Kidou Senshi Gundam summary: In the world of the near future, an epic war rages between the Earth Federation and the rebel s.p.a.ce colonies that call themselves the Princ.i.p.ality of Zeon. The most fearsome weapons of this new era are the robotic vehicles known as mobile suits, armored giants with the firepower of battleships. The Federation has pinned its hopes for victory on its advanced mobile suit prototypes, but when a young cadet named Amuro Ray becomes the pilot of the mobile suit Gundam, he discovers that machines alone will not be the decisive factor in the conflict. For a new stage of human evolution is dawning, and the future – if humanity has a future – may well belong to the Newtypes…