(Yi Zui was not belittling AS. But was there really anything special about the AS that appeared before the Kharg? Even the Kharg had not performed absurdly well in the anime; the later models were another matter entirely. With the world's plot completely altered, the Kharg's successors had never been developed at all. Even if other factions researched the λ-DRIVER, it would not be Mithril from this storyline. Then there was the issue of the number of third-generation models. The anime seemed to mention the cost of AS as well, didn't it? While the protagonist was taking it easy, other participants would also be developing. Was Luo allowed to provide technical support while other participants were not? Yi Zui had arranged this long ago. From the very beginning, a major boss had been set up in this storyline.)
The location for the armistice conference was set in another major power that had not truly participated in the war: Australia, the island nation filled with countless kangaroos. The inexplicable war had begun inexplicably and, under the restrictions of the N-Jammer, ended just as inexplicably. For this armistice agreement, nearly every nation in the world sent delegations to Sydney, Australia.
Besides signing the armistice agreement, these nations also hoped to receive an answer from Xiao Ran during the conference: whether Nuclear Energy would be sealed away forever, or when it would be reactivated.
For smaller nations that possessed not only small-scale Nuclear Energy but even needed to purchase AS from other countries and lacked Nuclear Weapons, they could not have wished more fervently for Nuclear Energy to remain sealed forever. For nations with an immense need for Nuclear Energy, however, its sealing was already like cutting into their bones.
On Japan's side, aside from Xiao Ran and the others traveling aboard Danner's