Mobile Suit Gundam Uc 0079 〈1080p 2025〉

The Ghosts of Loum

That was three months ago. Now, in November of UC 0079, she found herself staring at a different kind of grave: the lunar surface around the Zeon stronghold of Granada.

The Zaku pilot thrashed. He slammed his mobile suit against the crater wall, trying to crush her. Armor buckled. Alarms screamed in Aris’s cockpit. But she held on. And she pulled. mobile suit gundam uc 0079

“I’m dead in the water!” he shouted. “Finish the depot! Aris, you’re in charge! Get Milos out!”

He handed her a datapad. On it was the casualty list for the operation. Eleven Ball pilots had gone out. Three came back. Pavel, Taggart, and five others were dead. The Ghosts of Loum That was three months ago

With a screech of tortured metal, she ripped the Zaku’s primary thruster housing open. The reactor went critical. The Zaku pilot had three seconds to eject. He didn’t make it.

A chorus of grim “Copy”s came back. Ensign Milos, the kid from Brazil, whispered a Hail Mary. Ensign Taggart, a grizzled thirty-year-old who had been a construction worker on Luna, just grunted. He slammed his mobile suit against the crater

As the Zaku turned its back to search for Milos, Aris fired her emergency cold-gas thrusters. The Ball launched silently, like a fist from the dark. She slammed into the Zaku’s back, her claw arms latching onto its backpack thrusters.

Ensign Aris Thorne had never seen Earth. She was born on Side 2, the "Hatakaze" colony, a lush O’Neill cylinder of rolling hills and artificial rain. By the time she turned nineteen, Side 2 was a graveyard. The Principality of Zeon, in their desperate blitzkrieg, had gassed the entire habitat. Aris survived only because she had been on a supply shuttle, delivering munitions to the fragile Federation fleet.

Aris didn’t have time to argue. She couldn’t help him. She had no gun, no thrusters left for a real fight. She had only one option.