Hathaway is ready within the 12 months 0105 of Gundam’s “Universal Century,” or UC timeline—one among a number of timelines the 42-year-old franchise has dabbled in throughout myriad TV collection, motion pictures, manga, novels, and video games, however arguably the most well-liked and first of all of them, first launched within the authentic Mobile Suit Gundam. Set 26 years after the occasions of the unique present, it follows the titular Hathaway Noa (voiced by Kensho Ono within the movie), the son of Mobile Suit Gundam characters Bright Noa and Mirai Yashima, and an essential supporting character within the 1988 film Char’s Counterattack.

Twelve years on from the occasions of Char’s Counterattack, Hathaway takes place in a short interval of peace within the Universal Century, the place the Earth Federation has re-accepted its former opposition, the secessionist area colony often called the Principality of Zeon, into the fold. But because the Federation has change into stagnant, cracking down on spaceborn residents and harshly deporting the decrease lessons from Earth into the rebuilding area colonies, Hathaway turns his again on the Federation. Taking on the identify Mafty Navue Erin and piloting an experimental new mecha, the RX-105 Ξ Gundam (that’s the Greek letter “Xi”, pronounced “Ksi”) because the chief of the dissident group Mafty, Hathaway begins a plan to take revenge in opposition to the navy he as soon as served within the Federation’s earlier wars with Zeonic forces.