Rusty Mackenzie

Rusty Mackenzie was one of the Elite ZAFT pilots known as "Red Coats". He was part of the Rau Le Creuset team during their Attack on Heliopolis, but unlike the other four Red Coats, he doesn't have a parent on the PLANT Supreme Council. Rusty was going to steal the Strike, but was killed by an EA soldier named Hamana before he could enter the cockpit. Athrun Zala avenges his death by killing Hamana. Not much is revealed about him other than the fact that he thinks more like Athrun and Nicol Amalfi; meaning he questions whether what they are doing the right thing. He is also described as the "glue" that held the team together in the novelisation of Gundam SEED. In Gundam SEED, Rusty his face wasn't shown (except in a photo on Athrun's billboard) and had no lines, hence viewers didn't get a glimpse of his character until Gundam SEED: Special Edition was released. In Gundam Seed Destiny, Yzak Joule, Dearka Elsman and Athrun visit the graves of Rusty, Miguel Aiman and Nicol Amalfi laying flowers at all of their gravesites.