by Zivago
I. PROLOGUE.
In
1999 the Earth counts more than 6 billions inhabitants and the
frenzied industrial development is causing a climatic breakdown.
In order to face the situation the old UNO turns into
the Earth Federation and, thank to big
steps forward taken in the field of nuclear fusion, they start
planning the colonization of orbital space and of the Moon. In
2009, in order to help the colonization program, they found the Federal
Assembly and Government,
as well as the United Nations Troops (UNT),
and inside it the UNT-Spacy. After a slow
and difficult planning,
finally they start building the first
space colonies in Side 1: it’s 2045.
About thirty years after, when the first transfer of civilians onto the orbital colonies takes place, they introduce the Universal
Century (U.C.) and time “starts again”.
Earth’s population is now more than 9 billions. In 27 U.C. they found the lunar colony of Von
Braun City, in the Cayley crater, in the Tranquility
Sea, and in 40 U.C. more than 40% of Earth’s population has been
transferred to the three Sides now ready. Five years later
the satellite Luna 2 (the asteroid
Juno) is moved to the lunar orbit, while
in Side 3, the farest colony
area settled in the orbit of the dark side of the Moon, the
rising of democratic Jion zum Daikun,
Duke of Jion and patriarch of a mighty and very rich
colonial family, begins in 56 with his unanimous election as a
member of the local Administrative Council. Political
and racial
estrangement between left Earth’s population
— a little more than 2 billions — and the 9 billions Sides’
inhabitants, exploited and considered as lower and subjected
people
by terrestrials, is now a matter of fact. That’s why Jion
Daikun conceives an utopian doctrine (Contulism)
according which mankind’s future won’t be anymore on the Earth
— symbol of evil and decadence — but in the universe, where
it will be able to develope its spirituality. In 58, then, after
expelling the federal delegates, Jion Daikun declares the
independence of Side 3, renaming it Republic of
Jion, and starting this way a political chrisis
that, in a few years, will bring mankind, two centuries after
world war the second, to a new age of global wars. Together with
the foundation of the independent republic he forms Jion’s National Guard which, in 62,
becomes the Army of Jion Republic,
answering to the Federation’s embargo against Side
3.
The cold war
brings about an exponential increase of military expenditures on
both sides. The Federation turns Luna 2 into a
military advanced base and starts building a fleet of new space
battleships: the Saramiss and Magellan classes. For
its part, Jion finances Y.T. Minvoski’s
researches about a new subnuclear particle: but truly Jion
Daikun doesn’t want the war, pursuing a wise dissuasive
strategy instead. In 65, actually, Side 3 joins the Sides’
Confederation and signs a self-government motion,
then submitted in 67 to
the Federal Assembly. But the motion’s failing
strengthens the anti-republican inner opposition, led by
the patriarch of the Zabi’s family, who wants the
war. In 68 Jion zum Daikun dies in a mysterious way and Degwin
Sod Zabi seizes the power wiping out the Republic
and founding the Jion’s Principality:
it’s the 15th of August 69. In October the Princedom
Great Council decrees to break off every
diplomatic contacts with Earth Federation and to get out
of a
dying Sides’ Confederation. In
the meantime, the Zabis start a hidden persecution against
the Jions, forcing Daikun’s children, Casbal
Rem (Char) Jion
and Artesia Som (Seyra)
Jion, to flee on the Earth. Meanwhile, Minovski’s
researches come to their goal: the isolation of the so called Minovski
particles and their generators’ production, allowing
complete radar concealment. Jion’s armoury improving,
according to Zabis’ policy, now aims only at the
war. For its part, the Federation moves Luna 2 to Lagrange
Point 2, on the dark side of the Moon, and starts
building Side 7, where’s going
to settle most part of its war production. From the end of 70 to
78 we see the final warning signs of the war: Jion
completes the strategic self-propelled base of Axis, in the
asteroids’ belt between Mars and Jupiter, and carries out
its mass production’s plan of a brand new weapon: the mobile suit (MS), an anthropomorphic
robot 50-80 feet tall and about 50 tons weight. Provided with
nuclear fusion microreactors and a Minovski’s particles
generator, the Mobile Suit turns out to be an extremely effective
weapon in close fighting. Radar invisibility, actually, let MS to
get closer to its target undisturbed, nullifying the great
attention paid by the Federation to long distance fighting
spaceships’ development. Between May and June 75 Jion
completes the prototype MS-05 Zack II and starts building
a fleet of quick cruisers, the Musai class; anyway, only
at the beginning of 78 U.C. they start mass production of combat
MS, with the 06 S Zack
II and 06 F Zack III types. In the
meantime, Char Jion, Daikun’s son run away on
the Earth together with his sister Seyra (who’s
entered the federal Army), unable to live together with the
terrestrial enemy and tormented by his hate for the Zabis,
comes back to Side 3 under the false name of Char
Aznable and succeeds in entering the Jion’s
Principality’s Army as a Mobile Suit’s ace pilot.
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