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PHASE-01: FALSE PEACE
The story begins in year 71 of the Cosmic Era, eleven months into the conflict between ZAFT and the Earth Alliance. One
of the Alliance's member nations has secretly developed its own mobile suits at Heliopolis, a space colony which belongs the
neutral nation Orb. But, just as the five experimental Gundams 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 Coordinator named Kira Yamato.
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 Athrun Zala. As explosions
consume the factory, Kira and a wounded Alliance officer take refuge inside the prototype Strike Gundam
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PHASE-02: ITS NAME: GUNDAM
The Strike Gundam, with Alliance officer Murrue Ramius at the controls, emerges from the chaos of the burning factory and
squares off against a ZAFT mobile suit. Kira 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.
Outside the colony, ZAFT commander Rau Le Creuset fights a running duel with Alliance ace Mu La Flaga. And elsewhere in
Heliopolis, Alliance officer Natarle Badgiruel gathers the few crewmembers who survived the ZAFT attack and takes charge of
the carrier Archangel. Just as Le Creuset disables Mu's mobile armor and turns his attentions to the Gundam, the Archangel
blasts its way out of drydock and enters the colony's interior.
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PHASE-03: COLLAPSING LAND
Combining their firepower, the Strike Gundam and Archangel manage to repulse Le Creuset, and the Alliance survivors gather
to plan their next move. Though the soldiers are disturbed to learn that Kira is a Coordinator, 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 Heliopolis aboard the Archangel.
Determined to capture or destroy the last of the Alliance's Gundams, Le Creuset dispatches a team of heavily-armed mobile
suits into the colony. Athrun joins the attack in his Aegis Gundam, 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.
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PHASE-04: SILENT RUN
Drifting in space amid the wreckage of Heliopolis, Kira rescues one of the colony's lifeboats, whose passengers include
his former schoolmate Flay Allster. The Archangel, having momentarily shaken off Le Creuset's pursuit, sets course for the
Alliance's Artemis asteroid base. Cutting the ship's engines to avoid detection, the Archangel's crew begin their silent run.
Le Creuset, anticipating this decision, deploys his ships Vesalius and Gamow along the Archangel's probable route so as
to trap his quarry between them. As the ZAFT ships close in, Kira decides to protect the ship by piloting the Strike Gundam
once again, while his friends show their support by volunteering for bridge crew duty. Le Creuset dispatches Athrun and his
comrades in their stolen Gundams, and the battle begins.
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