Chapter 625: Targeting the Zabi Family
"If a Newtype encountered a suitable mecha, the results they could achieve would definitely not be as simple as one plus one." Xiao Ran agreed with Char's determination to destroy Zeon's Newtype Custom Mecha manufacturing plant at any cost. If they eliminated the Flanagan Institute and then destroyed that factory, the Zabi family, which had invested everything into them, would suffer a devastating blow. Even if the Zabi family wanted to rebuild, whether they could still produce such quantities at the same time was another matter entirely.
At the very least, in Char's understanding, if both the Flanagan Institute and the manufacturing plant were destroyed, Zeon's current resources would make it virtually impossible to establish another Flanagan Institute. Nor would they have enough resources to continue mass-producing Newtype Custom Mecha. Moreover, once the Flanagan Institute was gone, its crucial technologies would vanish along with it.
Trying to develop them again would not simply be a matter of time. Even if it were only a matter of time, it would at least buy Xiao Ran a great deal of it. Once he returned to this world from Prometheus, forget a single fleet—even a fleet's worth of Newtype Custom Mecha would be nothing for Xiao Ran to wipe out before Char's eyes.
Naturally, Char did not know that Xiao Ran's true objective was merely to drag out the stalemate for as long as possible. Seeing Xiao Ran agree with him, he nodded and said, "Although I don't know the exact specifications and capabilities of the Newtype Custom Mecha Zeon is producing, comparing them with the two machines you use—the Dragonfly equipment-equipped Black Astray and that GN-X with the Solar Furnace—I can imagine other Newtypes rampaging through space in similar machines."
"Even if those Newtype Custom Mecha