A semi-nationalized munitions company based in theOrb Union, which also maintains facilities at the resource satellite Heliopolis. Although its primary clients are the armed forces of the neutral nation Orb, Morgenroete has been secretly collaborating with the Atlantic Federation on its Gundam development project and on the construction of the warship Archangel. On January 20, C.E. 71, five prototype Gundam mobile suits are rolled out at the company's Heliopolis factory, and five days later the facility is attacked byZAFT commandos, drawingKira Yamato and his friends into the conflict.