Messiah (メサイア Mesaia?) is a mobile space fortress introduced in the anime Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny.
Overview
A mobile fortress built by ZAFT after the Second Battle of Jachin Due. It was built by incorporating equipment into the wreckage of an asteroid after mining resources, and is cheaper to build than a battleship. Positron reflectors that can be deployed in all directions of the fortress are placed, and it is equipped with Neo-GENESIS, a smaller variant of the massive GENESIS superweapon used in the First Alliance-PLANT War. Inside, there is a vast computer room where the genetic information of the humans gathered in the Destiny Plan is analyzed and managed. In addition, the asteroid was outfitted with multiple beam gun turrets to shoot down incoming enemy units and also protected by a large fleet of warships and mobile suits. Messiah also served as the new control center for the Earth Alliance's Requiem superweapon following its capture after the Battle of Daedalus.
History
Second Alliance-PLANT War
Gilbert Durandal headed to Messiah after he left Earth and from there commanded the attacks on the Earth Alliance's Daedalus Lunar Base and the Requiem superweapon. Afterwards, the fortress headed to the moon where it engaged the forces of the Three Ships Alliance.[1] Using its Neo-GENESIS weapon, Messiah was able to destroy several ships which had defected from the Earth Alliance. While the superweapon began to charge, a large space battle broke out around it. Neo-GENESIS was then fired again, with it not only destroying several enemy ships but also some ZAFT ships. Kira Yamato in the ZGMF-X20A Strike Freedom Gundam equipped with METEOR, along with the Eternal, proceed to inflict heavy damage on the fortress. Kira then entered the fortress and confronted Durandal, who was eventually shot by Rey Za Burrel. Both Rey and Minerva captain Talia Gladys decided to stay on Messiah as the fortress descended onto the surface of the moon, before crashing onto the lunar surface.[2]
Foundation Conflict
On May 27, C.E. 75, during the final battle of the Foundation Conflict, the crash site of Messiah became a battleground as Orphee Lam Tao and Shura Serpentine relentlessly pursued Kira Yamato. Three AMO-01 Ziggurats were positioned behind the Messiah wreckage, controlled by Ingrid Tradoll, who remotely controlled them from the NOG-M2D1/E Cal-re.A, firing endless barrages of beams and missiles at the Freedom. When Lacus Clyne docked the MDE262S Proud Defender with the ZGMF/A-262B Strike Freedom Gundam Type II, creating the ZGMF/A-262PD-P Mighty Strike Freedom Gundam, she and Kira used the Gundam's Disruptor to target the three Ziggurats, carving through the upper section of Messiah fortress in a diagonal slash.[3]
Gallery
Lineart
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Anime
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Games
Notes & Trivia
- Messiah's control room possesses visual similaries to Emperor Palpatine's Throne Room in the Death Star II, from Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.
Appearances
- Television Series
- Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny
- PHASE-44, Lacus Times Two
- First Appearance
- PHASE-48, To a New World
- PHASE-49, Rey
- PHASE-50, The Final Power
- Destroyed
- PHASE-44, Lacus Times Two
- Movies
- Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom
- Wreckage
References
External links
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| Cosmic Era locations | |
| Space | |
|---|---|
| Apollon A | Armory One | Ame-no-Mihashira | Artemis | Boaz | Debris Belt | Development Facility Satellite | Dock | Erudou | Factory | Heliopolis | Jachin Due | L4 Colony Cluster | Liteiria | Messiah | PLANT Colonies | Troya Station | Yggdrasil | ZAFT Military Station | Zodiac | |
| Debris Belt Locations Graveyard | Junius Seven | |
| Heliopolis Locations Morgenröte Facility | |
| L4 Colony Cluster Locations Mendel | |
| Mendel Locations G.A.R.M. R&D Facility | |
| PLANT Colonies Locations Aprilius One | Junius Five | Junius Seven | |
| Aprilius One Locations Clyne Manor | Kira and Lacus' Mansion | PLANT Supreme Council Building | ZAFT Department of Defense Building | ZAFT Military Factory | |
| Junius Five Locations White Symphony | |
| Moon | |
| Arzachel Lunar Base | Copernicus City | Daedalus Lunar Base | Endymion Base | Lorenz Base | Ptolemaeus Lunar Base | |
| Earth | |
| Berlin | Carpentaria Base | Diocuia | Fortaleza | Gibraltar Base | Giga-Float | Gulnahan Ravine | Heaven's Base | Indian Ocean | Ishtaria | Kaohsiung Base | Kirgitz Plant | Lagash Base | Lodonia Lab | Mahamul Base | Moscow | North Africa | North America | Orb Archipelago | Orbit Traffic Observation Center | Red Sea | Reverend Malchio's Orphanage | Scandinavia | South Africa | South America | Victoria Base | Yap Island | |
| Diocuia Locations Diocuia Base | |
| Gulnahan Ravine Locations Lohengrin Gate | |
| Indian Ocean Locations Indian Ocean Base | Indian Ocean Island | |
| North Africa Locations Al-Jairi's Factory | Al-Jairi's Home | Banadiya | Desert Dawn Base | Moula | Suez Base | Talbadiya Factory District | Tassil | |
| Banadiya Locations ZAFT Banadiya Base | |
| North America Flaga Estate | JOSH-A | Panama Base | White House | |
| Orb Archipelago Locations Akatsuki Island | Kaguya Island | Onogoro Island | Sadeyori Island | Yalafath Island | |
| Akatsuki Island Locations Akatsuki Manor | |
| Onogoro Island Locations Morgenröte Headquarters | Morgenröte Underground Dock | Orb National Defense Headquarters | |
| Yalafath Island Locations Allster Family Home | Athha Estate | Ceremonial Temple | Orb Administrative Building | Seiran Family Estate | |
| Others | |
| Bautroya | Jupiter | Mars | |
| Bautroya Locations DSSD Supply Station |
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