"Attention all Zeon officers and soldiers. I am Prime Minister Darcia Bakharov. Supreme Commander Gihren Zabi, along with Rear Admiral Kycilia Zabi, have lost there lives in battle. Therefore, A Baoa Qu has surrendered. At present, the Principality of Zeon and the Earth Federation government have agreed to a ceasefire. Our battle has come to an end. I beseech you, officers and soldiers; as the national sovereign, I have proper authority to give the order. All forces: immediately suspend hostilities, and lay down your weapons. I repeat: immediately suspend hostilities, and lay down your weapons. The war is over."
It is the year 0080 of the Universal Century (UC).
Exactly a year has passed since the beginning of an apocalyptic conflict which will become known to history as the One Year War. The war, which was fought between the Principality of Zeon, an independent nation composed of a large number of space colonies orbiting just beyond the Moon, and the Earth Federation, the unified government of the Earth and most of the nearby orbital colonies. The war, which began on January 1st, UC 0079, claimed the lives of over half the total human population, and was instigated by the Principality of Zeon.
Their motivation was twofold: one, to reinforce their independence from the Earth Federation, which still regarded them as little more than a rogue territory, and two, to further the cause of Contolism, an ideology developed by the spacenoid philosopher Zeon Zum Deikun which posited that it was duty of humanity to preserve the Earth and its natural wonders, and also that the space colonies should be considered independent states. To this end, Zeon wished to force all of human kind to leave the Earth and emigrate into outer space, which would be the catalyst for the species to develop into its next evolutionary stage, as predicted by Deikun: the Newtype.
This plan failed.
Though Zeon's advanced technology and tactical expertise ensured early victories, the tide of the war shifted when the Federation, bolstered by its own efforts to replicate Zeon technology, rendered these advantages moot and used its own far greater numbers to drive the invaders back into space. After a climactic final battle in space, Zeon capitulated, and the war officially came to an end on January 1st, UC 0080, exactly one year after it began.
Throughout the Earth Sphere, the forces of the former Principality gave up their arms and returned to their defeated homeland, or were marched off into prisoner of war camps. It seemed that the dream of Zeon had died...
But this was not quite so.
In Universal Century 0079, countless military units on both sides fought it out on the surface of the Earth, but of them all, a few in particular stand out for various reasons.
One of these was the 261st Mobile Supply Corps.
A Zeon unit with the Earth Attack Force, the 261st MSC was originally a "high mobility" supply unit, meant to keep up with the rapidly advancing front as Zeon forces pushed across Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and North America. Coming to Earth during the first Earth Drop Operation, the unit saw action in Central Europe after the Odessa landings, and quickly gained a reputation as being as formidable a fighting force in a pinch as any front line battalion.
As the war progressed and ground to a stalemate, the role of the 261st changed from a normal supply unit to a "blockade runner" force, specializing in getting supplies and even reinforcements to besieged Zeon units and garrisons. As the tide began to turn against Zeon, the 261st became instrumental in several successful break-out operations, at one time evacuating an entire fortress out from under the nose of besieging Federation troops. As the situation worsened, however, the unit, now considered an effective fighting force in addition to its supply role, was moved to Northern Africa, reinforcing units stationed to defend against an expected Federation invasion of the Middle East across the Suez Canal.
Instead, the Federation invaded through Eastern Europe in Operation Odessa, taking the major regional Zeon command post and forcing the general evacuation of Zeon forces from the region. While most units returned to space from H.L.V. facilities near Odessa, a not inconsiderable number were stranded on Earth, retreating to Africa, Northern Europe or Southeast Asia and going into hiding, establishing remnant cells destined to conduct guerrilla operations against the Earth Federation for decades after the war's official end.
The 261st, stationed along the Suez Canal when the word came that Odessa had fallen, was one such unit.
Assisting other units to evacuate in the face of Federation mop-up operations, the 261st led an exodus of Canal Zone troops into the deserts of Egypt and the Northern Sahara. From there, they waged a guerrilla campaign against the Federation forces sent to chase them, holding out for three whole months with only minimal support from the main Zeon forces now fighting in space.
On January 1st, 0080, however, word came of the ceasefire.
Having been loyal this long, the officers and soldiers of the 261st endeavored to carry out their last official orders. Setting out across the desert in search of a Federation garrison or unit they could surrender to, they prepared themselves to accept defeat...
Meanwhile, nearby, their counterparts awaited just such an eventuality.
The 12th MS Team is one of the Earth Federation's numerous Earth-based Mobile Suit squads, an elite branch of the Earth Federation Ground Forces formed to counter the deadly threat of Zeon's own Mobile Suit teams.
Composed of three MS and a support vehicle, the 12th was formed early in the One Year War as the 12th Independent Armored Team, equipped with the Type 61 main battle tank and tasked with hunting the Principality's formidable MS-06J Zaku II "ground type". The 12th IAT survived long enough in combat - a rarity due to the high attrition rates of Federation armored units against Zeon Mobile Suits - to graduate to the first Federation Mobile Suits, the RX-79[G] Gundam Ground Type and RGM-79[G] GM Ground Type, at which time their designation changed accordingly.
The 12th MS Team served on the European front, and gained a reputation as a superb guerrilla unit, operating deep inside Zeon-held territory with minimal support. They were part of a vanguard force which scouted and softened up targets for Operation Odessa, and participated in mop-up operations afterward, pursuing Zeon remnant troops from the Suez Canal into Northern Africa.
In late 0079, the 12th MS Team was assigned to the Renfield Battalion, under Colonel Dennet Renfield. Colonel Renfield, known to many as "the Butcher of Heidelberg", was charged with rooting out remnant Zeon troops and partisans in the Sahara Desert, and pursued his mission with a zeal and blood-lust which greatly intimidated and even frightened those who served under him.
Nobody knew how the Colonel would react when, on 01/01/0080, news came of a ceasefire...
The 12th and the 261st. Little did these two former enemies know, soon they would both be forced to fight side by side against an enemy far more evil and vicious than either they had yet encountered...
UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
-Prime Minster Darcia Bakharov's general order to the forces of the Principality of Zeon, UC 01/01/0080.
It is the year 0080 of the Universal Century (UC).
Exactly a year has passed since the beginning of an apocalyptic conflict which will become known to history as the One Year War. The war, which was fought between the Principality of Zeon, an independent nation composed of a large number of space colonies orbiting just beyond the Moon, and the Earth Federation, the unified government of the Earth and most of the nearby orbital colonies. The war, which began on January 1st, UC 0079, claimed the lives of over half the total human population, and was instigated by the Principality of Zeon.
Their motivation was twofold: one, to reinforce their independence from the Earth Federation, which still regarded them as little more than a rogue territory, and two, to further the cause of Contolism, an ideology developed by the spacenoid philosopher Zeon Zum Deikun which posited that it was duty of humanity to preserve the Earth and its natural wonders, and also that the space colonies should be considered independent states. To this end, Zeon wished to force all of human kind to leave the Earth and emigrate into outer space, which would be the catalyst for the species to develop into its next evolutionary stage, as predicted by Deikun: the Newtype.
This plan failed.
Though Zeon's advanced technology and tactical expertise ensured early victories, the tide of the war shifted when the Federation, bolstered by its own efforts to replicate Zeon technology, rendered these advantages moot and used its own far greater numbers to drive the invaders back into space. After a climactic final battle in space, Zeon capitulated, and the war officially came to an end on January 1st, UC 0080, exactly one year after it began.
Throughout the Earth Sphere, the forces of the former Principality gave up their arms and returned to their defeated homeland, or were marched off into prisoner of war camps. It seemed that the dream of Zeon had died...
But this was not quite so.
In Universal Century 0079, countless military units on both sides fought it out on the surface of the Earth, but of them all, a few in particular stand out for various reasons.
One of these was the 261st Mobile Supply Corps.
A Zeon unit with the Earth Attack Force, the 261st MSC was originally a "high mobility" supply unit, meant to keep up with the rapidly advancing front as Zeon forces pushed across Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and North America. Coming to Earth during the first Earth Drop Operation, the unit saw action in Central Europe after the Odessa landings, and quickly gained a reputation as being as formidable a fighting force in a pinch as any front line battalion.
As the war progressed and ground to a stalemate, the role of the 261st changed from a normal supply unit to a "blockade runner" force, specializing in getting supplies and even reinforcements to besieged Zeon units and garrisons. As the tide began to turn against Zeon, the 261st became instrumental in several successful break-out operations, at one time evacuating an entire fortress out from under the nose of besieging Federation troops. As the situation worsened, however, the unit, now considered an effective fighting force in addition to its supply role, was moved to Northern Africa, reinforcing units stationed to defend against an expected Federation invasion of the Middle East across the Suez Canal.
Instead, the Federation invaded through Eastern Europe in Operation Odessa, taking the major regional Zeon command post and forcing the general evacuation of Zeon forces from the region. While most units returned to space from H.L.V. facilities near Odessa, a not inconsiderable number were stranded on Earth, retreating to Africa, Northern Europe or Southeast Asia and going into hiding, establishing remnant cells destined to conduct guerrilla operations against the Earth Federation for decades after the war's official end.
The 261st, stationed along the Suez Canal when the word came that Odessa had fallen, was one such unit.
Assisting other units to evacuate in the face of Federation mop-up operations, the 261st led an exodus of Canal Zone troops into the deserts of Egypt and the Northern Sahara. From there, they waged a guerrilla campaign against the Federation forces sent to chase them, holding out for three whole months with only minimal support from the main Zeon forces now fighting in space.
On January 1st, 0080, however, word came of the ceasefire.
Having been loyal this long, the officers and soldiers of the 261st endeavored to carry out their last official orders. Setting out across the desert in search of a Federation garrison or unit they could surrender to, they prepared themselves to accept defeat...
Meanwhile, nearby, their counterparts awaited just such an eventuality.
The 12th MS Team is one of the Earth Federation's numerous Earth-based Mobile Suit squads, an elite branch of the Earth Federation Ground Forces formed to counter the deadly threat of Zeon's own Mobile Suit teams.
Composed of three MS and a support vehicle, the 12th was formed early in the One Year War as the 12th Independent Armored Team, equipped with the Type 61 main battle tank and tasked with hunting the Principality's formidable MS-06J Zaku II "ground type". The 12th IAT survived long enough in combat - a rarity due to the high attrition rates of Federation armored units against Zeon Mobile Suits - to graduate to the first Federation Mobile Suits, the RX-79[G] Gundam Ground Type and RGM-79[G] GM Ground Type, at which time their designation changed accordingly.
The 12th MS Team served on the European front, and gained a reputation as a superb guerrilla unit, operating deep inside Zeon-held territory with minimal support. They were part of a vanguard force which scouted and softened up targets for Operation Odessa, and participated in mop-up operations afterward, pursuing Zeon remnant troops from the Suez Canal into Northern Africa.
In late 0079, the 12th MS Team was assigned to the Renfield Battalion, under Colonel Dennet Renfield. Colonel Renfield, known to many as "the Butcher of Heidelberg", was charged with rooting out remnant Zeon troops and partisans in the Sahara Desert, and pursued his mission with a zeal and blood-lust which greatly intimidated and even frightened those who served under him.
Nobody knew how the Colonel would react when, on 01/01/0080, news came of a ceasefire...
The 12th and the 261st. Little did these two former enemies know, soon they would both be forced to fight side by side against an enemy far more evil and vicious than either they had yet encountered...
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UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
