06.15Timeline
This presents a fairly inclusive history of Future Imperfect and the gap in time between that game and New Era. It is not exhaustive, however.
UC 210
- Einst observation post established in the Kuiper Belt
UC 216
January
- Future Imperfect begins – the Earth Sphere Alliance and Human Reform League are locked in a strategic dead heat, while ZAFT ‘s Earth Liberation Army and the Atlantic Federation are engaged in vicious combat operations against each other in Africa, with the Space Revolutionary Army essentially adopting a “wait and see” policy towards the war
February
- Raids by AF partisans against several ESA bases in the Carribean
- ESA radar installations in the North Atlantic begin being harassed by rogues
March
- ESA carrier battlegroup is sunk by a group of rogues calling themselves Vanguard Horizon, sparking the beginning of organized resistance by “non state entities”
- ESA puts a large bounty on participating renegades, declaring VH to be a criminal group
May
- ZAFT commences Operation Lilac and launches an orbital drop against the AF base in Harare – the attack succeeds and the city is liberated
- AF’s Fogo base launches a nuclear missile against the area, preferring to obliterate its own forces than allow ZAFT to take and hold the area
- Rogues attack and destroy the AF’s Insalah prison
June
- The same rogue outfit sacks the Guantanamo base, freeing numerous prisoners held by the ESA
- AF’s Monte Hacho survives a massive attack by the HRL, who has begun to view the government as teetering
- J.A.P. Point repels an assault by VH, the ESA will abandon the base later in the month under a defense consolidation scheme
July
- HRL takes over operations of the former J.A.P. Point installation, effectively cementing its hold in all of Asia
- Fogo repels repeated attacks by ESA – outside political observers remark that the AF is “blood in the water”
- ESA’s Corsica spaceport destroyed by renegades
August
- HRL stages two attacks against SRA’s Caird base, but both are repelled by the SRA’s effective use of the environment
- Rogues attack the ESA’s offshore radar platforms again – they have been reinforced and repel the aggressors
- AF stages counterattacks into HRL border regions, not making significant gains but effectively announcing that they will not be easily defeated
- Black Wing group destroys ZAFT’s Lilac force in Africa, creating a small power vacuum
September
- HRL’s second attack against the SRA’s Caird base succeeds, planting their flag on Antarctica for the first time
- ZAFT ELA forces negotiate an attack with anti-AF renegades to assault Monte Hacho – the attack is repelled, even utilizing a stolen HRL landship
October
- An opposing renegade group sacks Durban, forcing ZAFT to redeploy forces to secure the area
- AF launches a massive counterattack against Cape Town, running the disorganized ZAFT forces off of the continent
- HRL attack on Shackleton is unsuccessful
- The same rogues that attacked Durban are driven off from Madagascar by the retreating ZAFT ELA units
November
- ZAFT/renegade strike force seizes Lake Nigeria, reopening the African front
- ESA launches a surprise attack on rogue-held Hawaii but are repelled
- SRA successfully captures Satyricon, squashing the last major thorn in their side other than ZAFT
- Black Wing’s attack on Leimaitre is foiled and its members are captured
December
- VH attacks New Edwards in great force, nearly burning it to the ground by the end of the battle
- ZAFT/renegade strike force fails to capture AF’s Mogadishu fortress, taking heavy losses in the progress
- Another rogue attack against Madagascar forces the last of the ZAFT forces to retreat
- VH repeatedly attacks Arnason and Wiking, being defeated by the ESA garrisons each time
UC 217
January
- ESA attempts to capture Leimatire again and is unsuccessful
- ESA attack on Dakar is successful, further jeopardizing the AF positions in Africa
- The Aviary is destroyed
- VH attack on JOSH-A fails catastrophically, leading some ESA officials to suspect the organization’s military prowess is essentially limited to attacking smaller instutitons
February
- ESA declares open war against VH and other “terrorist organizations”, vowing the group’s destruction as their top priority
- AF forces launch a sneak attack against Zeldovich but are repulsed, ZAFT ELA begins reinforcing its Australian bases
- ESA attacks Hawaii again and fails
March
- ESA actively begins attacks on VH positions on and off Earth, first attack on Mercury fails
- Second attack on Mercury fails
- Third attack on Mercury is successful, ESA and Guild operatives stage joint operation. Guild is left “holding the bag” and conflict between Guild and VH begins; VH headquarters holds out against all comers, however
- ZAFT initiaties attack on Venus, beginning conflict against VH as well
April
- VH attacks Guild HQ at Helios and are repelled
- VH retakes Mercury from the Guild
- Guild attempts to drop a colony on Mercury and fails
- ZAFT clears Venus of VH military forces
- Guild seizes abandoned Satryicon base
May
- Guild captures Hawaii
- Deus Irae (SRA unit) forms; a secret NAP is signed between DI and VH leaders
- Guild captures Zeldovich
June
- ZAFT totally destroys former Satryicon base (now known as Garm)
- Guild forces attempt to seize Cape Town and fail
- ZAFT begins sporadic attacks on Guild installations on Earth
- Guild makes several counterattacks against South Africa which are unsuccessful
- VH launches a surprise attack against Deus Irae fleet assets at Mars, devastating them; Deus Irae’s counterattack succeeds in capturing the VH flagship
July
- Guild attack on Barge fails
- Massive Guild attack on Cape Town is successful; ZAFT stages two counterattacks which fail
- Guild attack on Artemis is repelled
- Massive joint Guild/Deus Irae attack upon Barge; Barge is destroyed, but several ESA vessels escape as Guild/Deus Irae forces begin infighting over the scraps
August
- ZAFT attack on Barclay fails
- Artemis is seized by uncoordinated ZAFT/Guild/Deus Irae attack – infighting begins shortly afterward
September
- The Einst observation post is mysteriously destroyed
- Guild forces, supported by anti-ESA partisans, launch repeated attacks upon JOSH-A; despite the mobile doll system being subverted by Gundam Aquarius, the base manages to stand
October
- ZAFT forces destroy Deus Irae headquarters on Olympus Mons with a long-range shot from GENESIS; SRA declares open war against ZAFT
- SRA and ZAFT forces begin major fleet engagements all through the Earth-Moon system
- Guild forces increase tempo of attacks against ESA installations
- ESA calls for a full mobilization of its forces
December
- SRA begins covertly constructing the Talos colony laser
- Renegades attack Mogadishu fortress again, the attack is a failure
- ZAFT launches a major reinforcement operation to its remaining Earth positions
UC 218
January
- ESA begins full-scale deployment of mobile dolls at numerous installations in an attempt to trap Gundam Aquarius
- ZAFT counterattacks against Guild in South Africa are unsuccessful but severely damage many installations
- HRL consolidates its positions in the M. East and begins offering unofficial support to anti-ESA Guild
February
- SRA attack spearheaded by Deus Irae group on the second ZAFT reinforcement drop is successful
- Guild launches massive attack on AF headquarters Brasilia, battle is ultimately indecisive
March
- AF establishes Last Battalion commando group, formed out of all remaining Gundam units and assigned to thwart further Guild military efforts
- Guild formally announces “World Without Borders” plan – ESA, AF and HRL officially denounce the Guild, but HRL material support continues in secret
- ZAFT seizes control of Artemis after secret deployment of Neutron Stampeders
- Clausewitz Plan initiated by ESA, huge mobile doll buildup begins at JOSH-A
April
- Secret negotiations begin between ZAFT and the SRA
- Clausewitz begins, ESA counterattack seizes Las Vegas and Geryon from the Guild; Guild vows to liberate North America at all costs
May
- ZAFT issues ultimatum to Guild: abandon South Africa or Artemis will be dropped on Cape Town; Guild refuses
- SRA pursuit fleet is mysteriously unable to thwart ZAFT’s movement of Artemis
- Barclay base is quietly abandoned and booby-trapped by SRA – Cloud 9 no longer maintains any Earth-based forces
- Guild engages ZAFT escort fleet in orbit – ZAFT calls off the Artemis drop operation
June
- Guild attempts to remilitarize Artemis fails, and the asteroid is returned to its L-point
- ESA deploys “Aquarius Antivirus” during attack on Hawaii; mobile doll function is unimpeded, allowing swift ESA capture of Guild’s Ceto base
- Guild material support from HRL increases as HRL further economizes development of GN drives
July
- ESA declares Guild is “on the run”
- Guild begins secretly developing a method of counteracting the Aquarius Antivirus – initial field tests are unsuccessful
August
- Unofficial negotiations begin between AF’s Fogo base and the Guild to join forces – Brasilia discovers the ploy and reinforces the base with loyal units
- Guild launches a large-scale attack against Fogo after negotiations break down, the attack fails after the Last Battalion stages a counterattack
- ESA attack against Guild’s Cherbourg base is successful – an unidentified unit appears during the battle and inflicts losses on both sides
- The mysterious unit is assigned the reporting name “Mustache Man” by ESA and “White Wraith” by Guild
September
- Guild leaders escape an ambush/assassination by the Last Battalion – talks of a purge of “imperialist sympathizers” within Guild ranks begin
- The HRL’s Myrmidons unit is recalled to Earth in preparation for upcoming attacks
October
- The SRA begins secret negotiations with the Guild about a plan to capture DOME
- Main force of Deus Irae returns from Mars
- Guild launches a sneak attack on JOSH-A, deploying a finished ‘retrovirus’ on Gundam Aquarius – the retrovirus does not work and the attack fails
- Mustache Man/White Wraith appears for a second time during the battle and attacks both sides again before disappearing
November
- SRA and Guild agree on a secret plan to attack DOME, Operation Joker
- Guild subterranean MS are “captured” by SRA forces in a staged ambush and begin digging towards DOME
December
- ESA retakes Madagascar and announces an amnesty for Guild operatives who turn themselves in along with their mobile weapons
- DOME is quietly taken by the SRA from within, Newtype researchers begin making off with valuable information from DOME’s computers
- ZAFT uncovers the situation on DOME and fires GENESIS at it in a move of desperation – DOME is destroyed, but not before the SRA completes a full backup of its systems
UC 219
February
- An ESA defector with knowledge of the mobile doll system attempts to meet with Guild agents in South Africa, but an attack by the Last Battalion spoils the meeting
- SRA forces covertly hand over the abandoned Barclay base to the Guild
- Myrmidons unit stages a sneak attack on Lake Victoria as HRL land forces mobilize into Egypt – the base is seized, effectively blinding Mogadishu’s Noventa Cannon
March
- HRL attack on Suez is successful – rumors of Guild leaders being offered sanctuary from ESA attacks by the HRL invaders are consistently denied
- ESA carrier groups deploy to several points in the south Atlantic and Indian oceans in preparation for attacks on Guild-held South Africa
April
- SRA beings an accelerated Newtype development program using the data stolen from DOME
- ESA launches enormous attack on South Africa – Cape Town and Johannesburg fall in one day, but most Guild officers manage to escape capture
- The third version of the Aquarius retrovirus is deployed unsuccessfully against the ESA’s mobile dolls
- Bar-Kemal Limited rolls out the Maganac, Maganac High Mobility Type, Maganac Olifant and Maganac Saladin
May
- ESA announces “March to Melbourne” to the world, stating the Guild will be totally wiped out by year’s end
- Low-level infighting begins among AF commanding officers in both Africa and South America
- ZAFT formally dissolves the Earth Liberation Army and begins recalling all remaining terrestrial units to PLANT
June
- SRA completes the Talos colony laser and tests it in secret – the weapon’s existence is nearly discovered by ZAFT
- ZAFT and SRA fleets engage at the L5 shoal zone, the battle is apparently indecisive but is a technical SRA victory due to the Talos escaping detection
July
- Guild now in full control of all ZAFT facilities in Australia, vows to fight to the last man
- Last Battalion attacks Lake Victoria – the attack is unsuccessful
- AF moderates call for some type of alliance with the ESA, while hardliners demand the deployment of nuclear weapons against the HRL
August
- Guild launches sneak attack against Madagascar and captures the base before its mobile dolls can activate
- ESA counterattack succeeds, but the offensive to Australia is delayed
- ESA begins development of a global tactical network to control all mobile dolls from JOSH-A to prevent another surprise attack from succeeding
September
- HRL rebuilds the Insalah base and begins drawing up plans to attack Fogo and Mogadishu
- Iris Corporation resumes production of mobile suits after being initially shut down by the HRL in UC 216
November
- ZAFT and SRA fleets skirmish around Artemis – both sides later abandon any plans to attempt to utilize the base
- Deus Irae covertly delivers some information acquired from DOME to the Guild at Barclay
- ESA’s Skyline Network goes online, officially boasts claim of 200% improvement in mobile doll reaction time
- Bar-Kemal Limited rolls out the Reinforced Maganac
December
- “March to Melbourne” begins – ESA forces attack and capture Scylla and Charybdis bases in preparation to move on Australia
- Guild counterattack is thwarted
- ESA attacks and captures Helios, declares “the noose has been tightened” around Guild
UC 220
January
- Rare lunar orbit allows GENESIS line-of-fire to Cloud 9 – the attack is foiled by Deus Irae, but only barely
- Mogadishu begins random bombardment HRL-occupied territory – HRL claims no losses while cannon nearly breaks down by end of month
February
- ESA attack on Australia begins in full force – former ZAFT bases Schramm and Ehlers are captured
- HRL attack on Fogo is unsuccessful
- Myrmidons tasked with stealing a ZAFT Neutron Stampeder
- ESA attacks and captures Gaia after pitched battle
- Guild leadership smuggled out of Australia by Deus Irae
- ESA officially announces Guild “has been buried”
March
- Mop-up operations against Guild forces in SE Asia begins
- SRA Newtype development program produces first stable treatments to enhance Newtype powers based off data gathered from DOME
- BKL begins production of the Assault Maganac
April
- HRL forces begin armed reconnaissance to the Mogadishu base
- An early winter storm swamps Antarctica – HRL abandons the Caird base, while Barclay’s underground is unharmed
- ESA begins large-scale reconstruction efforts in North America and South Africa while talks begin about going to war with the HRL
May
- Myrmidons stage a daring theft of a Neutron Stampeder from PLANT – ZAFT forces give pursuit but are unable to recover the device
- Iris Corporation begins experiments on a new propulsion system, HRL observers are initially unimpressed
- HRL attacks Fogo with the stolen Neutron Stampeder – the device fails to function and the attack is repulsed
- Last Battalion stages a hit-and-run attack on Suez while the main force is away, hindering HRL operations in North Africa for several months
June
- SRA’s “Evolved Newtypes” join the NTC officially and are devastatingly effective in battle vs. ZAFT forces outside L1
July
- ESA discovers the Guild’s holdout at Barclay, states no quarter will be given to the remaining Guild members
- HRL begins wide-scale resource extraction operations in North Africa
- Massive ESA force attacks Barclay, Guild deploys the newest Aquarius retrovirus which is miraculously effective
- Aquarius retrovirus infects the entire Skyline Network, causing every ESA mobile doll on Earth to begin randomly shooting anything that moves
- ESA military is thrown into chaos globally – damage will not be fully calculated for over a month
August
- Guild begins organizing anti-ESA partisans for a worldwide counterattack
- All ESA berserked mobile dolls are shut down after numerous previous attempts fail – ESA begins emergency overhaul of armed forces
- Small numbers of renegades begin studying Artemis as a potential hideout
- HRL shifts plans away from remaining AF bases in Africa towards taking advantage of the weakened ESA military
September
- SRA begins secret development of a large-area “psyco-weapon” using data from Evolved Newtype research
- “Bloody September” purge of AF moderates by hardliners – surrender or negotiation now considered treason
October
- “New Guild” begins operations to retake Australia
- Guild attacks Schramm and captures the base
- Guild attacks Ehlers in greater force – the attack is successful
- ESA relief force from Cape Town attacked by Myrmidons
November
- Guild retakes Gaia and Helios days apart
- ESA garrison at Scylla and Charybdis surrender to Guild forces before shots are fired
- HRL sneak attack of GN forces attacks and captures Ceto
- Guild attacks Cape Town and captures the base again
- ESA counterattack from Durban is foiled
December
- HRL reverses official stance on Guild, invites leaders to Beijing to normalize relations
- Guild attacks and captures Durban, Madagascar garrison abandons base despite direct orders to hold
- Last Battalion attacks and recaptures Lake Victoria
- HRL constructs forward attack base on Zanzibar
- Guild leaders meet with HRL leadership in Beijing – the meeting is a trap and HRL launches massive ambush on Guild, but the assassination attempt fails
- Guild announces “World Without Borders” is still in effect, claims ESA and HRL will be defeated within one year
UC 221
January
- Guild attacks and captures Sri Lanka
- Secret talks begin between HRL and ESA about “Guild issue”
- Guild attacks Lake Victoria, Suez and Zanzibar simultaneously – Lake Victoria holds while the HRL bases are captured
- AF’s hardline faction ‘Balkanizes’ – Mogadishu, Rio de Janiero and Bogota all claim Brasilia has betrayed AF ideals while believing theirs are the most correct
February
- HRL and ESA covertly begin “Jinx Plan”, first talks of forming unitary government
- Guild attack on Gibraltar succeeds, but ESA defends Orbetello
- Myrmidons spoil Guild sneak attack on Murmansk
- Fogo ordered to nuke Mogadishu, but the order is not carried out – Last Battalion is instructed to destroy all “insurrection” within AF positions
March
- SRA’s initial field test of yet-unnamed “psyco-weapon” – all non-Newtypes within 15km radius go into vegetative state
- SRA tightly covers up the test while development of the weapon continues in L5 shoal zone
- Guild captures Orbetello and Insalah – the organization now claims to represent the interests of the majority of humanity
- AF headquarters declares all other regional commands to be traitors
April
- Guild attack on Bern is successful, a decisive political victory
- Last Battalion recalled to Brasilia as “traitor” AF armies attack – the group deserts in the middle of the battle, and the AF supreme command is obliterated
- Myrmidons arrive at JOSH-A with untested GN-X mobile suits
May
- The HRL and ESA begin full production of the GN-X
- Information about HRL and ESA leaders meeting at neutral Azores is leaked to Guild as part of Jinx Plan
- The meeting is a trap – Guild forces are ambushed by GN-Xs operated by both HRL and ESA pilots, and most Guild leaders do not escape
- ESA and HRL forces attack and capture Bern, declaring the formation of an “Earth Union” to combat the Guild
- ESA moves to attack Guild forces in Europe and Africa, while HRL prepares for operations in Australia and Antarctica
June
- ESA’s mobile doll factories/tooling at JOSH-A destroyed, mass-production of GN-Xs begin in their place
- HRL and ESA formalize plan to standardize GN-X in both services
- Remaining Guild forces shore up defenses while preparing to “go cellular” if situation deteriorates further
- HRL attacks and captures Helios
July
- AF functionally ceases to exist as a governing body, commands in S. America go to war with each other outright
- HRL attack on Caird is successful
- ESA captures Orbetello while probing attack on Gibraltar is repulsed
August
- “Above baseline” behavioral fluctuations begin being reported by SRA’s Evolved Newtypes, but symptoms are believed to be within acceptable parameters
- ZAFT and SRA fleets clash around L2 – White Wraith/Mustache Man appears and interferes with the battle before being driven off by Deus Irae members
September
- Iris Corporation hires ex-VH pilots for consultation work and prototyping of new weapons while development of experimental propulsion system continues
- HRL attacks Barclay – large number of Guild forces escape into orbit from the base’s spaceport, ESA and HRL begin forming a pursuit force
- Last Battalion re-appears at Fogo and assumes command of the base
- ESA/HRL pursuit fleet begins pursuing Guild space forces
October
- Myrmidons lead ESA forces in capturing Insalah and Gibraltar
- HRL attacks and captures Scylla and Charybdis
- Guild begins ‘planned fragmentation’ and repositioning towards asymmetrical, irregular warfare – space forces split into three groups, forcing ESA/HRL pursuit fleet to do the same
- Guild forces flee towards Artemis and hole up, HRL attempts to dislodge them and fails
- HRL pursuit forces spread large amount of GN particles around exterior of Artemis and depart
November
- ESA squadron forces confrontation with Guild in open space near Mausoleum, some Guild units flee into ‘danger zone’ and ESA pursuit is called off
- SRA begins second field test of the “psyco-weapon” in L5 shoal zone – some Guild that escaped from Barclay and ESA pursuers accidentally enter testing ground and are killed by the weapon’s discharge
- SRA measures the weapon’s effective range is now 60km – project is taken over by Military Intelligence and development continues in utmost secrecy, the psyco-weapon finally receives the designation XMA-01N Geminus
- ESA captures Sri Lanka – ESA/HRL jointly announce Eurasia now free of Guild influence
December
- SRA decoy fleet destroyed in open space by GENESIS – embarked Evolved Newtypes predict the attack and escape destruction, SRA begins formulating final plan for attack on PLANT utilizing both NTC and Talos colony laser
- Mogadishu blind-fires on Zanzibar, HRL abandons the base after deducing a shot will eventually strike its mark
- The ESA/HRL begins deployment of the GN-X Cannon
- Changing of leadership operations begin, Earth Union terminology officially begins being used in ESA and HRL territory
UC 222
January
- SRA and ZAFT fleets meet in Earth orbit, not expecting each other – a fierce battle ensues, and the White Wraith/Mustache Man makes yet another appearance during the battle
- Several rogue units in orbit are drawn into the battle, the White Wraith is apparently defeated by a black GN-powered mobile suit
- First Iris Corporation expedition to the Mausoleum
March
- The Guild, pushed to the breaking point, and with only intermittent contact from it’s command group, begins to fracture along national and ideological lines; a few remaining hardliners continue to fight on, but many forces simply go to ground and become local warlords, soldiers for hire, or join former Atlantic Federation militaries in Africa
June
- The EU begins production of the Advanced GN-X
July
- Remnants of the Guild command group attempt to make contact with the largest remaining faction of the AF in South America
- EU forces ambush the Guild units outside Rio, most of the command group is killed or captured
- The EU declares total victory over the Guild
August
- SRA and ZAFT forces begin surface battles over control of the lunar communities – the battles continue for several months, with gains and losses reshaping the lines every day
- The SRA OMI performs a final field test of Geminus, results demonstrate lethal emission power out to over 500km
September
- SRA’s main command force begins secretly moving Talos to L5 in order to achieve a firing solution on PLANT, the colony laser is disguised as a wrecked colony to avoid suspicion
- ZAFT scouting force discovers the colony laser, an emergency strike unit is launched to approach from the opposite side of Earth
- Brass Sea Battle – the ZAFT strike unit attacks the SRA force from behind and is entirely wiped out, but the colony laser is wrecked beyond repair, and most of the SRA’s command staff are killed
October
- SRA’s OMI takes over command of the military – Evolved Newtypes are now in essentially all authority positions in the SRA
- Geminus is deployed in secret and “sterilizes” the ZAFT asteroid fortress Boaz before a single shot is fired, ZAFT refers to the incident as the Halloween Horror and now views the Space War as a struggle for genetic survival
November
- ZAFT forces that attempt to pursue Geminus are all wiped out by another psyco-emission, prompting ZAFT forces at PLANT to go on high alert to keep a lookout for the weapon
- OMI orders all military assets not completely essential for the defense of Cloud 9 mobilized for a final attack on PLANT
- ZAFT heavily reinforces Jachin Due and GENESIS, bringing both into a defensive position at PLANT’s perimeter
December
- SRA commits its entire force to assaulting PLANT, allowing a decoy fleet to be destroyed by GENESIS while the main force attacks from multiple sides
- Geminus annihilates the defenders at Jachin Due, allowing Evolved Newtype commandos to seize control of the station and use its mass to block GENESIS’ firing arc – during the battle, Evolved Newtype pilots begin to go insane, their treatments finally breaking down their mental functions
- ZAFT blasts a hole through Jachin Due with GENESIS in a desperation attack, allowing its next shot to be targeted at the SRA force
- A desperate last-mintue action by Deus Irae’s last squad sabotages the primary ignition system, causing the station to misfire and destroy much of the weapon’s internals
- Geminus prepares to unleash a full-power emission to obliterate PLANT’s inhabitants, but the weapon’s operators succumb to insanity at the same time as a huge release of GN particles from an unknown mobile suit are detected
- The mysterious black mobile suit is identified as the Masurao, it quantanizes out during the battle and does not reappear
- Geminus is last seen hurtling off into deep space, while the SRA’s remaining forces, all Evolved Newtypes, including the OMI staff, are found dead in their cockpits of brain aneurysms
UC 224
January
- The Iris Corporation begins production of the AM-004A Lion
- Leaderless, the remaining forces of the SRA are demobilized at Cloud 9 – no Evolved Newtypes have survived, perhaps for the better
- PLANT’s Supreme Council extends a ceasefire offer to the Cloud government, which accepts, officially ending the Space War
- Battle Group Typhon refuses to acknowledge the end of the war, a substantial number of disaffected pilots and soldiers desert for parts unknown
- Cloud Republic and PLANT both renounce Newtype/Coordinator supremacy ideologies
March
- ZAFT is officially disbanded by PLANT, which begins working on cleanup operations after the “Christmas Massacre”
July
- The EU begins deployment of the GN-X Sword
UC 225
June
- The Iris Corporation begins production of the AM-004S Sealion
October
- The Iris Corporation rolls out the AM-004L Landlion
UC 227
March
- The firm Dahlgren Waffen und Munitionsfabriken is incorporated in Germany after a number of privately funded expeditions to various old battlefields return
UC 228
January
- The EU officially “retires” its Aheads, however, some still remain in service for special purposes
- An official proclamation is announced that the EU is now an “All-GN” military, and talks of “GN Economies” begin to arise
July
- DWM begins production of the Gespenst
- Second Iris Corporation expedition to the Mausoleum
August
- Iris Corporation is shut down by the EU pending criminal investigations as to the use of Iris AMs by terrorists and rogues
December
- DWM begins producing the Schutzwald
UC 229
January
- The Tesla Leicht Institute, consisting primarily of ex-Iris Corporation employees, opens it’s doors, basing itself out of Argentina
February
- The Tesla Leicht Institute begins offering the AM-004C Cosmolion on the open market
UC 230
February
- The Tesla Leicht Institute rolls out the heavy AM-005 Barrelion
UC 231
November
- The Tesla Leicht Institute rolls out the AM-006 Guarlion
UC 234
January
- The EU rolls out the GN Cannon
UC 235
May
- In a mysterious incident, a DWM research and development facility is completely destroyed, leaving an almost perfectly spherical crater behind
UC 237
February
- DWM begins to produce the Huckebein in limited quantities
UC 239
March
- DWM rolls out the Randgrith
UC 240
January
- Anti-EU partisan activity reaches “concerning” levels, thinktanks begin formulating a variety of recourse to address the problem
October
- The formation of the 431st Counterinsurgency Unit is announced by the EU; it’s stated purpose is to seek out and eliminate so-called ‘Rogue’ terrorists and troublemakers, with a special focus on dealing with those equipped with mobile suits
UC 241
January
- Future Imperfect: New Era begins