Post by Deathscythe on Aug 19, 2007 15:23:42 GMT -5
Lunar Base - OZ
As the moon was deemed unsuitable for permanent human habitation, it was instead used for tourism and other purposes. One such purpose was the construction of a major OZ base, which included a mobile suit manufacturing plant. With the advent of the mobile doll, the base was converted to production of the OZ-02MD Virgo. In November AC195, the armed colonial rebel group White Fang captured the Lunar Base during an operation dubbed the Artemis Revolution, and used it to construct their mobile doll army. After the war's end, the Lunar Base became the resting place of the five Gundams, overseen by their co-creator Howard.
L1 Colony Cluster - UESA
The group of colonies located at Lagrangian point L1, which is located between the Earth and the Moon. Heero Yuy is said to be from the L1 colony cluster, though the specific colony is never mentioned. While training as a Gundam Pilot, Heero bombed an Alliance base on one such colony; unfortunately, the explosion spread and destroyed a residential building, killing many, including a young girl whom Heero had befriended the day before. On April 6, AC195, Vice Foreign Minister Darlian and his daughter Relena came to a conference on that same colony; while taking a walk, Relena discovered the dead girl's teddy bear (a scene depicted in Gundam Wing's first opening). Some distance away, Heero was at the grave he made for the girl, preparing to kill himself, only to be interrupted by his mentor, Doctor J.
L2-V08744 - UESA
One of the L2 colonies, and Duo Maxwell's home for much of his youth. As a child, the then-nameless orphan was part of a group of street urchins who lived from day-to-day. In AC187, a major virus broke out, but the vaccine was reserved for the upper classes. When the gang's leader Solo became ill, the orphan stole some of the vaccine, but returned too late to save his friend's life. As he never caught the virus himself, the boy believed that his friend was looking out for him from beyond, and adopted the name "Duo" in his honor. Later that year, the gang was broken up by the Alliance, and its members were sent to the Maxwell Church for adoption. All the children except Duo were adopted; the youth lived at the church, supported by Father Maxwell and Sister Helen. A year later, though, a group of anti-Alliance rebels holed up in the church. Duo offered to steal an OZ-06MS Leo for them in return for leaving the church and its inhabitants alone, but while he was out stealing the MS, the Alliance attacked, killing everyone inside.
L5-A0206 - OZ
One of the oldest colonies in existence, A0206 was home to the Long Clan, a fierce family of warriors exiled because their homeland, China, feared the power they held. In AC194, the Alliance attempted to "clean up" the aging colony by killing its residents with poison gas; this attack was stopped by future Gundam Pilot Chang Wufei and his wife Long Meilan, though she lost her life shortly afterwards due to injuries sustained during the battle. After hearing of Operation Meteor, A0206's elders were all willing to allow their colony to be the one dropped on Earth. Enraged at the idea, Wufei stole the XXXG-01S Shenlong Gundam and carried out Operation Meteor on his own, without destroying the colony and thus winning the support of the elders.
MO-II - OZ
A former resource satellite, MO-II was completely mined, but left to float in Earth orbit for years. Near the end of AC195, it was taken up as the World Nation's base of attack against White Fang and their space fortress Libra. MO-II sustained some minor damage from a near-miss by Libra's main cannon, but survived the conflict intact. One year later, the satellite was the site of a Christmas party held by the Earth Sphere Unified Nation's government to honor those lost in the war, as well as to celebrate their progress.
MO-V - UESA
Located in the Asteroid Belt, MO-V is a resource satellite, colony, and space exploration outpost and the primary setting of New Mobile Report Gundam Wing Dual Story: G-Unit. Though it was originally going to be a major port for extra-planetary travel, the untimely death of Mark Barnett lead to MO-V reorganizing its functions for mobile suit manufacture. When OZ began making peaceful overtures to the colonies, MO-V signed on almost immediately, though its use was debated until OZ Prize reconnaissance discovered that the colony had built powerful new Gundam-type mobile suits called G-Units. Upon learning this, the Romefeller Foundation ordered Prize to capture the G-Units, forbidding any regular members of OZ from investigating. The colony's government negotiated with Prize to allow the evacuation of its civilians; however, an attack by OZ ace Valder Farkill destroyed all the civilian shuttles. After months of battle, Prize was eventually defeated, and MO-V's people closed down their MS plants in favor of finally researching space flight.
As the moon was deemed unsuitable for permanent human habitation, it was instead used for tourism and other purposes. One such purpose was the construction of a major OZ base, which included a mobile suit manufacturing plant. With the advent of the mobile doll, the base was converted to production of the OZ-02MD Virgo. In November AC195, the armed colonial rebel group White Fang captured the Lunar Base during an operation dubbed the Artemis Revolution, and used it to construct their mobile doll army. After the war's end, the Lunar Base became the resting place of the five Gundams, overseen by their co-creator Howard.
L1 Colony Cluster - UESA
The group of colonies located at Lagrangian point L1, which is located between the Earth and the Moon. Heero Yuy is said to be from the L1 colony cluster, though the specific colony is never mentioned. While training as a Gundam Pilot, Heero bombed an Alliance base on one such colony; unfortunately, the explosion spread and destroyed a residential building, killing many, including a young girl whom Heero had befriended the day before. On April 6, AC195, Vice Foreign Minister Darlian and his daughter Relena came to a conference on that same colony; while taking a walk, Relena discovered the dead girl's teddy bear (a scene depicted in Gundam Wing's first opening). Some distance away, Heero was at the grave he made for the girl, preparing to kill himself, only to be interrupted by his mentor, Doctor J.
L2-V08744 - UESA
One of the L2 colonies, and Duo Maxwell's home for much of his youth. As a child, the then-nameless orphan was part of a group of street urchins who lived from day-to-day. In AC187, a major virus broke out, but the vaccine was reserved for the upper classes. When the gang's leader Solo became ill, the orphan stole some of the vaccine, but returned too late to save his friend's life. As he never caught the virus himself, the boy believed that his friend was looking out for him from beyond, and adopted the name "Duo" in his honor. Later that year, the gang was broken up by the Alliance, and its members were sent to the Maxwell Church for adoption. All the children except Duo were adopted; the youth lived at the church, supported by Father Maxwell and Sister Helen. A year later, though, a group of anti-Alliance rebels holed up in the church. Duo offered to steal an OZ-06MS Leo for them in return for leaving the church and its inhabitants alone, but while he was out stealing the MS, the Alliance attacked, killing everyone inside.
L5-A0206 - OZ
One of the oldest colonies in existence, A0206 was home to the Long Clan, a fierce family of warriors exiled because their homeland, China, feared the power they held. In AC194, the Alliance attempted to "clean up" the aging colony by killing its residents with poison gas; this attack was stopped by future Gundam Pilot Chang Wufei and his wife Long Meilan, though she lost her life shortly afterwards due to injuries sustained during the battle. After hearing of Operation Meteor, A0206's elders were all willing to allow their colony to be the one dropped on Earth. Enraged at the idea, Wufei stole the XXXG-01S Shenlong Gundam and carried out Operation Meteor on his own, without destroying the colony and thus winning the support of the elders.
MO-II - OZ
A former resource satellite, MO-II was completely mined, but left to float in Earth orbit for years. Near the end of AC195, it was taken up as the World Nation's base of attack against White Fang and their space fortress Libra. MO-II sustained some minor damage from a near-miss by Libra's main cannon, but survived the conflict intact. One year later, the satellite was the site of a Christmas party held by the Earth Sphere Unified Nation's government to honor those lost in the war, as well as to celebrate their progress.
MO-V - UESA
Located in the Asteroid Belt, MO-V is a resource satellite, colony, and space exploration outpost and the primary setting of New Mobile Report Gundam Wing Dual Story: G-Unit. Though it was originally going to be a major port for extra-planetary travel, the untimely death of Mark Barnett lead to MO-V reorganizing its functions for mobile suit manufacture. When OZ began making peaceful overtures to the colonies, MO-V signed on almost immediately, though its use was debated until OZ Prize reconnaissance discovered that the colony had built powerful new Gundam-type mobile suits called G-Units. Upon learning this, the Romefeller Foundation ordered Prize to capture the G-Units, forbidding any regular members of OZ from investigating. The colony's government negotiated with Prize to allow the evacuation of its civilians; however, an attack by OZ ace Valder Farkill destroyed all the civilian shuttles. After months of battle, Prize was eventually defeated, and MO-V's people closed down their MS plants in favor of finally researching space flight.