In the year 2420 a sudden annex of the largest island in the world that was under the New Republic’s Control was taken over by a large group of Rebels.
They (At the time) where using A mixture of old Empiral MS and hijacked New Republic MS. They now made the once peaceful island into a heavily guard military base of operations.
The Rebels are commanded by only 5 military commanders, in which where once soldiers of either the Old Empire or the New Republic. One in particular was Irogiro Kurisu. He was the leader of a special ops in the new republic under the command of tamahome zokano. after a while he began to see the unnessesary need to fight over territory and resigned without leave. he then formed the rebels but gave power of leader to axel kurenai after feeling to controling. now he is the third in command of his rebel forces. he is set on killing tama, his old friend until tama became power hungry. he happilly leads his own special forces into battle against "tama of the 15,090"

The Rebels are also known terrorist who sabotage and use gorilla warfare tactics.
Till this day the Rebels both focuses on modern day Empiral bases and Republic bases