Amuro investigates the Gundam; the Earth Federation and Zeon come together in Antarctica to work out a peace agreement.

Char becomes a hero of Zeon thanks to his exploits in the Battle of Loum, earning a promotion to lieutenant commander and the nickname Red Comet.

Deploying a Special Assault Regiment made up of mobile suits, the Zeon forces overwhelm the Federation fleet; Char achieves tremendous results, destroying five enemy warships; the Battle of Loum ends in victory for Zeon.

Anguished by the realization that her brother Casval's survival means his look-alike Char is dead, Sayla faces a further tragedy; Lieutenant Char of the Zeon forces appears at Texas Colony in a red mobile suit.

Ace pilot Char Aznable and his sister, Sayla Mass, become entangled in power struggles and the advent of new war machines as Earth and its outer space colonies spiral toward all-out war.

Ace pilot Char Aznable and his sister, Sayla Mass, become entangled in power struggles and the advent of new war machines as Earth and its outer space colonies spiral toward all-out war.

Char travels to Earth, where he meets a girl who has mysterious powers; Dr. Minovsky, a key figure in Zeon's mobile suit development, heads for the moon with the intention of defecting.

The military academy students launch an armed uprising under Garma's command and attack the Federation Forces barracks; Lino, who knows Char's true identity, is killed in the fighting thanks to Char's behind-the-scenes maneuvering.

At Side 3, Dozle's development of humanoid mobile weapons makes dramatic progress with the assistance of Dr. Minovsky; at the military academy, Char befriends Garma and urges him to attack the Federation Forces barracks.

Sayla and Édouard are grief-stricken by the death of their imprisoned mother; Édouard swears revenge upon the Zabis and devises a plan when he learns that the Aznable family's son Char is entering the Zeon military academy.

Changing their names to Édouard and Sayla, Casval and Artesia begin new lives on Earth as the children of Teabolo Mass but are attacked by assassins dispatched by Kycilia.

With Deikun's death, conflict intensifies between the Zabi and Ral families; to escape the political strife, Deikun's orphaned children Casval and Artesia say farewell to their mother and depart for Earth with Jimba Ral.

In Universal Century 0068, Zeon Zum Deikun, newly appointed leader of space colony Side 3, declares independence from the Earth Federation; orphaned children Casval and Artesia survive a purge and go into hiding.

Roughly 300 years after the conclusion of a great conflict known as the Calamity War, the Earth Sphere has lost its previous governing structure, and a new system of government has created a new world. Far away, seeds of a new conflict are starting to form in the Mars Sphere. When private security company Chryse Guard Security (CGS) accepts a mission to help liberate a Martian city from being ruled by one of Earth's major powers, a military organization attacks CGS to stop the rebellion before it gets off the ground. Some boys use this as a chance to revolt and lead a coup against the adults who have been oppressing them.