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C.E. 71
After stealing the Eternal, the Clyne Faction was joined by Orb's remaining
military forces aboard the Izumo-class battleship Kusanagi, and the defected
Earth Alliance assault ship Archangel. Both the newest ZAFT mobile suit units,
the stolen Freedom and ZGMF-X09A Justice, had already joined the Archangel, but
were soon transferred to the Eternal, which was equipped with the METEOR System,
specifically built for those two units. However, thanks to the assistance of
Reverend Malchio, the Three Ships Alliance was able to make contact with several
peace-seeking groups in Orb and the EA, and the rest of the Clyne Faction
headquartered in the PLANTs. Also, the group received a tender ship, the ReHOME,
complements of Reverend Malchio and the Junk Guild.
The new rogue faction became known as the Three Ships Alliance and secretly
headquartered on the abandoned Mendel colony. Their purpose was to put an end to
the war which was rapidly growing beyond all control, as both the Earth Alliance
(Now under the control of Blue Cosmos) and ZAFT (under the command of Patrick
Zala and his radical extremist faction) now believed that genocide was the only
way to achieve victory.
This small fleet succeeded in saving the PLANT colonies from the Earth
Alliance's initial nuclear assault, and Earth from the ZAFT's superweapon
GENESIS. The Bloody Valentine War came to an end with the help of the Three
Ships Alliance, which managed to counteract the threats on the civilian
population and put an end to the war, in September, Cosmic Era 71.
C.E. 73
After the war, the TSA went again underground. The Eternal and Archangel were
hidden, and most of the crews moved to Orb, under pseudonyms. After the Second
Bloody Valentine War, new factions of Orb's government manipulated it into
joining the Earth Alliance, and the Clyne Faction members in Orb took the
Archangel and Freedom (both hidden in secret facilities in Orb) and fled. While
the Eternal had a quiet role in the war to date, the Archangel actively tried to
intervene in EA-ZAFT battles that involved the Orb fleet, with Cagalli Yula
Athha trying to appeal to the Orb soldiers to leave the battle. Though the
Archangel was joined by a large number of Orb officers and pilots from the
sunken Orb carrier Takemikazuchi, ultimately their attempts failed and their
interventionist policies have created tension between both the Earth Alliance
and ZAFT, and they have undoubtedly caused chaos on the battlefield.
Seeing that the Clyne Faction would not be able to achieve their objectives
alone, Lacus Clyne relocated to the newly created Terminal organization and its
covert orbital factory to oversee its operations. Under her supervision,
Terminal constructed new advanced mobile suits - the ZGMF-X19A Infinite Justice,
and ZGMF-X20A Strike Freedom, as well as the obtaining of the ZGMF-X88S Gaia,
and the obtaining and completion of the three prototype ZGMF-XX09T DOM Trooper
units.
At a later stage in the war, the Archangel and ZAFT's battleship Minerva joined
forces and fought together against the Earth Alliance's prototype mobile
fortress, the GFAS-X1 Destroy. However, ZAFT chairman Gilbert Durandal, fearing
the Clyne Faction's potential interference in his plans, declared them to be an
enemy of ZAFT and justifying their decision by citing the group's numerous
interferences in ZAFT battles. The Minerva later participated in Operation
"Angel Down", with the objective of destroying the Archangel. During this
conflict, Minerva fired its positron cannon on the fleeing Archangel, and
Impulse was able to defeat Freedom with the clever tactics of its pilot Shinn
Asuka using Kira Yamato's unwillingness to kill, as the Freedom's pilot.
However, the Archangel managed to survive despite being badly damaged while the
Freedom was destroyed. Kira Yamato, was saved by Cagalli in the MBF-02 Strike
Rouge and the Archangel then continues en route to Orb. The Archangel finally
arrives at Orb, where it is repaired in a secret base by Morgenroete.
ZAFT discovered the presence of the Terminal Factory (which also hid the
Eternal) and sent a force of three Nazca class battleships to attack it. With
the ZGMF-X88S Gaia the only functional mobile suit (and piloted by Andrew
Waltfeld), the factory was heavily out-numbered so Eternal in an attempt to draw
the ZAFT forces away from it, and prepared to drop the newly-completed ZGMF-X19A
Infinite Justice and ZGMF-X20A Strike Freedom towards Orb should the ship be
lost. Fortunately, Kira Yamato arrived in the MBF-02 Strike Rouge via an orbital
booster and, after taking possession of the ZGMF-X20A Strike Freedom, defeated
all of the pursuing ZAFT forces.
A short time later, during ZAFT's assault on Orb (codenamed Operation Fury), the
Archangel participated in the defense of Orb. Meanwhile, Kira Yamato in the
ZGMF-X20A Strike Freedom departed the Eternal and made an unassisted re-entry to
help in the battle, while towing the ZGMF-X19A Infinite Justice (which was being
"ridden" by Lacus Clyne) on order to deliver it to Athrun Zala. The three
ZGMF-XX09T DOM Trooper units also participated, arriving from the Eternal via an
orbital drop pod. Together with the Archangel, the Eternal's mobile suits
successfully defended Orb. After Cagalli regained control over Orb, the crew of
the Archangel were formally included into the Orb military. After Durandal
exposes his Destiny Plan, The Orb space fleet (including the Archangel, the
Kusanagi, and two of the Kusanagi's sister ships), the Eternal, and
Terminal-supporting ships from both ZAFT and the Earth Alliance, along with the
Kusanagi's sister ships, set out to oppose Durandal's destiny plan.
The group once again had the distinction of helping to end the war, when the
ORB-01 Akatsuki and ZGMF-X19A Infinite Justice destroyed the Requiem superweapon,
and the ZGMF-X20A Strike Freedom destroyed the Messiah mobile space fortress.
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