The Marchosias Corps is a faction introduced in the video game Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story: Missing Link
Overview[]
Marchosias Corps is a special mobile suit corps of the Principality of Zeon composed of soldiers who weren't included in the regular unit due to circumstances. The pilots of this Corps usually have an impressive history, performance wise, but were put into Marchosias due to variety of factors (Such as failure on the Battlefield or Family member suspected of being part of the Earth Federation). If the outstanding pilots of this corps were to be noticed by the higher ups, they have a chance to be transferred to the Chimera Corps.
Known Members[]
The Marchosias Corps consists of the Platoon A through G, Known members of Marchosias Corps are :
- Doug Schneid : Captain of the Marchosias Corps, was in the Marchosias due to his failures during the onset of the One Year War
- Vincent Gleissner : Although officially the Leader of the G platoon, he's more or less just like his other comrades position wise initially, would later be promoted by Doug Schneid to Marchosias's Captain shortly before everyone except Schneid went to space, was in the Marchosias for his mother trying to contact her husband and getting suspected to be in with the Federation
- Liberio Lincke : Marksman of the platoon
- Guy Helmuth : Brawler of the platoon
- Annerose Rosenheim : A replacement pilot for Marchosias, later revealed to be a Newtype
- Albert Bell : A replacement pilot for Marchosias, is a military otaku
- Silvestre Oswald
History[]
Created by Kycilia Zabi, its purpose was to assign the pilots who are excellent combat wise but weren't assigned to normal unit due to factors. The Corps also served as the way to advance through the ranks by offering outstanding pilots an invitation into the Chimera Corps which serves as the motivation for a lot of pilots in this Corps.
One Year War[]
Marchosias Corps would participate in the Operation British and subsequent landing operations on earth. During these deployments, Vincent and Doug would get their Zaku II High Mobility Ground Type and Efreet respectively.
During the defense of Dover Strait, Marchosias would ran into Slave Wraith team. While Doug fought the Gundam Pixy toe to toe, Vincent would unkowningly be fighting against his dad in a modified Gundam Ground Type. The mission was a failure as Slave Wraith was able to destroy the base and artillery emplacements within it.
During the deployment at Jaburo, Marchosias would get two more pilots, Annerose and Albert to join the Doug's platoon (In Missing Link game, Marchosias met them while Annerose and Albert are holding their ground against federation forces while in Manga and G Generation Genesis they met inside a submarine with full introduction to the platoon). Marchosias would ran into Slave Wraith team again but their battle was shortly interrupted by the appearance of the RX-80PR Pale Rider as it started attacking both Marchosias and Federation mobile suits alike. Marchosias would withdrew from the battle leaving Slave Wraith to fend off the Pale Rider.
While crossing the desert to get to California Base, they would again ran into Slave Wraith team that had faked their identity as a Zeon covert team who was also heading to California Base. Vincent would try to help them but Doug recognized the Pixy Gundam that had attacked him during Dover Strait defense. Vincent however, tried to convinced Doug that Slave Wraith were truly being targeted by the Federation. Travis Kirkland, the Wraith's leader proved to Doug by shooting a GM ground type behind him. With that, they head California base together.
At the California Base, Both Slave Wraith and Marchosias would defend the pair of HLVs from the Federation as Doris Brand would prepare both HLVs for launch. As each member of each team boarded the HLVs, Federation forces started getting close to the HLVs. In the end Doug Schneid and Fred Reber would jump out of their HLV in their Efreet and Pixy Gundam to fight the incoming forces. Shortly before the HLVs launched however Doug would promote Vincent to be the Captain of Marchosias. The Slave Wraith would later part ways with Marchosias
The first Marchosias sortie in space would be near the moon to defend Zeon's fleet while they retreat to Solomon. With Vincent in Zaku II High Mobility Type, Liberio in Zaku II Kai and Guy Helmuth in Rick Dom II. they were able to fend off pursuing Federation forces while retreating to Solomon.
At Solomon, Guy's Rick Dom II was supplied with a Large Heat Saber for Anti-Ship combat and other members of Marchosias was supplied with Zaku IIs for combat. Before they went out to fight however, Annerose sensed danger and told everyone to run. Her instinct was correct since Federation deployed the Solar System decimating forces caught in it.
Shortly after Marchosias started fighting, Dozle Zabi came out boarding the Big Zam mobile armor to the battlefield, he gave Marchosias an order to protect and escort the remaining forces retreating from Solomon to A Baoa Qu. The Marchosias accepted the order with an additional request to eliminate enemies in the way. During the evacuation, the Big Zam was destroyed by the RX-78-2 Gundam.
During the resupply, Annerose was given the 4th MS-06Z Psycommu System Zaku for testing since she showed symptoms of being a Newtype. When the evacuation forces arrived, Federation forces had blocked the escape route to A Baoa Qu. Those forces however were destroyed by Anavel Gato in his custom Rick Dom. He then told the Marchosias to go with the Dolowa to A Baoa Qu.
At A Baoa Qu, Vincent was given the MS-14BR Gelgoog High Mobility R Type for the battle. During the battle, several Federation ships started breaking through the front line. Johnny Ridden came to assist the Marchosias in helping them destroying the advancing ships, he also revealed that he was the one who donated that particular Gelgoog to Vincent. After the ships had been dealt with, Johnny Ridden gave his farewell and went away. While the entire team was happy being noticed by the Crimson Lightning, Albert noticed Vincent about the RX-78-2 he spotted. Annerose feeling confident, rushed in to attack but was then frozen when the intimidating Gundam started heading towards her way, Albert attacked the Gundam to protect Annerose which led to him getting killed by a Gundam. Annerose was devastated by Albert's death and shortly after that, Marchosias went to resupply.
The Marchosias launched to sortie again with Annerose still able to fight. However shortly after they launched, the ship they launched from, the Dolos, got destroyed. With no place to return to resupply, the Marchosias fought the advancing federation ships covering the retreating ships to Axis. With the battle seemingly over, Marchosias would try to rendezvous with the forces retreating to Axis. However, they would be interrupted by the RX-80PR Pale Rider once again.
At this point, the Marchosias were hell bent on taking this "Grim Reaper" down. Sometime during the fight, Pale Rider stopped moving making Vincent signaling his squadmates to go restrain it to go for the kill. Both Liberio and Guy MS were penetrated by Pale Rider's Beam Sabers and while Annerose was able to held both of it's arms with her MS ones, Pale Rider used its Vulcan to shred Annerose MS just before Vincent impaled it with the Beam Naginata. Guy and Liberio was able to share their last word with Vincent before their Mobile suit exploded.
With the battle finally over, Vincent flew to the Pale Rider's cockpit to personally shoot the pilot who killed his comrades only to find out that the pilot who brought his comrades to death......
...... was just a child.
UC 0090[]
Between the events of One Year War and Universal Century 0090, Vincent would receive the information regarding to Pale Rider's pilot Chloe Croce and how she came to be. While he was unable to completely forgive her for the death of his comrades, he was kind enough to protect and fought alongside her until UC 0090.
In UC 0090, Vincent and Chloe would be given AMS-119 Geara Doga and AMX-018[HADES] Todesritter for testing respectively, they were assigned to wipe out the remnants of Glemy Faction. During one of these deployments, they would met Travis Kirkland piloting the MSZ-008 ZII searching for Vincent. The trio fought the Glemy faction remnants together until the Red Queen Mansa appeared.
The pilot of the red Queen Mansa was non other than Annerose who was presumed dead since the One Year War, she held an intense vendetta against Vincent and Chloe who had a part in Albert and other's demise. The "Newtype waves" Annerose emitted was so strong it led to the Todesritter built-in HADES to go berserk and Chloe being unable to control it for the whole fight. Travis would try to convince her to stop to no avail. The battle reached its end when both the Queen Mansa and Todesritter took each other out in a mutual destruction.
While both pilots was able to came out alive in their escape pods, it wasn't until Albert spoke to Annerose from the afterlife(?) that she was able to finally let go of the past. All four of them would eventually leave their conflicts behind to live in peace, seemingly at Vincent's mom's diner at Side 3.
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Notes & Trivia[]
- Marchosias in demonology is a great and mighty Marquis of hell, In Ars Goetia, he is depicted as a wolf with Gryphon wings and a serpent tail as seen on the Marchosias Corps emblem.
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