Bloody Valentine War
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In the Cosmic Era alternate universe of the fictional Gundam anime metaseries, the Bloody Valentine War is a war between the Earth Alliance, an alliance of four major governments on Earth; ZAFT, a nation of space colonies located at L5; and the Three Ships Alliance, an alliance of Earth Alliance moderate factions, the Clyne Faction, and the neutral Orb Union. This conflict is covered in the TV series Mobile Suit Gundam SEED.
[edit] Introduction
Like other Gundam universes, Cosmic Era humanity has moved into space and built massive space colonies. In the Cosmic Era, conflict arises between the Coordinators, genetically enhanced humans, who are mostly space colonists, and Naturals on Earth.
[edit] Development of the first mobile suits
Heavy space fighters called "Mobile Armors" had been in use by the Atlantic Federation since the early fifties CE (Cosmic Era), but they had many limitations in capabilities. Their small size meant they were tough targets to hit, but they were also difficult to armor adequately. A larger machine, PLANT strategists theorized, could do more than a Mobile Armor could for relatively little more costs and would be able to carry more armor as well. To give these new mecha the best multi-environment combat capacity, a humanoid shape was chosen - an enlargement and upgrade of heavy industrial exoskeletons that had been in use since the closing years of the AD calendar. Because of the humanoid shape, they were dubbed "Mobile Suits", and the first mobile suit, the YMF-01A "Proto GINN", was rolled out in CE 65. The first combat mobile suit, the ZGMF-1017 GINN, was rolled out two years later. In CE 69, the Atlantic Federation's Captain Halberton publishes a paper, "The Combat Effectiveness and Applications of Mobile Suits", which prompts the Atlantic Federation to begin development of its own mobile suits, the GAT-X series. After a short development period, the Earth Alliance rolls out its own first mass-production mobile suit, the GAT-01 Strike Dagger, in late May of CE 71.
January, CE 71 marked the rollout of the Alliance's first mobile suits (or "Gundams" as pilot Kira Yamato would later call them): the base unit GAT-X102 Duel, the heavy assault unit GAT-X103 Buster, the stealth unit GAT-X207 Blitz, the high-powered commander unit GAT-X303 Aegis and most famous of the five, the multi-mode GAT-X105 Strike. The Strike combined aspects of all four of the other units, and was able to change configurations with ease using bolt-on weapon systems called Striker Packs. Many additional units would be built by both sides during and after the war; see Cosmic Era Mobile Units for a complete listing and development history.
[edit] Bloody Valentine War
[edit] Tragedy of Copernicus (February 5)/Declaration of War (February 11, C.E. 70)
The war was declared on 11 February, Cosmic Era year 70, after a terrorist attack on a peace conference on the Moon on 5 February wiped out the United Nations's leadership.
[edit] Bloody Valentine Incident/Junius Seven Massacre (February 14)
Three days later, on February 14, the Earth Alliance, specifically the Atlantic Federation, sent the Agamemnon-class carrier Roosevelt and escorts to the Junius City region of plants, for a "show of force". However, Blue Cosmos members decided to change its mission to starving off PLANTs' food supplies, as Junius was an agricultural city. The Atlantic Federation gave permission to use the nuclear weapons placed onboard the Roosevelt by Blue Cosmos. While the Laurasia-class frigates, Nazca-class destroyers and GINNs of ZAFT fought against the Roosevelt's escorts, a group of Mobieus mobile armor launched to fire. One Mobieus made it to the launch point, and fired a nuclear weapon, which made contact with and destroyed Junius 7, a PLANT-type space colony in the Junius City area of PLANT, killing 243,721 civilians. The incident was called the Bloody Valentine Incident and marked the opening of hostilities.
[edit] Battle of Yggdrasil (February 22)
The first major battle of the war, was fought near the prewar international space station Yggdrasil. The battle lasted about a month and resulted in the destruction of the space station.
[edit] Operation Uroboros - April's Fool Crisis (April 1)
In response to the direct nuclear attack, ZAFT modified N-Jammer technology, initially intended to be used against Earth, as a countermeasure against nuclear weaponry in space. With the modified production schedule, the N-Jammers were not dropped on Earth until 1 April, as the first phase of their Operation Uroboros.
The use of N-Jammers on Earth and the subsequent energy crisis, April Fool Crisis, provoked mass starvation due to how heavily people relied on nuclear energy.
The second phase of Operation Uroboros was the actual offensive on Earth surface, that took under ZAFT control most of Africa, all of Australia and many Asian regions, including three of Earth's five major spaceports (locations of a Mass driver): Victoria (Africa), Gibraltar (Europe), and Kaohsiung (Taiwan), leaving Porta Panama (Central America) in Alliance hands and Kaguya at Onogoro Island in the Orb Union's control. (A sixth spaceport, the mobile Giga-Float under the auspices of the Junk Guild, did not become functional until late in the war.)
[edit] Battle of Carpentaria (April 2)
One of ZAFT's earliest landings took place in the friendly Oceania Union territory. The Earth Alliance Pacific Fleet attacked ZAFT's forces. After two days the Battle of Carpentaria ended in victory for ZAFT, who immediately afterwards began the construction of Carpentaria base.
[edit] First Battle of Jachin Due (April 17)
The Earth Alliance ordered its 5th and 6th fleets, stationed on the Moon, to attack PLANT on April 17, C.E. 70. They were intercepted by ZAFT forces and engaged at the resource satellite Jachin Due. In the aftermath of this battle the PLANT Supreme Council decided to convert the entire asteroid of Jachin Due into a defensive base.
[edit] Battle of Endymion Crater - Grimaldi Front (May 3 - June 2)
The Battle of Endymion Crater took place at Endymion Crater on the Moon. The battle ended with the destruction of the whole Endymion Crater when the Alliance's ice melting Microwave-emmission device, known as the Cyclops system malfunctioned and both sides received heavy casualites and damages. Considered a ZAFT victory due to the elimination of all Alliance forces (except for the sole survivor, L.T.J.G. Mu La Flaga) in the Endymion Crater, some claim it was an Alliance conspiracy that activated the Cylcops system in order to deal heavy damages to ZAFT forces.
It is often believed that the origin of DRAGOON technology came from the Ednymion Crator where Earth Alliance successfully created primitive version of DRAGOON system. Notice that TS-MA2mod.00 Moebius Zero, mass-produced by Earth Alliance, was first discovered by ZAFT forces in the Endymion Crater.
[edit] First Battle of Casablanca (May 25)
The Mediterranean fleet of the Earth Alliance fought against a ZAFT submarine carrier fleet near Casablanca. ZAFT won the battle and their forces entered the Mediterranean, and advanced further into the south of Africa.
[edit] Battle of Suez (May 30)
The Battle of Suez, won by ZAFT invading forces, ensured ZAFT the key Black sea territories and the control of the Suez area. A huge linear tank corps led by Morgan Chevalier was routed by Andrew Waltfeld at El Alamein, earning the "Desert Tiger" his reputation as a master of desert combat.
[edit] Battle of Nova (June 14 - July 12)
ZAFT forces launch a drawn out series of raids against the Earth Alliance resource satellite of Nova at Lagrange Point 4. Skirmishes between the two sides last for nearly a month, with neither side ever decisively defeating the other. Ultimately, the Alliance abandons the satellite and ZAFT begins to move the station towards the PLANTs. Despite minor raids by Alliance forces, Nova reaches L5, where ZAFT converts it into Space Fortress Boaz.
By late August of CE 70, a territorial stalemate on Earth was reached, with northern Africa and Australia firmly in ZAFT hands, Sub-Saharan Africa, Eurasia, South Asia and the Americas in the Alliance, and the majority of Oceania neutral.
[edit] Battle of Kaohsiung (January 15-23, C.E. 71)
The Battle of Kaohsiung took place on the island of Taiwan, where ZAFT forces successfully attacked the Earth Alliance spaceport located in the city of Kaohsiung. This was the first mass driver ZAFT would capture from the Earth Alliance.
[edit] Heliopolis Conflict (January 25)
To put an end to Earth Alliance mobile suit development plans, ZAFT planned an operation to seize the mobile suit prototypes secretly developed on the neutral colony Heliopolis, which was owned by Orb; and to destroy their carrier prototype ship Archangel.
Although ZAFT was able to capture four out of five units and heavily damage the colony's harbour, the fifth unit, the GAT-X105 Strike, remained in Alliance hands, was activated and engaged them in battle. The resulting Battle of Heliopolis between the Archangel, the Strike and ZAFT forces caused the complete destruction of the Heliopolis colony from collateral damage caused by both sides, and was the first of a series of battles between the Rau Le Creuset team and the Archangel crew.
[edit] Battle of Artemis (January 27-30)
The Archangel, pursued by the Le Creuset Team, docked at the Eurasian Federation base Artemis. Here the Archangel was taken into custody because of the lack of a friendly ID code on the ship and partly due to the Eurasian Federation's rivalry with the Atlantic Federation, who built the Archangel and the GAT mobile suits. Soon after the ZAFT forces attacked the base when it's defenses were disabled by the GAT-X207 Blitz, and the ship was able to escape admidst the chaos that ensued. As the battle ended, the Eurasian Federation base had taken considerable damage, but remained somewhat intact. Pirates would raid Artemis whilst its defenses were down, and as a result Commandant Garcia, commander of Artemis, would hire the mercenary group Serpent Tail. After Serpent Tail has a run-in with the Junk Guild's Astray Red Frame, Artemis is once again damaged, but, as of June CE 71, remained a functional military outpost.
[edit] Battle of Orbit (February 13)
After a long pursuit by the Le Creuset Team, the Archangel finally received reinforcements from the Earth Alliance's 8th Fleet. The Archangel was then ordered to bring the GAT-X105 Strike to OMNI headquarters at JOSH-A. The 'Le Creuset team' attacked just before reentry into Earth's atmosphere. Earth Alliance Rear Admiral Lewis Halberton ordered the entire 8th Fleet to defend Archangel at all costs. Though the 8th Fleet was numerically superior to the ZAFT forces, its Drake-class escort ships and TS-MA2 Moebius Mobile Armors were no match for the stolen units and ZAFT's GINNs as well as their heavily-armed Laurasia class and Nazca class warships. Admiral Halberton lost the entire fleet and his own life, but achieved his goal, as the Archangel successfully completed reentry.
The battle also resulted in the deaths of several hundred Orb Union civilians, who were refugees from Heliopolis. They were killed as they retreated from the battle in an Earth Alliance shuttle, vaporized in a fit of rage by Yzak Joule, who was later persecuted for war crimes against civilians after the war.
[edit] Second Battle of Victoria (February 13)
In this battle ZAFT was able to capture the Victoria spaceport.
[edit] Northern Africa Campaign (February 15-28)
After descending to Earth the Archangel took part in the Desert Dawn resistance movement's battle with ZAFT. She continued to operate with Desert Dawn until they defeated Andrew Waltfeld in the end of February.
Severely damaged, the ship then went to Orb via the Red Sea, while attempting to avoid any confrontation with ZAFT. Unfortunately, they were forced to fight Carpentaria submarine forces, led by Commander Marco Morrassim. While Morrassim's forces were defeated, the ship barely managed to enter Orb territory by early April, especially after another encounter with the members of the Le Creuset team, now lead by Athrun Zala.
Thanks to Cagalli Yula Athha, the daughter of Orb's Chief Representative, Uzumi Nara Athha, the Archangel was permitted to secretly enter the neutral Orb. Repairs to the ship took several weeks and it wasn't until mid April that the Archangel continued to JOSH-A (Joint Supreme Headquarters Alaska).
[edit] Conflicts near Orb and the Marshall Islands (mid April)
In early June, after a successful reconnaissance mission, members of the Le Creuset Team located and attacked the Archangel as she left Orb for JOSH-A. In this climactic battle, the GAT-X207 Blitz, GAT-X105 Strike, GAT-X303 Aegis and one of Archangel's FX-550 Skygraspers were destroyed. Skygrasper pilot Tolle Koenig and Blitz pilot Nicol Amarfi were killed. Strike pilot Kira Yamato was missing in action and presumed dead, but the GAT-X103 Buster and its pilot, Dearka Elsman, were captured by the Archangel crew after the Buster was severely damaged and disabled directly in front of the Archangel. Athrun Zala self-destructed his Aegis in front of the Strike at point-blank range in a last ditch attempt to destroy it, and was presumed dead until found by Orb rescue parties led by Cagalli Yula Athha, who then returned Zala to ZAFT.
[edit] Battle of JOSH-A - Operation Spitbreak (May 8)
The Battle of JOSH-A (Operation Spitbreak) was ZAFT's plan to take JOSH-A, the Earth Alliance's Atlantic Federation HQ, which failed.
ZAFT counterintelligence officers allowed the majority of both ZAFT and Earth forces to believe that ZAFT's next target was Porta Panama and its mass driver. Thus, a large amount of the Earth Alliance forces were transferred to Panama to defend the base. However, this was to leave JOSH-A open to attack, which was the original plan of Chairman Patrick Zala. However, through the betrayal of rogue ZAFT commander Rau Le Creuset, the Blue Cosmos group came to know beforehand about the attack and set a trap for both ZAFT and the Eurasian Federation. The base was primarily staffed and defended by Eurasian Federation personnel while the Atlantic Federation quietly transferred its own personnel elsewhere. When ZAFT attacked, the Eurasian defenders resisted but were effectively wiped out in the face of overwhelming enemy numbers. ZAFT's attack force was then lured into the central bay of JOSH-A when the base's Cyclops System was activated, killing most of the ZAFT attack force as well as what was left of the Eurasian defenders in addition to destroying the installation and everything else within a 10 mile radius of the base in the process. During this battle, Kira Yamato, with the stolen ZGMF-X10A Freedom reappeared and saved the Archangel from the brink of destruction, and due to his intervention, the ship survived the ordeal along with other ZAFT and Earth forces who heeded Kira's warning to escape the Cyclops blast. Several ZAFT submarines and pilots with mobile suits fast enough to outrun the Cyclops shockwave managed to escape as well.
Blue Cosmos orchestrated the destruction of enough of the Eurasian Federation's forces at JOSH-A to alter the balance of power in the Earth Alliance in favor of the Atlantic Federation (which Blue Cosmos controlled). The Eurasian Federation were the voices of reason in the Earth Alliance, ensuring that the purpose of the war was simply the defeat of PLANT. With the Atlantic Federation now mostly in control of the Earth Alliance and its military, Blue Cosmos were able to ensure that the focus of the war changed to the extermination of all Coordinators, their stated goal.
According to Athrun in the manga series "Gundam Seed Destiny: The Edge", many official documents after this operation were lost due to confusion in the chain of command (presumably referring to the purge of the moderates by Patrick Zala), resulting in the truth of the final days of the war being hidden from the public.
[edit] Battle of Porta Panama (May 25)
A few days later, ZAFT retaliated by attacking the Panama mass-driver base with a heavy force. While the Alliance forces introduced their mass-produced GAT-01 Strike Dagger, ZAFT deployed the Gungnir EMP weapon, disabling all Alliance military equipment in the area and resulting in an overwhelming victory for ZAFT. Porta Panama, the last mass driver in Alliance hands, was thereby destroyed, cutting off the Alliance space forces from Earth-based resources. Following the battle, a number of GINN pilots slaughtered the surrendering Alliance soldiers in an act of revenge for the ZAFT personnel that died at JOSH-A. During the battle, Yzak Joule fought a duel with Jean Carrey and his GAT-01D Long Dagger unit. Much of the fight was a stalemate until the deployment of the Gungnir EMP weapon which rendered Carrey's Long Dagger useless. Refusing to attack an enemy unable to defend himself, Yzak withdrew from the battle leaving behind his opponent.
[edit] Battle of Orb (June 15, 16)
With the destruction of their last mass driver in Porta Panama, the Atlantic Federation turned its interest to the Kaguya mass driver in the neutral Orb Union, one of the last mass drivers operating on Earth.
The Earth Alliance's chief "negotiator", Murata Azrael (Leader of the extremist group Blue Cosmos), delivered a ultimatum demanding that Orb either join the war effort against "humanity's evil enemy, the Coordinators" or be declared a supporter of PLANT and face military takeover. With both sides knowing from the start that the terms are totally unacceptable, Orb deployed their recently completed MBF-M1 Astray units and the Atlantic Federation deployed massive numbers of their new GAT-01 Strike Daggers for the certainly unavoidable battle. According to Rau Le Creuset, ZAFT did offer military assistance but the Orb government declined their offer (of help).
In the first phases of the battle, Orb held their own against the Alliance with their Astray's superior performance over the Strike Dagger, as well as with the help from the rogue Alliance ship Archangel and its mobile suit complement. In fact, the late entry of Athrun Zala and Dearka Elsman with the ZGMF-X09A Justice and the GAT-X103 Buster proved to be pivotal to the outcome of this phase of the battle and the two would play a key role in Orb's forces for the rest of the war. But the Atlantic Federation forces push the Orb forces to the breaking point in the process as Orb couldn't replace their lost units faster than the Atlantic Federation, essentially meaning Orb's defeat was only a matter or time. After retreating and reorganizing, the EA forces ultimately manage to overcome the Orb forces, mainly due to the overwhelming numbers of Strike Daggers deployed and three newly completed Gundam units, the GAT-X252 Forbidden, GAT-X131 Calamity and GAT-X370 Raider. However, the withdrawal of Azrael's three gundams from drained power after a prolonged fight with the Freedom and the Justice prompts a short halt in the EA's advance.
In the final phase of the battle, Orb's Representative Athha ordered the evacuation of the remaining Orb Astray force on the battleship Kusanagi. The Kusanagi, as well as the Archangel launched into space via the Kaguya mass driver. Immediately after the launch, Athha activated the Morgenroete factory's self-destruct mechanism, completely destroying both the factory and the mass driver. Representative Athha and the other representatives of Orb were killed in the blast. From the opening shot of the battle to the mass driver's destruction, Orb fell in less than 24 hours of combat.
[edit] Third Battle of Victoria (June 18)
Despite the determined efforts of ZAFT forces, the Alliance managed to recapture the Victoria mass-driver in equatorial Africa with a massive deployment of the Strike Dagger and other prototype units. After the battle, a scene in that episode showed an Alliance soldier killing a wounded DINN pilot. It is unknown whether he was ordered to do so or was violating regulations and doing it for personal reasons. It is also unknown if other Alliance personnel did the same to other surviving ZAFT pilots and personel. This scene, along with the massacre of Alliance soldiers at Panama, underlines a mental shift of how the war was now conducted by Earth and PLANT as this shows that this war wasn't a war of conquest anymore: It was now a war of extermination.
It was also rumored that ZAFT planned to self-destruct the mass driver during the battle but was stopped in time by an Alliance commando team
[edit] Battle of Mendel (July 12)
After Lacus Clyne, Andrew Waltfeld, and the Clyne Faction stole the Eternal from PLANT, they found shelter in the abandoned colony of Mendel. The Archangel and the Kusanagi joined them, forming the Three Ships Alliance. Soon after, both the Earth Alliance and ZAFT forces attacked, with both sides totally unaware of the other's presence. The Earth Alliance's objectives were the capture of either the ZGMF-X10A Freedom or the ZGMF-X09A Justice as well as the destruction of the Archangel. ZAFT's objective was to retake or destroy the Eternal, although ZAFT commander Rau Le Creuset's hidden agenda included delivering ZAFT's data on the N-Jammer Canceller to the Earth Alliance.
In the ensuing battle both the EA and ZAFT had to witness the increased battle capabilities of the TSA forces. The Three Ships Alliance repelled both forces, and destroyed Le Creuset's command ship Vesalius while losing only a few of their M1 Astrays in return.
During the battle, the N-Jammer Canceller intelligence was successfully passed to the Earth Alliance forces, as Le Creuset planned. This battle also saw the first deployment of the Dominion, the Earth Aliance's second Archangel class battleship and captained by former Archangel XO, Natarle Badgiruel.
[edit] Battle of Boaz – Operation Peacemaker (September 23)
After recovering N-Jammer Canceller technology in July during the Battle of Mendel, the Alliance originally planned to use the technology to solve Earth's energy crisis but under Blue Cosmos' influence, they mass-produced and mounted them on nuclear weapons instead, launching Operation Peacemaker: a gambit to quickly end the war by destroying all the PLANTs with nuclear missiles. They started their operation by destroying the ZAFT space fortress Boaz with an all-out nuclear missile strike.
[edit] Final Battle of Two Failures (September 25)
This was the final battle between Alliance rogue Canard Pars and Newtype clone Prayer Reverie.
On September 25, the ReHOME and the Agamemnon-class Ortigia gathered near an abandoned colony, and launched (respectively) the YMF-X000A Dreadnought Final Version and the CAT1-X1/3 "Super" Hyperion Unit 1 to fight their last battle. They fired several shots and clashed at each other, while revealing their origins to each other. Eventually, Prayer used his Newtype powers to trap Canard in an energy prism. In an attempt to break this, the Hyperion fired a full power shot from both of its backpack mounted beam cannons, and overloaded. Prayer was able to save Canard, but not before apparently dying of advanced aging.
[edit] Second Battle of Jachin Due (September 26, 27)
The Second Battle of Jachin Due was both the apex of the Operation Peacemaker and the decisive battle of the Bloody Valentine War.
As the Earth Alliance prepared to attack the PLANTs with nuclear missiles, the ZAFT superweapon GENESIS was entering its final stages and was ready to fire. Both factions were strongly determined not only to eliminate all enemy forces, but also to completely wipe out the opposing side's civilian population. Going into the battle, Blue Cosmos's main objective was destroying the PLANTs with nuclear missiles. Similarly, ZAFT Chairman Patrick Zala intended to fire GENESIS not only at the Alliance's Ptolemaeus lunar base but also directly at Earth, which would not only have cataclysmic consequences on the climate, but would also wipe out most if not all biological lifeforms. Additionally, Rau Le Creuset, whose twisted logic wanted both Coordinators and Naturals to perish and was responsible for the escalation of hostilities to this level, secretly rigged GENESIS to fire when the ZAFT fortress Jachin Due self-destructs.
Between the two warring factions there was the Three Ships Alliance, whose main purpose was to thwart any attack on either side's civilian population, and end all hostilities if possible.
During the battle, the strike force carrying the EA's nuclear missiles managed to bypass all of ZAFT's defenses. With no ZAFT forces standing between them and the PLANTs, an easy EA victory seemed inevitable. However, the missiles fired at the PLANTs were all intercepted by the ZGMF-X10A Freedom and the ZGMF-X09A Justice with their METEOR units, and thus no PLANT was destroyed. The GENESIS weapon would be fired twice. The first shot decimated the main Earth Alliance fleets attacking the PLANTs while the second shot hit both the reinforcements being sent from the Alliance's Ptolemaeus Base on the Moon and the base itself. Half of the remaining fleet was wiped out, and the base completely vaporized. Athrun Zala then managed to detonate his nuclear-powered Justice unit inside GENESIS, completely destroying it before it fired on Earth.
The Earth Alliance fleet, after being heavily-damaged by GENESIS (the fleet lost 1/2 of its strength counting the losses on Ptolemaeus and the losses from GENESIS), lost its flagship Dominion, which was destroyed in battle by the Archangel. Blue Cosmos leader Murata Azrael perished in the ship's explosion.
The ZAFT fleet seemed to suffer slightly less losses, though they did lose both GENESIS, their main military base, Jachin Due and much of their forces. PLANT Chairman and ZAFT Commander-in-Chief Patrick Zala was killed by a ZAFT officer, and soon after the moderate faction took control of the military, ceasing all hostilities as the crippled Earth Alliance fleet retired.
[edit] Deployed forces
ZAFT's MS forces included over three thousand GINNs, CGUEs, and GuAIZs. Also included were some variations such as the GINN High Mobility types (one piloted by Mikhail Coast), some CGUE DEEP Arms (one piloted by Shiho Hahnenfuss), the tethered YFX-600R GuAIZ Experimental Firearms Type, the GAT-X102 Duel "Assault Shroud" (piloted by Yzak Joule) and the powerful ZGMF-X13A Providence (piloted by Rau Le Creuset). For their space vessel/asteroid/superweapon forces, there were over five hundred Nazca class destroyers and Laurasia class frigates, along with the Jachin Due space fortress and the powerful GENESIS laser cannon.
- ZAFT MS units: ZGMF-1017M GINN High Maneuver Type x20; YFX-200 CGUE DEEP Arms x10; YFX-600R GuAIZ Experimental Firearms Type; ZGMF-1017 GINN x1650; ZGMF-515 CGUE x1000; ZGMF-600 GuAIZ x350; GAT-X102 Duel "Assault Shroud"; ZGMF-X13A Providence
Earth Alliance MS forces included over three thousand Strike Daggers. For Dagger variations, there were Buster Daggers (one piloted by Rena Imelia), Duel Daggers, 1 Long Dagger (piloted by Seven Socius) and 105 Daggers (one piloted by Morgan Chevalier). For G-weapon variants, there were the two remaining Sword Calamity units (one piloted by Edward Harrelson). There was also a sighting of the EA renegade Canard Pars and his CAT1-X1/3 Hyperion Unit 1, however this is not yet confirmed. The most powerful mobile suits in their forces were the Calamity, Forbidden and Raider. For their MA forces, it included at least one squadron of Moebius mobile armors equipped with nuclear missiles. For their space vessel forces, it included one Archangel-class assault ship Dominion, four Agamemnon-class flagships, and over five hundred Nelson-class battleships, and Drake-class escort ships.
- Earth Alliance MS/MA units: GAT/A-01E2 Buster Dagger x10; GAT-01A1 105 Dagger x4; GAT-01D Long Dagger; GAT-01D1 Duel Dagger x10; GAT-01 Strike Dagger x3000; TS-MA2 Moebius x100 GAT-X133 Sword Calamity x2; GAT-X131 Calamity; GAT-X252 Forbidden; GAT-X370 Raider
The Three Ships Alliance's forces included about ten M1 Astray units (most of them were destroyed), one M1A Astray unit (piloted by Barry Ho), a Strike Rouge modified Strike unit (piloted by Cagalli Yula Athha), the Strike (piloted by Mu La Flaga), the Buster (piloted by Dearka Elsman), the Justice (piloted by Athrun Zala), and the Freedom (piloted by Kira Yamato). For MA units, there were the two powerful METEOR units used by the Justice and the Freedom. For their space vessel forces, there was the Eternal, the Izumo-class battleship Kusanagi, and the Archangel-class assault ship Archangel.
- TSA MS/MA units: MBF-M1 Astray x10; MBF-M1 Astray Jean Carry Custom; MBF-M1A Astray; GAT-X105 Strike; MBF-02 Strike Rouge; GAT-X103 Buster; ZGMF-X09A Justice; ZGMF-X10A Freedom; METEOR x2
[edit] Treaty of Junius Seven
By the start of Cosmic Era year 72, the Alliance's nuclear stockpile was destroyed, as was the ZAFT superweapon GENESIS. More importantly, the instigators of the war - Blue Cosmos leader Murata Azrael, ZAFT Supreme Council Chairman Patrick Zala, and rogue ZAFT commander Rau Le Creuset - were all killed in action. Parties amendable to peace were now in control of the major factions. On March 10, CE 72, their representatives met at the ruins of Junius Seven and signed a formal treaty, ending the Bloody Valentine War. The plan came from Prime Minister Lindemann of the Kingdom of Scandinavia and was accepted by all involved parties.
The Treaty of Junius Seven specifically outlined several points:
- All national boundaries on Earth had to be restored to status quo ante bellum. Thus both the Orb Union and the United States of South America, which were seized by the Alliance, became independent nations again. Also ZAFT had to leave the areas they conquered during the war. However, they were allowed to still run the Gibraltar and the Carpentaria Base on Earth, as well as establish facilities where allowed by the nations of Earth, including the Atlantic Federation (an example would be a ZAFT base in San Diego, which was attacked by Blue Cosmos-affiliated group "Holy Land", shortly before Armory One incident).
- Orb was forbidden to transfer any military technology (either in weapon shipments or aid) to either the Alliance or ZAFT, though either side could apparently use any Orb technology acquired before the treaty.
- Nuclear technologies (N-Jammer and N-Jammer Canceller, as well as Mirage Colloid technology) were prohibited from military use, including a specific clause regarding their use on mobile suits.
- There would be a limit as to how many mobile suits could be built and maintained by both sides.
A black marble monument was placed upon the ruins of Junius Seven on March 10, to both honor those who perished in the Bloody Valentine Incident and as a pledge by the signatories of the treaty to protect peace.
Nuclear power plants on Earth were fitted with N-Jammer Cancellers to restore their operation and satisfy the power needs of the severely crippled terrestrial economy. The long and costly process of digging out the hundreds of N-Jammers dropped on Earth during the war began.
[edit] Aftermath
The Treaty of Junius's main shortcoming was the failure in dismantling the Blue Cosmos organization.
Two years after the war, in CE 73, the Blue Cosmos had already rebuilt their power base in the Atlantic Federation, and reorganized under the leadership of Lord Djibril. As before, Blue Cosmos had major influence on the Earth's political elite, and was still driven by racial hate towards Coordinators.
The "Armory One incident" and soon later the Junius 7 colony drop incident, known as Operation "Break the World", led again to open conflict between the Earth Alliance and ZAFT, eventually leading to the Second Bloody Valentine War.
Ultimately, the Treaty of Junius failed in all its objectives. Both factions secretly continued their development of nuclear and stealth weapons, and the Earth Alliance deployed them again in the first day of the second war. Orb allied with the Alliance shortly thereafter, rendering the ban on technology sharing a moot point.
