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Zodiac

Ive been rewatching my Gundam DVDs lately and one word keeps on pooping up. ZOdiac.
In Wing: OZ is the Organisation of Zodiac
In SEED: ZAFT is the Zodiac alliance of freedom treaty.

I'm pretty sure there were references in UC and AW (or was it CC?) as well.

What is the significance of the word Zodiac.?
Is it to do with the stars and space?
or are the guys at Sunrise all master fortune tellers?

Does anybody know?
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It's more the letter Z than the word itself that is generally used in the 'antagonist' side. Zeon, ZAFT, OZ, Zanscare, and possibly more, but not always. OZ has a reason to have Zodiac in its name considering nearly all of its Mobile Suits are named after constellations, though I'm not sure about ZAFT. Other than OZ and ZAFT, and the Zodiac Mobile Armour itself, I don't think the word shows up elsewhere.
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for ZAFT, maybe it's because they are the only faction (to my knowlege) who have colonies in space?
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Nightwing03 wrote:for ZAFT, maybe it's because they are the only faction (to my knowlege) who have colonies in space?
Whaddabout zeon and oz?
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With ZAFT, the Zodiac probably refers to how they have 12 PLANT clusters, each of which is named after a month in the Gregorian calendar.
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And most of the grunt suits used by OZ bear names of the Zodiac (Leo, Pices, Aries, etc).
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UC, Zodiac is MA appear in Gundam Sentinel.
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