Le Creuset Team

Team Le Creuset is an elite team from ZAFT. There main goal was to destroy the Archangel and to capture the Strike.

Theft at Heliopolis
Morgenroete secretly develops five mobile suits for the Earth Alliance in a concealed base on the neutral colony, Heliopolis. The mobile suits are intended to counter ZAFT's superior military technology. The Le Creuset team raids the base, managing to steal only four of the five mobile suits, because ZAFT pilot Rusty Mackenzie is killed during the raid. Athrun steals the GAT-X303 Aegis prototype mobile suit. During the raid he meets Kira Yamato, now a Heliopolis civilian, again. Kira becomes, albeit reluctantly, the pilot of the GAT-X105 Strike, the last of the five mobile suits, to protect his friends. In the ensuing conflict, Heliopolis was was torn apart and subsequent destroyed due to the grave damage from all the combat fighting done within it.

Pursuit of the Archangel
Since he had piloted a top-secret weapon, Kira and his friends are forced to embark on the Earth Alliance warshipArchangel and later choose to enlist in their military. Kira engages Athrun in battle several times. Athrun is in turmoil over having to fight his friend and attempts to convince Kira to join ZAFT, since Kira is a Coordinator, and explains to Kira why he joined ZAFT. His words affect Kira, but still his friend refuses to cross over (along with the Strike Gundam) to ZAFT.

Team Zala
Team Zala was a smaller team and had the same goal.

Members

 * Rau Le Creuset
 * Athrun Zala
 * Yzak Joule
 * Dearka Elsman
 * Rusty Mackenzie
 * Nicol Amalf
 * Miguel Aiman