Chilias Catalonia

General Chilias Catalonia was the original commander-in-chief of the United Earth Sphere Alliance military forces and the first General of the Organization of the Zodiac before AC 193. The son of Duke Dermail, head of the Romefeller Foundation, and father of Dorothy Catalonia, he died in battle in AC 193 and was succeeded as OZ commander by Treize Khushrenada. His death profoundly affected both his daughter Dorothy and his father Dermail, whose subsequent actions were partly motivated by grief and desire for vengeance.

History

Early career

Chilias Catalonia was born into the aristocratic Catalonia family, one of the most powerful families within the Romefeller Foundation. As the son of Duke Dermail, the foundation’s head, Chilias was groomed for leadership from an early age. He had at least one sibling, his brother Hundelt Catalonia, and through family connections was distantly related to the Khushrenada family.

Leadership of OZ

According to New Mobile Report Gundam Wing: Episode Zero and New Mobile Report Gundam Wing: Frozen Teardrop, the Organization of the Zodiac was established before AC 175 as the military wing of the Romefeller Foundation. Chilias Catalonia served as the original leader of OZ and held the position of commander-in-chief of the United Earth Sphere Alliance military forces.

As OZ’s first General, Chilias commanded the organisation during its formative years, overseeing its development from a Romefeller military arm into a powerful force within the Alliance structure. His leadership style and policies during this period established many of the institutional practices that would continue under his successor.

Chilias had a daughter, Dorothy, whom he raised within the aristocratic society of the Romefeller Foundation. As a young child, Dorothy admired Treize Khushrenada, a rising star within OZ and a distant relative through the Catalonia-Khushrenada family connections. She once expressed a childish desire to “marry” Treize, demonstrating the close relationship between the families.

Death in battle

In AC 193, General Chilias Catalonia died in battle. The specific circumstances of his death remain unclear, but the loss had immediate and far-reaching consequences for both OZ and the Romefeller Foundation. Following Chilias’s death, Treize Khushrenada was appointed as the new General of OZ, ascending to command of the organisation and beginning his transformation of it into a more sophisticated and philosophically driven military force.

Chilias’s death deeply affected his father, Duke Dermail. The strongest embodiment of the corrupt nature of the Romefeller Foundation, Dermail’s subsequent hardline policies and actions were partly motivated by the loss of his son. His grief and desire for vengeance influenced his political machinations and contributed to the increasingly militaristic stance the foundation would take in the years leading up to AC 195.

For his daughter Dorothy, Chilias’s death in combat created a profound trauma that shaped her entire personality. Though she would later present herself as an advocate for war and conflict, this was a strong reversal of her true feelings. Dorothy actually harboured greater aversion to conflict and desire for peace than anyone else—her father’s death in battle had taught her to deeply hate warfare for taking him from her. She put on a strong face to the world, masking her pain with provocative rhetoric about war’s necessity, a psychological defence mechanism that would define her interactions throughout the Eve Wars.

Legacy in Frozen Teardrop

In Mars Century 0022, decades after the events of AC 195, Preventer agent Kathy Po viewed Treize Khushrenada’s personal history as part of Operation Mythos. In these records, she observed a five-year-old Dorothy with her father, OZ leader General Chilias Catalonia, confirming Dorothy’s childhood admiration for Treize and providing a glimpse of the relationship between the Catalonia family and Treize before Chilias’s death.

Personality

Based on the limited information available, Chilias Catalonia appears to have been a capable military leader who commanded respect within both OZ and the Romefeller Foundation. His position as commander-in-chief of the Alliance and first General of OZ indicates he possessed the political acumen and military skill necessary to navigate the complex relationship between the foundation and the Alliance military structure.

As a father, Chilias’s relationship with Dorothy seems to have been loving, as evidenced by the profound grief she experienced following his death. Her deep hatred of war stemming from his death suggests he was a significant presence in her early life, and his loss created a wound that never truly healed.

Relationships

Dermail Catalonia

Duke Dermail was Chilias’s father and the head of the Romefeller Foundation. The loss of his son in battle hardened Dermail’s already authoritarian tendencies, contributing to his increasingly ruthless pursuit of power and control over the Earth Sphere.

Dorothy Catalonia

Dorothy was Chilias’s daughter. His death in battle when she was young profoundly traumatised her, creating a deep-seated hatred of warfare that she masked with provocative pro-war rhetoric. Her entire personality in AC 195 was shaped by the need to cope with the loss of her father.

Treize Khushrenada

Treize Khushrenada succeeded Chilias as General of OZ following his death in AC 193. As a distant relative through family connections and a figure admired by young Dorothy, Treize’s relationship with the Catalonia family was close. His succession to Chilias’s position marked a significant transition in OZ’s leadership and philosophy.

Legacy

Chilias Catalonia’s primary legacy was the profound impact his death had on those around him. For his father Duke Dermail, it provided motivation for increasingly hardline policies. For his daughter Dorothy, it created psychological trauma that shaped her entire worldview. And for OZ, his death marked the end of its founding era and the beginning of Treize Khushrenada’s transformative leadership.

The organisation Chilias helped establish would eventually play a central role in the conflicts of AC 195, though by then it had been reshaped by Treize’s vision. Whether Chilias would have approved of the direction his successor took OZ remains unknown, but his founding leadership provided the institutional framework upon which Treize built his more philosophically sophisticated military force.

Notes

• Chilias Catalonia’s name may derive from Greek chilioi, meaning “thousand”, though this follows a less common pattern than most After Colony character names.
• He appeared primarily in flashback material in New Mobile Report Gundam Wing: Frozen Teardrop, with references in Episode Zero.
• The exact circumstances of his death in AC 193 have never been detailed in the source material.
• His death occurred two years before the events of Mobile Suit Gundam Wing begin in AC 195.

References

Main article: Mobile Suit Gundam Wing

• New Mobile Report Gundam Wing: Episode Zero
• New Mobile Report Gundam Wing: Frozen Teardrop
• Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (referenced)