Episode Title:
Their Place.
Episode Description:
Mikazuki and Akihiro hold off Gjallarhorn's forces while Eugene and the others escape through the now-clear tunnel to Chryse, but Rustal orders the Graze units to retreat as a Dáinsleif squadron obliterates the base from orbit. Despite crippling damage, both Gundams rise to continue fighting and Akihiro crushes Iok to death, avenging the deceased Turbines before he is killed by Iok's subordinates. Mikazuki releases Barbatos' limiters one final time, decimating the Gjallarhorn soldiers until Julieta intervenes. Disillusioned with Rustal's political intrigue, Julieta asks why Mikazuki still fights and his answer is simply wishing to survive. As he engages Julieta, Barbatos gives out from its damages and Mikazuki dies from his injuries, while Julieta claims Barbatos' head as proof of Gjallarhorn's victory - ending what becomes known as the "McGillis Fareed Incident". In the following years, Gjallarhorn repeals the Seven Stars council system after losing the Issue, Kujan and Fareed family heirs - and ironically, Rustal's policies mirror McGillis' ideals, restructuring the government as a democratic system. Earth's influence on Mars erodes after Rustal reduces the size of Gjallarhorn's Mars branch, granting Mars' cities independence as the Martian Union with Kudelia as their first chairperson. Rustal and Kudelia additionally sign the Human Debris Abolishment Treaty in an effort to reduce conflict and suffering in the solar system. Julieta - publicly credited with defeating Mikazuki and presumed to be Gjallarhorn's next leader - visits a hospitalized Gaelio, in therapy after removing his pseudo Alaya-Vijnana; Both reminisce on and express their regret over the tragic ends of McGillis and Tekkadan, though resolve to keep moving forward. While largely forgotten, Tekkadan's surviving members live on with new identities in the Admoss Company, Sakura's orphanage, the Martian Union and the Kassapa Mobile Worker Factory, with all of them remaining in touch. Ride assassinates Nobliss and his cohorts to avenge Orga, while Kudelia visits Atra and Akatsuki - the late Mikazuki's son by Atra - at Sakura's farm, fulfilling her promise to look after them. Kudelia silently monologues that while Mikazuki and Tekkadan are gone, she could still love the world that they sacrificed their lives to change, even if the world itself won't remember them.
