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CHRISTINA MACKENZIE Organization Earth Federation Rank 1st Lieutenant Age 21 Height 165 cm Alias Chris The archetypal girl next door, Al's pretty and outgoing neighbor has only just returned to Revo after an extended absence. In the interim, she's been serving as a Federal Forces test pilot, and now she's returned to her home colony to complete the development of the Gundam "Alex." Lacking the newtype abilities of the pilot for whom the Alex was designed, Chris is essentially just tuning up the mobile suit for its eventual owner. In the meantime, Chris is reunited with Al and introduced to his new friend Bernie. Chris and Bernie seem to hit it off, but neither is aware that the other is an enemy pilot.

BERNARD WISEMAN Organization Duchy of Zeon Rank Corporal Age 19 Height 175 cm Alias Bernie Bernie is a raw recruit drafted as part of Zeon's student mobilization, mere cannon fodder for the Zeon war machine. Shot down during his first sortie as a mobile suit pilot, he fortuitously encounters Al and obtains his camera. While Colonel Killing cites this as a pretext for assigning Bernie to the elite Cyclops Team, it's pretty clear that Bernie is considered dead weight and has been assigned to the team in lieu of genuine reinforcements. Though Bernie does manage to locate the Alex, his poor undercover technique blows the Cyclops Team's cover when they attempt to infiltrate the Federal Forces base where it's being assembled. Ultimately, though, he demonstrates impressive resolve and great resourcefulness when he challenges the Alex in order to save Revo from destruction. In the meantime, he makes a good impression on Chris and becomes a surrogate big brother to Al.

STEINER HARDY Organization Duchy of Zeon Rank Captain Height 185 cm A dedicated professional soldier along the lines of the original series's Ranba Ral, Steiner is the leader of the elite special forces unit known as the Cyclops Team. He is equally adept at mobile suit combat, disguise, infiltration, sabotage and guerilla warfare. As is demonstrated by the death of Andy Strauss, Steiner is fiercely loyal to his team-mates, but his dedication to duty is so strong that he leads them in what he correctly suspects is a suicide mission.

MIKHAIL KAMINSKY Organization Duchy of Zeon Rank 2nd Lieutenant Height 195 cm Alias Misha The second most senior member of the Cyclops Team, the burly and jolly Misha is chosen to pilot the mobile suit Kaempfer during the attempt to destroy the Alex. A heavy drinker, he never enters combat without a flask of bourbon close at hand, but in the end it's not the booze that does him in.

GABRIEL RAMIREZ GARCIA Organization Duchy of Zeon Rank Sergeant Height 167 cm The junior member of the Cyclops Team before the arrival of Bernie, the wiry and sinister Garcia has a fondness for knife-play and little patience with amateur soldiers. He takes an instant dislike to Bernie, berating him for his foolishness and mocking him in front of Al.

ANDY STRAUSS Organization Duchy of Zeon Height 173 cm This Cyclops Team member is killed during the initial raid on the Federation's arctic base, overzealously stepping into the line of enemy fire in an attempt to prevent the Alex from escaping. Bernie is added to the team as an obviously inadequate substitute.

KILLING Organization Duchy of Zeon Rank Lieutenant Colonel The sinister Zeon officer who dispatches the Cyclops Team to infiltrate Revo, Killing superficially appears obsessed with destroying the Alex. However, his blatant sabotage of the Cyclops Team's mission - equipping them with just one mobile suit, and assigning them the obviously unqualified Bernie as a substitute member - suggests that Killing intended for them to fail all along, allowing him to carry out his alternate plan and punish Revo for siding with the Federation. Though he's part of Kishiria Zabi's Mobile Assault Force, the MS Era art book suggests that Killing's true loyalty lies with Giren. One of MS Era's original illustrations shows Killing's fate at the end of the war; he lies dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, sprawled below a portrait of the late Giren.

ALFRED IZURUHA Organization Civilian Age 11 Height 110 cm Alias Al A lively and imaginative grade schooler living on the neutral Side 6 colony of Revo, Al is enthralled by the distant excitement of the war and obsessed with mobile suits, weapons, and military paraphernalia. His academic performance is poor, in part because of his militaristic daydreaming but probably also due to his parents' strained relationship. When Bernie comes into Al's life, he not only gives him entree into a glamorous world of soldiery and spycraft, but also becomes a surrogate big brother to the confused youngster. And as the Cyclops Team's suicide mission progresses, Al's adventures with Bernie begin to show him a different, less glorious side of warfare.

DOROTHY, CHAY AND TELCOTT Organization Civilian A trio of Al's grade-school classmates. While Chay and Telcott are just as fixated on war and military paraphernalia as Al, the bossy but good-hearted Dorothy constantly heckles Al and his friends about their martial obsession.

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