Chapter Summaries

The United Army united against the Dion Empire’s Newtype ideology while the Skywing Mercenary Group agreed to guard its logistics rather than fight on the front lines. Long Fei inspected the new Shieldbreaker Destroyer and refined AGE System weapon designs, then shared lunch with Taoxiang and their daughters.

• The Colony Sphere’s nations formed the United Army, and leaked footage showed Long Fei arguing against Fadis that Newtypes, Coordinators, and ordinary humans were equal.
• The Skywing Mercenary Group refused frontline employment but agreed to protect the United Army’s logistics and transport resources.
• Long Fei inspected the completed Shieldbreaker Destroyer, reviewed its long-range Electromagnetic Accelerator Cannon, and considered the costs and production limits of new ships.
• Long Fei studied AGE System weapon blueprints and modified designs that were tailored to counter specific Dion Empire weapons.
• Long Guo and Long Fu tried to surprise Long Fei, but he caught them, and Taoxiang joined the family for lunch after telling the girls to eat their meal before dessert.

Long Fei spent a peaceful morning with Taoxiang and their daughters while the United Army suffered a crushing defeat against Dion Empire forces in the Fourth District Colony. The United Army retreated after losing its support fleet, and a reporter questioned whether its strategy of buying time could succeed.

• Long Fei woke up, had breakfast with Taoxiang and his daughters, and began his day's work.
• The United Army struggled against superior Dion Empire forces as advanced MS units overwhelmed its outdated machines and Beam Missiles destroyed many units.
• The United Army's Guided Missile Swarms failed to inflict significant damage, while the Dion Empire's Fenrir Mobile Armors countered the United Army's Mobile Armors.
• Two Dion Empire Sky Rocket Battleships annihilated the United Army support fleet, and the United Army commander ordered a retreat.
• A war correspondent explained that the support fleet's commander had failed to use missile swarms to suppress the Sky Rocket Battleships, while the United Army's plan to trade space for time remained uncertain.

The Skywing Mercenary Group’s new warships and weapons drew international attention as its advance force tested Mobile Drill Missiles against a Dion Empire fleet. The missiles collapsed the enemy’s Energy Shields and heavily damaged several Escort Ships, while the engagement continued.

• Media and intelligence agencies tracked the Skywing Mercenary Group’s cautious operations and learned it was developing giant warships, advanced weapons, and new-generation MS units.
• In July of Cosmic Year 122, a Sky Wing Mercenaries advance force escorting a transport fleet toward Colony Satellite No. 42 spotted a Dion Empire fleet and prepared for battle.
• The Dion Empire fleet charged the advance force, whose Anti-Beam Particles scattered incoming Beam Cannons before it launched Mobile Drill Missiles.
• The Mobile Drill Missiles evaded the Dion Empire’s defenses, and four missiles per target overwhelmed warships’ Energy Shields.
• The advance force launched a larger second wave, and despite the Dion Empire’s MS units joining the defense, missiles damaged several giant Escort Ships and crippled one.

The Sky Wing Mercenaries used successive missile waves to halt the Dion Empire fleet and cripple its communications, giving their MS units an advantage in battle. As the Dion forces activated Efficiency Boost Mode, the mercenaries responded with Long Fei’s stronger Amplification Mode, and the fierce clash continued.

• The Dion Empire colonel pursued the retreating enemy, but Anti-Beam Missiles and then Minov Particle Missiles disrupted his fleet’s weapons, radar, and communications.
• The Minov Particles cut the unmanned Scorpion Tigers and Wing Birds off from their parent units, leaving them with limited tactics and coordination.
• Skywing Mercenary Group pilots used their upgraded Jegans, Murasames, MK IIIs, and Delta PLUS units to suppress the Dion Empire’s MS forces despite being outnumbered.
• The remaining Dion Empire MS units activated Efficiency Boost Mode as the battle intensified.
• The Skywing Mercenary Group’s MS units activated Long Fei’s Amplification Mode, boosting their performance without the post-use decline of Efficiency Boost Mode.
• MS units from both sides fought across space in a fierce exchange of attacks.

The Skywing Mercenary Group defeated the Dion Empire forces in a costly battle, after which the United Army learned that Central Command’s order to attack had secretly come from the Dion Empire’s Third Prince. United Army officers then used the incident to pressure the Skywing Mercenary Group into retaliating, and the story spread widely through the media.

• Delta PLUS and MK III pilots traded heavy losses with the Bloodreds, while the other Dion Empire units were suppressed as their temporary boosts ended.
• The Dion Empire fleet signaled a retreat, and the Skywing Mercenary Group began clearing the battlefield as the United Army sent recorded footage to its headquarters.
• A Dion Empire brigadier general learned that his subordinate’s attack order had been blamed on a staff error, though Central Command’s lieutenant general knew the Third Prince had secretly issued it.
• United Army officers studied the Skywing Mercenary Group’s superior weapons and recognized that their own military technology lagged behind both sides.
• The United Army officers urged their countries’ politicians to publicize the attack and provoke the Skywing Mercenary Group into retaliation, and the media spread the story internationally.

The Skywing Mercenary Group attacked a regiment-level Dion Empire fleet, showcasing Long Fei’s upgraded Knight Series and overwhelming the Dion Empire military’s mobile suits. The battle remained one-sided as the Dion fleet’s command could not provide fire support because its rear was under attack.

• A war correspondent broadcast the Skywing Mercenary Group’s assault as White Knights destroyed Dion Empire mobile suits with upgraded weapons.
• An upgraded Black Knight used optical camouflage and a Stealth Sniper Rifle to kill Crimson pilots, while its stealth equipment made it difficult to detect.
• Pale Riders and the Pale Rider DII used Beam Sabers, Hyper Beam Rifles, Gatling guns, and Shekina to destroy enemy machines.
• The upgraded Death Knight and other Knight Series units activated the EXAM System and overpowered Dion Empire pilots even when they used Efficiency Boost Mode.
• The Dion Empire fleet commander could not launch fire support because smaller, differently designed mobile suits had launched a sneak attack on the fleet’s rear.

The Cross Vanguard Army and Shadow Mad Dog Squad defeated the Dion Empire fleet with a coordinated assault, forcing it to surrender and halting the empire’s advance. As the United Army studied recovered Saint Machines and hoped for more time, the Dion Empire made an unexpected move.

• F90O’s forces and the Zhou Ya Sisters, Rebecca, and Dark Hound overwhelmed Dion Empire escorts while the Shadow Mad Dog Squad launched a thousand Mobile Drill Missiles at the fleet.
• The Dion Empire fleet suffered heavy damage and losses, and its colonel ordered a surrender after most warships and MS forces were crippled.
• News of the defeat spread worldwide, and the Cross Vanguard Army and Shadow Mad Dog Squad later won several more battles with losses under 5%.
• The United Army studied recovered Azure units and Crimson Saint Machines, finding that their technology surpassed its own and that Psycho-frame research remained in its early stages.
• The Dion Empire forces made a move that stunned the United Army.

The Dion Empire and the Skywing Mercenary Group negotiated a ceasefire, exchanged compensation and prisoners, and signed an agreement. After Minister of Foreign Affairs Sigmund publicly invited Long Fei to join Emperor Fadis, Long Fei rejected the invitation and condemned Newtype ideology as discrimination.

• The Dion Empire offered compensation and a ceasefire, and the Skywing Mercenary Group agreed to negotiate in the Mika'ang Kingdom's capital.
• Minister of Foreign Affairs Sigmund accepted Fiske's demand for five trillion Colony Circle Currency, and both sides negotiated privately for three days before signing an agreement under King of Thrace's witness.
• After the agreement was signed, Sigmund publicly asked Fiske to convey Emperor Fadis's invitation for Long Fei to join the Dion Empire and share power.
• Long Fei told Li Jiaming he had no intention of joining the Dion Empire and rejected Emperor Fadis's Newtype ideology.
• Long Fei released a statement declaring that Newtypes, Coordinators, and ordinary humans were equal and that Newtype ideology was another form of racial discrimination.

Long Fei oversaw plans to upgrade the Skywing Mercenary Group’s forces and appointed Lieutenant Colonel Lamiel to command the newly formed Bloodthirsty Wolf Strike Group. The group prepared to hunt targets using Newtype pilots and tracking, guerrilla, and psychological tactics.

• Long Fei and his commanders agreed that the regular forces’ Delta PLUS and MK III units needed reactor and component upgrades.
• The Skywing Mercenary Group tested the newly built Armor, a giant escort ship designed to protect other warships, and evaluated the Jesta and Richer highly.
• The mass-production F91 entered production as the Bloodthirsty Wolf Strike Group’s exclusive mobile suit.
• Long Fei appointed Lieutenant Colonel Lamiel, an experienced Newtype ace and tactical commander, to lead the Bloodthirsty Wolf Strike Group.
• Lieutenant Colonel Lamiel accepted command, while the Skywing Mercenary Group’s other direct units and its feared, secretive Black Rabbit Unit remained in place.

Long Fei reviewed reports from his secret organizations, ordered assassinations against people who threatened his family, and examined intelligence gathered about the Dion Empire. He was surprised to learn that the empire classified its Newtypes into several types, including brain quantum and wild types.

• A Shadow Blade operative delivered the severed heads of Hamudada and his superior, and Long Fei ordered their heads sent back to their organizations.
• Glamour Shadow reported its intelligence to Long Fei, who ordered the Black Rabbit Unit to eliminate everyone connected to a matter if necessary.
• Long Fei reviewed Glamour Shadow's findings about the occupied Colony Satellite and learned that its agents were probing the isolated Dion Empire for intelligence.
• The chapter described the roles of the Black Hand and Dark Brocade, including Li Xiucheng's secret command of Dark Brocade.
• Long Fei examined captured Dion Empire military intelligence and found that its Newtypes included combat, Psycho-frame, brain quantum, and wild types.

Long Fei studied captured Dion Imperial technology and learned how its Newtype abilities and devices worked, while also uncovering the Empire’s history of creating Coordinators with the Metadeng Nation. The negotiations left the captured equipment and Martian resources with the Skywing Mercenary Group, giving Long Fei room to pursue his research as Fadis continued signaling a desire to cooperate.

• Long Fei spent five days examining captured psycho-frame devices and identified the Dion Empire’s Brainwave, Wild, Psycho-frame, and Combat-type Newtypes and their abilities.
• Long Fei discovered that the Dion Empire and the Metadeng Nation had secretly created Coordinators fifty years earlier, and that advanced Coordinators could activate Seed Burst.
• Long Fei studied Dion MS and Mobile Armor control systems, finding that different Newtype types could operate the Empire’s devices, though some were better suited to them.
• Long Fei decided to integrate Dion technology with brain quantum wave technology from 00 and X-Rounder technology from AGE, ensuring all Newtypes could use the results.
• Sigmund told Fikes that Fadis would not reclaim the Dion equipment captured by the Skywing Mercenary Group and would let Long Fei study it as a gesture of goodwill.
• The negotiation treaty granted the Skywing Mercenary Group compensation, including Martian resources, while Fadis continued to pursue cooperation with Long Fei.

Long Fei prepared the Skywing Mercenary Group for a future war by planning improvements to its unmanned units and studying Dion Empire technology. Cordelia brought him research materials, and the chapter ended as Long Guo and Long Fu ran into his office.

• Long Fei resolved to strengthen the Skywing Mercenary Group rather than let it clash with the Dion Empire, and planned to improve remote control of Taurus units and Birgos.
• Long Fei ordered research into the Fenrir, Newtype abilities, and Dion Empire warship technology while acknowledging that mastering advanced propulsion would take time.
• Xiao He told Long Fei that Cordelia wanted to see him, and Cordelia brought him research documents.
• Cordelia noticed Long Fei's Sub-light Speed Navigation schematics, and he explained that he hoped to develop more advanced Space Jump technology.
• Long Fei revised Cordelia's Li Jiao Qi Cannon research and sent her back to work.
• Long Guo and Long Fu ran into Long Fei's office as Cordelia left and passed Taoxiang.

Long Fei examined Mars Sphere metals delivered by the Dion Empire and identified materials for new weapons, reactors, and mobile suits. He planned to build a Diva in assault form and establish a Harute force as his personal guard, while rejecting any prospect of cooperation with Fadis.

• International media revealed that the Dion Empire had secretly prolonged wars in the Colony Sphere to weaken its nations before invading.
• The Dion Empire delivered a 1,200-meter Transport Ship loaded with Mars Sphere resources to the Skywing Mercenary Group, and Salamander gave Long Fei the investigation data.
• Long Fei found that Mars Sphere metals could support more Quasi-Argama Super Mega Particle Cannon turrets and a Photon Blaster Cannon, so he decided to build a Diva in assault form.
• Long Fei tested pseudo Solar Furnaces made with Lead Aluminum Alloy and planned to use them for Angel Units and one hundred Harutes.
• Long Fei decided to form the Harutes as his personal guard force and made clear he would accept the resources but never trust or cooperate with Fadis.

General Trish proposed a United Army strategy to feint against occupied colonies while preparing a main assault on the Dion Empire, and Nikola expanded it into a prolonged war of attrition with coordinated attacks. The nations approved the plan, leaving them to begin preparations for the campaign.

• General Trish argued that the Dion Empire’s advance had slowed because it lacked troops and proposed a feint against the occupied colonies alongside an assault on Mars.
• Powell warned that the Dion Empire might have many Newtypes in reserve, then inferred that Trish’s plan depended on Mars’s orbit and stretched supply lines.
• Nikola proposed adding a Gas Empire assault force to attack Mars from another direction or join a pincer attack with the Wanluo Federation.
• Nikola urged the United Army to prolong the war, tie down Dion forces, and exploit its superior manpower and production capacity.
• The national commanders voted, and over seventy percent supported the strategy before the meeting ended and preparations began.

Major Lei piloted the Haya Saint Machine into battle and destroyed more than one hundred United Army MS units in less than fifteen minutes. After the United Army commander assessed Haya’s performance and received orders from his superiors, he ordered the fleet to retreat.

• Major Lei launched in Haya and rapidly shot down United Army MS units, including a Flying Thunder that tried to attack from behind.
• Major Lei identified three surviving Flying Thunder pilots as Newtypes, overwhelmed them, and destroyed one before the other two fled.
• Major Lei fought off more enemy MS units and shot down more than sixty in about five minutes.
• Major Lei noticed Scorpion Tigers and Wing Birds fighting in small teams and recognized that surrendered United Army soldiers were being used to pilot them.
• Major Lei fired Haya’s long laser rifle, destroying numerous United Army MS units, while the United Army fleet commander learned that Haya had downed more than one hundred units.
• The United Army fleet commander recognized Haya’s performance and ordered his forces to retreat.

The Dion Empire used captured United Army soldiers as coerced pilots and propaganda tools, forcing them to fight their former comrades and making their return home impossible. The chapter ended with the Dion Empire turning prisoners into a steady source of front-line troops while sparing its own homeland soldiers.

• The Dion Empire manufactured Scorpion Tigers and Winged Birds in occupied Colony Satellite factories, using recycled battlefield wreckage and assigning the unmanned-capable MS to surrendered soldiers and prisoners.
• Brainwave Newtypes remotely forced prisoners to attack United Army units, then handed them control, leaving them to fight former comrades and sometimes kill them to survive.
• The United Army ordered its soldiers to treat former comrades piloting Dion Empire MS as enemies and traitors, while many surviving prisoners later killed themselves or submitted to the Dion Empire.
• In October of Cosmic Year 122, the Dion Empire released footage of surrendered soldiers executing prisoners, fighting the United Army, and pledging loyalty, provoking widespread hatred and persecution of their families in the Colony Sphere.
• The Dion Empire used the footage to sever prisoners’ hopes of returning home and sent them to the front before its homeland troops, reducing its own losses while inflicting greater casualties on the United Army.

After arriving at Colony Satellite No. 46, Zena Ni and Rogova questioned the United Army’s losses and heard rumors about the Skywing Mercenary Group’s motives. During their leave, they unexpectedly reunited with Rebecca, who revealed that Zhou Ya recognized them as Newtypes.

• Zena Ni and Rogova discussed the United Army’s heavy casualties and heard a conspiracy theory that its leaders wanted to reduce the population through attrition warfare.
• The defeated United Army fleet reached Colony Satellite No. 46, and the officers saw the Skywing Mercenary Group and Cross Vanguard undergoing maintenance nearby.
• Zena Ni and Rogova heard rumors that Long Fei was refusing United Army commissions because he planned to betray them or seize power after the war.
• During their leave, Zena Ni and Rogova went to a restaurant and recognized Rebecca, whom they had believed dead after her unit was wiped out.
• Rebecca introduced Zena Ni and Rogova to Zhou Ya, Zhou Na, and Britney, and Zhou Ya told the shocked officers that they were Newtypes.

Rebecca reunited with Zena Ni and Rogova and revealed that she had joined the Skywing Mercenary Group after the war. Their conversation exposed the United Army’s mistrust of the group and raised doubts about its plans for a war of attrition, leaving Zena Ni and Rogova shocked and silent.

• Zena Ni asked Rebecca about her family, and Rebecca said her missing younger brother lived with her.
• Rebecca told Zena Ni and Rogova that she had joined the Skywing Mercenary Group after the war and explained why she left her former service.
• Britney described the group’s willingness to recognize the Dion Empire’s technological advantage, while Zhou Na criticized the United Army’s outdated military.
• Zena Ni accused the Skywing Mercenary Group of fearing the Dion Empire, and Rebecca said the group distrusted the United Army’s plan to profit from a prolonged conflict.
• Zhou Ya warned that the United Army’s leaders were treating frontline soldiers as expendable and that the Dion Empire might already have anticipated their attrition strategy.
• Zena Ni and Rogova fell silent as they considered that the Dion Empire might have been preparing for the United Army’s next move.

Zhou Ya and the other women were caught in a Dion Believers Organization terrorist attack on a Colony Satellite, where they fought to protect civilians and survive overwhelming enemy numbers. After drones delivered weapons and battle suits, Zhou Ya led the group toward safety while their Gundams remained under maintenance and enemy MS continued to wreak havoc.

• After dinner, explosions and gunfire broke out across the Colony Satellite as Dion Believers attacked civilians and proclaimed their devotion to the Dion Empire.
• Zhou Ya shot a believer who was holding a little girl hostage, then led the women away while Zhou Na called for support and Britney suspected the attackers had help from inside local forces.
• As the attacks spread, Zhou Ya's group ambushed believers, took their weapons, and retreated into a building when enemy numbers forced them back.
• With ammunition nearly gone, Zhou Ya requested reinforcements, and drones routed the believers outside before delivering four Sparta Battle Suit II sets and a supply of weapons.
• Rebecca gave Zena Ni and Rogova conventional submachine guns, and Zhou Ya said the group had to find safer ground until their Gundams were ready in fifteen minutes, warning that enemy MS were also attacking the Colony Satellite.

Zhou Ya and her team rescued Lanna, her family, and other civilians from a plaza overrun by believers, but the group was surrounded while trying to escape. With their ammunition nearly gone and reinforcements still on the way, Zhou Ya resorted to close-quarters attacks as the fighting continued.

• Britney sniped believers while Zhou Ya, Rebecca, Zena Ni, and Rogova advanced through the plaza and located Lanna’s signal.
• Zhou Ya and her team rescued Lanna, her two daughters, her parents, and fifteen other civilians from a storage room.
• Britney provided a map and sniper cover as Zhou Ya’s group escaped through Corridor B, but believers spotted them and called in reinforcements.
• Zhou Na requested backup after believers surrounded the group from four directions, and headquarters said a ground force would arrive in three minutes.
• Britney and Zhou Na supported the defenders as drones were destroyed and ammunition ran low; after another convoy of believers arrived, Zhou Ya prepared to use her invisibility to attack with her military knife.