G-Saviour Sound Cinema is a radio drama series broadcast on Japanese FM stations prior to the G-Saviour film. Set in the Universal Century, it is a series of three stories that take place before the events of the film, serving as a prequel. These were released on CD in December 2000 by Pioneer LDC.
Story[]
G-Saviour Sound Cinema 01: Red Wings of Icarus[]
At Side 2, Congressional Armed Forces burn the crops of farms. CAF ace pilot Andria Grachet, known by his nickname "Grim Reaper Icarus", lands his black mobile suit in a grape orchard. As he exits his cockpit, the farmer and his wife confront him. The farmer aims a rifle at Andria and threatens to shoot him for ruining the harvest. Although Andria attempts to talk him into putting down the rifle, he refuses, leading to the Bugus shooting him and his wife. Elicia Erg, their blind daughter, overhears the events and remembers Andria's black helmet with red wings.
Years later, Andria has left the Congressional Armed Forces and changed his name to Andy Sinclair. He is able to smuggle Elicia to Earth. Hiding his past, the pair settle on a grape orchard in an European agriculture district controlled by the Congress of Settlement Nations. Andy, guilt-ridden over causing her parents deaths, strives to live a peaceful life with Elicia and fulfill her father's legacy. Elicia has recurring nightmares about the day her parents were killed.
The corrupt local governor, Cliff, seeks to industrialize the local agricultural areas into military facilities for his own political gain. This is met with resistance from the local farmers. In response, the governor deploys the local Congressional Armed Forces to burn the fields and kill the families of those who opposed the industrialization of the sector. As a result, a resistance group called Club Four forms. The Saviour team arrives with the F-SAVIOUR F-Saviour to assist them. At the same time, Mimi Devere arrives to investigate Cliff's activities.
Paolo and Ryoya, members of Club Four, approach Elicia to convince Andy to become a pilot for them, after witnessing his skill with piloting agricultural mobile suits. Elicia refuses, as she does not want Andy to participate in combat.
Suddenly, Congressional Armed Forces mobile suits attack, under the pretext of knowing the location of the Club Four leader, Cerulean. Elicia is knocked unconscious as she attempts to escape, while several Club Four members are killed. She is discovered by Mimi, who takes Elicia to her room in a local government building.
After Andy arrives home to find Elicia missing, Paolo and Ryoya ask Andy to pilot the F-Saviour to find Elicia. Andy agrees, on the condition that they kill him if he loses control. Paolo and Ryoya, upon seeing Andy's black helmet with red wings, along with his apparent experience with military MS, correctly deduce Andy is "Grim Reaper Icarus". Club Four attacks the local government buildings with their mobile suits from the Saviour team. Andy is able to easily destroy several mobile suits, due to his piloting skills and the high performance of the F-Saviour.
While watching the battle with her CONSENT superior, Sizzleine Foster, Mimi is unable to find any record of "Andy Sinclair". Foster also notes the F-Saviour's black colors and military combat abilities. Realizing Elicia might be connected to Club Four, Mimi runs to her room only to find it empty. Determined to find Andy, Elicia had wandered her way out of the building by listening to footsteps. Mimi follows her and tries to convince her to return to the building, but she refuses. Elicia believes Andy only took care of her out of sympathy over her parents' deaths, but Mimi convinces her otherwise, that it was out of love.
As the battle begins to settle down, Andy begins to go berserk, shooting at Club Four mobile suits. Determined to stop Andy, Elicia yells for Andy to stop fighting, but he is unable to hear her. With the help of Mimi however, Elicia uses an intercom system to talk to Andy. Elicia reminds him he is no longer the "Grim Reaper Icarus" who killed her parents. This calms Andy down, who exits the F-Saviour.
Following these events, the governor is arrested following an internal investigation. The Congress halts all of the governor's plans, given the current agricultural crisis. Mimi is given Andy's helmet as a souvenir, although she considers throwing it away, as "the Grim Reaper Icarus has already disappeared".
G-Saviour Sound Cinema 02: Before the Mission[]
In U.C. 0223, the Saviour team tests the prototype G-Saviour. System engineer Barry Adams is piloting the G-Saviour 702 (Unit 2) as April O'Reilly and Joyce Santayana of the Saviour team monitor the test from the Nimbus. Suddenly, the G-Saviour malfunctions and Barry loses control, crashing into debris and exploding, killing Barry.
To continue testing, Illuminati leader Philippe San Simeone meets with April at the Side 4 Settlement of New Manhattan. Phillippe promises to deliver the G-Saviour 703 (Unit 3) within three days, but asks April to find a replacement system engineer by that time. April and Joyce go to a bar frequented by former CONSENT members and are approached by a man who convinces them to sing karaoke with him. He soon introduces himself as Abner Saviour, former CONSENT system engineer and the son of John Saviour, the lead designer of the Saviour team. The Illuminati's intel indicates Abner was discharged from the CAF in October U.C. 0221.
Meanwhile, at the bar, April asks Abner to order the best drink in the bar, the "Phillippe margarita". Abner complies, unaware this is code for meeting with Phillippe. Phillippe invites Abner to join the Illuminati, although Abner refuses until he is shown the G-Saviour.
Abner joins April's team as the test pilot of the G-Saviour Unit 3. During a meeting of Illuminati members, Mark Curran, who is en route to Side 4 after escaping from Earth, is chosen as the new pilot of the G-Saviour. Due to the limited time, system engineer Sydney Rowland Schwartz insists on testing with live ammunition. April refuses, although acknowledging they cannot give Mark a non-combat ready mobile suit. Abner accepts the risks, with Sydney reassuring the group that he will program the MW-Rais to avoid hitting the G-Saviour.
Before the test, Abner reveals the truth behind his discharge to April. Abner had been part of the development of the MW-Rai, in an attempt to surpass his father. This caused a falling out with his father, who did not believe in Mobile Weapons. During a test with the MW-Rai, a malfunction caused the MW-Rai to go out of control and destroy the testing facility. Feeling responsible for the incident, John Saviour disappeared from CONSENT and later joined the Illuminati.
During the test, an explosion causes contact with Abner to be lost. The MW-Rais also activate, targetting the G-Saviour. The Saviour team realize Sydney sabotaged the tests and was a CAF operative. Abner manages to defeat the MW-Rais and find his way back to the Nimbus, with the necessary data. The data is used to make final adjustments to the G-Saviour, in time for Mark's arrival to Side 4.
G-Saviour Sound Cinema 03: Deep Sea Prometheus[]
Maurice Riva, a New York University student, is the star of the college baseball team. His father, Doctor Riva, is working on research concerning bioluminescence, which could revitalize the Earth's agricultural capabilities.
In UC 218, the Earth Federation attacks the Colonies trying to secede from it, a Federation Forces officer declaring their right to retain control over every part of the earth sphere. In the midst of that conflict, Maurice's mother is killed in the violence and chaos that breaks out during the fight. This was a battle within the final secession war that would eventually lead to the Earth Federation government's collapse. In UC 223, after he has yet another nightmare remembering the tragic incident, Maurice Riva has a chat with his father. Doctor Riva discussing the importance of the his own research, and explains his plans to depart for the undersea Research Facility to put the finishing touches on the project and attempt to avert the now rapidly accelerating food Crisis. Maurice departs for New York University to continue his own studies.
General Garneaux summons his subordinates and orders them to hunt down Doctor Riva and suppress the research, detailing his plan to intentionally accelerate the worsening food crisis and use ensuing chaos and the populations' desperation as justification to restructure the government and revive the fallen Earth Federation, also avenging its former defeat from 5 year earlier. As Maurice arrives in New York, a riot over the food shortages breaks out and a seemingly homeless man gives him intel to help him escape into the underground subway system to avoid the chaos. However, a short time later, Doctor Riva is soon assassinated by the Congressional Armed Forces while operating in a submersible unit under the ocean. When Maurice realizes his father has gone missing, some are suggesting that his father's research was a failure and he disappeared solely because he could not complete it. Unwilling to believe this, Maurice breaks into his old file systems and manages to recover partial copy of the research to preserve it. A congressional officer, Captain Boa, soon discovers his tampering with the systems and confronts him, but Maurice questions why they would care about the data of a failed researcher who fled and disappeared, calling Boa's bluff. They try to claim they have authority to take the item regardless, but since Maurice is a private citizen, he suggests they have no legal justification in doing so and walks away, returning to the dorm with his college baseball team, the Earth Dreamers.
Shortly after, Maurice departs for space with his teammates for the "Universal World Series", a yearly baseball standoff between the best teams of earth and space, hosted as a way to maintain friendly relations between the CONSENT nations and the independent sides. Maurice gets word of Gaia's Illuminati and decides he can use the journey as cover to get them his father's research, hearing about a researcher named Cynthia Graves who specializes in the same type of bioluminescene research his father was conducting. Not wanting to let the Illuminati gain any of the data, Garneaux orders that the shuttle carrying Earth's team should be shot down in an apparent accident. However, they are unable to effectively organize their troops and intercept the shuttle before it reaches Side 4 due to the Illuminati's interference.
Cynthia travels to Side 4's to attempt to intercept and meet Maurice at New Manhattan University. She speaks with him and looks over the intel but determines the research is not quite complete yet, Doctor Riva having still encountered a few setbacks before his death, and still needing a few more final underwater tests on earth to verify that the theory of underwater bioluminecense works properly. Both Cynthia and Maurice conclude that Doctor Riva was close to completing his final sets of light enzyme tests when he was assassinated, and that he did not flee out of shame or failure. She confirms that she was working on a similar theory and would be able to complete his research if she can gain access to the assets inside the deep sea research facility directly herself. She plans to get permission from her father to travel to earth and reach the facility, with Maurice vowing to help her pull it off.
Garneaux orders Boa to track Maurice and Graves and stop her from reaching earth. The Illuminati intercepts Maurice and confirms that Boa and Garneaux were both involved in Doctor Riva's death, aiming to evacuate Maurice to a secure location to protect him and the data he hid within an old baseball relic that he traveled to space with. Boa intercepts and shoots one of the men trying to evacuate Maurice, but Maurice turns off the gravity in the cargo bay to make Boa lose his footing. Maurice leaps at and attacks Boa, asking him what happened to his father, while Boa confirms that he did indeed murder and bury him at sea. Maurice strikes him in the head with a baseball to knock him out, but then the cargo door opens when a ship approaches the dock, and Boa gets sucked out into space without a suit.
Maurice is next seen playing with his team in the Universal Series at New Manhattan stadium, with 50,000 in attendance. Cynthia watches the game and wishes him luck as she prepares for her mission aboard the debris satellite to descend to earth and complete Doctor Riva's research herself.
Characters[]
Red Wings of Icarus[]
- Andy Sinclair (aka Andria Grachet)
- Elicia Erg
- Cerulean
- Paolo
- Ryoya
- Governor Cliff
- Mimi Devere
- Sizzleine Foster
- Mark Curran (mentioned)
Before the Mission[]
- Abner Saviour
- April O'Reilly
- Joyce Santayana
- Barry Adams
- Sydney Rowland Schwartz
- Philippe San Simeone
- Barkeep
- Mark Curran
Deep Sea Prometheus[]
- Maurice Riva
- Doctor Riva
- Sarah
- General Garneaux
- Captain Boa
- Akira Inouye
Mechanic[]
Illuminati[]
Mobile Weapons[]
Vehicles and Support Units[]
CONSENT[]
Mobile Weapons[]
Gallery[]
See also[]
- G-Saviour (Novel) - A novel adaptation of the film.