History WMG / Gundam

* Alternately, the Earth Federation might have ended up as something similar to TheFederation in ''Star Trek''...had it not been for the [[MobileSuitGundamUnicorn Laplace disaster]] in UC 0001. The lofty ideals embodied in the Laplace Charter and the very foundation of the Universal Century were lost as the EF grew more concerned with maintaining its power over the colonies. Thus the seeds of rebellion and bloodshed were planted, which would result in the One Year War and all subsequent conflicts in the UC timeline.

* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' and the rest of the UC timeline: Large scale space colonization is finally underway, but Mars remains untouched due to the Meganoid treaty. Scientists on the moon discover the remains of Project: D.O.M.E. and a secret project begins to spread his DNA throughout the population to cultivate new Super Soldiers, resulting in the "Newtype" phenomenon. With the development of Main/MinovskyPaticles, newer, more cost effective ways are found for reproducing smaller, more efficient machines based on Zambot/Daitarn technology. Similarly, the Flanagan Institute manages to perfect the "Psycommu System" using research into salvaged Aura Battler components recovered during the Byston Well invasions. Six major space wars rage, with smaller conflicts in between; The One Year War of the original series, The Gryps War of Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam, the 1st Neo-Zeon Conflict/Neo-Zeon Civil War of ZZ, (following which Amuro and Judau foil a plot by Neo-Zeon partisans to resurrect the Ideon) The 2nd Neo-Zeon Conflict of CharsCounterattack, The Crossbone Uprising of F91 and The Zanscare War of [[Anime/MobileSuitVictoryGundam V Gundam]].

[[WMG: [[Film/Gundam00AWakeningOfTheTrailblazer The ELS]] are the actual creators of the [[Anime/TurnAGundam Turn-X]].]]

[[WMG: CombatMechaXabungle occurs in the aftermath of [[SpaceRunawayIdeon Ideon]] on the Buff Clan homeworld]]

Remember Ryu, [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam one of Amuro's crewmates on White Base]], who sacrificed himself to save Amuro's life? Remember how well-built he was, and [[ShozoIizuka the sound of his voice]]? Now, take a look at [[GundamMSIGLOO Captain Martin Prochnow of the Jotunheim]]. [[LargeAndInCharge Well-built guy]], and a [[ShozoIizuka rather unique voice as well]]. It can't be a coincidence. Maybe Ryu was born on Side 3, but his mother had a falling out with his father and took him to Earth, where he lived under his mother's name, Jose. Then he later joined the Federation, signing up just before the One Year War began. Were Martin to know about the fate of his son...

The former Banpresto members, of course, are the more sympathetic [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam AEUG]] sort, however, and managed to smuggle ''MS Saga: A New Dawn'' out to us. Not bad, despite some imagery clearly torn from ''Main/EurekaSeven''.

[[WMG: Not just every Gundam, but ''all'' of Main/YoshiyukiTomino's work takes place in the same timeline.]]

[[WMG:''[[Anime/TurnAGundam Turn A Gundam]]'' is the last calm before '''[[Warhammer40K Warhammer 40K]]'''. ]]

At some point, the entity that is the Ide realized that its Ideon shtick likely wouldn't work as well as the last time. So instead, it took the form of the Turn X, which was then found towards the end of the Black History. It was reverse-engineered in the form of its "brother unit," the Turn A, which the Ide subsequently possessed. Put two and two together, and it's no wonder why [[spoiler:the Moonlight Butterfly apocalypse]] occurred. It just couldn't ''quite'' finish the job off properly, hence why the colonists who became the Moonrace survived.

There is only one timeline; everything happened as it was-in-series, with no SuperRobotWars-esque crossover revisions except in the periods in-between colony wars.. Its not a matter of Turn A being an alternate universe encompasing everything else- it is the one true timeline. As for the dating inconsistencies, we're dealing with a timeline where an outside observer could set a very slow clock to the rhythm of the Earth bombing itself to near-oblivion, loss of records is rather understandable, and the change of year markers probably became a "fresh start" tradition representing a blank slate. Every time things got too hot they would dismantle the mecha and destroy all blueprints, with historical revisionism and conspiracy causing all but top-secret government records having no idea there were ever mobile suits or war with the colonies. Since we're talking about a shadow-government conspiracy, they suck at it and keep failing to suppress the technology that lead to inventing mobile suits in the first place or the social conditions that keep making colonies rebel, so mobile suits get reinvented and the colonies revolt, and everyone thinks its a brand new situation every time. Occasionally they try getting rid of the colonies, but then a few decades later overpopulation forces new colonies, and the cycle begins anew.

[[WMG:''[[Anime/TurnAGundam Turn A Gundam]]'' is the last calm before '''[[Warhammer 40K]]'''.]]

[[WMG:''[[Anime/TurnAGundam ∀ Gundam]]'' is the last calm before [[Warhammer 40K]].]]

[[WMG:''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Prof. Minovsky]] in reality was ''[[Anime/MazingerZ Dr. Hell]]''.]]

** Incidentally this means that ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Camille and Fa]]'' are an incarnation of ''[[Anime/MazingerZ Kouji and Sayaka]]''. And the wars between TheFederation and the space colonies are meaningless because, not matter who wins, an [[AlienInvasion Alien]] ''[[Anime/UFORoboGrendizer Invasion]]'' will wipe all of them out.

* Main/SpaceRunawayIdeon: The Ideon "resets" the galaxy at the end, causing Earth to be reborn and develop similarly, but slightly different to how it did before.
* Main/InvincibleSupermanZambot3: Earth is visited by "aliens" who are actually descendants of people who were outside the galaxy at the time Ideon "reset" it. The Zambot is an inferior copy of Ideon's technology.
* Main/InvincibleSteelmanDaitarn3: Using knowledge gained from studying Zambot's technology, Professor Haran creates the Daitarn 3 and the Meganoids on Mars. After the Meganoids' defeat, an international treaty bans cyborg technology and limits further exploration of Mars for fear of resurrecting the Meganoid threat. Further development of the Daitarn project proves economically impractical and technonolgy changes little over the next few years.
* Main/AuraBattlerDunbine: Earth is invaded by the parallel universe of Byston Well. Traces of the mystical "Aura Power" remain in the universe after the invaders are gone and various attempts are made to harness it. Arguably the most successful of these is a Main/SuperSoldier codenamed Project: D.O.M.E., a "New Type" of human with physical and mental powers rivaling those of the Meganoids. After a battery of tests, D.O.M.E.'s body is dissolved and placed in a secret storage facility on the Moon and forgotten for several years.
* Anime/MobileSuitGundam and the rest of the UC timeline: Large scale space colonization is finally underway, but Mars remains untouched due to the Meganoid treaty. Scientists on the moon discover the remains of Project: D.O.M.E. and a secret project begins to spread his DNA throughout the population to cultivate new Super Soldiers, resulting in the "Newtype" phenomenon. With the development of Main/MinovskyPaticles, newer, more cost effective ways are found for reproducing smaller, more efficient machines based on Zambot/Daitarn technology. Similarly, the Flanagan Institute manages to perfect the "Psycommu System" using research into salvaged Aura Battler components recovered during the Byston Well invasions. Six major space wars rage, with smaller conflicts in between; The One Year War of the original series, The Gryps War of Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam, the 1st Neo-Zeon Conflict/Neo-Zeon Civil War of ZZ, (following which Amuro and Judau foil a plot by Neo-Zeon partisans to resurrect the Ideon) The 2nd Neo-Zeon Conflict of CharsCounterattack, The Crossbone Uprising of F91 and The Zanscare War of [[Anime/MobileSuitVictoryGundam V Gundam]].
* [[Anime/AfterWarGundamX Gundam X]] & Main/SentouMechaXabungle: The 7th Space War. A mass ColonyDrop marks the end of the 1st age of space colonization. The Lunarians, largely unaffected by the war send a group of "reverse colonists" known as "The Innocent" due to their refusal to participate in the war that ruined civilization, to Earth to begin the Humanity Restoration Plan to help Earth recover from its damaged state. The truth about Newtypes is discovered, after which they begin to fade from existence. New governments form and old ones are resurrected. The New Earth Federation is reorganized as the "United Earth Sphere Alliance" and the second age of colonization begins. The calendar is changed to the After Colony calendar.
* [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Gundam Wing]]: Conflict begins heating up in the colonies. With most of the UC and AW era's MS technology poorly maintained and decrepit, the OZ organization recovers the surprisingly well-kept MS-01 from a museum and use it as a basis for their new line of mobile suits, remodeling it into the Tallgeese in the process. The five mad scientists, meanwhile design their gundams based on those of the previous generation. The Wing Zero is created using incomplete Blueprints from the X and Airmaster Gundams, but with Newtypes practically extinct, a new computer assist, the "Zero System" is used to replace the psycommu derived interfaces. Shortly after Wing Zero is finally built, OZ MS pilot Colin Nander is the sole survivor of one of its colony destroying assaults. He is so terrified by the experience he goes insane. He is discharged from the MS forces and used as a test subject for an experimental suspended animation process at an OZ lunar facility. The facility is above top secret, known to only a few officials and thus will be forgotten for centuries after the organization collapses. Eventually War is abolished.

* Main/BrainPowerd: After civilization begins to recover, it is disrupted once again by biomechanical creations of the DG Cells: Orphan, an attempt to regrow the Devil Gundam's body inside the Earth that has been co-opted by a human organization and somehow altered into a spacecraft and the Antibodies, mechs created to protect it that have also been repurposed.
* Main/OvermanKingGainer: The Orphan conflict has taken a terrible toll on the Earth, leaving all but a few areas a wasteland. New mechs, the Overmen are created from a fusion of traditional MS tech and Antibody-derived biomechanical parts. Eventually Earth recovers once more. The Overmen begin to fall apart as the new age of prosperity means there is little use for them. Yapan forms the Orb Union, while other governments rebuild and form the Earth Alliance and the cycle repeats again with a 3rd age of space exploration. The Cosmic Era begins.

* Main/HeavyMetalLGaim: The wandering space colonies eventually come upon the Pentagona Star System, with five inhabitable planets which are quickly settled. A descendant of Athrun Zala (corrupted into Wallha over the centuries) becomes the king of one of them. Interplanetary disputes begin and MS technology resurfaces again in the form of the "Heavy Metals". The king of Poseidall uses a sample of DG technology recovered from the remains of an old colony cylinder's research lab to become immortal, but with a terrible price and embarks on a campaign to conquer the entire Pentagona system before being defeated by the heir to the Wallha throne. Wallha's strength becomes renowned far and wide, and his dynasty is thus rechristened as "The Buff Clan".

* Main/SpaceRunawayIdeon: Humanity has expanded toward the stars and settled many habitable planets. However, they soon come under attack from the people of the Pentagona system, who have degenerated into a gaggle of space barbarians. A giant robot is discovered hidden on a small planet and used to fight them. Their battle will once again lead to the death and rebirth of the galaxy. Earth returns to its familiar shape. [[Anime/{{Mobile Suit Gundam 00}} But it isn't over yet...]]

* Main/HeavyMetalLGaim: The wandering space colonies eventually come upon the Pentagona Star System, with five inhabitable planets which are quickly settled. A descendant of Aslan Zala (corrupted into Wallha over the centuries) becomes the king of one of them. Interplanetary disputes begin and MS technology resurfaces again in the form of the "Heavy Metals". The king of Poseidall uses a sample of DG technology recovered from the remains of an old colony cylinder's research lab to become immortal, but with a terrible price and embarks on a campaign to conquer the entire Pentagona system before being defeated by the heir to the Wallha throne. Wallha's strength becomes renowned far and wide, and his dynasty is thus rechristened as "The Buff Clan".

* The calendar is changed from Universal Century After War.

* Well, who ever wrote that WMG is a UC fanwanker. Besides, it could be that the universes are mutually fictional like the first WMG above. Except Turn A, obviously, where except for 00, everything happened.

Nearly every one of the Civilians in Xabungle is portrayed without pupils, similar to the Buff Clan. The PlanetOfTheApesEnding revealing Zora could be Earth is a red herring, since the Buff Clan called their home Earth as well. At least enough of the Buff Clan survived off-world after Ideon created a meteor shower to destroy all life on the planet in order to return and begin [[spoiler: the genetic experiments creating the Civilians.]] The Ide's lingering influence is responsible for the relative lack of deaths, and YoshiyukiTomino's spirit is responsible for rampant breaking of the fourth wall.

[[WMG: The [[AnimeTurnAGundam Turn-X]] is a possible descendant of the [[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam Devil Gundam]].]]

[[WMG: The ''Gundam EXA'' manga is either a direct prequel (or sequel) to ''TurnAGundam'']]