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In the Cosmic Era alternate universe of Gundam, the Bloody Valentine War is a war between the Earth Alliance, an alliance of four major governments on Earth, and ZAFT, a nation of space colonies located at L5.
The war was declared on 11 February, Cosmic Era year 70. Three days later, the Earth Alliance used nuclear weapons to destroy Junius 7, a PLANT-type space colony in the Junius City area of ZAFT. Because of this, ZAFT modified a weapon system under development, the N-Jammer, which was intended to be used against Earth to disrupt nuclear power plants, as a countermeasure against nuclear weaponry in space. With the modified production schedule, the N-Jammers were not dropped on Earth until 1 April, a situation which became known as the April Fool Crisis. The ZAFT offensive against Earth took most of Africa, all of Australia and many Asian regions, including three of Earth's five major spaceports: Victoria in Africa, Gibraltar in Spain and Kaohsiung in China, leaving Porta Panama in Central AmericaCentral America is the region of North America located between the southern border of Mexico and the northwest border of Colombia, in South America. Some geographers classify Central America as a large isthmus, and in this geographic sense it sometimes in in Alliance hands and Kaguya at Onogoro Island in the Orb UnionIn the anime series Gundam Seed, the Orb Union is a small Pacific island nation which is neutral in the war between the Earth Alliance and ZAFT. Orb's government consists of both an elected legislature and an aristocracy of five noble families (most notab's control.
Atrocities were common on both sides of the war. Because of the vulnerability of space colonies to catastrophic damage, and the fact that ZAFT had no terrestrial territory, the Earth Alliance would frequently attempt to launch nuclear assaults on the Zodiac Alliance's space colonies. ZAFT forces typically gunned down captive Alliance soldiers rather than take them prisoner, and the use of N-Jammers on Earth and the subsequent energy crisis killed tens if not hundreds of millions in northern and southern regions where reliable power transmission meant the difference between life and death.
Heavy space fighters called "Mobile Armors" had been in use by the Atlantic Federation military since the early fifties, but they had many limitations in capabilities. Their small size meant they were tough targets to hit, but they were also difficult to armor adequately. A larger mecha, PLANT strategists theorized, could do more than a Mobile Armor for relatively little more cost and would be able to carry more armor as well. To give these new mecha the best multi-environment combat capacity, a humanoid shape was chosen - an enlargement and upgrade of heavy industrial exoskeletons that had been in use since the closing years of the AD calendar. Because of the humanoid shape, they were dubbed "Mobile Suits", and the first mobile suit, the YMF-01A "Proto GINN", was rolled out in CE 65. The first combat mobile suit, the ZGMF-1017 GINNThe ZGMF-1017 GINN is a mobile suit, a fictional war machine in the Gundam Seed television anime series. The GINN is a durable, basic mobile suit which is analogous to the MS-06 Zaku II in the original Mobile Suit Gundam. It has two large, thruster-filled, was rolled out two years later. In CE 69, the Atlantic Federation's Captain Halberton publishes a paper, "The Combat Effectiveness and Applications of Mobile Suits", which prompts the Atlantic Federation to begin development of its own mobile suits, the GAT-X series. After a short development period, the Earth Alliance rolls out its own first mass-production mobile suit, the GAT-01 Strike DaggerGundam Mobile Suits In Gundam Seed the GAT-01 Strike Dagger is the Earth Alliance's main mass-production type mobile suit for the last few months of the Bloody Valentine War. Introduced in early Cosmic Era June 71, the Strike Dagger sees its first service, in late May of CE 71.