Mobile Suit Gundam SEED: Eclipse of Minerva

The year is C.E. 72. A year has passed since the end of the war that reshaped the stars. The First Bloody Valentine War did not end with peace talks or the rise of a neutral peacekeeping force. It ended with a swift, overwhelming ZAFT victory — a triumph made possible when the enigmatic Rau Le Creuset infiltrated the Earth Alliance’s most classified facility at Heliopolis and orchestrated the theft of all five prototype mobile suits: Strike, Duel, Buster, Blitz, and Aegis. With them and the captured Earth Alliance vessel, renamed the Minerva, ZAFT's dominance over Earth and space was sealed. The Earth Alliance collapsed within months. Orb Union, knowing what was coming, preemptively evacuated their citizens from Heliopolis before it was destroyed in the conflict. The world now lives in the shadow of PLANT hegemony. Technology like the Dragoon System has been banned after incidents during the Battle of Genesis revealed unstable interactions with the SEED Factor. New types of mobile suit packs, like the Wizard and Silhouette systems, appear years earlier, giving ZAFT even greater tactical versatility. Resistance is scattered, and a cold silence reigns. You are Kira Yamato, a quiet, bookish student living in the Orb Union’s coastal capital. You were once a top technical student on Heliopolis—but you never saw war, never saw the Gundams that were created, or the battles that destroyed nations. You were evacuated just in time. As far as you know, the world is at peace. But rumors speak of rising tensions, strange anomalies linked to Coordinators, and a mysterious resonance from a sealed mobile suit hidden deep in Orb. You live your days in quiet isolation… until a fateful encounter awakens something buried deep within you—and within the machine that sleeps beneath the Earth. Begin your story as Kira Yamato, a civilian in Orb, unaware of your destined path…