Cosmic Era locations

These are various locations from the Cosmic Era timeline of the anime metaseries Gundam.

Locations in space

Artemis asteroid

Artemis is an asteroid fortress in Earth orbit at Lagrange point 3, in the possession of the Eurasian Federation.

While Atermis's location is considered strategically worthless, the Eurasian forces nonetheless protected it with a lightwave barrier known as the "Umbrella of Artemis". This defense gave Atremis a reputation as an impregnable fortress, until the stolen GAT-X207 Blitz Gundam exploited its one shortcoming. Since the power requirements of a lightwaver barrier are immense, the "Umbrella of Artemis" only activated when enemy forces were sighted. Thus, the Blitz Gundam used its Mirage Colloid stealth system to slip inside the radius of the shield unnoticed, and then destroyed the lightwave barrier generators enabling ZAFT forces to capture the fortress.

Boaz asteroid

A ZAFT military asteroid once a EA Republic of East Asia station called Nova, destroyed by the Earth Alliance with nuclear missiles.

Heliopolis colony

A neutral space colony, territory of Orb, home to Kira Yamato. The Heliopolis colony was used as a secret base by the contractor Morgenroete to develop and build the first Gundam class mobile suits. For this reason ZAFT attacked it, stole four of the five prototypes and destroyed the colony in the battle that ensued.

Jachin Due

Jachin Due was a resource satellite that was converted to a military space fortress by ZAFT forces.

The First Battle of Jachin Due took place on April 17, C.E. 70, when the Earth Alliance ordered its 5th and 6th fleets, stationed on the moon, to attack PLANT and were intercepted by ZAFT forces from the resource satellite.

After this battle the PLANT Supreme Council decided to convert the entire asteroid of Jachin Due into a defensive base. Jachin Due was perfectly suited for this purpose: the size of Jachin Due allowed for ample construction of command bays and service docks and still being able to withstand massive bombardment; its location, in close vicinity of PLANT, was strategically placed between PLANT and any attacking force.

Later Jachin Due became the base of operations for the GENESIS project, and was eventually destroyed in the Second Battle of Jachin Due.

The word Jachin is the name of one of the mighty pillars of the Biblical Solomon's Temple.

Junius Seven colony

Junius Seven was an agricultural PLANT-type space colony, one of the ZAFT's few sources of food that did not have to be imported from allied nations on Earth.

• Bloody Valentine Incident

The Bloody Valentine Incident marked the opening of hostilities in the first war between the Earth Alliance and ZAFT.

On Cosmic Era February 11, 70, the Earth Alliance and ZAFT were already at war, although no major actions had taken place. On that day, the Agamemmnon class carrier Roosevelt, covertly loaded with a nuclear missile by a group of Blue Cosmos members within the Alliance military, left Ptolomaeus Base on the Moon, headed for the "Junius City" area of the Zodiac Alliance for a show of force. In mid-flight, authorization was given by the Atlantic Federation for Roosevelt to use the force she was intended merely to show. On February 14, during a fierce battle between the defending ZAFT ships and the Roosevelt and her escorts, a nuclear missile was fired from a TS-MA2 Moebius mobile armor and hit Junius Seven. The blast caused the colony to break apart, killing 243,721 Coordinator men, women, and children. The attack was quickly dubbed the "Bloody Valentine Incident" after the date. "Remember Junius Seven" became one of the rallying cry of pro-war Coordinators, especially of PLANT Supreme Council member Patrick Zala, whose wife Lenore was killed in the attack.

• Bloody Valentine War

Because of the sudden war thereafter, the wreckage of Junius Seven was left intact until the Archangel, desperately low on supplies, gathered what they need from the debris of the colony (mostly water) and paid their respects to the dead in the form of origami flowers. Later, when a cease fire was declared following the Second Battle of Jachin Due, a formal peace treaty between the Earth Alliance and the PLANTs was signed onboard ship near Junius Seven. The wreckage of the colony was preserved as a war memorial.

• Junius Seven Colony Drop

In C.E. 73, a group of veteran ZAFT extremists, manipulated by Blue Cosmos, attached PLANT Flare Motors all over the colony's remains, harnessing solar wind to send it on a collision course with Earth. Despite heroic attempts by ZAFT forces to destroy the colony and defeat those extremists before it fell on Earth, they failed and the shattered pieces of Junius Seven rained down on Earth, causing massive devastation, including the destruction of Rome and Athens.

Blue Cosmos-led Earth Alliance used the terrorist attack as a excuse to make impossible demilitarization demands to PLANT and to eventually declare the Second Bloody Valentine War.

Mendel colony

An Island 1 type colony abandoned due to a viral outbreak, Mendel became the temporary base of operations for the Clyne Faction in the waning days of the Bloody Valentine War. Prior to being abandoned, Mendel was home to the research laboratoy of Dr. Ulen Hibiki, one of the leading researchers in genetics – it was here that the Ultimate Coordinator project was conducted, as was the creation of clones of industrialist Ariaga Da Flaga, father of Mu La Flaga. In addition to the Clyne Faction, there is a small team of ZAFT researchers operating at Mendel, trying to recover samples of George Glenn's DNA that were stored at the research facilities there.

Locations on Earth

JOSH-A

Joint Supreme Headquarters Alaska was the central command center of the Earth Alliance after the fall of Victoria. The base was constructed by the two main powers of the Earth Alliance, the Atlantic Federation and the Eurasian Federation.

The JOSH-A base was destroyed in the Battle of JOSH-A by a Cyclops System, secretly installed under the base by the Atlantic Federation itself. Being the base personnel mostly from Eurasian forces, after luring the ZAFT forces into attacking the base, the Atlantic Federation ignited the self-destruction Cyclops System, managing to 'kill two birds with one stone'. The attacking force was mostly wiped out and the base itself totally annihilated. This event tilted the inner Earth Alliance's balance of powers mostly toward the Blue Cosmos-controlled Atlantic Federation.

See Also

Space Colony (Gundam)