If you get to make your own Gundam series...

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Title
Gundam Fractions

Background Story

Spoiler:

The earth suffered from a global disaster 33 years back,
resulting that most areas are now covered by water.
The African continent however profited from this disaster,
because the land become fructuous.
Due to this finding, most human have migrated to these areas.

Because of limited space and rising population on earth,
plans have be produced to setup settlements in space.
20 year after the first colony settlement in space
a religious cult, named Verus Via, manifest itself,
aiming to guide the human race onto the right way of living/life.

Time line

Spoiler:

0000MC year of disaster, introduction of new calender system
0010MC first colony, UNO, set in space, designed by American
cooperation SA and build with help of African and European nations
0015MC colonies established democratic system to govern itself,
abolished the cooperation controlled system,
SA looses its influence by the colonists and become mainly a research company.
0020MC The religious cult Verus Via established on colony 3, FLOWN.
0021MC the lifestyle and political thinking of Verus Via
starts to spread around the colonies
0022MC Verus Via becomes a religious political party
and settle itself on colony UNO. The earth nations warns the colonies
from religious based parties, due to past experience.
E.N. refuses to accept VV as representative party of the colonies.
Tensions between E.N. And VV grows.
0025MC the thoughts/way of Verus Via spreads on earth,
resulting into civil wars in parts of the earth.
0027MC leaders of Verus Via demands the establishment of a
nation on earth, denied by the earth nations.
0028MC non-VV followers are being threaten and murdered on colonies,
controlled by the VV. VV-followers on earth separate themselves to setup small
colonies, ignoring local governments, resulting into local fights and
discrimination between them and local people.

0030MC
0030 Most colonies are controlled by Verus Via.
0030.02 Conflict on Moon-way, an established supply route from
earth to the moon.
First pirate attack on supply ships of the earth nations on Moon-way.
0030.07 Earth discovers resourceful asteroid, named H4,
and build secret colony on it.
0030.11 Spiritual leaders of the Verus Via declares H4 as spiritual place
and demands handover of the colony.
0030.12 Earth nations forms an united space force to deal with outer
earth activities, governed by an assembly.

0031MC
0031.01 Verus Via deploys the first mobile suit, VX-09,
to attack resource colonies of the earth nations.
0031.03 E.N.'s (first as an united force) new mobile armor,
RA-05Z aka Spearfish Z, goes in production
0031.04 spreading terrorist attacks on earth

0032MC
0032.01 VV attacks E.N on H4, both sides suffers in this conflict with the
detonations of the colony by the E.N. force
0032.07 EN force manages to capture a full functional VX-09 and starts
reverse-engineering the technology with help of SA.
0032.09 Earth builds new colony, named Limeans,
equipped with Twin Devil cannons on former H4 colony site.
0032.12 Verus Via declares war on the earth nations.

0033MC
0033.01 EN regains territory in space, due to the upgraded version of the
Spearfish Z, RA-05ZC, now equipped with beam cutters developed by the SA.
0033.05 Verus Via introduces its latest Mass produced MS VX-13,
equipped with close combat beam weaponry.

Merchant Calender System:
24h a day, 28 day a month, 12 months a merchant year.
The calender system was first use by merchant, and later
used as a standard system, due to its simplicity.

Story

Spoiler:

The story starts in 0030 on a moon base build by the earth government.
The base itself is a military academy, to train soldiers for space combats,
with the main purpose to protect supplies coming form and to the earth,
due to increase of pirate activity on the supplies routes.
Centre of the story is the 17 year old Lyall, who starts his military training.
He and several other enlisted however were picked, based on their character
profile, to train for a special task.
In 0032 we find Lyall, now known as Clach inside the military academy
of the Cult Verus Via, as Mobile Suit Pilot.
He has new friends and is respected by most instructors of the academy,
because of his skills as an pilot and his obedience to superiors.
In 0033 Lyall/Clach has been given the task to test pilot VV's lastest
mobile suit prototype, VC-13C Gundam.
Now he has to decide whether he stays there as a VV soldier or steals this
weapon for his peolpe.

The viewer/reader will follow the story weeks before Clach/Lyall
has be given the task to test the gundam.
Before he decide to take the gundam or not,
his background will be revealed, to the reader/viewers.
The story end showing Clach/Lyall taking the gundam.

Characters

Spoiler:

Lyall Keith
Profession: Pilot
Enlisted as EN force soldier, currently deployed as Spy in the VV force.
Father: Merchant, killed by pirates in 0030 on Moon-way
Mother: unknown
Due to his adaptability, communications skills and photographic memory,
he was chosen by the EN force to work in a undercover mission.

Mobile Suits/armour

Spoiler:

-Only one side has mobile suits atm
-equiped mainly with projectile weapons
-Have close combat beam weapons, only squad leaders
-Mobile armour faster in travel speed, but lighter weaponary

[asaqe]

Here is another idea for Gundam Series

Gundam Omega

In an Alternate universe, we are thrown into a what if situation. This time it is about if Corporations siezed control of almost every colony? The story takes place during 23 Pre Corporation Takeover. During that time, Colonies were built as a means to house more people and to develop new foodstuffs and materials that will benefit humanity. However at that time Corporations were growing very strong, several corporations banded together and began a secret takeover of the Earth. They were already powerful in their own might, running several mining, manufacturing (mostly weapons) and controlling the odd third world nation. The Following are, Diandri Corporation (Acts similar to Liandri Corporation with Consensual murder and such), Garland Mechanics united, Ultor Industries and Globall Corporation. They began making strides in taking government positions and eventually controlling almost 90% of all the First World Governments. This begins the Corporate Era....

After Corporate Takeover 25

The Corporate Takeover meant Colonies built by the governments went directly under corporate control, at that time as well, the governments has passed laws to undermine union power and worker rights. Protests and Job Actions are met with heavily armed mobile suits and criminal intimidation (By protesting, a family who's employee is involved could be killed and Omega does that commonly). Colonies became factories where workers were forced into terrible conditions and sometimes are even reduced to mere slaves...Meanwhile the Higher society enjoyed the fruits of the exploited Labor with lovely women, alcohol and luxuries that the Colonies were once able to enjoy and rumors of human experimentation were heard of...Only a few colonies remained independant from the Corporations' influence...

Our Hero's story...

Meet 20 year old Kyle McAnderson, born as an American, he has witness a sudden wave of attacks against the government. He later becomes involved when one day he was about to sign up for the Diandri Corporation's defense force when a prototype weapon appeared in Front of him...And thus our savior has been found...

Characters

Kyle McAnderson: A young man born into a world where life was good, but not perfect and seeking a reason of being, he is generally pro fighting and not hesistant to resort to violence to settle things. He joins the Colonies as well as various groups in an attempt to bring a free rule, not bound by a Corporation's shackles back to the world.

Terris Langlyle: One of the major leaders of the Resistance against the COrporate Collective. Brave and persistant he depises the Corporations to no end, blaming them for the needless suffering. He was a former commander of the Colonial Space Defense forces and understand why do they have to fight so hard.

John Kingsly: A radical in the Resistance, despite his dedication, John thinks all Corporations are evil and must be destroyed. His methods are questionable and his ideas are crazy and completely random.

Amy Greensdale: A lovely young women who knew Kyle before he joined the resistance, she believe neither side is truly right and she does so by working for a while as a reporter for the resistance and then as a Corporate employee. She however see things in Kyle's way but wants him to maintain a sense of honor and direction in directing his goals.

Alfred Schwarz: The Leader of the Diandri Corporation, cold and Calculating. He is a dangerous leader and is extremely fervorous against the resistance, he tends to let his troops fight his wars for him then waging war himself.

James Garland: The CEO of Garland Mechanics, a genious to some. A butcher to others, he created various mechanical weapons for Armies to wage war with and despises the idea of free thinking, he has a vision of an Automated human race whre they will work without question, obey orders without questions. Basically reducing humanity to mere drones.

Charles Van Bach: The CEO of Ultor Industries, an aristrocrat by birth, he delights in luxuries and enjoying being to have something for nothing. Charles enjoys exploiting his workers to no end and cares only wealth and Luxury.

XBL-3867 codename: "Father" An AI that also is responsible for Globall's existance, the CEO died by Father's hands and he assumed control of the corporation. Effectively making it more productive and more sadistic. They tend to experiment on people and use extremely brutal techniques to kill people.

[asaqe]

Forgive me for necroing this, but recent things in /m/ inspired me...

Spoiler for Bet On Gundam:

My idea of a Gundam X retelling

Bet on Gundam

A horrific war, a war that claimed so many yet the few who live continues the war.

The people who did not witness the war left for the heavens for the rapture

When the gates of heaven opened after the great cleansing, many returned to the earth, yet what they was not home...

It was the birth of the battlefield of soldiers of fortune and the naive settlers.

Plot Summary: Humanity development of mechanoid weapons struck a high peak at around 150 EE (Earth Exodus). As wars raged around the globe, these new mechanized warriors began a razing of the earth as the war destroyed 75% of the civilized world and left the rest of world in an unhospitable land where it can only support 5% of the now barely surviving population. As those whom hid from the horrors of the war, the return to a now barren earth was a harsh awakening. But harsher still for a mercenary pilot who has found a young girl hidden amongst a crashed vessel as he tries to adjust to a new world as well as fight off an military faction that wishes to kill the priviledged exodus members

Compared to Gundam X, this series is an actual dark wasteland setting. Barely any life exists in the land and survival is rare. Most cities that didn't gotten wiped during the war was forced into city states, harsh caste systems was done to ensure the survival of the cities. For those that were unprotected, it is pretty much a hellish wasteland with entire sections of a town being gang turf and rarely does a group have access to a defensive sector, a constant source or food or weapon caches. The Exodus People are an ignorant bunch. They believed naively that they are going ot reclaim this earth but realized that they may regret it as the survivors are now bitter, jaded and with a ticket out of here, will kill almost everyone to achieve this objective.

Mike Johnson, age 19. Merc Name: "Carrion"

"Listen Aura, I am only keeping you alive because of the mobile suit and because you are hot enough that I wouldn't had shot you on the spot!"

Mike is a typical wasteland survivor. Living barely on the edge of their wits, the life expectancy of a wasteland suvivor was pretty slim, the farther you were born away from a town. The more likely you were going to die. Mike was lucky he was born in a bandit village to a semi-addicted mother and father. His father was a raider and his mother was a merc of all trades. When she wasn't tending to them she was playing black widow with other raider warbands for money and just cause her husband is too busy raping some women in front of a dying man. After considered "grown up" They left him to his own devices as he starts his life out the wastelands working for raider and merc forces alike. until the day he met Aura...

Aura 324 Alias: Judith Salazar

"I will obey, after all, the master always told me to obey the man with the gundam"

Birthplace: Incubator Colony 12

Exodus Society is not much better off than the war ravaged earth. As some crazed government conspiracy decided that social engineering projects needs to be made. several colonies went under extreme social conditioning, ranging from military survivalists, collectivist hives and unethical science cities were built. All semi-good things came to an end when someone decides to send spaceships to earth to check how life was like 150 years later. And with it, a huge contingent of mobile suits and settlers waiting to reclaim the earth and tame the savages. Things gotten pear shaped when scout and research craft gotten shot out of the sky, leaving it to the mercy of raiders and mercs who wants the fancy goodies on the ship. The Military vessels soon will dawn over the folks of this ravaged earth.

Aura was the only known survivor of Colony 12's probe ships. Her colony was survivalist in nature and she was a bios, artificial humans meant to bring out the true powers of a mobile suit, as long a bios is with the pilot, the MS will have capabilities beyond the grasp of the natives. However, due to the hard landing, Aura has regressed to a more basic survivalist protocol. Forced to work with one of the "savages", she subconciously works with Mike to find a way to contact Colony 12 to invade...

Aura's personality is one part naivety and one part gut induced survival. She willingly complies with almost every decision Mike carries out (meaning if he wants to bang her, she will not disagree, if she must kill a puppy, she will do it with gusto). But being slightly defective, she enters a child like state where she refuses to help anyone.

Brigs Connel aka Psyche

"I know what you are thinking punk, try to fuck with me and I will kill you. Take Aura, make her comfortable before selling her off. So lets make this contract work for both of us"

A pilot working a contract with Mike, a "Psiotic". they are the series "Newtypes", able to have precog senses and command bits. Unlike most "Newtypes", a Psiotic is pretty much uses their empath abilities to manipulate and control others on all ends of the spectrum. And Psyche is no exception being on the middle end. Being a Psiotic makes Psyche difficult to deal with when around cyborgs whom had been lobotomized as he cannot "Sense them living"

Brigs knew Mike for a few months since Mike was left to his own devices. As a Psiotic, Brigs was raised in London's BioArc. The city became a near replica of airstrip one with big brother except with psiotics doing the mind reading and surveillance. Brigs was able to escape from the mind control by becoming a merc. He now fights in the Mindbreaker, a gundam fitted with funnels and remote weaponry. He despises fighting up close, preferring his funnels to do his dirty work for him.

Kendou Sei codename: "Mythic"

In the hellish wasteland, even the hardest raider needs a distraction. And the best thing to do is to have giant robots fight each other over disputed turf. The Bloodgear battles are meant for that, arena duels to the finish as bets are made both legally and illegally.

Recently a pilot has become popular with some people. Kendou, a pilot from Japan has been fighting in the tournament in the name of justice and honor. He has gotten a cult following where young children and widows worships him as the hero of virtue. and indeed it was true, he had fought off bandits and mercs seeking a quick buck masscaring folks. Armed with the Saint Gundam, he defeats enemy with martial arts and swordsmenship.

He will soon cross paths with Mike and Aura, Mike soon will teach him that in this ruined wasteland, there are so many assholes yet so few the blade of justice can cut down.

Well, updating this...

"Understood, protocol activated"

Ceti-12 Codename: "Seeker"

Cybernetics had flourished in the wasteland and for a good reason, with all a good deal of robotic facilities still intact in the underground labs. A bunch of Technocrats began building a robotic city meant to serve them after the war had wiped out most of earth. To do that, a huge mainframe was built somewhere in what was the Silicon Vally. Dubbed "Machina" by the scientists, the city became a city of machines. The city produced sufficient amounts of mobile suits and other technologies of war that kept the war going for ages. Survivors were welcome to the city. Provided that they become volunteers as servitors.

Ceti was once "Jason Argos", a famous mercenary pilot who fought off several bandit groups to secure the Pihranna Gundam, a mobile suit fitted with missiles and an assault rifle as well as an anti armor sword. While hardened, he realized that being an organic was a flaw and seeked "improvement" and offered to be experimented on. Now he has improved speed and reflexes and has the strength of 20 men. While not an emotionless cyborg, the surgery took whatever compassion he had for life out and the bloodlust fully intact

[Vsin]

Hmmm...my concept is kinda short, but here's the general gist of it.

Turn Gundam

Essentially, it explains Turn A.

The Turn Gundam was a prototype designed in order to test a nanomachine self-repair system. Due to transmission fluxes from putting the transmitter inside the machine body, the system would end up building anomalies on the Gundam (eg: a round shoulder instead of a blocky one) so the transmitter was attached to the outside; on the head, as a pair of fins on the chin. This system wasn't super powerful (it wasn't DG Cell fast at regeneration, heck, it compares more to Turn A's regeneration or worse) but it still cut down on maintainance times.

The Turn Gundam was also equipped with a Biosensor, due to testing which indicated that the nanomachines would be "improved" should such a thing activate. However, a Psychoframe was not installed as it was conceived that the stress of attempting to control millions of nanomachines for even a moment would cause the pilot to faint, or at worst, die. The "controller fin" is mounted on the biosensor section of the head (see: F91's Biosensor, Crossbone Biosensor) in order to maximize the "improvement effect". Note that the effect was entirely theoretical and completely up in the air as to the result.

*plot happens here*

In a battle of epic coreography, the Turn Gundam gets stabbed twice in the back. The Biosensor activates, and presto, we have the Moonlight Butterfly. If you've seen the Moonlight Butterfly, you know what happens next. Well, the Turn Gundam turns all the tech around it into dust.

*more plot here*

In its final battle, the Moonlight Butterfly activates again. After more epic choreography, the Moonlight Butterfly ends up consuming the Turn Gundam (probably at the end of the epic choreography). Well, it IS a prototype, bad stuff happens. All that remains is the mutilated head of the Turn Gundam: the upper V-Fin is missing, and the Transmitter got upturned into the shape of a crescent moustache.

In the epilogue, the original designer is working on a machine. By this point, they've managed to not need the external transmitter. However, as homage to the original prototype, the new MS is named Turn A (so the Turn which is labeled "A") and is given the upturned moustache.

[kaizerknight01]

I've been brain storming some ideas to to write a fanfic about UC era Gundam for quite awhile... This is just a draft

well is the gist of it The time line is around UC 94-96 ( after Char counter attack and before Unicorn) The protagonist(s) belong to a Private Military Corporation hired by either Anaheim Electronic, Earth federation or another third party that have it own agenda . Well this will be most likely to be side stories to compliment other time lines and factions like Delaz flleet , New Deities ( A branch The Titans) Neon Zeon and Jupiter fleet connections.

Characters
Spencer Revil age 22 the main protagonist good well rounded piloting skills, has low tier newtype abilities, As the surname suggest he's the grandson of Admiral Revil, he owns P.M.C. in short he's rich, owns around 20% stocks of Anaheim and hold around 30% of the new SNRI corporation. He's also well known for being a Philanthropist.

Martin Lockheed age 26 The PMC Mobile suit Squadron leader, his piloting skill are top notch he's an ACE. old type. he have the respect of all of his subordinate because of stead fast leadership and tactical abilities on the battle field

Ayumi Murasame age appears to be around late teens or early twenties, enhance human with high tier new type ability and good piloting skills. She has a strong attachment or endearment Spencer in her point of view he's her benefactor. ( she was saved by Spencer during a raid against Marasame lab.)

Elisa Augusta age appears to be mid twenties enhance human high tier new type with good piloting she a tad better than Ayumi. She the same attachment or endearment to Spencer ( She was almost sold off to a human trafficking crime syndicate, but due to Spenser's raids on new type labs she was saved

[Akuma_Blade]

Mobile Suit Zero Gundam

It's an alternate universe and story begins with "Operation Arc Terra", name of Mars colony system "DELTA"s first invasion/mass murder attempt against Earth. Because, Jupiter settled another powerful colony nation "OMEGA" was trying new military techs against "old enemy" DELTA and also Earth colonies was choose neutral statue against war. Fanatic Mars colony leaders is planned gaining totally under control Earth by "Operation Arc Terra" : Second plan is creating another annihilation fleet and broking down OMEGA's anti nuclear warship barrier system, destroying almost unrivaled Mobile Suit/Mobile Armor technology and defeating powerful Jovian Neotypes.

In Operation Arc Terra Chronicle's 3rd year, Earth and another neutral leaders become totally desperate and his trump card, 7 united new generation Mobile Suit prototypes named Mobile Suit "Gundam" test type series, founded and hijacked by Delta corps. But one unit, (ancestor of 7 Gundam) secretly recovered and transferred Earth Federation's last remnants ("Terra Defense Corps") secret base at Salt Lake plains at nearly Ankara (formerly, capital of Republic of Turkey) : From this event, DELTA Corps learns Terra Defense Corps's potential and possibility another new generation Mobile Suits, therefore, OMEGA attack plan delayed and expand Arc Terra priority.

Mysterious Neotype pilot and A.R.M.S. organization agent Zero "Akuma" Blade transferred TDS base and assigned original pilot of MS-00 "Zero Gundam" and story expands...

CHARACTERS:

TERRA DEFENCE CORPS:

Zero Blade:
A mysterious pilot has no past... Black haired, 29 years old, knows 4 languages and high rank Aikido and have "close perception" (a sort of "realistic-sixth sense") ability. Asocial, vindictive and wise tactician. Hired by A.R.M.S., mysterious international hi tech, military materials and medical corporation and also sponsor of TDS.

Murat:
Mysterious leader of A.R.M.S. and only have man knowing Zero's true identity. Black haired, always sunglassed, long height and heavy. He have a ARMS Gear prototype (a sort of nano suit change device) Also fan of swordplay series and oldschool anime era. 30 years old.

Kohei Murakami
First newcoming pilot character. Assigned MS-00's customized trial model prototype MS-00 "Kaixa Gear" : Untrust to Zero, but he'll become "hardboiled partner" of Zero. Black haired, athletic, sharpshooter and another agent member of A.R.M.S. 30 years old. (Trivial crossover of Kamen Rider 555 actor Kohei Murakami)

Junko Yamato
Adopted daughter of Yamato clan, another sponsor of TDS and founder Trial/Mass production project. Individual partner, furious teammate and "dangerous" genious. Second leader of first TDS fleet. (After the Zero's M.I.A., become to team leader) Piloted by MS-01 "Neo Alpha", unofficial clone type MS-01. Black haired, shyperson, jealousy and master of many martial arts. 21 years old.

Shizuka Sakura
Supreme commander of JSDF, main root of TDS. Agrressive and foreseeing woman commander. And also captain of newly build space battlecruiser "Arc Yamato" and pilot of MS-00 "Caucasus" (Full Armor and "accel system" equipped variant of MS-00 Kaixa) Black haired, eyeglassed and badass voiced. 32 years old.

Jang Shi-ul Sung
Transferred by South Korea airfleet. "Lone wolf" souled, hotblooded survival expert and stubborn. Black haired , Judo master and athletic. Test pilot of first mass production type, MS-00A "Riot Trooper Gear", and later, he becomes first TDS fleet pilot recruitment instructor. Old tokusatsu series fan. Lately appear master of disquise abilities. 22 years old. (Trivial crossover of Banba Sokichi from J.A.K.Q.)

Rei Sekai
17 years old. Transferred by TDS E.S.P. Bureau, Ocenic colony "Tokyo-0" : High grade potential Neo Type. Silent and fragile. Blue haired. She's special ability is healer, persuader or attacker nano machine generation on body and it's generated by her rage or mind stress. She reminds Zero but a little bit. Recruited for mobile backup device/tiny mobile armor MS-00Z "Core Striker", a unit stable carrying sort of equipment packs.

...to be continued...

[idiffer]

i'll just say that all your ideas are awesome.
i cant really contribute cause my imagination is 0.
but i can say that gundam would be better if added depth and believebility. like EVA(depth) or robotech(not the anime. the english book series, whole different universe, 10 times more realistic than gundam or eva )

[asaqe]

Back from the dead again, now another idea i had brewed to make a dark AU gundam

Spoiler for Mobile Suit Gundam: Call of War:

It was the end of the Corporate Colonialism era as the spacenoids risen up against the corporate owned colonies to build a new future...however, somewhere in the Communist State of Neo Russia, a storm is brewing

A massacre at the colony of Neo Moscow leaves 2 million lives lost as a squad of Space Colonial Front Mobile Suits decimated the colony and their inhabitants, starting a deadly war between the Earth Union League and the Space Colonial Front. However, when John Travian, member of the EUL Black Ops team "finds out that one of their men was involved in the massacre. He must not only fight against the forces of the SCF but also the EUL when an Ace of EUL military force found out his best friend may be involved in the massacre...

[fizzmaister]

A live action, multi-season epic, retelling of UC, that doesn't suck like G-Savior. Put in as much as is feasibly possible (manga, msv, games). MSG will be retold picking and choosing from series, movies, and novel cannon, and Gundam: The Origin. Zeta would follow the series. I don't know whether CCA should follow the novel, the movie of the novel, or the novel of the movie of the novel (High Streamer, CCA, Beltorchika's Children respectively). And overall fill in some plot holes (and one plot crater, 0083 I'm looking at you).

[JC...]

If I could I'd make a C.D.A animation, It'd be a good movie I think, especially if its graphics were on par with Gundam Unicorn.

[FlavorOfLife]

More realism would be good. Having giant humanoid robots make no sense at all as its not efficient. Might as well go with the thousands of funnels/fins/fangs you would make with one mobile suit. Got to solve that problem with a reason first.

Also to remove plot armor and make death a possibility, the entire story should not focus on any single pilot.

So first off the logical reasons

Humans are still needed as pilots (rather than AIs running loose or drone systems) for the following reasons
i) an incident much like the Ghost fighter incident in Macross happened, making AI in a direct combat role outlawed.
ii) AI programs constantly follow a fixed pattern. Counter AI programs which can decode the formula used by the AI in 10 seconds, rendering the AI controlled military assets easily destroyed.
iii) advanced communication jamming systems prevent drone systems from being of any use

Mobile suits are built in humanoid shapes for the following reasons
i) Ease of training. Learning to drive a disc shaped saucer tank takes about 3 years longer than the more natural mobile suits and users are unabile to replicate the reflexive motions
ii) The new control systems are linked to the user's neural waves. Exposure of about a year to a shape that is not the pilots natural shape, causes insanity, loss of motor control out of cockpit or in cases, death from brain/body rejection
iii) Good offense is now standard military doctrine. To reduce costs, all weapons are self contained with their own ammunition or power plants. Obselete mobile suits are "upgraded" by giving them the latest weapons. Their defensive systems and armor are still terrible by the new doctrine views this as an acceptable trade off. The availability of hands makes this "upgrading" a breeze.


Storywise
The story starts with Earth Fed male pilot X with a haro as his on-board navigator (like an autopilot) in his Gundam.

Pilot X starts off looking good like he's got plot armor. His good friend and wingman Pilot A gets introduced. In episode 3, Pilot A bites it, covering the retreat of his division. In episode 6 pilot X, successfully rescues a passenger ship near a still ongoing battle after great effort. Unfortunately, a shot by a Zaku hits the ships fuel tanks, blowing up the passenger ship and Pilot X.

The haro is recovered by the Colony Rebel salvage team and transferred to a new Zaku (yay new gunpla) and Colony Rebel female pilot Y is introduced. Pilot Y is pretty emotionless due to losing her husband in a battle just before getting the new Zaku. So pilot Y gets to know her new team, develops a relation with pilot B with a possibility of getting over her sadness.

In a battle Pilot B gets an engine hit losing all power and is about to get shot by 6 or 7 Gundams. Pilot Y rams into Pilot B's suit, setting him drifting at high speed away. Then she bites it from the combined firepower. Pilot B gets the haro after he is rescued and a Colony rebel salvage operation recovers it.

Viewers at this point will probably be unhappy possibly to the point of throwing things, but that should bring about the realism of war and that its not a romantic thing where some heroes are immortal.

The contrasting views of the 2 factions would also be shown. The Earth Fed would be shown as being the "right" faction, trying to stop the ruthless terrorists of the Colony Rebs who kill indiscrimately. In the second half, we would see the harsh exploitation of the colonists by the Earth Feds, resulting in some banding together to form the Colony Rebs.

Both sides see themselves as right and brings forth the point to the viewer that there is no absolute right. Who is right in the end is up to the viewer's own subjective reasoning.