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A series of manga that mostly take place just behind, and a little to the left, of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED]]''.
Lowe Gear is a member of the Junk Guild, an organization of [[Almighty Janitor|mechanics and salvage experts]] that usually retrieve and recycle space debris, and resell it for (hopefully) a profit. Or keep them for personal use if they're [[Rule of Cool|cool enough]]. Lowe and his friends show up at the space colony Heliopolis (Kira Yamato's [[Doomed Hometown]]) shortly after the ''Archangel's'' escape. Searching through the ruins for survivors or anything of value, they come across a pair of [[Super Prototype|Gundams]], one red, and the other blue, that were somehow missed in all the commotion before. But before they can capitalize on their find, they are attacked by the Serpent Tail, a group of mercenaries hired to keep the Astray Project a secret. Lowe faces off against Gai Murakumo, the leader of the Serpent Tail, until the mercs themselves are double-crossed by their employers, who count them among the witnesses they don't want. Gai takes the Blue Frame and uses it to take care of their erstwhile employers, before Lowe shows up with the Red Frame to make sure he doesn't try the same to his friends. The two groups depart with their new respective mobile suits.
The story continues with the various adventures of Lowe and his friends, fleshing out the Gundam SEED universe, often preceding or following up on events in the series, and fixing a few plot holes along the way {{spoiler|For example, it's Lowe who saves Kira after he's nearly killed by the self-destructing Aegis Gundam}}. They often meet or clash with the Serpent Tail from time to time, and seem to run into a lot of people with an unhealthy interest in the Astrays, such as Rondo Ghina Sahaku, who had them built in the first place, and still owns the ''third'' Astray, Gold Frame.
''[[Gundam SEED Astray]] R'' is the sister series to Astray by a different author, and more or less runs concurrently with the original. Both comics reference each other regularly. A photonovel, ''Astray B'', was also written. Astray R focuses specifically on Lowe's adventures, while Astray B focuses on Gai; the letters refer to their respective Astray Gundams, Red Frame and Blue Frame.
Another similar series, ''Gundam SEED X Astray'', takes place roughly during a short [[Time Skip]] in episode 47 of [[Gundam Seed]], and features Canard Pars, a "failed" experiment {{spoiler|1=in the same "Ultimate Coordinator" program that spawned SEED protagonist Kira Yamato}}. He wishes to prove that he's not a failure by defeating Kira and the Strike Gundam, but first runs into our Junk Guild and Serpent Tail heroes, and promptly attacks them, seeing as they have Gundams in their possession. During this, both teams come across Prayer Revierie, a young boy with a Mobile Suit that contains both a nuclear reactor, and a device known as a Neutron Jammer Canceller, which would allow said reactor to work. When Canard finds out about Prayer's N-Jammer Canceller, he naturally wants it to give his Hyperion Gundam the power to face Kira head on (as by this point Kira has upgraded to the nuclear-powered Freedom Gundam).
The next in the Astray series is ''Gundam SEED DESTINY Astray'', which features the reporter Jess Rabble, who is assigned to check out reports of a ZAFT Superweapon. It turns out to be none other than Lowe and crew, who are using the spoils of a battle in ''R'' to head out to Mars. Unfortunately, Jess' Mobile Suit is wrecked before things are straightened out, so before he leaves, Lowe gives him the Astray Out Frame, a mech he found in the base and fixed up. As the Junk Guild crew heads out to space, the story follows Jess as he views the events in and around the Second Bloody Valentine War through very large camera lenses. It also introduces the mercenary Kaite Madigan, who sometimes acts as a bodyguard to Jess. After going through a succession of customized mobile suits, Kaite eventually acquires Out Frame's nuclear-powered sister unit, the Testament Gundam.
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The newest entry is ''VS Astray'', centering on a new antagonistic faction called Librarian that makes use of "Carbon Humans", pseudo-clones made by injecting people with genetic material from others, and having them pilot copies of past mobile suits. Because the series received a huge marketing blitz mostly centered around [[Palette Swap|recolored and only barely changed versions of existing model kits]], fans are decrying this one as [[Merchandise-Driven]] (even moreso than the norm for Gundam) drivel.
Both ''Astray'' and ''X Astray'' made it into ''[[Super Robot Wars W]]'' alongside ''SEED''. In fact, Astray's storyline makes up the greater content of SEED material in the story.
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* [[The Archer]]: Red Frame Kai's newly acquired Tactical Arms IIL has "Arrow Mode", where it changes into a longbow that fires laser beams.
* [[Armed Legs]]: Blue Frame Second mounts knife blades in its toes and heels.
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* [[Cloning Blues]]: Prayer is said to be a clone of a pilot from the Moebius Zero corps; {{spoiler|''Vs Astray'''s enemy faction Library is full of "Carbon Humans", people injected with DNA from others making them pseudo-clones. An aged-up Prayer appears (even though he's supposed to already be dead by that point), looking like a poofier-haired Mu La Flaga, ending the mystery of his genetic source material.}}
** ''VS Astray'' centers around the concept of Carbon Humans, people who are almost-but-not-quite clones ("carbon" as in "carbon copy"). However, there are two more direct examples: {{spoiler|Lily Thevalley, pilot of the Nero Blitz, is actually several clones piloting identical Gundams, using their cloaking systems to make enemies think it's one machine that can teleport. ND-HE (No Data High Error), pilot of the Gale Strike, was implied to be a clone of Kira Yamato, only for a late chapter to reveal he's in fact a clone of ''Astray'''s own Gai Murakumo.}}
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* [[Commonplace Rare]]: The Strike Gundam from the original ''SEED'' was originally a [[Super Prototype]]; ''Astray'' introduces at least three more, not counting the Strike Noir from ''Gundam SEED [[CE 73]] Stargazer''.
* [[Dude Looks Like a Lady]]: Canard Pars. [[Bare Your Midriff|His outfit doesn't help.]]
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* [[Gadgeteer Genius]] (Lowe)
* [[Homemade Inventions]] (quite a few)
* [[Humans Are
* [[Ill Girl]] (Prayer, a rare male example. {{spoiler|Speculated to be another Al Da Flaga clone or even a, however unlikely, ''Mu La Flaga'' clone}})
* [[It Was a Gift]] (Elijah Kiel hangs onto his custom GINN long past the point of obsolescence because it uses parts from his dead friend Goud Veir's custom GINN, given to Elijah just before [[Mercy Kill|he had to be put down]]. This also serves to explain its unusual half-blue-and-red paint job. Eventually Kaite Maddigan destroys the GINN in a [[Let's You and Him Fight]] situation and gives Elijah a custom ZAKU as an apology.)
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* [[Knowledge Broker]] (Kenaf Luchini)
* [[Mecha Expansion Pack]] (Quite a few, including one that's basically a [[Humongous Mecha]] in and of itself, which is ''piloted by the smaller mecha''.)
** Astray Out Frame is probably the universal champion of [[Mecha Expansion Pack
* [[Meta Mecha]]: In order to handle the 150-meter Gerbera Straight II, Lowe builds a Power Loader reminiscent of ''[[Alien]]'', which Red Frame itself docks with. {{spoiler|Regenerate Gundam one-shots the Power Loader, which leads Lowe to create the Powered Red.}}
* [[Psycho for Hire]] (Ash Gray)
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* [[Shout-Out]] (The Martian Guardshell mobile suits can transform into a [[War of the Worlds|tripod form]].)
* [[Space Pirates]]
* [[Split Personality]]: Goud Vair from ''Astray'', ''R'', and ''B'', a gentle man who goes psychotic when he hears loud noises (and thus tends to listen to relaxing music all the time to prevent this). ''VS Astray'' introduces {{spoiler|Lily Thevalley}}, a Carbon Human made with genetic material from several [[Ace Pilot
* [[Super Robot Wars]] (So far has only appeared in [[Super Robot Wars W]].)
* [[Super Speed]] (Astray Mirage Frame 2nd Issue is extremely fast in brute mode, even coordinator's super human reflex can't keep up with it and the pilot need special modification)
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