Panama Base

Beneath the Victoria Base, the Panama Spaceport is another important base of the Earth Alliance. The base is the location of the Porta Panama mass driver which was developed by the Atlantic Federation and the United States of South America (the later being annexed by the Atlantic Federation at the start of the First Bloody Valentine War). Like the other Alliance spaceports the Panama base is an important strategic target of ZAFT and after the disastrous failure of Operation Spitbreak, ZAFT launches another attack on the base. Although ZAFT deploys only a small number of mobile suits the mission is successful thanks to the use of a new EMP-weapon called Gungnir, which not only disables all units of the Earth Alliance (like the new mass produced GAT-01 Strike Dagger) but also destroys the mass driver itself. After the battle all Alliance soldiers are brutally slaughtered by the insanely vengeful ZAFT troops as revenge for their lost comrades during Operation Spitbreak.