Morgenroete Incorporated (German for "dawn") is a semi-nationalized munitions company based on Onogoro island in the Orb Union, with facilities in both the Orb Union proper and at the Orb-owned space colony of Heliopolis. Though part of the neutral nation of Orb, Morgenroete Inc. had been secretly collaborating with the Earth Alliance's Atlantic Federation in its work on new prototype mobile weapons called Gundams. During production of the G Project machines, Morgenroete obtained useful information that contributed to the creation of the five Prototype Gundam Astrays. However, it did not come without consequences as it cost Orb its space colony of Heliopolis when a ZAFT commando team entered and escaped with four of five Gundams. More esoteric technologies were also later developed at Morg