Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story: Space, To the End of a Flash

Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story: Space, To the End of A Flash (Kidou Senshi Gundam Gaiden: Sora, Senkou,機動戦士ガンダム外伝 宇宙、閃光の果てに) is a manga based on the game for PS2, written by Tomohiro Chiba and illustrated by Masato Natsumoto, published in Kadokawa Shoten and serialized in Gundam Ace maganize.

Story
The story revolves around a second Pegasus class ship, the SCVA-72 Thoroughbred and its crew. Tasked to intercept a Zeon supply route behind the Moon that leads to Space Fortress Solomon in preparation for "Operation Star One". To accomplish this, the Thoroughbred has been assigned two Gundams, the RX-78-4 Gundam Unit 4 "G04" and its brother unit the RX-78-5 Gundam Unit 5 "G05" piloted by Luce Kassel and Ford Romfellow respectively.

Chapters

 * OPERATION 1: First battle
 * OPERATION 2: Cooperation
 * OPERATION 3: Flash
 * OPERATION 4: Lunar surface
 * OPERATION 5: Light Explosion
 * OPERATION 6:
 * OPERATION 7: Peace
 * OPERATION 8: End

Earth Federation

 * Ford Romfellow
 * Luce Kassel
 * Miyu Takizawa
 * Annie Brevig
 * Lombard Dunst
 * Wesley Navarro
 * Kirk Wahlberg
 * Darryl Boyd

Principality of Zeon

 * Mallet Sanguine
 * Carlisle Yuiman
 * Lilia Flaubert
 * Piper Gyusuta
 * Glenys & Escott
 * May Cowin
 * Nord Wrangell
 * Jake Gunns
 * Darcia Bakharov

Other

 * Tracey Lamour

Mobile Weapons

 * RX-77-2 Guncannon
 * RX-78-4 Gundam Unit 4 "G04"
 * RX-78-5 Gundam Unit 5 "G05"

Vehicles and Support Units

 * Pegasus class (refit) (Thoroughbred)
 * Public-class
 * Salamis-class

Mobile Weapons

 * Bigro Kai
 * MS-06F Zaku II
 * MS-09R Rick Dom
 * MS-11 Action Zaku

Vehicles and Support Units

 * Chivvay-class
 * Musai-class

Triva

 * Events of the novel are depicted in the video game Mobile Suit Gundam: Encounters in Space, whose campaign, "Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story: From Place Beyond the Blaze", uses characters from the manga.

Editions

 * ISBN 4-04-713603-4-C0979
 * ISBN 4-04-713650-6-C0979
 * ISBN 4-04-713693-X-C0979