Anno Domini 2315
Nobody could have predicted this.
Celestial Being had successfully completed their mission of dismantling not only the A-Laws, but the Innovators as well thanks to the help of Katharon. They had even managed to recover Veda before they once more faded to the back of everyone's minds as the inhabitants of Earth picked up the pieces and major reformations were made, this time in the proper direction.
However, even after the defeat of Ribbons Almark and the Innovators, even after top-level members of A-Laws were imprisoned for their crimes, corruption remained. The world thought that as it was putting itself back together, Celestial Being would be there to ensure this corruption was snuffed out quickly and quietly. Nobody could have predicted this.
Ribbons Almark, or perhaps Alejandro Corner, or even the enigmatic Wang Liu Mei had something waiting in the shadows. Something that couldn't have possibly been predicted. It was something too large to be kept secret, unless everyone who once held that secret had been killed before it could be exposed. Upon the defeat of A-Laws, many had taken their lives in fear of the punishment that awaited them. Perhaps there were those among them who knew of what was to come? It matters not.
With Saji Crossroad back on Earth after reuniting with his girlfriend Louise Halevy, Celestial being was already a man down when Allelujah Haptism and Marie Parfacy left behind lives of war and fighting to live somewhere on Earth in peace. None in Celestial Being could hold it against them. However, this severely crippled Celestial Being's fighting capacity. Even with their covert support-unit Fereshte still in the picture with the full support of the Celestial Being-aligned space colony Krung Thep, they were far from full operational capacity. Tieria Erde, incorporated fully within Veda, made himself a new body to continue piloting a Mobile Suit just to help pick up the slack.
Even as the world began to build upon the rubble that made up their foundation for better lives, another war was brewing. However, this was a war that would take more from them than any thought possible. It wasn't a war between nations, or alliances of nations. It wasn't even a war between the space colonies. It was a war against mankind itself.
Aeolia Schenberg was a man of vision. Long after he had passed away, scientists who believed in his cause worked tirelessly to achieve world peace by any means. He had several projects going, each separated from the other. The GN Drives and Celestial Being were two such projects. However, one of his projects was more dangerous than the rest, and dangerous projects attracted dangerous people. Artificial Intelligence. Unlike Innovators and Innovades, true Artificial Intelligence was not based around humans, but around a series of ones and zeros. It was a sort of amoral mathematics that were at the core of true AI.
This Artificial Intelligence was partially incorporated into the development of the Gundam Mobile Suits, but the project was officially dismantled after learning that true Artificial Intelligence was not compatible with humanity. All Gundams had pseudo-AI dwelling within them that helped the Meister in the cockpit pilot more efficiently and a surgical process known as Alaya-Vijnana was required to draw out the full potential of a Gundam. Each Gundam was different, and the pseudo-AIs dwelling within them were unique to each frame. Meisters were matched with their Mobile Suits by compatibility not just with the Mobile Suit itself, but the non-entity dwelling within.
Nearly all Meisters had this surgery done. It was dangerous, but the skilled doctors working for Celestial Being were some of the best around. The Alaya-Vijnana linked a Meister to the Gundam in a way that transcended the limitations of the flesh, or the limitations of metal. It was like a neural-link, but so much more. Gundam and Meister combined in a way that allowed them to become more than what they were before. However, none adapted quite so well to this process as Setsuna F. Seiei. His burning desire to become a Gundam, coupled with the uniqueness of the pseudo-AI within GN-001 Gundam Exia created a bond between the two, allowing him to forcefully awaken GN-0000 00 Gundam when coupled with Exia's GN drive.
The project that created these pseudo-AIs continued on in secret even after the supposed dismantling by more fanatical, dangerous people. As wars waged on and Celestial Being made its debut, they continued, hard at work, determined to see their vision through to the end, not believing in the kind of peace Celestial Being preached.
Nearing the end of the conflict, their work was completed. A brand new kind of true Artificial Intelligence was born. One that could determine how things would go in seconds and decide on a best course of action. The project was a success. Celestial Being was in a dire situation, nearing complete defeat, and though it seemed like the project wouldn't be necessary for years to come an automatic activation sequence and protocol was established so that should certain conditions be met, their project would become active even after they were long gone. This project was named Mobile Armor, true AI dwelling deep within massive machines that were more powerful than anything seen in the recent conflict. These Mobile Armors were capable of destruction on a global scale and even the full might of the world would be useless against them.
On the anniversary of Celestial Being's victory, a countdown timer inside of a vault deep below the surface of the Earth reached 00:00 and these machines roared to life with purpose. To establish permanent peace by any means. However, as 'peace' was a complete absence of conflict, there was only ever one solution. Those working on the project thought they had corrected it. They were wrong. The only true path to peace was annihilation of all those who had the ability and free will to initiate conflict in the first place. This was not optional, and there were to be no delays. However, after analyzing data by infiltrating every corner of the internet, the AI-powered Mobile Armor collective had decided that the one possible thing that could figure out a way to stop them from bringing this 'peace' to the world had to be dealt with first: Veda.
Veda had remained on the dark side of the moon, the task of moving it too great of a task for it to be worth doing while the world was just barely rising from the ashes of the latest conflict. It was guarded by several suits that were controlled by the Tieria Erde consciousness dwelling within the supercomputer, so it was thought to be safe.
While Celestial Being and the Ptolemiaos was cracking open a location revealed to them by Veda, the Mobile Armors were on the move. Finding Nena Trinity, who was long thought to be dead, within a stasis pod was not as big of a shock as Tieria suddenly entering a comatose-like state. When he finally came to, he revealed what had happened. A series of extremely powerful beams had annihilated Veda and his primary consciousness residing within, and the only image in his mind is of something monstrous conducting the attack.
Then, reports started flooding in from their other sources. Dozens of Mobile Suit-looking objects were razing towns and cities to the ground in record time, showing no signs of hesitation or remorse, and all weapons used against these things seemed almost completely ineffective. A call to action was broadcasting on all frequencies, asking all those who could fight to link up with local resistance groups and for those who couldn't to seek shelter. At the end of the message was a desperate plea for help directed at Celestial Being. The voice on the radio belonged to none other than Saji Crossroad.
The world needed Celestial Being once again.
A/N: This prologue will be immediately followed by the timeline that explains what happens between A.D. 2315, all the way to the time Celestial Being enters Cryosleep. The first official chapter will start upon them awakening from said sleep and move on from there. The first couple chapters will be fairly Celestial Being-centric, but as time progresses Tekkadan will see more and more airtime until the two paths eventually converge.