OUT BREAK OF WAR

 

In January 3rd of 0079, Zeon declares war on the terrestrial Federal Government. When this occurred the Earth Federation place warships in orbit around the earth. Zeon then attacked.  Throwing their new weapon the “ Mobile Suit” at the orbiting Federation fleet. 

At the conclusion of this battle the Earth Federation realized the power of  the Principalities' Mobile Suit.

Not only did Zeon have the versatile Mobile Suit. They also had the Minovsky particle technology. When the attack began the Minovsky particles were spread onto the battlefield neutralizing the Federations radar and communications. With no way of communicating with other warships and unable to target any enemy craft the Earth fleet was decimated by the attacking Zeon's.

In other skirmishes with Zeon, the federation found that searching using radar over long distance became impossible, using weapons that depended on radar guidance stopped being useful completely. The only way for the Federation to fight in these battles were to use visual contact. And the only weapon that got into a dependable visual range was the Mobile Suit. But with it’s size and it’s almost human movement the Mobile Suit was impossible to target. 

Even visually.

The war began to escalate. Zeon, Using Nuclear, Biological and Chemical weapons, Makes a sudden attack on sides 1,2 and 4 killing all who live in these colonies. Almost simultaneously Zeon ignites the nuclear pulse engines of the now unpopulated side 2. Calculating that the colony should curve when it reaches earths atmosphere Zeon attempts to align the proper track and tries to drop the colony onto the Earth Federation headquarters at Jabrow.

During the colonies freefall decent the Earth Federation order’s the remaining fleet to intercept the falling colony. If Jabrow is lost the war for the  Federation is over. The Federation fleet intercepts the colony hoping to send the plummeting colony off it’s course. Combined with the attack by the federation fleet that cracks the falling colony in half and Zeon making a miscalculation and not taking the intense friction in the earths atmosphere into account, the colony is diverted. 

The colony falls in two parts. 

One in North America and the other in Australia.

 

The Ruum Campaign

First appearance of Char Aznable

The attack on Jabrow, ending in failure, Zeon again makes plans to attempt a second colony drop.  Zeon troops start the reorganization of a large attack fleet. This large fleet will be storied to side 5. The Federation at Lunar 2 begins to mass the remaining ships of their fleet to hopefully stop the Zeon forces from hijacking colony.  

On January 15th, the Zeon fleet and the federal forces begin the largest naval battle in universal century history, The Ruum Campaign. From the beginning the federal fleet was dominating. As for the Zeon fleet, guarding the colony was cutting their warship resources in half due to the overwhelming size of the federation fleet. 

The Zeon fleet, at this point,  gives up the colony drop. This was  mainly due to the Zeon forces were totally outnumbered and the key to victory for the Principality was mainly guarding side 5. 

The Mobile Suit.

The Zeon fleet inferior in the number of warships threw the " MS-0C6s” Zaku II (ザク II) " to the front lines in large quantities. The Zaku II (ザク II) undertook the attack on the federal warships. The Minovsky particle spreading had not been effective. Many Zeon warships had already been sunk due to the close range of the battle.  In this campaign the legend of the “Red Comet” was born. 5 federation warships were sunk by a " MS-0C6s Zaku II (ザク II) " that was painted red and moved a swiftly as a comet. It is at this point that the Zeon forces begin to use their nuclear weapons. The federation, responding in kind. Lay waste to side 5. killing 2.5 billion people living in the colony. So ends the Ruum Campaign

The dates January 7th, UC 0079 to January 15th, UC 0079 are known as the one week war. The combined total of Spacenoids and Earthonoids killed:  Approximately 300,000,000.

 

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