Chapter Summaries

The Archangel entered Orb despite its navy’s warnings, and Allen persuaded Uzummi that the Earth Alliance would soon threaten Orb’s neutrality. After learning that Sakura’s coup had put ZAFT under new leadership, Uzummi and Cagalli heard Allen warn that nuclear weapons would soon be used, leaving Orb vulnerable to devastation.

• Murrue steered the Archangel into Orb’s waters and told Uzummi Yula Athha that the Earth Alliance would force neutral nations to surrender their independence.
• Allen argued that Orb should shelter the Archangel and warned that the Earth Alliance planned to seize Earth’s Mass Drivers; the ship reached Orb’s hidden military harbor without being hit.
• Allen told Nataru Bucky Lululu that war could remake society, and Cagalli embraced him when he arrived at the dock.
• Uzummi told Allen and Cagalli that a coup on P.L.A.N.T. had succeeded, and Allen explained that Sakura’s reorganized ZAFT would launch an offensive to conquer territory.
• Allen warned that Sakura would use nuclear weapons and explained why P.L.A.N.T. had little reason to fear retaliation; Uzummi realized that nuclear war could destroy Orb even without a direct strike.

Sakura’s nuclear assault destroyed the Eurasian Federation, and P.L.A.N.T. took control of its European territories. In Orb, Allen secured the Minister of Defense’s cooperation and prepared to lead a military revolution against the ruling families.

• Sakura used nuclear weapons to crush Eurasian Federation forces, and the federation collapsed within days.
• Sakura accepted Europe’s unconditional surrender, after which P.L.A.N.T. reorganized the territory and purged supporters of Blue Cosmos.
• Mu and Allen discussed their doubts about the war and Allen’s coup plan, which had won support among Orb’s officers.
• Allen’s supporters surrounded the Minister of Defense and military police when they came to detain him.
• Allen coerced the Minister of Defense into joining the revolution and signing a military action order to march on the capital.

Allen led a military coup in Orb, arrested Uzummi Yula Athha and the other ruling families, and planned to expose their crimes before installing Cagalli as the next Supreme Leader. He revealed that Cagalli was adopted and related to Kira Yamato, then forced a political marriage on her, leaving Murrue questioning his treatment of the girl.

• Orb's military seized government facilities and disarmed the capital's fleets under the Minister of Defense's authorization.
• Allen's soldiers arrested Uzummi Yula Athha, and Cagalli surrendered when they aimed a gun at her.
• The Minister of Defense reported that the five ruling families had been arrested, and Allen ordered their crimes exposed and their cases brought to trial.
• Allen told Cagalli that she was adopted, that Dr. Ulen and Viya were her biological parents, and that Kira Yamato was her brother.
• Allen declared Cagalli would become Orb's Supreme Leader and his political bride, put a ring on her finger, and told her he would take her to a press conference.
• Murrue challenged Allen over his treatment of Cagalli, and he said he would return Orb's power to her after the war.

After consolidating control of Orb, Allen explained his rule to Cagalli and encouraged her to learn enough to challenge him for power. Meanwhile, Kira and his colleagues completed Adam, the world’s first true artificial intelligence, which awaited government approval and activation.

• Cagalli announced the coup, took Orb’s leadership under military support, and accepted the news of her political marriage to Allen while Mu La Flaga threatened to invade Orb.
• Allen directed Orb’s officials to spend its foreign reserves on supplies, expand weapons production, and recruit more soldiers as he ruled through Cagalli’s nominal authority.
• Allen explained centralized power and political interests to Cagalli, who resolved to study so she could eventually remove him from Orb’s leadership.
• Kira and the programmers completed Adam’s code without errors, and Kira called his Dawn Company superior to report their success.

Allen authorized the activation of Adam, the world's first artificial intelligence, and learned it could dominate connected electronic systems just as Orb faced an impending war with the Atlantic Federation. After Cagalli revealed that she and Kira were biological siblings, Kira called his adoptive mother to seek answers.

• Allen brought Cagalli and Orb's military leaders to the Secret Base, authorized Adam's activation, and Kira started it.
• Adam connected to the external network and demonstrated that it could infiltrate electronic devices, alter signals, and redirect missiles.
• Allen told the development team that Mu La Flaga's fleet was heading toward Orb with nuclear missiles, and the military took control of the base after assessing Adam's capabilities.
• Murrue and Nataru discussed Adam's impact on the coming war, while Allen predicted that artificial intelligence would transform warfare.
• Cagalli gave Kira genetic test results proving they were biological siblings and explained their parents' identities.
• Kira called his adoptive mother after Cagalli hugged him and left for the airfield.

Allen prepared Orb to repel Mu La Flaga’s Atlantic Federation fleet, ordering Adam to seize its electronic systems and satellites while assembling Orb’s pilots. Orb launched a surprise missile attack that devastated the fleet, leaving Mu La Flaga stunned as the battle began.

• Mu La Flaga hurried his fleet toward Orb and planned to force its government to surrender with an ultimatum.
• Allen ordered Adam to begin information warfare and take control of the fleet’s systems and Atlantic Federation satellites.
• Allen encouraged new pilots Shinn Asuka and Kira Yamato, who had joined Orb’s forces to protect their homeland and family.
• Allen returned to the Archangel, where he spoke with Mu and Murrue and declared that Orb had overwhelming odds of victory.
• After Mu La Flaga delivered his ultimatum, Allen declared war and Orb launched missiles that destroyed or sank nearly a third of the fleet within minutes.

Allen and Orb’s forces devastated the Atlantic Federation fleet in under ten minutes, using Adam’s information warfare to disable its systems. The Atlantic Federation’s leaders then considered launching 2,532 nuclear missiles at Orb, leaving the conflict on the brink of escalation.

• Mu La Flaga blamed Allen for disabling the fleet’s radar and defenses as Orb’s missiles triggered explosions across the tightly packed ships.
• Allen led Orb’s forces in an assault while the Archangel’s Plasma Cannon and hundreds of Gundam Astrays attacked the scattered fleet.
• Kira disabled enemy machines without targeting their cockpits, while Shinn Asuka destroyed several machines and a warship in his first battle.
• Allen’s team destroyed the Raider Gundam, Forbidden Gundam, and Calamity Gundam, then stopped a warship from launching a nuclear missile.
• Adam restored satellite access after the battle, revealing the fleet’s destruction to the world; Allen let Mu La Flaga’s flagship escape as a warning.
• Atlantic Federation generals ordered the president to consider using their 2,532 ready nuclear missiles to destroy Orb.

Allen turned the Atlantic Federation’s nuclear strike against Orb back on six of its cities, then announced Orb’s abandonment of neutrality and declaration of war. As the world reacted to Orb’s power, Sakura and Andrew Waltfield discussed artificial intelligence and the coming competition between Orb and P.L.A.N.T.

• The Atlantic Federation launched six nuclear missiles at Orb, but Allen’s forces redirected them toward North American cities and disabled the Federation’s control systems.
• Allen defended the retaliation to Murrue and Cagalli, insisting Orb’s leader had to prioritize Orb’s citizens over the Atlantic Federation’s civilians.
• The first missile destroyed Washington near the white building, and the remaining missiles struck major city centers, causing extensive destruction.
• Allen exposed the Atlantic Federation’s defeat off Orb and its attempted nuclear attack, then declared that Orb would abandon neutrality and go to war with the Atlantic Federation.
• Andrew Waltfield watched Orb’s nuclear retaliation on television as Sakura explained that artificial intelligence had taken control of the missiles.
• Sakura predicted Orb would move to seize South America while P.L.A.N.T pursued the occupation of the Eurasian Federation, and Andrew set out to join the campaign.

Sakura and Allen’s forces secured decisive advantages against the Eurasian Federation and Atlantic Federation, while Allen’s capture of Panama left North America isolated and near collapse. Allen expected Atlantic Federation elites to seek negotiations and celebrated the victory with his officers on the beach.

• Athrun told Sakura that Orb had captured the Atlantic Federation’s last South American base and the Panama spaceport, using artificial intelligence to cripple its forces and communications.
• Sakura refused Athrun’s proposal to join the fighting in the Americas because ZAFT was occupied with the Eurasian Federation and could not safely face Allen’s forces.
• Allen rested at Panama after Orb’s victory cut the Atlantic Federation’s land links to South America and left North America blockaded, while network sabotage intensified its crisis.
• Mu and Murrue asked Allen about his next steps, and he predicted that Atlantic Federation capital groups would soon offer negotiations and betray their country to protect their assets.
• Teresa recognized Allen’s intent to torment the elites who approached him, but Allen dismissed the topic and soaked the female officers with a water gun, prompting Murrue to chase him.

After Orb’s purges and expansion, Cagalli visited her imprisoned adoptive father Uzummi, who advised her to declare her political ambitions at the coming federation conference. In Panama City, Allen threatened Atlantic Federation envoys with nuclear attacks unless they handed over Mu La Flaga and his family, then ordered border pressure to speed their surrender.

• Cagalli finished signing Orb’s documents and visited Uzummi on Arphas Island.
• Uzummi told Cagalli to use the federation conference to establish her political ambitions and warned her that forming a federation would be difficult.
• Atlantic Federation representatives arrived in Panama City to negotiate surrender terms with Allen.
• Allen demanded that the delegation deliver Mu La Flaga and his family within twenty-four hours or face an end to negotiations and nuclear attacks.
• Allen told Bucky Lululu that his threat was a negotiation tactic and ordered Orb’s forces to create pressure along the border.

Atlantic Federation representatives agreed to hand Mu La Flaga and his family over after Orb’s advancing forces and renewed nuclear-missile threat left them desperate. Allen confronted Mu La Flaga with a lethal revolver game, killing two of his relatives and leaving the family in terror.

• Atlantic Federation representatives argued over whether to surrender Mu La Flaga and his family, then received news that Orb had resumed its advance and nuclear missiles had been hijacked.
• The representatives agreed to bring Mu La Flaga and his family to Allen, and ten hours later a military transport plane landed in Panama City with more than a hundred relatives.
• Allen told Mu La Flaga that he had joined the war for amusement and challenged him to a revolver game in which a family member would die unless Allen was shot first.
• Mu La Flaga chose an elderly uncle, who pulled the trigger and was killed; Allen then fired at his own temple and survived another empty chamber.
• Allen accused Mu La Flaga’s relatives of profiting from war and shot Mu La Flaga’s mother, who collapsed bleeding.

Allen turned the Azrael family into vengeful spirits and used the Atlantic Federation’s military defeats to demand sweeping territorial and military concessions. He left negotiations with a three-day ultimatum, while Adam intercepted the representatives’ communications and Allen declared that all North American capital would be eliminated.

• Allen killed Mu La Flaga’s mother, forced him through a lethal game, and threatened the Azrael family before transforming its members into vengeful spirits.
• Allen brought the spirits to the negotiation hall and assigned them to Atlantic Federation representatives.
• Allen demanded that the Atlantic Federation cede Central America, recognize Orb’s sovereignty in South America, surrender its nuclear reserves and heavy-weapons capabilities, and give up its Moon base.
• After the representatives rejected his terms, Allen gave them three days to consider them before Orb resumed its advance.
• Adam intercepted the representatives’ encrypted communications, and Allen told Teresa that the capital groups would turn against one another before he eliminated them all.

Allen announced that Orb would develop artificial intelligence, triggering a rebellion in the Atlantic Federation’s southern states. As the federation’s leaders struggled to respond, a representative offered to betray the southern states to Orb in exchange for preserving energy capital’s interests, and Allen planned to expose the negotiations.

• Allen announced artificial intelligence to the public, provoking violent protests and rebellion across the Atlantic Federation’s southern states.
• Allen ordered Orb’s Third Fleet and Fifth Fleet to approach the federation’s remaining major cities, forcing its leaders to divert troops from the rebellion.
• Atlantic Federation executives argued over how to suppress the rebellion and whether to concede territory or the Moon base, but reached no agreement.
• An energy-capital representative met with Allen and offered to cede the rebellious southern states to Orb in exchange for Lunar Mining Company rights and continued trade.
• Allen withheld his decision and planned to record and broadcast the capitalists’ offers to the Atlantic Federation’s people.

Cagalli received Lacuss Clyne in Orb as representatives of Orb and P.L.A.N.T prepared to discuss a new international order. Allen and Kira arrived unexpectedly, and the leaders headed to Cagalli’s residence for talks on an alliance, occupied territories, and postwar influence.

• Cagalli prepared for the formal reception while her secretary explained the conference’s importance and Lacuss’s expected arrival.
• Lacuss traveled to Orb and discussed Cagalli’s political position with her delegation, comparing their roles in governments shaped by military coups.
• Cagalli welcomed Lacuss at the airport, where they greeted each other as representatives of Orb and P.L.A.N.T.
• Allen and Kira landed abruptly near the ceremony, and Cagalli embraced Kira before apologizing to Lacuss for the interruption.
• Lacuss revealed that she had met Allen aboard the Archangel and considered him her teacher.
• The delegations left for Cagalli’s residence to discuss an alliance, recognition of occupied territories, and postwar spheres of influence.

Allen and Lacuss negotiated an Orb–P.L.A.N.T alliance and discussed how artificial intelligence might ease the conflict between Coordinators and Naturals. The chapter ended with Lacuss intrigued by AI’s potential, despite her concerns about its reach into people’s lives.

• Lacuss told Allen that ZAFT had crushed Britain’s resistance and purged its former ruling class, and Allen approved of eliminating outdated power structures.
• Lacuss proposed an alliance that would divide the world into Orb and P.L.A.N.T spheres of influence, with Asia as a buffer; Allen accepted the plan for now while acknowledging that the two powers might fight later.
• Cagalli was shocked to learn that Orb’s war might continue against P.L.A.N.T, and Lacuss teased her about her relationship with Allen.
• Over a meal, Allen proposed using artificial intelligence in social administration to distribute resources fairly and reduce Coordinator–Natural conflict.
• Lacuss questioned the risks of collecting personal data, but Allen argued that government-managed AI could prevent abuses by private companies and help end corruption.

Allen secured an alliance between Orb and P.L.A.N.T. and planned to use Adam to expose corruption after the federation was established. Meanwhile, Orb’s fleet pressured the Atlantic Federation’s coasts, forcing it to divert troops from southern rebellions as Shinn Asuka learned the mission was intended as a deterrent rather than an attack.

• Allen persuaded Lacuss to accept AI supervision and arranged an Orb–P.L.A.N.T. alliance, including a joint final offensive and trade and technology agreements.
• Allen told Cagalli that Adam had recorded three thousand corrupt Orb advisers and advised her to wait until after the federation conference before exposing them.
• Cagalli questioned whether Allen truly intended her to preside over the conference, then went to bed after he left.
• Orb’s fleet cruised along the North American coast, prompting the Atlantic Federation to reinforce its eastern and western cities instead of suppressing southern rebellions.
• The fleet captain explained to Shinn Asuka that Orb would not attack first and that its presence was meant to keep Atlantic Federation troops tied down; he let the MS pilots treat the mission as a vacation.

Over fifty countries voted to establish the New Federation under Orb’s leadership, and Cagalli became its first leader. Allen then set his plan to break apart the Atlantic Federation into motion, leaving North America engulfed in war and fragmentation.

• Representatives from over fifty countries unanimously approved the New Federation, and Cagalli delivered a speech and took her oath as its first leader.
• Allen agreed to support General Barri’s rebellion and ordered Adam to publish footage exposing capitalists’ betrayal and corruption.
• Barri led his troops to seize California, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington as unrest spread through the Atlantic Federation.
• Capitalist groups and other factions raised armed forces, fracturing the Atlantic Federation into warring separatist territories.
• War, nuclear attacks, and the collapse of farming and public order devastated North America, while Allen had already evacuated the Archangel crew’s families.

Allen and Sakura reshaped Earth through war and technological progress, then fought a decisive duel in the asteroid belt that destroyed Mars. After Sakura claimed victory, they returned to Sky City, leaving Earth’s leaders to realize that the two had come from another world.

• The New Federation used Adam to expose corruption and launched military campaigns against drug traffickers, while P.L.A.N.T. conquered the Eurasian Federation and Allen’s forces unified the American continent.
• P.L.A.N.T. and the New Federation developed advanced spacefaring technologies, then formally declared war and sent elite fleets to fight in the asteroid belt.
• Allen’s fleet used artificial wormholes to attack Sakura’s fleet, and Sakura handed command to Andrew Waltfield before launching her Gundam to face Allen.
• Sakura and Allen fought on Mars with their powerful machines, destroying the planet before Sakura argued that she had won their duel.
• Allen and Sakura left through a spatial rift to Sky City, while Artoria and Teresa vanished from Earth and Allen prepared to travel to another world.