Movile Suit Gundam: Virtuous Zeon

Intro
It is the in the 70's of the universal century that our tale takes place, the imperialistic earth federation has been tightening its grip on her space colonies for years, extracting her resources as spacenoids are treated like second class citizens compared to the elites of earth. Whom had forced some of its population into space in the first place. It was such maltreatment of the space colonists that caused a growing resentment towards the Federation as those who lived in space began to develop new senses, as if an adaptation or evolution to life without the weight of gravity weighing them down.

Thus, within Side 3, an certain family was able to build up their Powerbase of resistance, researching new ships and weapons that would be the key to their independence from the incompetent and corrupt clutches of Earth's leadership. The cream of the crop would be the eponymous Mobile Suit, an Humanoid machine that could be piloted by a single man, an effective and manpower saving measure to combat the sheer numbers and power of the Federations conventional forces.

It is now that Zeon must act, but perhaps this time, in this life, things will go differently for Zeon, as the wing beats of the butterfly flow, so too does history change, for better or for worse...

Lore
This is an Mobile Suit Gundam roleplay centered around the events of the One Year time-line, set in an alternate universe where events and characters have changed and now exist, be it an extra Zabi or Two, or even an extra child of Zeon Zum Deikun, your characters from nobodies to figures of importance will all have a role and story to play out during Zeon's war of independence.

Rules
1. No Godmodding or Powergaming: all players are not invulnerable, they can pay for their mistakes with their lives, or worse, lose the ones they love trying to save them.
2. Consensual relationships are allowed between characters or npcs, as this is life, love and death are commonplace.
3. Politeness and manners are key, getting along is ley to having fun.
4. Custom suits or new variants of existing types of mobile suit or armor are allowed but must be earned. Every machine is is susceptible to damage or destruction so don't feel too bad if it's destroyed in the course of battle, a life is not so easily replaced.
5. Federation Suits are rare but can be captured and used, but are limited in repairs and customizability.

Characrer Sheet
Name:
Age:
Gender:
Bio:
Skills:
Personality:
Newtype(Including Rank E to A)[Y/N]:

(Feel free to ask any questions and whatnot.)

@Coltshan, Sadly, I prefer the Feds, but I am curious as to whether I can make a kid of Zeon Zum Deikum who genuinely wants peace and coexistence.

@Letter Bee
Can certainly make that work, had plans for either an npc or player Virtuous zabi regardless.

always love me some Zeon- the suits just look better

At what point during events would we start at, and what does each newtype rank entail?

@vietmyke
I'm glad you share the same opinion as I, the suits are quite unique.

@Beppen
This will probably be just before the One Year War starts, with players deciding I'd old events or new ones took place prior in this new canon.
Newtype Ranking
E: grants the user the slightest boost of 'luck' in battle, able to sometimes feel an something is wrong just before it happens for a close scrape.
D: Able to push your machine to nearly max specifications, your battle sense is refined and can begin to psychicly connect with others of similar rank.
C: A burgeoning newtype, you are able to pilot newtype mobileachines fairly well and use their accompanying bits.
B: You are the equivalent to char aznable, experience will carry you far as a newtype as you unlock new powers and senses.
A: You are an powerful newtype the can rival Amaro Ray or even Kamille Bidan.
Able to weaponize your newtype powers itself to protect and attack.

Had an idea for a newtype pilot and a gouf- maybe I'll play into it and be a descendant of Ramba Ral

Had an idea for a newtype pilot and a gouf- maybe I'll play into it and be a descendant of Ramba Ral

You mean son or grandson? Or Ramba Ral himself?

@vietmyke
Nice, had idea for the dom hover leg tech would be integrated into the zaku and gouf with an possible upgrade.

Name: Celeste Zum Deikum/Cassandra Troia.

Age: 24

Gender: Female.

Bio: Celeste remembers her father as a kind man, albeit stressed due to his work in keeping Side 3 free from the Earth Federation. Growing up, she would later see that despite this kindness, he did not see her as his heir, despite being his oldest child in this timeline, and the seed of resentment was planted in her. Her brother, Casval, was more precious to their father than she was, and also had a streak of... ruthlessness? Courage? Or even cruelty masking as strength? Either way, the two siblings tried to love each other, but as she tried to educate herself in politics, tactics, and even the un-woman-like art of strategy, relations between her and her father grew colder and her brother and younger sister blamed her.

The Zabi Family's spies caught onto these tensions, and they tried to send Ghiren, the most attractive of their sons, to seduce her. She spat in his face, moved by a 'sixth sense' which saw a darkness in the young man. Her father, believing that she was at fault, sent her away to a remote portion of Side 3, where she was quickly forgotten... Too quickly.

In the place of her soft exile, a small town set in artificial rolling hills on the far side of a colony, she discovered that she was one of the Newtypes her father preached about and revered, but not expected his daughter to be. She had the power to sense people's feelings, their nature, and eventually, the ability to influence their thoughts. For a brief moment, she thought about trying to gain her father's recognition by showing him this power or maybe even using it on him and her family to make them all respect her as they should. Then, Zeon Zum Deikum died or was assassinated, and then his successor, Degwin Dogdo Zabi, sent several men to take her into custody so she can be married off to Ghiren. But by then, she sprung her trap.

By being kind and generous to the townsfolk, she gained their love. And by using her power to peek into the hearts of the men and women sent after her, by playing to their hopes and dreams, by refusing to control their minds and emotions directly and instead revealing to them why they were wrong, and that there is a better way to achieve spacenoid independence, she gained their trust. And when she next disappeared, she had a set of loyal guards with her.

Years later, as a war between the Federation and Zeon drew closer, there were rumors of a 'Lady in White' in Side 6, Riah, who called herself 'Cassandra Troia'. She drew large crowds to her, warning of the consequences of war, the billions of people killed and millions left traumatized, of the damage to the Earth's ecosystem and the normalization of mass atrocities, of the legacy of hatred that will scar civilized space and create a cycle of war, brief truces, and war again that would last until the last human was dead.

This did not go unanswered; many tried to shut her up, or even assassinate her, but all failed, or even worse for her enemies, were converted to her side. Eventually, she was donated a ship by a sympathetic member of the Riah Autonomous region, a ship technically flagged as a 'civilian' one but with more weapons than usual. Her plans now are to wait for the war, gather disillusioned people and deserters from both sides to her banner, and bring peace... Even if she had to resort to force and hypocrisy to do it!

Skills: A gifted public speaker who is no slouch at practical politics, able to gain the loyalty of not just fighting folk, but also logisticians, financiers, and accountants, aka the people who can keep a fleet running.

Personality: A pure-hearted hypocrite, a daughter at odds with her family, but who still loves them deep inside. A believer in the justice of her cause who nevertheless is willing to examine said cause for flaws and switch her methods to 'something better' if the latter can be found. And finally, someone who wants the love of a father who is now too dead to give his acknowledgment.

These contradictions point to the fact that Celeste Zum Deikum/Cassandra Troia is a woman trying to make her way in a man's world as best as she could, yet plays the feminine roles of peacemaker, mother, and nurturer. This is not a weakness in her view, for what she desires is something she knows both men and women want - Peace and the prosperity that can come with it. Nevertheless, she resents the sexism in which her father had treated her and does not want to restrict others from following their dreams because of their gender...

Newtype(Including Rank E to A)[Y/N]: Y, Rank A.

I'm guessing something like the kshatriya is not a suit we'd be able to start with?

@Letter Bee and no, probably not Ramba Ral himself, probably a relative or descendant

@Letter Bee
Nice!

@vietmyke
How about a son of jimba ral? So you'd be Ramba's sibling/half sibling?

Name:Shiori Nagam
Age:20
Gender: Female
Bio: Born in Side 3, she devoted herself to studying the technologies that would form the backbone of Mobile Suits for the sake of her own passions until tensions with the Earth Federation sparked several incidents, at which point she found herself spurred on by patriotism and immense guilt over a lack of answers to the need for Zeon's independence. While initially rejected for seemingly outlandish ideas she couldn't adequately defend, more prominent figures in the development of the first mobile suits would speak to the soundness of many of the designs she had submitted once suitably compact fusion reactors became a reality. Nevertheless, she was placed in a special development branch for mobile suit equipment rather than be allowed to provide designs for mobile suits and mobile armors herself. She made few breakthroughs in this position and often was behind the curve of the plans of the Zabi family until a piece of an original design was placed in a folder of blueprints by accident. This piece contained a fraction of a Mobile Armor design, the thrusters of which were considered a superior option to those originally intended for Zeon's opening move in beginning a war of independence from the Earth Federation.

She was given orders to move to yet another top secret lab devoted to the upcoming war effort where she would work alongside a single other, equally eccentric colleague to test new concepts, develop specialized modifications of accepted mobile suit and armor models and provide an expert opinion on the proposals sent by Zeonic and Zimmad. Believing the best way to fulfill this assignment would include performing field and combat testing, she began a letter to be sent up the chain insisting she be allowed to engage in such before even reaching her new desk, where she would find an encrypted disk containing several thousand documents and demanding cooperation fulfilling a plan dubbed "Operation British"
Skills: A talent for designing mobile suits, mobile armors and their equipment. Passing ability to pilot a mobile suit or armor and a theoretical knowledge of the best way to use both standard and specialized mobile suit equipment she is familiar with, though without the combat experience to really capitalize on it.
Personality: Often single minded and possesses a debatably unhealthy interest in the capabilities of all military equipment. She is loyal to the cause of Zeon's independence and cast aside the question of whether the measures taken in the war are ethical to better promote that cause, though she takes no pleasure in the death and destruction. Under normal circumstances she is friendly, kind, but eccentric.

She is prone to bouts of gluttony, eating in response to both stress, boredom and a lack of stimulation in general. As a result, the second largest obstacle to her advancement has been her need for large grocery shipments to work optimally, though she shares food supplies generously with both colleagues and complete strangers. Despite the chance to escape the lab being a rarity, she finds her time in and out of the lab to satisfy different but equally important needs and has a noted fondness for children and has on more than one occasion found herself entertaining a group. While she doesn't dislike any food, she has a preference for sweet and spicy things.
Newtype(Including Rank E to A)[Y/N]:Y, C

Still feels rough but if I keep mulling it over I may never actually put a character forward.

@Beppen
A great character in my opinion.

Name: Edward D. Rackham
Age: 49
Gender: Male
Bio: Being born to one of Side 3’s founding families had its perks for the young scion Edward. Fine foods, chauffeurs, private academies. All of these were afforded to him to groom him into being the next successful tycoon magnate of the Rackham family. Sadly for his late father, that was not the path Edward had planned out for himself. He wanted more than just a business handed to him on a silver platter… he wanted to make his own name in history like the conqueror’s of old! Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun, Julius Caesar! He wanted his name to be held in the same regard as those noble warmongers before him.

Graduating with top marks from Side 3’s naval academy was simple enough for the young Edward, having been afforded the best education money could buy. The then twenty-something Lieutenant Edward Rackham scored himself an easy commission aboard one of Munzo’s newly minted Musai-class light cruisers. Things were uneventful for the most part, only ever taking part in the occasional training exercise was all that was afforded to Munzo’s token military force, with them effectively being a puppet of the Earth Federation government.
Skills: Physically powerful, Adept Mobile Suit combatant, extremely charismatic.
Personality: Brash and full of himself, Edward is a man of the people when it comes to his style of commanding. Never asking his men to do anything he wouldn’t do himself and always leading from the front whenever there was a battle to be fought.
Newtype(Including Rank E to A)[Y/N]: N

After some thought, I don't think I should join; sorry for the inconvenience.

@Coltshan

@Coltshan
Glad you think so. Hoping this will go far.

Alright. How is everyone and how would you like this started?

@Coltshan
I'm fine. Maybe starting at the Battle of Loum would be a good meeting point between characters, though since Letter Bee decided not to join after all we are down to just two submitted characters