The Battle of Gulnahan is a conflict of the Second Alliance-PLANT War, featured in the anime Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny.
Prelude[]
Following the declaration of war by the Earth Alliance, ZAFT's bases in Africa and the Middle East found themselves under attack by the renewed Alliance. One contentious area was the no man's land between the Alliance's Suez Base and ZAFT's base at Gibraltar, which had a base at Mahamul near the Persian Gulf as a buffer.
The local position, however, was in danger thanks to the Alliance forces occupying Gulnahan and establishing the Lohengrin Gate, a mountain fortress with a Positron Blaster Cannon inside, and heavily protected by several mobile suits and a YMAG-X7F Gells-Ghe which also wielded a Positron Reflector to defend the fortress. ZAFT's attempts to take or destroy the fortress ended in failure. In response, the local Ruddle Team requested aid from the warship, Minerva, and also obtained assistance from local resistance fighters represented by Conille Almeta. While Gulnahan's residents were more tolerant or content with ZAFT's presence, the city's strategic location in the Persian Gulf led to an armed occupation by the Alliance which saw torture and executions of any suspected of showing sympathy to the Coordinators.
FAITH member, Athrun Zala, alongside the Minerva and Ruddle Team would launch a frontal assault to catch the attention of the Alliance forces while Shinn Asuka was to sneak through and blow an opening in one of the mountain ranges' caves to destroy the Positron Cannon with help from the ZGMF-X56S Impulse Gundam's smaller component parts.
The Battle[]
The Minerva first advanced alongside the Desmond and Bagley. Before the ships sent out their units, Shinn was prematurely deployed to begin moving toward his target point before the Alliance could catch sight of his allies. The Alliance commander quickly noticed the ZAFT ships and deployed the Gells-Ghe alongside several GAT-02L2 Dagger L to defend the Positron Cannon.
Athrun would lead the other Minerva pilots with his ZGMF-X23S Saviour Gundam in engaging and distracting most of the enemy mobile suits as the Gells-Ghe was busy fending off attacks from the ships. The operation nearly went awry when the Minerva was nearly struck by the fortress' "Lohengrin" Positron Blaster Cannon, and the ship was forced to charge forward to avoid the shot. Seeing that they had missed, the Alliance quickly ordered their Gells-Ghe to pull back and protect the recharging cannon, but Shinn had managed to emerge from the mountains in time and quickly assembled his unit before targeting the Alliance's Lohengrin as it was being retracted.
Athrun quickly moved to disarm the Gells-Ghe as Shinn began destroying the emplaced weapons and mobile suits near Lohengrin. Seeing that the weapon had already been retracted, Shinn hurled a damaged Dagger L into the hatch before it could close and destroyed it with the Impulse's CIWS. The explosion of the mobile suit quickly destroyed both itself and Lohengrin. Lohengrin Gate's fuel was also caught by the blast, and the Alliance's entire line of defense quickly imploded, and its forces were immediately forced to flee from Gulnahan.
Aftermath[]
Following the battle, the locals quickly welcomed the ZAFT forces and began to execute the Alliance soldiers that had failed to escape, several being either shot or beaten to death by the irate citizens. The city would remain within ZAFT's sphere of influence for the remainder of the war.
Gallery[]
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Notes & Trivia[]
- In Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny: The Edge, Heine Westenfluss also took part in the battle, being among the mobile suits that distracted the Alliance's forces.
Appearances[]
- Television Series
- Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny
- PHASE-18, Attack the Lohengrin!
- First Appearance; Conclusion
- PHASE-18, Attack the Lohengrin!
References[]
| Cosmic Era Conflicts and Events | |
| Pre C.E. - C.E. 9 | |
|---|---|
| Reconstruction War | |
| 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 | Foundation Shock | Freedom Hijacking Incident | |
| C.E. 75 | |
| Blue Cosmos Campaign Battle of Aldrin City | |
| Foundation Conflict Eldore Incident | Moscow Tragedy | PLANT Coup d'état | Millennium Hijacking | Lacus Clyne Rescue Operation | Battle of Requiem | |