Synopsis

After the One Year War ends in U.C. 0080, a ship gets attacked by Zeon mobile suits. As the vessel goes down, a crew member urges Professor Minovsky to evacuate via shuttle. Before he can make it, a Zaku II opens fire on his location. Minovsky's story goes back further. Born in 1983 (U.C. 0015) in the Ural region near Chernobyl, Ukraine, he witnessed the Chernobyl Disaster at age three. He moved to America in 1999 (U.C. 0031) and started researching what he called "Minovsky Physics"—a particle that nobody took seriously at first. His research seemed too far-fetched, too speculative. That changed when his friend Ionesco told him that Anaheim Electronics would fund his work. Minovsky was ecstatic, though Ionesco's enthusiasm was noticeably less. In U.C. 0040, the Minovsky particle was actually discovered. But at a major scientific conference, things fell apart. Ionesco publicly dismantled Minovsky's thesis, arguing the particle had only conventional applications and that particles of such a unique nature had never been detected. The academic community turned on him. Branded a fraud, Minovsky was blacklisted from science entirely. Soon after, a representative from Zeon Zum Deikun approached him. Minovsky relocated to Side 3 in U.C. 0045 and created a nuclear fusion generator that powered an artificial sun for the colony. He established the Minovsky Physics Society and pivoted to weapons development—a shift that consumed him so completely his wife left him. When Zeon Zum Deikun died in U.C. 0070, Minovsky received an award but publicly rejected it in front of the Zabi family. He eventually returned to Earth and his hometown near Chernobyl. Sometime around U.C. 0080, Minovsky reflected privately that he'd surpassed the RX-78-2 Gundam—his work had caused far more destruction than that mobile suit ever could. Though he also wondered if, in the end, he'd actually lost.

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