People of the PACT Arm

Commanders

ZOCU

Lord Lee Dorington
"Euro reinforcements? We might have to postpone tea..."

The genius Londener admiral who secured most of ZOCU's naval victories in the ZOCU War. Died with his steed, the first-run Pallada-class battleship Boadacea, at the climax of the Battle of Aldebaran in September 2187. It is widely believed that, had Dorington survived, the Combined Militia would have retained the initiative and kept the EUSF from concentrating the resources to attack in sufficient strength to defeat the ZCM's numerically-inferior forces.

Saffron Kimmel
One of the war's most controversial figures, Saffron Kimmel is primary remembered for her loss at the Battle of Haraway's World. Ancillary reasons to remember her are the decimation of the ZOCU fleets, the destruction of the the Harawayan Pallada-class battleship Landing by massed fire from multiple Core battleship divisions, and the loss of the war.

Prior to the chaotic close-quarters fight over Haraway, Kimmel was a highly skilled manager; before the war she built the Harawayan aerospace arm up from a handful of craft to one of the most powerful in ZOCU. Unfortunately, she was not the genius tactician needed at the battle of Haraway. Despite the intellectual advantages afforded her by her Yellow Harawayan caste template, convoluted Harawayan command and control systems and simple lack of brilliance or experience as a fleet commander on that scale doomed Kimmel's efforts.

It's rumoured Kimmel survived the destruction of the Landing and still lives somewhere on the rim.

Marshal Leona Malki
Haraway's ground commander

Admiral Reiko Tenmo
Haraway's Surface Naval commander

Field Marshal George Grossman
A war hero in New Mercia and a war criminal in the Core, Grossman started the civil war as a corps commander and earned accolades for holding the Sterling Pass against superior rebel forces. At a point where New Mercia was suffering defeats across the entire theatre of war, Grossman delivered victories, and as a result, was made the overall commander of the New Mercian military.

Controversially, he is believed to be responsible for authorising the use of bioweapons on the Fuller Plateau, although officially New Mercia continues to insist that the so called 'Mercian Zombie Plague' outbreak that eventually led to the depopulation of two arcologies was the result of the destruction of a lab studying posthuman biotech. Certainly, he is on record as authorising a deployment of nuclear weapons in order to contain the outbreak, and as a result, is wanted for trial by the EU. He emerged with his domestic reputation mostly unscathed after the succession of bloody meatgrinders that characterised the last few years of the war, and continues to serve as the Chief of Military Operations.

Admiral Isley Yellowstone OC Mercian Royal Starfleet

Core

Ichijo Fujita
"Yare, yare..."
Born in early 2140s Japan to a second-string Zaibatsu family, Ichijo is the eldest son and heir of wealthy and long-lived industrialist Nobuo Fujita. He was immediately sent away to the Japanese colony at Horizon to ensure his survival, and upon turning 18 in the midst of the Breakdown was enrolled in the Horizonic Space Defense Force Academy. At the age of 22 he was commissioned as a JSDF flight officer seconded to the HSDF and began a distinguished career, seeing humanitarian and peacekeeping service along the frontiers of the Pacific Arm.

He was serving as executive officer of the battlecarrier Kaga when the ZOCU War began, and soon after the Battle of Kanon found himself promoted to replace losses and assigned to the Anchorage Project as commander of the Mobile Suit Development Group and its' ad-hoc mothership Ryuho, developing and eventually piloting into combat one of the first Rickenbacker mobile suits into battle.

After the loss of the Ryuho in combat near Theia in April 2187, Fujita (now commander of both ship and mecha complement) and the MSDG (now known as the 13th Tactical Mobile Suit Wing) would be assigned to the recently refitted Kaga and remain there for the duration of hostilities. Fujita's familiarity with the Kaga would lend itself well to later engagements, including the ultimate confrontation with the Zodiac Combined Militia at Rapture, where the 13th TMSW would suffer near-total losses amongst its' two squadrons of Rickenbacker-Cs in intense combat against veteran ZCM units.

As of 2195, now-Admiral Fujita is Commanding Officer, Joint Task Force 13, forward-deployed to Theia.

Anton Zweiker
Ruthless and calculating, Anton Zweiker led his reform minded faction to prominence within the EU's military command structure and the Deep Space Fleet to its final crushing victory over Haraway's World. Responsible for the famed "Rose Knights" regiment being kept on as a permanent unit in the post-war demobilizations.

Sarah Ashmore
As a senior division commander in the Deep Space Fleet, Sarah Ashmore commanded the force dispatched to repulse Lord Dorington's raid on Aldebaran. She received considerable accolades for her success, but ultimately was passed over for the coveted position of DSF Commander in Chief. Ashmore continued to serve as a division commander throughout the war, eventually leading the fleet's vanguard at the Battle of Haraway.

As of 2193, Ashmore was reassigned to command the newly formed Silesian Navy.

Aurélien Bounaparte Meckligner
A graduate of École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr and the EUM Naval School Meckligner made his repuation in the heyday of the Deep Space Fleet- as a junior officer onboard many ships participating in anti-drone operations and later commanding a Drake in such operations before taking up a post in Outremonde's Home Fleet. Chief-of-Staff of the Space Fleet in 2176-2181 where he was responsible for building up a significant stockpile of strategic supplies. Retired in 2182 after eight months as Minister of Defence but not before beginning the "15-Year Plan" to modernize the Space Fleet. Meckligner would remain retired until 2184 when "new" blood was deemed required to takeover Outremonde's Deep Space Fleet component (as CinC of the Space Fleet) in early 2186. At the age of eighty-five Meckligner commanded Outremonde's ships at the battle of Haraway and participated in the relief of Albion. He served as military-attaché for the Federal Republic from in 2192 and 2193 before returning back to his post as Commander-in-chief of the Space Fleet. Outremonde's senior naval commander has faced criticisms because of his highly negative remarks on the Treaty of Sirus, made in private but subsequently leaked.

Ray Quigley
"They'll probably order a retreat when they notice we've gone on the defensive."
Group Captain Ray Quigley was Oceania's former top ace and the 13th ranked in PACT, and later the commander of Oceania's premier aerospace air wing, known as Pacifica Airgroup. Known as the Gray Fox because of his age and ability to manipulate the battlefield, he was considered one of PACT's most skilled field commanders and a popular figure in NorPac's ANZO bloc, because of his strong belief in protecting the men under his command and ensuring that the fewest number of lives would be lost. Although outmatched and outmaneuvered many times by genetically superior ZOCU commanders, he was never outflanked and was considered a master of the defensive feint.

Although well into his seventies during the war and slowly being eaten apart by neuromuscular degeneration, he continued to serve on front-line vessels through a combination of life extension treatments, cybernetic implants and a top-of-the-line powered exoskeleton that provided critical life support to his frail and failing body. His personal kill score is unimpressive, but forces that fell under his command enjoyed some of the highest survival rates among PACT aerospace wings and has led more aces (few of which earned above 5 kills) than any other commander during the ZOCU war.

During the final stages of the war, he was promoted to the rank of Air Commodore and put in command of ANZOSC's Titania Battlegroup, fought a series of counter-offensives on Hampshiran/ZCM commerce raiders before finally being deployed during the offensive on Rapture. Acting as a rear guard for the NorPac fleet, his battlegroup were pivotal in preventing wider losses in retreating PACT ship divisions.

He later went on to serve as a technical adviser for the Sydney Naval Research Institute when his physical condition finally forced him into retirement.

Aces

The largest influence on the aces produced during the ZOCU War was undoubtedly the weapon they piloted: the mobile suit. The Core lacked a comparable weapon until the very end of the war and moreover had much lower levels of transgenic augmentation among their military forces. As a result, the individual achievements of Core aces generally did not figure within ZOCU. On average, the most successful ZOCU aces were those who transferred early to a Hoplite variant, were heavily augmented, fought extensively during the early days on the EU Arm where the quality of their enemies was generally inferior, and hailed from worlds willing to keep their best pilots on the field as much as possible.

ZOCU

The Top Ten

Geist
ZOCU's #1 Ace.

Y. G. Kruger
The highest-ranked Transbaalan ace and the 2nd highest overall. One of the first volunteers for the Cape Project that created ZOCU alephs, he was primarily active along the PACT arm. He flew virtually every ZOCU mobile suit design in service, with his distinctive brilliant red customized Sarissa Orgia (originally the 3rd prototype) being his weapon of choice both during and after the war. He currently heads ZOCU's Advanced Combat School, though rumors are that he is being considered for a more prestigious position.

Naas van der Wett
Transbaalan, Aleph, #3 Ace

Kuroko Reizei
Called Jewel Eye, the highest ranked Kanonian ace and 4th highest overall; a Level 4 knight and Cape Project veteran from the renowned military lineage of Reizei. Rather than a custom colour scheme, she piloted mobile suits with a custom many-coloured eyepiece which became distinguishable to enemies at close range. Among the few military personnel of note on either side to be seriously indicted for war crimes, she was ruled unfit to stand trial and quickly thrown away in a mental institute.

Jasmine Raz
Haraway's famous Blue Devil, Major (Later Colonel) Jasmine Raz is the World's top scorer and the Fifth Rank Scorer in ZOCU. Jasmine joined the Harawayian aerospace force initially as a test pilot, then went on to fly pretty much all frames used by Haraway during the war, before finally settling down in a modified Sarissa-H in mid 2188, leading the famous Blue Devil squadron from 2186 onwards, initially flying Hoplites before converting over into Haraway's premier all Sarissa unit.

Jasmine survived a confrontation with a Doppelsöldner during the battle of Haraway, scoring the only confirmed kills against the much feared EU orbital frames by Harawayian a pilot.

After the War, Jasmine was promoted to Commodore and took over the mobile suit wing tasked with air defence of the Capital and Landing Island. She is married to superstar pop singer turned politician Emma Lan, though she prefers to stay out of politics.

Alyssa Aire Altrusia
Level 4 Knight, Cape Project veteran and member of Level Five; MIA at Battle of Haraway. Employed concurrently by Saitama-Kojima and both the Kanonian and Combined Militias, the Beast of Rapture made her name as ace and survivor of the ZOCOM 16th Mobile and flew full combat tests through the war in a series of increasingly bizarre and expensive experiments that ultimately led to the bankruptcy of Saitama-Kojima's Integrated Armaments Division and the final separation of the two families. She became truly infamous at the Battle of Rapture where she piloted mobile armour Kusanagi, destroying many units and leading the attack that sank the Ronald Reagan. She flew a Masamune at the Battle of Haraway where she was disabled by one of the destroyers near the Hood.

Krotoa Vorster
Transbaalan, Aleph, #7 Ace

Dame Murie MacRisa
The Blazing Star from Londenium. Baseline. #8 Ace

Sharyoh Nanasy Drugon
Countess of Drugon, Level 4 Knight, Director of the Koromo Institute and an important figure in both ZOCOM and the KM. Her skill as the Line Empress was considered so high that she was sometimes listed as an "honorary" member of Level Five for part of the war even though she was involved in but never a subject in the Cape Project. She is among the few ZOCU pilots who was an ace both through the Nidaros expedition of the Magnate Wars and the ZOCU War and was also part of the 16th Mobile.

Alana Reseld

The Harawayan army's top scoring Ace, Alana Reseld flew in numerous ground and space battles, but always retained her army rank even when serving in aerospace force units. A red caste country girl from the outskirts of Landing Island, Alana joined the army in 2183, at age 17, and quickly showed a natural aptitude for flying which after a stint in flight school gained her a position in one of the army's Peltast units and severed in several notable battles in the ZOCU war, seeing action at Blue Trees and gaining her first air to air kills (a pair of British Whirl Wind ground attack aircraft).

In 2186 as the war on the ground was beginning to wane Alana was seconded to the Haraway aerospace force where she served with the Blue Devil Squadron until 2187 before transferring to New Mercia as part of Task Grouping Tethys where she flew a Masamune in numerous atmospheric and orbital engagements.

Alana ended the war on New Mercia, but has since moved back to Haraway with her New Mercian wife Elena Rossthorn. She is now commandant of the army mobile suit academy at Ignis Sound.

Other ZOCU Aces

Astra Lyeti Leizen-Eld
High scoring ZOCU ace and number one cosmic soldier of the United States of Atlantis. Flight name: Crystalised Silver. Veteran of the 16th Mobile, the Battle of Londenium and among the first Hoplite test pilots outside Kanon. Went missing in action at Haraway but persistent rumors have surfaced that she has been spotted recently on Heaven's Shore with known members of the Zodiac Elite Retaliatory Order.

Emmanuel Isley Churchman
God-fearing Legionaire specialist hailing from Ophen. Shot down and injured seven times through the war. Is a major ace both in the starways of the PACT arm and on the ground at Kanon, Choson, and Suzumiya. Presently still serving and highly decorated in the Ophen system militia. Infamous for entering battle with a cowbow hat rather than regulation helmet. Has the most warship kills attributed to any specific individual (three).

Amadeus Searrs Saioji
The White Prince of Kanon made his name during the Kanon campaign as both an excellent commander and pilot, operating the numerous types of machines available to the defence forces. At the end of the year, he was transferred to orbital duties and quickly promoted to a command, though he continued piloting to the end of the war. He was among the forces drawn from throughout the alliance to fight at the decisive Battle of Haraway and was killed in action there in a white-and-gold Sarissa.

He is the genetic half brother of Kaguya Altena Saioji

Core

Damien Hatchet
The Man from Albion, the EU's #1 mecha ace. He emerged from the tenements of Albion to become one of the pilots of the ill-fated Lambert frame, but distinguished himself in that role nevertheless. Since the introduction of the Leopold and higher-performance machines he has never looked back, and is aggressive in demanding from command the best possible tools for use in combat.

Years of fame as a war hero has done little to restrain his coarse manner or ego, and although he is more than capable of delivering a script to a press conference the EU still prefers to keep him at arms length from the press. Scattered allegations remain about crimes committed during the Battle of Haraway, but have little traction due to the lack of clear evidence and the frosty relations between ZOCU and the EU.

Enrique Rodriguez
PACT's very own Wedge Antilles. Born on Diego in 2166 and a graduate of the local military academy. Trained on Mustangs, he later flew Hellcats and even, for a short time, a KS87 mobile suit. Later became first Phantom pilot and first Phantom ace. Currently performing his sixth consecutive year of War Bond tours. Known to mock Emmanuel Churchman by wearing a comically large sombrero during all press conferences.

Guiomar D'Cruze
Guiomar D'Cruze, the "Southern Cross", was the top scoring Brazilian ace of the war. Guiomar is a native of São Galvão, born into a middle class family on August 22nd 2164. He attented the Brazilian Naval Academy prior to the war, and recieved training as a fighter pilot. He piloted interceptors as part of the 122nd Aerospace Squadron "Gryphus" based off of the Brazilian Light Carrier "???", which would serve as his carrier for the entire course of the war, at the initial battles over Kanon and during numerous skirmishes between September 2185 and late 2187. In late 2187 the ??? is called back to São Galvão, Gryphus squadron obtaining the new TM-1 Alces, the mobile suit in which they would become famous. Following a few months of training exercises to get acclimated to the new Mobile Suit, D'Cruze found himself as part of the UNASUR force attacking Choson, where he and his squadron served as Mobile Suit Hunter-Killers, downing numerous ZOCU frames both in space and on the ground, including shooting down Emmanuel Isley Churchman once. At the end of the war and the signing of the Treaty of Sirius, Guiomar D'Cruze had a confirmed record of 8 confirmed Hopilite shoot-downs, 2 Legionares(With one of them being a ZOCU Ace), and a single Sarissa; with a squadron record of 20 Hopilites, 8 Legionares, and 2 Sarissas. Because of the prestige and honor obtained by the unit throughout the war, Gryphus Squadron became the Brazilian Naval Space Force's "Ace Squadron", receiving the newest mobile suits as soon as they were developed. Guiomar D'Cruze, now in his early thirties, serves as the Squadron CO of Gryphus, and married one of the junior engineers attached to Projeto Heráldico.

Paul Lebekin
Commander of the 791st squadron based on the EUS Loire, which was lost at the battle of Londenium. One of the few pilots from Outremonde to participate in early military operations Lebekin is credited with one confirmed kill before being forced to eject from his damaged fighter early in the battle. Recovered by a rescue boat from the EUS Belfort. Lebekin served with distinction in various posts until being earmarked to test-pilot Lamberts with the 63rd Test Battallion. Piloted a Ge-03 Leopold, based off of the Belfort, in the campaign preceding the Battle of Haraway where he piloted one of the Union's new Leopold Margrave. Lebekin was accredited with five confirmed kills and three mission-kills at the campaigns end, with some debate over a number of possibles lacking clear visual evidence for (but which informally is accredited to Lebekin anyways). Unlike other aces Lebekin transferred to Fleet Command and was earmarked for the Deep Space Fleet force assigned to Outremonde along with the aging Belfort at wars-end.