Xiao Ran had not expected that the support the president had mentioned in their previous conversation would turn out to be participants who had barely shown themselves since arriving in this world. There were five of them—four men and one woman—and no one knew when exactly they had joined UNION.
The reason Xiao Ran recognized them as participants was entirely because the mecha that had gone into space with them were clearly not products that belonged in this world.
When Lieutenant Colonel Rodia had handed Xiao Ran the transfer reports for the five participants, he had also seen their personal files and the basic data on their mecha. Four of the units were extremely similar, differing mainly in their armaments: an Artillery Type equipped with heavy weapons, a Sniper Type equipped for long-range fire, an Assault Type with a single shield and Beam Gun combination, and a Melee Type carrying a folding Physical Sword, a small shield, and a Beam Rifle on its back.
None of those four mecha matched anything Xiao Ran knew. They lacked the distinctive head features of a Gundam, and he had no memory of units like them. They had likely undergone specialized modifications, but it was obvious that they belonged to the same series. Their resemblance was extremely high, with only corresponding alterations made for their differing roles. Even their backpacks were completely different depending on the type, and were likewise modified products.
Other than a support type, all the standard roles were present among the four units, one of each. Combined with their enormous similarity, it was not hard to see that they had been produced in the same batch. There was no other possibility for such mecha to exist except that they belonged to a team that had acquired the blueprints.
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