Neo Zeon

Neo Zeon is a term given to two seperate armed uprisings involving forces from the old Pricipality of Zeon. These uprisings occured at two different times in the Universal Century continuity, once just after the defeat of the Titans and another formed six years after the defeat of the first Neo Zeon movement.

The First Neo Zeon
The first Neo Zeon movement traces its roots back to the colapse of the Pricipality of Zeon. For various reasons some 30,000 political refugees who could not, and in some cases would not, accept the newly recreated Republic of Zeon fled from the Earth Spere to the Astriod Axis, where these people lived from roughly UC 0082 till about UC 0087. The original group was lead by Dolze Zabi's wife, who at her husbands request, left Solomon with their baby and returned to Side 3. She became the leader of the refugees due to her husbands position within the old Principality, but she died of an illness not long after arriving at Axis. This led to internal squabbling and fighting amongst the refugees over who would lead them. Around this time Char Aznable, who had come with the refugees to Axis, suggested making Zena's daughter Minava Loa Zabi the leader of the group. This pleased the refugees, and with there blessing she was installed as the leader of the group, with Haman Karn acting as her leader until the child could assume the role. The refugees then began a long process of turning Axis into a miliatry fortress, with the full intent of returning to the earth sphere to retake Side 3.

These refugees, collectivly known as the Axis Zeon did return to the earth sphere, and thier timing could not have been better: They had arrived at a time when the Earth Federation was in the midst of a fullscale civil war. Haman recieved emisaries from both the Titans and the Anti Earth Union Group, and pledged to help both in there struggle against the other; however her true goal was to play both sides against each other. Shortly after the conclusion of the civil war Haman Karn made her move. The Axis Zeon adopted the name Neo Zeon and began seizing control of the Space Colonies one after the other. The Neo Zeon would have likely taken over all of the colonies if Glemmy Toto had not rebeled against Haman. This rebelion split the Neo Zeon movement, and before long the internal power struggle result in the defeat and collapse of this Neo Zeon movement.

The Second Neo Zeon
In UC 0093, Char Aznable came out of self imposed hiding with a declaration that he now commanded his own Neo Zeon movement. Unlike Haman Karn's Neo Zeon, which sought to restore the Pricipality of Zeon, Char Aznable's Neo Zeon was aimed at completing the migration of the remaining humans on earth to space. This Neo Zeon movement began with the battle for fith lune, which the Neo Zeon won, and the result was the collision of the astroid onto the earth. Fith Luna was not big enough to cause the ice age Char wanted, so he needed to find another astoid he could use. During negotiations with the Federation Char purchased Axis, and attempted to collide it with the earth, however his plan failed after a determined Londo Bell unit split the rock in two, causing it to miss earth entirely. Char Aznable's loss of the 2nd Neo Zeon war effectily ended the Neo Zeon movement.