Chapter Summaries

After the Archangel’s forces defeated the ZAFT Army in North Africa, Allen gave the wounded prisoners painkillers and discussed his new MS control system with Andrew Waltfield and Athrun. Allen secretly armed the prisoners and arranged for Andrew to help him eliminate armed factions approaching the Archangel, leaving Captain Murrue unaware that the newcomers planned to seize the ship and its technology.

• Allen’s forces destroyed ZAFT’s command links and land battleships, ending the battle and taking Andrew Waltfield and Athrun prisoner.
• Allen gave Andrew painkillers, then explained that his neural-control system could let Naturals pilot MS units, though it required good stamina and limited continuous combat time.
• Andrew warned that Rau Le Creuset might soon launch a full-scale attack, and Allen pointed out that armed factions could target Andrew if they learned he was a prisoner.
• Allen offered Andrew and his men freedom in exchange for helping him kill the armed factions, then secretly gave them guns and rifles.
• The Desert Dawn guerrillas and other armed forces headed for the Archangel, while Captain Murrue planned to thank them and discuss dividing territory and spoils.
• Several members of the approaching forces secretly intended to capture the Archangel’s executives and seize its materials, technology, and data.

Eurasian Federation Lieutenant Colonel Selas arrived claiming to secure the Archangel under an agreement granting access to G Project technology, then seized its officers and threatened the ZAFT prisoners. Allen's warning prompted the Desert Dawn guerrillas and Coordinator prisoners to fight back, leaving the former allies battling one another.

• Lieutenant Colonel Selas arrived with armed troops and revealed that he served the Eurasian Federation by gathering intelligence and organizing sabotage in North Africa.
• Selas threatened Andrew Waltfield, but Teresa used the Strike Gundam to protect him, and Allen challenged Selas over the Earth Alliance's role in starting the war.
• Selas declared that his men hated Coordinators and believed they deserved to die, while Andrew recognized how deeply anti-Coordinator hatred had spread among Earth's population.
• Selas used the moment of distraction to have his men seize Murrue and the Archangel's other officers, claiming he would take temporary control of the ship and obtain its technology.
• Allen taunted Selas about the consequences of killing his forces, and Coordinator prisoners seized weapons and fought back as Artoria led Desert Dawn guerrillas against the attackers.

Allen helped the ZAFT prisoners defeat Colonel Selas's forces after Selas threatened Murrue and shot Mu La Flaga. Allen learned that Mu La Flaga had pushed the G Project technology-sharing agreement because he was more interested in Allen, then stopped the battle and let Andrew Waltfield leave.

• Colonel Selas threatened Murrue and shot Mu La Flaga in the thigh, but Allen broke free, disarmed his captor, and helped the Archangel officers escape back aboard the ship.
• Allen offered to stop the fighting if Colonel Selas explained why the Atlantic Federation had agreed to share G Project technology, and Selas revealed that Mu La Flaga had secretly driven the agreement and was more interested in Allen.
• Allen ordered Teresa to fire the Strike Gundam's energy cannon between the combatants, forcing both sides to cease fire.
• Allen declared the battle over and allowed Andrew Waltfield and the ZAFT soldiers to leave, then buried Colonel Selas in sand with the Strike Gundam's foot.

After the battle, Andrew Waltfield withdrew to Gibraltar while Artoria chose to remain in North Africa and help Desert Dawn establish an independent country. The Archangel departed for Orb with Cagalli, as Allen argued that Orb’s neutrality was bound to collapse and Murrue worried about the voyage ahead.

• Andrew Waltfield returned to his base with his captured subordinates, the Aegis Gundam, and salvaged weapons, while Artoria took Lieutenant Colonel Selas and his allies prisoner for use in negotiations.
• Artoria told Allen she intended to keep her promise to Desert Dawn and build an independent country, and Allen gave her an upgraded Baku.
• Cagalli questioned whether Desert Dawn could succeed, and Artoria encouraged her to speak with Uzummi and take responsibility for Orb’s future.
• Allen, Cagalli, and her bodyguards boarded the Archangel, which departed for Orb.
• Murrue questioned whether Orb would accept the Archangel, and Allen argued that Orb could not remain neutral in the war.

Rau Le Creuset ordered preparations for a ground drop after learning of Andrew Waltfield’s defeat and North Africa’s shifting control. Meanwhile, the Archangel sailed across the Red Sea as Allen and his companions rested, and Allen explained why he planned to visit Orb before continuing his journey.

• Rau Le Creuset ordered an immediate application for a ground drop and learned that Yzak was injured while Athrun remained unharmed.
• Artoria’s Desert Dawn guerrillas retook more than a dozen North African cities and declared the North African National Liberation Front.
• The Archangel sailed across the Red Sea while Allen, Teresa, Mu, Cagalli, and Frey relaxed on deck with Nancy, Allen’s transformed monster pet.
• Allen told Cagalli he planned to visit Orb to meet her father, complete his resignation, and arrange upgrades for the Archangel and the G Project machines.
• Cagalli asked Allen when he had met Artoria, and he offered to tell her the story.

The Archangel reached Orb after Rau Le Creuset staged an attack to portray Orb as hostile, while Allen and Cagalli met with Uzummi Yula Athha. Allen asked Dawn Company to bring Kira Yamato to Orb, where Kira and Cagalli finally recognized each other as the siblings separated at birth.

• Rau Le Creuset refused to attack the Archangel near Orb and arranged for Orb's ships to fire around it while a satellite recorded the encounter.
• Rau Le Creuset said he planned to use the footage to discredit Orb and encourage the Atlantic Federation and Blue Cosmos to act against it.
• Cagalli questioned Uzummi Yula Athha about Orb's work for the Earth Alliance, but Allen interrupted and arranged a private meeting with him.
• Uzummi allowed the Archangel crew to go ashore, while Dawn Company invited Allen and the maintenance crew to its research departments.
• Allen asked Dawn Company to bring Kira Yamato to the Archangel, and Cagalli recognized him as a student from Heliopolis.

Allen arranged for Kira to work with Dawn Company on MS software and neural-network technology, while the company’s research was secretly leaked to Mu La Flaga and Blue Cosmos. Mu La Flaga planned to use the discoveries to pressure Orb into joining the Earth Alliance and to wage war against the Coordinators.

• A Dawn Company executive questioned whether Kira could have improved Strike Gundam’s software, and Allen defended the young Coordinator’s abilities.
• Allen told Kira that Dawn Company wanted him to solve the problem of Naturals piloting MS units, and Kira reluctantly accepted the job.
• Kira began developing and testing MS software with Dawn Company engineers while Allen showed experts how to build a machine for producing Mechanical Neural Networks.
• An insider leaked Dawn Company and Orb’s secret research to Mu La Flaga, who proposed waiting until anti-ZAFT anger peaked before demanding Orb join the Earth Alliance and surrender its technology.
• Mu La Flaga and the capital representatives blamed Coordinators for weakening their patent monopolies and affirmed their intention to eliminate them, while Mu La Flaga studied Allen’s photograph.

Allen confronted Uzummi about Orb’s involvement in the G Project and learned that he had knowingly allowed both pro-Earth Alliance and pro-PLANT factions to maneuver as insurance against either side winning. Allen warned that Orb’s neutrality had already been compromised and that the Atlantic Federation could still force Orb into war, then left after deciding on his next move.

• Allen entered Uzummi’s office and asked whether he had known about Dawn Company’s work at Heliopolis.
• Uzummi admitted he knew about the G Project and had allowed domestic factions to pass intelligence to both the Atlantic Federation and the ZAFT Army as a way to protect Orb after the war.
• Allen explained that Uzummi’s plan risked creating internal threats and would not prevent the great powers from coercing Orb.
• Allen warned that Orb had lost its claim to neutrality by joining the G Project and cautioned Uzummi to prepare for war rather than trust either side.
• Allen left the official residence, while Uzummi sat in silence, shaken by the confrontation.

Allen upgraded his machine with a Neutron Jammer-resistant nuclear power source before the Archangel set sail from Orb, while Mu became the butt of a joke after Nancy bit him. Rau Le Creuset’s forces launched a renewed attack as the Archangel entered the engagement zone, leaving the battle underway.

• Allen deflected Cagalli’s questions about Uzummi and Orb, then completed an upgrade to his machine with a nuclear power source and a formidable array of weapons.
• Nataru Bagiru told Allen and Mu that the Archangel would sail in forty-eight hours, and reported that Kira had finished improving the Strike’s operating software.
• Mu teased Nancy and got his finger bitten; after the Archangel departed Orb two days later, its crew prepared for combat under Captain Murrue’s orders.
• Rau Le Creuset rallied Athrun, Diego, Nicol, and Yzak for what he called their last chance to sink the Archangel, while Yzak requested an explosive charge for Duel Gundam.
• Rau’s submarine carrier deployed the repaired Gundams, Sakura’s machine, and a force of Ginn; as the Archangel entered the engagement zone, both sides opened fire.

Allen fought the ZAFT forces at sea, destroying Yzak’s Duel Gundam and incapacitating Nicol before confronting Sakura and Athrun. Rau Le Creuset suspected Allen’s upgraded unit was nuclear-powered, while Allen pressed the fight and challenged Sakura to bring Athrun against him.

• The Archangel and ZAFT forces launched an all-out assault, and Allen flew out to engage the approaching enemy mobile suits.
• Yzak charged Allen, who fired all six energy cannons and destroyed the Duel Gundam, killing Yzak.
• Athrun attacked Allen with the Aegis Gundam’s Siren Energy Cannon, but Allen evaded, while Diego and Athrun joined the fight and Nicol struck from behind with the Mirage System.
• Allen caught the Blitz Gundam’s wrist and crushed its cockpit with an elbow strike, leaving Nicol barely alive; Diego rescued him and took him to the submarine carrier for treatment.
• Rau Le Creuset’s officers speculated that Allen’s unit used nuclear power, and Rau ordered Sakura to hold him off for thirty minutes.
• Sakura questioned Allen about his unit and his knowledge of P.L.A.N.T.; Allen kicked her away, fired his cannons, and challenged her to fight alongside Athrun.

Allen and Sakura fought at extreme speeds while Blue Cosmos leader Mu La Flaga arranged a political and military bargain and discussed the limits of the Enhanced Human Plan. The battle turned when Athrun attacked Allen, and Allen launched both enemy machines into the sky with a reckless burst of engine power, leaving Athrun's Aegis Gundam plummeting.

• Allen and Sakura pushed their machines beyond normal limits, and Sakura revealed that her machine's battery held twenty times the energy of the G Project units' batteries.
• Allen fired six energy cannons at Sakura, and the final shot grazed her machine and destroyed its shoulder-mounted weapon.
• At JOSH-A, Mu La Flaga arranged campaign support and war funding with a politician in exchange for political loyalty, while he discussed the Enhanced Human Plan's unstable test subjects.
• Athrun attacked Allen's machine, and Sakura used the last of her machine's energy to restrain Allen's arms as Athrun's Beam Sabers struck the PS Armor.
• Allen detached his energy cannons and used eight super engines to drag Sakura and Athrun's machines high into the sky, leaving Athrun's Aegis Gundam falling after he apparently lost consciousness.

Allen and the Archangel’s pilots repelled Rau Le Creuset’s attack, but the ZAFT Army suffered heavy losses and Athrun was left gravely injured. At P.L.A.N.T., Patrick Zala used the defeat to win approval for a large-scale campaign, while Siegfried Klein left to oppose the decision.

• Sakura rescued Athrun’s falling Aegis Gundam, but Allen disabled her mobile suit and she carried Athrun back to the submarine carrier as Rau Le Creuset ordered a retreat.
• The Archangel’s forces destroyed many retreating Ginns, and Allen warned Mwu La Flaga and Nataru Bagiru that ZAFT would likely return with a larger attack.
• Rau Le Creuset sent P.L.A.N.T. a damage report emphasizing the Earth Alliance’s supposed nuclear-powered mobile suits, while Yzak’s death and Athrun’s grave injuries shocked the council.
• Patrick Zala and other hawkish council members argued for a large-scale campaign and sending two new models to the front, and their vote passed despite Siegfried Klein’s objections.
• Siegfried Klein left the meeting to appeal publicly for peace, unaware that Patrick Zala had developed killing intent toward him.

The Archangel arrived at the Alaskan Military Base and transferred the G Project data as ZAFT prepared for a major offensive. Allen met with Mu La Flaga, who offered him a partnership and promised to deliver Nataru Bagiru; Allen left while Mu La Flaga began making a call.

• Murrue handed a general the Archangel’s G Project technical and combat data after learning Alaska expected a ZAFT attack.
• Allen was taken to meet Mu La Flaga, who questioned why he had joined the Earth Alliance and heard Allen disparage Coordinators.
• Mu La Flaga proposed that Allen cooperate with him in exchange for wealth, influence, and help establishing himself in the Atlantic Federation.
• Allen asked Mu La Flaga to arrange for Nataru Bagiru to be with him, and Mu La Flaga promised to do so within three days.
• Allen left the room, and Mu La Flaga waited several minutes before calling someone.

Allen revealed to Nataru Bagiru how capital and the military-industrial complex had taken control of the Atlantic Federation and invited her to join his plan to defect to Orb. Nataru left without accepting, while Allen hinted that Orb’s ruling families would soon fall and a new leader would emerge.

• Allen watched the Earth Federation’s politicians and factions try to obtain his technology, then confronted Nataru Bagiru when she arrived drunk in revealing clothes.
• Allen explained that capital and the military-industrial complex had undermined government control, and Nataru said she had been threatened into visiting him to protect the Archangel’s crew.
• Allen announced that he planned to defect to Orb rather than join ZAFT, and Nataru warned that Orb could not win the war with only Allen and Teresa.
• Allen invited Nataru to help him change human society and predicted that Orb’s ruling families would disappear, leaving a young woman unrelated by blood to the nobles to lead a new era.
• Nataru declined to decide immediately, tore her stockings, rumpled her skirt, and staggered out to make it appear she and Allen had been intimate.

Allen watched the Earth Alliance prepare for an impending ZAFT attack and recognized that Mu La Flaga intended to use the Cyclops System. On P.L.A.N.T., Siegfried Klein and Lacuss debated the causes of the war and Siegfried’s plan to wear down Earth’s nations, while the conflict moved toward escalation.

• Allen observed the Earth Alliance’s reckless conduct near the front and criticized its corrupt leadership and lack of rationality.
• Mu La Flaga showed Allen the conventional and Neural Interface Strike Dagger models and described plans for additional specialized units.
• An officer reported that ZAFT was assembling in orbit, and Mu La Flaga left to seek authorization to activate the Cyclops System.
• Allen suspected Rau Le Creuset might be using the coming attack and its casualties to undermine peace talks.
• Siegfried Klein watched war-focused news and worried that Patrick Zala was driving P.L.A.N.T. toward conflict.
• Lacuss explained to Siegfried how Coordinator gene modification and Earth’s capital interests fueled the war, and Siegfried described his plan to weaken Earth’s economies until its governments sought peace.

As ZAFT launched Operation Spitbreak against the Earth Alliance headquarters, Allen’s Archangel prepared to intercept ZAFT’s elite pilots while leaving the Cyclops System’s trap untouched. Three approaching mobile suits appeared on the radar, and Allen launched to meet them.

• Lacuss questioned the point of the war as Siegfried Klein left for the Supreme Council ahead of Operation Spitbreak.
• Rau Le Creuset ordered ZAFT’s forces to begin their final countdown, while Allen and Teresa returned to the Archangel.
• Allen told Nataru Bagiru that the coming battle would expose the Earth Alliance and asked her to decide whether she would join him and the Archangel in defecting to Orb.
• ZAFT forces attacked the Earth Alliance headquarters, devastating its defenses as the Archangel stayed outside the Cyclops System’s range to intercept elite units.
• Three mobile suits, including the Storm Gundam, appeared on radar, and Allen launched his unit to confront them.

Allen and Sakura fought in the skies above the battlefield while their allies engaged Athrun and Diego, revealing Sakura’s new Deflection Field technology. As ZAFT neared victory at Earth Alliance headquarters, Atlantic Federation leaders prepared the Cyclops System and expanded their nuclear arsenal, setting the stage for catastrophic escalation.

• Allen recognized the unfamiliar red and light-purple nuclear-powered units piloted by Sakura and Athrun, then exchanged fire with them as several Ginn were destroyed.
• Sakura ordered Athrun and Diego to intercept the approaching Strike and Skygrasper, leaving her to fight Allen; Mu engaged Diego, while Teresa fought Athrun to a standstill.
• Sakura revealed that her unit’s Deflection Field could turn aside ranged attacks, forcing Allen to discard his external equipment and fight her at close range with his Anti-ship Sword.
• Mu La Flaga and a suited official decided to activate the Cyclops System once ZAFT committed more than two-thirds of its forces, ordered the Archangel to retreat, and celebrated Congress’s approval of increased nuclear production.
• At the Supreme Council, Patrick Zala claimed ZAFT would capture Earth Alliance headquarters within two hours, while Siegfried Klein worried that the enemy might have contingencies.
• As ZAFT councilors watched their apparent victories, Atlantic Federation officials beneath the base prepared to activate Cyclops without regard for friendly casualties.

The Cyclops System devastated both ZAFT and Earth Alliance forces, while Allen and Sakura agreed to turn their conflict into a worldwide game of conquest. In the aftermath, public outrage forced the Atlantic Federation government to reorganize, and Mu La Flaga learned that the Archangel had defected.

• Rau Le Creuset deployed ZAFT reserves, but the Earth Alliance activated the Cyclops System and killed or disabled forces on both sides near the base.
• Patrick Zala demanded answers while Siegfried Klein called for restored communications and a damage assessment, and Patrick secretly considered eliminating his political rival.
• Mu La Flaga celebrated the Cyclops System's casualties, while the Archangel's crew questioned whether they might be sacrificed next and Nataru Bagiru was devastated.
• Allen told Sakura he planned to switch sides, seize Orb, and conquer the Americas; Sakura accepted his proposal to make the world the setting for their game.
• News of the Cyclops System triggered global condemnation and protests, prompting capital interests to replace the Atlantic Federation leadership through a new election.
• Mu La Flaga learned that the Archangel had defected and was stunned that Allen had abandoned the wealth and status they had discussed.

Sakura led a military coup in P.L.A.N.T after exposing Patrick Zala and Rau Le Creuset's plot to frame Siegfried Klein. She suspended the Supreme Council, placed P.L.A.N.T under military rule, and declared plans for war and conquest, leaving Siegfried and the other councilors arrested.

• Siegfried Klein prepared to defend Patrick Zala during a media interview, while Lacuss questioned his decision to protect a political rival.
• Patrick Zala and Rau Le Creuset plotted to frame Siegfried, but Sakura opened the office door to reveal soldiers who had heard their conspiracy.
• Sakura called on the soldiers to join her coup, and Athrun, Diego, Nicol, and the others pledged their support.
• Sakura shot Rau Le Creuset, then ordered troops to seize the Department of Defense, detain councilors, and broadcast the conspiracy.
• Sakura's forces arrested Siegfried Klein during his interview and detained the Supreme Council, while the broadcast sparked outrage across P.L.A.N.T.
• Sakura suspended the Supreme Council, imposed military administration, ordered nuclear weapons development to resume, and declared her intention to build a vast union through war and conquest.

After taking control of P.L.A.N.T., Sakura prepared to wage war on Earth, targeting the Eurasian Federation while predicting that Orb would soon face pressure from the Atlantic Federation. Meanwhile, Allen led the defecting Archangel toward Orb, where its crew approached the territorial waters as Orb's observers pretended not to notice them.

• Sakura consolidated military rule in P.L.A.N.T., approved shipments of mass-destruction weapons, and told Lacuss that her first target would be the Eurasian Federation.
• Allen explained to Murrue and Nataru Bagiru that the Archangel would use Cagalli to gain entry to Orb and eventually overthrow its ruling families.
• Allen predicted that Mu La Flaga would pressure Orb to abandon neutrality and seize its mass driver for the Earth Alliance.
• Murrue, Allen, and Nataru discussed the Archangel's future as it neared Orb's territorial waters.
• Orb's radar observers detected the Archangel but pretended not to see it, hoping it would turn away.