Gundam universes compared · connected histories and Dark History

A comparison of connected Gundam histories, with explicit evidence for succession, alternate history and Dark History inclusion. Contains story spoilers.

Read the connections

• UC and alternate UC: the GQuuuuuuX Side 7 account is a concrete alternate history; compare its tagged records with the original UC record. The focused UC comparison uses native UC years.
• UC → Regild Century: historical succession is explicit in Sunrise’s synopsis. Its calendar offset is not given.
• Dark History: the 2014 MG Turn X manual excerpt explicitly incorporates UC, G, Wing, X, SEED, 00 and AGE. Its transcription and translation are hosted by a secondary source. Bandai’s Turn A release independently describes the encompassing framework. These are historical connections, not proof that every event shares a known date.
• Conflicting RC/CC order: the source notes preserve the published-guidebook account and Tomino’s reported later statement as alternatives. Open the estimated far-future comparison for their different placements.

Axis and estimates

The axis is aligned comparison years, not a universal calendar. Zero still aligns each setting’s selected story anchor. Distances within one setting preserve its year intervals; cross-setting horizontal order does not establish chronology. Native dates remain in event titles and Dating context. No source establishes a numerical order for all the named Dark History eras, so those gaps are not invented here. Use the cited far-future view for explicit numerical estimates.

Open Separate by tags to compare eras. Cross-setting unarrowed arcs record cited connections, not additional causal arrows. The native anchors are UC 0079 (both versions), FC 0060, AC 0195, AW 0015, AD 2307, AG 0115, RC 1014 and CC 2345.

Separate calendars

SEED / Cosmic Era keeps its own calendar while retaining its Dark History connection in a context card here. Iron-Blooded Orphans and Witch from Mercury now have native-calendar timelines. No specific bridge was established for those newer settings; the manual’s general future-series wording is acknowledged rather than treated as a dated connection.

All existing moments, duration bands, release context, sources and visual plugins for the included settings are retained. This is selected coverage, not a complete franchise catalogue.

Cover image

Cover photograph: Freedom Gundam statue at LaLaport Shanghai Jinqiao.jpg), by 金琛玮 (Magdum Photo), CC BY-SA 4.0. Gundam / Freedom Gundam statue: Sunrise and Bandai. Commons crop by Di (they-them); linked without further image edits. This SEED statue illustrates the franchise; it does not depict the UC or GQuuuuuuX continuities.