Chapter Summaries

After returning to Prometheus, Xiao Ran gathered the Burning Legion’s leaders to organize the integration of twenty-one legions and prepare for the next stage. He assigned key administrative tasks, discussed recruiting powerful newcomers, and urged eligible members to pursue S-class advancement missions.

• The Burning Legion returned to Prometheus, where its soldiers reorganized, put away their equipment, and began leave.
• Xiao Ran summoned major participants and non-participants, including Cruze, Naza, Yuzes, Giliam, and Master Asia, to discuss the mission’s aftermath.
• Naza proposed merging some of the weakened incoming legions, and Xiao Ran put her in charge of arranging the mergers.
• Xiao Ran assigned Cruze to guide the new participants and Kogi to negotiate compensation with three large legions within a week.
• Xiao Ran announced new nomination slots, required nominated pilots to be S-class, and reserved ten slots for the Super Zone branch; Master Asia agreed to take one.
• Xiao Ran urged everyone eligible to apply for S-class advancement missions so the legion could prepare for its next mission.

Xiao Ran organized the Burning Legion’s recruitment and territory matters, then approved the integration of allied Legions and their subsidies. The chapter ended with Tech reporting that one of three contacted Legions had joined, while the other two refused to join but promised to pay their full compensation.

• Xiao Ran assigned the Legion’s remaining tasks and dismissed the meeting, leaving front-line matters to the Legion’s capable members.
• The newly allied Super Zone participants arrived in Burning Legion territory and began attending packed classes and exams.
• Naza reported that the Jess Empire would remain independent while the other Legions would merge into six Legions, reducing subsidy costs by at least sixty percent.
• Xiao Ran approved Naza’s subsidy document and tasked her with handling the merged Legions’ supplies and inventories.
• Tech told Xiao Ran that one of three contacted Legions had joined, while the other two declined and pledged to pay their full compensation.

Xiao Ran reviewed the Legion War’s spoils and arranged compensation, supplies, and resources for the Legions absorbed into the Burning Legion. He anticipated their recovery and considered using the same strategy to bring more Legions under his control.

• Xiao Ran instructed Corgi to demand maximum compensation from the two Legions that refused to join and to require contracts protecting information about the Legion War and Burning Legion.
• Xiao Ran reviewed the captured assets, sending special units and technologies to the Technology Department and distributing valuable goods to the Legion Warehouse.
• Xiao Ran approved subsidies for the reorganized Legions, with the Jess Empire receiving the largest share, and planned how Legion Points would help integrate their members.
• Xiao Ran assessed the spoils, including a weakened giant Legion, a weakened large Legion, and several reorganized Legions, and expected them to recover with Burning Legion support.
• Xiao Ran considered whether the Burning Legion could repeat its strategy to bring more Legions under its control.

The Burning Legion received compensation from two defeated legions and claimed four Faction Territories after its victory in the Legion Wars. Xiao Ran inspected the new worlds and arranged for the Burning Legion to gradually take over two of them while the other two remained with their original legions.

• Two legions delivered compensation to the Burning Legion but refused to sign confidentiality contracts, so Korgi selected valuable assets and took their Faction Territories.
• The two legions surrendered additional items because their territories pushed their weight scores far beyond the required amount, while Korgi left their technology and units behind.
• Cruze explained that the defeated legions had been bound by subordinate contracts to other top-tier legions and had to report their losses, while his confidentiality agreement protected information about the Burning Legion's allies and mission discussions.
• Xiao Ran inspected the territories and identified them as Brave Leader Raideen, Brave Police, Six God Combination, and Steel God Jex.
• The Burning Legion left Brave Leader Raideen and Brave Police with the Jess Empire Legion and the other original legion, while it planned to infiltrate and gradually integrate Six God Combination and Steel God Jex.

The Burning Legion prepared to open the MUV and Six God Combination worlds to outsiders while expanding its territories and supporting its new members. After taking the Legion’s mission courses, Norn recognized why its intelligence, training, and benefits made it so powerful, and he and Mu Yi headed to combat class.

• Xiao Ran planned to open the MUV and Six God Combination worlds after the next mission and use Luo’s shop to support visitors with supplies and repairs.
• The Burning Legion bought two months of Retention Time to explore its new territories and organize its expanding membership.
• Norn learned about the Legion’s manufacturing capabilities, benefits, and compulsory courses, and concluded that its shared mission intelligence explained its strength.
• After class, Norn and Mu Yi asked Harvey about the Legion’s courses, squad assessments, and mission reports.
• Norn and Mu Yi checked their Personal Terminals and went to their separate training grounds for combat class.

After two months of preparation, Xiao Ran and the Burning Legion entered their next missions, with many members seeking promotion to S-class. In UC0096, Xiao Ran chose the Bist Conglomerate and sent Saki, Nalo, Zechs, and Eagle to retrieve the Box of Laplace from Industrial Seven.

• The new legion members completed combat assessments, and the legion recorded their results and assigned them courses for improvement.
• After Retention Time ended, the legion selected recruits and organized numerous participants into promotion missions, including Cruze, Basak, Luo, Graham, and members of several squads.
• Prometheus sent Xiao Ran into the UC0096 mission and offered him the Earth Federation, Zeon, and Bist Conglomerate factions.
• Xiao Ran rejected the Federation and Zeon and chose the Bist Conglomerate, receiving an identity as its largest shareholder.
• Xiao Ran ordered Saki, Nalo, and Zechs to take Eagle and the others to Industrial Seven to retrieve the Box of Laplace.

Xiao Ran recovered the Box of Laplace and divided his forces between investigating Anaheim and traveling to the Bist Family’s Colony. He and Hana reached Bist Manor, where they planned to save Cardias.

• Saki, Zechs, and Nalo returned the Box of Laplace to Xiao Ran, who recognized the Original Constitution as a powerful means of stirring unrest in the Earth Sphere.
• Xiao Ran split his forces into three groups, sending one to investigate Mars and Jupiter, another to the Moon to examine Anaheim, and taking Shinyo, Hikari, Homura, and Hana toward the Bist Family’s Colony.
• Xiao Ran and the others stored their distinctive machines and traveled to the Colony in concealed, UC-style units.
• Xiao Ran and Hana entered the industrial Colony through an outer-wall passage while the others kept watch outside.
• Xiao Ran explained the Bist Family’s connection to his 0079 World territory and identified the building ahead as Bist Manor.

Xiao Ran confronted Cardias at the Bist Manor, revealed that he had the Box of Laplace, and offered protection in exchange for help taking control of Anaheim. Cardias remained wary but agreed to watch Xiao Ran, and he invited him to witness an upcoming RX-0 test.

• Xiao Ran entered the deserted Bist Manor and told Cardias that the Box of Laplace was in his hands.
• Xiao Ran criticized Cardias's plan to reveal the Original Constitution through Zeon and warned him that his son and sister had betrayed him.
• Xiao Ran offered to protect Cardias and his son from the Federation if Cardias helped him become Anaheim's leading figure.
• Xiao Ran explained that he intended to use the Box of Laplace at a time of his choosing to reshape the Earth Sphere and weaken the Federation.
• Cardias agreed to watch Xiao Ran and disclosed that the person he was negotiating with would arrive before the next work period.
• Cardias invited Xiao Ran to attend an upcoming RX-0 test, and Xiao Ran said he wanted to test the machine himself.

Xiao Ran tested the RX-0 Unicorn Gundam at Cardias's hidden research institute and pushed its performance far beyond its projected limits. He returned safely and explained how his piloting and OS modifications had revealed the machine's potential.

• Cardias led Xiao Ran and Yao through a secret passage to the RX-0 research institute, where Jarl Chen greeted them and arranged for Xiao Ran's people to enter.
• Xiao Ran inspected the Unicorn Gundam and volunteered to test-pilot it, then changed into an anti-G suit and launched toward a nearby Meteor Belt.
• The RX-0's NT-D system began activating on its own, while Xiao Ran accelerated past the projected target speed, modified the OS, and slipped beyond the staff's control.
• Cardias watched the RX-0's performance surge as Xiao Ran partially activated the NT-D and maneuvered through the Meteor Belt; Yao reassured him that such work was routine for Xiao Ran.
• Xiao Ran returned safely to the hangar, where Cardias asked how he had done it, and Xiao Ran credited the machine's potential, his piloting, and his OS modifications.

Xiao Ran advised Cardias on improving the Unicorn Gundam and took command of Anaheim’s satellite defenses as Londo Bell approached. He then encountered Banagher and Minerva Lao Zabi, exposed their identities and the dangers gathering around them, and called Cardias to bring the real guests to the central control room.

• Xiao Ran told Cardias the Unicorn Gundam could be strengthened with a specialized backpack featuring acceleration, a Mental Power Frame, and weapons.
• Cardias said the satellite had fewer than twenty outdated mobile suits, and Xiao Ran ordered his four attendants to use them to monitor and defend the colony against anyone approaching without permission.
• Xiao Ran explained that he considered the satellite Anaheim property and that he wanted the meeting with New Zeon to proceed, while Cardias arranged rooms for his group.
• After sixteen hours, Xiao Ran entered a room and found Cardias with Banagher and a blonde girl, then identified the moment as a father-son reunion.
• Xiao Ran warned Cardias that Londo Bell and an Assassination Unit had arrived, identified the girl as Minerva Lao Zabi, and told her she was not in a position to influence the coming conflict.
• Xiao Ran asked Cardias to take him to the central control room and summon the real guests so he could meet them there.

Xiao Ran took control of New Industrial Seven and openly challenged the Federation and Zeon forces near the satellite, claiming Anaheim would decide their future. After his team crushed the attacking Federation units, he prepared for the Federation to negotiate or retaliate.

• Xiao Ran announced that unauthorized forces approaching New Industrial Seven would be treated as enemies and ordered them to withdraw within three minutes.
• Xiao Ran ordered Hana, Aiba Shinyo, Yao, and Yan to attack after the deadline passed.
• Aiba Shinyo, Hana, Yao, and Yan destroyed or disabled the Federation mecha surrounding the satellite, including forces from Londo Bell and ECOAS.
• Xiao Ran told Cardias that the Federation would likely contact them and instructed him to demand an in-person meeting.
• Xiao Ran declared that Anaheim would grow strong and decide the futures of the Federation and Zeon.

Xiao Ran took control of the Box of Laplace, challenged the Federation, and offered Banagher a chance to pilot RX-0 and protect those he cared about. As Federation and Zeon forces moved toward New Industrial Seven, Xiao Ran met with Mannheim and proposed cooperation despite refusing to hand over the Box.

• Xiao Ran urged Banagher to consider piloting RX-0, explained Cardias’s efforts to protect him, and gave him time to decide.
• Xiao Ran ordered Aiba Shinyo to seize the N-Akama and told El-Elf to control Anaheim’s leaders, purge Federation spies, and secure RX-0 data.
• The Federation ordered Londo Bell to advance on New Industrial Seven, while Zeon also sent forces toward the colony.
• Xiao Ran reflected on using a Newtype pilot and learned that Londo Bell was on its way.
• Mannheim arrived with Scol and Sant to discuss the Box of Laplace, but Xiao Ran refused to give it to New Zeon and offered him a chance to cooperate.

Xiao Ran offered Zeon weapons and support in exchange for its cooperation against the Federation, while insisting Minerva marry Banagher. The chapter ended with Xiao Ran urging Zeon to help destroy the Federation’s Rondo Bell Unit as their first shared objective.

• Xiao Ran offered Mannheim arms and political support if Zeon rallied the space colonies against the Federation, and proposed that Minerva marry Banagher.
• Xiao Ran argued that Minerva had to accept the responsibilities of her Zabi heritage, but Minerva opposed renewed war and defended peace.
• Banagher agreed to train as a mobile suit pilot so he could protect the people he cared about, and Xiao Ran assigned Xinye to train him.
• Xiao Ran ordered Minerva to stay and build a relationship with Banagher, while Mannheim reminded her that Zeon's autonomy had been won through its soldiers' sacrifices.
• Xiao Ran explained that he wanted to bring the inevitable conflict forward and contain it, then asked Zeon to help eliminate the Federation's Rondo Bell Unit.

Xiao Ran secured Zeon’s cooperation against the Federation and kept Minerva under house arrest, while Mannheim received Full Frontal’s approval to attack Londo Bell. Xiao Ran then revealed plans to revive Char and Amuro, cure Kamille, and further tighten his control over Anaheim.

• Xiao Ran refused to let Mannheim take Minerva and insisted that Zeon show its sincerity by helping deal with Londo Bell.
• Mannheim returned to the Garencieres and contacted Full Frontal, who approved cooperating with Xiao Ran and personally leading the operation against Londo Bell.
• Bist told Xiao Ran that Full Frontal wanted to meet him after the battle, and Xiao Ran said capturing Londo Bell would be preferable to destroying it.
• Xiao Ran hinted that Full Frontal was tied to Char and said he might revive Char and Amuro and cure Kamille.
• Xiao Ran ordered Cardias to prepare for a trip to Anaheim in three days and revealed that his people had already taken control of Cardias’s son and sibling.

Xiao Ran learned that Full Frontal had destroyed Londo Bell in under an hour and went to meet him, bringing Banagher and Minerva along. At the rendezvous, Xiao Ran recognized a product-grade Small Macross-class warship and greeted the masked man waiting for him as Char.

• Full Frontal agreed to intercept and destroy Londo Bell, and Xiao Ran reasoned that Participants had likely joined the Sleeved Armband.
• Cardias told Xiao Ran that Londo Bell had been defeated in less than an hour and that Full Frontal wanted to meet at coordinates in a nearby asteroid belt.
• Xiao Ran ended Banagher's training and ordered him to bring Minerva, then told her that Anaheim's alliance with Zeon was necessary to prevent the Federation's collapse from causing mass deaths and sanctions.
• Xiao Ran, Banagher, Minerva, Hana, and Aiba Shinyo traveled in their machines to Full Frontal's rendezvous, where Banagher piloted the Unicorn Gundam.
• Xiao Ran identified a product-grade Small Macross-class among the gathered warships, docked his machine, and greeted the masked man as Char.

Xiao Ran confronted Full Frontal, revealed that he understood Full Frontal was part of Char, and ordered him to help reshape the Earth Sphere. Full Frontal agreed to Xiao Ran’s demands, including a political marriage for Minerva, while Xiao Ran sought to identify the captain of a battleship linked to his organization.

• Xiao Ran recognized Full Frontal as an incomplete remnant of Char and said he could restore Char and other dead Newtypes if Full Frontal supplied genetic samples.
• Full Frontal refused at first, but Xiao Ran threatened to force the issue and persuaded him to cooperate in changing the future.
• Xiao Ran laid out plans to supply New Zeon with mobile suits, take Londo Bell’s personnel, arrange Minerva’s marriage to Banagher, weaken the Federation in space, and reunify Zeon.
• Full Frontal accepted the demands and declared in Char Aznable’s name that Minerva would marry Banagher, leaving Angelo shocked and Banagher embarrassed.
• Xiao Ran asked Full Frontal to summon the captain of the unusual battleship outside, recognizing it as a Small Macross-class vessel sold by the Burning Legion.

Xiao Ran warned Minerva that peace would not last and affirmed her marriage to Banagher before meeting Bicchy, a Participant whose Shadow Blade Legion operated a battleship made by the Burning Legion. After signing an alliance with Bicchy, Xiao Ran arranged for his team to support Full Frontal as Zeon underwent upheaval.

• Xiao Ran warned Minerva that the Federation would lead to repeated wars and told her and Banagher not to interfere with the changes ahead; Full Frontal approved their marriage as part of Char.
• Angelo brought Bicchy, the silver-haired vice leader of the Shadow Blade Legion, to meet Xiao Ran, who confirmed that the Legion had manufactured Bicchy's battleship.
• Xiao Ran introduced himself as leader of the Burning Legion, and Bicchy described the Legion's reputation and admitted that its members had defeated him in a past mission.
• Xiao Ran and Bicchy signed a mission alliance, with Bicchy agreeing that his team would serve under Xiao Ran's command.
• Xiao Ran told Bicchy that Full Frontal would soon upheave Zeon and ordered the Shadow Blade Legion to protect and support him as Zeon's remaining forces joined his cause.

Bicchy returned to his ship after meeting Xiao Ran and told his crew that the Burning Legion’s leader had ordered them to support Full Frontal and harass the Federation. Xiao Ran returned to the Colony Satellite, arranged a secret relocation of Cardias’s team and the Unicorn NT-D development group to the moon, and the convoy departed as Federation intelligence learned of it.

• Bicchy returned to his warship shaken by his meeting with Xiao Ran, then told his crew that he had groveled before the Burning Legion’s leader and that they would follow Xiao Ran’s orders.
• Bicchy told his crew to protect Full Frontal, help him seize control of Zeon, and harass Federation fleets when possible, while avoiding direct fights with hostile participants.
• Xiao Ran returned to the Colony Satellite with Minerva and learned from Cardias that the Federation was unsettled by Londo Bell’s disappearance and might try to divide Anaheim and Zeon.
• Xiao Ran told Cardias to speak with the Federation if needed, contact Anaheim’s associates, and prepare to move to the moon by the next day.
• Cardias organized a convoy carrying the Unicorn NT-D development team and supplies to Anaheim’s lunar branch, escorted by Xiao Ran and five others in their mecha.
• The convoy left the Colony Satellite at maximum speed, and an informant reported its departure to the Federation, which had already suspected Xiao Ran would go to the moon.

Aiba Shinyo attacked and occupied the Federal Moon Base, keeping its forces pinned down while Xiao Ran's convoy reached Anaheim. Xiao Ran took control as Anaheim's chairman and began consolidating the company, then asked Renard and Hades whether the purge was complete.

• Xiao Ran sent Aiba Shinyo ahead to the Moon to threaten the Federal base, with Hades available to assist him.
• Aiba Shinyo destroyed two warships, tore through the Federal fleet, and entered the Moon Base's spaceport, where he held the base hostage and ordered its ships and units to remain inside.
• The Federal leadership panicked and focused on keeping Aiba Shinyo calm, allowing Xiao Ran's convoy to reach Anaheim without interception.
• Cardias introduced Xiao Ran as Anaheim's new chairman, and Xiao Ran announced a shift toward mass-producing mobile suits and warships while assuring executives that Federal spies had been purged.
• Xiao Ran went to the chairman's office, where Renard and Hades were waiting, and asked whether Anaheim had been completely purged.

Xiao Ran consolidated his control over Anaheim, arranged for Hades and Renard to restore the bodies and souls of deceased Newtypes, and learned the public record of his past in this world. When Full Frontal arrived with Bright and the captive Londo Bell members, Xiao Ran confronted Bright about Kamille and revealed his plan to use the Box of Laplace against the Federation.

• Xiao Ran told Renard and Hades to prepare bodies and locate the souls of Char, Lalah, Amuro, and other deceased Newtypes, while Cardias agreed to arrange an engagement ceremony for his son.
• Xiao Ran ordered Renard to deal with Martha after Renard said she had betrayed the Bist Family and intended to kill them.
• Renard explained that Xiao Ran's past actions in another world had become part of his identity in this world, including seizing the RX-78s and White Base, influencing the Federation, and arranging Gihren's assassination.
• Xiao Ran waited as Cardias managed Anaheim's affairs, then appeared at the spaceport when Full Frontal arrived with Bright and the restrained Londo Bell members.
• Xiao Ran demanded that Bright reveal where Kamille was hidden and threatened to shoot a captive, prompting Bright to bargain for an explanation of the Box of Laplace.
• Xiao Ran explained that the Box was the Federation's Original Constitution and said he intended to reveal it while weakening the Federation's military influence.