On the lunar surface, Lacus Clyne stands alone before a simple, white cross. It bears no name. It is for all of them—Nicol, Tolle, Flay, the hundreds of thousands who believed peace was possible and died screaming anyway.
Six months later. A hillside in the Orb Union, overlooking the rebuilt ocean city of Olofat.
“I’m trying to remember why,” Athrun says. “Why I was so certain. Why I believed killing you and Kira would bring peace.”
Cagalli Yula Athha arrives at the Orb Union's wrecked Onogoro Island base. She finds Athrun Zala sitting alone in a darkened hangar, staring at the damaged Aegis Gundam—the machine that once tore the Strike apart. gundam seed 51
He looks up. “No. But I found a question: what do we do now, when the enemy has a face and a name and a family?”
A dormant mobile weapon, not a Gundam. A mobile fortress. The Requiem of Eve .
The screen goes black.
Commander Veyne, alone in his cockpit, screams at the sky. “You fools! They will never forgive us! They will never understand us!”
Cagalli, aboard a shuttle, leads a team of Orb engineers into the Requiem ’s core. They cannot destroy it without triggering the neural broadcast. They must recode it—turn it into a transmitter of something else.
A darkened room. A single screen flickers to life. A silhouette sits in a chair, watching the news report of the “Mendel Miracle.” On the lunar surface, Lacus Clyne stands alone
“You should rest,” Lacus says without turning.
Lacus takes his hand. “No. Not forever. There will be new hatreds. New wars. New children who will be taught to fear the Other.”