Just as Fang Zheng and the others arrived in this world, chaos had already erupted within Earth Federation Defense Headquarters.
"The Earth-Moon defense line has completely fallen! Is there really nothing else we can do?"
One of the Earth Federation's top officials slammed his fist heavily onto the table.
"Use nuclear weapons! This is our last resort!"
"Are you stupid? Nuclear weapons? Are you sure they'll work against those monsters? Don't let us kill ourselves first while failing to take them down!"
"So what? We're going to die either way! Even if we die, we should be the ones to choose how!"
"Nonsense! What if... what if we can still win?"
"Win? Are you kidding me? What do we have left? MS, warships, defensive weapons—even fortress satellites can't stand against those terrifying metal monsters. What method do you have left to achieve victory?"
Listening to everyone's arguments, a burly man whose hair stood upright in a V shape closed his eyes and sighed.
He was Admiral Mitama of the Earth Federation Forces, and also the father of Nadeshiko captain Mitama Yurika. But now, he was merely an utterly exhausted old man.
"What exactly are those monsters?"
Muttering to himself, Admiral Mitama opened his eyes and stared at the Reapers on the screen before him. These metal monsters had appeared out of nowhere. No one knew where they had come from. They had first been discovered on a battlefield between the Earth Federation and ZAFT. At the time, everyone had assumed they were ZAFT's newest weapons, but they soon discovered that was not the case...
No, Admiral Mitama would rather have hoped that these monsters were ZAFT's secret weapons. At least then, they could have resolved the matter through political means. But that was not the case. These metal monsters did