Chapter Summaries

Xiao Ran met with Winnie to discuss the Burning Legion’s buildings and upgrade requirements, learning that she had merged the Perfect Enhanced Human Research Institute with the Legion Enhancement Center. After weighing the Legion’s needs, he agreed to upgrade its warehouse and build a training hall and Legion Factory.

• Xiao Ran visited Winnie to ask about using the Ultimate Mission Card across an entire Legion, and she explained that she had merged the research institute with the Legion Enhancement Center to save Merit Points and space.
• Winnie deducted the frozen Merit Points after Xiao Ran approved the arrangement, leaving the Legion Warehouse with enough resources for its next steps.
• Winnie told Xiao Ran that the Burning Legion needed two more buildings before upgrading to Level 2 and recommended upgrading the warehouse and building a training hall.
• Xiao Ran considered the Legion’s uneven strength, its existing teams, and the potential value of recruiting veteran Participants.
• Xiao Ran agreed to upgrade the Legion Warehouse and construct a training hall and Legion Factory.

Xiao Ran expanded the Burning Legion’s facilities, prepared Frontier’s members for battle, and converted the 0079 Ultimate Mission into Legion Mission Mode. The mission began with stricter requirements: establish a new order, take complete control of the Earth Sphere, and defeat the World Intruders.

• Xiao Ran spent Merit Points and Supply Quantity to upgrade the Legion Warehouse into a hangar, build a factory, and begin constructing a training facility.
• Xiao Ran learned from Winnie that converting the Ultimate Mission into a Legion Mission would alter its requirements and rewards, but he chose to proceed for the chance to obtain an Exclusive Territory.
• Xiao Ran gave Ozma and the other Frontier members two million Merit Points for enhancements and skills, then distributed standard team equipment to them.
• Xiao Ran used the 0079 Mission Card and converted the Ultimate Mission into Legion Mission Mode.
• Prometheus announced that the legion must transform the world, unite and control the Earth Sphere, eliminate opposing forces, and defeat the World Intruders, or one-third of the remaining participants would be executed.

Xiao Ran selected his teams and units for the 0079 World mission, then arrived with his forces aboard the Galaxy Diva and Frontier. After the crews awakened, they confirmed both ships were safe and began determining their location in the Milky Way.

• Xiao Ran selected his team and Jeffrey's team, renamed Jeffrey Squad to Frontier Team, and chose the units and drones they would bring.
• The mission began, and the Galaxy Diva and Frontier appeared in the 0079 World with their crews and forces.
• Xiao Ran woke Sheryl and Mwu, and they joined Cruze, Graham, Naluo, Basak, and the others on the Galaxy Diva's bridge.
• Mwu ordered Moses to activate the ship's systems and contact the Frontier, where Captain Jeffrey reported that everything was normal.
• Xiao Ran promised to find the Frontier a helmsman, and Monica began calculating the ships' coordinates from the surrounding planets.

Xiao Ran and his companions returned to the moon five months after leaving, then gathered intelligence and learned that New Zeon had joined the Federation while Char remained under threat. They reunited with Cardias’s trusted contacts and prepared to address Anaheim Company’s serious problems.

• Monica used three FOLD Jumps to bring the two warships near the moon, and Xiao Ran’s five units approached Brown City undetected.
• Luca infiltrated the local networks and discovered that five months had passed, New Zeon had joined the Federation, Anaheim Company had absorbed most of Zeon’s military industries, and Char had survived several assassination attempts.
• Xiao Ran learned that the Astray Fleet had been disbanded and contacted Cardias, who arranged a discreet transport into Brown City.
• Shiro Amada and Aina arrived in a Transport Aircraft, and Xiao Ran prepared to meet Cardias and confront the problems that had arisen during his absence.

Xiao Ran returned to Anaheim and learned from Cardias that the Federation had leaked Char’s secret ceasefire agreement, weakened New Zeon, and seized control of the Astray Fleet and Anaheim. With Xiao Ran back, they planned to locate General Revil and begin their counteroffensive.

• Cardias welcomed Xiao Ran back to Anaheim, and Xiao Ran introduced Cruze as a member of his team.
• Cardias explained that Char’s negotiations had bought time, but the secret agreement was leaked, fueling opposition in New Zeon and leading to several assassination attempts against Char.
• Cardias said the Federation had sidelined General Revil, imprisoned him under house arrest, and backed plans to turn Zeon into a colony and control the Earth Force.
• Cardias described how Federation factions divided up the Astray Fleet, sought to take Xiao Ran’s Anaheim shares, and restricted Cardias’s authority while leaking Space Jump Engine information.
• Cardias said he had protected the GN Dragoon, Solar Furnace, and GN-X technologies and spread rumors that Xiao Ran had been imprisoned for opposing renewed war with New Zeon.
• Xiao Ran vowed to punish the Federation factions, and Cardias proposed finding General Revil and recruiting him to their plan.

Xiao Ran planned how to reunite the forces opposing the Federation and assigned his allies to prepare for a coordinated uprising. He sent Cruze to Earth to find General Revil and contact Cardias's allies, while El-Elf and the others were to go to New Zeon to help Char regain control.

• Xiao Ran identified Char's safety, New Zeon's internal disorder, and Federation infiltration of Anaheim as urgent problems to resolve before resisting the Federation.
• Xiao Ran told Cardias to investigate Anaheim's infiltrators and prepare to seize control once their allies were ready.
• Cardias gave Xiao Ran a storage device containing contacts, resources, compromising material, and the location of the Original Constitution.
• Xiao Ran sent Cruze and Skull Squadron to Earth to contact Cardias's allies and find General Revil.
• Xiao Ran ordered El-Elf, Graham, Nalu, and Glan Glan to take the Frontier to New Zeon and contact Char, and asked Cardias to secretly bring in the Galaxy Diva.
• Cardias told Xiao Ran that Mile. Yashu and the other members of his forces were in Brown City, and that he had recruited former Astray Fleet personnel.

Xiao Ran and Cardias gathered the Astray Fleet survivors and moved the Galaxy Diva to a hidden Anaheim Company base on the Moon near Brown City. Cardias saw the warship and met its crew, while Xiao Ran concealed the full extent of his forces and claimed the ship could stand against ten Federation fleets.

• Cardias’s rumors and the Astray Fleet’s disbandment left many Federation soldiers and former fleet members resentful of the Federation high command.
• Cruze relayed Xiao Ran’s orders, then El-Elf, Graham, and Nalo took their mecha aboard the Frontier for New Zeon while Cruze and Skull Squadron headed toward Earth.
• The Galaxy Diva landed undetected at Cardias’s secret lunar base, which housed hundreds of M1 Astrays and more than a dozen Gundam Astrays.
• Xiao Ran showed Cardias the Galaxy Diva and described its space-jump capability, while falsely claiming that his organization had only two such warships.
• Xiao Ran introduced the Galaxy Diva’s crew to Cardias, who met Mwu, Sheryl, Moses, Billy, Bobby, Luo, and Basak for the first time.

Cruze carefully prepared to contact key figures on Earth who could help Xiao Ran’s side challenge the Federation, while El-Elf tightened surveillance around Char and New Zeon’s leadership. The chapter left both operations underway, with their outcomes still unknown.

• Xiao Ran remained hidden at Cardias’s residence while Moses and Billy helped Cardias with the internal purge, and Luo and Basak passed the time aboard the Galaxy Diva.
• Cruze observed potential allies and rejected most of Cardias’s list as unreliable, choosing to monitor them until the operation was ready.
• Cruze selected Moderate Faction members Bill and Jos and Commoner Faction representative General Maxi as his first targets, judging that winning over Revil and Maxi could bring much of the Commoner Faction to Xiao Ran’s side.
• Cruze sent coded invitations to Bill and Jos and planned to infiltrate Maxi’s residence for a private meeting.
• El-Elf monitored New Zeon officials, fleet commanders, and others on Char’s personnel list while tracking communications and watching for threats around Char.

El-Elf prepared to expose hidden Federation agents while Xiao Ran’s return restored Char’s confidence. At Axis, Kycilia and Karma worked to rebuild Zeon’s strength until their people discovered an enormous ancient mechanical arm buried in an asteroid.

• El-Elf completed his surveillance preparations and waited for Cruze to locate General Revil and enable him to contact the outside world.
• Char learned that Xiao Ran had returned with reinforcements, easing his fears and making him more decisive.
• Kycilia and Karma pressed their subordinates to replicate the energy engines in the Transport Aircraft to speed Axis’s development.
• Kycilia approved another Transport Aircraft as a sample despite the small fleet and their other demands for it.
• A subordinate reported that an enormous ancient mechanical arm had been found buried in an asteroid, astonishing Kycilia and Karma.

Kycilia and Karma discovered a gigantic machine buried in an asteroid on Axis and began excavating it, unaware that it was the World Intruder Legendary Giant God Ideon, also known as King GM. While the Federation, New Zeon, and Anaheim pursued their own plans, Xiao Ran remained ignorant of the threat Axis was uncovering.

• Kycilia and Karma saw the enormous, battle-scarred Mechanical Arm and ordered Axis’s excavation teams to uncover the machine buried inside the asteroid.
• Kycilia and Karma traveled to the site with combat and industrial MS units and were stunned by the arm’s immense scale.
• Xiao Ran did not know that Axis had acquired an Anaheim transport aircraft or discovered Ideon, a powerful and damaged Super Robot that had become the mission’s World Intruder.
• Axis devoted its technical resources to excavating and analyzing Ideon, while the Federation infiltrated New Zeon and Anaheim to pursue the Space Jump Engine.
• New Zeon secretly rearranged its troops and investigated suspicious personnel, while Xiao Ran and Cruze worked to identify infiltrators and find General Revil.

Cruze uncovered General Revil’s location and prepared a rescue timed to coincide with Xiao Ran’s planned operation against the Federation. After Alto delivered the news to the Moon, Xiao Ran reviewed Cruze’s plan and contacted the Frontier to coordinate.

• Cruze used the Moderate and Commoner Factions to recruit or coerce Federation personnel, gathering leverage while tracing General Revil’s whereabouts.
• Cruze, Luca, Michel, and Brera surveilled Revil’s guarded seaside villa and planned for Brera to infiltrate and rescue him shortly before the larger operation.
• Luca confirmed that the villa relied on a synchronized military satellite, while Ozma prepared to approach it and Luca planned to disrupt its communications.
• Alto returned to the Moon with Cruze’s findings and operation plan, and Xiao Ran reviewed them before contacting the Frontier aboard the Galaxy Diva.

Xiao Ran and his allies finalized a coordinated operation to purge their enemies in New Zeon and Brown City before the Original Constitution was announced. As the operation began, armed forces across Brown City marked themselves with white armbands and attacked those without them.

• Xiao Ran and El-Elf set the operation for fifty-six hours later, with El-Elf planning to purge New Zeon eight hours before the announcement and expose hidden opponents.
• Xiao Ran assigned Alto, Zechs, Saki Maski, Basak, and the Galaxy Diva crew their roles in the operation, while Cardias prepared to bring forces from Granada Base into Brown City.
• Federal officials and Anaheim partners pressured Cardias to hold a meeting about Xiao Ran’s shares and the FOLD spatial jump engine, drawing influential figures and a Federation fleet to Brown City.
• Char and Cardias prepared their forces as the operation approached, with New Zeon squads ready to attack targets and Cardias’s troops positioned throughout Brown City.
• When the first gunshot sounded in New Zeon, Cardias entered the meeting room; guards and soldiers across Brown City put on white armbands and opened fire on those without them.

Mwu, Sheryl, Bobby, and Mile. Yashu led the Galaxy Diva and nearly two hundred MS units into battle against the Earth Federation fleet near Brown City, devastating the fleet and beginning a blockade. Meanwhile, fighting spread through Brown City, and Basak broke into City Hall’s meeting room.

• Zechs led nearly two hundred MS units out of the secret base and ordered part of the force to blockade Brown City while the rest followed him toward the Earth Federation fleet.
• Bobby piloted the Galaxy Diva through the MS formation and launched missiles that destroyed nine warships and inflicted heavy losses on enemy MS units.
• Bobby transformed the Galaxy Diva into a giant robot and fired its main cannon, destroying sixteen warships and seventeen MS units.
• Mwu ordered Zechs to eliminate threats near Brown City and complete the blockade, while Mile. Yashu wondered if she might someday serve as a warship’s helm officer.
• Fighting erupted at Brown City Hall, and Basak crushed the Federal Army defenders outside before kicking open the meeting-room doors.

Xiao Ran appeared at Cardias's meeting, where armed forces had trapped those seeking his shares and Space Jump Engine technology. He demanded that the attendees choose between joining his reform camp and dying, while his forces controlled Brown City.

• Cardias revealed that he had invited Xiao Ran to negotiate over his shares in Anaheim and authorization to produce the Space Jump Engine.
• Xiao Ran entered the conference hall and took Cardias's seat as soldiers surrounded the attendees.
• A screen showed the Earth Force fleet outside Brown City being annihilated and Federation troops inside the city being suppressed.
• Bill appealed to Xiao Ran to forgive the attendees, and Xiao Ran agreed not to hold the majority responsible for their actions so far.
• Xiao Ran let a man who declared support for him leave for a gathering prepared for his friends, prompting others to claim they had supported him too.
• Xiao Ran offered the attendees a choice: support reforming the Earth Federation and join his camp, or face death.

Xiao Ran demanded that the Federation’s privileged leaders either join his rebellion or die, and Bill and Maxi’s representative announced that the Moderate and Commoner Factions would obey him. Xiao Ran revealed that Char, New Zeon, and other forces would also join the assault, then left Cardias to persuade the remaining holdouts while preparing to return to the Galaxy Diva.

• Xiao Ran gave the gathered Federation elites a choice between joining his rebellion and being killed.
• Bill declared that seventy percent of the Moderate Faction supported Xiao Ran, and Maxi’s representative announced the Commoner Faction’s obedience.
• Xiao Ran told a shaken Federal officer that Char, New Zeon, and forces across Earth and space would join the uprising.
• Xiao Ran left Cardias to handle the holdouts and told the officer he still had time to choose.
• Xiao Ran returned to Cardias’s residence, where Zeon, Anaheim, and Federal Army forces saluted him as their leader.

Xiao Ran monitored the growing crisis on Earth and the Moon while El-Elf completed a purge in New Zeon and prepared Char to act. The Federation President learned that New Zeon had revolted and Brown City was sealed off, then received word that Revil had been taken.

• Mwu told Xiao Ran that documents were being signed in Brown City and that a video would soon be broadcast across the Earth Sphere.
• Mwu reported that El-Elf expected to finish purging planted personnel in New Zeon within three hours, while the Federation remained in disarray after its fleet was destroyed.
• El-Elf’s forces staged a battle against Char’s protectors, then defeated attackers at the Deikun residence and uncovered more Zabi family loyalists.
• Char thanked Graham, Nalu, and El-Elf, and New Zeon completed its purge, regrouped its military, and prepared to declare war on the Earth Federation.
• The Federation President received reports of the Brown City crisis and New Zeon’s uprising, then learned that Revil had been taken by an unknown party.

Cruze persuaded General Revil to join the hidden successor to the original Earth Federation by revealing that it preserved the Federation’s secret Original Constitution. Revil agreed to help restore the true Federation, and Cruze ordered preparations to reveal the organization publicly.

• Cruze reminded General Revil that the space residents needed someone to fight for them, and Revil rejected his invitation while affirming his loyalty to the Federation.
• Cruze asked whether Revil would still fight for the Federation if it upheld peace and righteousness, and Revil said he would if it shone with the brilliance of a rising sun.
• Cruze claimed his organization had preserved the Federation’s secret Original Constitution and was its legitimate successor, led by Xiao Ran.
• General Revil demanded proof that the Original Constitution existed, then agreed to join after Cruze said he could verify it.
• Revil warned that he would turn against the organization if Cruze had lied, and Cruze told Ozma to report Revil’s decision and have Luca release the materials on schedule.

Alex prepared a broadcast to Earth and New Zeon, coordinating with Char on a new political name and their plans to unite their forces. He began addressing the public, accusing the Federation’s leaders of profiting from war and revealing that he and General Revil had been detained for opposing them.

• Mwu, Sheryl, and Xiao Ran prepared a live address, connecting the Galaxy Diva to Luca’s Mecha and Char’s New Zeon broadcast location.
• Xiao Ran and Char agreed to call their new government Earth Unified and to keep their forces separate until Earth was stabilized; Cardias would handle coordination.
• Luca activated nine hacked satellites to broadcast Xiao Ran’s speech across Earth and New Zeon.
• Alex introduced himself as the former commander of the Astray Fleet and accused Federation officials of provoking war and conspiring against Casval.
• Alex said he and General Revil had been detained for opposing another war with New Zeon, and that the Astray Fleet had been disbanded.

Xiao Ran publicly denounced the Earth Federation, established the Earth Unified Government and Army, and declared war on the Federation. As a large Federal force approached, General Revil joined the Unified Army and prepared to return to space with Ozma's group.

• Xiao Ran condemned the Federation’s exploitation and announced sanctions, while Sheryl detected a large formation approaching from Earth.
• Xiao Ran revealed his identity as Alex and declared war on the Federation in the name of the Earth Unified Government and Army.
• General Revil appeared on the broadcast, joined the Unified Army, and urged Federation forces to choose whether to fight for justice or the corrupt Federation.
• Cruze accepted Revil’s decision to command the former Federation forces, and Ozma warned that the approaching enemy force threatened their position in space.
• Revil boarded Ozma’s VF-27 and watched the fighters rise using GN Particles as Ozma ordered Alto and Brera to help Destiny Gundam take off.

Xiao Ran watched the Earth Federation lose cities, regions, and a large portion of its military to the Earth Unified Government as the Federation’s leaders ordered a desperate fight. He led the Galaxy Diva and a formidable force into position before the approaching fleet and issued its crews a final demand to defect or face military action.

• Revil and numerous cities, military units, and detained officials publicly joined the Earth Unified Government and denounced the Federation.
• Within thirty minutes, over twenty percent of Federation territory and forty percent of its military, including Space Force units and two Space Fortresses, defected.
• The Federal High-level ordered troops to treat defectors as traitors and offered promotions and multiplied merits for killing them, throwing the assembled fleet into disarray.
• Xiao Ran prepared the Justice Gundam alongside Basak’s Savage, Luo’s Red Dragon Gundam, Saki Maski’s Camilla, the VF-27s, drones, and the New Zeon fleet.
• Xiao Ran had Mwu deliver a final warning to the approaching Federal Army fleet to withdraw and await Unified Army reception or face military action.