Junius Seven

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 Tragedy
 * The Bloody Valentine Tragedy 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 act of mass murder is what became known as 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 Chairman 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 especially on water, gathered what they needed from the debris of the colony and paid their respects to the dead in the form of origami flowers. Later, when a ceasefire was declared following the Second Battle of Jachin Due, a formal peace treaty between the Earth Alliance and the PLANTs was signed onboard a ship near Junius Seven. The wreckage of the colony was preserved as a war memorial.


 * Break the World
 * In C.E. 73, a group of veteran ZAFT extremists, 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, their attempt failed and the shattered pieces of Junius Seven rained down on Earth, causing massive devastation, including the destruction of Rome and Athens.

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