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The Earth Alliance military force, OMNI Enforcer
OMNI Enforcer
OMNI Enforcer (Oppose Militancy and Neutralize Invasion) is the military force
of the Earth Alliance, and is also more commonly known as the Earth Forces.
Unlike ZAFT, the military of OMNI Enforcer is tightly organized on a traditional
model. Many top officers of OMNI Enforcer, mostly those from the Atlantic
Federation (which dominates the Alliance after the disastrous Battle of JOSH-A)
are also members of the Blue Cosmos anti-Coordinator group.
OMNI Enforcer's space fleet is large and well-equipped, though their warships
are slightly outdated compared to ZAFT's powerful fleet. Their mobile weapons
until the Battle of Porta Panama are primarily limited to the Moebius mobile
armor, a distinctly outdated design. Five Moebius MAs are required, on average,
to engage a single ZGMF-1017 GINN with any significant chance of
victory.[citation needed] At and after Porta Panama, the Alliance quickly
replaces the Moebius with the GAT-01 Strike Dagger and related mobile suit
models, redressing the balance and turning the tide against ZAFT.
Known OMNI Enforcer space fleets are the 3rd Fleet, (decimated during the Battle
of Endymion), the 5th and 6th Fleets were intercepted by ZAFT during the First
Battle of Jachin Due, 8th Fleet (decimated during the Battle of Orbit) and the
7th Fleet (decimated during the Second Battle of Jachin Due). It is reasonable
to assume that additional fleets exist to fill numbers 1-8 and maybe more.
OMNI Enforcer Ranks
Rank Structure
OMNI Enforcer uses a Japanese style rank system, officer ranks being shown by
colored bands on a member's uniform (taking the form of yellow bands with no,
one or two blue tabs at the bottom). Enlisted ranks appear not to be designated,
NCO ranks are designated with square devices. Civilian auxiliary members do not
wear rank tabs. Some rank insignia in the officer chart are conjectural, based
on other rank insignia in a common pattern.
Nine officer, three NCO and three enlisted ranks are known; it is not known if
other enlisted or NCO ranks exist or if any warrant officer ranks exist in OMNI
Enforcer. In addition, the term "Kanchou" applies to the officer in charge of a
ship, and can roughly be translated as captain, not to be confused with the
military rank of Captain. Murrue Ramius is often referred to as "Ramius-kanchou"
rather than "Ramius-taii" as her rank would suggest.
There also seems to be slight color differences between the OMNI Enforcer
uniforms of the Alantic Federation and the Eurasian Federation. While the
officers of the Atlantic Federation wear white, Eurasian Federation officers
seem to have a bluish tint to their uniforms.
Officer
Taisho (General/Admiral): Broad yellow band, two blue tabs (conjectural)
Chujo (Lieutenant General/Vice Admiral): Broad yellow band, one blue tab
(conjectural)
Shousho (Major General/Rear Admiral): Broad yellow band
Lewis Halberton, Gerard Garcia
Taisa (Colonel/Captain): Two narrow yellow bands, two blue tabs
William Sutherland, Neo Roanoke
Chusa (Lt. Colonel/Commander): Two narrow yellow bands, one blue tab
some Artemis officers
Shousa (Major/Lt. Commander): Two narrow yellow bands
Natarle Badgiruel (after 2nd promotion), Mu La Flaga (after promotion), Murrue
Ramius (after promotion), Ian Lee
Tai-i (Captain/Lieutenant): One narrow yellow band, two blue tabs
Murrue Ramius (before promotion), Edward Harrelson
Chu-i (First Lieutenant/Lieutenant J.G.): One narrow yellow band, one blue tab
Natarle Badgiruel (after 1st promotion)
Shou-i (Second Lieutenant/Ensign): One narrow yellow band
Natarle Badgiruel, several Artemis and JOSH-A officers;
Kira Yamato holds this rank after Archangel rendezvouses with the 8th fleet but
never wears the rank insignia
NCO
Chief Petty Officer: unknown
CPO Murdoch
Petty Officer 1st Class: Two yellow and two blue squares
several enlisted Archangel crewmen, Flay Allster while on the Dominion
Petty Officer 2nd Class: One white square, one yellow square, two blue squares
several enlisted Archangel crewmen
Enlisted
Ittohei (Crewman 1st Class)
Nitohei (Crewman 2nd Class)
Heliopolis students
Crewman Recruit
Blue Cosmos/Logos
"For a Blue and Pure World!) (青き清浄なる世界のために (Aoki seijō naru sekai no tame ni!))"
- Motto of Blue Cosmos
"Even now, hiding in the shadows of this war, without a doubt the Logos are
there." - PLANT Supreme Council Chairman Gilbert Durandal
Blue Cosmos is the most radical of the anti-Coordinator activist groups formed
by resentful Naturals and is the ruling force behind the Earth Alliance.
According to the Blue Cosmos ideology, genetic modification is a violation of
the natural order, and all Coordinators must be exterminated "for the
preservation of our blue and pure world."
Though the political opinions of the Earth Alliance senior leadership generally
varied, the Atlantic Federation leadership was primarily dominated by Blue
Cosmos members, and after the elimination of enough of the Eurasian military at
the Battle of JOSH-A for policy change, Blue Cosmos controlled Alliance OMNI
Enforcer by default. After this point, the Alliance's war effort changed from
one of conquest to one of extermination, a change that a Patrick Zala-led ZAFT
was only too happy to emulate.
Blue Cosmos was originally an environmental pressure group, but after George
Glenn revealed his secret in CE 15, they changed their emphasis to terrorizing
and killing Coordinators. Many of the top echelon of Blue Cosmos, including its
leader Muruta Azrael, were killed during the closing battles at Jachin Due.
Unfortunately, this did not affect Blue Cosmos in any meaningful way - Cagalli
Yula Athha's visit to ZAFT at the start of Gundam Seed Destiny is due in large
part to pressure on the Orb Union from the Atlantic Federation, which is still
partially controlled by Blue Cosmos, under the control of its new leader, Lord
Djbril. In addition, there are growing evidences that Blue Cosmos may be nothing
more than a catspaw for a shadowy military-industrial organization known only as
Logos.
However one Logos member, Matias Aducarf, betrayed his comrades and submitted
information on Logos to Gilbert Durandal. With this information, PLANT Chairman
Gilbert Durandal held a speech in which he revealed the existence of Logos to
the entire world and afterwards, he declared that he planned to completely
destroy this organization. Afterwards, ZAFT launched a campaign to destroy Logos
and Blue Cosmos once and for all. Many people on Earth also started to attack
the homes of Logos members and many of them were either murdered or forced to
flee. They made their unsuccessful last stand against ZAFT/Alliance forces
attacking Heaven's Base, their headquarters in Iceland. After the battle, Lord
Djibril (the last remaining known member) fled to the Orb Union and afterwards
to the Daedalus lunar base. From there he attacked PLANT with the superweapon
Requiem in order to destroy the PLANT Supreme Council, however when the Minerva
attacked, he was forced to flee on the Girty Lue. But before he could escape the
ship was shot down by Rey Za Burrel, which also killed Djibril and thus the last
remaining Logos member.
It is obvious that Blue Cosmos/Logos conducted far more inhuman genetic
modifications (to unwilling, kidnapped and/or drafted children, no less) than
the process of creating Coordinators. The Extended laboratory at Lodonia was
ZAFT's gruesome evidence to reveal Logos and that its "Puritan" view of genetic
modification was blind and one-sided for unlike embryo modification, the
Extended process literally killed numerous children and scientists. The children
were not merely trained as their brains were also removed, altered then placed
back in. In short, there was some truth to Durandal's anti-Logos speech and that
they, much more so than the Coordinators, were the true inhuman monsters.
see also: ブルーコスモス
Phantom Pain
The Phantom Pain is a private army organized by the Blue Cosmos that operates
under Logos, Blue Cosmos' supreme governing organization. Their official name is
the 81st Independent Mobile Battalion (known as the 81st Autonomous Mobile Group
in the English dub) of the Earth Alliance and they specialize in black and
covert operations where Alliance does not want actions to be traceable to
them.[citation needed]
Phantom Pain is started to provide the Blue Cosmos with organized military
strength, and is mainly comprised of the best Alliance personnel and equipment.
When goods and personnel are requested by Phantom Pain, the Alliance is expected
to respond and accommodate the request without delay. This allows Phantom Pain
to obtain needed supplies, even though they fall only under the command of Logos
and their representatives, and no others.[citation needed] Even with this
arrangement, the Phantom Pain remains shrouded in mystery even among many
Alliance leaders.
They are funded behind the scenes by the Blue Cosmos and utilize technology
illegal according to the Treaty of Junius, like Mirage Colloid. Known assets
under Phantom Pain's control include mirage-colloid equipped battleships, such
as the Girty Lue, with a TS-MA4F Exass, a personalized GAT-04 Windam, the stolen
ZAFT units ZGMF-X24S Chaos, ZGMF-X88S Gaia, ZGMF-X31S Abyss; the RGX-00
Testament, one GFAS-X1 Destroy and its supporting battleship, and the newly
developed mobile suits GAT-X1022 Blu Duel, GAT-X103AP Verde Buster, and
GAT-X105E Strike Noir, with those supplemented with several squadrons of GAT-04
Windams and GAT-01A2R Slaughter Daggers.
Members of Phantom Pain include Sven Cal Bayan, Mudie Holcroft, Shams Couza, Neo
Roanoke, Stellar Loussier, Sting Oakley, and Auel Neider.
PLANT
In the Cosmic Era, the present-day United Nations funded the idea of
constructing new space colonies originally as manufacturing and research
facilities. Known as PLANTs (Productive Location Ally on Nexus Technology) these
hourglass shaped colonies were primarily manned by Coordinators. Over time, they
became a haven and eventually the permanent home of the vast majority of the
Coordinator population, fleeing persecution and when the war begin, they became
an independent nation. The PLANTs are divided into 12 groups known as "Cities,"
each one named for a month of the Roman Calendar (i.e. Aprilius, Junius).
It should be noted that, in CE 73, the signification of the acronym PLANT has
been changed to People Liberation Acting Nation of Technology.
The government of the PLANT cities is the PLANT Supreme Council on Aprilius One
which was originally formed to deal with the directorate of PLANT-sponsored
nations, and their military is Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty or ZAFT for
short. The PLANTs are described as one nation by some characters, but they are
in fact several different nations (each PLANT city can be considered an
independent nation) united in their common heritage and the need for protection.
The word "PLANT" is actually sometimes used to referred to all the PLANTs as a
whole (again as if they were a single nation), and the term ZAFT is also used to
(incorrectly) describe the PLANTs.
Each City originally incorporated ten hourglass-shaped PLANTs, for a total of
120. But on February 14th, CE 70, the spacefleet of the Earth Alliance fired a
nuclear warhead at the Junius Seven PLANT, destroying it and killing 243,721
innocent civilians, in what later became known as the Bloody Valentine incident.
From that point, and until CE 74 there are PLANTs located at L5. As of late
Cosmic Era 73, there is at least one PLANT located at L4, Armory One, a ZAFT
military base.
In CE 74 Lord Djibril attacks PLANT with the superweapon Requiem in an attempt
to destroy Aprilius One. However, because of the intervention of the Joule
Squad, the beam misses its target and instead directly hit Januarius 1-4 and
caused December 7 and 8 to collapse, leading to the death of hundreds of
thousands of Coordinators.
PLANT Supreme Council
The PLANT Supreme Council is an executive committee of twelve elected members,
each representing a sector (or "city") of the groupings of the PLANTs. Each
member is also assigned to one of five committees (Judicial, Administrative,
Legislative, Diplomatic, and National Defense), each with its own chair. The
committees are governed overall by the Supreme Council Chair.
The make up of the PLANT Supreme Council as of the beginning of the Bloody
Valentine War of C.E. 71 is as follows on the chart below, with a roughly evenly
split political division of the Moderate Faction (led by Siegel Clyne and Eileen
Canaver) and the Radical Faction (led by Patrick Zala and Ezalia Joule). Siegel
Clyne is later replaced by Patrick Zala as Supreme Council Chair.
During this time, Siegel Clyne, frustrated by the extremist actions of his
successor, secretly allowed his daughter, Lacus Clyne to entrust Kira Yamato
with the ZGMF-X10A Freedom. The Clyne family was forced into hiding with the act
of treason drawn against them; Eileen Canaver was left in charge of the Moderate
Faction and Patrick Zala quickly ordered the arrest of the members of the
Moderate Faction and those associated with the Clyne family, triggering an
underground civil war in the PLANTs between the radicals and the moderates.
Following the conclusion of the First Blood Valentine War, Eileen Canaver leads
the arrest of Ezalia Joule and the members of the Radical Faction and becomes
the acting head of the PLANT Provisionary Council, consisting of the members of
the Moderate Faction.
Many members of the PLANT Supreme Council are also parents of elite mobile suit
pilots in ZAFT, such as Tad Elsman, Ezalia Joule, Yuri Amalfi, and Patrick Zala,
whose children are under the command of Rau Le Creuset onboard the newly
constructed Nazca-class ship Vesalius during the First Bloody Valentine War.
Council Member Representing Committee Assignment Political Faction Academic
Specialty
Ali Kasim Januarius City Legislative Committee Chair Moderate Microengineering
Tad Elsman Februarius City Administrative Committee Member Neutral/Moderate
Biochemistry
Ezalia Joule Martius City National Defense Committee Member Radical Aero-space
engineering
Siegel Clyne Aprilius City Supreme Council Chair Moderate Space Life Sciences
Yuri Amalfi Maius City National Defense Committee Member Moderate Mechanical
Engineering
Louise Leitner Junius City Judicial Committee Chair Radical Agricultural
Engineering
Jeremy Maxwell Quintilis City Legislative Committee Member Radical Chemistry
Orson White Sextilis City Administrative Committee Chair Neutral/Radical
Microengineering
Eileen Canaver September City Diplomatic Committee Chair Moderate Information
Science
Herman Gould October City National Defense Committee Member Radical Political
Science
Parnel Jesek November City Judicial Committee Member Neutral/Moderate Industrial
Engineering
Patrick Zala December City National Defence Committee Chair Radical Historical
Structures
As of C.E. 73, Eileen Canaver retired from her position as PLANT Supreme Chair
and an almost entirely new PLANT Supreme Council has been elected. Gilbert
Durandal is the new PLANT Supreme Chair along with other newly elected
representatives: Alan Clarzec, Ricardo Orff, Eduardo Lee, George Adaman, Crister
Oberge, Neu Kazaefsky, and Takao Schreiber. Returning members consist of Ali
Kasim of Januarius City, Louise Leitner of Junius City, Orson White of Sextilis
City, and Parnell Jesek of November City.
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