Katharon
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Katharon (カタロン) is an anti-Federation resistance group formed in the wake of the advent of the A-Laws. Consisting primarily of former soldiers, scientists, and civilian volunteers from the Middle East, as well as the three major powers: the Union, Human Reform League, and AEU. Due to the lack of GN Drive-equipped mobile suits available outside Federal control, Katharon is forced to make due with almost horrendously outdated mobile suits in comparison to the mobile weapons in the A-Laws' arsenal. It is believed that Katharon has secretly gained support from people outside the organization. They also take care of children orphaned by the A-Laws.
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Leadership
Each Katharon base is led by a division head or a council of people. Generally, Klaus Grado is the de facto leader, having lead Katharon's forces against the A-Laws in space.
History
Katharon was created when the A-Laws began abusing their power to massacre innocents and force unallied nations to be assimilated into the Federation. Their main goal was to depose the government, but the A-Laws had them outmatch, both in technology and numbers.
After learning that Celestial Being reappeared to fight the A-Laws One of their contacts is Lyle Dylandy, the second Lockon Stratos, who provided them with information on Celestial Being's raid on a Federation prison, during which Kataron members took advantage of the chaos to free several prisoners.
Katharon assisted Celestial Being by warding off the A-Laws during one of their attacks. The Gundam Meisters and Sumeragi Lee Noriega bring fugitives Marina Ismail and Saji Crossroad to Katharon's Middle East base. After some introductions, Klaus Grado, an important member in the organization, tries to win over Celestial Being's support in overthrowing the Federation government; however, he is refused, as Celestial Being's current objective is simply the annihilation of the A-Laws.
Earlier in the series, their meteor base, Lazerous, is destroyed by an A-Laws detachment. Later on, their Middle Eastern base is overrun by the A-Laws deployed automaton robots. The survivors evacuated to the base near the Suille Kingdom.
When the entire Suille capital was annihilated by Memento Mori, the Katharon leadership decided to dispatch their entire space fleet to destroying the superweapon. Unfortunately, the dominance the A-Laws have generally maintained over Katharon is made all the more apparent, as half of Katharon's second space fleet is destroyed by Momento Mori's upwards firing arc, and more than 93% of their missiles fired at the weapon are intercepted by the defensive fleet and a handful of mobile suits. The rest of the space fleet suffers heavy damage from the A-Laws defenders, losing most of their mobile suits to the A-Laws' own, and several ships to Innovator Healing Care.
Katharon later received word from a number of Federation dissidents that they are planning a coup d'etat to unseat the Federation government. Klaus was willing to accept their help, as they had few options left.
Soon enough the coup d'etat faction seized control of the AEU's orbital elevator, planning on having the civilians witness the brutality of the A-Laws. Katharon assisted in the battle against the Federation loyalists. Unfortunately, the A-Laws fired at the elevator with a new Memento Mori, causing the elevator's superstructure to auto-purge its hull. Only the urging of Celestial Being did the combatants work together to protect the nearby cities from the fallout.
Nonetheless, the disaster allows the Federation to grant the A-Laws total control of its regular army, enabling them to hunt down Katharon cells one by one. However, the general populace had been crying out for peace, due to the spread of a song Marina composed with the orphans.
Katharon gathered its forces and headed into space, where the A-Laws were focusing all their attention on destroying Celestial Being. Working with the remnants of the coup d'etat faction, they caught the A-Laws unaware. Then suddenly, a massive particle beam comes from the dark side of the moon, annihilating the A-Laws fleet and destroying one Katharon cruiser. The beam's source reveals itself as a massive colony ship, CBS Celestial Being. The organization itself declared that they will atone for their sins by retaking the supercomputer Veda from the true power behind the Federation and A-Laws -- the Innovators. Nonetheless, Katharon and the coup d'etat faction assist them in the final battle.
When Veda was retaken, the A-Laws were officially disbanded and the Federation reorganized. The members of Katharon ceased to be outlaws and helped govern the Federation.
Military
Much of Katharon's fighting strength is mostly based on outdated, baseline mobile suits and old carriers. On average, a single A-Laws mobile suit can utterly decimate an entire squad of Katharon mobile suits.
Katharon's space fleet is composed primarily of modified Virginia-class cruisers and Laohu transport vessels. Their numbers add up to at least 23. However, in the assault on Memento Mori, the majority of the fleet was destroyed. At least two Virginia-class ships remains intact.
Members
- Klaus Grado
- Shirin Bakhtiar
- Lyle Dylandy
- Eddie Miyazaki
- Ikeda
- Division Head Mahal
- Fon Spaak
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