Mobile Suit Gundam SEED: Tiberium Assault

by 117Jorn

As the AISDI and Zaft fight against the EA, from the shadows a fourth faction waits too claim its rightful position as the rulers of Tiberium. Now their time has come at last. In the name of Kane, Peace...though...power. FEM-Kira fic. Rating will be M

1. Timeline

C.E. -25: The mysterious organization known as the Brotherhood of Nod emerges in the public eye. Supporting numerous rebel and terrorist groups, their leader, Kane, claimed that the United Nations is nothing more than a puppet government, ruled by the wealthy and that humanity should rise up. Anti-UN terrorist attacks dramatically increase.

C.E. -20: Due to the activities of Nod, a number of poorer nations of the UN have descended into extreme civil unrest. As a result, the UN declares war on the Brotherhood of Nod. This conflict, and its aftermath, would become known as the Reconstruction War.

C.E. -19 October 16: The UN forces lay siege to Nod's central command outside Sarajevo. After three days of intense fighting, the UN forces manages to destroy the command center. Hacked security footage reveals that Kane was killed in the blast. Without Kane, Nod splinters into numerous factions. However, the UN's initial claims that the war has ended, proves to be false as many of the factions are still just as willing to fight against the UN.

C.E. -16 April 1: George Glenn is born.

C.E. 4: George Glenn is nominated for a Nobel Prize

C.E. 5: George Glenn enlists in the military

C.E. 9: The Reconstruction War finally ends with the deaths of the last major Nod warlords. But small Nod factions still exist around the world. The United Nations adopt the Cosmic Era calendar and announce a new space development program.

C.E. 11:The Yggdrasil space station is completed. A few months later, the first Sawyer space colony is completed in L2, this is recieved with great celebration as the first immigrants arrive days after it's completion. Work resumes on building more of these colonies. A new invention, the Exo-Frame suit, is pressed into service.

C.E. 12: The Lunar City, Copernicus is completed.

C.E. 13: A selection of Sawyer-type space colonies ask for independence from the rest of the Earth Alliance. After a month of waiting, the UN permits the 13 colonies to declare independence, and the independent Colonial Republic is born. Electing Jorge Mason as their first President.

C.E. 14: the ICR announces plans to build a Mass Driver on Kyushu at Japan, in order to cut down construction time of their colonies. This is received with admiration, envy, and even jealousy by a few of the other nations, because the ICR was first to think of a Mass Driver. Before the announcement, the ICR asked permission from the Japanese Government to annex the land, and even paid billion's worth of resources to obtain them, which the Japanese warmly received because of the bad economy it had at the time from the War. The Kingdom of Scandinavia, the Equatorial Union, and Orb also announce their full support of the construction of the Mass Driver.

During this, FASA announces a Jupiter exploration program and annouces the development of the exploration ship Tsiolkovsky. George Glenn is to be the ships designer, and Yggdrasil is chosen as the construction site.

C.E. 15: The Tsiolkovsky is completed.

George Glenn's Confession. As George leaves for Jupiter aboard the Tsiolkovsky, he reveals the existence of Coordinators, and releases the necessary genetic enginering techniques onto the worldwide network. The world is thrown into chaos by these events.

In the name of environmental protection the pressure group Blue Cosmos declares itself adamantly opposed to Coordinator technology.

Realizing that this could spell trouble in the years to come, the President of theICR, secretly orders the establishment of a Secret Agency, to keep an eye on Blue Cosmos, not to mention the Atlantic Federation and Nod for they are somehow connected to the group.

C.E. 16: An international conference is held to discuss the Coordinator Controversy. A Protocol on Genetic Modification is adopted, totally prohibiting the manipulation of human genes. Nonetheless, some wealthy individuals secretly have their children turned into Coordinators.

C.E. 17: A hospital in Chicago which has secretly been creating Coordinators is set ablaze. Blue Cosmos is rumored to be involved. Intelligence Agency detectives investigate the incident and manage to capture one of the arsonists. From his interrogation, he reveals that Blue Cosmos is willing to do what is necessary "For the Preservation of our Pure and Blue World". After his trial, he is then sentenced to life in an asylum.

Construction of the Porta Panama Mass Driver begins in Central America.

C.E. 18: After six long years, the Kyushu Mass Driver, built near Kurume, is completed. Celebrations erupt in the Colonies, as well as the Nations who supported the program. The Five Nations soon cement a relationship that will come in handy in the future.

C.E 19: The USSR begins the development of their own Mass Driver in the Eastern Falkland Islands. The ICR, Orb, Scandinavia, Equilateral Union, and Japan offer their support witch the USSR gladly accepts.

C.E. 20: During a meteor shower, a meteorite crashes near the Tiber River in Italy. A month later, an unknown crystalline material appears in the impact crater. The UN closes off the area and begins to study the crystal, which would become known as Tiberium. Many factions of the Brotherhood of Nod begin proclaiming that humanity's future has arrived.

C.E. 21: May 25: The UN publishes all of the information they have on Tiberium to the public, revealing both its potential and its danger. Many nations become torn over what should be done with Tiberium.

C.E. 21: September 10: The UN's Tiberium Research Facility on the Tiber River explodes. The circumstances of the explosion is never discovered and much of the Tiber River becomes contaminated by Tiberium. In the following months, patches of Tiberium begin appearing all across the planet. As a result, civil unrest and Nod activity Drastically increases.

Construction of the Habilis Mass Driver begins on the shore of Lake Victoria.

During this time the DSSD or Deep Space Survey Division is established by the UN.

Jason Borne, grandson of George Glenn, is born on the New Philadelphia Colony in L2.

C.E. 22: The Tsiolkovsky reaches Jupiter and discovers the fossil known as Evidence 01. The world is again thrown into chaos, and FASA orders the Tsiolkovsky to bring back the fossil.

Siegel Clyne, a Coordinator, is secretly born in the Kingdom of Scandinavia.

Sue Moss, is born in the ICR.

The ICR begins Colonization of Antarctica, creating 13 dome cities are built under the ice using new, advanced thermal equipment, which will evolve into the Cyclops System, while on the surface, Solar Panels, and Power windmills that supply the cities' power are built.

C.E. 23: Patrick Zala, a Coordinator is secretly born in the Atlantic Federation.

C.E. 25: Due to the growing civil unrest and the UN's inability to keep Nod in check, many smaller nations withdraw from the UN. Some leave because their nation collapses due to the unrest, others leave because they feel the UN can no longer protect their nations. One such is Japan, who asks for the ICR for assistance, witch they gladly accept.

C.E. 26: The Falkland Mass Driver is Complete.

C.E. 28 April 7: The Brotherhood of Nod reforms as a solid whole and attacks the UN and ICR, starting a second war with Nod, witch soon becomes known as the Second Tiberium War. While much of Nod's complement is inferior to the UN's and ICR, Nod begins deploying a number of unusual weaponry. Including Tiberium-based weaponry and a visual stealth system. But most shockingly, Nod's original leader, Kane, returns. Exactly the same as he was during the first war, not having aged in decades since the last war.

C.E 28 May 3: Nod secretly develops their own space colony cluster, and use their Visual stealth systems too keep it hidden from the U.N. These colonies are called: the Brotherhood-Type Colonies.

C.E. 28 July 4: Nod test fires a Tiberium missile on the Orb island of Shimamori, killing the entire Orb Royal Family and devastating the island. Nod follows up with an invasion of Shimamori's sister island, Onogoro. After a four day brutal urban combat, Orb's military pushes back Nod with the assistance from the ICR. A notable hero of the battle was a young Orb officer named Ishmael Takeo, who, with his CO dead and his platoon cut off from the rest of the Orb forces, led his men through a series of guerrilla raids against Nod forces. After the battle, the survivors of the Orb Noble Families, Government and Military agree to temporarily join the UN against Nod. In addition, the ICR, long allies too Orb, also temporarily allies itself with the U.N.

C.E. 28 August 4 OPERATION PHOENIX: Nod Forces Hijack the abandoned Sawyer-Type Colony of Nixon, and set it on a collision course with the earth aimed at U.N military head quarters at JOSH-A Alaska. However the Colony was diverted, it still impacted the earth at Sydney Australia. The colony exploded on impact, destroying the whole city killing hundreds of thousands of civilians. The U.N uses this act as a war-cry: 'Remember Sydney!'

C.E. 28 November 1: Having located Kane's Headquarters in Cairo, the UN-Orb taskforce deploys it's forces to capture Kane and his headquarters. As the battle rages, a commando team, led by Orb Commander Ishmael Takeo, infiltrate the command center. The exact events inside the base are never made public. But Kane is killed and the base's self-destruct is triggered. Once again, Nod fractures without Kane. Only fragments of Nod's more advanced and unusual technology is recovered by the UN, ICR and Orb, preventing them from fully understanding and reverse engineering the technology. Also, the spread of Tiberium increased dramatically over the course of the war. Within three years, Shimamori becomes uninhabitable.

The Kingdom of Orb becomes the Orb Union and officially adopts it's stance of neutrality. Both Orb and the ICR outlaws Tiberium research, with the exception of containment and eradication. They quarantined Shimamori, using it for research and experiments. They also begin conducting extreme searches for Tiberium on any ship entering their waters.

After the war, and when Anton Slavik took control of Nod, giving the Black Hand a new public profile, many claimed the Nod leader was a traitor to the Black Hand's true purpose. Marcion's impassioned and popular preaching made him a natural opponent for Slavik. What started as a doctrinal disagreement quickly escalated into a schism that threatened the very existence of Nod itself. The situation spun out of control quickly, with Slavik dead at the hands of an assassin and Marcion in Australia, on a self-imposed exile. Evidence suggests that his betrayal was actually planned by the ICR; a spy managed to use his vanity against him and turn him on the Brotherhood and Kane, triggering yet another splintering of the Brotherhood.

C.E. 29: George Glenn returns from Jupiter with Evidence 01. The Fossil is taken to the Zodiac research Colony at Lagrange point 5, run by the DSSD, for detailed examination.

C.E. 30: The world's religious authorities gather at the Palestine Conference, but are unable to reach any conclusions, and their influence begins to wane. Tolerance for Coordinators spreads throughout the world, and the first Coordinator boom begins.

The space industry heats up, and construction of numerous colonies begins at Lagrange point 4.

The Orb Union begins construction of the Kaguya Mass Driver and the resource satellite Heliopolis.

C.E. 31: The restrictions on George Glenn are lifted, and he begins examining Evidence 01 at Zodiac. The colony's extraterrestrial research expands into a huge research facility.

During this time, the DSSD offers Glenn a position in the Research and Development Division, which he warmly accepts.

C.E. 35: The Atlantic Federation establishes a lunar base in the Ptolemaeus Crater, drawing international condemnation, Osea most of all, and unveils its first series of Mobile Armors. Earth's major powers begin an arms race, and the Eurasian Federation begins the construction of Artemis.

In response to this, construction begins on the Military Defense Station, Bastille, by the ICR.

C.E. 38: The Zodiac research colony is further expanded. George Glenn announces the his concept for a new type of space colony, and construction of these new colonies begins. This project is funded mainly by the Atlantic Federation, the Eurasian Federation, the ICR, and the Republic of East Asia, and the new L5 colony cluster is to be managed by represenatives of these sponsor nations, although, ICR is opposed to the idea of the sponsor-nations running the new colonies, but their complaint is overruled.

Jason Borne enlists in the military.

C.E. 40: The first generation of Coordinators, born in secrecy, reach maturity and begin to excel in every scientific, artistic, and athletic field. The differences between Coordinators and Naturals thus becomes very clear, and critical voices emerge. Among them, Blue Cosmos the most critical. However Nod remnants are actually approving of Coordinators in secret.

C.E. 41: Marriages among first generation Coordinators produce a purebred second generation, who soon prove to have inherited their parents abilities.

Muruta Azrael born in the Atlantic Federation.

C.E. 42: A bomb explodes in the Osean capital, the Oured colony. Blue Cosmos is rumored to be behind the attack. The attack was focused on members of the Government Council, and two of them are killed, along with 13 innocent bystanders. However there are also rumors that Nod may have been behind the attack as well. More leaning towards the latter.

C.E. 43: Patrick Zala and Siegel Clyne, participating in the construction of new colonies at Lagrange point 5, meet for the first time.

C.E. 44: The first ten PLANTs are completed. Due to the growing tensions between the growing Coordinator population and the Naturals, many Coordinators move to the PLANTs. This only further divides the two groups, as many Naturals living in areas suffering from Tiberium contamination or civil unrest, grow jealous of the Coordinators living in the pristine and safe PLANTs while they suffer on Earth. But as people move into the colonies, the Brotherhood of Nod enters as well. Unlike their Earth-based comrades, they take a more covert role and slip into the shadows.The one thing they don't make is food, which the PLANTs are strictly prohibited from producing by the Sponsor Nations, with the exception of the Independent Colonial Republic, and which must be imported entirely from Earth.

C.E. 45: The estimated Coordinator population now exceeds 35 million.

Anti-Coordinator organizations begin carrying out acts of terrorism against the PLANTs. Since they have no political autonomy and are thoroughly demilitarized, the PLANTs are unable to defend themselves, and the Coordinators working in the PLANTs become increasingly dissatisfied.

C.E. 46: Al Da Flaga visits the Mendel colony at Lagrange point 4. He comissions Dr. Ulen Hibiki, the chief researcher of GARM R&D, to create a clone of himself. Rau La Flaga is born later this year.

Jason Borne & his High school girlfriend Sue Moss Borne marry on June, 6th.

C.E. 47: Growing ever resentful of the other sponsor-nations treatment of the PLANTs, and fearing war may be on the horizon, the President of the ICR calls the leaders of the Kingdom of Scandinava, the Orb Union, the Equatorial Union, the Japanese, and the USSA to a secret meeting in the Colony of November City. There, they discuss the conditions of the looming crisis ahead. For a week, the leaders talked, and finally Osea proposes the formation of an alliance of nations, if the need should arise. The President of the USSA, unfortunately, but respectfully, declines the offer.

C.E. 50: In order to obtain autonomy ad trading independence for the PLANTs, Siegel Clyne and Patrick Zala form the political organization known as the Zodiac Alliance. They begin working to abolish food production restrictions and secure self-defense rights for the PLANTs, but the Atlantic Federation, the more aggressive of the Sponsor Nations, suppress their efforts and the Zodiac Alliance goes underground.

C.E. 53: After attending a meeting concerning the PLANTs, George Glenn is badly wounded by Blue Cosmos Assassins outside the Capitol Building in Oured. This news spreads like wildfire, as George Glenn was a major political figure on the situation between the Sponsor Nations and the PLANTs. It is assumed that either Nod or Blue Cosmos were behind the attack, but no hard proof is discovered.

He dies a week later at a local hospital. Before his death, he tells his grandson, Lt. Commander Jason Borne, the location of his research on Coordinators and asks him to retrieve and protect it. He succeeds in doing so, and he and his wife Sue move to November City.

After the death of George Glenn, a PLANT Supreme Council is formed, made of represenatives from each of the PLANT cities.

C.E. 57: With the growing deterioration of many smaller nations from either Tiberium infestation or continued civil unrest, the United Nations, as well as ICR, shifts the bulk of their research to Tiberium containment and eradication. In addition, the UN cuts back on aid and peacekeeping efforts in non-member nations.

The space forces of the Atlantic Federation, the Eurasian Federation, and the Republic of East Asia, establish a military presence in the PLANTs airspace. This combined force is a predecessor to the Earth Alliance Forces. This action enrages the ICR, especially the Government Council. They annouce their disgust of the other Sponsor-Nations to the world, especially the Atlantic Federation, but vow not to get involve with such petty affairs.

While ICR's relationship with it's fellow sponsor-nations slowly grows sour, it's relationship with the PLANTs grows stronger.

C.E. 58: Siegel Clyne and Patrick Zala are elected to the PLANT Supreme Council. Meanwhile their Zodiac Alliance remains active and continues to attract more symphathizers.

Uzumi Nara Attha becomes Chief Represenative of the Orb Union. His first political buisness is attending a meeting on the Valhalla Colony in L3.

The Orb Union begins construction of the Ame-no-Mihashira orbital elevator.

C.E. 60: The PLANTs become major sources of Earth's energy and manufactured goods. The Sponsor-Nations continue to reap ever greater benefits, and impose ever heavier quotas on the PLANTs. Meanwhile, other nations, including the ICR, grow ever increasingly resentful of the Sponsor-Nations monoply profits.

C.E. 61: After surviving a terror attack from an Anti-Coordinator group from with-in the PLANTs, Patrick Zala sends his son, Athrun, to the Lunar City, Copernicus. It is here that Kira Yamato, Athrun Zala, Matthew Takeo, and Jordan Takeo, meet for the first time.

C.E. 63: Civil unrest within the Equatorial Union increases dramatically as a major Nod faction, known as the Black Hand, lends its support to the insurgents in secret.

C.E. 63: The PLANTs Energy Production Department is destroyed by Blue Cosmos terrorism, however in truth it was done by Nod. The Supreme Council proposes a temporary suspension of exports, but the Sponsor-Nations, much to the chagrin of the ICR, reject the suggestion, sending the PLANTs into a severe energy crisis. When the PLANTs engineers start carrying out coordinated acts of sabotage, the Sponsor-Nations respond by threatening the PLANTs with their fleet of Mobile Armors. ICR responded that it will cease all exports of valuable resources if the Sponsor-Nations don't stop their intimidating maneuvers.

Within the PLANTs, the calls for Autonomy grow louder. Siegel Clyne and Patrick Zala become leaders of a Supreme Council faction which seeks independence from the Sponsor-Nations. Research into the military applications of mobile suits begins. ICR's Intelligence Office catches on to this with interest and plants agents within the project. However, they are not the only ones as Nod also catches wind of this.

C.E. 65: The first prototype Mobile Suit is secretly rolled out, however the planted ICR and Nod Agents send data back to their respective homelands along with prototypes, built in secret, for further study. The Zodiac Alliance steps up it's activities and attracts more sympathizers, changing it's name to Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty (ZAFT).

C.E. 65 November 1: In the overcrowded slums of Rio de Janeiro, angry, starving people lash out against the local UN peacekeeping force. As the people lash out, anti-UN insurgents attack the UN soldiers, causing massive citywide rioting. The riots last for six days until the UN and South American forces managed to suppress the riot. The event becomes known as the Great Rio Insurrection. UN estimates put the civilian casualties at just under two thousand. However, survivors, both UN and civilian, admit that the casualties could be much, much higher. The event and the civilian casualties becoming a rallying cry for anti-UN groups all across South and Central America.

C.E. 67: The GINN, the first fully functional mobile suit is completed. A section of Maius City is secretly converted and begins producing Mobile Suits. A highly religious faction of the Brotherhood of Nod, known as the Black Hand, reveals their own mobile suit, the NOD-BH100, also known as the Purifier. The Purifier becomes a common sight in many regions of extreme civil unrest, bringing Nod control to those regions.

Meanwhile in the ICR Colony, Stargazer, the Anderson Electronics Inc. builds the Armed Forces first combat Mobile Suit, the STMW-001 Predator.

C.E. 67-OPERATION MAELSTROM: A number of Nod factions invade the Equatorial Union. Within a week, the Equatorial Union collapses as the Nod forces take its capital city, Delhi. Supreme Confessor Marcion, leader of the Black Hand and most of the Nod factions, proclaims that the Equatorial Union is no more and all of it's nations are now a part of the Brotherhood of Nod. In response to this, the UN increases it's military presence in neighboring nations, however ICR forces actually moves in and fights with the remnants of the Union's military and government too reclaim the land, this being known as: Operation: Maelstrom. Thankfully, after a few months short of a year, Nod Is forced too withdraw from E.U territory, and the Black hand with its leader Marcion is sent back too Australia. During the conflict the ICR Military deploy their Mobile Suits for the first time. News of the ICR's Mobile Suits spreads, and shocks the entire Earth Sphere, including the PLANTs, as they wondered how the ICR started building Mobile Suits and for how long, for they knew this was no mere coincidence. The Council Government in Oured, the capital of the ICR, having no knowledge of this, orders a explanation from Armstrong Electronics and the Intelligence Department. Their reply was that with the deteriorating situation right now, the Federation must be prepared for anything.

In response to Operation, ZAFT is reorganized under Patrick Zala's leadership, and combined with the PLANTs domestic security operations to become a military organization armed with Mobile Suits. He then sends agents to find out how the ICR found out about their MS project and how long they've been producing Mobile Suits.

C.E. 68: Sue Moss Borne is elected President of the Osean Federation.

Siegel Clyne is elected chairman of the Supreme Council. The PLANT Supreme Council, now dominated by ZAFT members, votes to autonomy and trade independence it's highest priority. The Sponsor-Nations respond with a show of armed force, but the PLANTs carry out a military expansion of their own, and a standoff ensues.

Blue Cosmos grows in strength, it's numbers in the hundreds of thousands, and persecution of Coordinators remaining on Earth intensifies. As a result almost all Coordinators flee to the PLANTs, while the rest immigrate to the ICR, the Orb Union, the Japanese, the Equilateral Union, and the Kingdom of Scandinavia. All five of these nations pass a bill that outlaws Blue Cosmos inside their borders, anyone caught doing any act of Anti-Coordinator sentiment, even terrorism, is prosecuted to the full extent of the law. The same goes for Nod Extremists.

Chairman Clyne makes secret arrangements with imports of food and exports of manufactured goods with the United States of South America, the Oceania Union, and the ICR. Learning of these arrangements, the Sponsor-Nations demand the dismissal of Chairman Clyne, the dissolution of the Supreme Council, and the complete reunciation of automony for the PLANTs. These demands are rejected by the PLANTs.

Roberta Incident: A food convoy from the United States of South America, under the protection of the ICR 3rd Fleet, en route to the PLANTs, comes under attack by an Atlantic Federation Task Force. Three transports and one Osean Madagascar-Class destroyer, the ARS-Delton, are destroyed, however the ICR fights the Federation's forces off. What shocked the ICR, though, were the Federation's own mobile suits, the GAT-06 Yeti. However, the Yeti is nothing but a cheap knock-off of a real mobile suit, with a 'Cheap-ass Operating system that couldn't run a Windows XP' as quoted from one of the scientists who inspected the wreckage of a Yeti. The only advantage the Yeti had was it was just slightly faster than an average GINN. Otherwise, Yeti's were simply walking/Flying Tanks.

C.E. 69: Chairman Clyne orders PLANTs 7 through 10 of Junius City to be remodeled for agriculture production. The sponsor nations, determined to prevent the PLANTs from producing their own food begin intimidation maneuvers. At this point, ZAFT and its mobile suit forces make their combat debut, overwhelming Earth's Mobile Armours and driving the forces of the Sponsor-Nations out of the PLANTs air-space.

Captain Lewis Halberton of the Atlantic Federation's 4th Fleet (which will later be known as the 8th Fleet of the Earth Alliance) recognizes the mobile suit's effectiveness in space combat, due to the ICR's, Nod's and ZAFT's Mobile Suit Forces, and comparing them too their own Cheap knock-offs, the Yeti.

He proposes the development of the "G-Series". Halberton's proposal is rejected by his superiors, but some of them provide assistance so that the project can proceed in secret. Unbeknownst to them, an ICR agent is part of Halberton's research staff and sends a report to his superiors, they order him to keep watch on the project. But Nod as well keep their eyes on this project as well.

Chairman Clyne issues demands for complete autonmony and trade equality to the Sponsor Nations. The PLANTs promise to halt resource exports to Earth should no response arrive by January 1, of the following year.

C.E. 70: 1.1- As they meet with represenatives of the Sponsor-Nations, PLANT Supreme Council members are targeted by a terror attack, and one council member is slain. Nod claims responsibility, but when it becomes clear that the sponsor nations were behind the attack, the PLANTs halt all resource exports. The sponsor nations, except ICR, which have been dependent on the PLANTs for such production, are rendered destitute.

2.5- The Tragedy of Copernicus- At the urging of the Secretary General of the United Nations, negotiations take place at the Lunar City Copernicus. A terrorist bombing claims the lives of the Secretary General, the Sponsor Nation represenatives, and the rest of the United Nations leadership. The PLANTs represenative, Chairman Clyne, is delayed due to a shuttle malfunction, and escapes the bombing. Many suspect that the bombing was the result of Coordinator extremists. Some, General Ishmael Takeo among them, however believe that Nod was responsible for the attack.

2.7- The Alaska Declaration- The Atlantic Federation announces the formation of the Earth Alliance. Knowing that this so-called Alliance means trouble for the PLANTs, as well as the other nations who accept Coordinators, President Sue Borne of the ICR, calls upon the leaders of the Kingdom of Scandinavia, the Japanese, the Equilateral Union, and the Orb Union, to meet at their Mass Driver, in Japan.

2.8- The Kurume Declaration- The Independent Colonial Republic, Kingdom of Scandinavia, Equilateral Union, the Japanese, and Orb Union, form an alliance, each having similar roles to stay neutral and independent. In this moment, the Allied Independent State Defense Initiative (AISDI) is formally announced. The militaries of these nations are integrated, and the Allies, as they would be called, control two Mass Drivers, one in Japan, one in Orb. In space they have the Orb, ICR and Japanese Naval Space Fleets, over 40 space colonies, the Ame-no-Mihashira Space Station, and The newly developed Ion Cannon Defense Network. This shocks the world, including the Atlantic Federation.

2.11- The Earth Alliance delares war on the PLANTs and an invasion force sets out from the Ptolemaeus Lunar Base towards Junius 7. However, this battle is a diversion as a larger attack fleet is sent too the ICR's own PLANT colonies, where Blue Cosmos loyalist in the military secretly load several Mk. IX Nuclear Missiles aboard the Mobile Armor Carrier, Roosevelt. In secret these Nukes were in truth provided by Nod.

2.14- The Bloody Valentine- ZAFT Repels the attack on Junius 7, however it is discovered that this attack was a Diversion from the E.A's real target of the ICR. ZAFT sends in aid too the ICR, however during the battle the ICR PLANT colony of Solstice is destroyed by Nuclear fire killing killing 243,721 people. Kelsey Takeo, Matthew Takeo's Fiance, along with her unborn child and Jordan's Father are among the casualties.

2.18- At a national memorial for the Bloody Valentine victims, Chairman Clyne swears to resist the Earth Alliance to the very end and offers to give trading preference to any nation who doesn't join the Earth Alliance. The whole of the AISDI (with the exception of the Orb government), and the USSA accept this offer, and the ICR as well officially declares war upon the earth alliance.

2.19- Earth Alliance forces launch an armed invasion of the United States of South America. The Panama Spaceport is seized by force and the Atlantic Federation annexes the South American Continent.

Before the Atlantic Federation could even think of gaining the Falklands as well, the USSA president ordered all troops in the Falkland Islands to surrender to AISDF forces stationed in Antartica.

In response to the invasion and the forced annexation of South America, AISDF deploys troops, and Mobile Suits to the Falkland Islands to protect the East Falkland Spaceport and it's Mass Driver.

2.20- Condemning the Earth Alliance's invasion of Central and South America, the Oceania Union declares its full support for the PLANTs and the ICR. The Alliance's response is to declare war on the Oceania Union as well, however yet again the ICR sends aid too them.

2.22- A space battle begins over the space station Yggdrasil. The Earth Alliance commits it's 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Fleets to this fierce battle while the ZAFT forces deploy their N-Jammers for the first time. Both sides are equally matched, and ZAFT with ICR support suffers heavy casualties. The Yggdrasil colony itself suffers heavy damage and ultimately collapses, it's ruins becoming part of the debris belt.

3.8- The Battle of Victoria- ZAFT forces begin an invasion of Earth, with the Victoria Mass Driver as their target. However, the operation ends in failure.

3.15- Learning from the failures of the Victoria attack, the PLANT Supreme council decide on a Equatorial Campaign, dubbed Operation Uroboros.

4.1- The April Fools Crisis- ZAFT launches Operation Uroboros by scattering N-Jammers across Earth's surface, plunging the Nations of the Earth Alliance into a severe energy crisis.While in addition knocks out Nod's Nuclear Weapons.

4.2- The Battle of Carpentaria- ZAFT drops the disassembled components of a military base from orbit to the Gulf of Carpentaria. Within 48 hours, the foundations of the Carpentaria Base have been laid. The Earth Alliance's Pacific Fleet engages the ZAFT Forces, but is defeated due to ICR Reinforcements.

Meanwhile, due to Carpentaria's proximity too Black Hand leader Marcion's temple prime, Zaft are sure too put up border patrols between their territory, and the area of control Marcion claims. Besides some small skirmishes, the Black hand leave them alone.

4.17- The first Battle of Jachin Due- The Earth Alliance's 5th and 6th Fleets set out from the Ptolemaeus Lunar to attack the PLANT homeland, but the ZAFT and ICR forces intercept in the vincinity of the Resource Satellite, Jachin Due.

4.19- Nod Forces attack the Australian AISDI research lab witch was under the guard of the Steel Talons. The lab in question held the records of Nod Stealth Technology. Nod successfully captured it. 24 hours later, Steel Talons launched a Counterattack, however only too find that Nod had retreated, and destroyed the lab.

5.3- ZAFT begins a offensive whose ultimate target is the Ptolemaeus Lunar Base. A ZAFT base is established in the Lorentz Crater, and the moon is divided along what becomes known as the Grimaldi Front.

5.12- A battle between the Black hand lead by Brother Marcion, and Nod Forces breaks out in the Australian outback. After the battle, Nod forces capture Marcion, however shortly after he appears again, now once again a part of Nod. The true reasons behind his return are unknown. However even though Marcion is the new leader of the Brotherhood, Nod is still divided.

5.20- The Carpentaria Base is completed, and ZAFT deploys the aerial mobile suit DINN around the same time the ICR develops their own Aerial mobile suit, the Hurricane.

5.22- ZAFT's campaign to capture terrestial bases begins in earnest. Using the Carpentaria Base as a staging area, ZAFT launches an invasion of the Mediterranean Region. In addition, the ICR forces in Antarctica begins a push too fully liberate the USSA Territories.

5.25- The First Casablanca Sea Battle- The Earth Alliance's Mediterranean Fleet engages ZAFT's submarine carrier fleet in a naval battle near Casablanca. The victorius ZAFT forces then advance into the Mediterranean and continue southward into Africa. Meanwhile, construction on the Gibraltar Base begins.

5.30- The Battle of Suez- ZAFT ground forces defeat a massive Earth Alliance tank corps at El Alamein, and Andrew Waldtfeld earns the nickname "Desert Tiger" for his exploits in this battle. The ZAFT forces begin heading south, expanding their territory further into Africa.

6.2- The final battle of the Grimaldi Front takes place at an Earth Alliance resource base in the Endymion Crater. The Alliance loses it's 3rd Fleet, but is able to use a Cyclops System to wipe out the ZAFT forces along with a large amount of ICR forces. Many Earth Alliance forces are also sacrificed in the process.

AISDI officials are shocked and disgusted that the Alliance could use such a System that was suppose to build cities under ice-covered landscapes, not used as a weapon to kill not only ZAFT and their own soldiers, but the unfortunate Alliance troops that were sacrificed as well.

6.7- the ICR finally develops a Natural-use Operating system. The 'Blood Protocol' is created too insure that the E.A does not gain their O.S. the Blood Protocol is installed into all mobile suits under the Natural AISDI forces, that in the event the Mobile suit is too badly damaged in battle, and the pilot is unable too return too base with it, the pilot MUST self-detonate the Mobile suit after bailing out. Nod, however, makes a deal with Blue Cosmos too give them a Natural-use O.S once they develop one, or capture one. A deal Blue Cosmos warmly accepts.

6.14- At Lagrange Point 4, fighting begins around the resource satellite Nova, which is controlled by the Republic of East Asia. Skirmishes continue for almost a month, with neither side carrying out a decisive strike, and many of the space colonies of the L4 cluster are damaged during the fighting.

6.24- the AISDI Research division experimenting with the properties of Liquid Tiberium is destroyed, causing a Cataclysmic event in the surrounding area. Marcion and Nod claim responsibility, saying that now 'Nod has risen, in the name of Kane!'

Many of the formerly splintered Nod factions and warlords become more active. Zaft, the E.A and even the AISDI step up their patrols around Nod-Controlled sectors. However, due too only minor Skirmishes occurring, the Nod threat is Ignored by the E.A as they slowly take troops from their defenses against Nod, and repositioning them in their war against the ICA and Zaft. But the AISDI are smarter than that, and actually strengthen their presence in their Nod patrols.

7.14- The Earth Alliance abandons Nova, and the fighting comes to an end. Both sides cease major military operations, and although small skirmishes continue on Earth, as well as in space, the overall war comes to a stalemate.

The Mobile Suit project proposed by Commodore Halberton, commander of the Earth Alliance's 8th Fleet is reexamined, as a means of breaking this deadlock. With the assistance of Morgenroete on orders from the Sahaku Noble Family of Orb, development of the G-Series, as well as the mobile suit carrier, Archangel, begin in earnest at Heliopolis, unaware that they're being shadowed by Anderson Electronics, thanks to the information provided by the agent in Halberton's staff, as well as Morgenroete itself, as it steals G-Series data, as well as the designs of the Archangel for it's own projects.

8.13- Morgenroete and Anderson Electronics secretly begin construction of a new class of warship, the Dauntless-Class, they also begin development of the Paladin project, based on the G-Series X-100 Frame, in the Castleguarde Colony.

9.20- Athrun Zala graduates from ZAFT's military academy. He is assigned to the Le Creuset Team along with Yzak Joule, Dearka Elsman, and Nicol Almalfi.

Jordan and Matthew Takeo, now Senior LTs, are assigned to the Harkin Team under the command of Lt. Commander Canard Pars-Borne.

10.22- Secret discussions are arranged between Chairman Clyne, and Earth Alliance Secretary General Olbani, using the Reverend Malchio as a intermediary. Their goal is to break the stalemate, alleviate famine conditions, and find middle ground for an end to the war. However, these negotiations fail to bear fruit.

12.31- On New Year's Eve, a major air battle occurs between a large group of Nod forces, and ICA Hurricanes near the Equilateral union borders. The end result was Nod forces retreating, but dealing heavy casualties against the ICA and Equilateral Union forces. It is here that the Nod Purifier pilot Roy Shepard, single-handedly destroys over 10 ICA Hurricanes, and 5 Zaft GINN's, gaining his nick name as the Demon of Mt. Everest.

C.E. 71- 1.15- Activity in the Pacific Theater increases. ZAFT attacks the Republic of East Asia's Kaoshiung spaceport in Taiwan.

1.20- 10GAT-X Series, two of them built in secret apart from the original plan, and the Archangel are secretly rolled out in Heliopolis.

1.23- The Kaoshiung Spaceport falls.

1.24- A fleet under a join command under Zaft and ICA ships launches for Heliopolis. They had received word that several members of the Archangel crew are willing too defect too the AISDI. The attack fleet is lead by Canard Par Borne, adoptive son of Jason Borne and President Sue Borne and M.S Captain of the 12th Mobile Suit Squadron. With him are several members from the Le Cruset team, along with Jordan and Matthew Takeo. Unknown too them, a smaller Nod Stealth fleet also moves in too attempt to get a piece of the G-Project.

1.25- Now...