Seabook Arno

Seabook Arno (シーブック・アノー, Shībukku Anō?) is a fictional character from the Gundam universe. He is the main protagonist in the Gundam movie, Mobile Suit Gundam F91, and also one of the supporting heroes in the manga, Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam.

In the Gundam F91 movie, Seabook began simply as an engineering student from the colony of Frontier IV at the Frontier Side (formerly Side 4) and presumably, Newtypes were by this time long forgotten and became figures of legend. He also bears resentment to his mother, Monica Arno, for abandoning her family to devote herself to her research in the bio-computer being utilized for mobile suits like the F91 ("F" for Formula) Gundam F91.

It has been thirty years of peace following the end of the second Neo Zeon movement, where in U.C. -123, a beauty pageant is being held in the Frontier IV colony. Seabook Arno forcefully takes his friend Cecily Fairchild to participate in the contest, much to her chagrin; meanwhile Crossbone Vanguard mobile suits Den'an Zon and Ebirhu-S enter the colony and engage the Federation forces stationed there. Eventually, the fighting escalates and soon reaches the civilian areas.

Seabook saves Cecily from getting crushed. With his sister Reese and friends Drosie Mua, Arthur, Georgi, and Sam, they head for the mobile suit museum. The museum owner, Roy Jung, wants to fight, using an old Guntank R-44. Arthur gets killed in an explosion. The Guntank damages the escape route, forcing Seabook and his friends to head for the wharf with the Guntank to get a Federation ship. They are blocked by a G-Cannon mobile suit and an officer who wants to use them as human shields. They are then helped by Seabook's father Leslie, who tells them to hurry. The group make it to the warf and use a lifeboat. However Cecily stays behind with her father and is captured by a Crossbone Vanguard Reconnaissance team. Seabook's group of refugees later rendezvous with an Earth Federation military vessel where they stay for protection.

Like many of his counterparts in earlier series, desperate circumstances eventually force Seabook into a mobile suit -Gundam F91. Naturally gifted, he manages to defeat numerous mobile suits by himself. His abilities are later reinforced by Newtype powers, thereby escalating his growing fame as an ace. Seabook utillizes his skills along with the Gundam F91 to protect his friends and end the conflict.

Ten years after Gundam F91, he reappears in the Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam manga under the alias Kincaid Nau, leading the MS complement of the Crossbone Vanguard flagship, the Mother Vanguard, captained by Cecily (who has once again taken the alias of "Bera Ronah"). Taking the young Tobia Arronax under his wing, he sets out to lead the reborn Crossbone Vanguard against the threat of the Jupiter Empire, piloting the Crossbone Gundam X-1 alongside Zabine (pilot of the X-2).

While fighting against the Jupiter Empire, Seabook and Tobia encounter young Bernadette Briett, a stowaway on the Mother Vanguard, who is later revealed to be Tetenith Dogatie, daughter of Jupiter Empire President Crux Dogatie. Bernadette is soon captured by Zabine, who mutinies against the Crossbone Vanguard, feeling that Cecily's refusal to live up to the autocratic model of the "original" Crossbone Vanguard is a major mistake. After Zabine sides with the Jupiter Empire, young Tobia is also kidnapped by his former professor, Karas, and soon returns to the Mother Vanguard alone. After being beaten to Earth by the Jupiter Empire, the Vanguard learns that the Empire does not wish to take over the earth, but instead plans to destroy it. During a sudden attack by the Empire and the Earth Federation, Seabook encounters Zabine once again, and the two begin to duel. After Zabine smashes his beam saber through the X-1's cockpit, Seabook plummeted to Earth, where he was later rescued by the SNRI. As a result of his injuries, Seabook has his right armed replaced with a mechanical prosthetic (and is later revealed to have a large scar over his right eye), and is still recovering while he continues to fight alongside Tobia and the rest of the vanguard, before leading them in to space to prevent the Empire's attempt to start a nuclear holocaust on Earth. In the final battle against the Jupiter Empire, Seabook and Zabine fight yet again, with Seabook managing to impale the X2's cockpit (and Zabine) with the X1's Heat Dagger, thus destroying the X-2 and it's pilot once and for all.

As Tobia (in the Crossbone Gundam X-3) faces off against the real Crux Dogatie, inside of the Nuclear-powered Mobile Armor "Divinidad", Seabook then attempts to catch up with him. Tobia then engages in one last battle with Dogatie, slicing the Divinidad into individual pieces, and destroying all of its weapons, before placing the X-3 into one of the Divinidad's Mega Particle Cannons and activating its I-Fields, ejecting in his Core Fighter before the resulting beam is deflected by the field, dealing a crippling blow the Divinidad and Dogatie in the process. Seabook then rushes to Tobia's aid during the resulting shock waves, grabbing the X-3's Core Fighter and dealing the killing blow to Dogatie, hitting his exposed cockpit with one of the X-1's whips, destroying the cockpit and sending the Divinidad sinking into the ocean.

After the conflict, he retires to a peaceful life on Earth, and marries Cecily, as the two begin to run a bakery. He passes on the mantle of the Crossbone, as well as the X-1 itself, to Tobia, who then starts out on his own along with Bernadette. In Skull Heart, it is shown in photographs that Seabook and Cecily have become parents to an as yet unnamed child, and in The Steel Seven, a civilian woman makes a comment to Tobia, who came to ask Seabook for assistance in the upcoming mission to Jupiter, that Seabook and Cecily have just celebrated the birth of their second child. Upon hearing this news, Tobia decides not to meet with Seabook, because of the huge possibility that he would not return to his new family alive.