• Rocketry pioneer Hermann Oberth elaborates on potential uses for space stations.
• Solar Cycle 16 at solar maximum.

• J. Desmond Bernal proposes a 500-meter (1,640-foot) spherical space habitat containing a complete closed ecosystem.
• Hermann (Potočnik) Noordung proposes construction of 30-meter (100-foot) wheel-shaped space stations (“Wohnrad”) in geosynchronous Earth orbit.

• The U.S. Viking 1 photographs the Martian surface.
• Olympiad XIX.

• L5 Society founded.
• Solar Cycle 21 at solar maximum.

• The Biosphere experiment begins.
• Summer Olympiad XXV. Winter Olympiad XVI.

• Solar Cycle 23 at solar maximum.
• Summer Olympiad XXVII.

• Lunar mass driver built in Censorinus crater, near Tranquility Base.
• Solar Cycle 25 at solar maximum.

• The Jupiter Energy Fleet (JEF) is launched from Lunar orbit to collect helium³, hydrogen and methane from Jupiter’s atmosphere.
• Final Winter Olympiad XXV—Summer and Winter Games recombined.

• Solar Cycle 27 at solar maximum.
• Olympiad XXXVIII.

• Human migration into space begins in earnest. The calendar is changed to the Universal Century era.
• Construction of Side 1 (L1) Bunch 1 (Shangri-La) space colony is completed.
• The Colony Management Corporation (CMC) is established.

• Solar Cycle 31 at solar maximum.
• Olympiad XLIX.

• The Jupiter Energy Fleet (JEF) is reorganized into the Jupiter Development Enterprise Group (JDEP).
• The population of the space colonies reaches 250,000.
• Yuri Torenov Minovsky born.

• The Federation establishes the Frontier Settlement Transport Bureau (FSTB).
• Gidan Nickard born.
• Olympiad LI.

• One-millionth “Spacenoid” baby born in Side 2 (L4).
• Side 1 (L1) Bunch 1 (Shangri-La) selected as site of Olympiad LII, the first to be held off the Earth.

• The population of the space colonies reaches 5 million.
• The EFF is divided into separate land, sea and air services.
• Olympiad LII.

• The Federation announces the end of warfare on Earth.
• Brian Eno and Albert Schacht born.

• The population of the space colonies reaches 50 million.
• Kaiser Pinefield and Martin Prochnow born.

• Von Braun City, the first permanent lunar settlement, is completed.
• The Lunar Economic Development Authority (LEDA), an independent non-governmental organization, is established.
• Jamitov Hymem born.

• Olympiad LIV.
• Zinba Ral and Maharajah Karn born.

• Elliott Lem born in Side 1 (L5).
• Blex Forer and John Cowen born.

• The Federation privatizes the Frontier Settlement Transport Bureau (FSTB), which becomes the Space Transport Enterprise Group (STEP).
• The population of the space colonies reaches 500 million.
• Huyman Carlyle born.
• Solar Cycle 33 at solar maximum.

• The Federation again reorganizes the Space Transport Enterprise Group. An independent non-governmental organization, the Public Corporation of Space Transport (PCST), is established.
• Construction of Side 2 (L4) Bunch 1 space colony is completed.

• Terrance Richman and Cardeas Vist born.
• Olympiad LVI.

• Total human population reaches 11 billion, of whom 40% (about 5 billion) have migrated to space.
• Olympiad LVII.
• Aleksandro Hemme born.

• The orbit of asteroid 3 Juno is altered to send it to the Earth Sphere.
• Solar Cycle 34 at solar maximum.
• Martha Vist [Carbine] born.

• Half of the total human population now lives in space.
• Ere-ism, the philosophy that the Earth is sacred and that humanity should leave it in peace, begins to spread.
• The EFF develops the RTX-44 Main Battle Tank (MBT) land combat vehicle.
• South Burning, Crux Dogatie, Manning, Ramba Ral, Garret Schmitzer, Demeziere Sonnen, Gihren Zabi and Suberoa Zinnerman born.
• Olympiad LVIII.

• The asteroid 3 Juno is moved into Lunar orbit to provide materials for colony construction and renamed Luna² (“Luna Two”).
• The Minovsky Physics Society is founded at Side 3 (L2).
• Migration to Side 1 (L5) and Side 2 (L4) ends.
• Roy Greenwood (originally Grunwald) born in Side 4 (L5).
• Henry Boone born.

• Zeon Zum Deikun begins to propagate his philosophy of Contolism, a synthesis of Ere-ism (the philosophy that the Earth is sacred and that humanity should leave it in peace) and Side-ism (the belief the Sides should be treated as sovereign nations).
• Aiguille Delaz born.

• Development of the Minovsky-Ionesco fusion reactor begins.
• Sasro Zabi and Hilde [Bidan] born.

• Cima Garahau born in Side 3 (L2) Bunch 38 (Mahal).
• Conrad Morris born.
• Olympiad LIX.

• Gerald Sakai born in Side 3 (L2).
• Ruce Cassel, Hugues Courand, Yahagi Franziback and Hawk Reuser born.

• Out of the total human population of 11 billion, 9 billion (82%) have migrated to space.
• Degwin Sodo Zabi marries the much younger Naliss [Unknown].
• Bask Om, Renceh and Terry Sanders Jr. born.

• The Federation halts development of new colonies, effectively ending its active space colonization program.
• Alien Landholding Law passed.
• Ian Greydon, Rally Radly, Sandra and Dozle Zabi born in Side 3 (L2).
• Crowley Hamon born in Side 5 (L1).
• Bork Kurai born in Japan.
• Doug Kyson, Otto Mitas and Heinz Webern born.

• Zeon Zum Deikun moves to Side 3 (L2) to realize his philosophy of Contolism.
• Migration to Side 6 (L4) ends.
• Ken Bederstadt, Stole Mannings, Ginias Sahalin and Lee Swaggard born.
• Solar Cycle 35 at solar maximum.
• Olympiad LX.

• Zeon Zum Deikun is elected as the premiere of Side 3 (L2).
• Angelina, Thomas P. Ames, Amy Bauer-Meister, Monique Cadillac, Hugh Carter, Nada Chinomi, Matt Heley, James A. Isolde, Karen Joshua, Adenauer Paraya and Erinsuto Ponowa born.

• Scharnhorst Buch founds the Buch Konzern space salvage business.
• Sophie Franc, Mabban Kirov, Mao Liang, M’quve, Shin Matsunaga and Kycilia Zabi born in Side 3 (L2).
• Johnny Nakamizo born in Side 2 (L4).
• Nesca Coleman born in Side 6 (L4).
• Matilda Ajan, Alpha A. Bate, Eledore Massis, Oliver May, Bernard Monsha, Gusttare Piper, Forud Romfellow, Mallette Sanguine, Minoru Suzuki and Hideto Washiya born.

• [Chōjo] Karn, Zenna [Kirov] and Johnny Ridden born in Side 3 (L2).
• Shirō Amada born in Side 2 (L4).
• Henken Bekkener, Liam Borrinnea, Christo Dear, Yū Kajima, Anish Roffman, Mike Saotome and Keimoss Sato born.
• Olympiad LXI.

• Thomas Kurtz born on Earth.
• Mora Bascht born in Von Braun City.
• Cherie Allison, Lester Carrot, Jessica Diaz, Yazan Gable, Ray Hamilton and Giorgio Miguel born.

• Side 3 (L2) declares its independence, and the Colony Republic is founded with Zeon Zum Deikun as its chairman. A militia, the Colony Republican Guard, is formed.
• Cameron Bloom, Annie Brebig, Fabian Frischknecht, Anavel Gato, Saki Graham, Daghda MacCumhaill, Doguza Mackle, Nicki Robert, Ricardo Vega and Chung Yung born.

• The Earth Federal Space Force (EFSF) is established as a separate service. The Federation adopts the Bardot Policy and applies economic sanctions against Side 3 (L2).
• Chap Adel, Audrey April, Oksana Boginskaya, Yayoi Ikaruga, Yuki Nakasato, Aina Sahalin, Braun Wooder and Garma Zabi born.
• Naliss Zabi dies shortly after giving birth to Garma.

• The Federation launches the Year 60 Armament Reinforcement Plan, spearheaded by the EFF. Luna² is converted into a military base.
• Icelina Eschonbach, Byrne Fikuzesu, Elizaa Heaven, Charlotte Hepner, Herman Killmeyer, Kazakh Larson, Kelly Layzner, Karl Matsubara, Bright Noa and Bernard Wiseman born.
• Olympiad LXII.

• The EFF fields the Type 61 twin-150mm MBT.
• Ailos Bade, Fritz Bauer, Erik Blanke, Hugh Carter, Lilia Flauberl, Ryu Hosei, Eliard Hunter, Noruto Kisano, Alexei Nabokov, Michel Ninorich, Rosa Yakamoto and Mirai Yashima [Noa] born.

• The Colony Republican Guard is elevated to the status of a full-fledged military, the Zeon Elite Force (ZEF).
• Alien Exclusion Act passed.
• Natalie Bianchi, Figline Isuteru, Berude Kisano, Nina Purpleton, Kiki Rosita, Paptimus Scirocco, Marie Sheen, Kai Shiden, Chiffon C. Simon, Nils Theorell, Noel Underson and Miharu Zabi born.

• Apolly Bay, Kurt Bratt, Kacricon Cacooler, Chuck Keith, Jerid Messa, Roberto, Emma Sheen and Alberto Vist born.
• Solar Cycle 36 at solar maximum.

• The EFF conducts a naval review. The new spaceships developed as part of the Year 60 Armament Reinforcement Plan take center stage.
• Ramba Ral joins the ZEFA.
• Kamuji, Fraw Bow [Kobayashi], Hayato Kobayashi, Reccoa Londe, Edgar Edmond Smith and Kou Uraki born.
• Olympiad LXIII.

• The Minovsky Physics Society observes a unique electromagnetic wave effect within the Minovsky-Ionesco fusion reactor, leading to the discovery of the Minovsky particle. Subsequent research results are kept secret.
• A political schism between Zeon Zum Deikun and the influential Zabi family is made public.
• Wybull Gardner, May Kauwin and Lila Milla Rira born.

• The Federation rejects a motion for colonial autonomy.
• Construction plan for Side 7 (L3) announced.
• Terrance Richman and Ullhammer T. Keynes demonstrate the Raiant R-7 prototype humanoid robot to Rob Torres.
• Chein Agi, Phaeton Rahu Algis, Shin Barnack, Rakan Dakaran, Beltorchika Irma and Astonaige Medoz born.

• Scharnhorst Buch purchases the good name of the Ronah noble European family.
• Alfred Izuruha born in Side 6 (L4) Bunch 35 (Libot).
• Darry Neil Guns born in Side 2 (L4).
• Aitolle Holst, Romero Marvall and Masai Ngaba born.

• Olympiad LXIV.

• Alvenica Kiest born in Yakutsk, Siberia.
• Rosamia Badam, Erisia Nocton, Mouar Pharaoh and Flaste Schole born.

• The Zeon Principality is established, with Degwin Sodo Zabi as Sovereign. Degwin’s first son, Gihren, leads a purge of Zeon Zum Deikun’s followers.
• Casval and Artesia Deikun are taken to Earth by Zinba Ral and his wife, who purchase the Maas family name and adopt them as Edward and Sayla.
• The ZEF becomes the cadre of a new and vastly expanded Zeon Military Force (ZMF).

• The ZMF commissions the first Papua-class transport ship.
• The validity of Minovsky physics is confirmed by the discovery of the “M” particle.

• The EFF launches the Year 70 Armament Reinforcement Plan.
• Akira, Asuna Elmarit, “Four Murasame” [Unknown], Lezun Schneider, Kenneth Sleg, Kara Su, Emilu Voightländer and Fa Yuiry born.

• Luna² is moved to L3 to begin construction of Side 7 (Noa Province).
• Sides 1 and 4 (Zarn and Mua Provinces) are in L5, Sides 2 and 6 (Hatte and Reah Provinces) in L4, Side 3 (Zeon Principality) in L2, and Side 5 (Loum Province) in L1.

• The ZMF begins development of new weapons for use within a Minovsky particle field.
• The Minovsky-Ionescu compact fusion reactor is completed.
• Gihren Zabi proclaims his “Survival of the Selected” theory.
• The EFF completes the FF-S3 Saberfish space fighter and adopts 9×19mm Colt M71A1 as its general issue sidearm.
• Katz Hawin [Kobayashi], Selana Karn, Adel Lagiorr, Karl Schpitz, Grey Stoke and Gremmi Toto born.

• Preeminent Zeon scientist Y.T. Minovsky defects to the Federation, creating a scandal in the Zeon Principality.
• The ZMF begins construction of the mobile asteroid fortress Axis in the asteroid belt.
• The ZMF begins the development of the YMT-05 Hildolfr transformable mobile tank.
• The EFF adopts the 4.85mm Colt M72A1 as its general issue small arm.
• The Yashima and Kiest families emigrate to Side 2 (L4).
• Rasara and Sarasa Moon born in Moon-Moon.
• Olympiad LXV.

• The ZMF completes the first of a new type of weapon, dubbed the Mobile Suit (MS).
• The ZMF adopts the M73-Mark II as its general issue normal suit.
• Gerald Sakai enlists in the ZMF.
• Letz Cofan [Kobayashi], Riddhe Marcenas and Sarah & Sidora Zabiarov born.

• The EFF deploys the arachniform MG-74 Depagg mobile gun carrier and T74 hover truck.
• Solar Cycle 37 at solar maximum.
• Mihiro Oiwakken and Yuna born.

• The Zimmad EMS-04 Zudah prototype malfunctions and self-destructs during testing, resulting in the Zeonic MS-05A Zaku winning the ZMF MS development contract.
• The EFF begins development of the RX-75 Guntank, combining the RTX-44 MBT and FF-X7 Core Fighter with stolen plans for the MS-05A Zaku.
• Casval Rem Deikun assumes the identity of Char Aznable, with a falsified age of 18 (birth date 0057), and enrolls in the ZMF officer training school.
• Alvenica Kiest’s father, a New Summer Project (NSP) terrorist, is killed in action.
• Kikka Kitamoto [Kobayashi] and Gyunei Gauss born.

• The EFF begins development of the VX-76 Ball prototype.
• Gwydion Lenore and Leslie Arno born.
• Olympiad LXVI.

• The ZMF Mobile Training Battalion secretly begins practicing combat maneuvers.
• Future “Black Tri-Stars” team members Gaia, Ortega and Mash are assigned to D Platoon, 2^nd Company, Mobile Training Battalion.

• The EFF completes the component vehicles for the RX-75 Guntank prototype.
• The ZMF terminates evaluation of the experimental YMT-05 Hildolfr transformable mobile tank.
• Angelo Sauper born.

• The Reah Revolution. A Nationalist faction seizes control of the local military force in Side 6 (L4), inciting a civil war with Federation loyalists. The ZMF backs the Nationalists, deploying a squad of MS-05B Zaku I and blockading the EFF. The Nationalists win and Side 6 declares independence as the Reah Republic.
• The EFF begins experimenting with the Minovsky Craft System (MCS).

• Roy Greenwood moves to Side 3 (L2) with his two children following the accidental death of his wife Katie.
• Roy Greenwood, Shin Matsunaga and Johnny Ridden enlist in the ZMF.
• Otis Arkins and Karoso Viggenson [Ronah] born.

• The ZMF begins development of the Tivvay, a heavy cruiser of the Chivvay class.
• Christina MacKenzie graduates from EFF Academy at the top of her class and is assigned to an elite Warfare Research Group.

• The Zeon Principality announces a state of national mobilization in response to a “revolt” in the Side 3 Quintzem colony.
• The ZMF is divided into a Space Attack Force, under the command of Dozle Zabi, and a Mobile Assault Force, commanded by Kycilia Zabi.

• The ZMF secretly begins development of the Dolos-class carrier.
• A conspiracy to assassinate Gihren Zabi is uncovered and all of the suspects are executed.

06:31—Side 2 (L4) Bunch 13 security chief Rosenberg receives a coded message that the Zeon are mobilizing, but the line is cut before he can hear the code signifying that an attack has been initiated.

07:00—Zeon forces begin attacking Side 2 (L4).

07:45—The EFF receives word of the Zeon attack.

08:02—Side 2 (L4) Bunch 13 is completely destroyed.

• ZMF O-4 Roy Greenwood loses his left eye.
• EFF O-1 Thomas Kurtz defects to the ZMF.

• Experimental Support Cruiser Jotunheim, a conscripted civilian transport ship, makes rendezvous with a Papua-class transport and Musai-class cruiser escort to obtain the experimental anti-ship cannon QCX-76A Jormungand, which can fire from outside any ship’s range, with a range estimated at 300km even when suppressed by Minovsky particles and an expected destructive power 10 times that of normal cannons. Along with the cannon, it delivers Engineering Lieutenant O-2 Oliver May, now assigned to the 603^rd Technical Evaluation Unit aboard Jotunheim.
• Two Salamis-class cruisers attack mid-transfer, destroying the Papua, which jetisoned its cargo before attempting to retreat. The Musai engages, destroying one Salamis and damaging the other, which retreats. Jotunheim then recovers the QCX-76A Jormungand and Papua survivors.
• O-2 Oliver May reports to O-6 Martin Prochnow for duty in the 603TEU.
• Special Operations Captain (O-3, acting O-5) Monique Cadillac reports for duty in the 603TEU to oversee their operations.
• O-2 Hideto Washiya reports for duty in the 603TEU.
• Zeon 2^nd Fleet, escorting Island Iffish toward Earth as part of Operation British, directs Jotunheim to change course to avoid collision.

08:35—The falling colony breaks into four pieces over the Persian Gulf.

08:41—The three smaller pieces fall on unpopulated areas of North America.

09:00—The fourth and largest falls on Sydney, Australia. The resulting 60,000 megaton blast destroys 16% of the continent, creating a 500-km (300-mi.) crater and setting off an “impact winter” that drastically changes Earth’s climate.

• Reah Republic in Side 6 (L4) declares itself neutral, a position recognized by both the Federation and Zeon.
• EFF O-1 Christina MacKenzie is reassigned to the EFF Unified Technical Research HQ Test Corps.

20:00—The ZMF 1^st Combined Fleet movement is detected by the EFF.

10:30—Jotunheim sets up the QCX-76A Jormungand cannon beyond the normal range of battle, where the EFF can clearly see it, and is told the cannon will determine the outcome of the battle, but this is a diversion to draw attention from the deployment of the newly-developed MS-06 Zaku II.

10:45—The QCX-76A Jormungand is ready to fire. The EFF commences firing upon the ZMF 1^st Combined Fleet. The Battle of Loum officially begins.

• Musai-class battleship Shurebiki destroyed, breaching the ZMF 32^nd Fleet battle formation.
• Chief Gunnery Officer Aleksandro Hemme decides to manually fire a test shot due to the lack of the promised targetting data from the observation ship.
• Magnetic interference hinders manual targeting. The test shot misses all enemy ships but drags a Salamis class cruiser in its wake.
• Engineering Lieutenant O-2 Oliver May and O-2 Hideto Washiya launch in a shuttle to obtain targeting data themselves.
• The QCX-76A Jormungand fires a second shot.
• Before any members of the 603^rd Technical Evaluation Unit can get close enough to the battle to be effective, Zaku units pass them by. Among them, O-2 Char Aznable, who informs them via Morse code flashed from the MS-06 main camera, that the remainder of the battle is to be left to the Mobile Assault Force squadrons.
• A Salamis-class cruiser fires missiles at the QCX-76A Jormungand before being destroyed, injuring Hemme.
• A heavily damaged Magellan-class battleship heads towards the QCX-76A Jormungand.
• The third and final shot from the QCX-76A Jormungand destroys the Magellan-class battleship. Hemme later dies from his injuries.

11:20—The ZMF 1^st Combined Fleet begins the attack on Side 5 (L1). The ZMF Mobile Assault Force begin attaching a nuclear pulse engine to Side 5 (L1) Bunch 11.

22:14—The EFF 1^st Combined Fleet engages the ZMF 1^st Combined Fleet and a fierce space battle begins.

22:40—The ZMF Mobile Assault Force abandons its colonyjack attempt on Side 5 (L1) Bunch 11, leaving the attached equipment in place.

• ZMF O-2 Char Aznable is nicknamed “Red Comet” and promoted to O-4 by the Space Attack Force for destroying 5 Magellan-class EFF battleships.
• ZMF E-7 Johnny Ridden is nicknamed “Red Blitz” and promoted to O-3 by the Mobile Assault Force for destroying 3 Magellan battleships.
• ZMF E-2 Shin Matsunaga is promoted to O-2 for destroying a Magellan battleship and 5 Salamis-class cruisers.
• ZMF O-3 Ramba Ral is nicknamed “Blue Giant” by the Space Attack Force.
• ZMF E-5 Gerald Sakai receives a field commission to O-1 and is reassigned to Granada lunar base.

03:10—The EFF flagship Ananke, carrying fleet commander General Revil, is crippled. The ZMF Mobile Assault Force “Black Tri-Stars” team captures Revil.

04:24—The remnants of the EFF 1^st Combined Fleet retreat.

06:00—The ZMF 1^st Combined Fleet breaks off the attack and disperses. One by one, the ships return to Side 3 (L2) or Solomon in Side 1 (L5).

• The Zeon Principality negotiates a temporary truce with the Federation through neutral Side 6 (L4).
• The ZMF Space Attack Force conducts a private memorial service for those killed in battle, officiated by O-9 Dozle Zabi.

• The Antarctic Treaty is signed. Further use of NBC weapons, colony drops or other weapons of mass destruction prohibited. Sanctity of neutral space and lunar colonies guaranteed.
• General Revil returns to Earth and delivers his “Zeon is exhausted!” speech to the Federation Assembly.

• The ZMF stages its second drop operation. The 2^nd and 3^rd Terrestrial Mobile Divisions are dropped on both coasts of North America, from which they press inward into the heartland.
• ZMF O-1 Ian Greydon is assigned to the 2^nd TMD.

• The ZMF 2^nd Terrestrial Mobile Division captures the EFF California base, where it establishes its HQ, and sends a detachment to capture the EFF Hawaii base.
• The ZMF 3^rd TMD captures the EFF bases at Mayport PA, Norfolk VA and Cape Canaveral FL.

• The EFF launches Operation V, MS and battleship R&D, and Project Vinson, mass-production of V weapons and fleet replacement.
• Using MS facilities and factories now under development, the EFF begins MS training.

• The ZMF drops supplemental forces. The 5^th Terrestrial Mobile Division is dropped at the Red Sea and Persian Gulf, from which it fans out into North Africa and the Middle East, establishing bases at Alexandria and Suez, Egypt.
• ZMF O-4 Roy Greenwood is assigned to 1^st MS Battalion A Platoon “Karakul” Unit in Alexandria.
• ZMF O-2 Thomas Kurtz is assigned to “Afrika Korps” Guerilla Unit G-27.

• The ZMF proclaims that it will achieve total control of the Earth by August 0079.
• Jotunheim participates in a supply drop operation with a fleet of Papua-class transports.

• Former ZMF Tank Training Unit instructor O-4 Demeziere Sonnen is assigned to pilot the YMT-05 Hildolfr transformable mobile tank.
• Jotunheim transports auxiliary MS-05B Zaku I units for the 3^rd MS Battalion.
• The 603^rd Technical Evaluation Unit launches a Komusai to drop the YMT-05 Hildolfr for Terrestrial evaluation, with instructions to abandon it when the test is complete, after which it will redeploy with the ZMF 67^th Supply Point in Arizona.
• EFF O-5 Federico Czariano leads a squadron of captured MS-06JC Zaku II and T-61 MBT in a raid on the 67^th Supply Point during the descent of the Komusai.
• ZMF O-4 Demeziere Sonnen makes a surprise attack on the EFF commando force in the dropped YMT-05 Hildolfr, destroying all of the enemy units completely, but is mortally wounded by EFF O-5 Federico Czariano in the process.
• EFF O-5 Federico Czariano and ZMF O-4 Demeziere Sonnen killed in action.

• The ZMF completes the Solomon space fortress near Side 1 (L5).
• ZMF O-2 Shin Matsunaga is nicknamed “White Wolf of Solomon” by the Space Attack Force.

• The ZMF completes its basic line of defense, consisting of the Solomon (L5) and A Baoa Qu (L3) space fortresses and the Granada lunar base.
• The Flanagan Agency, a ZMF funded Newtype R&D laboratory, is established in the Baldur Bay colony of neutral Side 6 (L4).
• The ZMF establishes a Submarine Battle Fleet HQ at Hokkaido University West and launches the “Red” offensive, a sweep toward SE Asia.

• The EFF succeeds in miniaturizing beam weapons using ENCAP (energy capacitor) technology.
• The Pegasus-class MS carrier SCV-70 White Base is completed.
• Rollout of the first RX-78 Gundam. With the RX-78-1 completed, the RX-79 Plan gets rolling. and work on a pre-production type and various MS support weapons begins. They are distributed to the major bases on a trial basis.
• The ZMF Submarine Battle Fleet is activated, with 10 Jukon-class combat submarines staged in the Atlantic, Indian and Arctic Oceans with a roving commission to disrupt commercial shipping and destroy any remaining Federal Navy military assets.
• An EFF Reconnaissance in Force (RIF) fleet engages a ZMF Strategic Planning & Operations Group convoy A Baoa Qu perimeter defense space fortress near the Side 3 (L2). ZMF O-3 Gaia’s “Black Tri-Stars” commando team, equipped with the new MS-06R-1A High Mobility Zaku II, decimates the RIF, destroying a Magellan-class battleship and an entire FF-S3 Saberfish escort fighter formation.

• The EFF begins final testing of the RX-78-2 Gundam at Side 7 (L3).
• Development of the RX-78 NT-1 Gundam G-4 “Alex” at the EFF Augusta base in Maine, the RX-78E Gundam GT-FOUR at Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory and the RX-79 EX PH-1 Gundam Zephyr Phantom in Side 7 (L3) begins.
• EFF O-1 Christina MacKenzie is assigned to the G-4 Test Unit, headed by O-4 Stewart.
• ZMF North American Occupation Force commander Garma Zabi and debutant Icelina Eschonbach, daughter of Los Angeles mayor Joseph Eschonbach, announce their betrothal.
• The Battle of Midway. The remaining Federal Navy fleet fails to recapture its home port and the EFF Hawaii base.

• Side 3 (L2) Bunch 38 (Mahal) is evacuated for conversion to Solar Ray System.
• The ZMF begins a sweep of the Atlantic Ocean to destroy what remains of the Federal Navy fleet.
• The EFF Luna² Attached Patrol Fleet engages the ZMF Granada Space Defense Unit. The Salamis-class cruisers Schleihof and Botani are destroyed and the “Black Tri-Stars” ZMF commando team cripples the Magellan-class battleship Hormuz. EFF Luna² base commander O-9 Amundsen resigns and is succeeded by O-10 Hyatt.

08:15—White Base docks at Side 7 (L3) Bunch 1 (Green Oasis).

09:00—In the first-ever MS battle inside a space colony, the RX-78-2 Gundam piloted by civilian Amuro Ray destroys two MS-06F Zaku II.

16:00—The Musai-class mothership of the ZMF Special Forces team, commanded by O-4 Char Aznable, opens fire on Side 7 (L3) Bunch 1 (Green Oasis). Most of the White Base crew are killed and O-6 Paolo Cassius is mortally wounded.

16:50—White Base escapes with the RX-series MS and over 100 civilian refugees and sets out to return to the EFF Jaburo GHQ.

b>14:10—The ZMF North American Occupation Force, commanded by O-6 Garma Zabi, engages White Base near Grand Canyon AZ. During the battle, Zeon reasearcher Dr. Chlust Morses defects to the Federation.

• The EFF begins full production of RGM-79 GM and reforms the formerly seniority-based promotion system to allow more personnel to qualify as pilots. The ZMF counters by fielding a succession of new combat machines and prototypes.
• The Flanagan Agency in Side 6 (L4) completes a prototype “psychic communicator” (psycommu) system.
• The “Black Tri-Stars” ZMF commando team is equipped with the MS-09 Dom and transferred to the ZMF 7^th Terrestrial Mobile Division, 1^st MS Battalion, stationed at Odessa, Ukraine.
• ZMF O-1 Ian Greydon is promoted to O-2 and given command of an MS-06K Zaku Cannon company.
• The ZMF adopts the M79-Mark III as its general issue normal suit.
• Operation Cactus. The second attempt to interdict the ZMF orbital supply route fails.
• The 3^rd Solomon Engagement. The EFF 23^rd Battle Group launches a Reconnaissance in Force (RIF) against the Solomon space fortress defensive perimeter in Side 3 (L2).

• White Base receives the first supply shipment dispatched by General Revil.
• The ZMF Occupation Forces launch a new offensive in Asia.
• Sovereign Degwin Sodo Zabi attends a war memorial service in Side 3 (L2) Bunch 9.

• A ZMF Gaw airborne assault carrier rams White Base over Prince Rupert, British Columbia, damaging the RX-78-2 Gundam.
• ZMF O-6 Garma Zabi killed in action.

• The Zeon Principality conducts a state funeral for Garma Zabi. Gihren Zabi’s “Turn your grief to anger!” speech, ending with the first use of the phrase “Sieg Zeon!”, is broadcast throughout the Earth Sphere.
• A Zanzibar-class mobile cruiser lands a Special Pursuit Force, led by O-2 Ramba Ral, in the North Pacific, where it advances to a nearby island and engages White Base.
• EFF pilot O-1 Shirō Amada meets ZMF test pilot Aina Sahalin.

• O-1 Shirō Amada assumes command of the Kojima Battalion 08th MS Platoon.
• The ZMF Asia Command Post discovers an EFF base camp in Central Asia and begins planning a sneak attack.

• White Base receives the second supply shipment from the EFF Medea transport plane commanded by O-2 Matilda Ajan.
• Operation Desert Dragon. The ZMF “Wolf Gar” team infiltrates the EFF base camp in Central Asia and launches an attack from within as the ZMF Asia Command Post begins its raid. The EFF troops evacuate.

• White Base crosses the Pacific and moves into Central Asia, where it again engages the Ramba Ral pursuit force, destroying two MS-06J Zaku II.
• An EFF armada, led by General Revil, crosses Britain en route to Central Europe.
• The ZMF completes the Mad Angler submarine and begins sea trials.

• Two EFF reconnaissance fleets begin moving south from Oslo, Norway.
• White Base attacks the ZMF mining operation at Tarim Pendi in SW China.

• The Zanzibar-class mobile cruiser Chimæra, carrying Mobile Assault Force commander O-8 Kycilia Zabi, descends to Earth to conduct a battlefield inspection.
• The ZMF Primus fleet, commanded by O-4 Johnny Ridden, is assigned blockade duty. Ridden and wingmen Manson and Brooks, piloting MS-06-R2 High Mobility Zaku II, intercept the EFF fleet transporting RGM-79 GM to Luna² for field tests.

• The EFF Ohayō Squadron attempts to engage a convoy of three of Papua-class transports, but is intercepted and forced to retreat by the EMS-10 Zudah field test MS newly-assigned to the ZMF 603^rd Technical Evaluation Unit.
• A ZMF propaganda broadcast congratulates the EFF for finally developing MS and announces that the new, tehcnologically superior EMS-10 Zudah is undergoing field trials under the supervision of 12-year veteran Zimmad test pilot O-5 Jean Luc Duvall.
• The 603TEU tests the combat landing sequence of the EMS-10 Zudah on the Jotunheim with test pilots O-5 Jean Luc Duvall and O-2 Hideto Washiya.
• The Jotunheim sets course to Side 3 (L2) for resupply.
• ZMF O-2 Oliver May reports the success of the EMS-10 Zudah field trials to Engineering HQ Commandant O-8 Albert Schacht.

• The ZMF launches the first Mad Angler submarine squadron, commanded by Char Aznable.
• The ZMF Space Attack Force Primus fleet launches from Solomon (L5) to engage the EFF fleet around Luna² (L3).
• White Base receives orders from General Revil to cross the Caspian Sea.

• The EFF establishes a unit to collect battle data for use in the RGM-79 GM.
• The ZMF Primus fleet launched against the EFF fleet at Luna² is destroyed.
• The EFF occupies Tehran, Iran and destroys the ZMF Tien Shan GHQ.
• The ZMF “Cyclops” commando team deals a decisive blow to an EFF command center on the Moon.

• Gundam combat support parts, including the G-Armor and Core Booster upgrades, are deployed.
• General Revil orders White Base to proceed without cover, drawing an attack from Central Asia.
• The EFF receives additional reinforcements, mostly air combat forces.

• During an inspection of the ZMF 102^nd Mining Base by O-8 Kycilia Zabi, the RX-78-2 Gundam launches a surprise attack against the Tashkent, Uzbekistan mining zone. The MAX-03 Adzam is destroyed.
• The Ramba Ral pursuit force overtakes White Base with a Sodon gunship.

• White Base repels the ZMF Special Pursuit Force.
• An EFF reconnaissance unit blocks ZMF construction of an advance base (“Thorn Garden”) in the Shoal Zone around the former Side 5 (L1).
• ZMF O-3 Ramba Ral killed in action.

• The ZMF “Black Tri-Stars” commando team arrives at Odessa and engages White Base.
• EFF O-2 Matilda Ajan and ZMF O-2 Mash are killed in action.

06:00—The EFF launches Operation Odessa. Each division begins action independently.

06:30—White Base moves in from the opposite direction.

09:20—The remnants of the ZMF Special Pursuit Force, now led by Crowley Hamon, engages White Base. EFF O-2 Ryu Hosei and Crowley Hamon killed in action.

13:40—The main EFF force, led by General Revil, breaks through the ZMF defense network.

20:00—The Revil force encounters the anticipated ZMF counterattack. The ZMF Submarine Battle Fleet moves north to establish a blockade.

• O-1 Amy Bauer-Meister is nicknamed “Eagle of Odessa” by EFF.

05:00—The EFF offensive begins to follow up the 4^th Division incursion. The ZMF Occupation Force is thrown entirely on the defensive.

11:00—The EFF 3^rd Division marches in from the Carpathian Mountains. moving east through Kishinëv [Chişanău], Bessarabia, Moldava.

17:00— ZMF Odessa commander O-6 M’quve escapes on the last HLV.

• The EFF breaks through the last ZMF defensive line.
• The RX-78-2 Gundam destroys the two remaining “Black Tri-Stars” MS-09 Dom.
• A nuclear missile boobytrap set by M’quve is launched, but the RX-78-2 Gundam and G-Sky EZ destroy the warhead fuse prior to impact.
• Operation Odessa ends. From Europe through Asia, the ZMF forces begins to break down.
• The ZMF 603^rd Technical Evaluation Unit commences field testing the EMS-10 Zudah, but halts testing after the pilot of Unit 3 is killed after disobeying orders against exceeding speed safety limits, loses control and blows up. O-2 Oliver May discovers that this is the same malfunction that occured with the EMS-04 Zudah test in UC 0075.
• EFSF London “Billy” broadcasts a propaganda announcement that the EMS-10 Zudah is just a renumbering of the EMS-04 Zudah and confirms the EFF victory at Odessa.
• ZMF HQ sends transmissions to all ships near Earth to terminate current activities and gather near Earth orbit. The Jotunheim immediately responds to rescue ZMF survivors from Odessa.
• ZMF O-6 Martin Prochnow prohibits the use of the EMS-10 Zudah due to the malfunction.
• ZMF O-5 Jean Luc Duvall claims that Zeonic sabotaged the Zudah to disqualify Zimmad and win the contract.
• Jotunheim recieves distress calls from ZMF refugees who escaped Odessa and are stranded in Earth orbit.
• Horizontal Take-Off & Landing (HOTOL) 79 loses control and crashes into two HLV, causing a chain reaction of collisions, explosions and casualties.
• Jotunheim sends out relief launches upon reaching the orbital trajectory.
• An EFF RB-79 Ball Squadron attacks the orbiting HLV and other craft. An MS-06JC Zaku II MS Team attempts to engage them, but are Ground-Use MS and cannot maneuver properly in space. Special Operations O-4 Monique Cadillac orders the resumption of testing on the EMS-10 Zudah to engage the RB-79 Ball Squadron.
• Just as the RB-79 Ball Squadron is destroyed, two RGM-79 GM Squadrons attack. Jotunheim takes a direct hit as the EMS-10 Zudah MS Team then engages. O-5 Jean Luc Duvall leads the enemy away at speeds past the safety limit, resulting in his death as all of the GM and Zudah engines fail or explode.
• ZMF O-5 Jean Luc Duvall, O-3 Gaia and O-2 Ortega are killed in action.

• The EFF holds a naval review, but the fact that it now has MS remains classified.
• The Zeon Principality announces that the ZMF is abandoning Odessa.
• The EFF forces at Odessa stand down, but remain on alert.
• ZMF Engineering HQ orders the cessation of testing on the EMS-10 Zudah. All of the surviving MS are assigned to the Jotunheim as part of the shipboard defenses.

• Alicia Stockwell and J.T. Allheim test the Tactical Mobile Manipulator (TMM) in conjunction with the RX-78 EX PH-1 Gundam Zephyr Phantom at Side 7 (L3).
• ZMF O-2 Oliver May files his performance report on the EMS-10 Zudah.

• ZMF O-6 Char Aznable spots White Base docked at the EFF base in Belfast, North Ireland.
• Anaheim Electronics announces its new MS linear seat system.
• The EFF launches Operation Velvet, an offensive into the Lepanto district of North Africa.

• The ZMF 26^th Amphibious Assault Team deploys in the Belfast suburbs to blockade White Base while the MAM-07 Grabro engages the RX-78-2 Gundam.
• ZMF O-3 Flanagan Boone killed in action.

• The ZMF begins consolidating all ongoing MS development projects.
• Construction of the Pezun space fortress begins near Side 2 (L4).

• The ZMF Mad Angler submarine squadron launches a missile barrage against the EFF Belfast base.
• White Base sets out for the EFF GHQ in Jaburo at midnight.
• The EFF rushes development of the RX-79 EX PH-1 Gundam Zephyr Phantom robotic MS prototype.
• Miharu Ratokie (“Agent 107”) killed in action.

• The ZMF Mad Angler submarine squadron retreats into the Amazon River.
• The EFF advances its preparations to recapture the California base from the ZMF.
• Operation Velvet ends successfully.

05:40—The EFF detects the advance assault on the concealed hatch of the MS hangar and sounds a Red Alert.

06:30—ZMF reinforcements from the California base arrive. A fleet of 18 Gaw airborne assault carriers target the camouflaged spaceport. The Mad Angler submarine squadron withdraws to a standby position.

07:20—Battle begins in the skies over Jaburo. The ZMF air forces begin dropping MS units. The EFF scrambles its air interceptor force.

07:30—The ZMF ground forces deploy into 2- and 3-unit MS platoons and begin searching for the hidden Jaburo entrances.

07:40—ZMF O-6 Char Aznable, piloting an MSM-07S Z’Gok, coordinates his Gogg vanguard team with a clandestine MSM-08 Zogock UDT unit.

07:50—ZMF O-6 Char Aznable engages the RX-78-2 Gundam. The attempted destruction of the MS factory fails. EFF O-3 Woody Malden killed in action.

08:20—The EFF defenders destroy 50% of the ZMF ground forces.

08:30—The surviving ZMF ground and air forces begin to retreat.

09:00—The ZMF attackers are in full retreat. EFF forces pursue them.

• The ZMF rolls out the MS-19N Katarl stealth MS prototype.
• ZMF O-3 Gerald Sakai and O-2 Thomas Kurtz are transferred to the Ace Corps in Granada.

19:00—The EFF launches four decoy ships, including the 13^th Autonomous Squadron aboard White Base, each in different direction.

21:00—The main body of the 2^nd Combined Space Fleet launches from Jaburo.

• The EFF 17^th Armored Marine Division lands at Takaran, Borneo (Malaysia).

• White Base encounters and destroys the ZMF Camel fleet, then continues on its way, docking at Baldur Bay colony in Side 6 (L4).
• Char Aznable’s Zanzibar rendezvous with the Conscon fleet near Side 6.
• ZMF O-3 Dren killed in action.

• The EFF launches a sweep of Africa and North America. The ZMF Occupation Force in North America retreats, abandoning bases and escaping into space.
• ZMF ace MS pilot Ian Greydon destroys 34 fighters, 71 MBT and 2 MS before escaping to Zeon from the occupied EFF Canaveral base.
• The EFF launches Operation Tycoon, an offensive into Asia.
• Just before dawn, White Base engages the Conscon fleet near Side 6 (L4), destroying the ZMF Musai-class light cruiser Kwamel and an entire squadron of MS-09R Rick Dom. In a subsequent engagement, it annihilates the remainder of the Conscon fleet.
• The EFF fleet begins staging at Luna² for another assault on the ZMF Solomon space fortress in L5.
• ZMF O-6 Conscon is killed in action.

• The last remnants of the ZMF African forces withdraw.
• EFF Space Attack Force ace O-1 Heinz Bain leads a Reconnaissance in Force (RIF) from Luna² (L3) against the ZMF Solomon space frotress (L2).

• The ZMF “Cyclops” commando team attacks the EFF Arctic base on Augustus Island, Nunavut, Canada transshipping the RX-78 NT-1 Gundam G-4.
• ZMF E-5 Andy Strauss killed in action.

• ZMF expelled from Side 6 (L4) for violation of neutrality.
• “Cyclops” team prepares weapons caches, assembles MS-18E Kämpfer.
• Bernard Wiseman and Al Izuruha discover hidden EFF Gundam G-4 facility.

• Operation Rubicon. “Cyclops” team attacks EFF facility.
• ZMF O-3 Steiner Hardy, O-1 Mikhail “Mischa” Kaminsky and E-6 Gabriel Ramirez Garcia killed in action.

• White Base docks at Texas colony in Side 5 (L1).
• ZMF O-5 Killing commits mutiny, shoots Granada commandant O-6 Von Helsing and orders a nuclear strike against Side 6 (L4) Bunch 35 (Libot).

• The Battle of Solomon. The ZMF is defeated, Solomon is captured.
• ZMF O-3 Anavel Gato is nicknamed “Nightmare of Solomon” by the Space Attack Force.
• Bernard Wiseman restores his MS-06FZ Zaku II to full operation.
• ZMF Space Attack Force commander Dozle Zabi is killed in action.

• Massive salvage and reconstruction operations begin throughout the space colonies. Tolro Company TOLRO-800 Type Torohachi Petite Mobile Suit introduced.
• Hayato Kobayashi and Fraw Bow marry and adopt “Gang of Three” (Kikka, Letz and Katz).
• Bright Noa marries Mirai Yashima.
• The Flanagan Agency is reorganized into the Newtype Research Institute.
• Anton Flanagan and [Chōjo] Karn die.
• Hathaway Noa and Qum born.
• Olympiad LXVII.

~21:00—The GP02A, with a Mk.82 nuclear warhead, is captured.

21:46—The surviving EFF MS begin pursuit of the GP02A.

• Raban Karcs, Rob Marnery and O-1 Gaily killed in action.

10:51—Jaburo’s O-9 Cowen orders Albion captain O-6 Eiphar Synapse to recover the GP02A. The Albion departs for Africa.

~12:00—Anaheim Electronics technician Nick Orville is revealed as a spy. He escapes the Albion in a Core Fighter.

13:15—ZMF O-8 Neuen Bitter, commander of the Kimberlite base, begins a diversionary operation.

14:01—Anavel Gato and the GP02A escape to orbit in a DC-14 HLV (Heavy-lift Launch Vehicle).

14:27—The Kimberlite base surrenders.

14:30—The Peer Gynt, flagship of a Delaz Fleet Musai squadron, recovers the HLV. After battling a Salamis unit of the EFF 1^st Earth Orbital Fleet, its whereabouts are unknown.

• Neuen Bitter and Nick Orville killed in action.

10:37—The Peer Gynt returns to the Shoal Zone’s Thorn Garden.

10:51—The Albion is joined by two Salamis-class cruisers and begins searching the Shoal Zone.

12:19—The Lili Marlene ambushes the Albion squadron in the Shoal Zone. The GP01, outfitted for gravity, is severely damaged.

12:30—The Delaz declaration. The Delaz Fleet’s declaration of war is broadcast throughout the Earth Sphere.

20:55—The Albion makes an emergency launch in response to the attack of the MA-06 Val Varo.

21:18—The GP01-Fb destroys the Val Varo.

21:40—Leaving the Moon, the Albion sets course for the Solomon Sea near Side 1 (L5).

• Former ZMF O-3 Kelly Layzner and ZMF O-3 Kult killed in action.

15:16—The Cima squadron moves to its designated operation area.

15:27—EFF O-3 South Burning killed in action. Alpha A. Bate receives a field promotion to O-3, and Kou Uraki to O-2.

02:23—The Axis Advance Fleet returns to the Earth Sphere.

13:00—Four years after being suspended due to the One Year War, an EFF naval review is performed.

14:31—Anavel Gato attacks the naval review, using the GP02A’s Mk.82 nuclear warhead. Two-thirds of the participating vessels are immobilized or worse, and heavy casualties are received. EFF O-10 Green Wyatt killed in action.

15:05—The GP01-Fb battles the GP02A. Both are destroyed.

16:27—The Cima squadron executes two colonyjacks.

16:50—The Albion changes course to La Vie en Rose.

21:08—The EFF patrol craft Strawberry 9 discovers the Cima squadron’s colonyjack.

21:11—The Cima squadron blasts a mirror off each of the two colonies, Island Blade and Island Ease.

21:26—The two colonies collide, and Island Ease begins falling toward the Moon. (949 minutes remain until the colony falls on the lunar surface.)

21:35—The EFF remaining naval vessels hurriedly set out from Kompei Island in pursuit of the Cima squadron and the Island Ease colony.

05:35—Joining forces with the Axis Advance Fleet, the Gato squadron receive the Axis-made mobile armor AMA-X2 Neue Ziel.

05:57—The Albion docks at La Vie en Rose.

08:51—The vanguard of the Federation fleet battles the Neue Ziel, which destroys a dozen Salamis-class ships and 45 RGM-79 GM, earning it the nickname “White Lucifer.”

09:25—The Gato squadron and Axis Advance Fleet join the main body of the Delaz Fleet.

10:40—Using an orbital transportation laser (also known as an ignition laser), the Delaz Fleet ignites the colony’s propellant. The Island Ease colony’s trajectory is changed to an Earth-bound orbit. (2274 minutes remain until Earth-fall.) The Federation pursuit fleet, having exhausted its fuel supply, is unable to escape lunar orbit.

12:12—Lucette Audevie is killed.

15:18—The Albion launches accompanied by the GP03.

10:50—The GP03 and Neue Ziel begin combat.

13:51—In lunar orbit, the Federation pursuit fleet completes resupply and resumes pursuit of the Delaz Fleet.

17:15—Cima Garahau takes over the bridge of the Gwaden.

19:34—The Island Ease colony passes the critical intercept point. (300 minutes remain until Earthfall.)

20:15—ZMF O-9 Aguille Delaz is killed in action.

21:47—The Solar System II is activated. (166 minutes and 47 seconds remain until Earth-fall.)

22:41—ZMF O-5 Cima Garahau is killed in action.

23:11—Anavel Gato completes the final orbital corrections. (82 minutes and 54 seconds remain until Earth-fall.)

00:13—The Island Ease colony passes through the sky over Jaburo in South America (local time is 20:13 on 0083.11.12).

00:34—The Island Ease colony falls near the border of Kansas and Nebraska on the North American continent.

01:15—The Axis Advance Fleet withdraws.

01:19—ZMF O-4 Anavel Gato is killed in action.

• Darry Neil Guns receives MS operator license.
• Olympiad LXVIII.

• Side 4 is merged with Side 1 at L5, Side 6 is merged with Side 2 at L4, Side 5 (L1) is redesignated Side 4, and Side 7 is merged with Luna². As a result, Side 1 (Zarn Province) is in L5, Side 2 (Hatte Province) in L4, Side 3 (Zeon Republic) in L2, Side 4 (Shoal Zone) in L1, and Side 7 (L3) Bunch 1 (Green Oasis) is an adjunct of Luna² in L3.
• Darry Neil Guns joins Monotone Corporation in Side 2 (L4).
• Solar Cycle 38 at solar maximum.

• In the “Monotone Mouse” mode, Darry Neil Guns forms a team with Maraschino “Cherry” Roses, Greyfield, et al.
• Gilais Krueger, Buzz Garemson, Esther Chavarri and Phonse Kagachi born.
• Olympiad LXIX.

• Solar Cycle 39 at solar maximum.
• Olympiad LXXI.

15:28—Operation Billiard begins. Phase 1 begins with the ECOAS 920 “Manhunter” Special Forces Team using dummy balloons disguised as debris, behind which two D-50C Loto MS units infiltrate the Neo Zeon asteroid base Palau. A covert operative plants a plastic explosive in the coupling shaft of the asteroid fortress. Meanwhile, O-1 Riddhe Marcenas sorties in the MSN-001A1 Delta Plus when the Nahel Argama initiates Phase 2. The operation goes off without a hitch and the “billiard” effect of the two asteroid sections hitting one another is a success.

06:20—The Neo Zeon transatmospheric battleship Garancieres, disguised as a Rivacona Cargo transport, sets course for the new Federation capital at Dakar in the Senegal Autonomous Region, the destruction of which is deemed vital for the success of a third Neo Zeon war.

06:35—Banagher Links talks with MS mechanic Tomura while the RX-0 Unicorn is being analyzed and realizes that he has been duped into participating in an EFSF operation to ascertain the contents of the Laplace Box.

06:40—The tanker Zeus IX anchored in the port is torn apart by a gigantic claw and then explodes. As an Aqua MS squad policing the harbor gathers by the wreckage, the Shamblo surfaces on the opposite shore, destroying a seaside warehouse. When the GM squad changes course to pursues it, they are ambushed by Zee Zulus.

07:02—Aboard the Ra Cailum, Londo Bell commander O-6 Bright Noa receives word of the Dakar attack. He breaks off the pursuit of the Garancieres as it nears Libyan airspace and changes course for Dakar at maximum speed.

07:09—The Ra Cailumlaunches an RMS-119 EWAC Zack covered by O-1 Riddhe Marcenas in the MSN-001A1 Delta Plus.

07:24—Evacuation of the Plateau District begins as the Shamblo begins a rampage using reflector bits. Both beam and projectile weapons prove ineffective against the Shamblo as it continues to advance towards an uninhabited field.

08:13—The situation in Dakar is relayed to the Garancieres. Coming face to face with the tragic event in the capital, Banagher races off to the bridge.

08:15—The Ra Cailum is unable to determine the heading of the Shamblo. Riddhe reports to Bright on his solo attacks.

08:22—Riddhe approaches Dakar in the Delta Plus and, with the garrison forces, engages the Shamblo. To prevent any more needless deaths of trapped citizens and refugees, Riddhe decides to take on the Shamblo alone.

08:40—Banagher witnesses the Delta Plus taking on the Shamblo and also decides to prevent further slaughter by launching in the RX-0 Unicorn, but Garancieres captain Suberoa Zinnerman holds him at gunpoint.

08:44—The ESFS Nigel and the Thorton teams split up and approach Dakar from the southern tip along Cape Bernard. Sensing the Zee Zulu team lying in wait, they attack first.

08:46—Aboard the Shamblo, Loni also cannot bear the massacre of the refugees. She proposes a detour to her father Mahdi, but he ignores her.

08:47—After a brief altercation, Zinnerman punches out Banagher.

08:50—Banagher deserts from the Garancieres. As the RX-0 Unicorn falls towards Dakar, his rage activates the Newtype Destroyer (NT-D) mode.

08:54—Mahdi is confused by the sudden onslaught by the Unicorn Gundam. Unsure of whether or not Banagher has betrayed them, he orders Loni and the others to destroy the Gundam.

08:55—The Delta Plus and Unicorn Gundam link up and form a single battle line.

08:57—The Shamblo cannot be stopped, but Loni tries to restrain her father and put an end to his madness.

04:13—The crew of the Garancieres abandon ship and dispatch it to Luna² (L3) on auto-pilot.

12:45—Alberto Vist catches up with the Garancieres and discovers that it is unmanned, at which point it self-destructs. The Londo Bell Clop-class cruisers Carotte and the Tenenbaum motherships of the “Tri-Stars” RGM-96X Jesta squad are also destroyed.

12:49—After recovering the Tri-Stars, the Rewloola withdraws from the battlefield.

17:57—The Tri-Stars link up with the General Revil.

19:32—The General Revil reaches GEO and heads toward L1.

22:00—The Rewloola approaches the Perigee Passage.

14:30—The Tennyson Fleet communicates with the Rewloola.

14:35—The Rewloola communicates with the Tennyson Fleet. The MSN-06S Sinanju and YAMS-132 Rozen Zulu launch on a booster-equipped Shackles.

18:30—The Tri-Stars launch from the General Revil on a booster-equipped Shackles at maximum speed.

19:30—The Nahel Argama arrives at L1.

20:00—The Tennyson Fleet hails the Rewloola, then quickly heads towards the L1 Junction. The Nahel Argama is fully engaged with the Neo Zeon.

23:30—On orders from Neo Zeon leader Full Frontal, the Tennyson Fleet changes course and heads for Industrial 7 in Side 4 (L1).

00:30—The General Revil observes the destruction of L1 and changes course for Industrial 7, ordering the Tri-Stars to follow suit.

05:17—The Nahel Argama heads for Industrial 7, to which the Rewloola is already heading at full combat speed.

• EFF O-2 Gwydion “Gwyn” Lenore defeats renegade Neo Zeon “Aquila Corps” commander O-5 Mabban Kirov (“Zack the Knife”) amid the ruins of Solomon (L5).
• Wilder Katz born.

• The Zeon Republic gives up its autonomy, whereupon the EFF declares an end to hostilities and begins the Year 100 Colony Replacement Plan.
• Sharif Sheffield and Alina Beslowe born.
• Olympiad LXXII.

• SNRI proposes to the EFF that MS should be scaled down.
• Tokio D. Randall born.

• The anti-Federation organization “Mafty” destroys an orbital surveillance satellite.
• Iris Orlando, Annafelt Marmoset and Belf Sukrett born.

• Kevin Forrest and Morris Ovary born.
• Olympiad LXXIII.

• Koroso Viggenson marries Nadia Ronah and adopts the Ronah name.
• Leslie and Monica Arno married en route to Frontier IV in Side 4 (L1).
• Dwight Camry and Layla Lagiorr born.

• Around this time, construction of new colonies resumes.
• Within the Buch Konzern, selected members of the vocational training school and related enterprises secretly form the Crossbone Vanguard (CV).
• Seabook Arno (“Kincaide Nau”), George Azuma, Sam Erg, Arthur Jung and Dorel Ronah born.

• Annamarie Brougia, Dorothy Moore and Berah Ronah (“Cecily Fairchild”) born.
• Solar Cycle 40 at solar maximum.

• Nadiah Ronah flees to Frontier IV with Theo Fairchild and Berah Ronah (now Cecily Fairchild).
• Koroso Ronah becomes Iron Mask.
• Liz Arno and Berto Rodriguez born in Frontier IV.

• Hauserie Ronah is assassinated.
• Mugen Maujin born.
• Solar Cycle 41 at solar maximum.

• Tobia Arronax born.
• Olympiad LXXVII.

• The Mother Vanguard, flagship of the Ronah family’s Buch Konzern, disappears on its maiden voyage. Berah Ronah and her friends are aboard.
• Cosmo Babylonia collapses due to civil war.
• Olympiad LXXIX.

• Katajina Ruth and Thomas Masarik born.
• Olympiad LXXXI.

• Colony-ism resurfaces. The movement for autonomy is revived. Antagonism due to economic differences and trade imbalances between the colonies comes to a head. Usso Ebbing and Wallen Trace born.
• Solar Cycle 43 at solar maximum.
• Olympiad LXXXII.

• A Maria group forms and petitions the Albanian colony government to form a political party. Her staff publishes Maria’s teachings.
• Suzy Relane born.
• Olympiad LXXXIII.

• The League Militaire is reorganized as a fighting force.
• Olympiad LXXXIV.

• Federal Forces cadets Oliver Inoue and Marvette Fingerhut leave the service to join the League Militaire.
• Solar Cycle 44 at solar maximum.

• The Char Continuation Project begins.
• Carl Ducartus born.
• Olympiad LXXXV.

• The Char Continuation Project secretly transfers memory clone Afranche Char to Earth.
• Solar Cycle 47 at solar maximum.
• Olympiad XCI.

• The Congress of Settlement Nations (“CONSENT”) gains control over roughly half the Sides, opposed only by the Illuminati, a resistance organization based in the independent New Manhattan Island “settlement” of Side 4 (L1). Most of the Illuminati pilots and engineers are Congressional defectors.
• Olympiad CII.

• Illuminati dispatches a team to thwart a secret Congressional weapons development operation, Project Raiven.
• Olympiad CIII.