MARS

MARS is a new animated television series in the works, and one of the newest entries in Sunrise's long-running Gundam franchise. Before the reveal of its final title, the series had been referred to as Gundam Mars.

Plot
827 years ago, an asteroid collided with the surface of Mars, leading to the entire surface of the Red Planet becoming covered in an unknown new particle. After a quarter of a century is spent researching the planet's tumultuous surface conditions brought about by this change in atmospheric composition, proper terraforming campaigns were set into motion by the Earth government once it was found that the surface conditions had begun to allow life, owing to the water particles and fungus life present on the asteroid.

348 years ago, a war between the second generation Mars colonies break out. Merely a civil war at first, it was soon that hostilities turned towards the Earth government. The Earth government emerged the victor of this 'Red Raze', and the colonies continued to grow under careful surveillance by the Earth federation's elite corps, and makeshift government body on the Martian surface, the Perennial Judicial.

33 years ago, the first attack on a colony by a large war-class machinery, known as a Mobile Armor (MA), occurs in the Martian polar ice cap. There were no survivors.

Present day....

After years of extensive investigation, it has been found that the Mobile Armors act under remote control. However, the true mastermind of this new age of terror remains unknown. Mobile Armors detonate themselves after having suffered enough damage, and their main objective seems to be the complete and utter destruction of the colonies of Mars.

To protect the colonies against this machine threat, a paramilitary organization acting a sub-division of the Earth military is formed; MARS (Mobile Armor Response Squadrons).

Armed with state-of-the-art Mobile Suits, smaller war machines with technologies reverse-engineered from the Mobile Armors' remains, the MARS is an elite force tasked with ensuring the safety of the hopeful human lives under the Martian sky.

On 13th February, Lagrangian Calendar (LC) 2708, a new addition to the MARS arrives on the planet; Marche Junpius.

Mobile Armor Response Squadrons

 * Marche Junpius
 * Kenneth Ebert
 * Ringla Roo Ewan
 * Gryps Collard

Mobile Armor Response Squadrons

 * MKC-011B Canary Type-B
 * JH-07 Rodeo
 * KYJW-03V Orpheus

Episodes

 * Episode 01 - "The Carmine Effect"

Trivia

 * It is among the few Gundam series to cast a female character in the role of main character.
 * First prototypes have had the attacking forces to be of biological nature. However, this was thought to be a concept still too alien to the Gundam franchise. Thus, remote-controlled mobile armors were made to fill this role instead.