Iliaster has long sense doubled or perhaps tripled in power , creating what people called the war economy small units called PMCs
Praying Mantis ,
L1 Colony Cluster
Units Strykers, Humvees, Gekkos, and Sliders
Pieuvre Armement ,
L2 Colony Cluster
Units Strykers, Gekkos, and Sliders.
Raven Sword ,
L3 Colony Cluster
Units Humvees, Gekkos, and Sliders.
Werewolf ,
L4 Colony Cluster
unmanned units
Otselotovaya Khvatka
L5 Colony Cluster
Units Mikoyan MiG-29s, MiG-3s, and Hinds
were created with Illaster acting as the leader and controlling everything , media , entertainment , government , schools , the list goes on...
Their constant propaganda had pushed the people of the 5 colony clusters to join the military where they wage war with each other , even sparking civil wars within each of the colonies.
Iliaster also discovered the existence of the 'The Les Enfants Terribles' project and perhaps this can also work to their advantage so thus begins further experiments and were successful calling the people at this new stage of human evolution Newtypes in order to adapt to life in space.
While life among the Earth Colony has turned into a chaotic mess , life in the Mars Colony had remained relatively peaceful as they are protected by the military entity Celestial Being and their purpose is the eradication of war and protection of peace.
Little did they know that Earth was past saving and it will only be a matter of time before they begin to expand again and this time into space. However they had an ally Banagher Links a member of the Vist Foundation. A smaller PMC rebel group on Earth. Due to the fact Banagher was so young when he left the Vist Foundation and his father, Banagher eventually forgotten his Vist heritage and lived life as a normal boy.
At sixteen years of old, Banagher lived a normal life up until now. Gifted in engineering, studying at Anaheim Electronics Industrial College at the space colony Industrial 1 in the Technology Department's Faculty of Research Development. Banagher does a part-time job clearing space debris with a construction MS. He viewed war as something akin to fiction.
as he was born after the events of Operation Meteor , and did not experience the more isolated wars that followed it. Until Illaster started all the public propaganda.
Raven Sword then attacks the colony after they learn of a key to something that can determine the fate of the world. After the attacks started the colony is evacuated. Banagher and his friends attempted to gain access to the hazard shelter, but then suddenly, stray beam shot kill his friends, excluding Takuya and Micott. They are then witness with Federation mobile suit attempting to fend off a quad-wing type suit. After Takuya confirmed that the former was Federation, Banagher advised that they get to the colony builder, where the Federation mothership was bound to be. But first, he decides to search for Mineva, leaving Takuya to watch over Haro and a distraught Micott.
Making his way through maintenance tunnels, Banagher discovers the Unicorn Gundam he saw earlier and in its cockpit was fatally wounded Cardeas Vist. Banagher demanded to know where Mineva was. The Vist Foundation leader cryptically stated that this isn't the first time she cheated death and it won't be her last. Growing furious, Banagher presumes that Vist must have abandoned her and accuses him of cowardly attempting to escape in the mobile suit but Vist admits that even if he could, he wouldn't survive.
Banagher demanded to know why he couldn't prevent this war from happening, otherwise his friends would still be alive. Vist tells him that they had set this path to correct the flaws of Mars Century. Vist asked Banagher if he had the resolve to carry the weight of the world on his shoulders. Banagher admitted that he didn't have that resolve, but all what he knew is for Mineva to need him. Satisfied, Vist entrusts the Gundam to Banagher, who realizes that Vist was his father, as his biometrics are assigned to the Gundam, making it so that only he could pilot it. Vist tells him that if he proves himself to be a capable pilot, then the Unicorn will grant him powers unrivaled and open the path to Laplace's Box. Banagher asks what it is, only for Vist to cryptically say is the dark curse that the Vist family guarded for nearly a century, but if used properly, it may bring about a brighter future for everyone.
Banagher repeated his question a second time, but Vist ignores it, telling him the reasons why his mother took him and to seek out Celestial Being " when the time of need comes and everyone is an enemy , they are the only ones who can be trusted " .
He soothes Banagher to believe in the possibility that lies within. Vist then fell out of the Gundam before his body was incinerated by an explosion. As the cockpit closed, Banagher became distraught with the revelation that Vist was his father. He then remembered his brief childhood memories surrounding his father and the Lady and the Unicorn tapestry and gained the resolve to move forward. Banagher then launches in the Unicorn Gundam and confronts the enemy during the battle the NT-D system activates transforming the Unicorn into destroy mode.
Banagher/Unicorn subsequently drives off the attacking forces. Losing his consciousness during the fight, he is taken aboard the Nahel Argama along with the Unicorn. Found unconscious by the crew, he is placed in the ICU until he awakens.
Banagher is then interrogated by Daguza Mackle of the ECOAS Special Forces team on his experience piloting the Gundam and his relation to Cardeas Vist. Though everyone protested that he was hurt, Mackle's only concern was to try to have Banagher tried for taking a military mobile suit and interfering a combat situation, warranting capital punishment.
Banagher told Mackle everything he knew. The commander was a little unconvinced that Vist would just give the Gundam to a boy. He asked Banagher if Vist said anything when he gave it. Banagher repeated once again that Vist told him to use the Unicorn to protect everyone. As Mackle turned to leave, Banagher muttered under his breath that maybe it would be easier to believe if he said that Vist was his father, which Mackle briefly heard.