List of Mobile Suit Gundam characters
At the beginning of the Mobile Suit Gundam TV series, Amuro is merely a 15-year-old civilian, along with his friends Fraw Bow and Hayato Kobayashi, living in Side 7, one of the few space colonies untouched by the One Year War at the time.
Born on Earth in Prince Rupert,[2] Like his rival Char Aznable, Amuro got his own nickname during the One Year War: the White Devil (白い悪魔, Shiroi Akuma).
Amuro and Char Aznable faced off several times during the course of the One Year War, but it was not until when Lalah Sune was killed during one of their battles that this rivalry turned into a fierce hatred of one another.
Sayla Mass (セイラ・マス, Seira Masu) is a medical student from the incomplete single space colony of the Earth Federation's Side 7 who ends up on the White Base along with other civilians including Amuro Ray, Fraw Bow, Hayato Kobayashi, Kai Shiden and Mirai Yashima.
With the near total lack of experienced personnel to defend White Base (most original crew members were killed in the Principality of Zeon's attack on Side 7), Sayla first serves as acting captain Bright Noah's communications officer and later as a combat pilot.
When Char Aznable attacks the colony, Side 7, all the officers on the White Base are incapacitated, leaving Ensign Bright Noah (ブライト・ノア, Buraito Noa) with the highest seniority on the ship, and he assumes command from the wounded Captain Paolo Cassius, who later dies of his injuries.
After a series of close calls and with help from Amuro Ray and the Gundam, Bright brings the White Base safely to Federation headquarters at Jaburo.
Bright commands the White Base through several major operations in The One Year War, including the last stand of Zeon at asteroid A Baoa Qu.
Her training as a space glider pilot makes her the best choice to take the White Base's helm, and Mirai soon becomes both Bright Noah's trusted deputy and a surrogate mother to the ship's young crew.
With Amuro's parents separated and his father Dr. Tem Ray frequently away on business for the Earth Federation's Project V, Fraw takes it upon herself to make sure that the perhaps charitably-described "engineering nerd" or "mecha otaku" eats, sleeps, bathes, lives in some degree of cleanliness, and—in her initial appearance—follows military evacuation orders.
After surviving the attack on his Side 7 home, Hayato becomes the co-pilot for the RX-75 Guntank alongside Ryu José, largely out of a sense of rivalry with Amuro.
[5] After Ryu sacrifices his life to save Amuro from Hamon Crowley, Hayato continues to pilot the Guntank after it is modified for use by a single person.
However, due to a shortage of crew and soldiers to staff the warship, Kai was asked to become a pilot to help defend the White Base from frequent Zeon attacks.
In Belfast, Kai meets a young girl named Miharu Ratokey who lives just outside the city, and agrees to sneak her onto the White Base and take her to the Earth Federation headquarters in Jaburo, located along the Amazon River in South America.
But Dom pilot Ortega hit back, smashing the Medea's cockpit so the transporter crashed into the ground, exploding and killing Matilda instantly.
Unfortunately Char arrived and chastised Lalah for "consorting with the enemy", and raised his beam naginata to strike down Amuro's wingman Sayla Mass, piloting the CoreBooster jet.
Traveling in a Gallop-Class Land Battleship, Ramba Ral continues to harass the White Base as it journeys across the vast deserts of Central Asia.
After recognizing Fraw Bow as a Federation soldier, Ramba Ral decides to release her and assigns his men to follow her back to the White Base.
Amuro is able to destroy the Gouf, but Ramba Ral is able to escape by leaping out of the gash in the cockpit hatch and swinging out of the way of the explosion on a grappling hook he had attached to the Gundam's arm.
On board the ship Ramba Ral finds Sayla Mass and immediately recognizes her as Artesia Zum Deikun, and he tells her that he was a servant of her father.
Thereafter, Gihren proceeds to tighten the Zabi family's grip on power by indoctrinating Zeon's people into believing they are a master race and enacting policies designed to purge the population of all those deemed socially undesirable.
Disgusted by his son's warping of Deikun's ideals, Degwin warns Gihren that he is following in the footsteps of Adolf Hitler whose ambitions resulted in the destruction of himself and his country.
After killing his father with the Solar Ray Cannon to prolong the war, Gihren is assassinated during the Battle of A Baoa Qu by Kycilia after admitting his act of patricide.
Sasro Zabi, introduced in Gundam: The Origin, is the 2nd born son of Degwin, considered one of his family's prized members for being an adept manipulator of public opinion.
This incident was apparently caused by Kycilia in retaliation for Sasro slapping her earlier for allowing Deikun's family to take refuge in the Ral household.
He and his bodyguard and close friend Shin Matsunaga were known to stage frontline "inspections" in his custom MS-06F Zaku II mobile suit, which typically became impromptu raids on nearby Earth Federation forces.
When the Federation's Public class assault ships successfully deployed their beam dispersion smoke, Dozle ordered the mandatory evacuation of all non-essential personnel.
Dozle then exits the Big Zam's cockpit and fires a machinegun at the Gundam, causing Amuro to temporarily be stricken with fear and doubt.
Losing the support of Gihren's loyalists, Kycilia orders her remaining forces to fall back and ends up being killed when Char fires a rocket launcher at her through the window of her flagship Chimera, which the Federation warships destroyed moments after.
M'Quve (マ・クベ, Ma Kube) is a colonel for the Zeon ground forces under the command of Kycilia Zabi and supervises mining operations and supplies for the war effort.
