Glossary:
Places

Places:


Corsica Base:
An Alliance mobile suit production facility, located in the Mediterranean between France and Italy. This is where the Tallgeese, the prototype version of the Leo, has been stored for the last twenty years.

Lagrange Point:
Any gravitationally neutral point between two bodies in space. The Gundam Wing Episode 50 Tumblr has a great in-depth discussion of the Earth's Lagrange system.

Lake Victoria:
This lake in East Africa is the site of the Specials' military academy, of which both Zechs Merquise and Lucrezia Noin are graduates. Noin is currently an instructor at the Lake Victoria academy, training cadets in the art of space combat.

L1 Colony Cluster:
The collection of space colonies constructed at the L1 Lagrange Point, which is located 187,500 miles from Earth.

  • Affiliated with Gundam pilot Heero Yuy, whose codename 01 comes from the cluster.
  • Doctor J built the XXXG-01W Wing Gundam in this cluster.

L2 Colony Cluster:
The collection of space colonies constructed at the L2 Lagrange Point, which is located 62,500 miles from the far side of the Moon.

  • Affiliated with Gundam pilot Duo Maxwell, whose codename 02 comes from the cluster.
  • The tragic Maxwell Church massacre, a clash between the rebel faction and the alliance, occurred in this cluster.
  • Home to former Oz soldier Hilde Schbeiker, who later founds a salvage yard there.
  • Professor G built the XXXG-01D Gundam Deathscythe in this cluster.

L3 Colony Cluster:
The collection of space colonies constructed at the L3 Lagrange Point, which is located in a straight line from the moon to the Earth to the L3 point, with the distance from the Earth to L3 being slightly greater than that from the Earth to the Moon.

  • Affiliated with Gundam pilot Trowa Barton, whose codename 03 comes from the cluster.
  • Doctor S built the XXXG-01H Gundam Heavyarms in this cluster.

L4 Colony Cluster:
The collection of space colonies constructed at the L4 Lagrange Point, whic is located at a 60° angle from the Moon along the same orbit.

  • Affiliated with Gundam pilot Quatre Raberba Winner, whose codename 04 comes from the cluster.
  • Home to the wealthy and one-time pacifist Winner Resource Colony.
  • Instructor H built the XXXG-01SR Gundam Sandrock in this cluster.

L5 Colony Cluster:
The collection of space colonies constructed at the L5 Lagrange Point, located at a 60° angle from the Moon along the same orbit, opposite of L4.

  • Affiliated wtih Gundam pilot Chang Wufei, whose codename 05 comes from the cluster.
  • Colony A0206 (Chang Wufei and Meiran Long's home colony) was located in this cluster before it self-destructed.
  • Master O built the XXXG-01S Shenlong Gundam in this cluster.

New Edwards Base:
A major Alliance base in California. Later in the series, it hosts a meeting of all the Alliance's top generals.

Sanc Kingdom:
A small country in Northern Europe. Its sovereign, King Peacecraft, was an admirer of colony leader Heero Yuy and subscribed to Yuy's philosophy of total pacifism. In AC 182, the Sanc Kingdom was invaded by Alliance forces, and King Peacecraft was killed. The fates of his two children are unknown. Spelled "Cinq" or "Sanq" in some publications.


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"But why were the colonies made in the first place? I hear the main purpose was technological development to improve the lives of human kind on Earth. Did human kind start asking too much from this imitation world? The self-sustained way of life is more stable than life on Earth especially since it lacks the risk of natural disasters." - Heero Yuy