Cosmic Era World

A World recovering from two major wars between the Earth and Space, this time fueled by a racist undertone, of genetically-enhanced Coordinators and Earth-born Naturals. After two major conflicts with millions of deaths, and the former PLANT Chairman Gilbert Durandal arrested for conspiring with an Alien Faction, peace has finally been, tentatively, reached after three years of conflict.

The Current Year is CE 0074.

Earth Alliance

The Earth Alliance was officially founded as a result of the Alaska Declaration on February 7, C.E. 70 - after the terrorist incident at Copernicus City - as the political entity representing the Natural populace. Unlike the Universal Century's Earth Federation, which was a relatively unified body, the Alliance is more of a loose international military coalition of entities that are often working at cross-purposes to each other: thus, it's not uncommon for each of the factions to withhold the key workings of their weapons and armor technologies with their erstwhile allies.

PLANT

The PLANT Supreme Council is an executive committee of twelve elected members, each representing a sector (or "city") of the groupings of the PLANTs. Each member is also assigned to one of five committees (Judicial, Administrative, Legislative, Diplomatic, and National Defense), each with its own chair. The committees are governed overall by the Supreme Council Chair, with elections being held on April 1st in an unknown timespan. The Supreme Council itself meets on the colony Aprilius One.

ZAFT - Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty

ZAFT is a military organization and the official military of the PLANT colonies. Unlike the Earth Alliance' OMNI Enforcer, ZAFT is a militia made up of civilian volunteers and thus has no formal hierachy. Instead the "ranks" of its members are distinguished by the colors of the uniforms, while people in leading positions are referred to as "commander" and "captain" in a respectful way. Most ZAFT forces are organized into independent teams which are named after their commanders. Since nearly all ZAFT members are Coordinators, they are able to fight the numerically superior EA forces on equal grounds, thanks to their superior physical and mental abilities. ZAFT is controlled by the PLANT Supreme Council, with its members reporting directly to the chairman of the National Defense Committee.

ZAFT Members

Yzak Joule	Dearka Elsman	Meer Campbell

Minerva Crew

Gladys Talia	Arthur Trine	Meyrin Hawke	Heine Westenfluss

Orb Union

Orb is a nation whose territory encompasses several islands to the east of New Guinea. The official name of the mainland is Yalafath, where the Orb capital, Olofat, is located. Despite its small size and lack of natural resources, Orb has considerable industrial and military power. This is due to an abundant supply of geothermal energy thanks to its numerous active volcanoes, access to advanced technology, and laws granting nondiscrimination to Coordinators, which causes several Coordinator scientists to live at Orb. In the past, it was a settlement to a large number of Japanese immigrants. The official language is Japanese. The Island nation itself controls its own Mass Driver, called "Kaguya", the space colony Heliopolis, which serves as a resource satellite, and also another space military satellite Ame-no-Mihashira. Because of Orb's relative political and economic stability and stance as a neutral nation, it is known as the "Land of Peace."

Blue Cosmos

Blue Cosmos is the most radical of the anti-Coordinator activist groups formed by resentful Naturals and is the dominant political force behind the Earth Alliance military within the Cosmic Era. According to the Blue Cosmos ideology, genetic modification is a violation of the natural order, and all Coordinators must be exterminated "for the preservation of our blue and pure world."
During the Second Alliance-PLANT War, it is growingly revealed that Blue Cosmos is interconnected with a secretive military-industrial complex known as LOGOS which instigates conflicts to stir profits through their arms trade and other enterprises.