OZ discovers their whereabouts, and they are forced to end their collaboration, split up, and go underground. Quatre Raberba Winner is born. Unlike his 29 sisters, he is born naturally rather than being a test-tube baby. The Alliance decides to stage a military intervention in the Sanc Kingdom, an advocate of Heero Yuy-style total pacifism. The capital falls in one day.
Conflict breaks out in Eastern Europe.
Katherine is taken in by her parents' circus troupe. Under suspition of spying Willam Berkin is sent to the OZ prison colony. Once there he learns of a rebellion forming and eagerly joins. An uprising known as Project Trinity begins on the old prison colony A664R2. The revolting prisoners seize control of the colony and make it appear as though the revolt caused the colony to fall from it's orbit and drift into space when in fact those in control of the rebellion have moved the colony to a safe position out of range of the Federation's or OZ's censors.