The "Break The World" Incident is a conflict that led to the Second Alliance-PLANT War, featured in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny.
Prelude[]
Following the First Alliance-PLANT War, a mutual peace was made between the Earth Alliance and PLANT following the deaths of their extremist leaders with the Junius Treaty. On the side of the PLANTs, a major shake-up occurred in its Supreme Council which saw the arrest of most of the radical representatives and the moderate Eileen Canaver and Gilbert Durandal succeeding the late Patrick Zala.
The new political scene, which favored the unsteady peace over another war, was not well-received by a minority group that still retained Zala's extreme discrimination towards Naturals and his dream of destroying Earth as payback for their losses. To this end, the group, led by Sato, would obtain thrusters and used them to begin moving the wreckage of Junius Seven, the gravestone of the Bloody Valentine Incident, on a collision course toward Earth. The Joule Team was quickly made aware of the wrecked colony's movements and initially assumed it to be an accident and sent out several meteor breakers to drill and break the wrecked colony before it reaches Earth. In response, Sato's forces attack the Joule Team to stop them from interfering with their plan.
Another group of terrorists also head towards the Junk Guild's GENESIS Alpha in order to take control of the space station and attack Earth, but the attack was repelled by Rondo Mina Sahaku and her entourage. When the Junk Guild attempted to use GENESIS Alpha to aid in the destruction of the wrecked colony, Ash Gray's ZGMF-X12A Testament Gundam infected the space station with a computer virus, altering the trajectory of its laser towards Earth. Fortunately, the Junk Guild stopped this, but Ash had it fire upon an Alliance base instead. The Junk Guild was then forced to destroy the space station to prevent its capture by the Alliance.
The Battle[]
Suddenly attacked by several ZGMF-1017M2 GINN High Maneuver Type IIs, the Joule Team's units began mobilizing to protect the engineers, but this was caught by the members of Phantom Pain, who mistakenly believed that ZAFT was behind the entire incident and began attacking all sides with Sting Oakley's ZGMF-X24S Chaos Gundam, Auel Neider's ZGMF-X31S Abyss Gundam, and Stella Loussier's ZGMF-X88S Gaia Gundam. While Dearka Elsman's ZGMF-1000/A1 Gunner ZAKU Warrior is busy defending the meteor breakers, Joule Team leader, Yzak Joule requested for help from the nearby Minerva.
In response, the ship sends out Shinn Asuka's ZGMF-X56S/α Force Impulse Gundam, Athrun Zala's ZGMF-1000/M Blaze ZAKU Warrior, Lunamaria Hawke's Gunner ZAKU Warrior and Rey Za Burrel's ZGMF-1001/M Blaze ZAKU Phantom. Shinn, Athrun, and Lunamria would go on to engage Sting, Auel, and Stella respectively while Rey would continue assisting the Joule Team against the terrorist group. Dearka would later get a clean shot on Sato's GINN, melting its arm with his "Orthros" Beam Cannon.
Believing that Phantom Pain had misinterpreted the situation, Minerva captain, Talia Gladys also sends a message towards Bogey One asking them to stand down and explain the situation. In the meantime, Phantom Pain's units would begin taking damage as the Gaia would lose its beam rifle in exchange for the leg of Lunamaria's ZAKU while the Sting would lose the Chaos' weapon pods to Athrun.
Eventually, the efforts of the engineers pay off as Junius Seven's wreckage is finally cut in half by the meteor breakers. Seeing that even this was still not enough, Athrun ordered for the destruction of the wrecked colony to continue. He would join up with both Yzak and Dearka as they attempted to set up another meteor breaker, but are interrupted by a pair of terrorists followed by Auel and Sting. Initially, the three work together to deal with the two GINNs before Yzak and Athrun engage the Abyss and Chaos. The pair would easily force them to retreat as Yzak and Athrun used a combination attack to break the Abyss' Beam Lance before moving to destroy the Chaos' beam rifle and shield. By this time, Earth's government has already been made aware of the imminent descent of Junius Seven's wreckage, and a worldwide evacuation would commence.
As the battle was reaching Earth, Phantom Pain's captain, Neo Roanoke ordered his subordinates to pull back. Due to the massive chunks remaining, Captain Gladys would order her units to return before the ship would continue attacking the massive chunks in its descent to Earth. While Shinn and Athrun would attempt to launch one more meteor breaker before returning, they are attacked by Sato and two more terrorists. Shinn is able to cut one down but is knocked unconscious when the second self detonates his unit after grabbing Shinn's cockpit. At the same time, Athrun would fight Sato, but he would be distracted when Sato called back to Patrick Zala's words, and would lose one of his arms.
When Athrun attempted to escape back to the Minerva, Sato tries to cling onto the leg of Athrun's ZAKU, but Shinn is able to regain consciousness and severs the leg before trying to bring Athrun back to the Minerva. Unfortunately, the pull of gravity is too strong as both end up free-falling towards Earth. During this time, the Minerva would attack whatever large chunk it could find using its "Tannhäuser" Positron Blaster Cannon.
Unknown to most was that Junk Guild member Lowe Guele had also aided in the destruction of the wrecked colony, using his MBF-P02 Gundam Astray Red Frame Mars Jacket and its Gerbera Straight sword to slice through several chunks of debris. Immediately after returning to his ship, the Re.H.O.M.E., the Red Frame Mars Jacket was stolen by Deago Lowell, a Martian, who then fled to Earth.[1]
Aftermath[]
While total annihilation was averted by ZAFT's actions, large chunks of debris still managed to reach Earth; several major cities and cultural landmarks were destroyed forever. Chairman Durandal and PLANT would be among the first to offer widespread material donation and humanitarian aid towards the damaged nations. As emotions were high, Neo reviewed older camera data to find Sato's men planting the engines responsible though omitting the message he received from the Minerva and sent it to his superior, Lord Djibril, the leader of Logos, the successor of the anti-Coordinator extremist group Blue Cosmos.
With the Atlantic Federation's president, Joseph Copeland, under his thumb, Djibril used Neo's pictures to paint the picture of ZAFT's culpability which Durandal would publicly deny. Because of these arguments, tensions rose once again and the Alliance would declare war on the PLANTs once more, starting the Second Alliance-PLANT War. This decision, however, would prove hasty as Durandal's charity, growing tolerance towards Coordinators, or fear from the previous war made some members of the Alliance reluctant to fight once again. Nonetheless, the radical Atlantic Federation would push for a nuclear attack on the PLANT capital, Aprilius One.
Secretly, Chairman Durandal would privately purge all recorded data regarding Sato and the terrorists to prevent any possible tie towards ZAFT.[2]
Gallery[]
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Notes & Trivia[]
- The battle parallels Operation Stardust from Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory. Both involve a splinter faction of the space based faction (Principality of Zeon and ZAFT respectively) maneuvering a space colony to crash on Earth. In both situations, the crash failed to make its intended fall, but caused considerable collateral damage across the planet.
- Both events also resulted in increased military action by the Earth base faction; the Earth Federation created the Titans and the Earth Alliance declared war on PLANT.
Appearances[]
- Television Series
- Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny
- PHASE-05, Scars That Won't Heal
- First Appearance
- PHASE-06, The End of the World
- PHASE-07, Land of Confusion
- Conclusion
- PHASE-05, Scars That Won't Heal
- OVAs and ONAs
References[]
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| Cosmic Era Conflicts and Events | |
| C.E. 15 | |
|---|---|
| Coordinator Revelation | Jupiter Exploration Mission | |
| C.E. 30’s - C.E. 50 | |
| Coordinator Boom | |
| C.E. 50’s - C.E. 60’s | |
| Assassination of George Glenn | Flaga Estate Burning | Blue Cosmos Attack on Mendel | |
| C.E. 60’s - C.E. 69 | |
| Mandelbrot Incident | Attack on the Junius Colonies | Mendel Accident | |
| C.E. 70 | |
| First Alliance-PLANT War Tragedy of Copernicus | Bloody Valentine Incident | Invasion of South America | Battle of Yggdrasil | First Battle of Victoria | Operation Uroboros | Battle of Carpentaria | Battle of Coral Sea | First Battle of Jachin Due | Grimaldi Front (Battle of Endymion Crater) | First Battle of Casablanca | Battle of El Alamein | Battle of Nova | First Nova Recapture Operation | October Talks | |
| Unrelated Conflicts First Attack on the Graveyard | |
| C.E. 71 | |
| First Alliance-PLANT War Battle of Kaohsiung | Battle of Heliopolis | Skirmish near Artemis | Battle of Artemis | Second Nova Recapture Operation | Clash at Junius Seven | Skirmish in the Debris Belt | Battle near Junius Seven | Skirmish in the North African Desert | Skirmish towards Earth | Battle of Orbit | Second Battle of Victoria | Blue Cosmos Attack on PLANT | Desert Dawn Campaign (Attack on the Archangel | Attack on Tassil | Retaliation of the Desert Dawn | Blue Cosmos Attack in Banadiya | Battle of Talbadiya) | First Equatorial Skirmish | Second Equatorial Skirmish | Skirmish on an Uninhabited Island | Strait of Malacca Breakthrough | First Battle near Orb | Orb Infiltration Mission | Second Battle near Orb | Battle of the Marshall Islands | Theft of the Freedom Gundam | Operation Spitbreak | Shoot Out at White Symphony | Mission to Recapture the Freedom Gundam | Battle of Porta Panama | Battle of Orb | Assassination of Siegel Clyne | Third Battle of Victoria | Attack on a ZAFT Fleet | Theft of the Eternal | Battle of Mendel | Second Battle of Casablanca | Operation 8.8 (Ayers Rock Landing Operation) | Operation Elvis (Battle of Boaz | Second Battle of Jachin Due) | |
| South American War for Independence Attack on South American Forces Base 12 | Duel at the South American Shore | Battle in the USSA Neutral Zone | Ambush in Low Orbit | |
| Unrelated Conflicts Campaign on the ZAFT Supply Route (Attack on a ZAFT Supply Station | Battle at ZAFT Supply Station 4) | Skirmish at Heliopolis | Pirate Attack on the H.O.M.E. | Recapture of Artemis | Skirmish at Artemis | Second Attack on the Graveyard | Actaeon Hostage Incident | Skirmish at Liteiria | Barnacle Incident | First Attack by the Gundam Astray Gold Frame | First Attack on the Lesseps | Second Attack on the Lesseps | Confrontation in the Deep Sea | Infiltration of the Lesseps | First Battle of the Giga-Float | Second Battle of the Giga-Float | Battle of Ame-No-Mihashira | Battle of the Gundam Astrays | Third Attack on the Graveyard | Find Kira Yamato Operation | Skirmish at Mendel | Raid on the Dreadnaught Gundam’s Transport | Attack on the Serpent Tail Transport | First Attack on the Re.H.O.M.E. | Attack on Supply Station 15B | Escape from Artemis | Assault on Ptolemaeus Port Seven | Attack on the Ortygia | Attack on Ame-No-Mihashira | Battle at the Abandon Colony Zone | Battle at the Mobile Suit Auction | Clash at Mendel | Second Attack on the Re.H.O.M.E. | Assault on the Sahaku Force | Erudou Breakthrough | Third Attack on the Re.H.O.M.E. | First Battle of GENESIS Alpha | First Attack on GENESIS Alpha | |
| C.E. 72 | |
| First Alliance-PLANT War Nairobi Peace Conference (Attack on the Junius Treaty Ceremony) | |
| South American War for Independence Battle for South America | |
| Unrelated Conflicts Battle of the Blue Cosmos Asteroid Factory | |
| C.E. 73 | |
| Second Alliance-PLANT War Attack on Armory One | Battle of the Debris Belt | "Break The World" Incident | Battle of Aprilius One | Operation Spear of Twilight | Ambush of the Minerva | Assassination Attempt of Lacus Clyne | Kidnapping of Orb's Chief Representative | Battle of the Indian Ocean | Attack on Lohengrin Gate | Battle of Gulnahan | Battle in Lunar Orbit | Battle of Dardanelles | Skirmish at Lodonia Lab | Lacus Clyne Shuttle Hijacking | Battle of Crete | |
| Unrelated Conflicts Second Attack on GENESIS Alpha | Third Attack on GENESIS Alpha | Second Battle of Genesis Alpha | Attack on Ed the Ripper’s Shuttle |Attack in Fortaleza | Attack on Kirgitz | Declaration of the Sky | Attack on The Clan Space Station | Assault on the Coordinator Refugee Camp | |
| C.E. 74 | |
| Second Alliance-PLANT War Minerva Breakout | Attack on the Bonaparte | Destroy Crisis (First Attack on Eurasia | Second Attack on Eurasia | Third Attack on Eurasia | Battle of Berlin) | Campaign Against Logos | Operation Angel Down | Desertion of Athrun Zala and Meyrin Hawke | Operation Ragnarök | Eternal Chase | Operation Fury | Battle of Requiem Station Gounod | Battle of Daedalus | Assassination Attempt in Copernicus City | Proclamation of the Destiny Plan | Attack on Requiem Station One | Battle of Messiah | |
| Unrelated Conflicts Attack on Toroya Station | |