The Great Gundam Wing Rewatch: Episodes 5, 6, 7, and 8

[nanslice]

First, a recap of the episodes watched last week!


Episode Six - Relena's Secret
When Relena accompanies her father to the colonies where he is expected at an important meeting, he is severely injured in an explosion set off by OZ's Colonel Lady Une; father and daughter are soon spirited away by Doctor J, the engineer who designed the Wing Gundam and trained Heero. Before Vice Foreign Minister Darlian dies, he reveals to Relena her true identity, and Relena soon learns from Doctor J the extent of Heero's mission and his past.

Episode Seven - Party Night
Relena returns to school in time for a dance, but discovers Heero is going to transfer. After she challenges him to kill her after she reveals she knows all about him, Lady Une sends mobile suits at the school to kill Relena. Heero uses the Wing Gundam to fight back (believing the enemy suits have come to get him) and ends up saving Relena, much to his own disbelief.


And a recap for the episodes watched for this week!


Episode Seven - Scenario of Bloodshed
The five Gundams all gather at the New Edwards Base in an attempt to kill the higher echelon members of OZ, but they discover too late they have been tricked; Heero has already eliminated the pacifist leaders of the Alliance while Lady Une and the leader of OZ, Colonel Treize Khushrenada, manipulate the only survivor, General Septum, into declaring war on the colonies (before they kill him too). The Alliance is overturned from within and OZ takes over as the new ruling power.

Episode Eight - The Treize Assassination
Trowa and Wufei go after Treize while Heero, Duo and Quatre attempt to stop the detonation of the New Edwards Base. Wufei and Treize duel in a battle for honor and justice, but Treize decides to spare Wufei when the young man loses and allows him to escape.


A lot happens in these four episodes! Remember, spoilers are welcome as long as you use whiteout text or Rot13. :3

Comments

Setting Data~

[kalloway]

Colony History

(pt. 1 - from the data book)

Building the colonies was the greatest endeavor man has ever undertaken. Conditions on Earth were grim; overpopulation and constant warfare were a way of live. When the first permanent colony was constructed in A.C. 1, it offered people hope in a new frontier where war and famine would be a thing of the past.

The Earth nations all eagerly joined the colonial construction boom, not in the name of peace, but to expand their national borders into the new frontier. This nationalization of the early colonies created a microcosm of the conflicts on Earth. War broke out between the colonies and various nations, and because of the harsh conditions of living in space, casualties were high. Emigration to the colonies all but ceased and the remaining settlers lived in poverty.

While the other countries lost interest in the colonies, the Arab nations understood their future potential. With their vast wealth from the now depleted crude oil, their experience at negotiating peace between bitter rivals, and their ability to adapt to the most inhumane living conditions, the Arab Nations found great success in their new role as arbitrator. They stepped in to moderate the colonial conflicts and act as a pipeline for resources to move between the colonies. Later, as the need for resources grew, the Arab countries brokered the mining of asteroids.

Independent from the jurisdiction of their founding nations, the colonies finally found peace and prosperity. Completion of the first colony in a gravitationally stable Lagrange point, colony L1, signaled a new era of emigration to space. Construction began in other Lagrange points and people surged in to occupy the new colonies. 15% of the Earth's population moved to space during this period. But the peace was not destined to last. Certain powers on Earth would soon set their sights on the colonies once again.

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More information on Lagrange Points:
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Lagrangian_point
(note: L1 is not actually a stable point!)

The colonies in Gundam Wing are Stanford tori:
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Stanford_torus

Re: Setting Data~

[taichara]

Stanford tori ~~~~~ <3 *coughs*

I can totally buy that where they nammer about a "stable" L1, the colonies are being adjusted with boosters/are in a cyclical orbit within the point; these are the people who in-setting were going to be able to move a colony from L2, around the moon, and drop it on the planet, after all }3~


The notes about Arabic nations and nationality for the colonies (used however loosely it may be) is a lynchpin in Wing -- wave for the camera, Quatre, and your immensely influential family and the medical madness involved therewith --

Re: Setting Data~

[kalloway]

This is very true! I just thought it was a tiny thing worth mentioning~

Yup~