The Ochs Earth Corporation (オックス・アース・ コーポレーション Okkusu Āsu Kōporēshon?) are a mobile suit manufacturer from Mobile Suit Gundam the Witch from Mercury PROLOGUE [1] and Mobile Suit Gundam the Witch from Mercury [2].
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Vanadis Incident[]
The Ochs Earth Corporation is the primary producer of the mobile suits known as GUND-ARMs, popularly known as "Gundams", which are operated by linking the pilots to the machine with the GUND FORMAT. However, the company came under heavy public criticism due to the often fatal mental strain that operating the 18-meter machines placed on their pilots, causing them to gain the moniker of "Witches". At the same time, Mobile Suit Development Council, composed of the major mobile suit developers, feared that the revolutionary weapon could lead to a war between Earthians and Spacians.
Faced with all of this, Ochs Earth aggressively pursued the creation of a new unit that would eliminate the Gundams' side effects, the XGF-02 Gundam Lfrith, before the council took action against them. Their child corporation that originally developed the GUND FORMAT for medical purposes, the Vanadis Institute, was put in charge of the project, operating from their facility on the Fólkvangr asteroid.
However, before the project could be finished, the council took extreme measures by forcefully seizing control of Ochs Earth under business administrative laws and founding the Benerit Group to oversee the future development of mobile suits. At the same time, the group's newly appointed president, Delling Rembran, ordered an unsanctioned attack on Fólkvangr, assassinating the Gundam project's lead scientist, Dr. Cardo Nabo, and killing most of the crew. However, the project's test pilot, Elnora Samaya, and her daughter, Ericht Samaya, managed to escape using the Lfrith.
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Ochs Earth was believed to have been disbanded by this time. However, they actually continued to operate in secret by building new Gundams, being the developers of the EDM-GA-01 Gundam Lfrith Ur and EDM-GA-02 Gundam Lfrith Thorn. They were funded in these endeavors by the Space Assembly League, who intended to use the Gundams to crack down on the Benerit Group for their continued administrative overreach. Prospera Mercury learned of their intentions and destroyed Ochs Earth's facilities at Quinharbor using the XVX-016RN Gundam Aerial Rebuild[2], since the manufactured Gundams might interfere with her own plans.
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- Television Series
- Mobile Suit Gundam the Witch from Mercury
- Episode 2, Cursed Mobile Suit
- Mentioned only
- Episode 19, Not the Best Way
- Episode 2, Cursed Mobile Suit
- Movies
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