Aldnoah.Zero is a new mecha anime series from studio A-1 Pictures. Gen Urobuchi is credited with creating the concept while Ei Aoki is directing and Hiroyuki Sawano composing music.
Synopsis
Aldnoah.Zero is set in an alternate universe where Apollo 17 astronauts, while exploring the moon (in AZ 1972), found some mysterious alien technology. The tech turned out to be hypergate to Mars, and before you know it, folks started to colonize the planet. The colonists eventually stumbled on more alien technology and decided to separate themselves from Earth, calling themselves the Vers Empire. They would later declare war on the Earth. During this war a large battle was waged on the Earth’s moon (in AZ 1999) resulting in the destruction of the hypergate in an explosion that blew apart a large chunk of the moon. The Vers Empire folks, stranded around Earth, would go on to build space castles amongst the floating moon debris. A tentative cease fire existing between the Empire and Earth.
