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In the year UC 0093, the Earth was almost irrepairably destroyed, when the Axis Asteroid base was dropped into Earth Orbit by the Newborn Neo Zeon movement, led by Char Aznable, a brilliant military commander and son of Zeon founder Zeon Zum Deikun. 

During this Second Neo Zeon War, the Axis Asteroid base entered the Earth’s atmosphere, and due to the gravitational pull of the planet, the descent and inevitable destruction of the environment of Earth could not be stopped. And yet it was. The Earth Federation’s Londo Bell Forces defeated the Newborn Neo Zeon movement, and by utilizing the still-unknown power of a psycho-frame enhanced Mobile Suit, Earth Federation ace Amuro Ray was able to create a miracle, with the help of both Federation and Reborn Neo Zeon forces, stopping the Axis asteroid and moving it out of Earth’s gravity. 

The sight of the miracle ended the Second Neo Zeon War, and cost the lives of many soldiers, including the aces Char Aznable and Amuro Ray. And for a time, a tense peace fell over the Earth Sphere. While remnants of enemy forces still exist in the fringes of space colonies, in the jungles of Earth, and even on the fledgling colonies of other planets. It is in this distant place, beyond the influence of the Federation, that new threats loom, and once again threaten the very future of mankind. 

Those forced into conflict will be forced to find an answer: Can mankind learn from the miracle they witnessed? 



Gundam 0094 is meant to act as a bridge story during the blank timeframe of UC 0094-0096, where Gundam Unicorn finishes up the Universal Century timeline. Instead of focusing on Earth-side problems (reconstruction and the sudden power vacuum from the loss of both Char as a leader and Amuro as the Federation’s best Newtype Ace), the story looks further out into space. If you’re a fan of Zeta Gundam, parts of Double Zeta Gundam, F91, and Crossbone, you may very well be a fan of this story. 

The story begins with the aftermath of a conflict between the Asteroid Belt Based Ares pirates, and Federation/Civilian transport ships heading to the Mars Colony. The Ares pirates are a group of pirates and mercenaries who operate based out of the Ares Asteroid, a former mining asteroid brought into Mars Orbit. These pirates are former Titan, Neo Zeon, and other mercenaries (perhaps even some from Jupiter). Their mobile suits fit a mercenary/pirate organization, ranging from relics from the One Year War, the Gryps War, First Neo Zeon War, and Second Neo Zeon War. 

The third-party in this conflict is where the player characters are introduced. The PCs can have a background from any faction (as long as joining makes sense), but eventually, everyone works together on the salvage ship The Cathartes, a neutral party in the zone, whose main job for the past few years is doing salvage and junk cleanup around former warzones from various conflicts. They are not a military force, though some of the members are veterans of conflict seeking to get away from the politics that continue to ruin the Earth-side. 

It’s after this conflict that the crew of The Cathartes are forced into a series of events that will lead them to confront the enigmatic leader of the ARES pirates and uncover what the pirate group’s true goals are. 



For the uninitiated, the Universal Century is the original Mobile Suit Gundam timeline. Years are designated as U.C. 00XX. Major events are: 

U.C. 0001: The beginning of humanity’s migration into space. This year also marks the Laplace Incident, where the prime minister of Earth Federation, Ricardo Marcenas, is assassinated in the destruction of the Laplace Space Station, the bloody beginning of a century marked with war and terror.
U.C. 0058: Zeon Zum Deikun, a philosopher and politician, travels to the colony Side 3, and after several years, establishes a new government named the Autonomous Republic of Munzo. The Republic is led by Deikun and his friend, Degwin Zabi.
U.C. 0069: After the apparent assassination of the politician Zeon Zum Deikun, Degwin Zabi declares himself sovereign and establishes the Principality of Zeon. Zeon Zum Deikun's followers are purged, and Deikun’s children escape the purge.
U.C. 0079 The One Year War begins. Billions of space colonists and Earth civilians are killed in the ensuing conflict. In this war, the indiscriminate use of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons and the subsequent drop of a space colony on Australia do untold damage. Towards the end of the year, the war is brought to a close in part by a teenage ace named Amuro Ray, who finds himself in conflict with Zeon’s own mysterious ace, Char Aznable.
U.C. 0080: A peace treaty is formed between the Earth Federation and the newly established Republic of Zeon.
U.C. 0082: The Federation begins to experiment on youths in Newtype labs, uncovering the secrets of new human evolution from the exposure to being raised in space.
U.C. 0086-0087: The Federation special force, The Titans, commit various war crimes against space colonies. In response, the Anti-Earth Union Group, or AEUG, is established to combat the Titans. During this time, the Gryps Conflict breaks out, and the AEUG is able to defeat the Titans. Many of the Titans’ leaders and pilots are killed in the conflict, but others do escape.
U.C. 0088: The First Neo Zeon War breaks out, with AEUG defeating Neo Zeon forces led by their leader, Hamaon Karn.
U.C. 0093: The Second Neo Zeon War breaks out, this time with the Zeon Forces being led by Char Aznable. Zeon is once again beaten.




The most commonly seen combat suit in Gundam is the Mobile Suit, a humanoid mecha devised for combat in space, but also capable of conflict on the ground. The naming convention of Mobile Suit stands for Mobile Space Utility Instrumental Tactical. Other variations exist, including the larger and more powerful Mobile Armors. 

Minovsky Particles
The suits are powered by a Minovsky ultracompact fusion reactor, a powerful fusion reactor that utilizes the Minovsky particle. While efficient and powerful, the destruction of the reactor can create horrific explosions on par with a nuclear blast. Due to the way Minovsky particles react with other types of radiation, radar systems and long-range wireless communication systems become useless, infra-red signals are diffracted and their accuracy decreases, and visible light is fogged. This is known as the "Minovsky Effect". 



Characters will range from the ages of 18-40 and can come from a variety of backgrounds. The important thing is to create a cast of characters who have various skills to complement each other and to have different beliefs, attitudes, and personalities that build friendships, love, and conflict with one another. Throughout the conflict, characters will change, people will die, and characters will be forced to make difficult decisions. 

Newtypes and Cyber-Newtypes
Due to exposure to life in outer space for nearly a century, many “spacenoids” have begun to evolve, showcasing a type of psychic power and extremely increased reflexes. While their powers have been used for conflict, some believe that the real purpose of a Newtype’s power is to connect with others and understand them. 

Cyber-Newtypes are attempts to forcibly evolve non-Newtypes into a Newtype using surgery, drugs, and mental conditioning. Most Cyber-Newtypes showcase extreme mental instability, though their skills have been on-par with natural Newtypes. It is also possible for a Cyber-Newtype to become a natural Newtype in certain cases. 



The main rule is to keep this story believable. This section of the Universal Century is where the Real Robots of the Gundam Universe begin to exhibit some Super Robot capability, as seen with suits like the Zeta Gundam, Nu-Gundam, and the Unicorn Gundam. This is neither a good nor bad thing, though I do want the first act of the story to focus on the more gritty and cobbled together Real Robots of the two major factions.
Customization of your Mobile Suit: This is totally fine, and actually encouraged. The protagonists are not military soldiers in this story but are basically civilians and mercenaries. It makes sense that the Mobile Suits they pilot are eventually customized and fine-tuned to their specifications.
Characters can die. However, this story is also collaborative. The GM should not randomly point someone out to die, but if the story calls for sacrifice and tragedy, discussions may be had on characters dying. This is conflict, and these suits are not going to magically be able to handle beam rifle shot after beam rifle shot.
Super Ace Prototype Gundams: No one will begin with an ace prototype super Gundam. My character’s MS is actually a junk MS, with parts salvaged from a Rick Dias, a GM-III, Jegan, and other parts. You can go as simple as piloting a repainted Geara Doga or Nemo, or as crazy as a cobbled-together mobile suit like mine.


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Mars Colony

The Mars colony was founded in 2020 A.D. under the plan to terraform the Martian planet for human life. In roughly U.C. 20, the first signs of terraformed life began to appear on the planet. By U.C. 75, 85% of the planet was deemed viable for colonization. However, due to the tensions from the Republic of Zeon and the inevitable One Year War, plans on a massive Mars colonization movement were put on indefinite hold. 

Today, Mars is home to over 700 million colonists, spread out over 20 colony cities. The major industry of Mars is agriculture, and over 300 tons of corn, 200 tons of potatoes, and 150 tons of wheat per year are grown in the super farms spanning multiple cities. However, due to the increased loss of life from war, the need for the shipment of food has gone down, leading most of the Martian food to either to use by its colonists or to be traded with the Jupiter Energy fleet, which stops at the space colony Palma, located in orbit around the moon of Deimos during Helium-3 deliveries. 

Due to Mars’ rocky climate, most used natural products are metals and stone. In 0082, there was an attempt to manufacture Mars Titanium as a useable metal similar to Luna Titanium Alloy, however, the metal was found to be both heavier and less durable than the lunar version. It hasn’t stopped Mars Defense Force Mobile Weapons to be built out of the metal. 

The largest city on the Mars Colony is also it’s capital and major spaceport. Olympus also hosts its government seat.

Mars Politics

There are two major political parties that control much of the Martian Parliament. The ruling party, which has been the major ruling party in Mars since its independence in U.C. 70, is the Martian Peoples Party, a fairly conservative party based on keeping the Martian zone peaceful and keeping trade relations with both the Earth sphere and the Jupiter Energy Fleet. 

The other major party is the Mars NOW party, a radical party that has grown in popularity during the last decade. Led by the enigmatic Barrick Torres, Mars NOW pushes for an aggressive stance against both the Federation and Jupiter Energy Fleet to put pressure and bring more money and industry to the Mars Colony.

ARES is a mercenary and pirate organization operating in the Mars Sphere of space. They hold multiple bases in various abandoned asteroid belt mining facilities and are outfitted with custom mobile weapons. Unlike the Zeon Remnants occupying Olympus Mons (having been granted asylum by the Mars Peoples Party) the ARES group pilots high spec mobile suits including the  RMS-156 Griffon, AMS-119 Geara Doga, and RGM-79Q GM Quel. Various ace pilots that act as commanders for the ARES squads command even more advanced and custom Mobile Suits. Many of the commanders are Newtypes and use their powers with extreme prejudice. 

Little is known about the command structure of ARES, with the exception that they attack any ships that enter their space, regardless of affiliation. This has led to increased tension in the Mars Sphere from the Federation, Republic of Zeon and other colony governments, and the Jupiter Fleet on whether or not the space is safe to travel.

The Voltus Salvage Company is a fairly small operation working a very lucrative business in the past 5 years. Acting under contract from the Federation, Zeon Republic, AND Mars Sphere, the Salvage ship goes into battlefields and salvages important materials, metals and parts, selling them back to the client for a fair market price. The company specializes in important materials retrieval, and has a habit of collecting anything useable that isn't on their manifest to either sell or reuse. 

The ship of the Voltus Salvage Company is aptly named The Cathartes named after the family of carrion birds that feed off the dead. The owner of the company, as well as The Cathartes' captain, Cornell Voltus, is a former colony engineer who repurposed a scuttled Federation Columbus Class cruiser, repairing it enough to become spaceworthy again. 

The Cathartes is heavily modified from the Federation’s wartime transport cruiser, and the ship stands out against other transport-style ships of its kind. It’s capable of storing 8 Mobile Suits and 6 Mobile Pods in the lower two storage areas. The upper storage areas are relegated to salvage and cargo. The ship is capable of running on a crew of 50 but fields a crew of about 60 during the beginning of the story. Most of the beds are military-style bunk cots, and comfort has been disregarded in favor of functionality. The ship is capable of transporting roughly 100 passengers at a time, though as it reaches its max occupancy, it does get a little cramped. 

The ship possesses 3 fixed-point beam canons but is extremely vulnerable due to its role as a transport ship. Because of this, it does field multiple mobile suits as an escort if combat does break out.

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Important NPC Figures (With character images!) 

Mars NOW! 
Barrick Torres The 28 year old leader of Mars NOW!, Barrick is handsome, charismatic and a brilliant orator. His rise to power is not without controversy, however. Many political opponents have dropped out of races with him due to suddenly uncovered scandals or “accidents”. Barrick is a man who has a specific goal for Mars, and will do whatever he can to reach it. 

Hibari Gilman Hibari holds an incredible deal of admiration towards Barrick Torres, and will do anything for him, regardless of how dangerous or illegal it is. The obvious truth is that she is madly in love with him, and does not mind being used, as long as she gets to be close to him. 

Nash Victus A military officer in the Mars Defense force and childhood friend of Barrick Torres. He's the source of Mars NOW's political clout in the planetary military, and he is a skilled pilot. Pilots a custom RGZ-91 Re-GZ.


ARES 
Caedman Brinz: Pilots: MSN-X4 Bagwi Doga High Gear  
Caedman Brinz is the engimagic leader of ARES. At roughly 42 years old, Caedman boosts over twenty years of military experience, and has fought in many wars, always on the losing side. Caedman has his own agenda leading ARES, and is willing to work with whoever he can to reach his goal. His ultimate goal is not one of destruction, but of salvation. And there is only one person he deems worthy to save humanity. 

Maarit Sechs Pilots: AMX-107H Helwoolf (Newtype Use Transformable Psycommu Mobile Suit) Maarit is a 20 year old Newtype pilot, born on the Axis asteroid colony before its use as an attempted weapon. Even at a young age she showcased her mysterious powers, leading to her being a test pilot for many of Neo Zeon’s Newtype equipment. After the war, she found herself without meaning until she met Caedman Brinz, who gave her a new purpose in life: to fulfill his dream and get revenge on those that took her old life away. 

Fredrick Carlyle Pilots RMS-156 Griffon Commander Type 
Fredrick Carlyle is a speed freak, which is ironic since his background has always been as a medic than a frontline fighter. During his time piloting for ARES he was able to finally discover something he truly enjoys, even if it means killing and destroying civilian crafts. 

Isobel Fairfax Pilots AMS-119N Rote Doga Command Type 
Isobel Fairfax is a Mars native, born and raised in Olympia. She is fiercely loyal to her planet and her people, and honestly believes that ARES is doing what is best for the Mars Sphere. 

Odo Long Pilots AMX-008B Ga-Zowmn Gunner Type (Sniper) 
Odo Long has always wanted to be a pilot, but always came up short in maneuverability. With his fine-tuned Ga-Zowmn he finds comfort in finding a perch amid the asteroids and sniping from a distance. 

Basic Troops: Pilot RMS-156 Griffon, AMS-119 Geara Doga, RGM-79Q GM Quel. 
The ARES grunts come from all walks of life. Some are former Titan soldiers, others are former Neo Zeon, Glemy or Principality Refugees who joined ARES for a chance to strike back at the forces they feel betrayed or harmed them in the past. The basic pilot uniform color palette is black and red.


The Voltus Salvage Company 
Cornell Voltus The 68 year old former colony engineer purchased The Cathartes in U.C. 0084, after discovering the ship mostly intact outside of Side 5. Over the years he and his company have overhauled the ship, and he has made a name for himself as the one Salvage Company that will do any job, regardless of the danger. Cornell is also Marlowe’s grandfather, though the two are not very close. 

Remia Fisk The 23-year-old comms specialist for the Voltus Salvage Company and quite possibly the most serious person on the Cathartes bridge. 

Kellen Arks The Cathartes' 26-year-old helmsman. Constantly goofing around, listening to loud music, and arguing with Remia. Panics in crisis situations easily, but later after several drinks, attempts to say he was the brave one.

Irina Weeks The 25-year-old head engineer. Formerly a colony engineering student for Side 6, after a mishap that led to a section of the Issa Colony losing power for 2 weeks, she found the only job willing to hire her being a dangerous salvaging company.

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