Zeta Gundam

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Zeta Gundam (aired 1985–1986) was a televised anime, one of Gundam series and a sequel to the original Mobile Suit Gundam. It takes place in UC 0086, six years after the end of the One-Year War. After the events of Gundam 0083, the Federation military established an elite division called the Titans to hunt down the remaining pockets of Zeon resistance, but the Titans used brutal methods to reach their goals. Two resistance groups, the AEUG (Anti-Earth Union Group) and their earthbound counterparts, the Karraba (led by Mobile Suit Gundam's Hayato Kobayashi, were formed. The series begins when a thinly-disguised Char Aznable, now a member of AEUG under the alias "Quattro Bagina", raids a Titan military base in the occupied colony Green Noah in Side 7 to acquire intelligence on the Federation's new Mobile Suit prototype, the black Gundam Mark-II. Kamille Bidan, a lunatic Newtype dissident, is caught up in the raid and helps AEUG steal the Mark-II.

The show was written and directed by Tomino Yoshiyuki, with character designs by Yasuhiko Yoshikazu, while the series' mechanical designs were split amongst Okawara Kunio, Nagano Mamoru, and Fujita Kazumi. It is well known that Tomino was suffering from clinical depression while producing Zeta Gundam, and the series reflects its creator's dark mood - many characters both good and evil die throughout the series, in what is arguably the bloodiest Gundam series.

In celebration of Gundam's 25th anniversary (and also the 20th anniversary of Zeta Gundam), this series will be compiled into a new movie trilogy in 2005.

Titans

In the fictional Gundam universe, the Titans were an elite counter-insurgency group formed by the federation council in the wake of Operation: Stardust. The group was tasked with the job of hunting down any remaining Zeon sympathizers within the earth sphere; however this objective eventually expanded to include all persons who opposed the Federation.

The Titans were founded by Jamiov Hyman, who argued that the safety of the Federation displaced the civil rights of the citizens living under the Federation. In creating the Titans, he essentially created a special forces unit that had the ability to act outside the limit of Federation's supervision. As timed passed more and more people lined up to join the Titans, inspired by the group's success in repelling Anti-Federation movements.

Eventually, the Titans got overzealous in their pursuit of dissidents, and began resorting to Zeon-like tactics to force people to do their will. The Titans were called in to supress the citizens on Side 1's 30 bunch, who had originally gathered to protest Titans actions but ended up rioting. In an extremely cruel move, the Titans shut down air circulation to the colony and pumped it full of piosonous gas, killing millions. When the Federation Council refused to charge the Titans with any wrong doing, dissident citizens and soldiers both on earth and in space formed the Kabala and AEUG resistant movements, respectively.

Anti Earth Union Group/AEUG

In the fictional Gundam universe, the Anti Earth Union Group, or AEUG for short, is a resistance movement formed to fight the Titans in space. The AEUG was formed after the "30 Bunch Incedent" on Side 1's 30 Bunch.

With the successful conclusion of the Delaz Fleet's Operation Stardust, the Federation decided to form an elite unit of the Space Force whose sole purpose would be to hunt down renegade citizens who either supported the Zeon and their cause or spoke out against the Federation government - the Titans. As time went by this force became more and more powerful, and the citizens of the Federation grew to resent it. On 31 July UC0085, a massive protest was held in Side 1's 30 Bunch (the 30th Colony in Side 1's territory) to protest Titan's actions, but the protest soon turned into chaos, with riots breaking out throughout the Colony. After repeated attempts by the Federation's force to calm the riots failed, the Titans were called to end it. In an extremely cruel move, the Titans shut off the colony's air supply and pumped the whole cylinder (about 20 miles long and 4 miles wide) with nerve gas, killing everyone.

When word got out about the incedent, several thousand citizens joined togather with dissendant federation officers and men to form the extra-terrestrial Anti Earth Union Group, which became the largest armed organization to challenge the Titans power. Assisted by a similar movement on earth, and guided by hundreds of defecting or defected men and ships, the AEUG started their resistance by raiding a Titan's military facility and stealing gundam prototypes. This act enraged the Titans, and a full scale civil war for control of the Space Colonies erupted between the Titans and the AEUG.

The AEUG utilized several machines during the war, among them the Gundam Mark II, the Salamis class cruiser, the Irish class battleship, and the Argarma. During the next year of fighting, the AEUG managed to seize the upper hand and ultimately used one of the Titans' superweapons against them, destroying or disabling nearly every ship in the Titan's fleet.

Kalaba

This was the earth resistant movement against the Titans. Although they are not as well known as their AEUG counterparts, they were none-the-less extremely important in the fight against the Titans. Two of their most important members are: ace pilot Amuro Ray, and his partner Hayato Kobayashi; both fought alongside as members of the White Base crew during the One-Year War.

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