Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans

Episode 50: Their Place

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Tekkadan finally manages to clear the underground tunnel toward Chryse, while Mikazuki and Akihiro hold off the rest of Gjallarhorn's troops. Eugene and the others are ordered to escape.

The Graze units suddenly retreat allowing the Dáinsleif squadron to fire at the two Gundams from orbit, obliterating the base in the process and presumably wiping out Tekkadan. Despite sustaining critical and crippling damage, both Gundams rise to finish off the Gjallarhorn mobile suits. Akihiro crushes Iok to death. He smiles just before he is killed by Iok's subordinates, satisfied that he managed to avenge the deceased members of the Turbines.

Mikazuki overclocks Barbatos, decimating the Gjallarhorn soldiers until Julieta intervenes. Disillusioned by the amount of political intrigue and bloodshed, Julieta asks what reason drives Mikazuki to fight even in a hopeless battle, to which Mikazuki states he has none beyond survival. As he engages Julieta, Barbados finally gives out from it's damages, and Mikazuki ultimately dies from his injuries. Julieta claims Barbados' head as proof of his death; thus ending what becomes known as the "McGillis Fareed Incident".

In the following years, Gjallarhorn repeals the Seven Stars council system after losing the Issue, Kujan and Fareed families - and ironically, Rustal's policies are a reflection of McGillis' ideals, restructuring the government as a democratic system under his leadership. Earth's influence on Mars erodes after Rustal reduces the size of Gjallarhorn's Mars branch, while the cities of Mars gain independence and form the Martian Union with Kudelia as their first chairperson. During this transition, Rustal and Kudelia sign the Human Debris Abolishment Treaty in an effort to reduce the suffering and conflict in the solar system.

Meanwhile, Julieta, who was credited as having defeated Mikazuki, visits Gaelio at a hospital where he is in therapy after having his pseudo Alaya-Vijnana removed. Both reminisce on and express their regret over the tragic ends of McGillis and Tekkadan, though make efforts to move forward.

While largely forgotten, Tekkadan's surviving members live on with new identities in the Admoss Company, Sakura's orphanage, the Martian Union and the Kassapa Mobile Worker Factory.

Ride assassinates Nobliss and all his cohorts to avenge Orga, while Kudelia visits Atra and Akatsuki, the son of the late Mikazuki, at Sakura's farm, fulfilling her promise to look after them. As the series comes to a close, Kudelia silently monologues that while Mikazuki and Tekkadan are gone, she could still love the world that they sacrificed their lives for and will continue to make it a better place.

NOTE: Wow... such an incredible Gundam series! Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.