Mobile Suit Gundam For Answer

--"Raven."

--"We've crossed the Rubicon..."

--"You answered my thoughts... and indulged my selfishness."

--"I want to see..."

--"The future you will create..."

--"No matter what awaits us..."

--"I will..."

--"Keep supporting you..."

In the seventy-sixth year of the Universal Century, the Earth Sphere lay beneath an iron-gray pall. Perhaps great things had once happened here, but they were long gone. The streets reeked of the corpses of those things, rotting away. This was the sort of era in which certain maggots imagined themselves carrion crows in the sky, lording it over the dead below and doing whatever they pleased with the rotting flesh. The era rolled forward like a train, crushing everyone equally who stood in its path. And amid the choking smoke belching from the chimney, a red-eyed raven had somehow appeared before the train.