Nations and Factions

Celestial Being

Celestial Being (ソレスタルビーイング, Soresutaru Bīingu?) is a private paramilitary force founded by the scientist Aeolia Schenberg. It pursues the complete eradication of armed conflict mainly through the deployment of the revolutionary Gundam units, as well as other mobile units, in aggressive, sometimes indiscriminate military intervention. It acts upon the advisory of the artificial intelligence Veda, and its preferred mode of operation resembles guerrilla or maneuver warfare. As of the initiation of its publicly visible activities in 2307, Schenberg appeared in a taped worldwide broadcast announcing the organization's existence and intentions.[1] Many people of Earth began a love/hate-like relation with Celestial Being, though mostly everyone does not desire war. Some people, like Marina Ismail of Azadistan, believe that they create only more conflict by intervening.

In addition to the small core group of Gundam pilots known as "Gundam Meisters" and crew of the Gundams' carrier ship, Celestial Being is very influential in all parts of the world and possess an apparently large number of personnel loyal to it. These personnel have different roles, including: engineers, scientists, intelligence agents, "observers" who function as a sort of guiding committee, financial backers, and many others.

The group has received mixed levels of opposition. Civilian protest groups have held rallies against them, the world government has attempted to stop them through military force and terrorist groups have threatened random, indiscriminate attacks until the group ceases operations.

Although their public objective(s) is the eradication of warfare, many (including the organization's own operatives) speculate if the group has a different true objective since the appearance of "Team Trinity" and murder of Professor Leif Aifman.

Celestial Being has since been suffering internal conflicts since the appearance of the "Team Trinity" with Veda suspiciously hacked and solar furnaces handed to the world governments by an unknown benefactor from the inside of Celestial Being. Because of all such developments, the primary Gundam Meister's have rejected Throne Meisters and have begun taking appropriate measures without Veda's knowledge.

The emblem of Celestial Being bears a resemblance to that of the United Nations, incorporating an azimuthal equidistant projection of a world map enclosed in olive branches. It is overlaid with a figure resembling an angel.

United Nations

The World Economic Union (世界経済連合, Sekai Keizai Rengō?, abbrev. ユニオン Union) -- also referred to as the Union of Solar Energy and Free Nations (太陽エネルギーと自由国家連合軍, Taiyō Enerugī to Jiyū Kokka Rengōgun?) -- is a supranational politico-economic community consisting of the Organization of American States, Australasia, and Japan. It controls the first-completed of the three orbital elevators, located in South America. The President of the United States is the Union's effective leader, and continues to work and live in the White House.

Human Reform League

The Human Reform League (人類革新連盟, Jinrui Kakushin Renmei?, abbrev. 人革連 Jinkakuren, lit. Human Reform Alliance) is a supranational politico-economic community consisting of China, Russia, India, Bangladesh, the nations of South Asia (with the exception of Afghanistan and Pakistan), Mongolia, the member states of the ASEAN, Timor Leste, Papua New Guinea, the Korean Peninsula, and Taiwan. It controls the second-completed of the three orbital elevators. The chairperson who serves as the head of government resides in the capital, which is located somewhere in China. The HRL currently operates the space colony The Internationale at Lagrange Point L4, where one of the laboratories of the Super Soldier Special Duty Organization was situated prior to its destruction at the hands of Celestial Being.

Though the exact nature of the HRL's government is not made clear, it appears to be caste as a socialist ( politico-economic entity. This is made evident in many ways throughout the series, is in line with the present policy of the powerful constituent state of the People's Republic of China (as well as the former USSR), and is perhaps most obvious in the name of their space colony, The Internationale, a reference to an old socialist anthem of the same name by Eugène Edine Pottier.

AEU

The Advanced European Union (新ヨーロッパ共同体, Shin Yōroppa Kyōdō-tai?) or AEU is a supranational politico-economic community consisting of Iceland, the islands of the Barents Sea, Greenland, Anatolia, most of the traditional continent of Europe and turkey and palastine. Its institutional makeup is comparable to that of the real-world European Union. Despite the AEU's control of the presently incomplete orbital elevator tower in Africa, it possesses no member states on the continent. The community operates under the arbitration of a parliamentary body.

UN Forces

The United Nations fulfills a similar role to that of its real-life counterpart within the series. The UN apparently has some influence over the distribution of the energy generated by the Solar Power System. During the series, the UN is called upon to aid Azadistan during its period of civil unrest and constructs a solar antenna to allow the country to receive solar power, although this antenna is destroyed during the ultra-conservative uprising but this antenna is later rebuilt.

Alejandro Corner is a representative of the UN, in addition to secretly being an observer for Celestial Being.

The UN in the series has been able to amass its own United Nations military consisting of elements of the AEU, HRL, and Union militaries.

At the end of season one, the UN disbands and the Earth Federation is formed around it.


Earth Sphere Federation

The Earth Sphere Federation (地球連邦, Chikyū Renpō?) was formed four years after the introduction of the Gundams as the successor to the United Nations, unifying the three major factions together to form a united world order. With the approval of the 328 member nations, one of their first announcements is the dissolving of every member state's standing army and replacing them with one Earth Sphere Federation "peacekeeping army". The Earth Sphere Federation is shown to have the ability to mass-produce GN Tau drives.

A-Laws

A-Laws (アロウズ, Arōzu?) or the Autonomous Peace-Keeping Force is the main antagonistic organization of the series' second season and an independent secret police of the Earth Sphere Federation's military, having splintered off the main army and answering only to the government. Officially, their mission is to further unify nations, but their ideals and tactics are a facade of oppression, brutal at that. In fact, some members find glee in their inhumane ways and further chances to crush anyone standing in their path, be they men, women or children. They are especially infamous for their use of automatons, usually swarms of them, that gun down any individual unlucky enough to be in their sights, regardless whoever they may be. Their actions trigger the emergence of some anti-Federation forces, like Katharon, and the Celestial Being, which returns after four years. This premise is parallel to the AEUG/Titans conflict in Zeta Gundam. However, like Emma Sheen before them, some individuals within the group are against how the A-Laws conduct their "peacekeeping" operations, such as Soma Peries and Kati Mannequin. While not of the A-Laws himself, Sergei Smirnov of the Federation army is shown to have the same view of the unit as the aforementioned characters. Its mantra is "Organization that becomes point of all laws."

Innovators

Four years after the death of Alejandro Corner, Ribbons Almark had formed an organization known as the Innovators (イノベイター, Inobeitā?). One of their bases is located on the moon in Veda's Chamber. Although his intentions are unclear, Ribbons claims himself and six other members are 'the future of mankind'.

After the formation of the Innovators, Ribbons used the data from Veda's databanks and began constructing their own line of Mobile Suits. The first of these Innovator-made units is the Arche Gundam, piloted by former PMC Trust member Ali Al-Saachez, and made its combat debut in the attack on Azadistan. The second was GNZ-003 Gadessa, piloted by Innovator Revive Revival, and first shown when landing on A-LAWS ship. In addition, the Innovators have been in contact with high-level officials within the Federation and A-Laws, and appear to not only help advance Federation plans such as sending the Arche to burn down the Kingdom of Azadistan, but they also seem to wield considerable influence in both organizations with the arranging of Louise Halevy to inherit Soma Peries's unit being an example. With the return of Celestial Being, the Innovators have become increasingly proactive in their backing by sending two Innovators into A-Laws with their newest mobile suit, and one into Celestial Being. Allegedly, their ultimate goal is to fulfill Aeolia Schenburg's plan and advance humanity into space but the specifics of how they will accomplish this remains unknown.

Tieria may have some history with them, as he shares their ability to access Veda and shares an appearance with Regene. Ribbons has referred to the Innovators as not being human, either being above regular humans themselves i.e. super-human, or something else entirely, something which Tieria's character himself seems to suggest. Regene explains that they are a type of human, a fusion of gene manipulation, quantum brainwaves and nanomachines, able to grant them access to Veda and telepathic communication to others like them, making them on par or far more advanced than even the supersoldiers.

ZAFT

ZAFT (Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty) is a political, economic, and military alliance of PLANT colonies. Specifically, ZAFT usually refers to the military side of organization. It was originally formed as a political organisation known as the Zodiac Alliance by Siegel Clyne and Patrick Zala in CE 50, to peacefully fight for the rights and independence of Coordinators. This follows in the rather curious Gundam tradition of naming the space colony military with a "Z" (Zeon, from early Universal Century, and the Zanscare Empire of Victory Gundam) or "Zodiac" within its acronym (such as Gundam Wing's Organization of the Zodiac (OZ)). The Zodiac Alliance was renamed "ZAFT" in CE 65, but became a military organisation only three years later.
ZAFT is well-equipped with Nazca-class and Laurasia-class warships in space, Lesseps-class and Petrie-class vessels on land, and Vosgulov-class submarines at sea.
ZAFT fights the Earth Alliance to a standstill in the Bloody Valentine War of Cosmic Era 70-71. During mid CE 71 Patrick Zala, who blames all Naturals for the death of his wife in the Bloody Valentine Tragedy, becomes leader of not only ZAFT but also of PLANT and effectively removes the moderate faction of the PLANT Supreme Council. Zala plans to wipe out all human life on Earth, eliminating, he believes, Naturals who are the cause of all warfare and establish Coordinators as the master race, a "new humanity".
Following the Junius Seven colony drop disaster, the Earth Alliance demands that ZAFT demilitarize and its government disperse; the obvious refusal results in the second war between ZAFT and Earth in two years. Earth support for ZAFT greatly increased after PLANT Chairman Gilbert Durandal's famous anti-Logos/Blue Cosmos speech that was broadcast throughout the PLANTS and Earth. Even though ZAFT and the Three Ships Alliance joined forces and fought together against Earth Alliance forces, they remain enemies until the end of the war.
ZAFT has consistently proven itself to be on the cutting edge of nuclear technology, producing the Neutron Jammer, the Neutron Jammer Canceller, the Neutron Stampeder, and the GENESIS cannon. In addition, they developed the Deuterion Beam Energy Transfer System, which allows a battleship to recharge its mobile suits' batteries without them having to return to the ship.

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