GUNDAM: Universal Conflict

by TheKhanMann

GUNDAM: Universal Conflict is a completely independent story separate and different from any existing Gundam series. It doesn't borrow any characters from any previous Gundam Series and follows its own timeline. It entails a conflict between the colonies and earth over past historical events and the right to inhabit and harvest resources from a newly discovered planet, Kark 6.

1. Chapter 1

GUNDAM: Universal Conflict

By: TheKhanMann

Timeline: The Independent Millenium

Prologue

In the beginning, humanity as a whole looked into the night sky and dreamed. Their imaginations wild and their will undeniable. Man found its way into space, to the moon and beyond. The inextinguishable flames of curiosity continue to carry humanity in its never ending quest for resources, wealth, and knowledge in an attempt to satisfy humanity's unquenchable greed. This quest results inevitably in war. By 85 IM (85 years into the Independent Millennium) Humanity has divided into two major factions.

The people of Earth call themselves the Coalition of Continental Sovereigns(CCS). They banded together to preserve the Earth on its brink of destruction due to pollution and exhaustion of resources. Before later converting into a republic the CCS was imperialistic and was called The Pure Earth Civilization(0-85 IM). This predecessor to the CCS gathered all people they found undesirable and banished them from earth in a desperate attempt to partially solve the problem of overpopulation. These "inferior peoples" consisted of mostly of Oceanic peoples who were born and raised on Ocean Civilizations. Ocean Civilizations were large boats in the oceans containing a city or a town. It was an early attempt to create more living space for humanity. Many of these peoples perished in the slaughter that followed. Most were launched into open space in small shuttles with just enough fuel to fly into the sun and almost no oxygen. Some of these peoples managed to obtain oxygen tanks from abandoned shuttles found in Earth's Orbit. Others used their wealth to escape. These people managed to make it to Earth's outer space agricultural station, the first colony. Most Oceanic people perished and were victims of suffocation due to a lack of oxygen and were then incinerated by the sun. Others were executed via firing line but the bodies on earth and the mass use of ammunition presented a problem. Despite its severe early brutalities the CCS's lethally efficient efforts managed to revive the Earth to its previous state. The CCS also later converted to a republic after a bloody civil war and then the new government improved its relations with the Colonies(85-100 IM).

The Oceanic peoples who escaped earth that fled to the first colony managed to establish civilization and expanded. Within the first century of the Independent Millennium, there were numerous wars between the first colonies and earth and even between independent colonies. These colonies were disunified and were extremely basic. Soon the Oceanic Peoples banded together into the Association Of Collective Space Colonies (ACSC) from that point on known as Space Colonists. The ACSC managed to build many more space colonies. They built colonies that were more than just agricultural projects. The new colonies featured full earth esk cities, oceans, even complete weather control. However there was still a clear distinction in the quality of life and the feel of the colonies in comparison to earth. After the CCS converted to a Republic they improved relations with ACSC. Mutual Trade and Visitation between the colonies and Earth occurred. In the year 100 IM a collaboration of CCS and ACSC astrologists discovered Kark 6. Kark 6 was an earth like planet covered primarily by ocean but was twice the size of earth. Kark 6 offered 12 different continents each full of uniqueness and biodiversity. The waters teemed with fish and aquatic vegetation. The heavens high mountains and vast deserts boasted minerals and ores beyond imagination. The great forests offered seemingly unlimited amounts of timber and was filled with abundant game and fur. The Corporations of both the CCS and the ACSC raced to reach and harvest the bounties Kark 6. The economies of Earth and the Colonies now competed. Trade between Earth and Space decreased severely and caused tensions to rise. The CCS believed they deserved to inhabit Kark 6 because of their dedication and sacrifice that went into preserving earth and reviving it from its previous state. The ACSC debated that it deserved to inhabit Kark 6 due to the The CCS's previous major persecutions and horrific treatment of the space colonists. Not to mention the Colonists had been living without a real planet for a century. The political debates between Earth and Space continued. The CCS in fear of the ACSC discovering the CCS's corporate strategies and scientific advances, banned visitation from the colonies. The ACSC was severely offended by the clearly hostile and aggressive restriction and in turn banned visitation from Earth and refused to continue filtering and removing earth's accumulating orbital space junk. With the cancellation of this service large heaps of space junk from abandoned and old destroyed space ships from forgotten wars and other discarded garbage accumulated and destroyed a vast majority of Earth's satellites. The CCS was infuriated with the damage and immediately imposed sanctions and embargoes on space products finally and totally causing trade between space and earth to cease. In the year 110 IM an old damaged shell of an Earth, Destroyer Class space ship collided with Earth's most important and largest satellite, Recon 1. Due to the force of the impact, the Satellite was pushed into the atmosphere and then promptly exploded. The explosion in the atmosphere caused an electromagnetic pulse to occur over the Asian Continent. The remaining debris from the destroyer class and Recon 1 hurled towards the earth in an asteroid like manner. By midday local time the debris would hit Shanghai, the impact killing millions. In the year 110 IM the CCS declared war upon the entirety of the ACSC. The ensuing war would be tremendous conflict on a truly universal level.