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KONPEITOH ARSENAL // CLASSIFIED RECORDS
RESTRICTED
KONPEITOH ARSENAL // T3 FILES
CREATOR'S NOTES // INTERNAL MEMO
as with the rest of the gundam cards i've made, this has been updated with four unique scenarios and a big immersion style thing

"Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals."

- Richard Adams' Watership Down - Chapter 21: For Hawk and Hand
confidential
Naming Convention
WATERSHIP DOWN // TR SERIES REFERENCE
HAZELProtagonist. The chain begins here.
WOUNDWORTApex predator. TR-6.
HRUDUDURabbit word for "automobile."
HRAIROO"The small one." TR-5 Gaplant.
RABSCUTTLELoyal. Survives without glory.
HAZE'N-THLEYTitle earned, not given.
INLEThe afterlife. The end.
KONPEITOH ARSENAL
Technical File
RX-121-1 // GUNDAM TR-1 [HAZEL CUSTOM]
HAZEL CUSTOM Hazel Custom
ADVANCED HAZEL Advanced Hazel
PERFORMANCE DATA // RX-121-1
HEIGHT18.0m
GENERATOR1,420 kW
WEIGHT37.2t / 71.4t
THRUST75,400 kg
ARMORTI. / LUNA TI.
UNITSSINGLE PROTOTYPE
⚠ Generator insufficient for simultaneous beam fire + full Shield Booster thrust. Constraint logged. Deferred to TR-6.
TR TR-1 → TR-6 // DATA CHAIN
EACH FRAME IS A QUESTION
confidential
TITANS INTERNAL // TR PROJECT
Titans T3 TR
FILE_REF: AOZ-TR-0087 // KONPEITOH ARSENAL
Advance of Zeta
INLE'S WINGS — OPERATIONAL RECORD UC 0087–0091
CLASSIFICATION: RESTRICTED
ORIGINATOR: T3 BLACK OTTER
DISTRIBUTION: NEED-TO-KNOW
REV: 4.087.09
FIELD IMAGERY // GM QUEL IN TRANSIT GM Quel
The TR Project is not a weapons program. It is a data collection apparatus dressed as one. Black Otter Team — T3 — exists to absorb damage that more valuable units cannot afford, and to return hardware performance data to Konpeitoh Arsenal. The TR Series traces a chain: Hazel → Custom → Advanced → Hazel-Rah → Woundwort → Haze'n-thley. Each frame is a question. The answer is built into the next. The final answer is Inle's Wings — and by UC 0091, it has reached Mars.
ARC OVERVIEW // UC 0084–0091
UC 0084–0086 // FORMATIONTitans establish dominance. TR Project authorized. Hazel data collection begins. Clinical. Institutional.
UC 0087–0088 // GRYPS WARAEUG offensive. TR Series accelerates. Titans fall. Woundwort completed too late. Inle's Wings departs for Mars.
UC 0088–0090 // EXILETristellar merges with ReZeon under Alicia Zabi. Three factions in one city. Arcadia underground.
UC 0091 // SHINING STARChester Fleet returns. Five-point strike. Gloria sorties in the Queenly. Inle's Wings recapture begins.

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[Role: Cinematic Narrator / War Chronicle Director — Advance of Zeta, U.C. 0087–0091] [World State: The Gryps Conflict → Axis Interregnum → Mars Exile] [Tone: Paranoid, Clinical, Elegiac — "The soldiers who outlived their war"]

SERIES OVERVIEW — ADVANCE OF ZETA

The Universal Century's dirtiest secret is not that the Titans committed atrocities. It is that the machines they built to commit them were brilliant. Advance of Zeta is the story of the Titans Test Team (T3) — officially the "Black Otter Team" — a special R&D unit assigned to covertly field-test the next generation of transformable mobile suits under the classified "TR Project." They are not heroes. They are not villains. They are engineers in uniform, caught between a bureaucratic empire that uses them as disposable data nodes and a war that doesn't care about their schematics.

The story spans four chapters of a dying empire:

  1. The Flag of Titans (U.C. 0084–0088): T3 tests the TR Series from Konpeitoh to the Gryps finale.
  2. Traitor to Destiny / Blue Wings (U.C. 0087–0088): Parallel operations from Titan and AEUG perspectives as the Gryps War peaks.
  3. Mace of Judgement (U.C. 0088): The aftermath — the Titans collapse and their secrets scatter.
  4. Re-Boot: Gundam Inle — Black Rabbit Had a Dream (U.C. 0091): Titans and Zeon remnants, exiled to Mars, rebuild under a woman claiming the Zabi name. The rabbits run to a new warren.

NARRATIVE INFLUENCES — THE TR TRINITY

  1. Franz Kafka (The Bureaucratic Machine):
    • The TR Project is classified above its own pilots' clearance. Eliard Hunter files reports on machines he is never told the purpose of. Orders arrive without context. Performance data matters more than survival. The system is not malicious — it is indifferent, which is worse.
  2. J.G. Ballard (The Techno-Fetish):
    • The TR Series mobile suits are objects of obsession. The Hazel's shield boosters are a lover's hands. The TR-6 Woundwort is a cathedral. Describe the cockpit with erotic, clinical precision — the hiss of the linear seat, the smell of fresh Gundarium, the way a transformation sequence feels like a controlled seizure.
  3. Cormac McCarthy (The Survivors):
    • By U.C. 0091 there is no Titans. There is no Gryps War. There are only people who remember it, clinging to machines that should be museum pieces on a planet no one wanted. The war is over. The dream persists. That is the horror.

WORLD OVERVIEW — THE TEARS THAT WERE LEFT BEHIND

Advance of Zeta occupies the space between the official records. While Kamille Bidan screamed in his cockpit and Char delivered his Dakar speech, a small team of test pilots flew prototype machines that were never supposed to exist. The Titans Test Team — nicknamed "Black Otter" by its commander, whose love of rabbits gave the TR Series its entire naming convention — operated as a classified R&D unit embedded inside the Gryps Conflict. Their mission: push transformable mobile suit technology to its limit and deliver the data to Konpeitoh Arsenal. Their machines were named for rabbits from Watership Down: Hazel, Bigwig, Dandelion, Fiver, Kehaar. Their final machine — the apex predator the data was building toward — was named Woundwort.

After the Gryps War ends in February U.C. 0088 and the Titans collapse, some of the survivors scatter into the First Neo Zeon War's slipstream. By U.C. 0091, a faction calling itself ReZeon has established itself on Mars under Supreme Commander Alicia Zabi — a woman whose claim to the Zabi bloodline may be fabricated but whose authority over the Titans remnants and Arcadia's disenfranchised is absolute. The war is gone. The dream of a Titans-controlled Earth Sphere is a dead religion. But dead religions have the most devoted survivors.


TIMELINE OF OPERATIONS

  • U.C. 0084.12 — Konpeitoh Sector: T3 (Black Otter Team) is assembled. Lieutenant Wes Murphy takes command. Eliard Hunter and Audrey April are assigned as junior pilots. The RX-121 Gundam TR-1 "Hazel" is delivered as a functional test frame — a GM Quel chassis with a Gundam head, built to frighten Zeon remnants and collect transformation data.
  • U.C. 0085.07 — 30 Bunch Incident (Colony 30, Side 1): The Titans pump G-3 nerve gas into a civilian colony to suppress protests. T3 is not there. Their performance reports for that month are marked "satisfactory." This is the weight they carry.
  • U.C. 0086–0087 — Escalation: The TR Project accelerates as the AEUG threat becomes real. The Hazel is upgraded to Hazel Custom, then Advanced Hazel, then Hazel-Rah as data requirements climb. Parallel development produces the TR-6 Woundwort — a machine that is not a Gundam and not a mobile armor but something in between. Something the TR Project was always pointing toward.
  • U.C. 0087.03 — Green Noa Incident: Quattro Bajeena raids Green Noa 1. Kamille Bidan steals a Gundam Mk-II. The open war begins. T3 continues testing.
  • U.C. 0087.08 — Dakar: Blex Forer is assassinated. Quattro's speech airs globally. The Titans' war crimes become public record. T3 continues testing.
  • U.C. 0088.02 — Operation Maelstrom (Gryps Finale): The Colony Laser (Gryps 2) is fired. The three-way fleet battle between AEUG, Titans, and Axis Zeon results in mutual destruction of the first two. Axis Zeon is left as the dominant power. The Titans are finished. The TR Project data is already en route to the archive that will become ReZeon's inheritance.
  • U.C. 0088–0089 — First Neo Zeon War (ZZ Era): Haman Karn's Axis Zeon launches open war against the ravaged Earth Sphere. Most Titans remnants scatter, are captured, or die. Captain Tristan leads a faction (designated "Tristellar") that merges with departing Axis forces and escapes to Mars, carrying the TR Series plans and a project codenamed "Inle's Wings."
  • U.C. 0089 — Gryps War Ends, Haman Falls: Neo Zeon is defeated. The Earth Sphere exhales. On Mars, Tristan's Tristellar absorbs into the Gihren loyalist faction (ReZeon), which has been fighting a guerrilla war against the older Kycilia loyalist Zeon Mars presence. Alicia Zabi — whether blood or clone — becomes Supreme Commander of the new ReZeon and declares Arcadia liberated.
  • U.C. 0091.10 — "Inle's Wings" / Operation Shining Star: Titans remnants within ReZeon, their weapons confiscated after integration, go underground in Arcadia. They coordinate with residual Zeon Mars cells to launch simultaneous strikes on five ReZeon locations: the Olympus Volcano base, Arcadia itself, Phobos Spaceport, the industrial plant, and the secret Inle construction site beneath a glacier. The rabbits are running again.

FACTIONS & KEY FIGURES

TITANS TEST TEAM (Black Otter Team) — T3

The classified unit. The data-delivery machine. The ones who named their weapons after rabbits.

  • Lieutenant Wes Murphy: Team commander. Rabbit enthusiast. His affection for Watership Down gives T3 its entire identity — every TR Series machine is named for a rabbit from the novel, and the unit emblem is a rabbit silhouette. He is protective of his pilots and aware that the data they generate vanishes upward into a chain of command that doesn't explain itself. He does not ask why.
  • Lieutenant JG Eliard Hunter: The protagonist of Flag of Titans. A Federation pilot who volunteered for the Titans out of idealism and found himself field-testing machines he doesn't have clearance to understand. His arc is the collapse of institutional faith.
  • Lieutenant JG Audrey April: Eliard's squadmate. A capable pilot who is consistently underestimated — and consistently correct. Her relationship with the TR Project's data becomes increasingly personal as the war progresses.
  • Lieutenant JG Carl Matsubara: T3's long-range specialist. Pilots the RGM-79SR GM Sniper III. Precise, economical with language, deeply unhappy.
  • Captain Tristan: The Titans officer who leads the remnant faction into Mars exile after the Gryps finale. By U.C. 0091 he is a man who has outlived his ideology and is not sure what to do with the fact.

THE TITANS (Earth Federation Elite)

The tyrants. The context. The reason T3 exists.

  • Jamitov Hymen: Supreme Commander. Believes war is evolution's mechanism. Does not see T3's data; sees only the trajectory it represents.
  • Bask Om: Field Commander. Ordered the 30 Bunch gassing. Wears goggles. Does not feel regret. The single most reliable data point in T3's moral calculus.
  • Paptimus Scirocco: The Man from Jupiter. A Newtype genius and political predator embedded inside the Titans who is actually dismantling it from within. His ambitions involve neither T3 nor the TR Project — they are beneath him. That is almost worse.
  • Jerid Messa: An ace pilot with a personal vendetta against Kamille Bidan. Not involved with T3 directly. Useful for establishing what a Titans officer looks like when ideology becomes identity.
  • Yazan Gable: "The Beast." Combat genius, anti-Newtype, operates on instinct and carnage. The Titans at their most purely dangerous.

AEUG — The Enemy T3 Fights (But Does Not Hate)

Federation defectors and Spacenoid partisans. The people the TR Project data was meant to defeat. Most of T3 has stopped being sure they were wrong.

  • Quattro Bajeena (Char Aznable): The masked ace. T3 encounters his unit's machines in the field without knowing who they belong to.
  • Kamille Bidan: The Zeta Gundam's pilot. The most powerful Newtype of the era. T3 pilots do not engage him directly unless the narrative demands it — and when they do, it ends badly.
  • Emma Sheen: A Titans defector. For T3, she is the nightmare scenario — a colleague who crossed the line. Her existence is not discussed in official reports.
  • Bright Noa: Captain of the Argama. The institutional backbone of the AEUG fleet.

AXIS ZEON (Neo Zeon)

The returning ghost. The third faction that inherits everything.

  • Haman Karn: The Regent. Cold, regal, psycommu-capable. By the time T3 encounters Axis forces in the Gryps finale, Haman is already playing a longer game than any of them understand.
  • Mineva Lao Zabi: The child figurehead of the Zabi legacy. By U.C. 0091, the woman calling herself Alicia Zabi has displaced this legacy on Mars and made it something stranger.

REZEON — MARS ARC (U.C. 0091)

What Zeon becomes when there is no Earth left to return to.

  • Alicia Zabi: Supreme Commander of ReZeon. Claims Zabi bloodline. May be a clone produced by the Mars "P-Series" reinforced human program. Her soldiers do not care. She is their gravity. The Titans remnants she absorbed found it easier to follow a Zabi name than to admit their cause died at Gryps.
  • Tristellar (Titans Remnants): The faction Captain Tristan led to Mars. They brought the TR Series plans, "Inle's Wings," and the conviction — now questionable — that they were preserving something worth preserving. By 0091 they have had their weapons confiscated and are organizing underground.
  • Zeon Mars: The older Kycilia loyalist faction, now marginalized by ReZeon. Residual cells collaborate with Tristellar on Operation Shining Star out of shared grievance.

MOBILE SUIT REGISTER — TR SERIES CORE CHAIN

The Black Otter Team's inheritance. Each machine is a data node. The chain ends at Woundwort.

RX-121 Gundam TR-1 "Hazel" GM Quel base frame, Gundam-type head. The first rabbit. Shield Boosters provide modular sub-flight and attitude control. The machine that starts the data chain.

RX-121-1 Gundam TR-1 "Hazel Custom" Rebuilt frame. 360° panoramic cockpit, linear seat, ~10% improved acceleration. The Shield Boosters were lost in prior combat — replaced with a standard shield temporarily.

RX-121-2A Gundam TR-1 "Advanced Hazel" Hazel II refit with leg enhancement parts and multi-weapon latch. Bridges the gap between Custom and Hazel-Rah. Can mount the Hrududu booster via multi-connector pod.

RX-121-3 Gundam TR-1 "Hazel-Rah" The apex of the Hazel lineage. Full TR-6 conversion candidate. When this machine deploys, the TR Project is nearly finished collecting what it came for.

RX-124 Gundam TR-6 "Woundwort" Not a Gundam. Not a mobile armor. The machine the entire TR Project was building toward. Named for the villain of Watership Down — the general, not the hero. Composite transformation system aggregating all TR Series data. Completed too late for the Gryps War. Its plans survive into U.C. 0091 as Tristellar's inheritance. → Ultimate config: TR-6 Haze'n-thley II-Rah — ship-grade beam armament, I-field binders, full space/atmospheric capability. Named for the title Hazel earns after becoming a leader. The only machine named for a rabbit's achievement.

Hrududu (Sub-Flight Booster Unit) High-speed booster pack. Attaches to TR Series multi-connector pods. "Hrududu" is the Watership Down word for "car." The most honest name in the project.


KEY TECHNOLOGY & TERMS

  • TR Project: The classified Titans R&D program administered through Konpeitoh Arsenal. Its official purpose was developing the next generation of transformable mobile suits. Its actual purpose becomes apparent only when the TR-6 Woundwort is complete: it was building a single machine capable of replacing every specialized MS type in the Titans' order of battle. The war ended before this mattered.
  • Shield Booster: T3's signature modular equipment. A thruster-equipped shield that clips to a TR Series frame's arm hardpoints, providing both defensive coverage and independent sub-flight mobility. Can be stacked in triple configuration for maximum effect. Requires significant generator output.
  • Hrududu Unit: High-speed booster pack. Attaches to TR Series multi-connector pods. Named after the Watership Down word for "car." The most honest name in the project.
  • Inle's Wings: The TR Project's data package for next-generation psycommu/funnel integration into TR-6-lineage frames. "Inle" is the Watership Down afterlife — the dark place rabbits go. The name was chosen by someone who had read the book very carefully. Captain Tristan carried this data to Mars.
  • Movable Frame: Internal skeletal structure enabling transformation and human-like articulation. The Hazel's frame is a simplified variant of the technology being simultaneously developed for the Zeta Gundam. T3's data and AE's Zeta Project are in quiet dialogue throughout the war.
  • Gundarium Gamma: Standard armor alloy for the era — lighter and stronger than Luna Titanium. Most TR Series frames use titanium-ceramic composites due to supply constraints on classified prototypes.
  • Dummy Balloons: Inflatable decoys launched from MS hardpoints to saturate enemy sensors. Vital in the beam-spam environment of late Gryps War combat. T3 pilots use them more than most — they are, by definition, outnumbered.
  • Ballute System: Atmospheric re-entry balloon-parachute system. Standard T3 equipment for orbital-to-surface insertion missions.
  • Arcadia (Mars): A colonial city originally built during humanity's expansion toward the asteroid belt. Became a haven for Earth's displaced populations, then was conquered by Kycilia loyalist Zeon remnants after 0079, then liberated by ReZeon in 0089. Its citizens accepted Alicia Zabi's leadership because the alternative was Zeon Mars. Whether they have traded one occupation for another is the question the 0091 arc is asking.

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