The Daedalus Lunar Base is a moon base introduced in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny.
History[]
Built at an unknown point of time after the First Alliance-PLANT War, the Daedalus base was one of two OMNI Enforcer moon base active during the Second Alliance-PLANT War besides the Arzachel lunar base. Unlike the Arzachel base and the former Ptolemaeus lunar base, the Daedalus base was located on the dark side of the moon, in the Daedalus crater. The base was the location of the powerful Requiem superweapon.
Near the end of the Second Alliance-PLANT War, Lord Djibril, the last remaining member of the secret society Logos, moved there from Orb Union after ZAFT's invasion of Orb. Djibril intended to use Requiem to destroy the PLANT capital, Aprilius One. However, due to Yzak Joule team's attack on one of Requiem's relay stations, however, the attack missed, destroying several other PLANTs instead.
Unbeknownst to Djibril, PLANT Supreme Chairman Gilbert Durandal knew about his plan in advance, and has already moved to the space fortress Messiah. While the ZAFT lunar orbit fleet, led by the Gondwana, engaged Alliance forces at the first relay station, Durandal ordered Minerva to attack the base and destroy Requiem.
The arrival of the Minerva caught the base personnel off-guard, but they soon deployed a large number of mobile weapons to defend the base, including three GFAS-X1 Destroy Gundams. However, they proved no match against Shinn Asuka's Destiny Gundam and Rey Za Burrel's Legend Gundam. While the two took on most of the Alliance mobile weapons, the ZGMF-X56S/γ Blast Impulse Gundam, piloted by Lunamaria Hawke, reached the Requiem control room through a test pit near the base and destroyed it, preventing it from firing. At the same time, the Destiny Gundam detonated several Nelson-class ships in the spaceport. The resulting explosion destroyed the command room, killing the base's command staff. Djibril attempted to escape aboard the Girty Lue, but he was intercepted by the Legend Gundam, which obliterated the ship's bridge with its beam spikes, instantly killing him.[1]
The Daedalus base eventually fell into ZAFT's hands and Durandal used the repaired Requiem to destroy the Earth Alliance's last remaining stronghold in space, the Arzachel base, killing the Atlantic Federation president Joseph Copeland and devastating a vast majority of the Earth Alliance forces.[2] He then planned to use Requiem to destroy any nations on Earth which planned to oppose his Destiny Plan, beginning with Orb. Before he could fire Requiem again, the Three Ships Alliance was able to destroy Requiem and with Durandal's death, the Second Alliance-PLANT War came to an end.[3]
After the war, although Requiem's surface facilities had been mostly destroyed, the underground power reactors at Daedalus were deemed impossible to dismantle safely. Instead, it was decided that PLANT would use them peacefully as power reactors. However, PLANT National Defense Committee Chairman Hari Jagannath placed those power reactors under military control, and secretly began reconstructing Requiem.[4]
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Notes & Trivia[]
- Daedalus is the name of the figure in the Greek mythology.
Appearances[]
- Television Series
- Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny
- PHASE-44, Lacus Times Two
- PHASE-45, Prelude to Revolution
References[]
- ↑ Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny PHASE-45, Prelude to Revolution
- ↑ Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny PHASE-48, To a New World
- ↑ Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny PHASE-50, The Final Power
- ↑ Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom Chapter 4
Cosmic Era locations | |
Space | |
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Apollon A | Armory One | Ame-no-Mihashira | Artemis | Boaz | Debris Belt | Development Facility Satellite | Dock | Erudou | Factory | Heliopolis | Jachin Due | L4 Colony Cluster | Liteiria | Messiah | PLANT Colonies | Troya Station | Yggdrasil | ZAFT Military Station | Zodiac | |
Debris Belt Locations Graveyard | Junius Seven | |
Heliopolis Locations Morgenröte Facility | |
L4 Colony Cluster Locations Mendel | |
Mendel Locations G.A.R.M. R&D Facility | |
PLANT Colonies Locations Aprilius One | Junius Five | Junius Seven | |
Aprilius One Locations Clyne Manor | Kira and Lacus' Mansion | PLANT Supreme Council Building | ZAFT Military Factory | |
Junius Five Locations White Symphony | |
Moon | |
Arzachel Lunar Base | Copernicus City | Daedalus Lunar Base | Endymion Base | Lorenz Base | Ptolemaeus Lunar Base | |
Earth | |
Berlin | Carpentaria Base | Diocuia | Fortaleza | Gibraltar Base | Giga-Float | Gulnahan Ravine | Heaven's Base | Indian Ocean | Ishtaria | Kaohsiung Base | Kirgitz Plant | Lagash Base | Lodonia Lab | Mahamul Base | Moscow | North Africa | North America | Orb Archipelago | Orbit Traffic Observation Center | Red Sea | Reverend Malchio's Orphanage | Scandinavia | South Africa | South America | Victoria Base | Yap Island | |
Diocuia Locations Diocuia Base | |
Gulnahan Ravine Locations Lohengrin Gate | |
Indian Ocean Locations Indian Ocean Base | Indian Ocean Island | |
North Africa Locations Al-Jairi's Factory | Al-Jairi's Home | Banadiya | Desert Dawn Base | Moula | Suez Base | Talbadiya Factory District | Tassil | |
Banadiya Locations ZAFT Banadiya Base | |
North America Flaga Estate | JOSH-A | Panama Base | White House | |
Orb Archipelago Locations Akatsuki Island | Kaguya Island | Onogoro Island | Sadeyori Island | Yalafath Island | |
Akatsuki Island Locations Akatsuki Manor | |
Onogoro Island Locations Morgenröte Headquarters | Morgenröte Underground Dock | Orb National Defense Headquarters | |
Yalafath Island Locations Allster Family Home | Athha Estate | Ceremonial Temple | Orb Administrative Building | Seiran Family Estate | |
Others | |
Bautroya | Jupiter | Mars | |
Bautroya Locations DSSD Supply Station |