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War has ravaged the Astragius Galaxy for 100 years. Countless lives and planets have been lost. Now, as the war nears its end, Armored Trooper pilot Chirico Cuvie prepares for the final battle as he joins the elite and deadly Red Shoulder Battalion. The question is whether or not he can survive training that kills ordinary men...but as everyone is about to find out, Chirico is far from ordinary!
Eight years after the events of Macross F, a mysterious phenomenon known as the Var Syndrome is gradually consuming the galaxy. It's up to a new generation of highly capable Valkyrie pilots to deal with this universal menace. And if they didn't have enough on their plate already, the Aerial Knights Valkyrie fighter team from the Kingdom of Wind have come to challenge the Delta Squadron.
December, Universal Century 0079. Zeon intelligence has identified a prototype Federation Gundam under development in a Federation base in the Arctic. Elite Zeon MS commandos are dispatched to destroy the prototype, but before they can accomplish their mission the Gundam is launched into space. When the Gundam turns up in a Federation R&D base inside the neutral space colony Side 6, the Principality launches a covert operation to destroy the Gundam. The raid fails and Zeon will launch a nuclear strike against the colony unless the last remaining commando can eliminate the Gundam.
Beginning four years after the one year war, 0083 starts with the arrival of two new Gundam units to be used for gravity testing. Things take a turn for the worse when members of Zeon steal Unit 2 and the nuclear warhead it that it has been armed with. Young test pilot-in-training Kou Uraki, piloting Gundam Unit 1, must now capture the stolen Gundam before it can be used to fulfill Zeon's mysterious "Operation Stardust".
After a generation of warfare, the Gundam boys finally secured a peace between Earth and the colonies by helping to defeat the Oz and White Fang armies. Now, out of the rubble, the surviving soldiers are re-emerging and clustering together into new factions. Heero Yuy has become a vigilante pacifist, tracking down weapons stashes and destroying them, while Relena, former Queen of the Earth Sphere, tries to maintain the peace politically. But an unmanned weapons factory has been discovered somewhere near Mars, and now the boys are going to have to dust off their mechs for one more battle to save the tenuous peace.
U.C. 0105: Within Zum City a One Year War memorial exhibition is about to be opened, and a very special guest is invited to talk about his experiences during the first Space war of the Universal Century - his name: Kai Shiden. Kai is both pleased and honored to be present and recalls his past on board of the White Base.
Universal Century, October 0079. Kurt Blatt volunteered for the Principality of Zeon forces and with the sergeant Alexei were assigned to the engineering battalion. They believed that Zeon would win but have just been through the Battle Of Odessa.
Renton Thurston is a young boy who helps out around his grandfather's mechanic shop; but despite leading a relatively boring life, Renton dreams of traveling the world. However, Renton's life as an average teen comes to a screeching halt when a humanoid mecha called an "LFO" falls down from the sky, only to land right in front of his eyes. From inside the damaged giant, a mysterious girl named Eureka emerges seeking repairs. Renton soon learns that Eureka is a part of the infamous Gekko State, a group of travelers who rebel against the government. He joins them on their travels, but what strange truths about Eureka await him?