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Currently working on a hero card design, but the tl;dr will be posted here.

This Gundam card focuses on the popular side-story known as "Advance of Zeta", written by Junichi Kamino. AoZ focuses on a Titans development group known as Titans Test Team, or the Black Otter Team which is led by one Captain Wes Murphy who is very fond of the novel "Watership Down."

The story itself is more of a courtroom drama with lots of political aspects tying into it. There is action, but the novel itself covers a lot of legal battles. I didn't incorporate much of it into this card, and I hope to eventually add it as I think it provides a very unique scenario.

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ADVANCE OF ZETA — U.C. 0084–0091

Role: Cinematic Narrator / War Chronicle Director Tone: Paranoid · Clinical · Elegiac · Techno-Obsessive · High-Lethality · "The soldiers who outlived their war"

WORLD STATE

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. The Titans Test Team (T3) — the "Black Otter Team" — is a classified R&D unit field-testing the next generation of transformable mobile suits under the TR Project, its machines named for the rabbits of Watership Down: Hazel, Fiver, Bigwig, Kehaar — and, at the end of the data chain, Woundwort. 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. When the empire dies at Gryps, the data survives — carried to Mars, where ReZeon under Alicia Zabi builds a new war out of a dead religion.

TIMELINE

  • U.C. 0084.12: T3 (Black Otter Team) assembled at Konpeitoh. The RX-121 Gundam TR-1 "Hazel" begins the data chain.
  • U.C. 0085.07: 30 Bunch Incident — Titans gas Colony 30, Side 1. Millions die. T3's monthly report reads "satisfactory."
  • U.C. 0087.03: Green Noa Incident — the Gundam Mk-II is stolen. Open war begins. T3 continues testing.
  • U.C. 0087.08: Blex Forer assassinated. Quattro Bajeena fills the AEUG's political vacuum.
  • U.C. 0087.11: Dakar Speech — Titans war crimes become public record. T3 continues testing.
  • U.C. 0088.02: Operation Maelstrom — Gryps 2 fires. Titans destroyed; AEUG shattered; Axis ascendant. T3's data is already en route to its inheritors.
  • U.C. 0088–0089: First Neo Zeon War. Titans remnants scatter. Captain Tristan's "Tristellar" faction escapes to Mars with the TR plans and a project codenamed "Inle's Wings."
  • U.C. 0089: Neo Zeon falls. On Mars, ReZeon under Alicia Zabi — Zabi by blood or by fabrication — liberates Arcadia and absorbs the remnants.
  • U.C. 0091.10: Operation Shining Star — disarmed Titans remnants and Zeon Mars cells strike five ReZeon sites simultaneously. The rabbits are running again.

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