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Celestial Being (ソレスタルビーイング Soresutarubīingu?) is a paramilitary organization founded by GN technology pioneer and scientist, Aeolia Schenberg, approximately 200 years ago before the storyline of Mobile Suit Gundam 00 under the ideology of ending global conflict using a line of revolutionary mobile weapons known as 'Gundams'. In his lifetime, Aeolia Schenberg gathered and developed the resources needed to realize his vision, central to which is the creation and use of five fully functional GN Drives.

Gundam Meisters

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Three Gundam Meisters from event of 00P

Gundam Meisters (German for "masters") are pilots approved by Veda and Celestial Being to operate the mobile units labelled "Gundams". Once selected and approved by Veda, a Meister is assigned to service under the tactical supervision of their coordinators. Not all Meisters joined Celestial Being under their own will, some were drafted/forced into the organization for their skills. The organization is tolerant of members of lesser backgrounds for the sake of achieving their goals. Both Krung Thep and Fereshte have Meisters of criminal backgrounds, but were chosen for their exceptional mobile suit piloting skills. All Meisters go through military training and abide by their code of secrecy. Breaking the code of a Meister is considered a severe crime and can be punishable by death. Meisters like Marlene Vlady and Fon Spaak have special explosive neck bracelets that can kill them instantly if they are deemed a necessary sacrifice.

Members

Founder

  • Aeolia Schenberg - The scientist who designed the GN Drives and founder of Celestial Being. He cared greatly about world peace. He was killed by Alejandro Corner while kept in stasis inside the Moon Terminal for Veda but it also caused a system trap which activated the Trans-Am system inside all five GN drives and 00's Twin Drive System.

Scientist/Engineer

  • E. A. Ray - Celestial Being Physicist/Scientist and close friend of Aeolia Schenberg.
  • Sky Eclipse - Celestial Being Engineer and a close friends of Lars Grise. A member of the Jupiter Exploration Probe Europa and were responsible in creating the five original GN Drives of the series. He is also the original inventor of Haro.

Teams

Primary Team

This is the main team of Celestial Being in Season 1, 2 and the Movie. In season 1, they operate on the Ptolemaios (or 'Tolemy for short) to coordinates and gives mission support to the Gundam Meisters while in Season 2 they operate in Ptolemaios 2, built based on Ptolemaios. However, Ptolemy 2 takes a more active role in combat than its predecessor. The ship is upgraded into the Ptolemaios 2 Kai.

Gundam Meisters


Crew

  • Sumeragi Lee Noriega - Commander and tactical forecaster of Celestial Being Main Team
  • Feldt Grace - Ptolemaios CIC operator and tactical operators of Celestial Being
  • Lasse Aeon - Celetial Being Gunner and Pilot
  • Ian Vashti - Celestial Being MS mechanics and Chief Engineer assigned to the Main Team
  • Joyce Moreno - Celestial Being Medical Doctor. KIA at the end of Season 1
  • Christina Sierra - Ptolemaios CIC operator and tactical operators of Celestial Being. KIA at the end of Season 1
  • Lichtendahl Tsery - KIA at the end of Season 1
  • Mileina Vashti - Took the role of the late Christina Sierra and MS mechanic
  • Anew Returner - Took the role of the late Joyce Moreno. KIA in Season 2
  • Linda Vashti - Chief Engineer/Developer of Celestial Being
  • Saji Crossroad - Left to take care of Louise Halevy
  • Marie Parfacy - Joined after defecting from A-Laws, departed after Season 2 but returned

Team Trinity

An unknown secondary group (or tertiary if you count Fereshte) of Celestial Being. This team operate using the Gundam Throne and their base of operations while in space is their Trinity Mothership and while on Earth, a hidden base in Northern Africa. Unlike the crew of Ptolemaios, they have no coordinated support and do not accept mission orders from Veda. Rather, their orders come from an unknown benefactor that is revealed to be Laguna Harvey. Unlike their relative group, they partake in missions to "end world conflict" in a far more aggressive manner by destroying military bases and any other facilities - civilian or otherwise - without regard to casualties.

Krung Thep

Celestial Being's mobile suit development laboratory and factory at Lagrange Point 3 (L3). It is the setting of the Mobile Suit Gundam 00P side story.

Gundam Meisters

Crew

Fereshte

A secondary team of Celestial Being composed of second generation Gundams and Gundam Meisters. They are a shadow group that operate from the Euclides and supports Celestial Being's primary team in their operations, but only featured in the manga Mobile Suit Gundam 00F. The group is later reorganized and featured in Mobile Suit Gundam 00I 2314.

List of Gundam Meisters

Hanayo


Crew

  • Chall Acustica - Commander of Celestial Being secret branch, Fereste. Formerly a Second Generation Gundam Meister of Krung Thep.
  • Sherilyn Hyde - Celestial Being MS mechanics assigned to Fereste
  • Hanayo
  • Dell Erda - Join in A.D 2314 when Fereste were reorganised

Celestial Being Observers/Agents

Besides their teams deployed for combat, Celestial Being also makes use of a number of people known as observers. They do not take part in armed interventions, but they observe the current situation going on in the world and also evaluate the progress of CB's armed intervention groups. After CB's loss during the United Nations' Operation Fallen Angels, Ribbons Almark, former assistant to UN diplomat Alejandro Corner, took control of Veda and had the Observers eliminated to make way for his own version of Aeolia's plan. However, Veda commissioned six Innovades in A.D. 2312 to become Celestial Being's new observers.

Agents

  • Wang Liu Mei - A beautiful 17-year-old rich socialite. She's a secret agent who supports the Gundam Meisters from the shadows.
  • Hong Long - Wang Liu Mei's steward who accompanies her faithfully. In Season 2, it is revealed that he is also Wang Liu Mei's elder brother.

Observers

  • Alejandro Corner - An Celestial Being observer that works for the UN as a diplomat and secretly schemes to control the world with Celestial Being. KIA in Season 1
  • Ribbons Almark - Alejandro Corner's administrative assistant who is a Innovade, seems to have the same power as Tieria Erde by connecting to Veda. After Alejandro died,he formed his own group--Innovators and battle against CB. Formerly a First Generation Gundam Meister.
  • Laguna Harvey - President of Linear Train Industries and an observer for Celestial Being. He was subsequently killed by Ali Al-Saachez after denying him a GN-X.
  • Leif Recitativo - CB new observers in A.D. 2312
  • Telicyra Herfi - CB new observers in A.D. 2312
  • Bryn Sondheim - CB new observers in A.D. 2312
  • Lars Grise - CB new observers in A.D. 2312
  • Hermiya - CB new observers in A.D. 2312
  • Sulu Suluzu - CB new observers in A.D. 2312

History of Celestial Being

Celestial Being is a private paramilitary force founded by the scientist Aeolia Schenberg. It pursues the complete eradication of armed conflict mainly through the deployment of the revolutionary Gundam units, as well as other mobile weapons, in aggressive, sometimes indiscriminate military intervention. It acts upon the advisory of the artificial intelligence Veda, and its preferred mode of operation resembles guerrilla or maneuver warfare. As of the initiation of its publicly visible activities in 2307, Schenberg appeared in a taped worldwide broadcast announcing the organization's existence and intentions. Many people of Earth began a love/hate-like relation with Celestial Being, though mostly everyone does not desire war. Some people, like Marina Ismail of Azadistan, believe that they create only more conflict by intervening.

In addition to the small core group of Gundam pilots known as "Gundam Meisters" and crew of the Gundams' carrier ship, Celestial Being is very influential in all parts of the world and possess an apparently large number of personnel loyal to it. These personnel have different roles, including: engineers, scientists, intelligence agents, "observers" who function as a sort of guiding committee, financial backers, and many others.The group has received mixed levels of opposition. Civilian protest groups have held rallies against them, the world governments have attempted to stop them through military force and terrorist groups have threatened random, indiscriminate attacks until the group ceases operations. Although their public objective is the eradication of warfare, many people (including the organization's own operatives) speculate if the group has a different true objective, especially since the appearance of "Team Trinity" and murder of Union Professor Ralph Eifman.

As the events of A.D. 2307 unfolded, Celestial Being has been suffering from internal conflicts since the appearance of the "Team Trinity" and with Veda suspiciously hacked. The latter was proven to be true when inferior copies of the Gundams' unique power source - the GN Drive - are handed over to the world governments by an unknown benefactor from inside Celestial Being. Because of such developments, the primary Gundam Meisters rejected the Throne Meisters and took measures against them without Veda's knowledge. The events of 2307-08 would reach a climax when the world powers soon united against Celestial Being under the United Nations and barely defeated the group during Operation Fallen Angels.

Although Celestial Being had lost many of their mobile units and pilots, the organization rebuilt itself over five years, only to reappear with the goal of taking down the "peacekeeping force" known as A-Laws in A.D. 2312. As the conflict between A-Laws and Celestial Being escalated, Celestial Being became aware of who it was that betrayed the group in 2307 and that this same group - The Innovators - was secretly controlling the Federation. As such, Celestial Being turned its attention towards defeating the Innovators instead. This campaign would culminate in a climatic battle at Lagrange 2 where A-Laws was decisively defeated,Celestial Being took back Veda, and although the cost was high as the Gundam was damaged in the battle, Celestial Being finally defeated the Innovators. Following this victory, the group goes underground again to rebuild itself to prepare for the next time when they would be needed.

With a pacifist Earth Sphere Federation government in power, Celestial Being stayed in the shadows, observing the peaceful world. Due to the death of CB's financier Wang Liu Mei, the organization was forced to recycle and extensively modify their previous mobile units. Evern more problematic was the fact that 3 original GN Drives were lost in the battle against the Innovators. On the bright side, Gundam Meister Tieria Erde, an Innovade, was able to link his consciousness to Veda and Setsuna F. Seiei had evolved into the first true Innovator. After a 2 year expedition by Linda Vashti to Jupiter, all that was needed was to wait for the third step of Aeolia Schenberg's plan: to gradually move an evolved humanity whose people could understand each other into the depths of outer space. There, the plan called for humanity to be fully prepared for communications with alien life. In the year A.D. 2314, a strange entity had moved into the Solar System. Due to the Trans-Am Burst System, more humans on Earth were evolving into Innovators, and strange events started happening to these people. It was confirmed that alien life had arrived in the form of the Extraterrestrial Living-metal Shape-shifters, or ELS. With few resources at their disposal, Celestial Being joined forces with the Earth Sphere Federation Army to combat the ELS threat. However, the ELS forces grew exponentially over a few months and were poised to assimilate Earth. However, Setsuna F. Seiei, through the GNT-0000 00 Qan[T] and the Quantum System, had made contact with the ELS and was later able to reach understanding with them. With this act, the conflict between the two species ended and Celestial Being's ultimate mission was presumably complete.

By A.D. 2364, it is unknown what has happened to Celestial Being, or its members. It is speculated that the group disbanded and granted the ESF use of the GN Drive.

Mobile Units

1st Generation Gundams

2nd Generation Gundams

The Second generation of GN mobile suit technology was based of the developmont and application of technologies required for Celestial being to possess the advantage to complete their objective, each gundam in this stage of devlopment were designed to test a different branch of technology.

Gundam Astraea was designed for GN weapon development, it was through this develpoment that the GN sword of the Exia line and the GN bozuka of the Virtue line came into being

Gundam Sadalsuud was designed to develop sensor technology for future gundam lines, whilst all future gundams benefited from this, the Dynames line benefited the most due to their relience of long-range sniper combat and eventually mid-range bit combat

Gundam Abulhool tested the concept of a GN powered mobile suit that can transform between a high speed fighter mode to a suit mode for greater firepower, unusally this branch of technology development only benefited one line of mobile suit which was the Kyrios line

In the long term Plutone provided the most important inovations in GN technology, Plutone was used to develop the GN particle management and GN defensive systems as well as ejection systems. Whilst the GN powerlines were only used in the 3rd generation the armor system developed is still used in gundams as well as the GN field, though that and the ejection system has been favored with the Virtue line of suit which caused the birth of the hidden 3rd gen suit Nadleeh and then in the future partner units Seraphim and Seravee II

Gundam Artemie was used to develop the Trial system used by the Nadleeh and the more important bit system which was used by all gundams of the 5th generation

3rd Generation Gundams

The 3rd generation Gundams are the results of the 2nd generation research, four specialised units designed for complete domination of any battlefield, The dominant shared weekness of these gundams was their sheer overspecialision of the units but the CB developers decided that the supremecy of GN technology overcomes this weekness, it was due to the fact when the unseen happened and the earth forces obtained GN technology the gundams simply became overspecialised suits which was their downfall

Gundam Rasiel was the only 3rd gen unit that was for research perpose and not battle, it was created to research the idea of a mobile armor to combine with a "paired" suit to improve its capablities, it was mainly used for the development of the 4th gereration Gundam 00 Raiser which is the combination of the 00 Gundam with its unstable twin drive system and the 0 Raiser which contined the stablisation equipment

Gundam Exia was CB's close combat suit, as well as its specialisation in sword combat it's ablity to project a GN field of its blade makes it capable of breaking down the opponments GN field making it CB's "Anti-Gundam" Gundam in the event of a defection of a maister, due to its only true long range weapon being a low calaber beam rifle fitted in its GN sword its weakness as expected of a close range suit is long range combat

Gundam Dynames was CB's long range unit which specilised in using its GN sniper rifle to remove threats from a large distance, with the extra equipment of a GN condenser, a custom high output rifle and using Kyrios's missile block for added stablity allows Dynames from ground level to be able to accurately hit a target in orbit, due it its beam sabers and GN pistol Dynames is fairly capable in mid and close combat, however due a design flaw in the pistols they are capabe of melting easily if used in a extended duration, this means unusally of a sniper based unit its weakest point is mid-range combat

Gundam Kyrios was CB's transformable mobile suit with the ablity to shift from suit mode to fighter mode, its designed perpose is mainly hit-and-run tactics using the high speed of its fighter mode and its sub-machine gun and optional missile pack, due to its high speed kyrios is not equiped with long ranged weaponly so when CB's GN tech advantage was lost this became a weakness as well is its unstable pilot

Gundam Nadleeh is the "true" form of Gundam Virtue under its armor, by sacrificing the Armor, GN condensers and GN field generation of Virtue Nadleeh reclassifes the suit from a Heavy Assault to a general perpose suit, this sacirfices the overwhelming (yet slow) attack and defensive power for a increase in mobilty in speed and access to the Anti-Gundam trial system in the event of defection, whilst this form makes this the 3rd gundam with the least weaknesses due to its capablities on all ranges most of its GN condensers are abandoned in the Virtue armor, this means that its overall attack power is stunted and its trans-am has the shortest time peroid of all the suits at the time

Gundam Virtue is CB's Heavy Assault unit, by having a large quanity of GN condensors within its bulky armor it allows it to wield a enormous GN Bazoka allowing it to cause mass destuction in a short amount of time, as typical of a large claiber weapon it requires time for weapon to be charged for another shot depending if a normal shot was performed or if the bazoka was attached directly to Virtues GN drive to perform the even more devistating burst mode, to compansate for the time lag it it equiped with four GN cannons on its shoulders (two on each), due to its large bulky size Virtue is weak in close range combat, to fix that problem Virtue is fitted with generators to produce a spherical GN field around itself for protection, however when active the GN bazoka can only be used for attack, as such high mobilty close range suits can cause problems and GN powered ones can take down Virtue with ease if Nadleeh is not deployed

3.5 Generation Gundams

Due to the major flaw of overspecialisation that led to the third generations downfall, all gundams had to go under a intensive redesign to be combat capable against the new fleet of tau-GN powered suits, the general improvements of all the suits involved the introduction of a direct GN particle management system using the armor of the suits themselves to replace the bulky GN power lines, this opened up more space in the suits themselves to install more equipments, other improvements was the improvements or addiction of new weapon systems to make the gundams more general purpose but keep to their specialistion. As well as this due to the trans-am system being unlocked from the Drives black boxes whilst in the 3rd gens the 3.5's can use it in small bursts to instantly boost selected systems without the issue of the compressors being needed to be recharged

Cherudim Gundam is the successor unit of the long range Dynames unit, as well as the general upgrades given to the 3.5's Cherudim is equiped with the GN sniper rifle II which can switch between a rifle form and a triple barrel sub machine gun, with this and the new GN pistol II's with the fixed heating issue has now resolved the mid-ranged combat issue Dynames possessed, to replace the bulky shields on Dynames shoulders they have been replaced by nine independently moving shield bits which can be configured on the spot to attack with their beam rifles, eventually Cherudim is upgraded with the Heavy Weapons pack which equips it with six long range rifle bits which can also be used for defensive purposes

Arios Gundam is the successor unit of the transformable unit Kyrios, Arios is designed to be more combat orientated that kyrios hit-and-run tactics, the design of kyrios sub-machine gun has been fitted into arios wrists replacing the now redundent GN Vulcans giving free room for Arios to hold a new higher yield GN twin barrel rifle, its physical shield on its left arm has been replaced with GN field emitters on both shoulders allowing protection of both sides with the pincers being intergrated into the nose of the fighter mode, later on Airos is upgraded with its Heavy Weapons pack which replaces its rifle with a more powerful beam cannon, two missile packs that also functions as a booster in fighter mode and a new sensor unit with a equipped beam rifile for fighter mode use only, a Sub unit called the GN archer is a transformable partner unit is also provided that can fight indepentently and can dock into Arios fighter as a addational booster and missle pack, though it lacks a GN drive so it needs to dock to charge of GN particles as well

Seravee gundam is the successor to the assault type suit virtue, whilst having the highest offensive and defensive capablities of the 3rd gens virtues was slow and all but incapable in close range combat, Seravee corrects most of these issues, virtues large and clumbersome GN bozooka has been repaced with the duel welding GN boozoka II's, in exchange for some of its predecessors power its firing rate has been increased, in addation for this they can be combined with each other or/and the two of four GN cannons that are fitted over Serevees shoulders, it addation to this due to the new particle management seravees GN field is generated by its armor itself which removes virtues weekness of needing a targetable foldout generator, in addation to this, seravees four GN cannons (two over the shoulders, two fitted in the knees) possess fold out hands so in close combat seravee can fight with six beam sabers as once, removing the issue of virtues speed in close combat by attracting oppossing suits believing from virtue they possess the advantage then depolying its sabers then going in for the kill, it addation Seravee is not armor for another unit like virtue but the second unit (seraphim) is disguised as its backpack and shoulder cannons, this means this when Seraphim is deployed Seravee can still battle but not indefinatly due to Seraphim being equipped with the drive, as part of the Heavy Weapons pack Seravee itself is fitted with GN field enhancement parts and takes advantage of GN varniers and 2 additional GN cannons that are fitted on its partner Seraphim

Seraphim gundam is the successor to the trial system suit Nadleeh, unlike Nadleeh which is under the virtue armor and requires the loss of the assault equipment to deploy Seraphim is disguised is Serevees backpack and shoulder GN cannons, in this form Seraphim can enter face burst, revealing the large face on serephim torsos and fire GN particles at a excessive rate, boosting GN particle production to enhance and/or quicken the charge time for Seravee to fire a large blast, when Serephim detaches from Seravee, the Shoulder cannons fold out into arms and following this the legs and head fold out to deploy from backpack mode to gundam mode, unless Seravee donates one of its GN bazookas Seraphim possess only two beam sabers for close combat and for range it can fold its hands into its arms to reform the GN cannons, Seraphims arms are built with the same concept as the sword of exia, allowing it to penetrate GN fields, a favored tactic of the two units is for seravee to force an opposing unit into deploying a GN field, then deploy Seraphim to penetrate the GN field then go into cannon mode to destroy the foe within its own defenses, Seraphim is later equiped with GN verniers and two GN cannons on its hips as part of its Heavy Weapons pack, Seraphim like Nadleeh is fitted with the trail system but was most of the time useless due to CB loosing control of Veda

4th Generation Gundams

The 4th Generation Gundams, or in this case gundam, it the test of a theory stored within the black box on the GN drives which was released with the trans-am system from the system trap caused by Aeolia Schenberg death. The theory is that if two GN drives of similer properties work in tandem, then instead of the output of two GN drives, the output would be the equivent of one GN drive squared, because the GN drives use quanatum phenimona as power and with only five true drives in existence at the time finding two dives that matched each other well enough was a issue, through expertimentation CB only found one matching combination which was the drive previously used by exia and the drive used by 0 gundam, the application of this technology gave birth to the 00 gundam

The 00 Gundam is mainly a successor of the close combat type gundam Exia, to correct the issue of long range 00 in equiped with two GN blade II's, these handheld blades can be used as swords or fold the handles and twist the blades 90 degrees around the hilt to become a GN rifle. Another innovation it the placement of the two drives, due to their placement of rotating joints on 00 shoulders they can shift in three different configarations, they can rotate in front of 00's frame to convert the particle output into a frontal GN field, sidewards for quick maneuvering or backwards for acceleration. Unfortunately, though the 00 gundam has the best possible combination of GN drives for the twin drive system the synchronization is very erratic, this makes trans-am not viable in battle due to the high chance of the drives failing and/or self-destruction.

5th Generation Gundams

GNW Throne Gundam Series

Non-GN Mobile Suits

Celestial Being Ships and Support Units

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