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Potential Solution: We don't side with either Zeon or the Feds.

This is just a hypothetical, but what if we took a page from Gundam F91's book and center the story around some ragtag third party? In F91 it was essentially space pirates in the form of the Crossbone Vanguard. Suppose we're playing as something similar? People whose homes (be it a colony or a place on Earth) was hit by war between Zeon and the Feds and were forced into doing whatever it takes to survive in a harsh world/space that's being torn apart by a war. The idea is that we're essentially scavengers. We try to salvage shipwrecks and especially mobile suit parts. We do it to both make money and arm ourselves so that we aren't defenseless. Naturally, neither the Federation nor Zeon take too kindly to people like this potentially learning the secrets of some of their machines and so we'd probably be treated like outlaws or pirates.

In my hypothetical scenario, we have a plausible reason for why no one would start out with a Gundam (because their parts are just that hard to come by for us) but also gives us the potential to acquire one or two of them as time goes on, assuming we survive long enough to reach that point.

Edit: I also think at least one person ought to play as a masked antagonist of some kind. It just wouldn't be Gundam without a Char clone. Hell, I'll gladly volunteer for that part myself.
@DisguisedDemon So you want characters with clashing personalities who might even go as far as to butt heads? Alright, but exactly where would you draw the line? Would you want characters potentially defecting to the other side over these differences or would you prefer them to be able to put that crap aside for the sake of the mission when the time comes?
@DisguisedDemon I would recommend watching a few series before tackling Build Fighters/Try. Those are fun series but you'll definitely appreciate them more if you can spot or understand a lot of the references they make.
@DisguisedDemonThat's... Not in Build Fighters


That one specifically isn't, but a character in Try builds something very, very similar.
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Wtf is this show??? Honestly, I don't know how they've made it this far... xD


Without spoiling it, Build Fighters revolves around people building model Gundams and then using an advanced simulation system to make them fight in battles. That picture is the result of someone making a... custom... build. The anime themselves have lots of references and easter eggs to previous shows. For one thing, characters tend to make custom builds using official models as a base. Plus actual previous anime characters can often be seen in the background or part of crowds if you pay enough attention.
I would suggest maybe doing a Build Fighters thing, but seeing what I'd try and use...

Yeah pretty sure I'd get chucked out for even suggesting that. XD


ROFL

That was one crazy final episode.
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I would have to say the whole bit about war being bad is kind of annoying.


I would recommend watching Build Fighters and Build Fighters Try at some point then. None of the tired old messages about war and instead just a celebration of how awesome Gundam is as a franchise. They can get pretty cheesy at times with how serious some of the characters take their battle toys (let's be fair, Build Fighters is kind of the Yu-Gi-Oh of Gundam) but it's the gloriously awesome kind of cheesy.
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Essentially terrorists? They are completely terrorists. However, I've always been terribly about liking the bad guys in shows and finding them more interesting then the good guys. Like Unicorn absolutely bored me with whatever his name was because he was just good with pretty much no flaw except being weak and pathetic. (I hope I didn't offend anyone sorry!)


There's nothing wrong with liking the bad guys. Hell, Char Aznable is one of my favorite characters in the series and he was a villain in most of the stories he appeared in. The difference between Char and Celestial Being (for me, anyway) is charisma. Char just oozes with charisma, with the way he carries himself and the way he can get just about all the female characters who meet him to fall in love with him and want to fight by his side. He's like an evil James Bond and I love him for it. Celestial Being had none of that. They basically just preached about war being horrible (which of course it is) but then proceeded to use weapons of war to spread their message and basically try and act as a glorified nuclear deterrent. But they had no charisma, or personality in what they did. Setsuna (the guy we're supposed to root for as the main hero) is an emotionally stunted teenager with all the personality of a brick wall. He's like Heero Yuey if you took out all the traits that made Heero, well, a hero.
@Plank Sinatra This is a tricky subject for me. I like the colonies and set up in UC, but then what about Zeon and The Federation. Would we want to include that? I don't know. But I like AD a lot as well because of the state the world is in. But then do you just do a sort of alternate storyline or after 00. That's what I have the most trouble with.


You mean a world where a group that are essentially terrorists use their mobile suits to bully the rest of the world into disarming theirs because "war is bad"? I watched the first few episodes of 00 and that was more or less what I got from it. Not gonna lie, I hate the so-called heroes of that show, as I said in an earlier statement, Celestial Being is essentially a terrorist group or at the very least a group of unlikable bullies.

Don't get me wrong, I'm interested, but if you go with AD then I can almost guarantee you I'll be playing as someone who opposes the likes of Celestial Being.
That... means I no longer have a STAR Labs robbery to attend to. So um... yeah, meesa have'n no ideas.
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