Heaven's Base is a military facility introduced in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny.
Overview[]
It is the high command center of the Earth Alliance on the island of Iceland in the northern Atlantic Ocean. It is therefore a stone's throw from Gibraltar, one of the largest bases of the ZAFT ground forces. It is a major military base for the Earth Alliance with base facilities and military arsenals on the scale of a small city, and is the largest of its kind since the collapse of JOSH-A, which was destroyed during the First Alliance-PLANT War.
History[]
Second Alliance-PLANT War[]
Battle of Heaven's Base[]
Chased by a mob of people who had been turned into a mob by Gilbert Durandal's speech, Blue Cosmos leader Lord Djibril, as well as other Logos leaders and pro-Blue Cosmos/Logos faction troops of the Earth Alliance gather and lock themselves up in the base.[1] ZAFT, the Republic of East Asia, and other anti-Logos forces of the Earth Alliance formed an alliance, and both the Earth Alliance and PLANT camps issued official statements demanding the surrender of the Logos leaders at the base, total disarmament, and the abandonment of the base facilities.[2] The ultimatum was answered by a barrage of rockets, signaling the start of the battle.[3]
The combined anti-Logos forces were met by a powerful defending force consisting of a large number of GAT-04 Windams, GAT-02L2 Dagger Ls and old GAT-01A1 Daggers on the ground and in the air, and aquatic GAT-707E Forbidden Vortexs and GAT-706S Deep Forbiddens in the water. The base also fielded for the first time the new TS-MB1B Euclid mobile armor, and the defense force also included five GFAS-X1 Destroy Gundams. The heavy firepower of these machines inflicted heavy casualties on the attacking forces, and when ZAFT launched an attack wave from orbit, the Nibelung anti-aircraft weapon was activated, destroying all ZAFT forces coming from above.[3]
However, the defense forces of the base began to crumble when the LHM-BB01 Minerva launched the ZGMF-X42S Destiny Gundam, ZGMF-X666S Legend Gundam, and ZGMF-X56S Impulse Gundam, resulting in the defeat of the five Destroy Gundams. Thanks to the success of the Destiny, Legend, and Impulse, the battle gradually tilted in favor of the Anti-Logos Alliance, and the base fell. Just before this, Lord Djibril abandoned the Logos members and fled by submarine to Orb. The other members were detained and put on international trial by both the Earth Alliance and PLANT.[3]
Gallery[]
Anime[]
Notes & Trivia[]
- Heavens' Base appears to be based on the Kilimanjaro base from Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam. Both were a final Earth-based stronghold of the extremist cell in the Earth faction taking place in a cold mountainous area.
Appearances[]
- Television Series
- Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny
- PHASE-36, Athrun on the Run
- First Appearance
- PHASE-38, A New Flag
- PHASE-39, Kira of the Skies
- PHASE-36, Athrun on the Run
References[]
- ↑ Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny PHASE-36, Athrun on the Run
- ↑ Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny PHASE-37, Thunder in the Dark
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny PHASE-38, A New Flag
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 |