Blue Monster

Blue Monster is the first episode of Mobile Gear Gundam Blues.

Summary
 [ Transcript ] The year is 1092 of the Orbital Era, over a millennium after the Third World War nearly wiped out the human race. Now, humanity is prospering within the comforts of the space colonies, which are spread out within the asteroid belt. In order to keep a semblance of order, the colonies are divided up into four sections: the Asterisk Ring which rests on the outer most section of the asteroid belt, the Neutral Ring that divides the two sections it is sandwiched in between and holds Mars, the Guardian Ring which acts as first defense, and the Core Ring, which holds most of the other planets within the asteroid belt, and is where the ruling government reins. However, two of the administrative forces, the Guardian Ring Order and the Asterisk Ring Union, have been feuding with each other and wish to take over each other's sections, much to the chagrin of the two populations.

However, this is none of the concern of most of those living within the Neutral Ring, where one of the colonies, Colony 107, resides. It is here that the North family live, as the 19 year old Charlie North sleeps up in the attic, completely tired. He wakes up, however, as he realizes that he needs to head for the junkyard, which is run by his uncle. There, the news plays on the TV, stating that the Neutral Ring Group is trying to calm down tensions between the Asterisk Ring Union and the Guardian Ring Order, because of the position they're in.

Charlie lives with his sister, whom she barely notices while watching the news. He tries to greet her, but she's more focused on what's going on in the world. The news continues as ship arrivals are announced, including large cruisers from both Asterisk and Guardian.

Charlie heads to the junkyard through the colony's traffic on a bike, racing through the crowds of people living in Colony 107, trying to go about their day. He sees above his head the open space port where the Asterisk and Guardian ships are clearly displayed for the inhabitants to see. Charlie shrugs it off, saying to himself that nothing interesting ever happens in this colony, as she picks up the pace.

Meanwhile, the delegates on board the new arrivals discuss their own plans to screw over the other side, all the while planning to take over the Neutral Ring so that there is no border between them and more resources. The two discuss the same topics, despite being nowhere near each other and even about to kill each other. All the while, foot soldiers escape from the ships to do their specific jobs; the Asterisk people sabotage the Guardian ship and set things up so that the colony can be crippled, while the Guardian people are trying to set up charges around the Asterisk ship and other charges all around crucial spots in the colony.

The citizens remain oblivious to all of this, while Charlie arrives at the junkyard and enters the large hanger at the center of the area, where his uncle is, working on a small mechanical part to see if he can sell it. Charlie, however, is fixed on the large mobile gear sitting inside the hanger. Mobile gears ares humanoid weapons platforms that were used during the Region Era back a millennium ago during the wars, and his uncle owns a broken down one. Charlie fiddles with it a little before being called to help his uncle with the small part he's fixing.