| The One Year War is the war fought between the Earth Federation and the Principality of Zeon seen during the original Gundam series, and just like so much of Star Wars spin-off media being based around the original trilogy era, most of the Gundam side stories take place during or just after this conflict, and Thunderbolt is no different. December Sky is a 70-minute version of the first “series” of four web episodes adapting Yasuo Ohtagaki’s original manga, and is set during the latter days of the conflict, but away from the main battlefields and instead in a part of space known as the “Thunderbolt Sector”, a region of space that is actually the ruins of a space colony destroyed early in the war.r. |
