Lodonia Lab

Lodonia Lab
Lodonia Lab (ロドニア研究所, Rodonia Kenkyūjo)
Data
Location	Earth (Suez)
Usage	Biological Research Facility
Controller	Earth Alliance (Formerly) Blue Cosmos (Formerly) Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty
Last seen	73 C.E.
Miscellaneous

The Lodonia Lab is a location introduced in the anime Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny.

Overview

Lodonia Lab is a research facility created by Blue Cosmos used to train and modify humans to become enhanced soldiers for use in warfare against Coordinators.

History

Anticipating a war against the PLANTs, the Atlantic Federation sought to create soldiers and pilots that matched the abilities of Coordinators. To that end, the Atlantic Federation and Blue Cosmos constructed facilities to create artificially strengthened humans. One of these facilities was the Lodonia Lab in the occupied region of Suez, Egypt. Because of Blue Cosmos' hatred towards genetic enhancement, alternative means were found to create these strengthened humans, who were referred to as "Biological CPUs".

Test subjects (mainly war orphans) were recruited from an extremely young age and subjected to physiological enhancements through drugs and other means. Steps were taken to make them easier to control through brainwashing, using different control mechanisms such as creating an addiction to the performance-enhancing drug Gamma Glipheptin, or pre-programmed behavior-altering "block words". During their early childhood, test subjects were trained in intensive combat situations intended to turn them into living weapons. However, throughout the course of the training, there were many failed test subjects, as many of the subjects that didn't keep up with the others were either killed by the researchers or during training by other subjects.

However, Lodonia was later abandoned due to an uprising among the subjects, and the Earth Alliance planted self-detonation explosives to cover their tracks. The explosives failed to detonate and the lab was eventually discovered by ZAFT during the Second Alliance-PLANT War. Upon ZAFT's visit to the laboratory, Athrun, Shinn, Arthur and Talia were disgusted by the sight of the corpses of children and researchers. It was later found out that Lodonia recorded every Biological CPUs from their facility which also recorded their progress.

Gallery

Data of test subjects found in Lodonia (Original)

Data of test subjects found in Lodonia (HD Remaster)

Clotho Buer's data found in the ruined lab

Notes & Trivia

• Lodonia is the only such facility ever mentioned in series canon or supplemental material. However, according to SEED 120%, other similar facilities exist, which provide Biological CPUs for special forces other than Phantom Pain.
• The database computer from where Talia found the information may have been the same database computer that sent information to Natarle Badgiruel in the episode What Stands in the Way.

Appearances

Television Series

• Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny
  • PHASE-24, Differing Views
    • First Appearance
  • PHASE-25, The Place of Sin
  • PHASE-26, The Promise