Name:
Axton Huber

Gender:
Cis Male

Age:
24

Rank:
Second Lieutenant

Assigned Mobile Suit:
MS-06F-2 Zaku II F2 Type

Personality Traits:
Determined, Fanatical, Friendly, Violent, Creative, Lacks self-esteem

Backstory:
Born into the Huber family, a group of well renowned engineers, Axton was born in space. While his parents were originally from the Side 1 colonies, they moved to Side 3 after being enraptured with the teachings of Zeon Zum Deikun. They would start a family in the capital colony of Side 3, where Axton would be born, the middle of three children. While still a small child, Axton’s home of Side 3 would declare independence from the Earth Federation, becoming the Republic of Zeon.

This would result in sanctions from the Earth Federation on the newly-formed space nation. However, Zeon would still have a thriving economy as it produced superior goods. This was helped by the Huber family who designed all kinds of machines for the Republic. Like his parents, Axton would show an aptitude for machines and would begin taking mechanical courses in school. Then things would change when Axton was just starting high school. Zeon Zum Deikun would die under mysterious circumstances.

This resulted in some upheaval in the Republic, until a friend of Deikun’s, Degwin Zabi, took charge of the government. Reorganizing Side 3 as the Principality of Zeon, Degwin would take a more hard line stance against the Earth Federation. The Principality would begin focusing on building up its military, the Huber parents being sent to work on a new type of weapon called a mobile suit. Axton himself would be fast tracked through school, earning a degree in weapon manufacturing. Axton would then be given a job at Zeonic Corporation, helping build mobile suit prototypes.

This build up of power caused a lot of tension between Zeon and the Federation, as the latter faction began going after any nations that supported the Principality. Degwin Zabi would not take kindly to this and would declare war on the Earth Federation on January 3, UC 0079, only waiting ten minutes after that before attacking several Federation bases in the colonies and other parts of space.

That opening month of the war would be brutal, as Zeon dropped a colony onto Earth, attempting to hit the Federation HQ. Also nuclear and chemical weapons would be used liberally, Axton’s older brother being killed in a nuclear strike. After all this devastation, the Antarctic Treaty was signed and weapons of mass destruction banned. As a show of good faith, Zeon would publicly disarm their nuclear weapons. Axton was assigned to help with that, but something went wrong and a piece of a missile exploded, sending shrapnel into Axton’s eyes.

Axton would survive, but would spend a month in hospital, during which time he was given new artificial eyes. Once released, Axton would decide to take vengeance for his brother. Enrolling in the mobile suit corps, Axton would be fast tracked through training as Zeon needed as many pilots as possible. Placed in a Zaku II, Axton would be sent to Earth, his first time on the planet. He would be made a recruit of the Steel Sharks, a mobile suit team operating out of Northern Africa.

Axton would remain in this region as the war began coming to a close. Sporadic information would reach the rural region, telling of final battles in space. Axton tried not to pay them heed, instead focusing on the battle going on around him. That was until New Year’s Day.

Picture of Crea
Picture of Mobile Suit
(Both are large.)

AGE
25

GENDER
Hetero Female

RANK
"Acting First, Special, or Whatever Lieutenant I need it to be at the present moment."

MOBILE SUIT
MS-07B Gouf

PERSONALITY TRAITS
Focused, Stubborn, Even-Tempered, De-Sensitized, Experienced, Destructive

HISTORY

The backbone of Side 3 and every Zeon territory has always been the honest working class of those who set out into space to pave their own way of life. As much as Zeon would become demonized in the eyes of Earth, the fact is that neither side is very innocent, just having alot of good points about the other's conduct, and very little room to get out of each other's way, despite the vastness of space. Among those who headed on out, those that support the very structure of Zeon - who helped BUILD Side 3, among other things - were respected in their own right, and ultimately one of the reasons Zeon went to war. They are the people. When you say 'We do this for the people of Zeon', you mean these people, the hard-working men and women of Zeon.

The Federation had an iron grip on space, something that colonists like those of Zeon objected to and felt the sting of as it was difficult to get enough food or carry on the work in this state. The Thompson family was among those who grumbled and demanded that something be done. Zeon Zum Deikun was a fine leader, respected by many, but he couldn't fully-quell the anger felt towards Earth. When he died, the last floodgate towards violence was open, and when the Zabi family declared rule and called upon Zeon to prepare to strike at Earth itself, the Thompsons were in. They were the everyperson of Zeon, with plenty of different backgrounds that you would call upon in a civil manner, but for wartime, you either need them to support the cause at home, or join the army and become soldiers.

Crea joined the military. Not possessing the strong back of her other family members, she thought it better if she put her efforts towards killing people, and therefore trained to become a Mobile Suit pilot. There was a bit of test piloting to get through to stabilize these hulking giants, and so at the beginning of all things, she found herself staring out the main head camera of a Zaku-1, wondering why in all the hell there was an obstruction right in the middle of everything...before carefully ripping it out in order to see properly. If you want to know why the Zaku-2s were built differently, that's one of the reasons. Crea encouraged others to tear them out in favor of better visibility.

While this matter was a fair point about the design flaw, it was never her decision to make regarding the solution. As a disciplinary action, Crea was thrust into the regular enlisted training route to try to curb this sort of behavior. It was meant to remove any possibility of insubbordination, but it didn't exactly work. You could get her to follow orders, but only to a point. If she had a better idea, she was going to implement it, and sometimes it yielded results. Not to say that this was a shining moment to put her in command, as she would bad-mouth commanders she didn't agree with, but it showed that her skills were honed and it was time to get back into a Mobile Suit.

The first wave - the intense wave of colony-dropping, nuclear detonation, and chemical warfare - had passed. Zeon had pushed Earth and pushed it hard. But then, word had gotten out from a certain General that Zeon's coffers were looking kind of empty, that they were lacking in further support for their war effort. Not entirely true, as they were taking things right out of Earth to pay their way after the initial push, but it was enough to instigate the push-back with enemy Mobile Suits. They needed people on the ground to engage these machines - weapons that the Federation were still inexperienced with - and take 'em down. Crea was given one of the remaining Gouf units and sent to join the Midnight Fenrir Steel Shark MS attack unit. She would be there, in Africa, even as a certain engineer was later sent down there to join them.

News and rumors from the surrounding area didn't bother her. In fact, Crea ignored most things as potential propaganda until verified by someone a bit more trustworthy than some random individual saying stuff, focused more on the killing with her big blue mecha.