Recaps

After a day of relentless fighting against the BETA, Xiao Ran unleashed the Dawn Tactical Armor’s Quantum Assimilation, using GN Particles spread across all eight defensive lines to wipe out the BETA confronting them. Naza wondered whether Xiao Ran had already reached the threshold of an S-class Pilot.

• Mwu’s Drone Unit self-destructed, combining MDE warheads and Reaction Missiles to destroy roughly two-thirds of the densest BETA swarm.
• The defenders and Burning Legion fought for a full day, suffering mounting strain as the BETA continued to overwhelm the defensive lines.
• Mwu warned Xiao Ran that the Native inhabitants’ forces might soon collapse without reinforcements or replenishment.
• Xiao Ran ordered the teams to rest, then activated Quantum Assimilation and turned the GN Particles covering all eight defensive lines into a sweeping attack.
• Xiao Ran’s attack destroyed every BETA facing the eight lines, and he ordered everyone to return for rest, maintenance, and ammunition replenishment.
• Naza asked whether Xiao Ran’s attack meant he had touched the barrier of an S-class Pilot.

Xiao Ran destroyed billions of BETA in seconds by controlling GN Particles across an immense area, demonstrating growth that Naza believed brought him close to S-class. Naza explained that advancement required a solo promotion mission, but Xiao Ran decided to wait until he found a suitable third bloodline.

• Naza recalled how Xiao Ran had grown far stronger since their earlier sparring and recognized that his GN Particle control had become a true domain.
• Xiao Ran used the Dawn Tactical Armor to wipe out billions of BETA in seconds across multiple defensive lines.
• Naza told Xiao Ran that an A-Class Pilot needed to complete a solo promotion mission to become an S-class Pilot, and she believed he was ready for one.
• Xiao Ran said he would postpone the promotion mission until he found a suitable third bloodline, preferably one that improved his technical abilities.

Xiao Ran held back the BETA for more than thirty-six hours while resisting the temptation to merge completely with the Quantum Field. After the attacks ended, he returned to the Burning Legion and collapsed onto his bed when he released Quantum Assimilation.

• Xiao Ran maintained a planet-spanning GN Particle barrier for twelve hours, destroying every BETA that entered its range while enduring the strain and intrusive information of Quantum Assimilation.
• Xiao Ran resisted the lure of godlike power, deciding that he wanted to control the Quantum Field rather than merge with it.
• Sanger, Naza, Ingram, Basak, Luo, Cruze, Graham, and the other A-Class Pilots led selective interception operations while Xiao Ran remained at the defensive line.
• The local Earth defense forces collected BETA remains for their G Element as the Burning Legion's interceptions and Xiao Ran's barrier reduced the attacks.
• Xiao Ran sensed that no BETA remained, disengaged from Dawn's Tactical Armor, returned to the Burning Legion, and collapsed onto his bed after releasing Quantum Assimilation.

After recovering from his Quantum Assimilation, Xiao Ran learned that the BETA had lost unified command and were retreating across the Solar System. He recognized the resulting confusion as an opportunity to attack their nests before new Level 9 Nests appeared.

• Xiao Ran woke after three days of unconsciousness, feeling weak but without the severe headache he had suffered before.
• Xiao Ran went to the bridge, where Mwu told him that Ingram had taken a small group to Earth while the Burning Legion guarded Earth's defensive line.
• Mwu explained that BETA forces across the Solar System had withdrawn toward their planetary nests and were no longer coordinated, while some continued approaching Earth.
• Mwu reported that Yuzes could not predict when new Level 9 Nests would appear, but said the BETA would remain divided until then.
• Xiao Ran concluded that the BETA's lack of coordination made this the best opportunity to attack, and Mwu showed him the densely concentrated forces around their nests.

After the destruction of the Solar System’s only Level 9 Nest, Ingram announced humanity’s counteroffensive and Xiao Ran’s forces began clearing the planets, starting with Venus. They destroyed all fifteen Venusian nests and spent another week clearing the remaining BETA.

• With the BETA threat on Earth under control, Ingram returned to Earth and publicly announced the start of humanity’s counteroffensive throughout the Solar System.
• Ingram’s aides minimized the impact of Mars’s disappearance and emphasized the destruction of the Level 9 Nest, boosting public support for him.
• After recovering for another week, Xiao Ran led most of the Burning Legion away from Earth, while El-Elf, Cruze, and the remaining squads stayed to clear Earth’s BETA.
• Xiao Ran’s forces chose Venus as their first target and found fifteen nests, with the highest-level nests reaching Level 6.
• Over the course of a week, Xiao Ran’s forces destroyed all the Venusian nests after inspecting them and using MDE Bomb warheads.
• Xiao Ran’s forces spent another week clearing the remaining BETA from Venus.

Xiao Ran and the Burning Legion cleared BETA nests across the Solar System while humanity reclaimed its lost territory and advanced its technology. More than a year into the campaign, Ingram secured the Faction Territory Card, bringing the Legion closer to completing its mission and returning to Prometheus.

• Xiao Ran led the Burning Legion from Venus to the Moon, where they destroyed the Level Six nest in two or three days.
• The Legion applied its established tactics to clear BETA nests across the Solar System, focusing on eliminating Mind-class and Reactor-class threats.
• Over more than a year, humanity reclaimed the Moon, Earth, Venus, and Mars and destroyed Mind-class nests on Jupiter, Saturn, and other planets.
• Ingram's reputation rose as humanity's celebrated savior, and he eventually received the Faction Territory Card.
• Yuzes guided breakthroughs in G Element research, identifying eleven numbered elements and several possible applications.
• The Legion earned immense Merit Points from the campaign, though ammunition, drones, and other losses reduced its net profit.

After more than two years of fighting BETA, Xiao Ran submitted the mission at seventy percent completion and brought the exhausted Burning Legion back to Prometheus. He announced that the mission’s remaining Merit Points would be distributed and then went to turn the MUV World into a Faction Territory, where he planned to arrange immigration.

• The Burning Legion endured two years of BETA combat, consuming most of its ammunition and raising mission completion to seventy percent.
• Xiao Ran submitted the mission, and every Legion member returned to Prometheus rather than stay in the MUV World.
• Xiao Ran told the Legion that the mission earned more than two hundred million Merit Points, cost over sixty million, and would fund a year of rest before the remaining rewards were distributed.
• The Legion members celebrated the promised payouts, especially the Overlord Legion members, who had previously been required to surrender most of their earnings.
• The Legion entered Faction Territory to rest, while Xiao Ran went to the Legion Management Center and converted the MUV World into a Faction Territory.
• Xiao Ran prepared to arrange immigration between worlds.

Xiao Ran, Ingram, and the other leaders arranged a Great Human Migration after fleets from the parallel worlds entered the MUV World to help defend Earth and clear the Solar System. They chose the 0079 World as the destination, set a three-year timetable, and left the MUV World as a base for the Burning Legion while the legion began a year-long rest.

• Fleets from the SEED World, 0079 World, Fleet World, OG World, and Revolutionary Machine World entered the MUV World to support its defense and prepare for migration.
• Ingram explained the Parallel Worlds to the people of the MUV World and formally announced the Great Human Migration Plan.
• Xiao Ran, Ingram, and the others decided to resettle the population in the 0079 World, using its abandoned cities and satellites, and aimed to complete the move within three years.
• The leaders promoted migration as voluntary, but limited those allowed to remain on Earth to about fifty million people with special talents.
• Xiao Ran designated the MUV World as a Burning Legion training base, research base, and mission hub, then led the legion into a one-year rest period.

Xiao Ran oversaw the relocation of MUV World’s population, the eradication of BETA, and the settlement of the Insect Race while the allied worlds continued building safe habitats. After the legion distributed its mission rewards and returned to Prometheus, nearly every pilot below A-class advanced to B-class, leaving Xiao Ran with a stronger legion.

• More than a hundred million people were relocated from MUV World in six months, while the allied forces cleared BETA from the regions around Earth, the Moon, and Venus and advanced toward Jupiter.
• Xiao Ran explained to Sheryl that he refused to communicate with the BETA because they could not be reasoned with and he found them disgusting.
• Xiao Ran settled a colony of the Insect Race in Canada, where its members adapted uneasily to the BETA threat.
• Yuzes continued researching the BETA and G Element with Durandal, Kane, and others.
• Xiao Ran distributed Merit Points to legion members by rank and assigned the surplus to public expenses.
• After their Retention Time ended, the legion returned to Prometheus, where pilots below A-class strengthened themselves and nearly all advanced to B-class.

The Burning Legion prepared to use its Ultimate Mission Card and entered the Gundam W World during the events of Endless Waltz. Xiao Ran outlined a mission to defeat the Rebel Forces and secure peace, with Zechs and Cruze at its center.

• After a year in the MUV World, the pilots returned to Prometheus with enough experience and Merit Points to advance to B-class, and the Burning Legion equipped them with customized mechs.
• The Burning Legion gathered at its headquarters and chose the Gundam W World for its next mission, which Xiao Ran viewed as a relatively easy chance to rest.
• The Legion entered the world during Endless Waltz, where its mission was to suppress the Rebel Forces, protect Lilina, and achieve peace within a year.
• Zechs looked at Earth and reflected on returning to his world before agreeing with Cruze that it was time to begin the mission.
• Xiao Ran opened a combat conference with the fleet captains and identified Zechs and Cruze as central to the mission because of their high standing and past involvement in the world.

Xiao Ran assigned El-Elf to investigate the world's situation and search for Genesis while Zechs prepared to protect Lilina at an upcoming reception. As the team deployed, Xiao Ran suspected the year-long mission concealed a larger conflict.

• Xiao Ran warned the team that combat AI might replicate Cruze, Zechs, or Graham, and that Cruze's one-use Genesis could reappear.
• El-Elf gathered intelligence showing the New Federation remained politically divided, while Zechs learned that the Kingdom of Sangu faced severe economic hardship.
• Zechs said Lilina would attend a New Federation reception in space and planned to bring her to safety; Xiao Ran assigned Basak, two Small Macross-class ships, and several squads to accompany him.
• Cruze set out for Earth with Eshe Squad to meet old friends.
• Xiao Ran questioned why the mission lasted a year and worried that the Rebel Forces might trigger a full-scale war.

El-Elf uncovered the causes behind the growing unrest and a hidden force gathering on X18999 Colony Satellite. He warned Zechs that Lilina’s demilitarization regulation had created widespread enemies, while Trieze Kushrinada had been taken by the same movement.

• El-Elf’s investigation found that Trieze Kushrinada had disappeared, adding his whereabouts to the search.
• At X18999 Colony Satellite, El-Elf met Zechs and reported that more than a thousand mobile suits had been concealed there as construction materials.
• El-Elf explained that over seventy percent of the mobile suits meant to be destroyed under Lilina’s demilitarization regulation had instead been secretly relocated.
• El-Elf said mass dismissals, bankruptcies, and military discontent had fueled a secret alliance, whose members had taken Trieze Kushrinada.
• Zechs learned that the alliance might unite most of the world’s military strength and many powerful figures against Lilina’s regulation.

After learning that Lilina's disarmament policy had left the New Federation vulnerable, Xiao Ran sent forces to protect key government sites and reinforce Zechs. Meanwhile, Heero, Duo, Trowa, and Quatre faced the looming crisis without their original machines, which they had sent toward the sun.

• Xiao Ran read El-Elf's report and blamed Lilina's disarmament policy for enabling a rebellion against the New Federation.
• Mwu asked what the rebels would target next, and Xiao Ran predicted the New Federation government building and the Presidential Palace.
• Xiao Ran sent four A-Class Pilots and three teams to reinforce Zechs, ordered Cruze toward the government, and prepared to secure the Presidential Palace.
• Heero and Duo investigated the X18999 Colony Satellite, while Trowa investigated the Rebel Forces and was captured.
• Quatre led his subordinates in developing new machines, as Heero, Duo, Trowa, and Quatre regretted sending their old machines toward the sun.

Heero and Duo investigated suspicious activity on X18999 and discovered Zechs attending the New Federation reception. Zechs told Heero that over a thousand Mobile Suits were hidden in the satellite, then left to protect his sister as Caitlin held Duo at knifepoint.

• Heero and Duo watched the hotel reception and spotted Zechs in the plaza with El-Elf.
• Zechs recognized the two watchers and went to meet Heero after telling El-Elf to wait for incoming teams.
• Heero confronted Zechs at gunpoint and demanded to know why he had returned and what the satellite was hiding.
• Zechs revealed that the satellite concealed over a thousand Mobile Suits, including Vipers and units the New Federation should have scrapped.
• Zechs dismissed Heero's threat and left to protect his sister, while Caitlin caught Duo and held a dagger to his throat.

After Zechs reunited with Duo and Heero, El-Elf briefed him on the satellite takeover and the operation to protect Lilina and seize control. With the assault about to begin, Zechs and El-Elf entered the hotel and encountered armed enemies.

• Caitlin left, and Duo told Heero that she had subdued him so quickly he thought she had used magic.
• Heero and Duo discussed Zechs’s intelligence that more than a thousand MS were hidden on the satellite and had not been scrapped.
• El-Elf reported that the satellite was being seized by purple-uniformed forces, its communications and ports were sealed, and a support force would arrive in about ten minutes.
• El-Elf explained his teams’ plans to protect Lilina, secure the Spaceport, and take over the hotel while prioritizing the mission target’s safety.
• After three minutes, El-Elf opened a door and shot the armed people in the corridor; Zechs asked him not to kill them deliberately.

Zechs and El-Elf led the Burning Legion in an assault on the Rebel Forces-controlled satellite to reach Lilina and protect her. They reunited with Lilina in the banquet hall, where El-Elf began organizing the guests’ evacuation.

• Zechs asked El-Elf to spare the Rebel Forces soldiers’ lives, and the two charged through the corridor, subduing them as other Burning Legion members moved into position.
• Two Burning Legion women disguised as a server and a guest subdued Lilina’s followers and shielded Lilina in the banquet hall.
• The woman in the evening gown told Lilina that the mission was to protect her and that Zechs would arrive soon.
• Gunfire erupted outside, and the woman told Lilina that Rebel Forces had taken over the satellite while she and her partner moved into a defensive position.
• Zechs and El-Elf entered the banquet hall after its doors were blasted open, and Zechs went to Lilina.
• El-Elf told the more than two hundred guests to follow his instructions so they could escape the dangerous satellite safely.

El-Elf evacuated the reception at X18999 Satellite while Xiao Ran directed the operation and planned to secure the satellite and investigate the Rebel Forces. The Rebel Forces declared themselves the New Government Army, led by Trieze with Wufei at his side, and Cruze answered for the New Federation as the Burning Legion became its chief military support.

• El-Elf led the group out of the reception hall and toward the port, where Burning Legion and Overlord Legion forces opened a passage and suppressed the MS units outside.
• The W Team retrieved their units and blasted a path into the satellite while the rescue operation secured its New Federation personnel.
• Xiao Ran ordered El-Elf to safeguard the satellite and investigate the Rebel Forces, and sent the rescued people to Cruze.
• The Rebel Forces declared the establishment of the New Government Army, accused the New Federation’s disarmament policies of harming humanity, and gained widespread military and regional support.
• Trieze appeared publicly as the New Government’s leader, with Wufei standing behind him, and Cruze responded as the New Federation’s spokesperson by declaring that it would fight the Rebels.
• The New Federation’s limited forces left the Burning Legion as its main support against the Rebel Forces.

Xiao Ran and his advisers weighed how to stop Trieze’s New Government from plunging the W World into war, since military victory could leave the New Federation hated and prevent them from achieving peace. Cruze proposed persuading Trieze to dissolve the New Federation and form a new union, which would remove the label of Rebel Forces; the plan remained to be discussed.

• Xiao Ran considered how the New Federation had lost nearly all its military, territory, resources, and public support while the New Government gained backing across Earth and the colonies.
• The Burning Legion occupied the Presidential Palace and other New Federation cities, while Xiao Ran avoided direct war with the New Government Army.
• Xiao Ran asked Fardes for advice, and Fardes recommended avoiding or limiting war and winning back regions that supported the New Government.
• Cruze suggested that dissolving the New Federation and establishing a new union could make the Rebel Forces cease to exist as such.
• Xiao Ran asked Cruze to explain his idea, and Cruze pointed to the meeting Trieze had invited him and Zechs to attend.

Cruze and Zechs met Trieze aboard his yacht to ask why he was stirring up conflict and whether he was acting freely or as someone else’s pawn. Trieze challenged their strength and asked who their hidden boss was, then invited them to join him in pursuing lasting peace.

• Cruze and Zechs went unarmed to Trieze’s yacht, where he welcomed them with food, wine, and attendants.
• Cruze insisted they discuss the reason for the meeting before enjoying Trieze’s hospitality.
• Trieze claimed his actions upheld peace, while Cruze asked whether he was directing events or serving as a pawn.
• Zechs urged Trieze to stop the crisis and offered to resolve the New Federation government’s problems together; he warned that they would take Trieze away if he was a pawn.
• Trieze questioned whether Cruze and Zechs could defeat the Military Strength under his command and asked who their boss was and whether they would join his side.

Cruze urged Trieze to dissolve the New Government Army and join his side, arguing that his team could overpower the planet’s military. After Xiao Ran crippled a Colony Satellite’s defenses in space, Trieze took Cruze’s threat seriously but demanded to know who the team was and where its power came from.

• Cruze told Trieze that the New Government Army had to end and proposed that Trieze join his side, but Trieze refused to surrender the government.
• A messenger brought Trieze a phone, and he learned that one person had destroyed a Colony Satellite’s Defense Force in less than five minutes without killing anyone.
• Cruze revealed that Xiao Ran had piloted Dawning in the attack and said his team could defeat the planet’s military by force.
• Cruze compared Zechs and his team to Wufei, claiming they were stronger than the Gundam pilots and had superior machines, while Wufei swallowed his anger.
• Trieze asked whether Cruze’s team came from Mars or had another faction supporting it, and Cruze told him to trust Zechs.

Xiao Ran agreed to Trieze’s conditions for cooperating, while ordering El-Elf to quietly neutralize the factions that kept Trieze from controlling the New Government Army. Cruze and Zechs went their separate ways, and El-Elf’s operation to make Trieze the army’s true ruler began.

• Mwu told Xiao Ran that Trieze would cooperate if he could meet Xiao Ran, lead the new government, and ensure it did not become like the New Federation; Xiao Ran accepted all three conditions.
• Mwu explained that more than thirty-seven factions, regions, and corporations had helped create the rebellion, and Xiao Ran assigned El-Elf and the legion to deal with them discreetly.
• Trieze chose to cooperate with Cruze because he believed the Burning Legion’s strength could help him take control without further bloodshed.
• Cruze and Zechs left Trieze’s cruise ship and went their separate ways, with Cruze returning to the Presidential Palace and Zechs heading to the Kingdom of Sangu.
• The four members of Eshe Squad joined Wufei to protect Trieze and remove threats around him.
• After verifying Trieze’s intelligence, El-Elf began targeting key New Government Army figures through assassination and poison to make Trieze its true ruler.

El-Elf and Trieze coordinated a sweeping operation to seize control of the Rebel Forces and consolidate the New Government. As Trieze prepared to address the reception, he ordered Wufei to begin the operation.

• Trieze and Cruze secretly cooperated, while Trieze served as a figurehead for factions whose interests had driven the rebellion.
• El-Elf deployed the Burning Legion to key Rebel Forces bases and units, using Trieze’s orders to place their members in important positions.
• Trieze hosted a reception to gather influential New Government and military figures while El-Elf monitored the guests from a room overlooking the hall.
• El-Elf apologized to the battered Wufei for ambushing him, then told Trieze that nearly all expected guests had arrived and the operation was ready.
• Trieze told Wufei to pass the word and begin the operation.

Trieze and El-Elf seized control of the New Government and ended the rebellion, allowing the New Federation to form a new government and restore peace. As Xiao Ran went on vacation, Luo and the others began preparing advanced mecha and a battleship to protect Zechs’s sister and the Kingdom of Sangu.

• Trieze had soldiers surround the estate, killed a man who challenged him, and forced the gathered guests to accept his demands.
• Trieze took control of the New Government, announced the end of the war, and returned the Rebel Forces to the New Federation as an opposition party.
• Cruze announced the dissolution of the existing New Federation government and the formation of a new government that would cooperate with the opposition.
• Trieze’s new government took over the military and suppressed the remaining resistance, while Xiao Ran left the work of stabilizing the world to his allies.
• Luo and the others began building new Gundams for Heero, Duo, and their fellow pilots, while Xiao Ran arranged for Zechs to take a MACROSS Battleship and reserve mecha to protect the Kingdom of Sangu.

Luo explained how the Technicians could learn and reproduce technology rather than trying to memorize it, then identified several technologies from the world that were worth studying. He left the group with a plan to analyze Gundanium Alloy W and complete Puppet Mobility Technology while secretly mastering and improving the dangerous ZERO System.

• Luo told Renard, Ingram, Giliam, Yuzes, and Shirakawa Shuu that Technicians should study and reproduce new technology using methods they already knew instead of relying on memory.
• Luo described Gundanium Alloy W as a lightweight, heat-resistant armor material with poor fatigue resistance that could suit low-end mass-produced mecha.
• Luo explained that the legion's Puppet Mobility Technology and ZERO System were incomplete versions of the technologies found in this world.
• Luo said complete Puppet Mobility Technology could fully unleash mecha performance and work with unmanned machines or Super AI to replicate combat styles.
• Luo explained that the complete ZERO System could overwhelm pilots with predictions, suppress their emotions and physical limits, and potentially cause mental collapse.

Luo and the technical team researched three technologies while the others prepared for the end of their year in W World. Zechs secured the Kingdom of Sangu’s defenses and chose to bring Noin with him to Prometheus as the Burning Legion began its cosmic expansion.

• Luo, Yuzes, Shirakawa Shuu, and the others agreed to research the three technologies while leaving any practical use to Xiao Ran’s decision.
• During the year in W World, Zechs prepared forces for the Kingdom of Sangu, Cruze helped Trieze stabilize the world, and Luo’s team worked on technology.
• Cruze deflated Basak’s pride by questioning whether Basak’s new accomplishment had truly benefited him.
• Zechs gave Heero, Duo, Quatre, and Trowa five new mecha and asked them to form a Royal Guard, while Trieze submitted to their supervision.
• Noin insisted on following Zechs wherever he went, and Zechs eventually asked Xiao Ran to take her to Prometheus.
• Noin joined the Burning Legion as it announced the start of cosmic expansion and departed from W World.