"So this is your Secret Base? It isn't in the oasis, but it's not far from it either. No wonder it's never been discovered."
Mu sat before the campfire, sipping a steaming drink while surveying the surrounding scenery with interest.
Since the sun had only just risen over the horizon, the desert temperature was still very low and would not gradually rise for another two or three hours.
Combined with the fact that many families in the camp needed fires to cook, simple lit stoves could be seen everywhere.
Some used solid chemical combustibles, while others used things like alcohol, kerosene, and Gas Canisters.
In short, there was a wide variety of them. As long as something could burn, it was used as fuel.
That alone showed just how severe the energy crisis had become on this ancient land of North Africa.
The emergence of Gene Adjustment and Modification Technology in this world had created a vast number of intelligent and physically strong "Newtypes," who in turn rapidly advanced the development and application of Science and Technology.
By the eve of the war, even the least developed nations had acquired Nuclear Fusion Power Generation Technology, bringing human society into an age of nearly limitless energy.
Unfortunately, after the Bloody Valentine tragedy, the ZAFT Army retaliated by deploying countless Neutron Jammers across Earth. Many affected Nuclear Fusion Power Plants were directly crippled, while others simply ceased operating.
Other than a handful of resource-rich superpowers like the Atlantic Federation, which could rebuild Nuclear Fusion Power Plants in unaffected regions or temporarily substitute fossil fuels to protect their industry and major cities,
the remaining smaller nations all fell into collapse.
Unfortunately, North Africa, which had been directly invaded and occupied by the ZAFT Army, was a typical hard-hit region.
One only had to