Under the guidance of her commanding officer commander, she must use the GN Drive to intercept the top-secret UNICORN carrier's return journey to a mysterious space.
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Happily, there's some interesting plot fodder on tap here. So in addition to the rush, there's some great political intrigue, which I'm very curious about. This is certainly my favorite Gundam movie so far. It's got everything you'd expect from a Gundam movie, which I love.
It's got me hooked.
The plot begins with some interesting details: it seems that after the Zeon invasion, a device called the GN Drive was created that could be utilized to accelerate the speed of travel by manipulating space-time. We find out that at some point in the past Zeon started developing this device with the intent of absorbing the Federation, and using it as a method of world domination.
In a departure from the typical Gundam plot, the only real hero in this movie is a little girl. She's named Topee, the daughter of Zeon commander Togepi (yes, that's his name). Her guardian is a security officer named Jacques. A group of young pilots led by a woman named Io Fleming and an unnamed commander named Daisuke Sakamaki work with the young girl, hoping to make her a pilot someday. The girl's father is killed when she's young, and the pilot Jacques eventually leaves the group to continue with his own life.
One day, during an off-duty flying lesson, Jacques is kidnapped by Zeon and taken aboard the GN Drive. He manages to use the facility to escape and is sent off in a piloting capsule aboard a high-speed Zeon spacecraft. Jacques quickly finds out that there's some sort of political conspiracy behind the GN Drive, and learns that it's been weaponized to kill off the entire planet. The first thing he thinks of is to flee from the country, but he quickly learns that this is the easiest way to die. So he decides to use the fuel stored in the GN Drive to power his escape capsule.
Jacques gets in touch with Io, who has escaped from the Zeon facility, and he recruits her to help rescue him and the young girl. They set off in pursuit of the fleeing Zeon spacecraft. Meanwhile, the true villain of the story, a real-life space empire ruled by a warlord named
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