gundam seed:independence day it is year 70 of c.e as the mobile suit ship arkangel draws near to. orba an object appears at the edge of the milky way near saturan the unidentified object is picked up by both the planet's and by earths long range satellites as it moves forward the earth and the planet's scramble to find out what the object is the planet's sound that General evacuation alarms as the people head towards the life pods