Orga's team has been hand-picked to escort Kudelia, the young leader of the Martian independence movement, to Earth for an important
This episode provides examples of:
- Cavalry Betrayal: Subverted. The First Squadron has every intention of leaving Orga's team of child soldiers to die during Gjallerhorn's attack. The Third group forces them into the fight by setting off their signal flares, making Gjallerhorn's mobile armors think they're actually preparing to launch an attack and pull back to strike at them.
- Double-Meaning Title: The episode title should be a signal on two levels of the story the viewer will be in for if they watch this particular Gundam series. Mecha combat galore, right?
- Establishing Series Moment: The entire episode as one, showing off just how much Darker and Edgier this series will be compared to your average Gundam fare.
- The frequent amount of abuse the Third Group faces makes it pointedly clear how much it sucks to be Human Debris.
- The battle at the end of the episode, meanwhile, emphasizes just how little the lives of Human Debris are, and that Gjallarhorn Would Hurt a Child.
"Not by speeches and votes of the majority are the great questions of time decided — that was the great error of 1848 and 1849 — but by iron and blood." ~ Otto von Bismarck
