February 14th, CE70. Three days after Earth Alliance declared war on PLANT, an Alliance fleet entered Lagrange point 5 space to confront PLANT in February 14th. During a confrontation between the two, Alliance carrier Roosevelt deployed nuclear weaponry. A nuclear missile struck the illegal agricultural colony Junius Seven, shattering the colony to million pieces ina blinding flash, and took the lives of 243 721 people. This act turned the on-and-off skirmishes between ZAFT and Alliance into an all-out war.