The Mobile Suit Gundam 0080 Story

In December of UC 0079, the One Year War is almost over, and the defeat of the Duchy of Zeon by the resurgent Earth Federation seems inevitable. The Riah Republic of Side 6, hitherto neutral, quietly begins negotiating a security treaty with the Federation and allows the Federal Forces to station defensive garrisons in its space colonies. Meanwhile, at a secret arctic base, the Federal Forces are developing an improved version of the mobile suit Gundam to hasten its imminent victory.

The North Pole

The Cyclops Team, an elite Zeon special forces unit, is dispatched to Earth to destroy a secret weapon being developed at the Federal Forces' arctic base. Captain Steiner and his men launch an amphibious assault and overrun the base's defenses, but the Federal Forces are able to package their weapon onto a camouflaged space shuttle and send it into space. Steiner's mission ends in failure, and one of his men is killed trying to stop the shuttle launch.

Libot

The space colony of Libot, located at the neutral Side 6, has thus far been spared the horrors of the war. To children like eleven-year-old Alfred "Al" Izuruha, the war is a remote and fascinating spectacle, and he and his friends spend their time doodling mobile suits and collecting military paraphernalia.