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These are various locations from the [[Cosmic Era]] timeline of the [[anime]] metaseries [[Gundam]].
==Locations in space==
===Aprilius One===
'''Aprilius One''' is a [[PLANT (space colony)|space colony]] and the [[capital]] of the [[PLANT Supreme Council]]. This is due to the fact that April 1 was the birthday of George Glenn, the first Coordinator.
===Artemis asteroid===
'''Artemis''' is an asteroid fortress in Earth orbit at [[Lagrange point]] 3, in the possession of the [[Eurasian Federation]].
While Artemis's ___location is considered strategically worthless, the Eurasian forces nonetheless protected it with a lightwave barrier known as the "[[Cosmic Era technology|Umbrella of Artemis]]". This defense gave Atremis a reputation as an impregnable fortress, until the stolen [[GAT-X207 Blitz Gundam]] exploited its one shortcoming. Since the power requirements of a lightwaver barrier are immense, the "Umbrella of Artemis" only activated when enemy forces were sighted. Thus, the Blitz Gundam used its [[Mirage Colloid]] stealth system to slip inside the radius of the shield unnoticed, and then destroyed the lightwave barrier generators enabling ZAFT forces to attack. Afterwards, the CO of Artemis contracted with the noted mercenary faction [[Serpent Tail]] for defense, in order to maintain Artemis' reputation (and also to acquire one of the Astray prototypes.)
===Boaz asteroid===
A ZAFT military asteroid once a EA Republic of East Asia station called '''Nova''', destroyed by the Earth Alliance with nuclear missiles.
===Debris Belt===
The Debris Belt is a huge ring of many junk, like old satellites, empty tanks, destroyed space ships and mobile suits and even the remains of destroyed colonies (like Junius Seven), which came into the range of Earth’s gravity. Because of the gravity sometimes parts of the belt spiral inwards and fall on Earth. In C.E. 71 the ''[[Archangel class assault ship|Archangel]]'' enters the belt to get some water (which they get in form of huge ice blocks). In C.E. 73 the Earth Alliance special force Phantom Pain attacks the ZAFT ship [[Minerva class battleship|Minerva]] inside the belt.
===Heliopolis colony===
A neutral space colony, territory of Orb, home to [[Kira Yamato]]. The Heliopolis colony was used as a secret base by the contractor Morgenroete to develop and build the first Gundam class mobile suits. For this reason ZAFT attacked it, stole four of the five prototypes and destroyed the colony in the battle that ensued.
===Jachin Due===
'''Jachin Due''' was a resource satellite that was converted to a military space fortress by [[ZAFT]] forces.
The First Battle of Jachin Due took place on April 17, C.E. 70, when the [[Earth Alliance (Gundam)|Earth Alliance]] ordered its 5th and 6th fleets, stationed on the moon, to attack PLANT and were intercepted by ZAFT forces from the resource satellite.
After this battle the [[PLANT Supreme Council]] decided to convert the entire asteroid of Jachin Due into a defensive base. Jachin Due was perfectly suited for this purpose: the size of Jachin Due allowed for ample construction of command bays and service docks and still being able to withstand massive bombardment; its ___location, in close vicinity of PLANT, was strategically placed between PLANT and any attacking force.
Later Jachin Due became the base of operations for the GENESIS project, and was eventually destroyed in the [[Bloody Valentine War#Second Battle of Jachin Due (September 26, 27)|Second Battle of Jachin Due]].
The word Jachin is the name of one of the mighty pillars of the Biblical Solomon's Temple.
===Junius Seven colony===
'''Junius Seven''' was an agricultural [[PLANT (space colony)|PLANT]]-type [[Space Colony (Gundam)|space colony]], one of the [[ZAFT]]'s few sources of food that did not have to be imported from allied nations on Earth.
*Bloody Valentine Incident
:The ''Bloody Valentine Incident'' marked the opening of hostilities in the first war between the Earth Alliance and ZAFT.
:On [[Cosmic Era]] February 11, 70, the [[Earth Alliance]] and [[ZAFT]] were already at war, although no major actions had taken place. On that day, the [[Agamemmnon class carrier]] ''Roosevelt'', covertly loaded with a nuclear missile by a group of [[Blue Cosmos]] members within the Alliance military, left [[Ptolomaeus Crater|Ptolomaeus Base]] on the Moon, headed for the "Junius City" area of the Zodiac Alliance for a show of force. In mid-flight, authorization was given by the Atlantic Federation for ''Roosevelt'' to use the force she was intended merely to show. On February 14, during a fierce battle between the defending ZAFT ships and the ''Roosevelt'' and her escorts, a nuclear missile was fired from a [[TS-MA2 Moebius]] mobile armor and hit Junius Seven. The blast caused the colony to break apart, killing 243,721 [[Coordinator]] men, women, and children. The attack was quickly dubbed the "[[Bloody Valentine Incident]]" after the date. "Remember Junius Seven" became one of the rallying cry of pro-war Coordinators, especially of PLANT Supreme Council member [[Patrick Zala]], whose wife Lenore was killed in the attack.
*Bloody Valentine War
:Because of the sudden war thereafter, the wreckage of Junius Seven was left intact until the ''[[Archangel class assault ship|Archangel]]'', desperately low on supplies, gathered what they need from the debris of the colony (mostly water) and paid their respects to the dead in the form of [[origami]] flowers. Later, when a cease fire was declared following the Second [[Battle of Jachin Due]], a formal [[Treaty of Junius|peace treaty]] between the Earth Alliance and the PLANTs was signed onboard ship near Junius Seven. The wreckage of the colony was preserved as a war memorial.
*Break the World
:In [[Cosmic Era|C.E.]] 73, a group of veteran ZAFT extremists, attached PLANT Flare Motors all over the colony's remains, harnessing solar wind to send it on a collision course with Earth. Despite heroic attempts by [[ZAFT]] forces to destroy the colony and defeat those extremists before it fell on Earth, they failed and the shattered pieces of Junius Seven rained down on Earth, causing massive devastation, including the destruction of Rome and Athens.
The Blue Cosmos/Logos-led Earth Alliance used the terrorist attack as a excuse to make impossible demilitarization demands to PLANT and to eventually declare the [[Second Bloody Valentine War]].
===Mendel colony===
An Island 1 type colony abandoned due to a viral outbreak, Mendel became the temporary base of operations for the Three Ships Alliance in the waning days of the [[Bloody Valentine War]]. Prior to being abandoned, Mendel was home to the research laboratory of Dr. Ulen Hibiki, one of the leading researchers in genetics - it was here that the Ultimate Coordinator project was conducted, as was the creation of clones of industrialist [[Al Da Flaga]], father of [[Mu La Flaga]]. In addition to the Three Ships Alliance, there is a small team of ZAFT researchers operating at Mendel, trying to recover samples of George Glenn's DNA that were stored at the research facilities there.
===Ptolemaeus lunar base===
This is the main base of the Earth Alliance in space and located inside the Ptolemaeus crater on the moon. It was established in C.E. 35 by the Atlantic Federation to oversee the space colonies. When the war breaks out it becomes the headquarters of the Earth Alliance’s space fleet from where they launch their attacks on the PLANT homeland. The base is destroyed on the last day of the war in C.E. 71 by ZAFT’s superweapon [[GENESIS (science fiction)|GENESIS]]. In C.E. 73 a new Alliance lunar base exists but it is unknown if it is in the Ptolemaeus crater.
==Locations on Earth==
===JOSH-A===
'''Joint Supreme Headquarters [[Alaska]]''' was the central command center of the [[Earth Alliance (Gundam)|Earth Alliance]] after the fall of [[GWR Victoria Class|Victoria]]. The base was constructed by the two main powers of the Earth Alliance, the [[Atlantic Federation]] and the [[Eurasian Federation]].
The JOSH-A base was destroyed in the [[Battle of JOSH-A]] by a [[Cosmic Era technology|Cyclops System]], secretly installed under the base by the [[Atlantic Federation]] itself. Being the base personnel mostly from Eurasian forces, after luring the ZAFT forces into attacking the base, the Atlantic Federation ignited the self-destruction Cyclops System, managing to 'kill two birds with one stone'. The attacking force was mostly wiped out and the base itself totally annihilated. This event tilted the inner Earth Alliance's balance of powers mostly toward the Blue Cosmos-controlled Atlantic Federation.
===Gulnahan Ravine===
The '''Gulnahan Ravine''' is a strategic pass east of [[Suez]], which is the only point in the area passable by large vehicles such as [[land battleship]]s. The [[Earth Alliance (Gundam)|Earth Alliance]] created a fortification known as the '''Lohengrin Gate''' in the middle of the Gulnahan Ravine. This base was named for its primary armament, a "Lohengrin" [[positron blaster cannon]]. This powerful weapon allowed the Lohengrin Gate to destroy any ZAFT forces that attempted to pass through the ravine. In addition, to protect the Lohengrin cannon, the [[mobile armor]] [[YMAG-X7F Gells-Ghe]] was stationed at the base. The Gells-Ghe's [[positron reflector]] shield was able to block any weapon in the ZAFT arsenal, even the battleship [[Minerva class battleship|''Minerva'']]'s "Tannhäuser" positron blaster cannon. However, the [[Minerva class battleship|''Minerva'']] was contacted by Gulnahan native [[Koniel Almeda]], who informed them of a cave system in the ravine, unknown to Alliance forces. These caves allowed [[ZGMF-X56S Impulse Gundam|ZGMF-X56S Impulse]] pilot [[Shinn Asuka]] to bypass the Gells-Ghe and destroy the Lohengrin. [[ZGMF-X23S Saviour Gundam|ZGMF-X23S Saviour]] pilot [[Athrun Zala]] took advantage of the distraction presented by Shinn's assault to disable the Gells-Ghe in close-range combat, allowing ZAFT engineers the opportunity to study the advanced mobile armor.
===Heaven's Base===
'''Heaven's Base''', located in [[Iceland]], is the Earth Alliance military headquarters of the [[Factions of the Cosmic Era#Atlantic Federation|Atlantic Federation]], after the destruction of [[Cosmic Era locations#JOSH-A|JOSH-A]]. After their existance was revealed to the world, [[Factions of the Cosmic Era#Blue Cosmos/LOGOS|Blue Cosmos]] leader [[Lord Djibril]] and the other surviving members of [[Factions of the Cosmic Era#Blue Cosmos/LOGOS|LOGOS]] took refuge at Heaven's Base. The base is defended by a large complement of mobile suits and mobile armors, as well as five [[GFAS-X1 Destroy]] mobile suits and the Nibelung anti-aircraft cannon, which can shoot down mobile suits descending from space. A combined fleet of [[ZAFT]] and renegade [[Factions of the Cosmic Era#Earth Alliance|Earth Alliance]] soon approach Heaven's Base and demand the surrender of LOGOS, but Djibril instead launches a pre-emptive attack against the approaching fleet. After the Destroy units are defeated, Heaven's Base is overrun, but Djibril flees by [[submarine]] to the [[Factions of the Cosmic Era#Orb Union|Orb Union]].
===[[Panama]] spaceport===
Beneath the Victoria base the Panama spaceport is another important base of the Earth Alliance. The base is the ___location of the Porta Panama mass driver which was developed by the Atlantic Federation and the United States of South America (the last one beeing annexed by the Atlantic Federation at the start of the First Bloody Valentine War). Like the other Alliance spaceports the Panama base is an important strategic target of ZAFT and after the disastrous fail of Operation Spit Break ZAFT launches another attack on the base. Although ZAFT deploys only a small number of troops the mission is successful thanks to the use of a new EMP-weapon called Gungnir, which not only disables all units of the Earth Alliance (like the new mass produced [[GAT-01 Strike Dagger]]) but also destroys the mass driver itself. After the battle all Alliance soldiers are slaugthered by the ZAFT troops as a revenge for their lost comrades during Operation Spit Break.
===Victoria base===
An Earth Alliance base, founded by the Eurasian Federation and the South African Union in east Africa and the ___location of the Habilis [[mass driver]]. It became one of ZAFT’s major attack targets during the [[Bloody Valentine War|First Bloody Valentine War]] and the first battle of Victoria took place on March 8, C.E. 70. This battle resulted in a failure due to the lack of ground units on ZAFT’s side but when the second battle took place, 11 months later, ZAFT was able to capture the base, thus cutting of the Earth Alliance of one of its important mass drivers. After the loss of nearly all other mass drivers on Earth (including the lost of [[Cosmic Era locations|Panama Spaceport]]), the Alliance launched a full-scale attack on Victoria. Thanks to the newly deployed [[GAT-01 Strike Dagger]] mobile suit series, the Alliance was able to capture the base intact even ZAFT had many troops at the base. Since this battle the new [[GAT-01 Strike Dagger]] played a major role in the remaining war. The base then became the major transport mean for the Alliance to transport personel, troops (mostly Dagger), material, and later nuclear missiles after acquired the blue-print data of the [[Cosmic Era technology|N-Jammer Canceller]] into space.
==See Also==
[[Space Colony (Gundam)]]
{{Cosmic Era}}
[[Category:Cosmic Era]]
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