The year of destiny. Humanity has long ago escaped its earthly bonds and colonized space. But decades after their ancestors first settled space, the coloniests are now oppressed by the power hungry Earth Allied Forces. OPERATION M-The space colonies strike back. The colonies' last hope, five young pilots trained to operate the most fearsome fighting machines mankind has ever create-GUNDAM. Their mission: to take down the EAF and its sinister secret society, OZ. The fight for the future begins.