Painted in Bright White and Orange Colour, the Zeta Plus A Custom Variant is in its Waverider form, rolling on the reinforced taxi lane into the hangar. Compare to the original Zeta Gundam that they shipped to the AEUG earlier this month the unit looks is slightly differenced. It was designed by a teenager and although it was impressive, the kid designs it on a functional aspect only, without any knowledge of manufacturing, economy and strategy procurement. The original Zeta Gundam therefore is too complicated an expensive to mass produce. Only one complete unit was ever produced and it was quickly rollout to the frontline to help with the war effort. Some other prototypes were built but never used. Back at Anaheim, the Zeta project was almost scrapped immediately, the cost for those prototypes were humongous and there is absolutely no chance to mass produce an unit that complex in time to make a difference, a lesson that many ex-Zeonic Corp employee at Anaheim has to learnt the hard way. That is when the young hotshot showed up…
David Glen Boucher was born on Side 3, his family work for the Zeonic Corp which supplies weaponry for the Principality of Zeon during the One Year War. After the war, Zeonic Corp was absorbed by Anaheim and the young David continues his work as a sales man there. Having most of his family wealth stripped from him by the federation, his father executed by the Federation due to his involvement in the Laser Colony incident and his mother's hospitalized short after. The young man harbor hatred for the Federation but it being a professional he repressed it and follow his one true love… sell sell sell. It was not until the Titan emerges one year ago that all his repressed feelings surface. The Titan brutal methods generate a number of oppositions; the most successful of them being the AEUG. When Wong Lee, a fellow employee introduced him to Anaheim's "inner circle", David jumped at the first chance to support the AEUG in their fight against the Titans. Combine his career with destroying his enemy. To him it was a dream come true, a true calling, a path toward his destiny and he will have no one take it way from him. He worked diligently to rake up the price for every unit Anaheim sell to the Titan and tried to make the most generous discount to his 'true' customer, the AEUG. Every little help!
Being a sponsor to Zeta project from the beginning, when the unit development hit a snag, David seeks out his father old friends, Howard Nordlov. His father and Howard goes to college together before the war divided them on two opposing. Possessing knowledge on Newtype customized Mobile suit, Howard would be the key to his plan. To him, everything is simple; the unit is too expensive so we should lower the cost. Improve the transforming mechanism, replace the complex parts with something simpler, reuse of existing parts… etc… these changes reduce cost but also hitting the unit's performance which was the edge of the Zeta Gundam in space battle.
When the crews of the Argama finally return to space, David heard an interesting rumor: Amuro Ray, the hero of the One Years War has return to battle and instead of returning to space and join the AEUG like everyone though, he choose to stay and fight with the Karaba on Earth instead. This, however give David an opportunity; all of his thoughts linked together into a perfect scenario. A Simplified Zeta Gundam Unit designed to be use exclusively in atmosphere for a new customer, the Karaba. And to make this happened, he need Amuro Ray!
Things do not go quite as planned however. 17 August 0087 Blex Forer, leader of the AEUG were assassinated, the Zeta project once again comes under review. When David caught wind of this, he was dismayed. Time and money is against him and further research is discouraged and David gathers everything for one final bet.
Late September 0087, David and Howard depart to Greenland with three Zeta Gundam Plus A1 units. David insists on painting the three unit bright orange and white; one of them has a big A painted on its shoulder.