Recaps

Xiao Ran led Sven and the other pilots to Gibraltar to meet Durandal and discuss joining forces against LOGOS. The four new units and their pilots arrived safely, while the leaders prepared to negotiate the forces and terms of the coming campaign.

• Luo completed four nuclear-powered units, including Emilio’s transforming quadrupedal unit, and Xiao Ran took them and their pilots toward Gibraltar.
• Xiao Ran left Orb’s defense to the participants, Luo, Murrue Ramius, Mina, and her subordinates, then escorted the aircraft to Gibraltar in the Justice Gundam.
• Shinn’s Impulse Gundam, Athrun’s Blazing Tiger, and other ZAFT units escorted Xiao Ran’s group safely into the Gibraltar base.
• Xiao Ran greeted Durandal and joined him at the base, while Sven, Moody, Shams, and Emilio headed to the Second Archangel.
• Durandal hosted Xiao Ran and the Orb delegation at a formal dinner attended by senior ZAFT and PLANT officials, where both sides prepared to negotiate their campaign against LOGOS.

Xiao Ran and Durandal finalized plans to expose LOGOS and discussed how Orb and ZAFT would confront it. Xiao Ran committed Orb to the effort, beginning with limited forces and expanding its deployment after the revelations took effect.

• Xiao Ran assured Durandal that Orb would fight those who continued to support LOGOS and threaten peace.
• Durandal provided Xiao Ran with intelligence identifying LOGOS members, their associates, and key strongholds, including people connected to Orb.
• Xiao Ran said Orb's implicated figures had already been arrested and named additional people he wanted included in the public list.
• Xiao Ran and Durandal agreed not to interfere in each other's handling of Orb and PLANT or ZAFT while preparing to expose LOGOS.
• Xiao Ran said Orb would initially send the Second Archangel and three fleets alongside ZAFT, then commit all its forces after innocent people had separated from LOGOS.

Xiao Ran and Durandal agreed on Orb and ZAFT’s cooperation against LOGOS, while each secretly planned to outmaneuver the other after the Earth Force fell apart. The next morning, Athrun, Heine, and Lunamaria visited Xiao Ran, and Athrun told him that the press conference was scheduled for that afternoon.

• Xiao Ran and Durandal agreed that Orb would initially deploy three fleets against confirmed LOGOS forces and divided the spoils three parts to ZAFT and one to Orb.
• Xiao Ran and Durandal toured Gibraltar Base, then Durandal escorted Xiao Ran back to his room.
• Athrun visited Xiao Ran the next morning with Heine and Lunamaria, who thanked Xiao Ran for his hospitality and welcomed the chance to meet him.
• Xiao Ran spoke with the three visitors and asked Athrun what had brought them there.
• Athrun told Xiao Ran that Durandal had scheduled a press conference and speech for two that afternoon and asked him to arrive early.

Xiao Ran reviewed the Orb-ZAFT agreement and appeared with Gilhert Durandal at a press conference where Durandal accused the Earth Force of massacring civilians. Miriallia decided that she and Dearka would return to Orb after she spoke with Athrun.

• Xiao Ran hosted Athrun, Lunamaria, and Heine for breakfast, then planned how to build their trust in Orb.
• Xiao Ran reviewed the final agreement for the press conference and found its terms matched what he and Durandal had agreed upon.
• Miriallia recognized Xiao Ran, Athrun, and others at the press conference, then told Dearka she wanted them to return to Orb after she spoke with Athrun.
• Xiao Ran and Gilhert Durandal greeted the reporters and took their seats as cameras flashed.
• Durandal showed footage of Earth Force attacks on civilians and the Destroy Gundam, condemning the Earth Force for its atrocities.

Durandal publicly blamed LOGOS for perpetuating war and vowed to destroy it, then Xiao Ran endorsed his accusation and described how LOGOS manipulated the Earth Force. Xiao Ran began laying out Orb’s failures and his own experience in the Earth Force, leaving the reporters poised to hear more about LOGOS’s control.

• Durandal accused LOGOS of creating wars and revealed the identities and information of its members to the world.
• Xiao Ran praised Durandal, then took the microphone as reporters and representatives gathered around him.
• Xiao Ran acknowledged Orb’s concessions and failures to prevent war, mediate between ZAFT and the Earth Force, or expose LOGOS sooner.
• Xiao Ran said the Earth Force had left Junius 7 without assistance, then revealed that he had served aboard a LOGOS-commanded ship and disobeyed orders to help destroy the falling colony.
• Xiao Ran explained that LOGOS had deceived Earth Force soldiers and used them to fight for its own interests.

Xiao Ran declared war on LOGOS and urged Earth Force personnel to defect to Orb, triggering widespread rebellion and defections that weakened the Earth Force and strengthened Orb. As Durandal considered the threat posed by Orb’s rapid growth, he studied a document revealing an Earth Force and LOGOS superweapon on the Moon capable of destroying Orb.

• Xiao Ran declared Orb’s war against LOGOS, called on Earth Force personnel to leave, and promised Orb would protect those who defected within three months.
• Durandal realized Xiao Ran’s appeal would draw more defectors to Orb than to ZAFT, while civilians and Earth Force soldiers erupted into riots across Earth Force territories.
• Earth Force ships, aircraft, and MS units defected, and regions including the East Asian Federation withdrew from the Earth Force and joined PLANT and Orb.
• Xiao Ran returned to Orb aboard the Second Archangel as three fleets headed to the western Eurasian Federation to support the fight against LOGOS.
• Durandal chose to let the Earth Force fracture rather than attack, but worried that Orb’s growing strength threatened his plans.
• Durandal examined a photograph of a lunar superweapon jointly built by the Earth Force and LOGOS that could destroy Orb.

After returning to Orb, Xiao Ran triggered Main Mission Two and prepared to lead an operation against LOGOS, while also changing his plans to strike the Librarian before it could join forces with LOGOS. He coordinated with Durandal to attack the Librarian’s space base and assembled the Silver Hand and Orb forces for deployment.

• Mina welcomed former Earth Force soldiers into Orb, offering military service or legitimate identities and generous compensation for the ships and MS they brought.
• Cagalli tried to leave her residence to confront Xiao Ran but was stopped and returned to her room, while rumors about her conduct spread with Mina’s tacit approval.
• Xiao Ran’s return and press conference triggered Main Mission Two for him and the Orb faction, requiring participants to dismantle LOGOS and reach 60% individual completion.
• Xiao Ran reconsidered his plans after recalling the Librarian’s past cooperation with the Earth Force and decided to attack its headquarters before it could join forces with LOGOS.
• Xiao Ran contacted Durandal, who agreed to send ZAFT fleets and the Minerva to join Orb’s operation against the Librarian base.
• Xiao Ran gathered the Silver Hand and prepared to head into space, bringing the Kusanagi back into service because the Second Archangel could not carry all their MS.

Xiao Ran assembled Orb, ZAFT, and the Silver Hand for a joint operation to destroy the Librarian’s base. After the fleets converged in space, he began briefing their leaders on the threat they faced.

• Xiao Ran prepared to join the operation with Luo, while Mina stayed in Orb and Mayu remained behind for her safety.
• Luo completed a new twin-engine backpack for the Midnight Gundam, which Kira adjusted, while Athrun was assigned the black Savior Gundam.
• The Second Archangel and Kusanagi joined two ZAFT fleets in space, and Cruze’s Orb Fleet arrived at the rendezvous.
• The combined force headed deeper into space instead of toward the Moon, confusing the Earth Force, which had prepared defenses there.
• Bargyll briefed the assembled captains on intelligence and coordinates for the Librarian’s main base, then Xiao Ran warned them that its technology rivaled Orb’s and ZAFT’s.

Xiao Ran warned the fleet about the Librarian’s formidable forces and loaned Athrun a black Savior Gundam for the coming battle. As the fleet approached the hidden headquarters, Xiao Ran’s Justice Gundam accelerated and fired into the Mirage System’s concealment.

• Xiao Ran briefed the commanders on the Librarian’s powerful Photocopy Person pilots, advanced mobile suits, Mirage System, and unknown forces.
• Xiao Ran offered Athrun the black Savior Gundam, and Captain Talia agreed that Athrun would pilot it for the battle.
• Athrun returned to the Minerva in the Savior Gundam, surprising Lunamaria, who recognized the machine and asked about its origins.
• The fleet approached the Librarian’s hidden base, led by Xiao Ran’s Justice Gundam, Cruze’s Destiny Gundam Custom, and Luo’s Red Dragon Gundam.
• Xiao Ran’s Justice Gundam surged ahead and unleashed green rays at the Mirage System hiding the headquarters.

Xiao Ran unleashed Justice Gundam’s full GN Particle power and exposed the Librarian’s hidden base, starting a battle between the combined Orb and ZAFT fleet and a large enemy force. As the fighting began, Durandal suspected that Rau Le Creuset was piloting Destiny Gundam Custom and feared that he had joined Xiao Ran.

• Justice Gundam spread green GN Particles across the starfield as Xiao Ran used his Innovator abilities to process the battlefield’s information.
• Xiao Ran’s GN Dragoons destroyed several Mirage System-equipped units and revealed a massive structure and hidden MA near the fleet.
• Bargyll and Captain Talia ordered their warships to disperse and launch Anti-Beam Flares as enemy mobile suits emerged and attacked.
• Durandal ordered Meyrin Hawke to compare Destiny Gundam Custom’s movements with data for Rau Le Creuset and Destiny Gundam from two years earlier.
• Meyrin discovered that Cruze’s official record listed him as MIA, while Durandal worried that Cruze had allied with Xiao Ran and learned his plans.

Durandal grew fearful that Cruze and Orb were manipulating events, then learned Orb’s Destiny Gundam Custom closely matched ZAFT’s Destiny Gundam. Meanwhile, Xiao Ran’s forces battled the Librarian’s fleet, where specialized weapons countered Justice Gundam’s Dragon Fangs and left the fight unresolved.

• Durandal suspected Cruze had joined Orb and feared that Cruze, Xiao Ran, and Lacus could expose his role in Junius 7’s fall.
• Meyrin reported that Orb’s Destiny Gundam Custom shared an eighty-five-percent similarity with ZAFT’s Destiny Gundam, leaving Durandal stunned.
• Xiao Ran’s GN Dragoon detected and attacked Blitz Gundam derivatives, revealing the Librarian’s massive space base and triggering a battle between its forces and the United Forces.
• Cruze engaged the Fubuki Destiny Gundam, while Gena Londe’s Purple Astray Mirage Unit gained the upper hand against Red Dragon Gundam and its allies.
• A massive Librarian MA deployed anti-Dragon Fang weapons that destroyed several of Xiao Ran’s GN Dragoons and restricted Justice Gundam.
• Xiao Ran switched combat modes to fight at range and in melee, and the battle began to shift after Kira and Athrun joined the fight.

Xiao Ran abandoned long-range attacks and used Justice Gundam’s speed to fight back against the coordinated enemies that had restricted its GN Dragoons. Kira and Athrun joined the main battle, with Athrun engaging the Purple Mirage Unit while the others went to support the fleet.

• Kira and Athrun cleared the Blitz Gundam derivatives, then found the allied forces struggling against the Librarians’ units and the Purple Mirage Unit.
• Xiao Ran realized that enemy coordination and magnetic floating devices had neutralized Justice Gundam’s GN Dragoons, so he switched to high-speed close-range combat.
• Kira and Athrun rushed toward the main battlefield, and Kira asked Athrun to help Mu, Luo, and Billy against the Purple Mirage Unit.
• Athrun’s Black Savior Gundam attacked the Purple Mirage Unit, then engaged it directly as Luo, Mu, and Billy withdrew to assist elsewhere.
• Justice Gundam became a streak of red light and resumed its assault, while Black Savior Gundam and the Purple Mirage Unit fought at close range.

Xiao Ran used Justice Gundam to test his close-range combat skills after his GN Dragoons were restricted, cutting through the enemy formation and destroying both Freedom customs. He then flew toward the massive MA as the battlefield struggled to understand how he had escaped encirclement.

• Xiao Ran relied on Justice Gundam’s speed and evasive movements to charge through enemy fire toward a Freedom custom.
• Justice Gundam destroyed four units that tried to restrain it, then evaded another group and reached the first Freedom custom.
• Xiao Ran blocked the Freedom custom’s attacks with a GN Sword-type BIT shield and destroyed it with a Beam Saber through its cockpit.
• While enemy attacks and magnetic remote devices closed in, Justice Gundam vanished and reappeared near the second Freedom custom, which soon exploded.
• Justice Gundam flew toward the massive MA, leaving Kira and Durandal stunned by how Xiao Ran had escaped encirclement.

Xiao Ran redirected Justice Gundam to support the main battle after discovering Midnight Gundam could counter the giant MA’s magnetic weapons. With Kira assigned to destroy the MA, Xiao Ran entered the melee and began a devastating assault on the Librarians.

• Durandal watched Justice Gundam appear elsewhere and suspected its teleportation-like movement came from the green particles.
• Kira followed Xiao Ran and launched Midnight Gundam’s Dragon Fangs, which proved immune to the magnetic floating devices.
• Xiao Ran recognized that Midnight Gundam’s Yasakani no Magatama Armor protected its Dragon Fangs from the magnetic weapons and ordered Kira to take on the giant MA.
• Xiao Ran redirected Justice Gundam to the fiercest fighting and requested replacement GN Dragon Fangs from Bargyll aboard the Second Archangel.
• Justice Gundam joined the battle with its GN Dragon Fangs and Sword-type BIT, beginning a slaughter of the Librarians.

Xiao Ran halted the battle after Prea requested surrender and offered information about the Librarians’ worldwide bases and plans. Prea asked for help rescuing the Photocopy Persons, and Xiao Ran agreed on the condition that all Photocopy Person data and those being manufactured were destroyed.

• Xiao Ran’s Justice Gundam overwhelmed the enemy forces, while Prea’s damaged Blizzard Destiny Gundam approached and asked to stop fighting.
• Xiao Ran ordered his forces to cease combat, and Talia relayed the order to ZAFT with Durandal’s approval; Prea also began withdrawing the Librarians’ forces.
• Prea offered to surrender and reveal the locations of Photocopy Person bases and the people controlling them, explaining that the Librarians planned to seize power across Earth and space.
• Xiao Ran questioned Prea about special Photocopy Persons and considered whether accepting the surrender would satisfy his Side Mission.
• Prea asked Xiao Ran to rescue his compatriots and provide them a place to survive, and Xiao Ran agreed on the condition that all Photocopy Person data and those being manufactured were destroyed.

Xiao Ran destroyed the Librarians’ bases and dealt with their Photocopy Persons, but the Side Mission remained incomplete, forcing him to seek a way to neutralize the related clones. After the mission deadline passed, Orb and ZAFT launched their assault on the United Forces’ LOGOS headquarters, where the fighting caused heavy losses.

• After accepting Prayer’s surrender, Xiao Ran ordered the Librarians’ space base destroyed, had its Technicians executed, and arranged for the Photocopy Persons to be searched and detained under joint Orb and ZAFT custody.
• Orb and ZAFT led a global campaign that dismantled the Librarians’ remaining bases, equipment, and cloning facilities, but Xiao Ran received no Side Mission completion notice.
• Xiao Ran ordered Photocopy Persons made from alien genes dealt with and began forcibly applying Enhanced Human Technology to the human-based clones, hoping genetic changes would remove the threat they posed.
• After Xiao Ran’s deadline for the United Forces passed, Orb and ZAFT joined other powers to attack the United Forces’ coastal headquarters, where LOGOS members had gathered.
• Xiao Ran piloted Justice Gundam into the battle while Mayu piloted Midnight Gundam, and the attackers suffered heavy losses against eight Destroy Gundams before all eight were destroyed.

Xiao Ran destroyed Gabriel’s escape shuttle and killed the LOGOS leader, prompting the Earth Force base to surrender. With LOGOS defeated on Earth, Xiao Ran warned that the conflict was not over and prepared Orb for a coming struggle over the Moon Base and Requiem as Durandal traveled to meet him.

• Xiao Ran pursued and destroyed a decoy Shuttlecraft, then used the Justice Gundam’s GN Particle perception to locate Gabriel aboard a second shuttle.
• Xiao Ran fired the Phantom Energy Cannon into the shuttle’s launch passage, killing Gabriel and other LOGOS members; he refused the mission prompt to end the mission at 80% completion.
• The Earth Force base surrendered, its remaining LOGOS members were captured, and Orb, ZAFT, and other factions began occupying the base and rescuing the wounded.
• Xiao Ran told Bargyll that the next conflict would involve both ZAFT and the Earth Force Moon Base, and ordered Orb to take supplies before handing the base to ZAFT.
• The Minerva requested a meeting, and Bargyll relayed that Durandal was coming to meet Xiao Ran aboard the Second Archangel.

After the Earth Force base fell, Xiao Ran outlined a path to peace when Durandal asked about the world’s future. Durandal’s questions about the Martian system exposed the flaws in his own plan, and he left the conversation unsettled.

• Orb, ZAFT, and the cooperative factions secured the surrendered Earth Force base and guarded its prisoners and equipment.
• Durandal boarded the Second Archangel with Talia, Athrun, and Heine, then met with Xiao Ran, Bargyll, and Mu.
• Durandal asked Xiao Ran how the world could achieve lasting peace after the Earth Force was defeated.
• Xiao Ran proposed resolving Natural-Coordinator tensions, forming a joint international force, and eventually directing humanity toward deep-space development.
• Durandal raised Mars’s genetically assigned occupations and questioned how a shared organization could prevent officials from favoring their own nations.
• Xiao Ran challenged the Martian system’s fairness and feasibility, leaving Durandal silent and uncertain about imposing his Destiny Plan.

Durandal abandoned the Destiny Plan after recognizing that opposing Xiao Ran and Orb would lead to defeat, and he supported creating a new organization to replace the Earth Alliance. He disclosed the Alliance’s Requiem superweapon and asked whether Shinn and Ray would side with Orb if ZAFT fought it, leaving Xiao Ran to answer.

• Durandal agreed that the Martian social structure would not suit Earth and proposed that Xiao Ran lead a new organization to replace the Earth Alliance.
• Durandal warned Xiao Ran that the Alliance had completed Requiem and proposed an immediate assault on the Moon Base to destroy it; Xiao Ran agreed.
• Durandal asked to meet Cruze, and Xiao Ran arranged for Bargyll to contact him at Heaven’s Pillar.
• Durandal asked whether Shinn and Ray would choose Orb if ZAFT came into conflict with it, and Xiao Ran inferred that Durandal had abandoned the Destiny Plan.
• Durandal confirmed that he had given up the plan, saying ZAFT could not defeat Orb and that humanity’s future should not be limited by genes.

Xiao Ran and Durandal openly discussed their plans, the loyalties of Shinn, Ray, and Athrun, and the creation of a new Earth Sphere alliance. After Cruze arrived, Xiao Ran left Durandal to speak with him privately while forces began dismantling LOGOS and Blue Cosmos.

• Xiao Ran warned Durandal that Cruze and Ray would oppose the Destiny Plan and explained that he had sent Shinn to ZAFT as a precaution.
• Xiao Ran clarified that Shinn, Ray, and Athrun had not betrayed ZAFT and said their choices in a war with Orb would be their own.
• Durandal agreed to let the three decide their roles, and Xiao Ran assigned Athrun to lead Orb's deployed forces.
• Xiao Ran and Durandal discussed forming an independent military alliance for the Earth Sphere, while Xiao Ran remained focused on securing Orb and completing Main Mission Three.
• Cruze arrived aboard the Second Archangel, and Xiao Ran left Durandal and Cruze alone to talk.
• Xiao Ran went to the bridge as forces used intelligence from captured LOGOS members to target LOGOS and Blue Cosmos.

After Cruze persuaded Durandal to abandon the Destiny Plan, Xiao Ran and Cruze arranged a new international institution to replace the Earth Force and considered Durandal as its head and Lacus as PLANT’s next chairman. Orb and ZAFT withdrew from the former Earth Force base as the new organization took shape, while Xiao Ran completed Side Mission One and received an A-Class skill and a backpack component; Side Mission Two then tasked him with sending the Photocopy Person corps to Mars.

• Durandal apologized to Athrun for leaving ZAFT, and Durandal accepted his explanation before agreeing to promote Xiao Ran’s proposal to other factions.
• Cruze revealed that he had discussed the Destiny Plan and Junius 7 with Durandal, who had chosen to abandon his plan and avoid conflict with Orb.
• Xiao Ran and Cruze proposed making Durandal head of the new institution and having Lacus take over PLANT.
• Xiao Ran ordered Orb to withdraw from the former Earth Force base after securing its research materials and technicians, while ZAFT also withdrew and promoted the new institution as the base’s future headquarters.
• Side Mission One completed, granting Xiao Ran fifty thousand Merit Points, ten attribute points, the A-Class skill Instant Burst, and the B-Class Light Wheel Thruster component.
• Prometheus assigned Xiao Ran Side Mission Two: provide a Colony Satellite for the Photocopy Person corps and send it to the Mars colony.

After Orb completed its campaign against LOGOS, Xiao Ran learned that Requiem would fire in twenty-four hours and rushed to mobilize forces for an assault on the Earth Force Moon Base. The chapter ended with Durandal agreeing to help Orb get the Second Archangel and the scattered Silver Hand into space within three hours.

• Xiao Ran piloted Justice Gundam through Earth battles as Orb wiped out LOGOS and the Earth Force remnants, while Orb and ZAFT prepared for the Moon Base assault.
• The Archangel rendezvoused with Cruze's fleet at Heaven's Pillar, joined by Orb pilots, Lacus, and the Eternal; Dearka, Miriallia, and Prea also joined the force.
• After the final LOGOS factory was destroyed, Xiao Ran received an S-rank mission reward and learned that Requiem would fire in twenty-four hours unless the Earth Force was eliminated and its Moon Base captured.
• Xiao Ran hurried to the Second Archangel and ordered Bargyll to send Orb's remaining forces, the Silver Hand, and the ship into space as quickly as possible.
• Xiao Ran informed Durandal that Requiem might target PLANT or Orb and asked him to coordinate support to get the Second Archangel and Silver Hand into space within three hours.
• Durandal saw the countdown, agreed to act immediately, and asked whether Orb needed further assistance.

With Requiem set to fire within twenty-four hours, Xiao Ran and Durandal rushed to get their forces into space and stop the attack. Xiao Ran left the Second Archangel’s crew to prepare the ship for launch and headed toward space aboard a Shuttlecraft carrying the Justice Gundam.

• Durandal agreed to mobilize nearby units and seek help from other powers to send Orb’s Silver Hand and the Second Archangel into space.
• Mina Lund proposed using modules from an Izumo-class Warship to launch the Second Archangel, and Xiao Ran approved the plan and requested Luo and additional personnel.
• Xiao Ran told Bargyll to coordinate assistance with Durandal, then launched in the Justice Gundam to rendezvous with Cruze and join the battle.
• Haro piloted the Justice Gundam to Doria Base, where ZAFT personnel loaded it into a Shuttlecraft.
• The Shuttlecraft departed with Xiao Ran aboard and broke through Earth’s gravity toward space.

Xiao Ran joined Durandal aboard ZAFT’s carrier as the fleets assembled for an attack on the Earth Force Moon Base. After reviewing the plan and the threats posed by Requiem and nuclear weapons, he approved the operation and ordered the forces to follow Mina’s arrangements.

• Xiao Ran arrived at Durandal’s carrier and learned that ZAFT and Orb had extended fleet assembly to eight hours, leaving sixteen hours before the attack.
• A ZAFT commander briefed Xiao Ran on the planned assault, including a second assembly point and a force intended to destroy Requiem while the main fleet engaged the Moon Base.
• Xiao Ran ordered the Second Archangel and Orb Fleet at Heaven’s Pillar to attack the Earth Force fortress, and directed the Second Archangel’s captain to exchange duties with Captain Bargyll’s after joining the fleet.
• Durandal told Xiao Ran that ZAFT had found only two Requiem relay points, while the enemy fleets might carry nuclear warheads and the Moon Base could fire Requiem early.
• Xiao Ran judged that neither Requiem nor Genesis would be usable at the start of battle and approved the existing battle plan, saying he would accompany the carrier as it changed course.

Xiao Ran told Durandal about his ultimate weapons and proposed making him the leader of a new independent organization after the war, then joined the Orb-ZAFT forces preparing to fight the Alliance. The chapter ended as the Minerva sounded an alarm, signaling the battle was about to begin.

• Xiao Ran left the command center with Durandal and warned him that Orb could not sustain a prolonged war, while revealing weapons capable of destroying Requiem and Messiah.
• Xiao Ran proposed that Durandal lead a new organization after the Alliance was defeated, and Durandal agreed to consider the position.
• Xiao Ran explained that Lacus should remain in PLANT so that her influence could be balanced, and he said he would support Durandal's leadership.
• Xiao Ran piloted Justice Gundam to the rendezvous point where ZAFT's Earth-orbit fleet and the Minerva were assembled for the coming battle.
• Xiao Ran boarded the Minerva, and an alarm sounded shortly after Captain Talia arranged for him to rest.