Gundam Wing Afer Colony Timeline

     The following timeline of AC history attempts to synthesize
the various official and semi-official Gundam Wing histories. It combines
previously-published historical info, capsule summaries of the Endless Waltz
and Episode Zero-derived flashbacks, and whatever else. Material not otherwise
attributed is derived from either the various timelines already published,
or from the Gundam Wing television series.

AC 001
Several nations establish permanent space stations in geosynchronous Earth
orbit. This is the first year of the After Colony (AC) calendar.

AC 020
The colony A02026 is constructed at Lagrange point 5. This colony will later
become the home of the fierce and mighty Long clan when they are exiled from
Earth by their fearful government.

AC 022
Space colony construction begins at Lagrange point 1. Due to unexpectedly
severe conditions and strange new diseases, construction is greatly delayed.

AC 050
Nations begin withdrawing from space, until the countries of the Middle East
- leaving the oil industry and looking for a new enterprise to invest in
- join the colony project. Colony construction begins at the other Lagrange
points.

AC 070
Due to scarce resources and limited supplies from Earth, disputes break out
at each Lagrange point. The Middle Eastern nations intercede and negotiate
an end to the conflicts.

AC 087
The colony V08744 is constructed at Lagrange point 2.

AC 102
An Island 2 type colony is completed at Lagrange point 1 (L-1). With this
success achieved, the colony project goes on to construct population centers
composed of multiple colonies, popularly known as "colony clusters."

On Earth, international disputes continue to escalate. Civilians flee the
conflict by emigrating to the colonies, and soon 15% of the human population
is living in space.

AC 130
With Earth's territorial lines redrawn, the conflicts die down.

AC 133
In the process of negotiating a lasting peace between the warring nations,
the "United Earth Sphere Alliance" is established. In order to keep the peace
- and deal with nations that oppose the new world government - the Alliance
Forces are formed. One of the Alliance's key financial supporters is the
military-industrial combine called the Romefeller Foundation.

AC 140
One by one, Earth's nations join the Alliance. As their mother countries
join, the colonies are also enrolled, willing or not. The colonies are critical
of the Alliance and its intentions, and the Alliance decides to respond with
force in order to silence its critics.

AC 147
In the name of peace and justice, the Alliance invokes the authority of its
member nations to forcibly seize control of the colonies.

AC 149
The Alliance assembly transfers control of the previously-independent colonies
to the mother countries that originally constructed and settled them. These
nations then kindle a new colony emigration boom.

AC 150
The colonists, favoring autonomy, become increasingly dissatisfied with Alliance
control.

AC 165
In order to peacefully oppose the Alliance, the citizens of the colonies
elect Heero Yuy as their representative. His charismatic leadership strengthens
solidarity between the colonies.

AC 170
Colony leader Heero Yuy's policies of demilitarization and non-violence are
well-received by many of Earth's nations.

AC 173
OZ, a subsidiary of the Romefeller Foundation, begins development of humanoid
weapons known as "mobile suits."

AC 174
Colony leader Heero Yuy makes a goodwill tour of Earth's nations, laying
the groundwork for colonial independence.

AC 175
Scientists Doctor J, Professor G, Doktor S, Instructor H, Master 0 and Howard
complete the first combat-ready mobile suit. This prototype Leo is also known
as the Tallgeese.

On April 7, colony leader Heero Yuy is assassinated by an unknown gunman.
The leaderless colonies are thrown into chaos, and the Alliance plans a second
military intervention. In reaction to the assassination, the Tallgeese developers
quit the mobile suit project and disappear.

The Romefeller Foundation's OZ subsidiary becomes a secret society.

AC 176
The Romefeller Foundation's OZ subsidiary begins production of a scaled-down
version of the mobile suit Leo.

The Alliance forms its first mobile suit force, the Special Mobile Suit corps
or "Specials." The Specials, made up of Romefeller Foundation employees,
are essentially a front for the secret society OZ.

Under the pretext of suppressing the chaos in the colonies, the Alliance
again sends in the military. Mobile suits are first used in combat. All colonies
are placed under military supervision, and communication between colonies
is prohibited to prevent future collaboration.

AC 180
Doctor J, Professor G, Doktor S, Instructor H and Master 0 design the Wing
Gundam Zero. OZ discovers their whereabouts, and they are forced to end their
collaboration, split up and go underground.

OZ begins development of the "Zodiac" series of mobile suits, which eventually
includes the Tragos, Aries, Pisces and Cancer.

Quatre Raberba Winner is born. Unlike his 29 sisters, he is born naturally
rather than being a test-tube baby. Though genetic engineering has largely
solved the reproductive complications that plagued the previous century's
space colonists, the Winner family objects to this engineering on religious
grounds; Quatre's mother dies in childbirth. Father Winner never tells his
son of the circumstances of his birth, instead letting Quatre believe that
he is a test-tube baby like his sisters.

AC 182
The Alliance decides to stage a military intervention in the Sanc Kingdom,
an advocate of Heero Yuy-style total pacifism. The capital falls in one day.
King Peacecraft is killed; Princess Relena is rescued and adopted by his
trusted aide Darlian, while Prince Milliardo's whereabouts are unknown.
Conflict breaks out in Eastern Europe. The Bloom family's wagon is caught
in the crossfire between Alliance forces and rebels; Katherine Bloom (age
4) survives, but her parents and her baby brother Triton (age 2) are believed
to be killed. Katherine is taken in by her parents' circus troupe.

AC 187
A virus breaks out at L2's V08744 colony. An antidote is developed, but is
not provided to the poorer and less desirable colonists. Among the unwanted
is a gang of orphans led by a boy named Solo; a member of his gang steals
the antidote from an Alliance base, but too late to save Solo. Dying, Solo
promises to be with his friend forever, and the seven-year-old boy thus adopts
the name "Duo." Though Duo didn't get enough antidote for himself, he never
contracts the virus, and attributes this to Solo's watching over him.

After this, Duo and his fellow urchins are taken in by V08744's Maxwell Church.
While the other boys are soon placed with foster homes, Duo ends up living
at the church with the Reverend and kindly nun Sister Helen. Since Duo refuses
to have his long hair cut, Sister Helen braids it for him. Ever the theological
quibbler, Duo maintains that he doesn't believe in God, but he believes in
the god of death as he's seen his handiwork many times in his short life.

AC 188
Revolts break out in many colonies, and are ruthlessly crushed by the Alliance.
At L3's X18999 colony, which is still a year from completion, Quinze leads
an uprising. He and his followers steal eight Alliance mobile suits and attack
Alliance military installations. Brigadier General Septem, the ranking Alliance
officer at the colony, permits Specials officer Treize Khushrenada and three
of his cadets, including 12-year-old Lucrezia Neun, to join the battle. Treize's
forces handily outmanuever and defeat the rebels, though Treize is injured
when he uses his mobile suit to block a bazooka shot aimed at Septem's base.
Meanwhile, assassin Adin Lowe and his young ward have arrived at X18999.
Adin's last assignment is to eliminate Septem. The assassination attempt
fails, and Adin proceeds to rig the Alliance base's armory with explosives.
Before he can detonate the charges, the hitman is mortally wounded, and it
falls to his ward - the boy later code-named Heero Yuy - to trigger the
explosives.

After the X18999 crisis, Treize spends some time recovering in hospital,
where he meets nurse Leia Barton. Leia's father, Barton Foundation head Dekim
Barton, is reported killed in the conflict. Adin's ward is adopted and trained
by Doctor J.

Another uprising takes place at L2's V08744. Rebels seize the Maxwell Church,
and when the Reverend urges them to lay down their arms and follow Heero
Yuy's path of peace, they accuse him of being an Alliance spy. The rebels
agree to leave the church if Duo can steal them a mobile suit, but when he
returns to the church with his booty, he finds that the Alliance has attacked
and razed it. 245 people are killed in the "Maxwell Church Massacre," including
the Reverend and Sister Helen.

At A0206, Master O, Chang Wufei's tutor, disappears from the Chang family's
house. Dekim Barton commissions him, and his four fellow scientists, to develop
an advanced mobile suit - a Gundam - for the resistance scheme known as
"Operation Meteor."

AC 189
L3's X18999 colony is completed. Mariemeia Barton is born here; her mother
is Leia Barton, and her father's identity is unknown.

Zechs Merquise and Lucrezia Neun graduate from the Specials' Lake Victoria
academy, with the highest and the second highest marks in the academy's history,
respectively.
AC 190
On Earth, a nameless ten-year-old boy fights against the Alliance as part
a team of mercenary mobile suit pilots. His team is wiped out in a failed
ambush, its location betrayed by an Alliance spy. The spy is revealed to
be a girl named Middie Une, traveling with the mercenary corps, who spies
to support her sick father and three brothers.
AC 191
At X18999, Leia Barton dies of an illness.
On April 8, terrorists steal prototype Aries mobile suits from the Alliance's
JAP point base. General Catalonia, commander of the Specials (and leader
of the secret society OZ), dispatches Treize (age 19) and Zechs (age 15)
to quash the rebellion. A terrorist captures eleven-year-old Relena Darlian,
daughter of the Alliance's vice-minister for foreign affairs, and holds her
hostage; she is rescued by Zechs. Zechs, in actuality Milliardo Peacecraft
of the Sanc Kingdom, recognizes his long-lost sister but does not reveal
his identity to her.
AC 192
Howard and Professor G, both members of the salvage organization known as
the Sweeper Group, complete the huge space ship Peacemillion and hide it
on the lunar surface. Howard then goes to Earth to work aboard a salvage
ship, while Professor G and his Sweeper cohorts remain in space.

On the return trip, the Sweepers discover a stowaway and bring him before
Professor G. The stowaway gives his name as "Duo Maxwell." Professor G replies,
"What, like Maxwell's Demon?" - to which Duo responds, "I'm no demon, I'm
the god of death!"

AC 193
Treize Khushrenada becomes leader of the secret society OZ, and commander
of the Specials.

A shuttle carrying Quatre Raberba Winner is hijacked by a gang of renegades
known as the Maganac Corps. Using the Winner family's captured ships, and
with the tacit blessing of father Winner, the Maganac Corps plan to ferry
workers from the resource satellite MO-III back to their families on Earth.
Unwilling and unpaid, the MO-III workers have become virtually prisoners
on the satellite.

Feeling an affinity for the warm-hearted and closely-knit Maganac Corps,
who are all test-tube babies as he believes himself to be, Quatre helps them
in their rescue mission. He saves Maganac leader Rasid from a traitor and
fights off Alliance forces to guard their escape, winning the Maganac Corps'
eternal respect and gratitude. The Maganac Corps escort the rescued workers
to Earth, while Quatre brings Instructor H back home with him.
AC 194
Specials ace Zechs Merquise receives the first two-rank promotion in the
organization's history, and acquires the nickname "Lightning Baron."
Doctor J has given his ward, the boy later code-named Heero Yuy, an extensive
course of training to prepare him for Operation Meteor. Heero carries out
a sabotage mission, blowing up an Alliance base inside a space colony. Due
to his miscalculation, the explosion causes civilian casualties, including
a little girl and her puppy whom he had met earlier in the day. When the
remorse-stricken Heero buries the dead puppy, Operation Meteor mastermind
Dekim Barton demands that Doctor J re-train his agent to eliminate such useless
human weaknesses.

The Alliance condemns the aging colony A0206. Rather than attempt to resettle
its inhabitants, the fierce Long clan, General Septem orders that they be
wiped out with biological weapons. Treize, preferring conventional warfare,
dispatches a Specials force to destroy the colony before the Alliance's
biological weapons unit arrives. Long Meirang, granddaughter of matriarch
Ron Shirin, battles the Specials mobile suits using a reconstructed Tallgeese;
her husband, the scholarly Chang Wufei, comes to her aid in the incomplete
Shenlong Gundam. The Specials' attack is repulsed, and the Alliance's biological
weapons are destroyed. Alliance officer Sally Po reports that the mission
was successful, ensuring that A0206 will be left alone in future.

Meirang, mortally wounded in the battle, dies in Wufei's arms. Wufei, who
had once mocked his wife's conviction that she was the reincarnation of the
legendary hero Nataku, gives this name to the Shenlong Gundam in Meirang's
memory. He tells Master O that he will pilot the Shenlong as part of Operation
Meteor.
AC 195
At each colony cluster, anti-Alliance rebels prepare for Operation Meteor.
Planned by Dekim Barton and coordinated by Quinze, the plan involves dropping
a space colony on Earth to create a climatic catastrophe and global chaos.
Then five super-advanced mobile suits, the Gundams, will be sent to Earth
to seize control of the planet. The space colonists will thus become the
rulers of the human race.

At the L3 colony cluster, designated Gundam Heavy Arms pilot Trowa Barton
realizes that Doktor S and his aides are trying to subvert his father's plan.
When he threatens to rat them out to Dekim, he is shot and killed. A nameless
mercenary, one of the mechanics working on the Heavy Arms, volunteers to
take Trowa's place and assume his name.

Aboard a Sweeper Group ship, Duo Maxwell decides he can't stomach Operation
Meteor's genocidal blueprint. He attempts to blow up the Gundam Deathscythe
and thus derail the operation, but finds that Professor G has defused his
bombs. Professor G urges Duo to steal the Deathscythe, telling him to go
to Earth and there join forces with Howard.

At the L4 colony cluster, Quatre Raberba Winner and Instructor H have completed
the construction of the Gundam Sandrock. As the final instructions for Operation
Meteor arrive, Instructor H smashes the display and tells Quatre to do as
his own conscience dictates.

At L5's A0206 colony, Chang Wufei likewise rebels. Realizing that Ron Shirin
plans to drop the ramshackle colony as part of the operation, and disapproving
of the planned mass destruction, he takes off for Earth with the Shenlong
Gundam to fight for justice.

On April 7, "Operation Meteor" begins - apparently ahead of schedule. Five
Gundams descend to Earth and begin attacking Alliance military bases and
factories. Their goal is to cripple the secret society OZ.

On May 19, the Gundams attack an Alliance meeting at the New Edwards base.
The Alliance's military leaders, who had that very day decided to begin
disarmament and make peace with the colonies, are killed. OZ then discards
its Specials cover and launches "Operation Daybreak", overwhelming the Alliance's
terrestrial forces and seizing control of Earth.

In September, Treize resigns as leader of OZ under pressure from the Romefeller
Foundation. OZ splits into Romefeller and Treize factions. The Foundation
launches "Operation Nova," dropping mass quantities of mobile dolls to Earth
to eliminate the Treize faction and any other resistance.

On December 24, the Eve Wars begin. White Fang (a movement fighting for the
independence of the space colonies, led by Quinze and the erstwhile Zechs
Merquise) and the World Nation (the Romefeller Foundation's world government,
now led by Treize Khushrenada) begin a massive space battle. Treize is killed
in battle, and the World Nation surrenders. White Fang's last gambit, an
attempt to drop the space fortress Libra on Earth, is foiled and Zechs disapears.
Representatives of the space colonies make peace with the World Nation, and
the Earth Sphere Unified Nation is established.

AC 196
Terrorists blow up a conference at which delegates of all the space colonies
have gathered. The terrorists turn out to be remnants of the White Fang
resistance group, led by a man named Sogran. Our heroes discover that Sogran
is sponsored by a Romefeller Foundation subsidiary, with the ultimate aim
of stirring up another war so that there will be a market for its military
hardware. Sogran and his backers are exposed, and their followers turn on
them.

On December 25, at the L3 colony cluster, the space colony X-18999 declares
war against the Earth Sphere Unified Nation. Its leader is Mariemeia Barton,
who declares that she is the daughter of Treize Khushrenada and rightful
ruler of the world. Quietly backing her is Dekim Barton, who plans to give
his original Operation Meteor another try.