January 25, Cosmic Era 71 – The neutral Orb Nation’s colony of Heliopolis was attacked by ZAFT commandos under the command of Rau Le Creuset in an attempt to seize recently developed prototype mobile suits that had been secretly built in the colony by the Earth Alliance OMNI Forces. ZAFT managed to capture four of the five mobile suits that had been built, but the fifth one, known as the GAT-X105 Strike Gundam, ended up in the hands of a young boy living in Heliopolis named Kira Yamato.
Kira, revealed to be a Coordinator, ended up joining the crew of the Earth Alliance warship, the Archangel, and would pilot the Strike Gundam in order to protect his friends. However, as the Bloody Valentine War raged on, Kira would not only be forced to deal with the realities of war, but he would also learn shocking secrets about his origins. And as the war between the Earth Alliance and the PLANTs escalated into horrific campaigns of genocide, Kira would fight alongside others who had turned against their increasingly insane leaders, not only to end the war between Naturals and Coordinators but also to stop an unexpected and far worse enemy bent on wiping out all mankind…
