Nobody knows what started the war. Not really anyway. Everybody knows about the Bloody Valentine Incident, but very few know what happened before. What sparked the growing hate and rage of the Earth Sphere Alliance, and caused them to attack a ZAFT colony so mercilessly. Heero knows.
Relena Peacecraft was murdered.
A diplomat of such standing, a woman of the highest noble blood, Relena Peacecraft was the driving force behind the peace between the Earth Sphere and the ZAFT Colonies. She was the reason that peace held after the Eve Wars, when tensions between Naturals and Coordinators had reached new heights. Like her name said, Relena crafted peace between the two races and came to one final agreement. And so ZAFT was formed.
They called her a Queen. And when she was assassinated, Earth Sphere officials scrambled for retribution in Coordinator blood. They did not care to investigate her death, or to look into her assassinator, or to even remember her at all. As much as she was loved, when Relena Peacecraft disappeared from public view no one noticed. The Earth Sphere Alliance didn't even bother to use her death to spearhead the war, their hate was so great.
So caught up in the budding war they were, that Earth also didn't notice when a high ranking senator was found tortured to death in his own house. The word 'peace' was scrawled across the wall in his blood. He was the leader of Blue Cosmos.
Heero knew. Heero mourned the fallen Queen and he too sought revenge in blood. But unlike the Alliance, whose eyes were blinded by their bigot hate and their boiling anger, Heero followed the trail back to her murderer.
Newly disgusted by the dregs of humanity, the former soldier fled to his wife's home nation. Unlike the rest of humanity, the Sanq Kingdom saw their leader's death. They saw, and they wailed in mourning as her husband did. They named the day of her death a national holiday. They also re-named themselves, after the famous Peacecraft symbol.
The Orb Nation was born.
Just a little something that came to me. I might be able to continue it, so I won't classify it a one-shot just yet. I do not own either Gundam Wing or Gundam Seed, and am making no profit by writing this. Thanks, give me feedback.
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