Recaps

Xiao Ran brought Dragon, Fatty, and Skeleton into the Fleet World, then returned to Prometheus and prepared to meet the Overlord Legion. The chapter ended as Xiao Ran and the Overlord Legion’s leader exchanged greetings.

• Xiao Ran brought Dragon, Fatty, and Skeleton from the OG World into the Fleet World, where the Bug Queen and Primal Demon frightened them into abandoning thoughts of reviving Dark Brain.
• After Retention Time ended, Xiao Ran returned to Prometheus and sent the group’s units to Luo for inspection and maintenance.
• Luo told Xiao Ran that meetings with three Legions had been arranged, beginning with the Overlord Legion, which had an S-class Pilot but no Faction Territory.
• Xiao Ran brought Cruze and Luo to the meeting with the Overlord Legion in the Legion Hall, where its leader and a red-haired woman were already waiting.
• The Overlord Legion’s leader put away his book, greeted Xiao Ran, and exchanged a gesture of respect with him.

Xiao Ran, Cruze, and Luo met with the Overlord Legion’s leaders, Naza and Fardes, to discuss future cooperation. They exchanged information about their legions, with the Burning Legion revealing its pilots, territory, and technology.

• Fardes introduced himself as an A-Class Pilot and deputy commander of the Overlord Legion, then identified Naza as its S-class Legion Leader.
• Naza greeted Xiao Ran, Cruze, and Luo bluntly, criticizing Xiao Ran and Cruze while complimenting Luo.
• Xiao Ran responded warmly to Naza’s directness and suggested they sit down to talk.
• Naza described the Overlord Legion’s eleven elite pilots and its ability to acquire warships and units despite lacking a Faction Territory.
• Xiao Ran revealed that the Burning Legion had twenty A-Class Pilots, was recruiting, and possessed a Faction Territory and extensive technology.

Xiao Ran revealed the Burning Legion’s strength to Naza, prompting Fardes to explain the Overlord Legion’s history and communal structure. The chapter left Xiao Ran understanding that the Overlord Legion’s growth was limited by its lack of stable income and a Faction Territory.

• Xiao Ran told Naza that the Burning Legion had twenty A-Class Pilots and a Faction Territory, making Naza take him more seriously.
• Naza praised the Burning Legion’s strength, and Xiao Ran said its members had built that strength through their own efforts.
• Fardes explained that Naza had founded the Overlord Legion after leaving her former legion and becoming an S-Class Pilot.
• Fardes described the Overlord Legion’s ten A-Class Pilots, sixty-four B-Class Pilots, two Technicians, and three warships, along with its practice of pooling and sharing resources.
• Xiao Ran pointed out that the Overlord Legion relied on mission rewards and lacked stable income, while Fardes said recruiting more members without a Faction Territory could cause the legion to collapse.

Xiao Ran questioned Fardes and Naza about the Overlord Legion’s value and its need for a partnership, while revealing the Burning Legion’s extensive resources. He learned that Naza had started a Legion War and sought warships and technical support, leaving Xiao Ran to consider an alliance with the Overlord Legion at stake.

• Xiao Ran described the Burning Legion’s generous supplies and asked Fardes what the Overlord Legion could offer, what it wanted, and what enemies it faced.
• Fardes said his legion hoped to form a strategic alliance and could share mission-acquired technology, but lacked a Faction Territory and other notable assets.
• Naza offered access to the Overlord Legion’s Warehouse and her guidance on advancing A-Class Pilots to S-class, while Cruze hinted that the legion faced serious trouble.
• Naza asked for warships and mech technical support, with payment delayed until after another mission, and Xiao Ran asked what had put the legion under pressure.
• Naza revealed that she had initiated a Legion War; victory would bring rewards, but defeat would make the Overlord Legion disappear from Prometheus forever.

Xiao Ran agreed to provide Naza’s Overlord Legion with warships and technical support in exchange for equivalent value. After Fardes explained the difference between Full-scale and Normal Legion Wars, Xiao Ran, Luo, and Cruze realized the Burning Legion could bring overwhelming territorial combat power into a war.

• Xiao Ran agreed to supply Naza’s Overlord Legion with warships and technical support, with Luo coordinating its unit requirements.
• Naza agreed to open the Overlord Legion’s Warehouse to the Burning Legion after the units had been delivered.
• Fardes explained that Full-scale Legion Wars were decisive battles fought during Special Missions, while Normal Legion Wars were smaller conflicts that required advance agreement.
• Fardes said territorial forces could contribute Legion Combat Power Index in Legion Wars, while territory-less legions such as the Overlord Legion had none to bring.
• Xiao Ran, Luo, and Cruze laughed after recognizing that the Burning Legion could draw on immense combat power from its Faction Territories.

Xiao Ran learned that the Overlord Legion had been forced into a Legion War against a much larger former ally and offered to help after identifying the enemy territory as Gundam X. He agreed to consider joining as an ally on the condition that Naza and Fardes follow his orders whenever he makes a specific request.

• Fardes explained that Legion Wars could involve multiple legions and that refusing a challenge required the targeted legion to pay compensation.
• Xiao Ran and Cruze inferred that the Overlord Legion had refused a Full-scale Legion War and declared a normal-scale war in response.
• Naza offered the Burning Legion the chance to join as allied reinforcements, who could withdraw from the mission if they encountered danger.
• Fardes described the enemy legion's forces, Newtypes, and territory, while Naza revealed she had once belonged to that legion.
• Xiao Ran recognized the enemy territory as Gundam X and agreed that the Burning Legion could take part if the Overlord Legion followed his specific orders.

Xiao Ran and Cruze planned how to cooperate with the Overlord Legion, while Xiao Ran also considered the value of its warehouse and the chance to investigate Faction Territory affiliations. Over three days, the Burning Legion established preliminary ties with the Leap and Heavy Shield Legions, with the latter buying a New Macross Class; the Overlord Legion remained its closest prospective partner.

• Xiao Ran and Cruze agreed that the Overlord Legion would probably accept their terms and planned to join it in the next Legion Wars mission using the Burning Legion.
• Xiao Ran said El-Elf might change the original plan, while Renard and Luo prepared to receive the Overlord Legion's units and learn the Pilots' needs.
• Xiao Ran met Ai Wu of the Leap Legion and Wism and Koruxi of the Heavy Shield Legion, exchanging basic information and establishing preliminary communication with both Legions.
• The Heavy Shield Legion spent twenty-one million Merit Points to buy a New Macross Class from Xiao Ran.

Xiao Ran learned more about Prometheus’s powerful legions and established trade terms with the Overlord, Leap, and Heavy Shield Legions. He then sparred with Naza and was defeated in five minutes, giving him his first direct measure of an S-class Pilot’s strength.

• Xiao Ran learned that several legions possessed Faction Territories and that at least three S-class Pilots existed, while the Overlord Legion stood out as especially bizarre.
• Xiao Ran sent confidentiality agreements and different specialty-goods catalogs to the Overlord, Leap, and Heavy Shield Legions, and all three agreed to the terms.
• Xiao Ran offered the Overlord Legion better goods and prices because he planned to turn it into the Burning Legion’s enforcer, shield, and sparring partner.
• Xiao Ran brought Naza to the training ground and sparred with her before the others.
• Naza defeated Xiao Ran in five minutes, showing him the gap between an A-class Pilot and an S-class Pilot while demonstrating that Xiao Ran was still capable of putting up a fight.

Xiao Ran faced Naza in a second training battle after his allies assessed how decisively she had outmatched him. He activated his full power and launched a coordinated assault, but Naza calmly summoned a shield and sword as the attacks closed in.

• Graham told Cruze that Naza could defeat him in minutes and explained how her foresight had let her evade Xiao Ran’s attacks.
• Cruze and Graham discussed Naza’s unusual abilities and waited for her to explain them.
• Xiao Ran recalled how Naza had evaded his perception and struck a vital point during their first battle.
• Xiao Ran entered his Innovator state, activated Quantum Assimilation, and charged at Naza with Daybreak.
• Xiao Ran’s GN Dragoons, four small units, and close-range strike converged on Naza’s mecha, but she remained composed and drew a Kite Shield and golden longsword.

Xiao Ran struggled to land a hit on Naza, whose S-class Knight Mobile Suit countered his attacks with shields, afterimages, and a Sword Whip. Naza explained that her machine’s distortion field and her ability to sense aura let her anticipate his movements, leaving Xiao Ran without an opening as the duel continued.

• Xiao Ran’s chest cannon attack missed when Naza used her machine’s afterimages to evade it.
• Xiao Ran quantized away from Naza’s counterattack, but her circling Golden Sword guarded against his teleportation attacks.
• Naza’s Sword Whip struck toward Xiao Ran as he appeared above her, forcing him to quantize away before he could attack.
• Xiao Ran admitted he could find no opening, and Naza told him that her S-class machine’s distortion field could manipulate space and conceal weapons and shields.
• Naza explained that she sensed Xiao Ran’s aura to predict where he would appear, and warned that his perception could not reliably detect her.

Xiao Ran learned Naza’s view of the gap between A-Class and S-class Pilots, including their rank suppression, control of presence, and conceptual abilities. He then arranged a group training battle against Naza, where six A-Class Pilots began attacking her together.

• Naza explained that S-class Pilots surpassed A-Class Pilots through rank-based suppression, personal qualities, and a higher state of attainment.
• Xiao Ran considered Naza’s explanation and recalled the overwhelming presence of the Native Species BOSS, gaining a faint insight into rules and conceptual power.
• Xiao Ran asked Naza to spar against the group, and she agreed despite her limited freedom to refuse.
• Cruze, Basak, Luo, Naluo, and Graham joined Xiao Ran in the training space and prepared to fight Naza.
• Naluo opened with a sniper shot as Basak, Luo, and Graham charged, while Cruze controlled the battlefield and Xiao Ran prepared his attack.
• Naza found the six-Pilot assault troublesome and felt the greatest pressure from Naluo’s sniping, Xiao Ran’s bombardment, and Cruze’s battlefield control.

Naza used her S-class Knight Mobile Suit’s space-distorting fields to separate and threaten the six A-Class Pilots, but Xiao Ran and Cruze found ways to disrupt her abilities. The chapter ended with Naza admitting that the six could force her to flee, while Xiao Ran declared they could counter her field and leave unharmed.

• Naza expanded her distorted fields across a vast area, cutting Basak, Luo, and Graham off from Xiao Ran’s perception and destroying several of Cruze’s GN Dragoons.
• Cruze detonated a Large MED Warhead, whose black hole swallowed Naza’s fields and exposed the mecha caught inside them.
• Luo shoved Basak out of danger and charged Naza, while Xiao Ran fired; their attacks clashed with Naza’s field, severing Luo’s arm but barely damaging Naza’s mecha.
• Naza used distorted space to evade Xiao Ran’s sword and redirect his beams back at him, then explained the limits of her field and acknowledged the threat posed by the six Pilots.
• Xiao Ran concluded that the six could interfere with Naza’s distortion and force her to retreat without suffering losses.

Xiao Ran used Dawn’s T-LINK system and psychokinesis to prepare an attack capable of interfering with Naza’s Space Distortion. Naza fought through his allies’ defenses and nearly struck Dawn’s charging cannon, but a precisely timed shot knocked her sword aside.

• Xiao Ran explained that psychokinesis could interfere with Naza’s field distortion and told Cruze, Luo, Basak, and Graham to create an opening.
• Xiao Ran concentrated GN Particles and psychokinesis into Dawn’s weapons as Naza charged and launched a crescent-shaped distorted field at him.
• Graham attacked the field head-on while Cruze used a Reaction Warhead to delay Naza, but her Knight Mobile Suit emerged through its defensive field.
• Naza broke through Luo and Basak’s combined attack and used Space Distortion to send her Golden Sword toward Dawn’s cannon.
• An unidentified shot struck the Golden Sword and deflected it just before impact, and Xiao Ran shouted, “Now!”

Xiao Ran and his allies defeated Naza in a training exercise, then spent the final week preparing for the Legion War. With the mission about to begin, the Eshe Squad was assigned to receive the newcomers while Xiao Ran’s team prepared to deploy with Renard as technical support.

• Xiao Ran used his psychic power and his allies’ support to break through Naza’s field distortion and damage her Knight Mobile Suit, ending their training fight.
• Xiao Ran and Naza agreed to stop the exercise and continue training together before the mission.
• The Overlord Legion’s mobile suits were returned, and Xiao Ran postponed taking valuable items from its warehouse until after the Legion War.
• Xiao Ran kept his distance from the Overlord Legion while both sides made their final preparations for the mission.
• The Eshe Squad was assigned to receive newcomers, while Renard joined Xiao Ran’s team as technical support.

Xiao Ran arrived in Mecha Wars V with his faction forcibly locked to the Earth Federation and learned that his team could not contact either the Overlord Legion or the Federation. The team began identifying their scattered world-specific affiliations, leaving Xiao Ran to investigate their location and the situation in this unfamiliar world.

• Xiao Ran reviewed his Mission World briefing, which identified him as an Earth Federation colonel and warned him not to reveal anything about Prometheus Fortress.
• Xiao Ran considered how the Mars War, Newtypes, and Coordinators might connect this world to familiar settings and decided to learn more about it.
• Moses reported that the team could reach neither the Overlord Legion nor the Earth Federation, while Billy said they appeared to be near the Solar System.
• Cruze revealed that he was an unaffiliated person wanted by the Federation, and Graham said he was an A-Laws ace temporarily assigned to Xiao Ran.
• Mwu identified himself as an Orb Akatsuki Works technician, Renard as a Mithril wanted criminal, and Zechs said his identity had no special features.

After the Burning Legion appeared near the Solar System, Xiao Ran’s group intercepted the arriving Yamato and its seven machines. Xiao Ran identified himself as a commander of the Earth Federation Independent Operations Force, but the Yamato’s captain suspected he came from another world and requested a discussion.

• Moses detected a powerful gravitational wave nearby, so Xiao Ran canceled the order to head for Earth and sent the team to investigate.
• Sheryl reported that a warship and seven machines had arrived; Xiao Ran and his allies recognized the Yamato and several familiar machines among them.
• Xiao Ran led five companions out in their machines and ordered them not to attack first as they faced the Yamato’s force.
• A woman speaking for the Yamato demanded their identities and affiliation, and Xiao Ran identified himself as Colonel Commander of the Earth Federation Independent Operations Force.
• The Yamato’s crew opened video communication, and a bearded old man in a white naval cap said he suspected Xiao Ran was from another world and asked to talk.

Xiao Ran and Mwu boarded the Yamato to speak with Captain Juzo Okita and learn more about the Federation in this world. After Tactical Officer Kodai Susumu welcomed them, he asked to conduct a brief inspection before escorting them to Okita.

• Xiao Ran accepted Juzo Okita’s invitation, and Mwu accompanied him to the Yamato while El-Elf took command of the bridge and Cruze and Graham stayed alert.
• Xiao Ran and Mwu entered the Yamato in their units, where Xiao Ran noticed its interior was far more spacious than its exterior suggested.
• Kodai Susumu greeted Xiao Ran and Mwu on the hangar deck with armed soldiers standing by, and Xiao Ran challenged the need for such a guarded welcome.
• Xiao Ran introduced himself as a colonel and commander of the Independent Special Operations Unit, while Mwu identified herself as captain of the Burning Legion.
• Kodai Susumu welcomed them on behalf of the Yamato and its Federation, then requested a brief inspection before their meeting with Juzo Okita.

Xiao Ran and Mwu met Captain Juzo Okita aboard the Yamato and learned that a Space Jump had brought them to another world. Okita showed them Earth, devastated by Gamillas a year earlier, and the chapter ended with Xiao Ran condemning the defenders for failing to protect it.

• Juzo Okita welcomed Xiao Ran and Mwu to the Yamato's Captain's Room and apologized for his subordinates' inspection.
• Xiao Ran explained that the Burning Legion had arrived after a Space Jump and could no longer contact its own Federation headquarters.
• Juzo Okita showed Xiao Ran and Mwu an image of the devastated Earth and Moon, explaining that Earth had been normal a year earlier.
• Juzo Okita said Gamillas had attacked Earth with Planet Bombs that devastated its environment and killed countless people.
• Xiao Ran called the defenders trash for allowing Gamillas to destroy their home and kill civilians.

Xiao Ran confronted Juzo Okita and Kodai Susumu over Earth's defeat, then learned that humanity had one year left and that the Space Battleship Yamato planned to travel 160,000 light-years to find a way to save Earth. After Mwu confirmed the Burning Legion could make the round trip in about half a year, Xiao Ran appeared ready to join their mission.

• Xiao Ran called the soldiers useless for failing to protect Earth, and Kodai Susumu angrily challenged him.
• Juzo Okita defended the fallen soldiers as heroes, and Xiao Ran apologized for insulting them while maintaining his anger at the leaders who had failed.
• Xiao Ran asked about Earth's condition and Gamillas, and Juzo Okita explained that Earth would become uninhabitable within a year.
• Juzo Okita revealed that the Space Battleship Yamato was heading 160,000 light-years away to find a way to save Earth.
• Mwu contacted the Burning Legion and reported that a round trip to the Great Magellan Galaxy would take about half a year, astonishing Juzo Okita and Kodai Susumu.

Xiao Ran showed Juzo Okita how the Burning Legion had been upgraded with Zovok technology and agreed to fight alongside the Yamato on its mission. He stayed aboard as a guest to reassure the crew and awaited El-Elf while Mwu returned to the Burning Legion.

• The Burning Legion’s new Black Hole Engine array, Black Hole Cannon, Quantum Fluctuation Engine, and Zovok Space Jump equipment greatly increased its firepower and mobility.
• Xiao Ran told Juzo Okita that his unit’s capabilities were exceptional and asked for intelligence about the Federation, Earth, and Gamillas.
• Xiao Ran said he would accompany the Yamato’s journey as a battle, arguing that its crew lacked enough fighting strength to complete the mission alone.
• Xiao Ran stayed aboard the Yamato as a guest while Mwu returned to the Burning Legion and arranged for El-Elf to join him.
• Juzo Okita invited Xiao Ran and Mwu to tour the Yamato and attend its departure ceremony.

At the Yamato’s farewell festival, Xiao Ran promised to help its crew save Earth and humanity while warning that their forces were weak. He offered to upgrade several of their mecha and asked to meet Tetsuya and Ryoma, while expressing particular curiosity about the black machine.

• Xiao Ran and his companions joined the Yamato crew’s festival, where Juzo Okita introduced the Burning Legion as their new ally.
• Xiao Ran told the gathered crew that his team would support their 160,000-light-year journey and help defeat the threat Gamillas posed to Earth.
• Xiao Ran explained that only fifteen people operated the much larger Burning Legion, thanks to its artificial intelligence and specialized modifications.
• Xiao Ran offered to have two Technicians improve the Yamato’s Gundams, Huckebein, and Guren Gishin, and asked Okita to arrange a meeting with Tetsuya and Ryoma.
• Okita agreed to the meeting and welcomed the prospect of stronger mecha, while Xiao Ran noted the machines’ upgrade potential and singled out the black machine as mysterious.

After the festival, Xiao Ran and his companions reviewed information about the Yamato and its world while Juzo Okita’s crew analyzed their visitors and machines. Juzo Okita told the Yamato’s pilots that Xiao Ran’s group offered technical help and claimed they could defeat everyone aboard, leaving the pilots to consider cooperation with the newcomers.

• Xiao Ran stayed aboard the Yamato as a link between the ships and tasked El-Elf with gathering information while Saki Maski took care of him.
• Kaoru Niimi reported that Xiao Ran’s group seemed unusually calm in an unfamiliar world and described Xiao Ran as their imposing central figure.
• Yuki Mori assessed that the visitors’ machines were more advanced than the Yamato’s and could disrupt communications with green particles.
• Juzo Okita told the pilots that Xiao Ran could provide technical adjustments to several of their machines and wanted to exchange information with Ryoma and Tetsuya.
• Juzo Okita said Xiao Ran’s group claimed that any two of them could defeat everyone aboard the Yamato, and he believed them.

The Yamato prepared to leave the Solar System and completed its first test jump with the Burning Legion alongside it. Afterward, Ryoma, Tetsuya, Kim Kido, and Wilt visited Xiao Ran, leaving the group gathered in his room.

• Ryoma objected to Juzo Okita's warning about two people defeating them, but Kim Kido and Juzo argued that Xiao Ran's knowledge and advanced technology deserved caution.
• Juzo declared that the Yamato would depart the Solar System the next day and instructed everyone to contact their families while remaining vigilant around the Burning Legion.
• The Yamato began its first test jump, and Xiao Ran chose not to interfere with its journey or alter its route.
• The Yamato and the Burning Legion completed an uneventful, synchronized jump eight light-years beyond the Solar System.
• Ryoma, Tetsuya, Kim Kido, and Wilt visited Xiao Ran after the jump, joining Saki and El-Elf in his room.

Xiao Ran met with Kim Kido, Wilt, Ryoma, and Tetsuya and explained how Newtypes and Psychokineticists could use advanced mecha such as Gundams, Huckebein, and Guren Gishin. He offered to upgrade their machines and suggested that Kim Kido and the other Gundam pilot might possess Psychokinetic potential.

• Xiao Ran welcomed Kim Kido, Wilt, Ryoma, and Tetsuya and invited them to ask their questions.
• Xiao Ran explained that his world had several kinds of Gundams and said he recognized Huckebein because he possessed the technology behind it and Guren Gishin.
• Xiao Ran realized that Wilt was not a Psychokinetist and concluded that the Huckebein and Guren Gishin in this world were incomplete.
• Kim Kido told Xiao Ran that Mental Power Frames had disappeared and that Tobia might have Newtype potential.
• Xiao Ran estimated that advanced mecha and suitable Newtype pilots could have helped prevent Planet Bombs from reaching Earth.
• Xiao Ran offered to upgrade Huckebein, Guren Gishin, and the Gundams, and said Kim Kido and the other Gundam pilot might have Psychokinetic potential.

Xiao Ran explained Newtypes and Psychokinetists to the Yamato crew and revealed that his world had once obtained and sealed a white Getter prototype and its Getter Rays. Ryoma recognized the machine as a training Getter and urgently warned that its power was uncontrollable, while Xiao Ran said it could not currently be destroyed.

• Xiao Ran described how Newtypes and Psychokinetists used Mental Power and offered to modify the crew’s machines and teach them their abilities.
• Ryoma revealed that Mental Power technology and Gundams existed in his world, though he and Tetsuya did not know whether they came from the same world.
• Xiao Ran suggested that the gathering of people from three worlds might signal a great disaster, and Ryoma confirmed that monsters from his world had already appeared.
• Xiao Ran told Ryoma that his people had found and sealed a white, three-part Getter prototype and its dangerous energy source, which they called Getter Rays.
• Ryoma identified the white machine as a training Getter and urged Xiao Ran to destroy it, but Xiao Ran said the seal could not be opened with their current technology.