Gundam Wing
Seed Saga
Prelude
Intro
In the year After Colony 201, the Space colonies announced themselves, a new humanity, and were the finest achievement in evolution. Through genetic engineering, they have bettered themselves and improved themselves. The ones that still lived on the Earth began to grow jealous of this new humanity.
The Spacenoids called themselves the "Coordinators" of a new future. As tension began to grow between the two sides, the leader of the Imperial Commonwealth, Duke Jacen Fanel, stepped in, being one of both sides, he was the perfect mediator.
Jacen stood in front of the representative of the Coordinators, Seigel Cline. Standing behind Cline was the Colony nation's secretary of the Military, Patrick Zala. Cline and Jacen shook hands.
"I hope that this will bring our two sides of humanity closer together." Jacen said
"I do, too, Duke Fanel. I see a great future of Earth and Space, a world where all humans are equals."
This marked the beginning of the new century of the After Colony Calendar. But tragedy occurred on AC 208. Relena Darlian Peacecraft, President of the ESUN, was assassinated.
About six months after the incident, the Earth was already in chaos, and Duke Fanel was having trouble containing the rage of an entire planet that blamed the Spacenoids for the assassination. The Coordinators, who were not responsible for it, were outraged at the accusations from the Earthlings. Tensions grew between the Earth and Space once more.
On July After Colony 208, Jacen Fanel fell to an assassin. The story was that he was found with his head chopped off. The scene appeared that he was combating his assailant, but was apparently defeated and was killed. His assassin was never found.
Without the peace advocate, Relena Peacecraft, or the once savior of mankind, Jacen Fanel, the entire human race fell into utter chaos.
In the heat of the chaos, the Earth had reformed its government into a more imperialistic style with the few ruling the many. This is formation of the Imperial Alliance. The Imperial Alliance is composed of the entire Earth sphere and its allied colony areas. Since the death of Jacen Fanel, the once proud Commonwealth he created collapsed and the Earth now reflected on the modern era in its complex political setup.
The last of the Imperial government that formed the Alliance of Earthlings, which the Coordinators called Naturals, is actually a joint enterprise of several reformed terrestrial superpowers, which scheme against each other even as they cooperate against the Coordinators. The Atlantic Federation, based where the Imperial Commonwealth was in North America, is the leading power of the Alliance. Among its rivals are the Eurasian Federation, which corresponds to Russia and the European Union, and the Republic of East Asia, made up of China, Japan, Korea and most of the Pacific islands.
The Earth while is pretty much united against all of Space has a few countries that remained independent from the Alliance and prefer to be neutral to the escalating conflict that the rest of humanity brought.
Coordinators had formed their own group, calling itself the Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty (ZAFT). In the span of 5 years, the Coordinators had increased in numbers pure from the natural DNA's of the Earthlings. Since the start of the new century, the Coordinators had revealed a cluster of new colony mega-cities known as PLANT's which they developed and operated, there were no artificial borders based upon nation or race.
Among Naturals, there were some who admired these "utopias", while others felt envy and resentment towards the Coordinators and their superior abilities.
The friction between the Earth and Space finally lead to the tragic "Bloody Valentine". On AC 211, a skirmish between the Earth and Space forces led to the destruction of a PLANT colony.
In due course, the Coordinator Alliance's ZAFT forces declared war on Earth for independence. The entire human race was once again at war only after recovering from the Great War. After the Great War, humanity suffered a blow that took 2 billion lives. Though the human population after the first global censes was about 17 billion.
In response to the Imperial Alliance's overwhelming military might, developed the Neutron "Jammers", which nullified nuclear energy, preventing Mobile Suits or anything that uses nuclear reactors. Naval vessels and Mobile Suits nowadays rely on pre-nuclear battery technology to power them, but luckily, Starships and most space vessels and the colonies are powered by anti-matter reactors.
The war had gone on for three years, but neither side seemed to be able to score a decisive victory. Both sides are at a stalemate.
Time: AC 211, just a few months before "Bloody Valentine"
Location: Luna Colony
Two boys, about the age of 14, were talking in a park. Both wore school uniforms of a military academy. One had brown hair, cropped short, and his eyes were violet. He held something that was wrapped in a cloth in his left hand. The object was long and narrow.
The other boy had slightly longer hair, colored black, and had teal colored eyes. He was holding some kind of robot bird in his hands.
"So you're really leaving, Kira." The one with the bird said
"My folks wanted to avoid the conflict that is approaching." Kira said, "Sorry Arthrun."
"There's no way there'll be war between Earth and PLANT. It's not like you need to run for cover…I guess you'll be coming to PLANT, too, sooner or later."
Arthrun extends his hand and lets the bird fly into Kira's shoulder.
"This is Tori. I want you to have him." Arthrun said
"Thanks. Does it do any tricks?" Kira laughed a bit.
"Oh and one more thing I want you to have…" Arthrun was holding a black colored leather box in his other hand and gives it to Kira.
Kira opens the box and was a bit shocked to see what was in there.
"But this is a-"
"You might need it one day. Keep it close to you. I trust your swordplay and martial arts, but sometimes, you need something else for defense."
"I don't need a gun to help me. I hate those things. There's no honor to a firearm."
"That's what the Samurai said way back then, but what happened to them."
"Well, thanks anyway. I promise I'll keep it safe."
"Let's just hope we both won't have to use one of these things."
"Goodbye Arthrun, my friend."
The two shook hands and walked their separate ways, only remembering the smiles they gave each other. That was their last joyful memories…as friends.
A few months after that, war was declared. Arthrun joined the military like his father did, and hasn't heard from Kira since they part ways on the Moon.