[hider=2nd Lieutenant Axton Huber]
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[color=#5DE62C]Name:[/color]
Axton Huber

[color=#5DE62C]Gender:[/color]
Cis Male

[color=#5DE62C]Age:[/color]
24

[color=#5DE62C]Rank:[/color]
Second Lieutenant

[color=#5DE62C]Assigned Mobile Suit:[/color]
[url=https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/MS-06F-2_Zaku_II_F2_Type]MS-06F-2 Zaku II F2 Type[/url]

[color=#5DE62C]Personality Traits:[/color]
Determined, Fanatical, Friendly, Violent, Creative, Lacks self-esteem

[color=#5DE62C]Backstory:[/color]
Born into the Huber family, a group of well renowned engineers, Axton was born in space. While his parents were originally from the Side 1 colonies, they moved to Side 3 after being enraptured with the teachings of Zeon Zum Deikun. They would start a family in the capital colony of Side 3, where Axton would be born, the middle of three children. While still a small child, Axton’s home of Side 3 would declare independence from the Earth Federation, becoming the Republic of Zeon.

This would result in sanctions from the Earth Federation on the newly-formed space nation. However, Zeon would still have a thriving economy as it produced superior goods. This was helped by the Huber family who designed all kinds of machines for the Republic. Like his parents, Axton would show an aptitude for machines and would begin taking mechanical courses in school. Then things would change when Axton was just starting high school. Zeon Zum Deikun would die under mysterious circumstances.

This resulted in some upheaval in the Republic, until a friend of Deikun’s, Degwin Zabi, took charge of the government. Reorganizing Side 3 as the Principality of Zeon, Degwin would take a more hard line stance against the Earth Federation. The Principality would begin focusing on building up its military, the Huber parents being sent to work on a new type of weapon called a mobile suit. Axton himself would be fast tracked through school, earning a degree in weapon manufacturing. Axton would then be given a job at Zeonic Corporation, helping build mobile suit prototypes.

This build up of power caused a lot of tension between Zeon and the Federation, as the latter faction began going after any nations that supported the Principality. Degwin Zabi would not take kindly to this and would declare war on the Earth Federation on January 3, UC 0079, only waiting ten minutes after that before attacking several Federation bases in the colonies and other parts of space.

That opening month of the war would be brutal, as Zeon dropped a colony onto Earth, attempting to hit the Federation HQ. Also nuclear and chemical weapons would be used liberally, Axton’s older brother being killed in a nuclear strike. After all this devastation, the Antarctic Treaty was signed and weapons of mass destruction banned. As a show of good faith, Zeon would publicly disarm their nuclear weapons. Axton was assigned to help with that, but something went wrong and a piece of a missile exploded, sending shrapnel into Axton’s eyes.

Axton would survive, but would spend a month in hospital, during which time he was given new artificial eyes. Once released, Axton would decide to take vengeance for his brother. Enrolling in the mobile suit corps, Axton would be fast tracked through training  as Zeon needed as many pilots as possible. Placed in a Zaku II, Axton would be sent to Earth, his first time on the planet. He would be made a recruit of the Steel Sharks, a mobile suit team operating out of Northern Africa.

Axton would remain in this region as the war began coming to a close. Sporadic information would reach the rural region, telling of final battles in space. Axton tried not to pay them heed, instead focusing on the battle going on around him. That was until New Year’s Day.
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