Universal Century 0080, eight months after the One Year War, an Earth Federation spaceship is tasked to retrieve the Pyscho Zaku from the hands of the South Seas Alliance, a cult that makes its followers sacrifice their limbs to control the mobile suits. To the spaceship's aid is the Atlas Gundam, a new amphibious mobile suit piloted by Io Fleming. Meanwhile, Daryl Lorenz joins the Zeon Remnants on Earth whose mission is also to retrieve the Psycho Zaku.—heyitsnuel