Prologue

The endless void of space. This infinite expanse of undiscovered country beckons many with its mysterious allure. Once upon a time, overpopulation and pollution flooded the Earth. This, combined with mankind's desire for the new—the unexplored--caused the max exodus of people who left Earth. It started on a smaller scale, groups of well-funded scientists traveling, making small, liveable colonies on the moon. Before long word had spread on the miraculous wonders of the colonies -the weather control, the artificial gravity, and the lack of the things that humanity had begun to dispise on Earth, pure air, no pollution; the sheer openness, lack of people. Needless to say, in a few, short centuries many colonies had been founded, both on the moon and independently in space.

As is typical with new discovery, strife begins to center around it. In short, a new, independent-from-Earth government was founded, Zeon. The ensuing years consisted of mounting pressure by the Earth government for Zeon's sizeable group of colonies to rejoin with the rest of the Earth and the colonies. Before too long, war had been declared, and Zeon found itself facing off against the much larger Earth Federation.

The Federation of Zeon used the newly invented weapon, the Mobile SUIT (Space Utility Instrument Tactical) to wage war against the Federation, who had developed their own Suits. After mutually banning NBC (Nuclear, Biological, Chemical) weapons, Mobile Weapons became the main component to wage war.

And wage war they did. The One Year War was fierce, and both sides had their victories. Two pilots, Char Aznable and Amuro Ray, emerged as the premiere soldiers of their time. Both of these men were rivals; Char, an ace pilot of Zeon; Amuro, the ace of the Earth Federation. These two were also both part of a new evolution of humans, the Newtype.

((For those knowledgeable Gundam fans, I'm not going to refer to Char by his birth name (Casval Rem Deikun), just to keep things simpler.))

Newtypes are supposedly the result of prolonged human life in space. These people gain certain abilities that normal humans would not have, an uncannily high spatial awareness being among the foremost of these. Each Newtype has various other less-clearly-defined abilities. These range from detecting other Newtypes, sensing an enemy's hostility, and even such things as summoning dead spirits (typically used through certain Mobile Suit Bio-Sensors) and enhancing/interacting with their Gundams (another word for Mobile Suit).

Char and Amuro were intense rivals. This rivalry was fueled after their shared love, Lalah Sune, was accidentally killed when Amuro went to finish off Char and she flew her Mobile Suit in front of the attack, effectively having Amuro kill her. This left even more anger and hatred between the two, each blaming the other for what had happened.

((Okay, I'm going to skip ahead of Z Gundam, because this intro is getting rather long…))

Many, many years later, after wars had been both won and lost, Char and Amuro found themselves in combat once again. Char was now the leader of Neo-Zeon, a group who had the intention of propelling an asteroid into the Earth in order to send it into a nuclear winter, thus forcing the inhabitants to give up their selfish ways and come to space, where they would begin realizing humanities full potential as Newtypes. Amuro was again with the Earth Federation, and the two found themselves in combat, the asteroid falling towards the Earth as they did battle.

Amuro managed eventually to destroy Char's Mobile Suit, grabbing his ejected escape pod and heading towards the quickly descending asteroid. Char told him it was too late, and after jamming his escape pod into the asteroid itself, Amuro and his Nu Gundam put it's thrusters as high as they could go, and single-handedly attempted to redirect the path of the asteroid.

Due to his bravery and possibly through his Newtype powers, Amuro inspired many pilots, both of the Federation and of Neo-Zeon, to join him in his effort. The intense willpower of Amuro and all the pilots assisting him causes Nu Gundam's psycoframes to resonate and overload, resulting in a spectacular aurora with the asteroid pushed out of Earth's orbit. Both Amuro and Char disappear without a trace in the incident, as the Earth is saved from its fate.


The endless void of space. It is filled with wonders of majesty far beyond what many believe is possible. Alone in this black darkness, dimly lit by the twinkling stars and distant sun from afar, pieces of wreckage can be seen floating free amidst the asteroids of space. In the middle of this wreckage, a single crimson pod is visible, forcibly jammed into a piece of floating rock….