Situated on northern Australia, ZAFT’s Carpentaria base is its biggest and most important installation on Earth. ZAFT finished construction the base in May 20th, less than 2 months after the start of the construction. This is partly achieved by dropping prefabricated modules from orbit to expedite the construction process. Carpentaria base is instrumental to ZAFT’s military campaigns to take Alliance mass drivers on Earth.

With the base completed, ZAFT can project its presence further on Earth, sending out expeditionary fleets to other regions of the planet hostile to them. A few days after the completion of the base, a ZAFT fleet set off toward the Atlantic ocean…