch an armed invasion of the United States of South America. The Panama spaceport is seized by force, and the Atlantic Federation annexes the South American continent.
2.20
Condemning the Earth Alliance's invasion of Central and South America, the Oceania Union declares its support for the PLANTs. The Alliance responds by declaring war against the Oceania Union as well.
2.21
Athrun Zala and Yzak Joule join ZAFT. Having witnessed the horror of the Bloody Valentine first hand, and the murder of his parents, Kira Yamato joins as well. Though he is a few months from his 15th birthday he is granted a waver by Defense Committee Chairman Patrick Zala.
2.22
A battle begins over the space station Yggdrasil. The Earth Alliance commits its 1st, 2nd, and 3rd fleets to this fierce battle, while the PLANTs deploy their N-Jammers for the first time. Both sides' forces are evenly matched, and ZAFT suffers heavy losses. Yggdrasil itself ultimately collapses, its ruins becoming part of the Debris Belt, and Rau Le Creuset is awarded the Order of the Nebula for his accomplishments in this battle. Cagalli learns of her brother's enlistment into ZAFT.
3.8
The first Battle of Victoria. ZAFT forces begin an invasion of Earth, with the Victoria spaceport as their first target. However, the operation ends in failure.
3.15
Assessing the failures of the Victoria attack, the PLANT Supreme Council decides on an equatorial campaign dubbed Operation Uroboros.
4.1
The April Fool Crisis. ZAFT launches Operation Uroboros by scattering N-Jammers across Earth's surface, plunging the nations of the Earth Alliance into a severe energy crisis.
4.2
The Battle of Carpentaria. ZAFT drops the disassembled components of a military base from orbit to the Gulf of Carpentaria. Within 48 hours, the foundations of the Carpentaria Base have been laid. The Earth Alliance's Pacific Fleet engages the ZAFT forces, but is defeated.
4.12
Kira Yamato-Zala graduates from the ZAFT Military Academy early with incredible scores and is assigned to a ZAFT Mobile Suit unit. Upon graduation he enters into an arranged marriage with Chairman Cline's daughter Lacus arranged by their respective fathers. Though arranged, neither are opposed to the engagement.
4.17
The first Battle of Jachin Due. The Earth Alliance's 5th and 6th Fleets set off from the Ptolemaeus lunar base to attack the PLANT homeland, and are intercepted by ZAFT forces in the vicinity of the resource satellite Jachin Due. Kira Yamato-Zala serves with distention and is awarded the ZAFT Silver Star for heroism, earns the moniker White Eagle of Jachin.
5.3
ZAFT begins an offensive whose ultimate target is the Ptolemaeus lunar base. A ZAFT base is established in the Lorentz Crater, and the moon is divided along what becomes known as the Grimaldi Front.
5.20
The Carpentaria Base is completed, and ZAFT deploys the aerial mobile suit DINN. Kira Yamato-Zala assigned to Grimaldi Front
5.22
Zaft's campaign to capture terrestrial bases begins in earnest. Using the Carpentaria Base as a staging area, ZAFT launches an invasion of the Mediterranean region.
5.25
The first Casablanca Sea Battle. The Earth Alliance's Mediterranean fleet engages ZAFT's submarine carrier fleet in a naval battle near Casablanca. The victorious ZAFT forces then enter the Mediterranean and begin advancing southward into Africa. Meanwhile, construction of the Gibraltar base begins.
5.30
The Suez Battle. ZAFT ground forces defeat a massive Earth Alliance tank corps at El Alamein, and Andrew Waltfeld earns the nickname "Desert Tiger" for his exploits in this battle. The ZAFT forces begin heading south, expanding their territory into Africa.
6.2
The final battle of the Grimaldi Front takes place at an Earth Alliance resource base in the Endymion Crater. The Alliance loses its 3rd Fleet, but is able to use a Cyclops System to wipe out the ZAFT forces. Many Alliance forces are also sacrificed in the process. Kira Yamato-Zala earns Zaft's Purple Cluster for being wounded in battle while piloting his GINN High Maneuver against enemy forces.
6.4
Kira Yamato-Zala returns to the PLANTs lightly wounded, to a tearful reunion with his fiancé Lacus Cline.
6.14
At Lagrange point 4, fighting begins around the resource satellite Nova, which is controlled by the Republic of East Asia. Skirmishes continue for almost a month, with neither side carrying out a decisive strike, and many of the space colonies of the L4 cluster are damaged during the fighting. Kira Yamato-Zala is redeployed as commander of the Zala Team. One of his team members, Sala Zurel, distinguishes herself in the fighting and earns the moniker Nova Raven.
7.12
The Earth Alliance abandons Nova, and the fighting comes to an end. Both sides cease major military operations, and although small skirmishes continue on Earth and in space, the overall war enters a stalemate.
The mobile suit development project proposed by Commodore Halberton, commander of the Alliance's 8th Fleet, is reexamined as a means of breaking this deadlock. With the assistance of Morgenroete, development of the G series and the mobile suit carrier Archangel begins in earnest at Heliopolis.
8.5
Upon hearing rumors of the Alliance Mobile Suit program ZAFT high command deploys Heliopolis colony native Kira Yamato-Zala to investigate and report on the program.
8.17
Kira returns to Heliopolis and enrolls at Morgenroete Technical Collage as a student, all the time sending constant reports on the Alliance MS development program. While on colony he drops the Zala from his name.
9.20
Athrun Zala graduates from ZAFT's military academy. He is assigned to the Le Creuset team along with Yzak Joule, Dearka Elsman, and Nicol Amalfi.
10.22
Secret discussions are arranged between Chairman Cline and Earth Alliance Secretary-General Olbani, using the Reverend Malchio as an intermediary. Their goal is to break the stalemate, alleviate famine conditions, and find middle ground for a compromise to end the war. However, these negotiations fail to bear fruit.
C.E. 71
1.15
Activity in the Pacific theater increases. ZAFT attacks the Republic of East Asia's Kaohsiung spaceport.
1.20
Five GAT-X series mobile suits, and the warship Archangel, are secretly rolled out at Heliopolis.
1.23
The Kaohsiung spaceport falls. Rau Le Creuset returns to PLANT to help orchestrate the upcoming Operation Spit Break scheduled for sometime in the next few months.
1.24
The Le Creuset team, now under the command of Sala Zurel (Nova Raven) and integrated into the Zala Team, investigates reports of a new Earth Alliance military satellite under construction at Lagrange point 3. However, the information proves faulty and no fighting ensues. On their way back, they obtain intelligence on the Alliance's mobile suits from Kira Yamato-Zala who had deployed to the Heliopolis colony some months earlier and had returned to Morgenroete collage. With his GINN High Maneuver type hidden on the colony he was in place to act when necessary.
1.25
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