Miliardo Peacecraft

Miliardo Peacecraft, also known by his alias Zechs Merquise, is one of the main characters of Mobile Suit Gundam Wing. He was originally the Prince of the Sanc Kingdom until it was conquered by the Romefeller Foundation. He later joined the OZ special forces and became a close associate of Treize Khushrenada. After leaving OZ, Zechs joins the White Fang and becomes their Commander-In-Chief to lead them in creating a world without conflict. He eventually turns good and later appears as one of the main protagonists in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz.
He was voiced by Takehito Koyasu in Japanese
==History==
=== Background ===
Milliardo Peacecraft was among the heirs to the Sanc Kingdom throne, until the attack by the United Earth Sphere Alliance. Ever since that incident, he donned his signature mask and alias Zechs Merquise to join the Alliance and eventually OZ in order to exact revenge from within.
===Mobile Suit Gundam Wing===
He would in his shuttle first encounter Gundam pilot Heero Yuy entering Earth to commence his attack. He and his underlings would try to pursue and shoot down Heero's machine. Zechs would then go into a Leo and manages to shoot at Heero's spacecraft, which then transforms into the Wing Gundam. After Heero takes out two pursuing Aries, Zechs would take his turn and grapples onto the Wing Gundam; he then exits the cockpit, parachutes himself, and leaves the weight of the Leo to drag the Wing Gundam down into the ocean. He would then get picked up by his shuttle. He would later report to Treize, who sends him to retrieve the fallen Gundam.
Zechs and his team would search for the Wing Gundam; however, once they found it, the salvaging team gets assaulted by Duo Maxwell's Deathscythe Gundam.
After that incident, he would eventually receive the Tallgeese at the Mediterranean base at the same time Trowa Barton assaults the Corisca Base with his Heavyarms Gundam. Using the Tallgeese, he liberates the Sanc Kingdom from UESA control. Later, he and Lucrezia Noin meet with Trieze and Lady Une as part of a plan to lure the Gundams into an OZ trap using the new Taurus mobile suits as bait. When the Gundam Pilots split up to hit the two transport routes, Zechs faces Heero and the Wing Gundam with the Tallgeese, but their duel is rendered a moot point when Lady Une springs her own trap by threatening to use the Alliance's missile satellites against the Gundam Pilots' home colonies if they don't surrender. When Doctor J butts in to announce his surrender, but not that of the Gundams, Heero self-detonates Wing Gundam, allowing the other Gundam Pilots to escape, taking him with them.
Zechs, angered by Une's actions, has the Wing Gundam salvaged and attempts to rebuild it so he can have a rematch with Heero, but when an OZ agent, Inspector Acht, discovers this, he orders that the remains be destroyed. Though Zechs complies, he had destroyed a decoy to try and throw Acht off the trail, but Acht soon figures out the deception and heads to Antarctica to confront Zechs as he prepares to face Heero, who is using Trowa's Heavyarms instead of Wing Gundam for the rematch with the Tallgeese. Luckily, Trowa, using the Wing Gundam takes care of Acht and his team of mobile suits, with Acht barely having time to broadcast there's a Gundam at his position before he is slain, keeping Zechs and his secret safe. However, during Heero and Zechs' rematch, Relena arrives with Noin, asking Heero to kick Zechs' butt before Noin reveals that Zechs is really Relena's brother Miliardo. With OZ reinforcements approaching, Zechs stays behind to hold them off and surrender, giving everyone else time to escape in the meantime.
Zechs later fights against Alliance mobile suits with Tallgeese, before then heading into space, where he surrenders to Heero and Trowa, now piloting the Mercurius and Vayeate, of his own accord. Becoming Miliardo Peacecraft, Zechs serves as a representative of the Sanc Kingdom trying to advocate peace. He has a run-in with Lady Une, and causes her to realize she's suffered a split personality.
Some time later, Zechs is still using Tallgeese, but has met up with Howard and is using his ship Peacemillion as his mobile base while training in space. When the Wing Zero is captured by OZ and is slated for destruction, Zechs sacrifices Tallgeese by self-detonating it to distract the OZ space forces while he takes control of Wing Zero. However, not used to the ZERO System built into Wing Zero, it takes Zechs some time to get used and adapted to it. He later offers it to Wufei, but Wufei refuses after the ZERO System drives him insane before he recovers. Upon learning that Relena has surrendered and dissolved the Sanc Kingdom, Zechs returns to try and protect what's left, and is confronted by Heero in the Gundam Epyon. After a difficult fight between the two ZERO System equipped Gundams that ends with both pilots exhausted, Heero and Zechs trade Gundams, putting Heero back in possession of Wing Zero while Zechs gets Epyon.
However, despite attaining Epyon, upset over Relena's surrender, Zechs retires to a bar to drown his sorrows. It is there he is approached by Quinze, the leader of the White Fang colonial revolutionists, and is offered a position as their new leader. Blaming the Earth for his troubles, Zechs accepts, and after the White Fang shoot down the shuttle carrying Romefeller Foundation major representative Duke Dermail, killing him and everyone else aboard, Zechs reveals himself as the new leader of White Fang. Announcing himself as Miliardo Peacecraft, he declares war on the Earth Sphere Unified Nation and his own sister, Relena Peacecraft, now serving as Queen and Romefeller's chief representative. To that end, he then has the White Fang, with their Virgo and Virgo II Mobile Dolls, launch an attack on OZ's Space Fortress Barge to eliminate the only remaining obstacle to White Fang's control of space after capturing the battleship Libra and using Wufei as a means to launch their declaration of war. Zechs personally leads the assault in Epyon, but despite Barge using its Noventa Beam Cannon to destroy his flagship and second-in-command, Colonel Sedici, Zechs prepares to attack Barge himself when he is restrained by Noin in her white Taurus mobile suit. Despite her pleas, Zechs breaks free, and shoots towards Barge faster than the Gundam Pilots can. Just as the Barge's Noventa Beam Cannon reaches full power and the commander is about to press the fire button, Zechs glares at them on the bridge's viewscreen, and snarling at them that they don't belong in outer space and there is no further use for them, he charges the Epyon's beam saber to full power and cleaves through Barge's hull like a hot knife through butter, instantly vaporizing anyone caught in the saber's path, and leaving who survive to perish when the Barge suffers a catastrophic failure due to the fully-charged Noventa Beam Cannon backfiring and destroying the entire Space Fortress, removing OZ's only defense left against White Fang.
As Zechs now turns his attention to the Earth, gaining the support of Duke Dermail's granddaughter Dorothy Catalona in the process, he proves his intent about his declaration of war by firing the beam cannon of Libra at the Earth. Relena comes aboard to try and talk him down, but is imprisoned instead. Heero later comes aboard himself to save her, and the two of them again try to talk Miliardo down, but Zechs refuses. At that point, Trieze, now King of the World and Romefeller's chief representative after convincing Relena to step down as Queen so he can take over, arrives in the Tallgeese II to try and convince Zechs to face him one-on-one. Zechs instead fires the beam cannon of Libra at Trieze, who is saved by Lady Une in the Wing Gundam, and Trieze orders his forces to open fire on Libra.
With little other option left, Sally Po and Howard ram the Peacemillion into Libra to destroy its beam cannon and deny the battleship its primary weapon, evacuating everyone to the MO-II resource satellite to meet up with Lady Une and Trieze's forces stationed there. At the same time, Noin chooses to stay by Zechs' side rather than fight him, proving it when she tried to protect Peacemillion from Zechs as he charged at it in Epyon, threatening to shoot him if he did not break off his attack, even as Zechs pleaded for her to get out of the way, and in the end, is forced to break off to avoid killing her.
Finally, Zechs and the Epyon face off with Heero and the Wing Zero. In the end, after one final charge at each other, Heero emerges triumphant, slicing off Epyon's arm at the shoulder, severely damaging it, but not taking Zechs' life for Relena's sake. However, Heero's words finally break through Zechs' mental and emotional blocks regarding war, and as Heero was about to self-detonate Wing Zero to stop the severed block of Libra from falling to Earth, Zechs arrives and uses Epyon's beam saber to send the block's power core to critical and explode, telling Heero right before it blows that they will meet again before he disappears in the flames of the detonation. Zechs is believed dead after this sacrifice, and a grave is erected for him back on Earth alongside those of the late Trieze and Duke Dermail. When Noin visits the cemetery later to find Dorothy paying her respects to her grandfather's grave, upon leaving flowers on Trieze's grave, but nothing on Zechs', Dorothy asks Noin why she does that, and Noin explains that she believes Zechs is still alive somewhere and she'll see him again.
===Mobile Suit Gundam Wing Endless Waltz===
Noin's belief is proven true when Zechs, having survived his sacrifice with Epyon, appears before Lady Une to ask for a position with the Preventers, asking to take the codename "Wind", following Trieze's illegitimate daughter Mariemaia declaring war on the ESUN with her army and the backing of the Barton Foundation under her grandfather Dekim. Armed with the new Tallgeese III, Zechs heads into space to attack Dekim on the resource satellite MO-III. Taking out the first wave of the Mariemaia Serpent mobile suits heading for Earth, Zechs is prevented from attacking the next batch when Dekim threatens to go through with the original Operation Meteor by dropping colony L-3 X-18999 on Earth. However, when Zechs learns that the Gundam Pilots have saved the colony from being dropped on Earth, he goes through with destroying MO-III, but Dekim escapes to Earth in a shuttle.
Zechs goes after him, reuniting with Noin in her white Taurus, as the two of them attempt to disable the Serpent mobile suits without killing their pilots to avoid more bloodshed. They are soon joined by Quatre, Trowa, and Duo in the Deathscythe Hell, Sandrock Kai, and Heavyarms Custom. Despite their best efforts, there are too many Serpents to take out without killing the pilots in the process. Luckily, Heero arrives in the Wing Zero Custom, and fires on the bunker where Mariemaia and Dekim are with Relena with Wing Zero's Twin Buster Rifle. However, the recoil of the weapon is too much for the already badly-damaged Wing Zero Custom to endure, and after the third and final shot, the Gundam blows up on itself, to Zechs and Noin's horror alongside Duo, Trowa, and Quatre. However, thanks to Heero, the bunker is breached, and the people rise up in revolt against the Mariemaia Army, calling for peace. Mariemaia protects Relena from an attempt on her life by Dekim, and Dekim himself is shot dead by one of his own men for betraying Trieze's vision.
With mobile suits destroyed forever, Zechs joins Noin as they head to Mars to aid Relena on her terra formation project being done there.
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