Operation Meteor
In 195 AC, the five
Gundams were dropped to earth, the acts of terrorism focused on Alliance
military outposts seen as the essence of Operation Meteor. It was only until
Lady Une threatened to fire upon the colonies that one of the leaders of the
rebel factions supporting the Gundams sent an open broadcast, eliminating all
doubts that Operation Meteor was not a colony sanctioned act by explicitly
saying so.
Unknown to everyone
except those working directly with the Gundams, the real Operation Meteor was
backed and funded by the Barton Foundation. Dehkim Barton and Quinze had been
close aides of Heero Yuy and were by his side when he was assassinated. Though
it is questionable as to whether Quinze wanted world domination as opposed to
simply forcing people to realize the horror of war, Dehkim Barton from the start
only planned on bringing both the Earth and the colonies under one rule, his.
The original plan was to
use the Gundams to kill everyone on select colonies (one of which was Wufei's
colony) and then force them to lose their equilibrium at the Lagrange points,
causing the colonies to fall out of orbit and down to earth. During the mass
panic and chaos, the five Gundams were to land and take control of the
government, presumably the Alliance.
Dehkim recruited the five
scientists, using their desire for Heero Yuy's revenge, to build the five
Gundams. Apparently, the decision for pilots were left up to the individual
scientists except for Doktor S, who by working on a L-3 colony, was closer to
the Barton Foundation and was probably pushed into having Dekim's son, Trowa
Barton, as the pilot.
At the Gundams'
completion, all five scientists rebelled. Four purposely sent their pilots and
Gundams down to Earth, Doktor S agreed to leave Heavy Arms in the hands of one
of the technicians who had no intention of following through with Dekim's plans.
Hence was born another 'Operation Meteor'.
At the end of 196 AC,
Dehkim undertook Operation Meteor again, this time using the completed L3-X18999
colony as both hostage and threat to force the Earth Sphere Nation to comply
with Mariameia's demands. Even a year ago, Dehkim had planned on using her as
the puppet ruler of his solitary rule. Buying time with the hostage ploy and the
decoy Mobile Doll units, he sent down numerous mobile suit units, consisting of
a new model called Serpent Custom (which looks similar to the redesigned Heavy
Arms), to secure the abandoned Presidential Palace in Brussels, home of the
president of the Earth Sphere Nation.
This second Operation
Meteor failed on two accounts. One, Dehkim did not count on the uprising of the
civilians though he probably wouldn't have cared. Two, he relied too heavily on
his troops, whose loyalty to Trieze and by lineage Trieze's daughter he was
using, which in the end led to his execution at one of their hands.