Chapter Summaries

The Earth Federation’s growing forces drove the BETA back and completed the mission to destroy ten nests, while the major figures uncovered evidence of far stronger BETA beyond Earth. Yuzes initially opposed further involvement, but his discovery of valuable G Elements led him to support attacking Earth’s Primordial Nest and proposing that the world become a Faction Territory.

• The Earth Federation expanded its forces, and Far Eastern pilots led campaigns to reclaim BETA-occupied regions.
• Kagetsu Yuko mysteriously took away a confused young man after he watched combat specials featuring Miyoshi Meiya and Kagari Takeru.
• Sanger, Elsam, Giliam, Yuzes, and the others completed the mission to eliminate ten nests after nearly two months, with more than six hundred pilots killed.
• Yuzes, Shirakawa Shuu, Sanger, Char, and the others learned that Earth’s Primordial Nest was only Level 6 and that Mars had a Level 9 Nest.
• Sanger, Ingram, and Amuro urged the others to destroy the Primordial Nest, but Yuzes initially refused because he saw no benefit in continuing the fight.
• Yuzes and Giliam discovered valuable, unfamiliar G Elements, prompting Yuzes to support attacking the Primordial Nest and recommending that the world become a Faction Territory.

Zenga investigated Shiragin Takeshi at Shirakawa Shuu’s request and confronted Kagetsu Yuko about him. Yuko revealed that Takeshi had crossed over from another world and suggested Zenga and the other Participants had done the same.

• Shirakawa Shuu gave Zenga a file on Kagetsu Yuko and the apparently fabricated identity of Shiragin Takeshi, asking him to uncover the truth and eliminate Takeshi if necessary.
• Zenga told Shirakawa Shuu that he saw Kagetsu Yuko as a capable talent, then flew to the Far East to meet her.
• Zenga asked Kagetsu Yuko for Shiragin Takeshi’s true identity, and she admitted that he had come from another world.
• Kagetsu Yuko pointed out that Zenga and the other Participants had also appeared in her world from elsewhere.

Sanger learned that Shiragin Takeshi came from another world and reported the details to Shirakawa Shuu, who ordered Kagetsu Yuko's quantum research collected and had Takeshi eliminated. After returning to Prometheus, the group received their mission rewards and gathered with Xiao Ran, who assigned them to review essays while Luo took Shirakawa Shuu and Yuzes to begin training.

• Kagetsu Yuko explained to Sanger why she had investigated him and Shirakawa Shuu, and Sanger relayed her account to Shirakawa Shuu.
• Shirakawa Shuu ordered Sanger to bring Kagetsu Yuko and her quantum research materials to Yukon Base, while Eshe, Harvey, and Barnes eliminated Shiragin Takeshi.
• The group completed its mission and returned to Prometheus, where Shirakawa Shuu alone received the Ultimate Mission Card.
• After gathering at the Legion Headquarters, the group was assigned to review essays, while Luo took Shirakawa Shuu and Yuzes to Old Luo's training classes and Giliam was to study at the factory.

Xiao Ran welcomed the Overlord Legion into the Burning Legion and outlined plans for the members to work together as equals. He then arranged further missions during the rest period and added a MUV-LUV Mission Card to their itinerary.

• Xiao Ran told the gathered members that the Overlord Legion and Burning Legion would be treated equally within the legion, while their merger would remain secret from outsiders.
• Xiao Ran emphasized intelligence gathering and safety after El-Elf explained that a squad had lost three members when another squad ambushed them during a Side Mission.
• Xiao Ran asked members to submit rank-advancement applications and new-unit requirements, and encouraged veteran members to help the Overlord Legion learn about the Faction Territory.
• Xiao Ran introduced the core members to Naza and Fardes, who were stunned by the Burning Legion's lineup of A-Class Pilots.
• Xiao Ran proposed using several expiring Mission Cards for Legion Missions before the next official mission, and Shirakawa Shuu offered a card for MUV-LUV.
• Xiao Ran accepted the MUV-LUV Mission Card and added its world to the legion's itinerary.

Xiao Ran arranged technical training and discussed forming three teams for future missions during the rest period. The teams were settled, and he warned everyone that their actions and choices could affect their future faction assignments.

• Xiao Ran assigned Ingram, Giliam, and Luo to organize a week of Prometheus technology training, and Amuro asked to join.
• Shirakawa Shuu proposed splitting the group into three teams, and Xiao Ran agreed that the arrangement could work.
• Xiao Ran warned the group that their mission conduct and choices could lead to forced assignment to the evil faction, and Char said he and Shirakawa Shuu would be more careful.
• Char became captain of a team with Shirakawa Shuu, Lalah, Ramba, and Haman.
• Zengar became captain of a team with Giliam, Elsam, and Tetsuya, while Ingram led a team with Amuro, Ing, Johnny, and Shin Matsunaga.
• Yuzes was assigned to join Jeffrey's team.

Xiao Ran outlined the Burning Legion’s training and research plans during their upcoming Retention Time, including new Super AI technology and several recovered assets. The chapter ended with Giliam pointing out the enormous workload facing the Technicians, while Xiao Ran remained confident they could handle it.

• Xiao Ran assigned most members to train the legion’s pilots while several others attended training, and said they would purchase Retention Time and could spend their Merit Points on support.
• Xiao Ran listed the mission gains, including Moonlight Cannon technology, bloodlines, an alloy formula, and a special component, then had Renard explain the breakthrough in Super AI.
• Renard said Super AI could learn, reason, and control mecha independently, solving a major obstacle to building personal warships.
• Renard and Luo described additional mecha technologies, and Luo revealed that he had recovered the mission’s final boss, causing Prometheus’s system to lag.
• Xiao Ran displayed a damaged Bask-level battleship, the self-governing Super AI Nifaline, and the unfinished mecha Arcadia.
• Giliam itemized the many research and construction tasks ahead, and Xiao Ran assured him that the Technicians would have enough time and personnel to manage them.

Xiao Ran briefed Naza and Fardes on Prometheus’s missions and the Burning Legion’s inner workings, while the legion’s new members settled in and completed their training. After a week, the members entered their Faction Territories, where many of the Technicians began intensive work.

• Xiao Ran ended the meeting and took Naza and Fardes to Fleet World to explain core missions, Mission Cards, world cores, and the previous mission’s results.
• Luo advised the new members to form a team and merge their Living Zones, then led them on a tour of Prometheus.
• Fardes and Naza discussed Xiao Ran’s knowledge and agreed to keep his explanations within their legion while merging the Legion Warehouse.
• Over the following week, the Burning Legion accepted simplified battle reports, and its members completed combat training.
• The members entered their respective Faction Territories, where the Technicians threw themselves into work.

After three months, the Overlord Legion had fully integrated into the Burning Legion, whose members used the spoils from the Impact Legion to fund their stay and equip their new recruits. Renard’s successful Super AI replication revealed emotional risks that halted mass deployment, though Haros and other small devices began receiving upgrades.

• Most ordinary members of the Burning Legion left the Faction Territory, while Xiao Ran's squad, the bigwigs' squads, Jeffrey Squad, Naza, and Overlord Legion A-Class Pilots stayed.
• The Burning Legion exchanged Impact Legion spoils for Merit Points and other items, and Naza shared half of the Merit Points with the Overlord Legion's people before depositing the rest into the legion account.
• Over three months, the Overlord Legion's members accepted their new identities after receiving suitable machines and integrating into the Burning Legion.
• Renard replicated the Super AI, but testing showed that emotional AIs could create severe consequences if many were destroyed in battle, so the legion shelved plans for large-scale drone deployment.
• Renard began upgrading Haros and other devices with Super AIs, including several miniature AS guards.

Shirakawa Shuu and the faction’s researchers designed and built a new Small MACROSS-class battleship, replacing the cramped X-shaped layout with a more spacious, heavily armed II-shaped design. After half a year of construction and revisions, the completed ship incorporated Light Barrier and Solar Furnace technology and awaited its first battle.

• Renard completed the Super AI project while Yuzes continued restoring the Yinglong King, Sparrow King Machine, and Warrior King Machine with Durandal.
• Luo finished manufacturing mechs for the Overlord Legion and organized the materials acquired from Mecha Wars V with Giliam’s help.
• Shirakawa Shuu and Ingram designed a new Small MACROSS-class Battleship with a spacious II-shaped layout, concealed bridge, and firepower comparable to a large MACROSS-class vessel.
• After Xiao Ran approved the design, Shirakawa Shuu, Ingram, Renard, Luo, Giliam, and Yuzes refined it, then began construction with technicians transferred from other departments.
• The team completed the battleship after half a year, incorporating the SEED World’s Light Barrier and Solar Furnace; the ship awaited its first battle.

After the new Small Macross-class battleship passed its tests, it was assigned to Tetsuya, and the exhausted technical team took a short break. They then began designing an A-class Super AI Combat Squad, with Yuzes suggesting they simply create Super Robots.

• Luo, Renard, and the other Technicians completed the battleship, whose Super AI could operate it independently and control its systems.
• Tetsuya tested the battleship alone, transforming it and using its Ideon Sword and Black Hole Cannon to destroy a large asteroid.
• Xiao Ran let the technical team rest after three months of work, while the Overlord Legion watched the battleship's construction and test with astonishment.
• After another half month, Luo, Renard, Shirakawa Shuu, Giliam, Yuzes, and Ingram returned to work on a Super AI Combat Squad.
• The Technicians discussed making the squad A-class, combinable, self-repairing, and capable of evolving, until Yuzes proposed creating Super Robots instead.

Luo and the other researchers rejected Yuzes's proposal to build Super Robots without the necessary technical data, then designed a five-unit Super AI Combat Squad using the Legion's existing technology. Xiao Ran approved their direction, while Basak grew frustrated that Luo had yet to begin his Mazinger Kaiser and retreated into decadence.

• Luo and the other researchers concluded that building Super Robots was beyond their current capabilities and began designing a practical Super AI Combat Squad instead.
• With Xiao Ran's input, the team selected five transforming units: an eagle-type stealth fighter, a wolf-type beast, a vehicle, a lion-type melee robot, and a warship-form support robot.
• The researchers chose liquid metal for the units and Super Alloy Z for their frameworks as they prepared to work out their combat systems, combination ability, coordination, and internal structures.
• Xiao Ran trusted the team to produce satisfying Super AI units and did not interfere with their designs.
• Basak lamented that Luo had postponed his Mazinger Kaiser again, then decided to wait in seclusion with wine and women rather than confront the dangerous researchers.

The Berserk Beast Plan completed its five Super AI Robots and began small-scale production, while Luo finalized Mazinger Kaiser for Basak. The chapter left the Legion’s machines equipped for their pilots, with Cruze receiving Moonlight Cannon drones.

• The research team designed and tested five transforming Super AI Robots, which combined into a single machine and used Super Alloy Z and liquid metal.
• The Berserk Beast Plan began small-scale production, starting with three Berserk Beast Squads, after six months of development.
• Luo refined Mazinger Kaiser’s design over three days and delivered the official blueprints to the production department for Basak.
• Shirakawa Shuu and Kane helped equip Mazinger Kaiser with magic and alchemy, and the completed machine received an A+ rating.
• Luo built himself an Astray-like machine, while other pilots received Moonlight Cannons according to their wishes.
• Luo made Cruze four Moonlight Cannon drones to supplement his high-output attacks.

Xiao Ran equipped his squads with new MACROSS Battleships, Berserk Beast Squads, and completed units before choosing MUV World for the Legion’s first mission. The Legion entered MUV World under a three-year mission to eliminate the extraterrestrial nests and protect Earth, arriving at Yukon Base one year after Char and the others had left.

• Three new MACROSS Battleships were assigned to Char Squad, Ingram’s squad, and Naza, while Xiao Ran, Char Squad, and Sanger Squad each received a Berserk Beast Squad.
• Basak’s and Luo’s new units were completed as Xiao Ran reviewed the available Mission Cards and chose MUV World for its combat-testing opportunities.
• Yuzes prepared research equipment, and Xiao Ran’s Legion members gathered at Prometheus as their Retention Time ended.
• Xiao Ran converted the MUV Mission Card into a Legion Mission requiring the Legion to eliminate every extraterrestrial nest in the Solar System within three years and protect Earth.
• Xiao Ran confirmed the mission, and the Legion arrived in MUV World at Yukon Base, one year after Char, Yuzes, and the others had left.

After a year away, Shirakawa Shuu, Yuzes, Char, and the Burning Legion returned to find the Federation weakened by infighting and the war against the BETA at a stalemate. Xiao Ran assessed their remaining influence and recognized that completing the mission would require more than the Legion’s own members.

• Prometheus assigned the newly arrived Burning Legion members identities at Yukon Base, while Ingram and Amuro were deployed to America.
• Shirakawa Shuu and the others learned that the Federation had fractured during their year away, though Yukon Base remained under their influence.
• Xiao Ran reviewed the situation and asked Char how much power they still controlled; Char said they held Yukon Base and only two or three other places.
• Xiao Ran concluded that the mission would be complicated and that the Legion would need outside support, though its warships, including the Burning Legion and the Overlord, gave it an advantage.

Xiao Ran assigned the Legion’s members to regain control of the Federation, support Ingram’s legitimate rise, investigate BETA nests, and establish mecha production. The teams departed for their posts while Yuzes stayed at Yukon Base, balancing Federation work with secret BETA research.

• Xiao Ran told Char that the Legion needed to covertly regain control of the Federation while keeping the country’s appearance of chaos so Ingram could escape his institutional constraints.
• Xiao Ran assigned Cruze and El-Elf to help Ingram through the election process, sent Char and Giliam to the Soviet Union, Shirakawa Shuu and Zenga to the Far East, and Yuzes to gather loyalists at Yukon Base.
• Xiao Ran ordered Fardes and the other A-Class Pilots to assess the BETA front lines, sent Naza, Basak, Graham, Nalo, and Zechs to investigate the Moon and Mars, and tasked Luo and Renard with establishing a mecha production system in the Far East.
• Char, Zenga, Giliam, Cruze, and the others left Yukon Base, followed the next day by the A-Class Pilot teams and the group bound for the Moon and Mars.
• Yuzes remained at Yukon Base to identify useful Federation personnel and secretly collected dead BETA for his G Element research.

Xiao Ran’s forces spent a month restoring control over the Federation’s former factions, with Char and Giliam securing much of the former Soviet Union and Shirakawa Shuu rebuilding influence in the Far East. They left the Far East’s powerful separatist families unresolved, while their allies continued investigating other regions and expanding Ingram’s reputation in America.

• Char used his old supporters to regain control of more than a third of the former Soviet frontline forces, while Giliam secretly consolidated power in New Moscow by suppressing opponents and recruiting allies.
• Shirakawa Shuu regained partial authority in the Far East through Kaede Sakon, but waited to move against the American-backed great families to avoid exposing the operation.
• Zenga and Elsam investigated Yokohama Base, including its loyalty, the commander’s authority, and whether Kagetsu Yuko had sided with the Far East separatists.
• Fardes and five other groups investigated conditions across the Federation’s other regions and frontline positions.
• Cruze and El-Elf arrived in America, investigated local conditions, and began expanding Ingram’s reputation without contacting him directly.

Xiao Ran reviewed the tangled political situation and waited for Cruze's efforts in America to create an opening. At Yukon Base, he encountered Miyoshi Meiya on the rooftop and was called away by a communicator message.

• Cruze and El-Elf promoted Ingram in America while Legion members built influence in military units.
• Yuzes studied the Federation's factions without acting, memorizing which groups were loyal, disruptive, or useful.
• Xiao Ran spent a month at Yukon Base, frustrated that the political turmoil was delaying Ingram's advance and monitoring developments while waiting for Cruze's progress.
• After a meeting, Xiao Ran went to the rooftop to rest and encountered Miyoshi Meiya, who challenged his presence there.
• Xiao Ran told Miyoshi Meiya that he reported directly to Commander Yuzes, then received a call and said he had to leave immediately.

Miyoshi Meiya tried to detain Xiao Ran at Yukon Base because she suspected him of infiltrating it, but he disarmed her and left her with Saki. Saki confirmed that Yuzes and Zenga had returned, then told Meiya she was interested in her.

• Miyoshi Meiya drew her sword on Xiao Ran, suspecting him because he was on the rooftop despite holding only a captain's rank.
• Xiao Ran dodged Meiya's attack, took her sword, and left to meet Luo and the others, leaving Saki to handle Meiya.
• Saki returned Meiya's sword and questioned her while drinking juice.
• Meiya asked about Saki and Xiao Ran, and Saki identified herself as part of Commander Yuzes's direct unit.
• Saki recognized Meiya as Zenga's disciple and confirmed that Yuzes and Zenga had returned, though Zenga was away on a mission.
• Saki told Meiya she was interested in her, leaving Meiya alarmed.

Xiao Ran learned that the Solar System was filled with BETA and ordered the development of better detection equipment while Graham’s team returned with reconnaissance data. As Cruze used the findings to build support for Ingram, three months passed and the struggle over the Faction Territory reached its decisive moment.

• Graham reported that BETA occupied the major planets and described a newly discovered space type designated Fortress Laser Class.
• Xiao Ran ordered Graham’s group to hand their warships to Shirakawa Shuu and Luo, share their findings, and return by another route.
• Yuzes agreed to work with Luo and the others to develop specialized BETA detection equipment.
• Cruze used the space reconnaissance materials to persuade influential American families and figures to support Ingram.
• Three months passed, and the struggle over the Faction Territory reached its decisive moment.

Cruze presented Ingram’s political and military goals to powerful American leaders and asked for their open support without offering guarantees or deals. He then unveiled a new mecha and began broadcasting Ingram’s battle against a BETA hive nationwide to shape the presidential election, leaving the outcome dependent on the public’s response.

• Cruze told the assembled American elites that supporting Ingram was a matter of shared purpose, not a transaction, and said future benefits would depend on their abilities.
• Cruze had El-Elf project footage of the X Unit, including a previously unseen pitch-black angel mecha built with the Burning Legion’s technology.
• Cruze announced that viewers would see an extermination battle against BETA’s seventh hive on the Eurasian Continent, presenting Ingram as a potential leader and hero.
• Cruze arranged for the battle to be broadcast across the United States, while media coverage contrasted Ingram’s image with that of his election opponent.