ZAFT of the radiance

Exposition 2 From the diary of Setsuna F. Seiei

Compiled by GLaDOS

GLaDOS notes: I regret to inform that due to laziness, hurricanes and lazy hurricanes We are Celestial Being is canceled and will be sent back to the ZAFT of the radiance area. So basically Season 2 will be juggling between three major arcs, Isn't that fun?

I am Setsuna F. Seiei, Celestial Being's Gundam Meister. For those who don't know I pilot a Gundam, three in my career actually. The Exia a Gundam designed for close combat, the 00 Gundam an experimental twin drive suit which was upgraded into the 00 Raiser the closest thing to god in a Gundam series, Turn A can kiss my ass by the way. And the 00 Quanta which was sadly lacking in screen time, hopefully in G-Generation whatever the fuck the sequel is called which will likely show Age and the movie Gundams will get more screen time.

Anyway, my tale begins in Krugis one of the many Afghan warlord kingdoms up in the north where Al-Qaeda doesn't have much pull, in this godforsaken shithole desert town there was a man named Ali Al-Saachez, charismatic, ruthless, and an asswipe,

He led the KPSA a terrorist group trying to find its way in a place where there are more terrorist organizations than human beings. I as Soran Ibrahim, a young boy, was taken in by his words...

"Children of Krugis, I am Ali Al-Saachez! How long must we? The people of Krugis suffer under the imperialist western powers of America?" "You're not from Krugis!" "I'm a legitimate Egypt-Krugisian! I even got a fricking passport! "So what?" (bang) "Well now hes dead so can I continue now? (ahem) We must fight for God and country, for justice, and to make me rich! Ugh, ignore the last part, it was a slip of the tongue... yes...Because I am definitely NOT using you as pawns in an evil scheme to gain revenge against that ass Osama Bin Laden! Who fired me because I was "not a team player" Well fuck him! And his damn old Japanese squid monster doctor thing! ...Anyway, join me in my clearly suicidal quest and I will give you all lots of candy,

not the crappy ass Chinese counterfeit stuff, the real deal."

Hindsight being 20/20 joining a terrorist group on the promise of candy wasn't the most intelligent decision... And frankly the local warlord wasn't that bad in reality, and I had loving parents, until I blew their fucking heads up...

"With this I will prove my worth to eat candy... er... God! Yes! That's what I meant! God! Anyway, I got my bullets, my gun, and now I'm ready to blatantly go against religious teachings common to both the Jewish, Christian and Muslim faith for some weirdo I never met before yesterday that killed a guy right in plain sight. Yes, things are going great!" "Why Soran? Why?" (bang, bang, bang, drops dead) "Congratulations children, you have proven yourselves in the eyes of god! You are now holy warriors in his crusade!" "Yay, for murder!"

And so the days began, the days where my beliefs blinded me from the obvious truth. Our original mission was apparently meant against the solar power generation system. Based on a series of three orbital elevators in designated neutral territory controlled by the three major power blocs in the federation. These would be known as the orbital elevators. Before that all space travel were required to be transported via rocket based propulsion, or later on mass drivers, which used electromagnetic energy to propel ships out of the atmosphere with minimal spent energy. Also we would eventually be fighting several enemies, mainly the Afghan armed forces, first led by Al-Qaeda and later on by U.S. And Earth Federation forces.

I was trained in firearms, explosives, and a style of martial arts called Shaq-fu I didn't know until much later what it really meant, at that time I thought it was some foreign shit or something. My comrades all children no older that fourteen or so, were eventually sent on missions to attack our enemies. At first it was just business, but over time I saw the madness grow in my friends. Dying for a madman, until that terrible day...

"This is a holy war in the name of god! We shall cleanse the land of these infidels in the name of our god!" "In this world, there is no god!"

It was the final battle of Krugis, armed E.F.F forces sent to pacify the region shelled mercilessly the town, using their GM forces, our mere weapons stood no chance in hell. And I was about to die, until he came the angelic mobile suit, the 0 Gundam. It destroyed all of the forces with ease as they were taken by total surprise and destroyed. I could only watch in awe and amazement at its power, I saw it as a savior, as something to emulate.

For four years I wandered the middle east. The constant wars and upheaval made it easy for someone like me to slip in and out of places. After all it was just another war orphan or something, I guess they would say.

"Soran Ibrahim?" "Who are you?" "Do you wish to know about the white mobile suit? The one from Krugis?" "What do you mean?" "Follow me and find out."

That man, was from Celestial Being. A paramilitary organization made to eliminate war. About two hundred years ago a man named Aeolia Scheinberg designed the original concept of the orbital elevator system and the basic concept of the Mobile suit that would be fielded later on by the original Zeon forces. And later on the Federation and other groups like Clyne industries, the Crossbone Vanguard, and more. Obviously this was late 18XX so they called him a witch and burned him at the stake for his theories. But he had people who supported him and made preparations for his legacy, apparently one of them E.A. Rey was an engineer with connections to space aliens, they provided the basic framework for Veda after "influencing" the creation of the Internet by the hands of Al Gore. That's where I learned of it, the Gundam that saved me. Based on the Federation's RX-78 from early 20XX as in a total rip-off, it had a new type of engine built into it, the generation of neutrino energy drive,

or as the world would know then the GN drives. It apparently uses solar energy in some absurd, magical way to fly without propulsion, jam unshielded communications, and apparently could not run out of energy. I never could wrap my head around Tieria and Ian's explanations so I just nodded gently and tuned it out mainly humming to myself the soundtrack from Stardust memory.

"This is the designated Meister for the GN-001 Exia Setsuna F. Seiei." "Isn't he a little bit too young?" "Veda confirmed it so its official" "Well if Veda confirmed it I have no objections" "Well I'm looking forward to working with you actually. After all we're comrades in ending war. I'm Lockon Stratos the man who shoot a bulls eye thru the stratosphere, nice to meet ya kid!" "He is way too chummy Tieria." "I'm betting he gets killed off before the second season begins." "Why do we even have this conversation? How can this be real life and an anime at the same time? Its completely illogical!" "I call it the Might Gaine paradox, apparently after a cartoon based universe accumulates enough apathy and cynicism an event horizon of WTF space reveals itself creating an awareness shift in reality." "Do you honestly believe in WTF space Tieria? Next thing you'll say is that you were born in a test tube!" "Don't be ridiculous Allelujah, seriously..."

For two years we trained together, I was supposed to be the front line fighter, using Exia's blades to cut thru opponents. Unlike most modern MS weaponry the blades were solid. A design that was made obsolete long ago due to the Minovsky engine and its capacity to produce energy weaponry. It seems that with GN particles the metal in the Gundanium could be strengthened to parry thru beam weapons and even slice thru I-fields and barriers from Super robot types. They also had a special function,

it was predicted that there could be traitors in Celestial being who could compromise our technology. These blades were made to cut thru the defenses of GN suits and eliminate traitors along with the trial system, Tieria's special system. Over time I developed a fascination with Japanese pop culture which at first was for research, but I soon found myself diving into super robot series.

January 25, 20XX, the day when we revealed ourselves upon the world. I and Lockon were sent to the northern Morocco area where the European elevator was located where the new variable mobile suit system the Enact. By using the design of the Flag as a base the simple design allowed for VMS to be mass produced, it lacked the in-flight change systems of the Zeta Gundam and following designs. I basically kicked its ass and with Lockon beat the shit of the pursuing forces. And that's how it began.

The federation tried all sorts of methods to stop us, the Choobu squad from China, the Overflags from America, the PMC forces stationed in Moralia, the federation's mobile suit anti-terrorism department Londo Bell, among other things. And then it all went south. In a mission in the Taklamakan desert I faced off once more against Ali Al-Saachez, even with Exia I was little match against him, and was saved by the Thrones.

"Hey, Exia's pilot! Are you still alive?"

That's what she said, Nena Trinity, the youngest of the Trinity siblings. That psychotic bitch who took out my friend Louise Halevy's hand and set the world against us with their armed interventions. She and her brothers eventually got what was coming to them eventually, ironically at the hands of my greatest foe at the time Ali Al-Saachez. Michael the middle child was shot dead, a shot clean to the head between the eyes. Then he stole his Gundam the Throne Zwei taking advantage of Veda's compromise and hacking to steal it. He used the Zwei's buster sword and GN fangs to kill Johann, the eldest one and leader. And if it weren't for the TRANS-AM system, I would have been next.

"Tho those who use GN drives: I don't know whether on not you will carry out my will, however I entrust my final hope to you, full utilization of your GN drives. I hope that you will use them and fight your hardest for the sake of ending war and bringing about a new peace. Not for the sake of Celestial Being, but for the sake of your own wills, as those who have Gundams."

Aeolia's last will and testament, as he was shot dead by the traitor, Alejandro Corner...

Operation fallen angels, a final attempt to defeat us, utilizing the suits called the GN-X. Suits designed to use GN Tau drives, false drives with a limited operation time similar to the Thrones. We were badly beaten at the end, even thought we survived,

even though we defeated Alejandro, we took heavy losses. Lockon, Licthy, Christina, Dr. Moreno, they were all dead Allelujah was captured and I barely escaped my battle with Alejandro and later Graham Aker.

We managed to be recovered by another CB ship and I was saved by the Re Home a tender ship by a group called the Junk Guild. I was there for about a year as Exia was repaired. But the repairs weren't too successful since the parts we used were completely custom and very few devices shared compatibility. At best the GN sword was cracked and broken, the left arm was lost, and much of the armor was hastily replaced by using GM parts scavenged from here and there. They also put a Zaku moneye into the missing camera port. At that time the A-laws became a government security group, living a tumultuous at best relationship with Londo Bell and the regular army and reviving fears of the Titans a similar organization of old.

"It hasn't changed. Since that time, not one damn thing! This isn't what I wanted! Lockon... and myself as well! For a world like this?"

I thought to myself at the space colony Proud where I went to investigate the A-Laws. There I found my old neighbor from the year before, Saji Crossroad whom I had met in Japan when I first started my armed interventions. At first I saw him and his girlfriend Louise as annoying little bitches. But I grew fond of them, even if Saji was being emo about his life going to the crapper. I'm not sure how Saji wound up there in the first place he doesn't talk about it and seems to have an aversion to Tic-tats

and open fire, I don't think I want to know honestly. I fought the Titans but their suits, now powered by GN technology easily defeated Exia which was already badly wounded. It would have been the end without Tieria's help who along with most of the Ptolemy crew except Sumeragi who was missing, apparently getting drunk off her ass and stumbling off one night. Eventually they introduced me to my new Gundam, the 00 Gundam, designed around the Twin drive technology utilizing two GN drives to power it it was meant to be our trump card against the Titans and to locate whoever took Veda and kick his/her/its ass.

All other GN drive combinations were failures and only Exia's and 0's were capable of stabilizing enough, but even then the TRANS-AM was too dangerous to use. 00 was shaken down as we brought the new Lockon Stratos and Sumeragi whom we had to drag out of that Billy Katagiri's house, while avoiding the knife he had, sociopath... Attacked by Titan forces I went ahead with my rocket pack while Lockon distracted them. At first it didn't work and I tried TRANS-AM to boost the power but it failed as well. Then I did the most Super robot thing I could think of.

"Wake up for me, 00. Here we have 0 Gundam, Exia and me! Kyouji no Robot Tanjou! HIKARI NI NARE!" "Holy shit! 00 has activated! It's reached over 80% synchronicity!" "Wow, the power of hot blooded courage! Huh, Ms. Grace?"

"I'd say Setsuna is more of the stoic courage type in my opinion Milena." "This is ridiculous... (sob)" "There, there, papa." "DO A BARREL ROLL!"

And so I piloted 00 from the rescue of Allelujah, to my re encounter with Ali in Azadistan, to our attempt to escape in space. Although 00 was powerful, it was lacking since its TRANS-AM system was too dangerous to use, that is why 0-Raiser was made. A support craft to stabilize the twin drive system. It was yet another assault on the Ptolemy when it happened, the debut of the 00 Raiser. We were outmatched, not just in numbers but in the fact that the Innovators mobile suits were too strong.

The Gadessa, a long range bombardment suit and the Garazzo a heavy offense mobile suit were becoming more than a match for us.

I should explain more about the Innovator faction. Ribbons Almark who once helped Alejandro Corner, took over Veda utilizing its resources to create his own army which he allied with the Titans. And used Veda's influence to reinstate the Titans after their defeat in the Gryps conflict twenty years ago under the A-Laws banner. Our "sworn rivals" the idiotic Titan mercenaries are actually remnants of the group who escaped Londo Bell's prosecution. As for the Innovators they are artificial humans adapted for space, an artificial newtype souped up to eleven in a sense. Using nano machines to stop aging and using a new technology Quantum brain waves they could communicate with each other and interface with machinery, they also had physical ability akin to a coordinator and in a sense the program was based on something called "the ultimate coordinator project" Tieria would know more about this stuff though so you should ask him.

Anyway, Saji our "prisoner/guest/draftee after the whole Katharon middle eastern based being destroyed thing. Was talked into/coerced/guilt tripped into piloting the 0-Raiser. Gundam only knows why, all he did was scream along the way like a little girl to the point when red Haro had to drown out his noise with Metallica. Long story short, we came, we docked, we conquered. But something unexpected at best happened then, when we entered TRANS-AM we achieved a Quantum effect in which we could hear all the surrounding voices, including Louise Halevy's who got involved with the Titans for revenge. Saji like always, pussies out and tries to bail to chase her. Then the little ass takes it out on me, who would have thought the girl could hit so hard?

After the Memento Mori incident I was left alone for a while on Earth, I landed near Krugis where I found Ali and him, Ribbons Almark. Frankly Ribbons is a pompous, smug creep and somehow the theme song of Magus from Chrono Trigger ALWAYS played out while he was around, true story actually according to Ali.

"That's right, this is your first time meeting me. But that's not the case for me. I met you several years ago... yes... right here in this quagmire of a battlefield, where you foolish humans fought each other. Within it one boy desperately running for his life.

I saw you. From the cockpit of a mobile suit"

I was shocked to say the least, and then...

"Give me the 00 and we can rule the galaxy as father and son." "We're not related Ribbons." "Join me boy, it is your destiny." "You're kidding right?" "If you only knew the power of the dark side!" Where you hit in the head as a baby?" "Don't make me destroy you!" "This is dumb, I'm just gonna kill you... (gunfire) What the hell Al-Saachez?" "My finger slipped, sorry." "You WILL suffer for that you know..." "HA! i doubt it" "Just get in the damn Gundam already..."

A few minutes later Ali was smashing my injured arm with his buster sword and I was hearing a song.

"How's your shoulder you little Krugis punk?" "Shit, shit,shit, shit, shit, shit, shit!" "Now I'll take that plane hostage!" "You already have me on the ropes! Why are you doing this?" "Because I'm fucking evil!" "That's it! I had enough! TRANS-AM powered Rider kick! (Original Kamen rider theme song plays)" "Rider what? (boom) You asshole! Eat hot fang goodness! (boom) You shot them down all at once? I call Hax! And I'll kill you as well!" "Rider slash!" "What the fuck is this rider crap? And what's with the Japanese singing?"

Then Princess Marina Ishmail's song was heard all around causing me to stop and letting him escape. For a short time I was hiding with Katharon as I recovered when I heard of the armed forces coup d'etat I went there hoping to find my comrades when I stumbled into the gringo Graham Aker.

My relationship with Marina? Its strange at best, she kinda reminds me of my mother, before she died in terror at least, she's really nice, even if she is naïve as hell. Graham on the other hand is... odd... Its kinda like the Kakashi/Guy rivalry from Naruto.

I'm Kakashi and he is Guy in a sense, even though we get along better now, he still tries to outdo me every chance he gets, he obviously never managed to beat me but he still tries. And of course there's TRANS-Graham. I cringed like hell when I first heard that line.

"Oh hell no! You gotta be kidding! TRANS-Graham? Of all the retarded names you could pick! I mean seriously, you are a freaking Samurai!" "How do you know that?" "That doesn't matter gringo! Why couldn't you name it, Duel drive? Or Chou tai?

"What's Chou tai?" "Its super form in Japanese you half baked otaku! Seriously! My arch nemesis are a creepy old warmonger, a pompous, bishonen, Chrono Trigger reject, and a half baked nerd who probably got his moves from watching Ruroni Kenshin!" "You're just jealous of my awesome Masurao! And I learned my moves from Ranma and Bleach by the way." "Let's just go already..." "Bankai!" "I swear to Gundam!"

Eventually we discovered from Wang Liu Mei the location of Veda it was in a giant colony ship called Celestial Being and although I managed to get the coordinates Wang died killed by Nena, and Nena got killed off by Louise. But nobody likes Nena so screw her. I also got tracked down by the gringo again and forced into a battle. He threathened to destroy Saji and the 00 if he didn't get his fight and it kinda went like this.

"No, dear Gundam no! Not YOU again!" "Setsuna! You know this nerd?" "Yes, he is a creepy stalker and a half baked otaku Saji." "You're just jealous I have the entire season 1 One piece collection, dubbed and everything! I am the GOD of otakus."

Hey, Mr. nerd you do know that otaku is actually a derogatory Japanese term for people who enjoy anime and magna?" "What do you know little boy?" "I'm Japanese you baka! If anyone knows about otaku its me." "Shut up you two children, and listen to my bad ass gar speech!" "Look gringo I'm kinda busy so maybe I could..." "You polluted my skies and stole away my brethren and my honored teacher! The ones who crushed my pride as a Flag fighter were no other than you and your Gundam! Even so it has already passed love and transcended hate... It has become destiny!"

Five minutes later, The gringo was at my mercy, it was quite sad actually.

"Fight me boy! Kill me and let me see you claim victory with those hands!" "No..." "Why! Why wont you land the finishing blow!" I'll live, I'll leave and seize tomorrow! That is... my battle. I'll fight to live."

We later went to assault the Innovators hideout where the Titans were en masse we were assisted by Londo Bell, the coup faction and other assorted giant robot groups, UN spacy, the Huckbein team, The Dai-Gurren brigade, Think something out of

Super robot wars. The Zonders and King Zarkon were there too, but they aren't really that important, and this is MY story dammit! I faced off first against Louise and Andrei who would become Marie's worry worth brother who is always trying to get Marie and Alellujah to get married. Kicked the crap out of both, obviously. And then we were all getting in trouble against the Innovator forces until the miraculous deus ex machina Raiser burst occurred Tieria regained control of Veda, the Gaga's were stopped, and the Titans were running away, at least the ones we didn't kill. I found Tieria, his body dead and his mind put in Veda along with Regene. I still find myself somewhat bummed out at the truth of Aeolia's plan, mainly since we have craploads of aliens, monsters, robots, and all that other crap around since the 19XX's so it was kinda too late. And so I was ready to go home and help plan a bitchin victory party, and then boom, Ribbons appears in some freaky, well, Guncannon thing.

"Ha! In your face Tieria! Who is the real innovator now? Me! Ribbons motherfucking Almark!" "You really suck at this Magus..." "Real funny Setsuna. But now I gotta kill you because if I can defeat you a true innovator I will prove my worth!" "So you did all this because you are insecure and bitter, wow some super villain you turned out to be. Even Char wasn't as blatantly self absorbed as you. And, is your Magus theme song going at a faster tempo and with guitar synth?" "Yes, its called Battle with Magus, I'm going to fucking kill you remix." "Real subtle Magus..."

And so the epic battle began, it had everything. Epic explosions, witty one liners, massive beam spamming, giant swords, and all the other awesome junk. The battle could have gone for days, but since this was the last episode we had to cut it short.

Both his Reborns Gundam and my 00-Raiser were trashed, and Ribbons ran off with one of my drives putting it into the abandoned 0 Gundam. While my friends sent the repaired Exia to help me. And the final showdown ensued, to the sound of a childrens chorus insert song and a monologue made by Maria Ishmail. We went to the final charge, and I defeated Ribbons.

Eventually peace came once more, and the truth about the A-laws came out, Scirroco and his goons quietly fled and now hide, living as muscle for hire. The surviving Innovators were either put to work or in Hilling and Revive's care were put under

Regene Regetta's supervision so that they would keep quiet and not cause trouble. The federation was more or less forced to eat crow and nowadays we get along slightly better. Graham is STILL trying to top me all the time. As for me...

"We're Celestial Being. People who aim to end war. Even if it means rejection from the world, we'll continue to confront it! Even if it means the use of force, we'll live as a deterrence for the world. That's why we must continue to exist. For the future..."

"Wow Milena, that movie makeup thing worked out great." Thanks Miss Sumeragi, now he wont look like an albino freak of nature." "I heard that..."