The year is AC 197, almost two years since the conclusion of the war between space and the earth. The World Nation, after much discussion, was dissolved, as it was too much territory for any one person or group to control. Former boundaries have been re-established, however the world leaders meet once a month do discuss any issues that concern the rest of the world. They also elected a representative to travel to the colonies when needed.
All armies in both space and on earth have been disbanded. There are still rebels, as there usually are, within various countries that disagree with the world's relationship with space, their leaders' ideals, or other things. The Preventers organization has taken on the task of subduing these rebels, if a solution can not be reached through peaceful discussion. Preventers has access to weaponry, and mobile suits, but only uses them if absolutely necessary, or if the Rebels have them as well. They only use guns if the Rebels use guns, and only use mobile suits if the rebels use mobile suits. They never use mobile dolls, and the technology for both the mobile dolls and the ZERO system has been destroyed.
Within Preventers, the Gundam Pilots have been given their own rank, "Pilot", as they have not progressed through military ranks, but are too adept of soldiers to be placed at Cadet. The Rank entails that they only have answer to Lady Une. However, if the situation demands it, the Pilots are encouraged to take orders from either Zechs or Noin.
The Sanq Kingdom has been restored, though the monarchy rule has been abolished. Relena's pacifist school is going strong, teaching both the children of government leaders, and anyone who wishes to become a government leader. They take students from around the world.
Relena Doralin-Peacecraft declined the invitation to return to the Sanq Kingdom as its Leader, instead taking the role of Vice Foreign Minister of Earth, and leaving the rule of Sanq Kingdom in the hands of Dorothy Catolonia. She acts as a middleman between any country or colony that needs one, and uses her position to properly spread her ideas of pacifism. While she considers the Sanq Kingdom her home, she is not there often. She spends most of her time traveling both the world and the space colonies, always with her bodyguard, Heero Yuy, in tow.
Heero Yuy returned to Relena's side about three months after the end of the war, and for little reason other than he did not know where else he could go and get a job. She immediately appointed him her bodyguard and Head of Security, and he registered himself as a Preventer's agent, though permanently assigned to the protection of the Vice Foreign Minister. He sends and receives emails from the other Pilots, as well as the occasional phone call from Quatre, though he has only seen Wufei twice since the wars end, and the others not at all. He sleeps with a gun under his pillow and two knives in the bedside table drawer.
After a short time working together, it became apparent to both Relena and Heero that they were not in love, nor were they ever meant to be a couple. The two happily fell into new roles, more brotherly—sisterly roles. Relena took on the job of turning Heero into a functioning human being (instead of a functioning human weapon) with delight. The first few months of Heero's job were spend being dragged to every restaurant, amusement park and movie theater that Relena could find, to discover what Heero did and did not like about food (no fast food, no Indian food, and anything sweet), movies ("Relena if you drag me to one more of those romance movies I'm going to quit."), and everything else the 'average teenage life' involved ("Heero, if you drag me on one more rollercoaster, I'm going to fire you!" "Just one more time..." "No!"). Relena also took on the nearly impossible task of drilling some fashion sense into Heero's soldier-oriented brain, and has mostly succeeded (in other words, the ugly yellow shoes are gone, and Heero's fighting a valiant but losing battle to keep the spandex shorts). In return, Heero took the opportunity to teach Relena some self defense. As a result, Relena now carries a small handgun and two clips of ammo with her at all times, and is still working on various hand to hand combat tactics with Heero (who knew paranoia was catching).
Duo Maxwell returned to L2 at the conclusion of the war, and after a few months of working with Hilde at the scrap yard, quit, on grounds that it was getting too boring. He then promptly took a shuttle to earth, snuck into Quatre's estate and surprised his friend with what turned into a month long visit. During this visit, Duo furnished almost half of Quatre's estate, and convinced his friend that no, it wasn't a good idea to work seven days a week. Upon his return to L2, Duo took up a job as a mechanic and a car shop near his apartment ("If I can fix a goddamn GUNDAM I can fix a goddamn car!"). He also took up a job as a sous chef at the only high-class restaurant on the colony. There, he rediscovered his love of cooking, born from long rainy afternoons with Sister Helen in the kitchen, and spent a good deal of time creating new deserts which he tested, much to her delight, on Hilde. Duo continued to regularly visit Quatre, and tried to visit Wufei as well (though for shorter periods of time). He kept careful contact with Trowa and Heero, as well as Relena, and the two became quite close. Duo also forged a sort of father-son relationship with the head chef/owner of the restaurant he worked at, who became the third person to know whom it was that Duo was in love with. Later he became an honorary Preventers agent. Duo sleeps with a gun in his bedside table drawer, and a set of knives in his socks.
Trowa Barton went back to the circus at the conclusion of the war, and has traveled with them since. He has a very close relationship with Catharine Bloom, who has adopted him as her younger brother, and harbors suspicions that he actually is her younger brother. She offered to let him change his name to 'Triton Bloom', but Trowa declined, saying that he'd been Trowa Barton to long to let it go now. Due to the fact that the circus moves around so much, Trowa is rarely near a computer, or civilization at all for that matter. He sends 'hey I'm alive and kicking' emails to all the pilots whenever he is near enough to a computer to do so. He also calls Quatre at every opportunity and the two have maintained a close relationship. Trowa has not seen any of his fellow pilots since the war. He is an honorary Preventers agent, and has a cell phone that can be used anywhere, for Preventers use only, should he need to be contacted. Trowa stays armed at all times, except when he's in rehearsal or performing. He sleeps with a gun in his hand, and two knives on his bedside table.
Quatre Rebarba Winner returned to Winner Corporations at the conclusion of the war. He took up his place at the head of the company, as his father had wanted. In an effort to both meet all his sisters, and to tell them apart, he put each in charge of a separate branch of Winner Co. It has mostly worked. Although after having their brother not only fight in a war, but fight at the tender age of fifteen and then take on a company on his own, Quatre's sisters have become extremely protective of him. This is both annoying and endearing to Quatre. He keeps in touch will all of the pilots, as well as Noin, as well as he can, and tries to visit Preventers HQ at every opportunity. The Maugunaq Corps have been taken on as Winner Co. security force, spreading out to both train new recruits and guard Quatre and his sisters. Quatre is also an honorary Preventors agent. He sleeps with a gun in his pillowcase and a knife in his drawer.
Wufei Chang was taken in by Lady Une after the war, and became the first Gundam pilot to be a full-fledged Preveters agent. He travels when his job requires it, and spends a good deal of his time training and doing paperwork. A few months after the war ended, Wufei came to the conclusion that he had indeed been in love with Treize, not realizing it until after the man was dead. He mourned this, as well as the loss of his first love, Meiran, and the similarity between the two situations. Wufei came to fear that he would spend the rest of his life alone, as any women he met he would compare to Meiran, and any man, to Treize. He keeps in contact with the other pilots, mostly Heero and Quatre, and has been the only one to actually see Heero since the end of the war. Wufei has forged a reasonably good relationship with Zechs, including the occasional sparring match, lots of chess games, and rather sarcastic discussions about the state of their respective love lives ( "I do not believe that I will be able to find someone to share my life and.." blush "... my bed with, having loved people of both sexes and lost them both." "Well, there's always animals..." At this point, according to a bystander, Agent Chang upended his coffee all over Agent Peacecraft's head, and stormed off to, presumably take out the rest of his anger on an unfortunate punching bag). He sleeps with his sword above his bed and his gun in his bedside table drawer.
Millirado Peacecraft/ Zechs Marquise, after disappearing for a good amount of time, returned to Earth, and joined Preventers. After some deliberation, he changed his name to Zechs Peacecraft, as he had never liked the name Millirado, but wanted to keep his true identity a part of him. He visits Relena and the Sanq Kingdom regularly. While he and Heero have tried to put aside their differences and get along, if often doesn't happen. At Relena's instance, he and Heero no longer actually fight, and have taken to solving their arguments by chess matches, video games, fencing matches (much to Dorothy's pleasure, and Relena's annoyance) or, if they're in a rush, Rock Paper Scissors (to Relena's amusement and Dorothy's disappointment). Zechs gets along well with Wufei, and the two have become something resembling friends, though Zechs taken on teasing Wufei as a pastime. Zechs sleeps with a knife under his pillow and a gun in his hand.
Dorothy Catolonia took up the job of running the Sanq Kingdom after the war. She had done an incredible job of it, focusing mostly on trade and the Pacifist school. While she no longer harbors the love for war she once shows, she has turned to an admiration for the skill and grace of a well trained fighter. Her most enjoyable entertainment is watching Heero and Zechs fence, more out of admiration for their skill and the beauty of the moves. She has a good relationship with Relena, and has also forged a sort of friendship with Quatre, and they exchange emails and calls often.
Lady Une took on the responsibilities of the Preventers organization, and has kept tabs on all of the pilots since the wars end. Her greatest ambition is to have all of the Gundam Pilots as full Preventers agents at HQ. She visits Treize's grave regularly.
Lucretzia Noin took a job at the Preventers Organization at the end of the war, and returned to her job of training Cadets. After admitting her love to Zechs, she was told that while he treasured her as a friend and confidant, he was not in love with her and was, in fact, gay. After this declaration, Noin settled into her role of being a friend to Zechs, and keeping an eye on him in Relena's place. She has sworn to personally murder anyone who cheats on him or hurts him. Zechs finds this extremely amusing. She sleeps with a gun under her pillow and two clips of ammo in the pocket of her pajamas.
Sally Po entered Preventers as the official Doctor of the organization. She oversees all treatments, from battle wounds to someone falling down the stairs. Sally spends much of her time researching new medicines, and convincing Wufei to teach her martial arts, which she's still working on. She sleeps not with any weapons but a doctor's bag at the foot of her bed.
It has been nearly two years since the end of the war, and all of the major contenders (that are alive anyways) have refused all interview requests about their time during the war. Since they have not been forthcoming with this information, the press has decided to find it for themselves, by talking to the civilians the pilots interacted with during the war.. They are following the path of the Gundam pilots, going to each safe house, each base, each school that the pilots attended...