"Year 70 of the Cosmic Era. Due to the '
escalated into armed conflict. Noone doubted that the numerically superior
would be victorious, but these early predictions proved to be
mistaken. The war became a stalemate, which has lasted for eleven
months..."
Mobile Suit Gundam Seed, the latest chapter in the Gundam saga, is set
in a future world - unrelated to that of previous Gundam series - in
which the years are reckoned by the
calendar. Like other Gundam stories, Gundam Seed chronicles a
conflict between the people of Earth and the inhabitants of orbital
,
but here the root of the conflict is biological rather than
political. This war is a struggle for supremacy between
genetically-enhanced "
"
of Earth, and the hero of the story is a young Coordinator who is
forced to fight against his own kind in order to protect the lives of
his friends and loved ones.
The story begins in year 71 of the Cosmic Era, eleven months into the conflict between
. One of the Alliance's member nations has secretly developed its own
. But, just as the five experimental
are on the point of completion, a ZAFT commando team enters Heliopolis to seize the Alliance's new weapons.
Heliopolis is home to many people who seek to avoid the ongoing war, among them a young
.
Fleeing for shelter as ZAFT's forces attack the colony, Kira
instead stumbles upon the secret factory where the Alliance's Gundams
were developed. Here he confronts one of the attackers, who turns out
to be his childhood friend
. As explosions consume the factory, Kira and a wounded Alliance officer take refuge inside the prototype
at the controls, emerges from the chaos of the burning factory and squares off against a
.
takes over the Gundam, rewriting its operating system in mid-battle
in order to take down the enemy suit. He and a handful of his friends
are then forcibly recruited by Murrue, who refuses to let them go now
that they've seen the Alliance's secret weapons.
. And elsewhere in
gathers the few crewmembers who survived the ZAFT attack and takes charge of the carrier
. Just as Le Creuset disables Mu's
and turns his attentions to the Gundam, the Archangel blasts its way out of drydock and enters the colony's interior.
survivors gather to plan their next move. Though the soldiers are disturbed to learn that
,
the modifications he's made to the Strike Gundam's software mean
that nobody else can operate it. Kira and friends, for their part, are
locked out of the colony's shelters and now have no choice but to try
and escape
aboard the Archangel.
Determined to capture or destroy the last of the Alliance's Gundams, Le Creuset dispatches a team of heavily-armed
into the colony.
,
hoping to convince his friend Kira to join his cause. But in the
battle that follows, Heliopolis itself sustains so much structural
damage that it breaks apart around them.
rescues one of the colony's lifeboats, whose passengers include his former schoolmate
. The
asteroid base. Cutting the ship's engines to avoid detection, the Archangel's crew begin their silent run.
along the Archangel's probable route so as to trap his quarry between them. As the
once again, while his friends show their support by volunteering for bridge crew duty. Le Creuset dispatches
cuts in. Yzak and Kira begin dueling in earnest, while
. Meanwhile
, and Le Creuset is forced to order a withdrawal.
.
Soon Kira has used up the Strike Gundam's energy battery, and the
ZAFT pilots attempt to seize the powerless Gundam as a trophy. With
timely assistance from Mu and a replacement Striker Pack, Kira is able
to break free and return to the Archangel, and the battered ship limps
to safety behind the impenetrable "
but, upon their arrival, the crew are detained at gunpoint. Though Artemis is an
base, it's controlled by a different member nation than the one that developed the
, and its soldiers are eager to seize the Archangel and its cargo for themselves.
. The team's junior member,
to launch a surprise attack on the base. In the ensuing chaos, the Archangel's crew escape captivity and flee Artemis.
. They arrive during the anniversary of the "
with nuclear weapons. Athrun's fiancé, the pop star
as part of the memorial delegation.
in order to salvage some desperately needed supplies. Here the crew
discover the remains of the PLANT which was destroyed in the "Bloody
Valentine" tragedy, as well as a recently wrecked
.
. The crew are unnerved by the presence of a real live
especially vehement reaction verges on open hatred. The tension
aboard the ship is relieved when they at last contact an advance force
from the
and arrange a rendezvous.
are dispatched to search for her. When they reach the
minister, whose father insisted on accompanying the fleet to greet
her. However, their impending reunion is disrupted as
to intercept the advance force.
mobile suits hold them at bay. Aboard the Archangel, Flay comes up
with a desperate scheme to save her father by holding
hostage. While the Archangel crew try to calm her down, Le Creuset's
finishes off the advance fleet flagship, and with it Flay's beloved father.
, the Archangel's combat commander, carries out Flay's plan and forces the Vesalius to withdraw.
forces, but they're troubled by their own craven tactics.
for failing to save him.
,
Kira decides to make amends by helping her escape from the
Archangel. With the aid of his friends, Kira arranges to hand Lacus over
to her fiancé. The
idol is returned to her people, but Kira again rejects Athrun's
pleas to change sides, and the two old friends part ways as sworn
enemies.
decides to let him off with a stern warning. Meanwhile, taking no chances after the loss of the advance force, the
is coming in its entirety to escort the Archangel.
and his fellow Gundam pilots launch a surprise attack on the Archangel just before it joins the 8th Fleet. Kira and
struggle to defend the Archangel, and the stress of battle triggers
a strange reaction in Kira; with the vision of a bursting seed, he
enters a berserker state and cripples Yzak's
. The
. Halberton and his fleet will now escort the Archangel down to Earth, so that it can complete its journey to the
.
and his friends, the struggle appears to be over; they can now leave the military and return to Earth with the other
refugees. But
,
intent on avenging her father, decides to enlist in the Alliance
forces. One by one, Kira's friends tear up their discharge orders and
follow suit, and at the last minute Kira decides to remain aboard the
Archangel in order to continue protecting them.
to attack the fleet. The assault is spearheaded by
. But
safely to Earth, is keeping the ship and its pilots out of the fray.
While the Archangel crew watch from the sidelines, ZAFT's Gundams proceed to wipe out the entire 8th Fleet. At last
,
but Kira is instead drawn into a fierce duel with Yzak. As the
Archangel and the battling Gundams enter the atmosphere, Yzak releases
his frustrations by shooting down a troublesome distraction - a shuttle
filled with
reflects upon the events that led up to this point. We see how, after the "
was split between moderate and radical factions. Now the appearance of the
has given new support to the radicals, and the war is likely to escalate as a result.
. This genetically-
engineered
genius sought to usher in a new era of space exploration, but by
revealing the secrets of his creation, Glenn instead split the human
race into two branches - genetically-
engineered
Coordinators and unmodified
Naturals, each regarding the other with fear and distrust.
PHASE-15: THE RESPECTIVE SOLITUDES
(Broadcast: July 24, 2004)
The
Archangel has safely reached Earth thanks to the
8th Fleet's sacrifice. However, the ship went far off course during its chaotic entry into the atmosphere, and instead of
Alaska it's landed in the deserts of
ZAFT-controlled
North Africa. Meanwhile,
Yzak and his fellow
Gundams pilot
Dearka Elsman have descended to ZAFT's
Gibraltar base.
Kira, laid up in sickbay after the ordeal of re-entry, is being tended by - of all people - the
Coordinator-
hating
Flay. Though Flay is engaged to Kira's good friend
Sai Argyle,
she maintains that the arrangements made by their parents are now
null and void. Kira, agonized by his failure to protect the refugees,
collapses into Flay's waiting arms.
PHASE-16: BURNING CLOUDS OF SAND
(Broadcast: July 31, 2004)
During the night, the
Archangel encounters a new threat - the forces of
Andy Waltfeld,
ZAFT legendary "
Desert Tiger."
Kira rushes into battle to protect his comrades... to the delight of
Flay, whose intention is to use Kira as a tool to avenge her father.
Kira struggles to adapt to the desert conditions, even after he once
again enters his berserker state, but the watching Andy is impressed by
the skill of the
Strike Gundam's pilot. With his Gundam's energy dangerously low, Kira receives some timely help from
a band of resistance fighters, who lure the ZAFT
mobile suits into an explosive trap. And among these resistance fighters is a
mysterious young woman whom Kira helped escape from
Heliopolis.
PHASE-17: CAGALLI RETURNS
(Broadcast: August 7, 2004)
As dawn breaks, the
Archangel crew confer with the
resistance fighters, who rescued them from
Andy Waltfeld's attack. In order to resume its journey to
Alaska,
the Archangel must make its way past Waltfeld's forces, and so the
crew decide to join forces with the resistance fighters against their
common foe. Meanwhile,
Kira renews his acquaintance with the young woman he met at
Heliopolis, who gives her name as
Cagalli Yula.
While the Archangel crew prepare for the coming battle,
Sai presses
Flay to explain her recent behavior. Flay goes running to Kira, who physically overpowers Sai with his
Coordinator
abilities. The argument is interrupted as Andy Waltfeld's forces
launch a retaliatory attack on the resistance fighters'
home village.
PHASE-18: PAYBACK
(Broadcast: August 14, 2004)
Andy Waltfeld's forces launch a full-scale assault on the
resistance fighters' home village of
Tassil. After warning the village's inhabitants to evacuate, the
ZAFT mobile suits
proceed to burn Tassil to the ground. The resistance fighters
arrive to find their home in flames, and their families huddled on its
outskirts.
Though Waltfeld has spared the lives of Tassil's inhabitants, the
resistance fighters vow to avenge this attack, and recklessly set off
in pursuit of the departing ZAFT forces.
Kira goes to the rebels' aid, and finds himself engaged in mobile suit combat with the dreaded Waltfeld himself.
PHASE-19: FANGS OF THE ENEMY
(Broadcast: August 21, 2004)
The
Archangel crew and their
resistance allies make a foray into
Andy Waltfeld's stronghold, the
ZAFT-controlled city of
Banadiya, in order to obtain weapons and supplies.
Kira and
Cagalli take the opportunity to do some shopping, only to run into Waltfeld himself.
After escaping an attack by the anti-
Coordinator group known as
Blue Cosmos, Kira and Cagalli find themselves Waltfeld's unwilling guests. Though the dreaded "
Desert Tiger" has figured out that Kira is the
Strike Gundam's pilot, he lets them go to fight another day. Meanwhile, the distraught
Sai tries to demonstrate that he too can pilot the Gundam, but proves unable even to move it from the Archangel's hangar.
PHASE-20: ON A CALM DAY
(Broadcast: August 28, 2004)
Back in the
PLANTs,
Kira's old friend
Athrun pays a visit to his fiancé
Lacus Clyne
The two discuss their mutual acquaintance Kira, and Athrun is both
touched and disturbed to learn that his friend still cherishes the
Birdy robot that Athrun gave him as a keepsake.
While Athrun and Lacus talk, their parents attend a meeting of the
PLANT Supreme Council, in which they debate
ZAFT's upcoming terrestrial offensive, codenamed
Operation Spit Break. And back on Earth, the
Archangel crew and the
resistance fighters prepare for an all-out confrontation with
Andy Waltfeld's forces.
PHASE-21: BEYOND THE CLOUDS OF SAND
(Broadcast: September 4, 2004)
The
Archangel resumes its journey, putting it on a collision course with
Andy Waltfeld and his fleet of land warships.
Yzak and
Dearka arrive from the
Gibraltar base to join forces with Waltfeld, and as battle is joined, Waltfeld and his partner
Aisha enter the fray themselves in a
two-seater mobile suit.
As the fighting continues,
Cagalli takes the controls of one of the Archangel's
fighter craft to aid
Mu, while
Kira battles Waltfeld himself. Waltfeld's forces are gradually wiped out, and he orders the remainder to retreat, but the "
Desert Tiger" intends to stay behind to finish his duel with Kira...
PHASE-22: THE SEA DYED RED
(Broadcast: September 11, 2004)
Having defeated
Andy Waltfeld, the
Archangel crew bid farewell to the
resistance fighters and set off across the Red Sea to begin an ocean voyage to
Alaska.
Cagalli and her bodyguard
Kisaka remain aboard the Archangel, and her growing friendship with
Kira begins to inspire
Flay's jealousy.
The Archangel's journey is interrupted by a new threat, a
ZAFT submarine force commanded by
Marco Morassim
which attacks the ship with aerial and underwater mobile
suits. Even as Kira wages an undersea battle against Morassim's
mobile suits,
Athrun and
Nicol are on their way back to Earth, as ZAFT gathers its forces for the upcoming
Operation Spit Break.
PHASE-23: FATEFUL ENCOUNTER
(Broadcast: September 18, 2004)
Athrun and
Nicol arrive on Earth, and
ZAFT's Gundam team is at last reunited. The four
Gundams and their pilots are loaded onto transport planes for transfer to the
Carpentaria base in Australia.
Meanwhile,
Marco Morassim's submarine force continues to pursue the
Archangel across the Indian Ocean. During the battle
Cagalli's fighter
becomes separated from the ship, and by sheer accident she ends
up intercepting Athrun's straggling transport plane. Both aircraft end
up crash-landing and, by sheer chance, Athrun and Cagalli now find
themselves stranded on the same deserted island.
PHASE-24: WAR FOR TWO
(Broadcast: October 2, 2004)
After their midair skirmish,
Athrun and
Cagalli find themselves stranded together on the same uninhabited island. Thanks to his
Coordinator
abilities, Athrun is easily able to overpower Cagalli and take her
prisoner. While they wait to be found and rescued, the two young
warriors have little to do but talk, and they begin getting to know each
other better.
Eventually, search parties from
ZAFT and the
Archangel
are able to locate the stranded pair, and Athrun and Cagalli return
to their respective sides. But while the two former enemies don't
necessarily part as friends, they've nonetheless come to a degree of
mutual understanding.
PHASE-25: THE LAND OF PEACE
(Broadcast: October 9, 2004)
In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the
Archangel is attacked by all four of
ZAFT's Gundams,
and the ship sustains severe damage from their ongoing assault.
During the battle, the ship enters the territorial waters of the neutral
Orb Union, and an Orb naval fleet sets out to intercept the intruders.
With the Archangel in a state of dire emergency,
Cagalli
at last reveals her true identity as the daughter of one of Orb's
leaders. Thanks to her help, the ship is able to establish contact with
the Orb forces, who drive off the enemy Gundams and escort the battered
Archangel to a safe harbor.
PHASE-26: MOMENT
(Broadcast: October 16, 2004)
This episode is purely a recap of the story thus far.
PHASE-27: ENDLESS RONDO
(Broadcast: October 23, 2004)
The damaged
Archangel has at last found safe haven at one of the islands which make up the
Orb Union. While the ship undergoes repair at
Onogoro Island,
Kira is called upon to assist the engineers of
Morgenroete, Inc. - the civilian company which manufactured the
Alliance's Gundams at
Heliopolis, and is now developing new
mobile suits for Orb.
One of Morgenroete's engineers analyzes the
Strike Gundam's combat data, reviewing Kira's previous adventures. Meanwhile,
Athrun,
Yzak,
Dearka, and
Nicol have come ashore at Onogoro Island to search for the Archangel.
PHASE-28: KIRA
(Broadcast: October 30, 2004)
Kira's friends are joyfully reunited with their parents, who all made it safely back to the
Orb homeland following the destruction of
Heliopolis.
Flay, who has no parents to welcome her, wanders the
Archangel
and finds that Kira has also chosen to remain aboard the ship
rather than meeting with his family. Taking Kira's friendliness for
pity, she erupts with fury.
Nearby,
Athrun and his companions are searching for evidence of the Archangel's presence. Kira's robot pet
Birdy flies out of the
Morgenroete
facility to greet its creator Athrun, followed by Kira himself.
Athrun returns the robot, and then the estranged friends once again part
ways.
PHASE-29: THE TURNING POINT
(Broadcast: November 6, 2004)
With its repairs and resupply complete, the
Archangel departs
Onogoro Island and resumes its voyage to
Alaska.
Cagalli's father refuses to allow her to go with the ship, and she is forced to stay behind in the
Orb homeland.
Now that the Archangel is once again at sea, the
ZAFT Gundam pilots resume their pursuit.
Kira and
Mu struggle to protect the ship, with Kira's friend
Tolle Koenig taking
Cagalli's place as a fighter pilot. During this fierce battle,
Nicol intervenes to protect his friend
Athrun from Kira's attack, with tragic results.
PHASE-30: FLASHING BLADES
(Broadcast: November 13, 2004)
ZAFT's three remaining
Gundam pilots retreat, and the
Archangel's mechanics praise
Kira for destroying
Nicol's Blitz Gundam, but the young pilot is distressed by his own actions.
Athrun, meanwhile, resolves to take his old friend's life rather than watch any more of his comrades fall in battle.
The ZAFT Gundams launch another attack on the Archangel. Kira and
Athrun resume their dueling with even greater ferocity, and Kira's
friend
Tolle is slain when he attempts to intervene. Athrun grapples the
Strike Gundam and then bails out - leaving his damaged
Aegis Gundam to self-destruct, seemingly taking Kira with it. And meanwhile,
Dearka and his
Buster Gundam are captured by the Archangel.
PHASE-31: GRIEVING SKIES
(Broadcast: November 20, 2004)
Having lost contact with both the
Strike Gundam and
Tolle's fighter, the badly damaged
Archangel has no choice but to hurry onward to
Alaska. Since they are unable to search for their missing pilots,
Murrue contacts the
Orb Union and asks it to dispatch a search party. The crew continue their voyage with heavy hearts, especially
Tolle's girlfriend
Miriallia Haw.
Cagalli and the other Orb rescuers find the scattered remains of the Strike and
Aegis, and retrieve the unconscious
Athrun, but can find no trace of
Kira.
When Athrun awakes, Cagalli confronts him over his actions, and she
is horrified to learn that Athrun has done his best to slay his own
childhood friend.
PHASE-32: IN THE PROMISED LAND
(Broadcast: November 27, 2004)
The battered
Archangel at last reaches the
Alaska base, the
Alliance's
main headquarters. The Archangel crew, ordered to stand by aboard
their ship, become increasingly anxious as they're left to wait for
further instructions. The grieving
Miriallia tries to attack the captive
Dearka, but ultimately saves him from
Flay's own assassination attempt.
The injured
Kira awakens and finds himself in the
PLANTs, under the care of
Lacus Clyne. Meanwhile,
Yzak and
Athrun have returned to
ZAFT's Carpentaria base.
Rau Le Creuset congratulates Athrun for his accomplishment in destroying the
Strike Gundam, then moves his forces into position for ZAFT's long-awaited grand offensive...
PHASE-33: GATHERING DARKNESS
(Broadcast: December 4, 2004)
After the attacks on
Dearka,
Natarle is harshly critical of Murrue's leadership, and
Murrue admits her shortcomings as a captain.
Miriallia pays a visit to Dearka's cell, where he confirms that he wasn't the one who shot down
Tolle's fighter.
Meanwhile, the
Archangel's senior officers are summoned to a hearing conducted by
Captain Sutherland of the
Alliance's general staff. Sutherland subjects Murrue to a relentless cross-examination, arguing that her decision to place the
Strike Gundam in the hands of a
Coordinator led to the destruction of
Heliopolis and the
8th Fleet.
PHASE-34: SEEN AND UNSEEN
(Broadcast: December 11, 2004)
As the
Alliance gathers its forces at
Panama in anticipation of a major
ZAFT attack, the
Archangel is reassigned to the
Alaska base's defensive garrison.
Natarle,
Mu, and
Flay receive transfer orders and bid farewell to their comrades aboard the Archangel.
The long-awaited
Operation Spit Break
begins, and the true target of the offensive is revealed: rather
than attacking Panama, ZAFT is striking directly at the Alliance
headquarters in Alaska.
Le Creuset enters the base ahead of the main force, confronting Mu and taking Flay prisoner. Back in the
PLANTs,
Lacus entrusts
Kira with
a powerful new weapon.
PHASE-35: THE DESCENDING SWORD
(Broadcast: December 18, 2004)
As the
Alaska defense forces fight desperately to hold back the
ZAFT assault,
Mu returns to the
Archangel to tell the crew that they're being used as bait for a deadly trap: the
Alaska base has been abandoned, and its lowest levels house a
Cyclops System, a massive microwave array that will destroy everything within ten kilometers of the base.
Suddenly, a new combatant enters the battlefield.
Kira descends to Earth in the mighty
Freedom Gundam he received from
Lacus, and quickly clears a path for the Archangel. While the ship races to escape the Cyclops System's area of effect, the
Alliance
leaders activate their trap. The Alaska base vanishes in an inferno
of destruction, consuming Alliance and ZAFT forces alike.
PHASE-36: IN THE NAME OF JUSTICE
(Broadcast: January 7, 2005)
News of the
Alaska catastrophe has thrown the
Coordinator homeland into turmoil.
Athrun's father
Patrick Zala, the radical new chairman of the
PLANT Supreme Council, launches a purge of his political opponents and orders the arrest of
Lacus and
her father for their treason against the state.
Athrun is summoned by his father and given a new mission. He is to return to Earth and track down the stolen
Freedom Gundam, which contains
ZAFT's most vital military secret - a
Neutron Jammer Canceler
that enables the use of nuclear power and nuclear weapons. Before
his departure, Athrun encounters his former fiancé Lacus, who reveals to
him that
Kira is still alive and challenges him to question his father's orders.
PHASE-37: DIVINE THUNDER
(Broadcast: January 14, 2005)
Once again, the battered
Archangel finds refuge in the
Orb Union.
Kira and
Cagalli are reunited, and Cagalli's father
Uzumi Nara Athha updates the Archangel crew on the current political situation. The events in
Alaska have spurred both sides to escalate their war efforts, and the
Alliance is pressuring Earth's remaining neutral nations to join its crusade against the
Coordinators.
Meanwhile,
ZAFT launches an assault on
Panama, the site of the Alliance's last remaining
mass driver. The Alliance deploys its own
mass-produced mobile suits to defend Panama, but the ZAFT forces disable the defending forces with an
electromagnetic pulse weapon and proceed to massacre the Alliance survivors.
PHASE-38: DECISIVE FIRE
(Broadcast: January 21, 2005)
With the fall of
Panama, the
Alliance has lost its last
mass driver, and thus its access to space. At a meeting of the Alliance leadership, the industrialist
Muruta Azrael - leader of the anti-
Coordinator group known as
Blue Cosmos - proposes that they obtain a replacement mass driver by forcing the
Orb Union to join the Alliance.
Uzumi rejects the Alliance's ultimatum, and Azrael launches his attack. The
Archangel fights in Orb's defense, with
Mu now piloting the rebuilt
Strike Gundam. Even
Dearka, released by
Miriallia on the eve of the battle, comes to the Archangel's aid with his
Buster Gundam.
But the defenders are hard pressed by Azrael's secret weapon - a
trio of powerful new Gundams and their artificially enhanced
pilots.
PHASE-39: ATHRUN
(Broadcast: January 28, 2005)
The battle for
Orb has been interrupted by the arrival of a new player.
Athrun, at the controls of
ZAFT's new
Justice Gundam, joins the defenders and helps them repulse the
Alliance assault. With their pilots in dire need of
medication, the enemy Gundams are forced to withdraw, and Orb is given a brief respite.
While the defenders prepare for the next wave of attacks, Athrun takes the opportunity to exchange a few words with
Kira and
Cagalli. However, the young soldier is still torn between his loyalty to his nation and his love for his friends.
PHASE-40: INTO THE DAWN SKIES
(Broadcast: February 4, 2005)
As the
Alliance launches another assault,
Athrun and
Dearka again join the battle in
Orb's defense, until the enemy
Gundams exhaust their energy supplies and withdraw. But
Uzumi knows that their cause is lost, and during this pause in the battle he gathers his forces for a last stand at
Orb's mass driver.
The final attack begins, and Uzumi carries out his desperate plan. Putting
Cagalli aboard the Orb warship
Kusanagi, he sends her into space along with the
Archangel - then blows up the mass driver and the
Morgenroete
factories, sacrificing himself in the process. While the Alliance
takes control of her homeland, Cagalli soars up into space, carrying
with her a mysterious parting gift from her father.
PHASE-41: TREMBLING WORLD
(Broadcast: February 11, 2005)
Having made it to space, the
Archangel and
Kusanagi now set off for the abandoned
space colonies of
Lagrange point 4, where they hope to scavenge supplies.
Athrun, having accompanied
Kira and friends into space, feels obligated to make a final visit to the
PLANTs before choosing a side. And
Cagalli shows Kira the photograph
her father gave her, which suggests a surprising connection between the two youngsters.
Meanwhile, the
Alliance has captured the
Victoria spaceport in Africa, regaining access to space. Already, Earth forces are gathering at their
lunar base, and a
former Archangel crewmember receives a
prestigious new assignment.
PHASE-42: LACUS STRIKES
(Broadcast: February 18, 2005)
In the
Coordinator homeland,
Lacus has gone underground and begun waging a propaganda campaign against
Patrick Zala's aggressive tactics. Zala is further aggravated when his son
Athrun returns. Rather than reporting the whereabouts of the stolen
Freedom Gundam, Athrun challenges his father to justify his conduct of the war, and is arrested at gunpoint for his pains.
Just as Athrun is being taken away for interrogation, he's rescued by
Lacus's followers. With the unexpected help of
one of Kira's old adversaries, Athrun and Lacus make a daring escape aboard the newly built
ZAFT warship
Eternal. Making its way to
Lagrange point 4, Lacus's ship joins forces with the
Archangel and
Kusanagi.
PHASE-43: WHAT STANDS IN THE WAY
(Broadcast: February 25, 2005)
The
Archangel and its companion ships have found a safe haven in the abandoned
space colony Mendel at
Lagrange point 4, but their enemies are closing in.
Rau Le Creuset is dispatched to pursue the
Eternal, while the
Alliance's new Archangel-class warship, the
Dominion, is assigned to capture the
Freedom and
Justice Gundams in order to extract their
Neutron Jammer Canceler technology.
Arriving at Mendel, the Dominion challenges the renegade Archangel.
Murrue and her crew are shocked to discover that the Dominion is commanded by their former comrade
Natarle Badgiruel, and personally supervised by
Blue Cosmos leader
Muruta Azrael. As the Dominion and the Alliance's dreaded Gundam trio begin their attack, Le Creuset and
Yzak Joule enter Mendel to search for the Eternal.
PHASE-44: SPIRAL OF ENCOUNTERS
(Broadcast: March 4, 2005)
The
Kusanagi, which became tangled in
drifting cables on its way out of the
Mendel colony, finally frees itself and joins the battle against the
Dominion. Now outnumbered, and with its trio of Gundams running low on energy, the Dominion makes a temporary retreat.
Sensing
Le Creuset's presence,
Mu enters Mendel with
Dearka in tow. Mu and Le Creuset fight a running duel inside the colony, until Mu's
Strike Gundam is finally shot down.
Kira then joins the battle and swiftly dismembers Le Creuset's
mobile suit. Le Creuset flees on foot into an
abandoned genetic engineering facility, goading Mu and Kira to follow him.
PHASE-45: THE OPENING DOOR
(Broadcast: March 11, 2005)
In an
abandoned genetic engineering lab inside the
Mendel colony,
Rau carries on a running gunfight with
Mu and
Kira,
all the while taunting them with revelations about Kira's origins
and the connection between Mu and Le Creuset. Elsewhere in the colony,
Yzak and
Dearka have a face-to-face reunion of their own.
Meanwhile, the
Dominion arrives to launch another assault. Le Creuset returns to his
own ship and orders the
ZAFT forces to attack as well. But just before the battle is joined, he contacts the Dominion with a surprising offer...
PHASE-46: A PLACE FOR THE SOUL
(Broadcast: March 18, 2005)
A fierce three-sided battle begins outside the
Mendel colony. While the
Archangel takes on the
Dominion, the
Eternal and
Kusanagi attempt to fight off
Le Creuset's ships. In the midst of this chaos, Le Creuset sets
Flay adrift in a lifepod, entrusting her with what he claims is the key that will end the war.
Though Flay calls out to the Archangel for rescue, in the end
Kira is unable to prevent her falling into the
Alliance's
hands. Meanwhile, the Archangel and its companion ships fight their
way past the enemy forces to safer territory. Flay, too, finds refuge
aboard the Dominion, where
Azrael is delighted to discover the nature of the so-called
key she has brought them.
PHASE-47: THE NIGHTMARE REBORN
(Broadcast: March 25, 2005)
Azrael presents his prize to the
Alliance leadership - the specifications for the
Neutron Jammer Canceler,
which enables the use of nuclear power and nuclear weapons. The
Alliance leaders want to use this technology to address Earth's ongoing
energy crisis, but Azrael insists that they devote all their resources
to a nuclear strike on the
Coordinator homeland.
Two months later, the Alliance has driven
ZAFT off the Earth and gathered a massive space fleet at its
lunar base. The Alliance launches its offensive with a
nuclear attack on the space fortress
Boaz, one of two asteroid bases that guard the
PLANTs. The Alliance fleet continues on to the Coordinator homeland, but the
Archangel and its companions intervene to stop its nuclear attack. Then
Patrick Zala unveils his own
ultimate weapon...
PHASE-48: DAY OF WRATH
(Broadcast: March 25, 2005)
At
Patrick Zala order, the devastating gamma-ray laser known as
GENESIS strikes the
Alliance space fleet, wiping out half its vessels. The Alliance fleet pulls back, but
Azrael, terrified that
ZAFT will use its new weapon against Earth, orders his forces to renew their attack.
While GENESIS prepares to fire a second blast, and the Alliance fleet launches another assault, the
Archangel,
Eternal, and
Kusanagi fight to prevent both sides from using their weapons of annihilation. And
Rau Le Creuset, at the controls of his
own new Gundam, enters the fray to ensure that the war builds to a crescendo of destruction.
PHASE-49: THE FINAL LIGHT
(Broadcast: April 8, 2005)
GENESIS fires again, this time annihilating the
Alliance's lunar base and the reinforcements en route to the battlefield. Crazed with desperation,
Azrael orders another nuclear attack on the
PLANTs. While the
Archangel intercepts Azrael's forces, the
Eternal and
Kusanagi head for the
ZAFT space fortress
Jachin Due, where GENESIS is being readied for one final blast.
As
Mu and
Le Creuset fight their last duel, the Archangel and
Dominion meet in battle once more.
Natarle at last decides to defy her insane leader, trapping Azrael on the Dominion's bridge while
Flay and the rest of the crew abandon their damaged ship. But while Azrael may be cornered, he remains a lethal threat.
PHASE-50: TO A FUTURE THAT NEVER ENDS
(Broadcast: April 15, 2005)
The battle between the
Archangel and the
Dominion is over, and the
Alliance fleet has been decisively defeated. Nonetheless,
Patrick Zala is determined to see the war through to its conclusion by turning the power of
GENESIS against Earth itself, thus exterminating all
Naturals.
Athrun and
Cagalli fight their way into the asteroid base
Jachin Due,
only to find that they're too late to prevent GENESIS from firing
its final blast, and that their only hope is to destroy the weapon from
the inside.
Kira confronts
Le Creuset, whose manipulations have brought humanity to the brink of annihilation. And
Flay Allster rushes to a fateful rendezvous of her own...
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