FFMH-Y101 Eternal

FFMH-Y101 Eternal
FFMH-Y101 Eternal (FFMH-Y101 エターナル)
Unit Type
Custom Support Space Ship
Profile
Ships of the Line	Eternal
First Seen	July 1, 71 C.E.
Manufacturer	Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty
Operator	Three Ships Alliance Clyne Faction Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty PLANT Intelligence Division
Known Captains	Andrew Waltfeld Lacus Clyne Yzak Joule
Known Crew	Andrew Waltfeld Lacus Clyne Kira Yamato Athrun Zala Martin DaCosta Meyrin Hawke Hilda Harken Mars Simeon Herbert Von Reinhard Yzak Joule Dearka Elsman Shiho Hahnenfuss
General Characteristics
Overall Length	300 meters
MS Hangars	2
MS Catapults	1
Movement
Propulsion	4 x Large Thruster 6 X Small Thruster
Equipment
Optional	2 x METEOR Unit
Standard Armaments
Fixed	Main Cannon 2 x Twin Rail Gun ? × Small Beam Cannon ? × Missile Launchers ? × CIWS
Optional Armaments
Fixed	2 x METEOR
Mobile Weapons
ZGMF-X09A Justice Gundam ZGMF-X19A ∞ Justice Gundam ZGMF-X10A Freedom Gundam ZGMF-X20A Strike Freedom Gundam ZGMF-X88S Gaia Gundam ZGMF-XX09T DOM Trooper ZGMF-1027M Duel Blitz Gundam ZGMF-103HD Lightning Buster Gundam
Real World
Appearances*
Television	SEED: #42 - Episode #50 GSD: #27 - Episode #50

The FFMH-Y101 Eternal is a support ship introduced in the anime Mobile Suit Gundam SEED. As it was extremely task-specific, only one such vessel, the class namesake, was ever produced.

Technology & Combat Characteristics

The Eternal is a space warship built by ZAFT to specifically support the nuclear-powered ZGMF-X09A Justice Gundam and ZGMF-X10A Freedom Gundam, and has special facilities for maintaining both mobile suits. It also has no problem carrying and supporting battery-powered mobile suits. To accompany the highly mobile Justice and Freedom Gundams in battle, the Eternal boasts high speed and can outrun even the Nazca-class, ZAFT's fastest class of ship. For combat, the ship is armed with a large beam cannon, a pair of twin rail guns, numerous small beam cannons and CIWS, as well as countless batteries of defensive missile launchers. Additionally, the Eternal carries a pair of Mobile suit Embedded Tactical Enforcer (METEOR Units), an optional armed module for the Justice and Freedom Gundams, which can also function as gun turrets for the ship when not utilized by the two mobile suits.

Armaments

• Main Cannon

A single beam cannon mounted in front of the bridge. It is incapable of rotating sideways, but its barrel can swivel upwards.

• Twin Rail Gun

A pair of twin railguns mounted behind the bridge on either side of the ship.

• CIWS

A large number of CIWS guns are mounted on the Eternal and they serve as part of the ship's defense against enemy mobile suits and missiles.

• Small Beam Cannon

A large number of small beam cannons are mounted on the ship.

• Missile Launcher

A large number of missile launchers are mounted on the ship. As with the CIWS, these launchers are used primarily for defensive purposes.

Special Equipment & Features

• METEOR Unit

A pair of armed modules stored at the front of the ship.

History

First Alliance-PLANT War

Commissioned in C.E. 71, the Eternal was built for the purpose of supporting ZAFT's nuclear-powered mobile suits, the ZGMF-X09A Justice Gundam and ZGMF-X10A Freedom Gundam. On July 1 of the same year, soon after its completion, the Eternal was stolen by the Clyne Faction, commanded by Lacus Clyne and Andrew Waltfeld. The Clyne Faction used the Eternal to escape the PLANTs, and made their way to the Mendel colony to meet with the Archangel and the Kusanagi. Together, the group formed the Three Ships Alliance (TSA), an independent force that sought to end the First Alliance-PLANT War.

Following the TSA's formation, the Eternal acted as the mothership of the Justice and Freedom Gundams, both of which had been acquired from ZAFT. During the Battle of Mendel, the Eternal and Kusanagi broke through the ZAFT forces led by Rau Le Creuset, destroying his flagship, the Vesalius, before escaping. At the war's climax during the Second Battle of Jachin Due, the Eternal, Archangel and Kusanagi intervened in the battle to destroy the Earth Alliance's nuclear taskforce and ZAFT's GENESIS superweapon.

Interwar Period

After the end of the war, the Eternal was hidden within an asteroid, while Andrew and Lacus secretly immigrated to the Orb Union.

Second Alliance-PLANT War

In C.E. 74, after Andrew and Lacus returned to space, the two reunited with some of the remaining members of the Clyne Faction, including Martin DaCosta, who had been commanding the Eternal in their absence. Eventually, a ZGMF-LRR704B GINN Long Range Reconnaissance Type located the Eternal, forcing it to flee its asteroid base to draw ZAFT forces away from the mobile suit factory also concealed within the base.

The Eternal approached Earth as Andrew fought the pursuing ZAFT forces in the stolen ZGMF-X88S Gaia Gundam, until Kira Yamato arrived in the MBF-02 Strike Rouge to assist. During the battle, the outdated Strike Rouge was badly damaged, resulting in Kira boarding the ship and being presented with the ZGMF-X20A Strike Freedom Gundam, which he used to defeat the pursuers.

After the Earth Alliance was more or less defeated by ZAFT, the Eternal, together with other ships of the Three Ships Alliance and Orb Union, acted to stop PLANT chairman Gilbert Durandal from taking full control over the Earth Sphere. The group successfully stop him and after the battle, the Eternal was escorted by the Archangel and five Nazca-class ships including the Joule Team's flagship, Voltaire, to PLANT, and brought an official end to the second war.

Post Second War

After the second war, the Eternal was upgraded and kept hidden for use in emergencies. Following the Kingdom of Foundation-backed coup d'état that forced the PLANT Supreme Council away from the PLANTs, Yzak Joule recovered the Eternal to aid Compass in battling the new enemies and to destroy the Requiem superweapon.

Gallery

Lineart

Lineart from "CE Mechanics & World"

Anime

Front

Rear

Side View

Underside

Bridge Exterior

Bridge Interior (1)

Bridge Interior (2)

Strategy Table

Hangar

Catapult

Rear Hangar Entrance

Main Cannon

Firing Main Cannon

Firing Missiles

METEOR docked to the Eternal

METEOR firing Beam Cannons while docked to the Eternal

The Eternal fighting alongside the Kusanagi (1)

The Eternal fighting alongside the Kusanagi (2)

Eternal and Kusanagi firing various weapons

Vs. Nazca-class

With the Re.H.O.M.E.

With the Archangel and Kusanagi

With the Archangel and Kusanagi, damaged

Hiding in an asteroid

Illustrations & Artwork

Strike Freedom Gundam and Eternal (Gundam's 40th Anniversary Illustration Book)

Games

Gundam War Card

As seen in Super Robot Wars X-Ω

Gunpla

EX Model 1/1700 FFMH-Y101 Eternal (2005): box art

EX Model 1/1700 FFMH-Y101 Eternal (Limited Edition) (2005): box art

Notes & Trivia

• If measured by the METEOR units stored at the bow and one assumes the 99.46-meter length per METEOR unit, the resulting ship length appear to vary greatly between 447.57 to 745.95 meters (about 4.5 to 7.5 METEOR units long) depending on the official art used, far greater than the published length of 300 meters.
• The anime's depiction of the guns that are arranged in groups of three across the top and bottom of the ship's "wings" are inconsistent. Sometimes they are shown firing orange shots, which are usually associated with guns shooting physical projectiles such as CIWS, while in others, they are shown firing green shots, which are usually reserved for beam weaponry. Data books also have yet to identify them as CIWS or beam cannons.
• The default captain of Eternal in Super Robot Wars J is Andrew Waltfeld, with Lacus Clyne as a swappable sub-captain, and Martin DaCosta as a supporting character. In this game, the Eternal does not have the CIWS, nor is it able to deploy, link with, or store the METEOR units. In other games such as Super Robot Wars Alpha 3 and installments subsequent to the Eternal does retain these features.

Appearances

Television Series

• Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
  • PHASE-42, Lacus Strikes
    • First Appearance
  • PHASE-43, What Stands in the Way
  • PHASE-44, Spiral of Encounters
  • PHASE-45, The Opening Door
  • PHASE-46, A Place for the Soul
  • PHASE-47, The Nightmare Reborn
  • PHASE-48, Day of Wrath
  • PHASE-49, The Final Light
  • PHASE-50, To a Future that Never Ends
• Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny
  • PHASE-20, Past
  • PHASE-27, Unfulfilled Feelings
  • PHASE-28, Survivors and Sacrifices
  • PHASE-29, Fates
  • PHASE-39, Kira of the Skies
  • PHASE-48, To a New World
  • PHASE-49, Rey

Manga

• Mobile Suit Gundam SEED X Astray
  • Chapter 1, Parts-X12: The New G
    • Image(s) Only

Games

• Mobile Suit Gundam SEED: Never Ending Tomorrow

References

Eternal and Kusanagi File 01 (Official Gundam Fact File, Issue 54, Pg 29)

Eternal and Kusanagi File 02 (Official Gundam Fact File, Issue 54, Pg 30)

Eternal File 01 (Gundam Perfect Files, Issue 95, Pg 5)

Eternal File 02 (Gundam Perfect Files, Issue 95, Pg 6)

Eternal Glossary File 01 (Official Gundam Fact File, Issue 13, Pg 31)

Eternal Glossary File 02 (Gundam Perfect Files, Issue 126, Pg 30)

External links

• FFMH-Y101 Eternal on MAHQ

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