Copernicus city

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Copernicus city
Copernicus city, exterior
Location	Moon
Usage	Civilian city
Builder	Earth Alliance
Under control of	Unknown
Current status	Active
Timeline	Cosmic Era

Copernicus City is a city on the moon in the Cosmic Era timeline.

History

Copernicus City is the first city built on the Moon. The construction began in CE 10 and two years later it was opened for civil inhabitants. The also served as a provider for the raw materials for the space colony program.

Athrun Zala and Kira Yamato both attended a preparatory school in this city and they met here in CE 61. In CE 68, but Athrun and his mother left the city due to Patrick Zala calling them back. In the same year, the Yamato family also left the city and moved to the Orb Union-controlled space colony Heliopolis.

In CE 70 Copernicus city was chosen by the United Nations as the site of a final round of peace negotiations between Earth and PLANT. However a terror bombing on February 5 killed the senior leadership of the UN and PLANT representative Siegel Clyne only survived because his shuttle had a malfunction. PLANT was blamed for this incident and a full scale war followed.

In CE 74, Lacus Clyne look-alike Meer Campbell moved there after the real Lacus denounced her live on TV. Some times later the Archangel moved there to spend some time off. PLANT agent Sarah used this opportunity to make an assassination attempt on Lacus by manipulating Meer into helping her, but Meer eventually saved Lacus instead. Sarah was posted as Meer's bodyguard.

It is also revealed in supplemental material that Orb stationed two Izumo-class battleships in Copernicus City, the Susanoo and Tsukyomi, which served as base for their squadrons of MVF-M12A Ootsukigata transformable Mobile Suits.

Cosmic Era locations
Locations in space
Aprilius One | Armory One | Artemis asteroid | Heliopolis | Jachin Due | Junius Seven
Locations on the moon
Arzachel lunar base | Copernicus city | Daedalus lunar base | Ptolemaeus lunar base
Locations on Earth
Carpentaria Base | Gulnahan Ravine | Heaven's Base | JOSH-A | Panama Spaceport | Victoria Base