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Granada

Second largest lunar city.
Jenxi Seow Published 19 Mar 2013 Updated 10 Feb 2025
Granada

Granada was the second largest lunar city, after Von Braun. It was the most influential city on the far side of the moon.

Description

Granada was built on the far side of the Moon, the side that never faces the Earth. It was the closest lunar city to the Principality of Zeon homeland Side 3.

Like all lunar cities, Granada was built underground. Fibre-optics viaducts admitted light into the underground city, making the ceiling of the cavern appear like a sky.

Von Braun was a city in the Cayley crater in the Sea of Tranquility on the Moon. Named after German rocket scientist Werhner Von Braun, the city was built on the landing site of Apollo 11 where mankind first set foot on the Moon.

History

One Year War

Wary of its proximity to the Principality of Zeon homeland Side 3, the Earth Federation established a military base in Granada to deter Zeon forces. However, the base was seized by Zeon along with the rest of the city when the One Year War broke out. Granada served as the headquarters for Kycilia Zabi’s Mobile Assault Force.

On 1 January UC 0080, the Federation and Zeon leaders met in Granada for the final peace negotiations at the end of the war. After the war, the city was once again under Federation influence.

Gryps Conflict

However, the citizens harboured anti-Federation sentiments. When the Gryps Conflict broke out, the city openly sided with the AEUG resistance group.

The Flanagan Institute had a heavy presence in Granada during the war due to the Kycilia’s Mobile Assault Force. Most of the psycommu and psychoframe weaponry were developed in Granada. After the war, Anaheim Electronics had a greater presence, with its Granada plant manufacturing almost all of the Neo Zeon mobile suits.

Behind the scenes

In the Correct Century, the ancestors of Gym Ghingham built the Moon’s capital of Genganam on the former site of Granada.

Appearances

  • Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ
    • Episode 16, Melee Aboard the Argama (mention)
    • Episode 20, Cecilia the Crybaby, Part 1
    • Episode 21, Cecilia the Crybaby, Part 2
    • Episode 22, Judau, Into Battle! (mention)
  • Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket
    • Episode 2, Reflections in a Brown Eye
    • Episode 5, Say it Ain’t So, Bernie!