Krane Yamato and Operation Celestial Rain 0
Phase 0 – Prologue
Disclaimer: As I've said before I do not own GS/GSD and some characters in this Fic belong to Gundam Seed Dark Destiny as I've said before in my previous story (I hate disclaimers)
Cosmic Era 73, two and a half years of war ended at Jachin Due where the Fallen Angels, a secret Organization originally based at building weapons, lost their precious GENESIS Superweapon which caused their initial plan to destroy all life and rise up from the ashes to fail rather dramatically. After Gilbert Durandal became Chairman-in-training he initiated the militarisation of the race of humans that made up the Fallen Angels: the Newtypes, however those people eventually ended up being too easily trusted leading to the Fallen Rebellion midway through Cosmic Era 73.
Meanwhile on the complete other side of the spectrum during CE 72 an elite force of ZAFT named the Dark Celestials led by Supreme Commander Krane Yamato and his flagship: the Varda, betrayed Patrick Zala and went against the ideals of Lacus Clyne and her Clyne Faction, failing in his Coup D'état Krane set up the order of the Supreme Commanders with himself at the head as the High Supreme Commander of ZAFT with 4 other Supreme Commanders by the Armoury One Incident. However Krane had a hidden agenda before his 1st Coup D'état, he worked as a private military leader within the Fallen under the rank of Saint Commander however Krane decided that Rau Le Creuset's methods would do more harm to Newtypes than good, therefore Krane invented the Newtype Drug which he would use to speed up the evolution of the human race be they Naturals or Coordinators into Awakening as Newtypes.
Krane Yamato of ZAFT while Rau Le Creuset of the Fallen leaving both sides uneven in the approaching conflict, that is until Kira Yamato was made an outsider of the ORB Union and banished where he was met by Rau Le Creuset and was trained to become a Saint Commander to change the world for the Newtypes however this both angered and upset Krane to see his young brother who he had played together with during their early years, Krane began to build weapons while at the same time Rau using the copy of the Providence Data he received and a specific design of the GuAIZ Experimental Firearms Type which Krane stole for him also began building weapons naming them the TSA-60B Providence MKII Command Units and the TSA-462 SINN Mass Production these weapons however led up to the Fallen Rebellion and the creation of the Pursuer, Enforcer and Hunter GUNDAM/MS Hybrids made from the Frames of SINN units however being built with GUNDAM-Class Weaponry of the Stolen ZAFT GUNDAMs: the ZGMF-X24S Chaos, the ZGMF-X88S Gaia and the ZGMF-X31S Abyss.
However the third party known by the names LOGOS, Blue Cosmos, Atlantic Federation, Eurasian Federation, Earth Alliance, OMNI Enforcers and Phantom Pain; were building weapons of their own using Combat Coordinators which functioned much like Extendeds to further their research in the field of Mobile Weapon Development, leading Blue Cosmos and LOGOS was a man named Lord Djibril who gave orders to the Secret Independent Force called Phantom Pain or another name for this Independent force being the 81st Independent Mobile Unit which were the military force of the Terrorist Blue Cosmos, the Atlantic Federation backed by the Eurasian Federation made up the Earth Alliance with their military named the OMNI Enforcers. It became apparent that both ZAFT and the Fallen would have a lot of work in dealing with the opponent, LOGOS being a weapons designed gained money from all parties as well as built mighty weapons for Phantom Pain followed by OMNI, the most recent being the GFAS-X1 Destroy and the GFAS-X2 Stingray which were colossal as their size easily overwhelmed most Mobile Suites.
The Dark Celestials however who were bidding their time within ZAFT had begun producing weapons of their own, most of their new weapons followed up the recent Millennium Series known as the ZAKU which divided between the Mass Production type ZAKU Warrior and the Command Production type ZAKU Phantom, these descendents from the ZAKU kept their names being named the ZAKU II divided between the mass production ZAKU II Warrior and the follow up to both the ZAKU Phantom and GOUF Ignited: the ZAKU II Shadow. Krane also began production of the Inca-Class Light Destroyers and began to remodel the Nazca-Class Destroyers to be more effective; also Krane produced Four Gondwana-Class Super Carriers for his usage naming them: Pangaea, Cimmeria, Atlantica and the Euramerica.
It is December CE 73 when Krane planned Operation Celestial Rain in where a large force of Dark Celestial Forces around the Cimmeria Super Carrier would be descended to Earth via space drop, Command had been given to Devil Commander Goud Vair, the once Hero of ZAFT who now commanded the Cimmeria as his Flagship.
Goud Vair's past was a delicate thing for him, during the 1st Bloody Valentine War he had a split personality with one being calm and kind while the other was destructive and enjoyed war to any extreme, it became apparent that Goud's mental instability only became worse due to his decadency from Newtype Nobility, after a battle at the Literia space colony where he fought his friend: Elijah Kiel, after the battle he begged Elijah to kill him and end his suffering but was refused and left for dead in his Mobile Suite surrounded by Dagger Mobile Suites. Somehow he barely survived and was brought in for medical care under the desires of Supreme Commander Krane Yamato who helped him control his Newtype powers and therefore combine together with his calm personality with his angered personality which in turn allowed him to fight twice as effective as before, amazingly he healed at such a rate that he Commanded the Varda during the ending days of the 1st Bloody Valentine War while Krane was fighting in Mobile Suite combat at the 2nd Battle of Jachin Due where the destruction of GENESIS was confirmed.
Goud helped Krane set up the Fallen as well as gather loyal elite forces from all over ZAFT into his personal Elite Force which he used to revive the Dark Celestials after requesting it from Gilbert Durandal, once that was done Krane and Goud began working on the Millennium Series and doing a favour for the Clyne Faction shut down the mass production of the DOM Troopers and handed the data over to the Clyne Faction who at the time was named Terminal, however they instead saw potential in the ZAKU project which they would later update for the Dark Celestials own usage (e.g. the ZAKU II Warrior and the ZAKU II Shadow). Goud had built a Crimson ZAKU Phantom with large booster engines as well as Variable Phase Shift that members of ZAFT codenamed him as the Red Comet due to his fighting statistics, the most questionable part of his new ZAKU Phantom Mobile Suite that Goud used was that it ran almost three times as long than an ordinary ZAKU which left unanswered questions however it was proven that Nuclear Energy was not the cause and that the battery of the ZAKU Phantom had been incredibly upgraded beyond that of present models.
Goud was given command of the new Gondwana-Class Super Carrier called the Cimmeria and was given command of a large force that would not all would fit within two Gondwana-Classes, when it finally came to Operation Celestial Rain, Goud borrowed another Gondwana-Class: the Pangaea so that he could drop a large number of descent pods without having to leave his Cimmeria in orbit to lead space drop operations. A large fleet surrounded the Gondwana-Classes and as the Cimmeria moved to the descend coordinates, the Pangaea began a massive space drop operation with at least 5 Inca-Class Light Destroyers also launching descent pods, Goud now with a Nuclear engine equipped ZAKU II Shadow began to descend in his Mobile Suite and provide fire support. Meanwhile Krane Yamato, Courtney Hieronimus and Shane Asuka began descending in their GUNDAM Mobile Suites towards Odessa Earth-to-Space military base, the Varda opposed descended towards Gibraltar where it was believed an OMNI Force was planning to begging an invasion while taking Impulse GUNDAM pilots Riika Sheder and Mare Strode, the Supreme Commanders of ZAFT: Zake Bonaparte, Jake Bonaparte and Asuzur Zala, began dealing with Space Conflicts as well as hunting down Rau's searches for Terminal or rather the remaining unfound child of Rau Le Creuset named Prayer Reverie.
It seemed that during the dawn of Comic Era 74, the War would take a turn for the worst, Zake's forces and Rau's would leave no stone unturned as they raced and hunted after Prayer while Goud would leave no enemy alive as his force fought to free Indonesia and the remaining area of Australia not under ZAFT's control.
Info: And there you have it, the Prelude to Gundam Seed Dark Destiny's 2nd Krane Series: Krane and Operation Celestial Rain
Dark Celestials Mass Production Mobile Suite Information:
Code: ZGMF-2100
Name: ZAKU II Warrior
Producers: Axis Factory Colony located at L5 under the directive care of Meteor City/ (after birth of Neo-ZAFT) Integrated Design Bureau/Neo-Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty
Powerplant: Ultracompact energy battery/sometimes equipped with Ultracompact hyper-dueterion nuclear reactor for Ace units
Weapons:
1x High-energy beam rifle with Grenade Launcher equipped
2x MA-M9 beam tomahawk in shoulder equipped shields
5x hand grenade (ZR31F fragmentation grenade, ZR21E high explosive grenade, ZR281 thermite incendiary grenade, ZR12Q flash grenade, ZR14Q smoke grenade)
Optional Weapons:
1x M68 "Catlius" 500mm recoilless rifle
Also includes the weaponry included in the Striker Packs, Impulse Silhouettes, Wizard packs and Fallen Backpacks
1x Optional DRAGOON Backpack with 2x large DRAGOON pod (5x GDU-X7 beam machine gun, 4x beam spike), 8x small DRAGOON pod (2x GDU-X4 beam assault cannon) in secondary backpack slots (in later models), Backpack designed is a attachable copy of the ZAKU Providence's built in DRAGOONs
Other Equipment:
1x shoulder shield
Variable Trans-Phase Armour
2x Backpack slots for Packs and Silhouettes (one is usually later used as a permanent DRAGOON backpack slot)
Deuterion Beam Energy Transfer System
Optional Other Equipment
1x optional carried shield with 1x M181SE "Draupnir" 4-barrel beam gun