Centuries in the future, in the year after colony 195, Earth is surrounded by orbititing space colonies. The colonists are cruelly opressed by the Earth Alliance, which uses huge humanoid fighting machines called "Mobile Suits" to control the populace. Behind this tyranny is the secret society called "Oz,"which has infiltrated the Alliance millitary and steered it towards its repressive course. Now, the space colonies are ready to strike back. Eight young pilots, equipped with advanced mobile suits called "Gundams," are sent to Earth to wage guerilla war against Oz and its Alliance puppets. The war to decide humanity's destiny begins... Now let us meet our characters. Wufei is fifteen years old, 156 centimeters tall, pilots the gundam Shenlong, or Nataku, and thinks all women are weak. In his past, he had an arranged marriage to a woman named Meiran who called herself Nataku. She got this name when someone thought she couldn't handle a mobile suit because she was a woman.So she said to the guard,"Well then, I'm not a woman, I'm Nataku." Before, Wufei always read books, so she called him scholar boy. One time, she challenged him to a fight and got really mad when he won. She didn't think he was the fighting type, she thought he was the scholar type (hence his nickname.) One day she went out to defend Wufei's favorite place to read, the field of flowers. This battle was the first time he piloted Shenlong in order to save his wife. He was too late. In the end, she asked him to bring her to the field of flowers where she died in his arms, so he named his gundam Nataku, in honor of his dead wife. * * * * * * * * * * Duo is also fifteen and 156 centimeters tall, but he pilots the gundam Deathscythe. He is the happy guy of the group that oddly calls himself the Shinigami or God of Death. Duo was orphaned as a child, left to roam the streets alone. He eventually became friends with a group of kids, but especially the leader, Solo. After a while, a disease started going throughout the colony and most were dying when all but him got it in his group, so he stole the medicine for it and gave it to them, but it was too late for Solo, so when Solo said he would always be with him, he decided he would be a duo. Later, his group was adopted by the Maxwell Church and they all were found homes, except for Duo who realy didn't want one. One time, some mean soldiers decided to stay there so Duo agreed to steal a mobile suit from the Alliance millitary so they would leave, but when he got back the whole church was destroyed and everyone was dead, so he was once again left to roam the streets until he met the engineer who introduced him to Deathscythe. * * * * * * * * * * Trowa is sixteen, 160 centimeters tall, and pilots the gundam Heavyarms. He has great acrobatic skills which will come in handy. The Trowa we meet actually helped build Heavyarms and the real Trowa Barton was supposed to pilot it, but the engineer didn't like the original plan of Project Meteor, so he killed the pilot. When our Trowa saw this he voluteered to be Trowa Barton and pilot the Gundam. * * * * * * * * * * An is fourteen, 157.5 centimeters tall, and pilots the gundam Tigereye. She thinks all men are weak and need women to survive, but women can do just fine without men, except for the problem of continueing the race. She grew up on Earth, but ran away to the colonies to join them in their struggle against the Alliance. On Earth, she had gone to a public school, iscolated from everyone with no friends and this one who kept asking her out, but she accepted in order not to hurt his feelings. One night, when she was eating out with her family, he came up and proposed to her! It was like the whole world an the colonies were looking at them. She said yes...and fainted. They got married, where she almost fainted again, and they moved into her parents house. She made him sleep on the couch. Since fourth grade, though, she had a love for Tigers and in sixth grade, she decided she would be a tiger breeder when she grew up in order to give them a fighting chance. She would get a veterinary degree and move to Siberia to mainly breed Siberian tigers who were doing the worst. In seventh grade, she became very interested in people's souls, but at one point she became so depressed that she wanted everyone to just die and leave her alone, so she began to call herself the God of Death. Ever since she was young, though, she loved the acrobats at the circus, but never did any gymnastics, which doesn't explain how much she can do. When she got to outer space she met an engineer who trained with her. One day, she found some blueprints on a gundam. She looked at the cockpit system and was amazed. It iscolated all the pilots's insecurities and some how did away with them making their response time unbelievable. Just before going to Earth to engage in the battle, she secretly installed the "Zero System" into her gundam. She runs into a little trouble on the way to Earth, but she masters it quickly. * * * * * * * * * * Cat is thirteen, 162.5 centimeters tall, and pilots the gundam Cinnabar. She has had a crush on practically every man in the World and has moved onto the colonies when she finds out about the upcoming war with the Earth and decides to help the colonies by piloting a gundam. For a long time she has been interested in Egypt and Pompeii in finding out things to piece together missing links in their history, so she had decided to become an archaeologtist, move to Egypt to dig, and visit some digs in Pompeii. When she got to the colonies she met a cute old guy whom she immediately liked. It turned out that this guy was an engineer and when he finds out she wants to help the colonies, he introduces her to Cinnabar. She says yes because it has, "all my favorite colors." Just before she goes down to Earth, though, she dumps Howard. * * * * * * * * * * Bob is the oldest of the group at eighteen years old, but the oddest. He is 162.5 centimeters short and pilots the gundam Magnetite. He is the funny man of the group and considers everything funny. He lived in the colonies for a long time until he found out about all the mountains and cliffs on Earth. He moved there and took up rock climbing at the age of sixteen. Every day he perfected the oddest climbing tricks in the gym he always went to. At one time he climbed Mount Everest and found it quite boring, wondering why everyone was so excited when someone made it to the top and back with no airtank, so he didn't bother telling anyone that he did it in one day. Since he was young, he was always interested in the clowns at the circus and always tried to act goofy for everyone. He was also interested in Magic and learned hypnotizing until he would just have to think about it and that person would be hypnotized, he had a lot of fun with that. He decided to perform every day and make people do the tricks he had perfected on the climbing wall. He made a lot of dough (litterally, people paid loaves of bread to watch the show), of course, all the profits went to the local food pantry. When he heard of all the trouble the colonies were having with Earth, and how his peace minded father had been assasinated, he returned to the colonies under a different last name, Joe, his middle name. He trained himself and also made wierd tricks to do with a mobile suit. One day, at the gym, he met an engineer who introduced him to Magnetite. While reading through some manuals, in the control room of the base, he ran across and interesting cockpit system that he would have a lot of fun with, and since he didn't have any insecurities itwas a piece of cake for him to master after he installed it on his gundam. * * * * * * * * * * Quatre is fifteen, 156 centimeters tall, and pilots the gundam Sandrock. He was brought up by his father, who was the leader of the resource satalites that were connected to the colonies, and 29 sisters who were stationed at each of the satalites. He and his sisters were tube made don't have real mothers. He is also interested in the souls of people, so he decides to fight for these souls with Sandrock. * * * * * * * * * * Heero is fifteen, 156 centimeters tall, and pilots the gundam Wing Gundam. Ever since Heero was little, he trained to be a pilot, so he doesn't realy have a past, but his real name is Odin Lowe Jr. Now to meet the gundams. Shenlong's right arm folds out to be twice it's length to either grab or gouge the enemy. Its close range weapon is a long spear with a beam blade, and it's left arm has a shield. Its dragon (left arm) also has mechanism that shoots fire at its enemies. * * * * * * * * * * Deathscythe is the master of stealth. It scrambles radar and sneaks up on its opponents. Its main weapon is a scythe with a beam blade. It also has something on its left forearm that spins around when launched into its evil enemies. * * * * * * * * * * Heavyarms has the most firearms. Its chest opens to reveal two revolving barrels and there's another one on its left arm. Its right arm has a switch blade that it can use to slice its enemies in half and its shoulders and legs open up to shoot rockets at its enemies. * * * * * * * * * * Tigereye has two energy whips for fighting its enemy and can cloak to sneak up on them. It also has incredible meneuverability and requires a specialized pilot. It also has five beam stars that it can shoot off of its right wrist, spinning into its enemy. Its last thing is three beam claws on each wrist to slash its enemy. * * * * * * * * * * Cinnabar is the master of fire. It has mechanisms on both of its wrists that spew fire to scorch its enemies. It also has rockets that can shoot from its legs to its enemy. Its verie engines also have fire throwers lining them so when it blasts somewhere it will set fire to its enemies. * * * * * * * * * * Magnetite is the master of electricity. It has a magnet it can launch to any mobile suit to scramble its computer system. It also has a two bladed beam sword. It's strongest weapon, though, is an electric shock it can send through the ground and to its enemies. * * * * * * * * * * Sandrock has two scicles that he can either use in close range or heat up and throw at its enemies to cut them in half. It also has a sort of shield on its left arm with two "teeth" it can use to "bite" its enemies to death or rip the mobile suit to shreds killing the enemy. * * * * * * * * * * Wing Gundam has a main buster rifle that it can use to shoot an energy beam to create some descent damage. It also has a beam saber it can use in close range combat and a sort of shield on its left arm it can use to stab its enemies. Now their mission problem... Their original mission was to reak havack on Earth so the colonies people could throw colonies to Earth in order to destroy it, but the engineers didn't like that so they told the pilots to destroy Oz instead.