Following Xiao Ran, Graham, who had been covering for him, finally could not hold back any longer and asked, "General, are those units all Celestial Being's machines? Are those light particles emitted by Solar Furnaces? They can actually block radar and even let machines fly without flight thrusters?"
"You're right." Xiao Ran replied over the comms. "But it's not quite accurate to say those machines have no thrusters. In my view, the Solar Furnace itself serves as a thruster, and its output is greater than that of conventional thrusters. It allows a machine to perform unimaginable maneuvers, so there is no need to add thrusters."
"Still, not every machine lacks thrusters. That transformable yellow unit, called the Arios Gundam, has two thrusters in MA Form. And the unit I'm piloting has ten large GN-BITs—GN Particle units that can detach from its back—and every one of them can function as a thruster."
"GN-BIT?" Graham said thoughtfully. "Those units that completely detach from the machine and fight on their own—can they do that because of the particles emitted by the Solar Furnace as well?"
Xiao Ran nodded. "Yes."
Graham felt increasingly impatient. He desperately wanted to pilot such a machine at once. The Gundams' graceful forms and those mysterious light particles had deeply captivated him. "Then will our future personal machines also be equipped with Solar Furnaces?"
"No. We'll use a sealed energy source. As for GN Particles, I've considered using them as well, but only as an auxiliary system, stored in particle tanks capable of holding the particles." Xiao Ran paused to think, then continued, "But it's not as though Solar Furnace-equipped machines are impossible. Hmm... I'll need to consider it. This will require some maneuvering."
What Xiao Ran had thought of were the Red Solar Furnaces from the original plot.