Operation Stardust is the name of a fictional conflict, set in the Universal Century from the anime Gundam metaseries. Universal Century (or UC for short) is one of the timelines of the Gundam anime metaseries. ... Jump to: navigation, search A scene from Cowboy Bebop (1998) Anime (アニメ) is Japanese animation, sometimes referred to by the portmanteau Japanimation. ... Gundam is one of the longest running meta-series of anime featuring giant robots. ...

Operation Stardust was undertaken by remnants of the Zeon forces in the year U.C. 0083 and is a major plotpoint of Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory. Gundam 0083 is an anime series about the story that covers the battles of Operation Stardust from the point of view of Kou Uraki (Uraki Kō), a test pilot who becomes the pilot of Gundam Unit 1, attached to the ship Albion in order to pursue Anavel Gato, the Nightmare...

Operation Details

Under the command of Admiral Delaz, Operation Stardust begins with Commander Anavel Gato, also known as the Nightmare of Solomon, stealing the RX-78GP02A Gundam Physalis, a prototype Mobile Suit armed with a nuclear warhead, from the Earth Federation. Rookie Gundam pilot Kou Uraki attempts to capture Gato using the experimental RX-78GP01 Gundam Zephyranthes, but fails. Gato then moves out towards Konpei Island, formerly the Zeon space fortress Solomon, where the Earth Federation is conducting the first Naval Review since the One Year War. Before Kou and the Albion crew could intercept him, Gato fires the nuclear warhead towards the Federation fleet, destroying and disabling over 80% of the fleet. In the fiction Gundam Universe, Anavel Gato was a member of the Principality of Zeons elite palace guard unit. ... The RX-78 mobile suit series is a series of fictional testbed mobile suits in the Gundam Universal Century developed by the Earth Federation. ... In the fictional Gundam universe, Kou Uraki is a young Federation pilot stationed at the Torrington base in Australia, assigned as a test pilot. ... The RX-78 mobile suit series is a series of fictional testbed mobile suits in the Gundam Universal Century developed by the Earth Federation. ...

However, the attack on the Naval Review is only the beginning of the operation. The Zeon forces then hijack, and later crash two space colonies together, sending one of them on a collision course with the moon. While the Federation forces have anticipated that the colony was going to drop the colony onto a lunar city, Delaz has a different intention for the colony. Beforehand, Delaz had made arrangements with either the mayor of the city or the chief of Anahiem Electronic to fire the laser propulsion system to jumpstart the boosters of the colony to alter the course to Earth. By doing so, Delaz fleet would be able to escape from the pursuing fleet formed from remnants of what was left of the Space Fleet at the Naval Review, because by the time the fleet has reached the city, it will run out of fuel and needs to take time to refuel. However, Federation Commander Bask Om, who is secretly working with Cima Garahau, a former Zeon under the command of Admiral Delaz, has setup a second Solar Array system just beyond the moon, in order to destroy the colony and prevent it from crashing into the Earth. Gato is able to destroy the Solar Array's control ship, and the colony sucessfully crashes into the American Midwest farmland, effectively destroying the Federation's main food supply. In the fictional Gundam anime series, space colonies play a pivotal role in ever-changing stories. ... This article is in need of attention. ... In the TV anime Gundam (Universal Century series) universe, Zeon can refer to either: Republic of Zeon, Principality of Zeon or Neo-Zeon. ...

Outcome

The Federation believed the objective of the colony drop was to destroy the Federation's main base of operations, Jaburo -- however, the objective was to stunt the Federation's growth, by way of destroying their food supply, as well as their Space Navy. This would buy time for the renegade Axis Zeon to complete the construction of a new Space Fleet, in order to begin a new war against the Earth Federation.

As a result of the success of Operation Stardust, Jamitov Hymem, together with Commander Bask Om, formed the Titans, a elite unit within the Earth Federation Space Forces that was charged with the task of hunting down and destroying any remaining Zeon forces, as well as quashing any anti-Federation activity. One-time rivals Amuro Ray and Char Aznable, new hero Kamille Bidan and the Zeta Gundam. ...

External Link

• GundamOfficial.com