#guilford

Resurrection’s setting material that was distributed to the cast and staff at the movie development stage to give them general idea of the character/world/mecha setting at the beginning of the story. Since this was made during development/conception stage, some of information here might differ from what we actually see in the movie (or what we will see in future installments, probably, when they finally come around). (so I guess you can take it as… inspiration for fanfic? hehe)

EDIT: Download full booklet here

✤ SETTING RELATED TO THE WORLD’S SITUATION    ✤

On Holy Britannian Empire

After Demon Emperor Lelouch is killed by Zero the leader of Black Knights, Holy Britannian Empire splits into small states and autonomous territories. Things are relatively stable here as aristocratic system has been pretty much abolished during Lelouch’s era, while any signs of domestic conflicts are suppressed by Britannia-born natives such as Cornelia and Gino, hence intervention from foreign countries is able to be kept in check. Granted, because its national strength is originally already strong, it isn’t necessarily reduced to poverty. Unexpectedly many of its rural regions are rich with resources. Among agricultural nations in the world, it stands at the top.

On UFN

As of Year 2 of Kowa, more than 80% of the world has joined UFN. The basic policy which is the members have to transfer their military force and entrust military operation to Black Knights has not changed. Following the dissolution of Chinese Federation and EU, there’s no country that prominently acts as its leader, but UFN’s founding countries such as Japan, China, and India, have strong influence in the union. Delegation for Japan, Sumeragi Kaguya, serves as the Chairwoman of UFN Supreme Council. The world’s stability is maintained with Schneizel, who’s still under “Work for Zero” geass, serves as Chief of Staff in UFN Supreme Council. 

On Black Knights

A military organization entrusted with UFN’s entire military force. No matter how the world has began to engage in dialogues and negotiations, in the occurrence of terroristic activities, Black Knights acts as a suppression and deterrent. Toudou Kyoushiro serves as Commander in Chief, with Cornelia, Gino, Chiba, Xianglin, Honggu, as members.

✤ SETTING RELATED TO CHARACTERS ✤

Kururugi Suzaku

Spending his days as Zero. Frankly it’s hard. But, he has to do it. Suzaku himself sometimes wonders if there’s anyone who notices that he is Zero, but he believes that it is his mission to play the role irregardless. However, he only really revealed it to Nunnally whom he spent a lot of times together with. As the leader of Black Knights, he also takes over the duties of being one, but since this is his first time taking part in organizational management, he studies about it day and night. With the increase of his participation in politics, surprisingly he’s able to handle political affairs flawlessly, which might be because of his father’s blood. 

Nunnally vi Britannia

Her official position is the Honorary Advisor at World Humanitarian Agency (WHA), an affiliated organization of UFN. There are ‘voices’ that encouraged her to join UFN Council, however since her brother is too notorious, and she herself once claimed to be Empress of Holy Britannian Empire, she settled with her current position. She believes that it is her mission to follow through her brother’s vision of the world, and works hard every day without complaining.

Kouzuki Kallen

Even though she knows that the current Zero is Suzaku, since there’s nothing she can do about it in particular, she’s taking wait-and-see stance. As of now she’s a second year student in Asia Maritime University. The reason she entered this university, is because both land and sky reminded her of war, so she decided to study about sea. She got good at swimming, and now fishing is her hobby. She’s trying to get a sailing licence for small boats. A Black Knights’ reserve officer. 

On Lloyd, Cecile, and Nina

Llyod lost his nobility status after the abolishment of the aristocracy by Emperor Lelouch. Since he sided with “Demon Emperor” Lelouch, even though he did it under threat, he wasn’t allowed to become a public official. As he lived his life like a bum, Arthur and Cecile provided shelter for him. Kanon who couldn’t bear to see his situation, established the “Institute of Defense Planning and Advanced Development Studies” (IDPADS), in which he became a director candidate of. However, because of his poor communication skill, his candidacy was opposed by the line management, and after he kept being demoted to one position down after another, from executive director to general manager and so on, he finally settled as chief clerk. Cecile who once held professorship at Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering in University of UFN, joined the IDPADS because she couldn’t just ignore Lloyd’s fell from grace, and became the head of Planning and Development there. At the same time, Nina who also has lost her old position, joins the institute. Through researching Core Luminous, Lloyd discovers that it’s possible to shut off Yggdrasil-drive externally, which is a different approach from Gefjun Disturber. However, because it’s a basic research that neither generates quick money nor is suitable for private sectors, his research was ignored by the institute. Cecile is currently working on building KMF for civilian use. “Moosa” is the first prototype that has been completed. Nina is studying to the bone to find a way to use FLEIJA for peaceful means.  

Cornelia li Britannia

Commander of Black Knights’ 11th Army Brigade. A lieutenant general. The poor treatment she receives despite her career and rank as lieutenant general is largely due to her being a member of Holy Britannian Empire royal family. In other words, since another member of said royal family, Schneizel, has already seated in important position, there’s a worry that giving more power to them could lead to anti-Britannia activities, not to mention the Massacre Princess Euphemia was also her sister. Rightfully, she was supposed to be given an army with a size of division, but currently she’s in command of a brigade due to political considerations. Initially she was arranged to an extremely low rank, but after one objection after another coming from other officers claiming they can’t possibly have higher rank than Cornelia, she’s settled as Lieutenant General. In fact, looking from achievements alone, she should be a General or Chief of Joint Staff next to Toudou.

Gilbert G.P. Guilford

He hurt his eyes at Second Decisive Battle of Tokyo, but as of now he wears special-built contact lens to cover his eyes. This is something he only wears during battles, in normal daily life he often just wears sunglasses. Is furious with how Black Knights treats Cornelia. He was supposed to be the Inspectorate General of Military Training at Black Knights’ HQ, but he volunteered to be a resident military officer at Britannia’s autonomous territory. One of the reasons is so that if anything happens to Cornelia, he would be able to help her immediately. He runs an orphanage named Darlton Memorial School with his own expenses. He’s collaborating with surviving member of Glaston Knights, Claudio S. Darlton.

Gino Weinberg

Black Knights’ Chief of Air Force Staff. His rank is air marshal, equals to Cornelia. He’s appointed to many other jobs including corporate consultant and specially appointed professor at universities. Even with the collapse of the aristocratic system, it seems his household was able to survive with ease because of its economic power. He thinks it’s good to have peace, but the increase of office works over physical works concerns him.

Ougi Kaname

The first Prime Minister of the newly reborn, independent Japan. Everything he does is colored in miracles, he’s on the high road to success even though he himself has no desire for it, a lucky man loved throughout history. With various matters, including being viewed as a ‘legendary’ great man known not just in Japan but in the whole world, wearing him down…  he resigned and entrust things to his juniors. He refused all kind of public official positions, and is considering to pursue his original passion in teaching and as well as focusing on child support. In the wake of this incident, he realized that he couldn’t escape from his past self, and thought how he had to take the responsibility once and for all.

Tamaki Shinichiro

Opened a cafe bar right after Zero Requiem, but the average purchase from each customer was low, so he increased the number of barkers, offered set meals during lunchtime, etc, and the cafe unexpectedly became a hit. The success got into his head, he named the cafe “Zero” without permission to use the name and turned it into a collaboration cafe, which not only invited even more customers…. but also complaints from Black Knights. As a result, for public appearance sake the second store will be opened under the pretext as a memorial hall.

Shinozaki Sayoko

The 37th generation head of Shinozaki-style. On the surface, it does custom-made accessories business under the name of Kageno Company. The truth is it’s actually a company that makes hidden weapons and do shady works. As part of their job, these Shadow Warriors have gone to various places around the world as bodyguards for important people and resolve numerous conflicts. It only has one lone member though. This time she entered the battle with the feeling that none of this would have had to happen had she been the one tasked to protect Nunnally-sama.

Lelouch

Have the capacity to memorize the situation he’s in, but no ability to make intellectual judgement.

C.C.

Travelling around the world to restore Lelouch to his original state. She needs to go to C’s World to do that, but most of the gates to enter C’s World have been destroyed due to either Charles’ experiment project or the war. In her journey to find a surviving gate, she travels to Zilkhstan where there was a branch group that was separated from Geass Order 300 years ago. She only keeps in touch with Jeremiah, Shirley, and Anya. She has money she has saved up back when she was still in Holy Britannian Empire, but its currency value now has plummeted. Her current main concern is to not make any movement that’ll make her stand out.

Shirley Fenette

Her parents are still alive and they somehow manage to get by after the war’s over. She once considered to stay in Japan, but she faced a lot of difficulties for being Lelouch’s former friend, so she went to study at an university somewhere else. She’s now in her second year at Faculty of Sport Science in UFN University. Her feelings for Lelouch remains unchanged, only that it has became pure. Not in an unhealthy sense, but in a sense she tempers her feelings to the point that now she’s able to wait for him while living her days normally undistracted. Her relationships with Miley and the rest haven’t changed. She also maintains friendly term with many others.

Jeremiah Gottwald

After Zero Requiem, he was banished from public official position and sentenced to death due to his time serving Demon Emperor Lelouch, but Zero (Suzaku) himself wrote a petition for him thus his sentence was commuted. After that, he was sent to work in a forced labor, but a year later the forced labor itself was banned due to the pressure from World Humanitarian Agency (WHA) in which Nunnally acted as its Honorary Advisor. He then went to help out Anya with her orange farm in South America. 

Later, he took over the farm and renamed it to “Gottwald Plantation Orange Village”, where he became the owner of. Through illegal route in the military he gets his hands on Sutherland J, the center of Sutherland Sieg which he used in the past. He requests Lloyd to give it extreme remodelling. He thought he needs to organize some armed force in order to provide a shelter for Lelouch and C.C. who would have no place to go. But the people who were involved thought he was an emerging new mafia or drug cartel. Now he joined the battle because he wanted to see the healthy appearance of his master.

Anya Alstreim

Her family has fallen due to the abolition of aristrocatic system by Demon Emperor Lelouch. After the commencement of the new system, she was offered some positions by the UFN and Black Knights. The renewed Britannia also called her over, but all the posts she was offered are ridiculous so she declined. Started farming as a down-to-earth work. She used Mordred, which she forcibly took with her in place of her retirement pay, to cultivate the wasteland. It was actually initially a cannabis farm owned by a local mafia, but she turned it into an orange farm without permission. Just when she’s worrying over how she couldn’t make any progress with the farm due to her lack of management skill and farming know-how, she learned about Jeremiah’s discharge. Based on some absurd reasoning that he must know how to deal with oranges because he’s Orange, she conjoined with Jeremiah. Since then she has been releasing herself from all troublesome works like accounting and enjoying her life as an employee. This time she joined the battle because of Schneizel’s request.

✤ SETTING RELATED TO KNIGHTMARE FRAME ✤

Joint Strike Armored Knight Program

A program that had been on-going since the era of Demon Emperor Lelouch’s reign. The purpose of this program is to integrate the systems of weapons in each region starting from Knightmare Frame, and to improve maintenance and weapons compatibility. Though in reality it was only after Zero Requiem that the test machines are finally deployed, but the integration of Britannia-made system and Asia-made system that was centered in Japan, has not yet been completed.

Proposal for Frame Coat 

Due to Joint Strike Armored Knight program, except for plans that had already been underway, new plans for Knight Giga Fortress will be halted unless there’s a clear prospect to them. The substitute plan is Frame Coat, which is to add additional armor and additional armament to the current existing Knightmare Frame in lesser cost. 

Shanti Chawla, the central figure in “Pearl Party”, a private institute owned by Rakshata Chawla who’s the leader of UFN’s Science Committee, came up with the idea after seeing dress-up dolls. The fully equipped version is called Full Coat. Although it significantly lowers KMF’s mobility and greatly reduce its short-range attack power, it improves its defence and long-range attack power, so it is said to be suitable to be operated as mobile fortress and defending bases. For now Coat Lancelot and Coat Guren will be made as prototypes. Separated prototype is also due to Asia-made system and Britannia-made system being not integrated.

Moreover, Guren Seiten Eight Elements which give conspicuous service in previous war, was dismantled by Chairman Rakshata. *It is rumored that she did it because she couldn’t let slide how outsiders had modified it, though the truth is unknown. However, since Guren type is a symbol of people’s liberation, Guren Special Type is deployed as a higher grade version of Guren Seiten Eight Elements. In addition, Lancelot has the worst image as favorite KMF of Suzaku Kururugi who served Demon Emperor Lelouch, but the machine performance as a guiding weapon is highly evaluated, and it’s allowed to be build by adding siN to its name. There is rumor that a private company’s chief (Lloyd) is involved in its construction.

On Pearl Party

A private research institute founded by Rakshata who now held many positions including Chariman of UFN’s World Science Committee, Consultant of World Health Organization, Honorary President of UFN University, Advisor at UFN’s Volunteer Secretariat, Part-time member of the World Public Security Investigation Agency, and Consultant of United States of India’s Ministry of Health and Welfare. She gathered genius children from all over the world including her biological sister Shanti, to conduct research on development of new technologies and peaceful use of military technologies. During the foundation it received personal help from Schneizel and the south*. 

*: ? I genuinely have no idea what this supposed to refer to.