"Year 70 of the Cosmic Era. Due to the 'Bloody Valentine' tragedy, tensions between Earth and the PLANTs escalated into
armed conflict. Noone doubted that the numerically superior Earth forces 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 Cosmic Era (C.E.) calendar. Like other Gundam stories, Gundam Seed
chronicles a conflict between the people of Earth and the inhabitants of orbital space colonies, but here the root of the
conflict is biological rather than political. This war is a struggle for supremacy between genetically-enhanced "Coordinators"
and the unmodified "Naturals" 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.
