SHIN KIDOU SENKI GUNDAM WING
SAINAN NO KEKKA
Act 0 of the story takes place before the true Sainan no Kekka story starts: detailing events as far back as 17 years before the war all the way up to the end of AC 196. The rest of the story begins six months afterwards in the future of the Gundam Wing timeline, to the summer of AC 197, where the characters have had time to build upon their peacetime lives… and something is brewing underneath the surface. This is a world in which the Endless Waltz OVA never happened, where Mariemeia never lived, and where the post-war world and colonies are focusing on getting back on their feet.
Act 0 was written three years after we began the original story, but it was done to bring a cohesiveness to the story, give some more backstory on the characters, and illustrate many of the themes which become important later on. Since it was written later, there are some stylistic differences that the reader will notice going into the first Arc (The Revelations Arc). It's to be expected that a writer's style will change and improve dramatically over the course of three years, and this is what happened to us. It isn't until Act IV that you will notice the same style of writing that will carry throughout the rest of the story. Eventually we plan on rewriting most of the Acts, but that hasn't stopped thousands of Gundam Wing fans from enjoying the story already.
The Prologue focuses primarily on Treize and other key features that bring our characters to the points in their lives before, during and after the war. Treize is the universal mover and shaker, and one of the greatest mysteries of the Gundam Wing series is exactly who Treize was, and what his motivations were. The previous act was designed to illustrate various aspects of his personality and how different characters saw him: god, devil, messiah, soldier, leader, scholar, cousin, friend, mentor, beloved and man. This amazing complexity is something we hope Sainan no Kekka will illustrate through all of its characters to you, the reader.
Treize's influence, though he is gone, is felt throughout the story… though he is not the main character. Treize remains as an icon to a new age, an age that no one understands… and an age that stands on the silent verge of destruction.
"The dead can't hurt you. It's the living that you have to worry about."
Let's see, shall we?
Quicksilver and Gerald Tarrant, Sainan no Kekka authors
09 February 2003
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