Chapter Summaries

The Skywing Mercenary Group continued driving back Dion Empire forces as the Bloodthirsty Wolf Strike Group used coordinated wolf-pack tactics to devastate enemy units around Colony Satellite No. 65. Lamiel’s team destroyed a lance-wielding Special Saint Machine, then resumed its attacks while staying wary of the enemy’s strength.

• The Skywing Mercenary Group fought Dion Empire forces outside Colony Satellite No. 65 while the United Army followed behind to restore order on captured satellites.
• Long Fei deployed in the Moon Gundam, Li Xiucheng led the Shadow Mad Dog Squad in the EX-S Gundam, and Lamiel led the Bloodthirsty Wolf Strike Group in F91s.
• Lamiel and the Bloodthirsty Wolf Strike Group surrounded enemy Azure and Crimson Saint Machines, using coordinated attacks and ambushes to overwhelm them.
• The Bloodthirsty Wolf Strike Group lured a lance-wielding Special Saint Machine into an ambush and surrounded it with several F91 squads.
• Lamiel rejected the enemy pilot’s demand for a fair duel, and her team dismembered the Special Saint Machine.
• Lamiel warned her subordinates not to get carried away because the Dion Empire had already destroyed several of their special Gundams, then ordered them to continue their tactics.

Long Fei’s Moon Gundam overwhelmed the Dion Empire’s twin-piloted Special Saint Machines and helped drive the battle at Colony Satellite No. 65 decisively in his forces’ favor. After the Empire completed its evacuation and destruction of key facilities, its commander ordered a retreat, and Long Fei’s side began recovery operations.

• Long Fei arrived in the Moon Gundam and rescued the Shield Gundam’s pilot from Li and Lan’s black and white Special Saint Machines.
• Li and Lan combined their weapons, but the Moon Gundam blocked their attacks and outmatched them in both ranged and close combat.
• Long Fei destroyed Li’s black Saint Machine with the Psycho-Plates, then defeated Lan’s white Saint Machine when she attacked in a rage.
• The Moon Gundam and Li Xiucheng’s Gundam S, fighting alongside the Shadow Mad Dog Squad, inflicted heavy losses on the Dion Empire forces.
• After learning that the facilities had been destroyed and the Newtypes and their families had evacuated, the Dion commander ordered a retreat.
• Long Fei called off the pursuit, and his forces cleared the battlefield, reported casualties, repaired their machines, and rested.

Long Fei and the Skywing Mercenary Group protected wealthy clients during the Colony Satellite recoveries while billing the United Army heavily for their services and losses. Long Fei ordered operations slowed if payments were late and imposed steep compound interest on overdue bills.

• The Sky Wing Mercenaries rescued wealthy people who paid for protection and shot civilians who tried to attack their clients.
• The Anglo-Saxon Democratic Republic protested the mercenaries’ killings, but the United Army avoided confronting them and instead kept civilians away from their employers.
• Aixisi told Long Fei that reclaiming the lost Colony Satellites would take about two more months and reported that the United Army was delaying payments.
• Long Fei ordered the Skywing Mercenary Group to halt operations until it was paid and to charge ten percent interest, compounded every five days, on overdue bills.
• Li Xiucheng and Lamiel reflected on the United Army’s costly contract and the inflated reimbursement claims their own units submitted.

Long Fei fed a stray puppy and decided to take her back to see whether his daughters wanted to keep her. At the Dongyang Emperor’s funeral, Kuroda Seiya planned to make his wife a puppet and eventually place their children on the throne.

• Long Fei fed the hungry puppy sausages, then decided to take her back and see whether his daughters liked her.
• The wealthy clients escorted by the Sky Wing Mercenaries continued on to other countries to begin new lives.
• Princess Mami Mi presided over her father’s funeral while Kuroda Seiya stood beside her, concealing his abilities and ambition.
• Kuroda Seiya recalled arranging the deaths of his brothers-in-law and their children so that his wife became the sole heir.
• Kuroda Seiya prepared to eliminate opponents, control his wife, and make their children rulers of the Dongyang Empire.
• Kuroda Seiya vowed revenge against Fadis and hoped to weaken the Dion Empire if he had the chance.

Long Fei returned home with Big Gray Wolf, the Moss Wolfdog he had adopted, and introduced it to Taoxiang and their twin daughters. Taoxiang reluctantly agreed to let the girls keep the dog after seeing how much they liked it.

• Long Fei returned to the villa with Big Gray Wolf while Taoxiang prepared pastries for their daughters.
• Taoxiang worried the dog might bite the girls, but Long Fei showed that Big Gray Wolf could follow commands.
• Long Guo and Long Fu happily played with Big Gray Wolf and shared their treats with it.
• Taoxiang let her daughters keep Big Gray Wolf, but set rules against letting it into her room or sleeping with it.

The Colony Sphere celebrated the Anglo-Saxon Democratic Republic’s recovery while struggling against the Dion Empire’s superior technology and suffering enormous casualties. At a border battle, Wanluo Team retreated under missile cover, and a Dion Empire pilot compared the Colony Sphere forces to cockroaches.

• The Anglo-Saxon Democratic Republic drove Dion Empire forces from its territory but had lost millions of soldiers and civilians and seen its economy shrink by half.
• Long Fei and the others reviewed recent battles as the Dion Empire’s Warheads and Mass-Produced Saint Machines continued to exploit the Colony Sphere’s technological weaknesses.
• The Colony Sphere United Army’s military deaths reached eighty million while the Dion Empire suffered around three million military deaths, most of them among surrendered troops.
• Dion Empire forces overwhelmed Wanluo Team’s units with Saint Machines and Warheads after reinforcements were intercepted.
• Wanluo Team’s commander ordered a retreat to the carriers under Ballistic Missile cover, and the Dion Empire did not pursue.
• The dark blue Saint Machine’s pilot called the Colony Sphere forces impossible to exterminate, like cockroaches.

As the Dion Empire attacked the Gas Team’s bases and the Wanluo Team’s main base, General Avis and his officers debated whether the enemy was stretched thin or setting a trap. General Ren remained uncertain, leaving the Wanluo Team weighing its next move as the attacks continued.

• General Paliston ordered Camp 3’s forces to reinforce the Gas Team’s main base and sent Team 4 to Camp 2 as the Dion Empire attacked all three bases.
• General Avis’s officers argued over whether the Wanluo Team should attack Dion territory or avoid a possible trap.
• General Avis weighed the risks of reinforcing the Gas Team against striking the Dion Empire’s homeland, but an alarm reported an attack on the Wanluo Team’s main base.
• General Ren speculated that the attack might mean Dion forces were stretched thin, then cautioned that it could also be a ruse to lure the Wanluo Team into an ambush.
• General Tang urged an attack after the Wanluo Team repelled the assault, while General Ren’s warning left the generals considering the danger.

General Avis led Wanluo Team into a planned advance against Dion Empire territory despite General Ren’s warning that the enemy was luring them into a trap. General Paliston realized the Dion Empire might have developed a Wing Gundam-like weapon, but the warning to Wanluo Team could not be sent because their communications had been intercepted.

• General Avis and General Ren discussed a cautious, step-by-step invasion strategy after Wanluo Team defeated the Dion Empire forces attacking its headquarters.
• General Ren warned that the enemy’s suspicious retreat was a trap, but most commanders urged General Avis to seize the opportunity and invade.
• After confirming Dion Empire main forces were attacking Gas Team, General Avis left an Army-level Fleet to guard headquarters and led thirteen Army-level Fleets toward enemy territory.
• General Luba suggested the Dion Empire was drawing Wanluo Team in to test a newly developed MS like the Wing Gundam, prompting General Paliston to warn Wanluo Team.
• General Paliston learned that a mole had enabled the Dion Empire to intercept their secret communications and realized Gas Team’s prolonged battles had served as weapons testing.

The Wanluo Team invaded Dion Empire territory and advanced toward Mars, while Long Fei and Li Jiaming suspected the Dion Empire had lured them into a trap with a superweapon. Outside Mars, the weapon destroyed thirty percent of the Wanluo Team in a single shot, leaving General Avis and the surviving forces shaken.

• The Wanluo Team overwhelmed Dion Empire forces and General Avis ordered a rapid advance toward Mars after learning that only three main forces remained in the empire.
• Long Fei and Li Jiaming suspected the Dion Empire had deliberately drawn the Wanluo Team in with a superweapon and discussed the Skywing Mercenary Group's likely role in the war.
• The Wanluo Team continued advancing as the Dion Empire cut off the Gas Team's communications, raising suspicions that the enemy had prepared a trap.
• On the ninth day of the invasion, General Avis found three moons outside Mars, including an oval satellite armed with a giant crystal cone.
• General Avis ordered the Wanluo Team to activate its Rhombus Shields, but the satellite's beam pierced the defenses and destroyed thirty percent of the force in twenty seconds.

The Dion Empire’s satellite cannon shattered the Wanluo Team, leaving its scattered forces trapped and hunted inside Dion Empire territory. General Ren tried to rescue the survivors, but by the fourteenth day he concluded the remaining allied forces had been wiped out and returned to headquarters.

• Admiral Avis’s retreat fell into chaos as allied nations rejected his command, and the Dion Empire’s forces slaughtered the scattered Wanluo Team.
• The satellite cannon struck again, reducing the Wanluo Federation forces to less than half and scattering the Wanluo Team beyond its range.
• Dion Empire guerrilla units surrounded and destroyed isolated fleeing fleets, while General Ren deployed his forces to help survivors escape.
• General Ren regrouped at the border and learned that Admiral Avis had died covering the retreat and the Wanluo Federation forces had dwindled to a brigade-level fleet.
• After no allied forces escaped for three days, General Ren led his forces back to headquarters, believing the remaining troops had died inside Dion Empire territory.

The Dion Empire’s Destroyer Battleship devastated the Gas Team’s headquarters, forcing its retreat and helping secure the Colony Sphere’s defeat. After the Earth Sphere and Colony Sphere secretly formed an alliance against Dion, Fadis exposed their meeting and declared them enemies, prompting Earth Sphere leaders to consider seeking Long Fei’s help.

• General Paliston ordered the Gas Team to abandon its headquarters after learning the Dion Empire had deployed the Destroyer Battleship, whose Super Laser Cannon destroyed the headquarters in one shot.
• Paliston regrouped the surviving S1, S2, and S4 forces and returned to the Gas Empire, comparing the Destroyer’s Super Laser Cannon with the Skywing Mercenary Group’s Super Mega Particle Cannon.
• The Wanluo Team abandoned its headquarters, and the Colony Sphere’s nations suffered a crushing defeat as the Skywing Mercenary Group rejected their commissions and urged them to keep resisting.
• The Earth Sphere and Colony Sphere secretly agreed to form an alliance, but Fadis hacked into their meeting, declared the Dion Empire their enemy, and had the meeting broadcast across the nations.
• Earth Sphere citizens divided over their leaders’ alliance with the Colony Sphere, while several national leaders considered visiting the Skywing Mercenary Group’s base to meet Long Fei.

As the Dion Empire invaded the Gas Empire, nations rushed to buy Jegans and several Skywing warship models, whose lower costs and strong battlefield survival records made them popular. Skywing Arms Manufacturing Company could not keep up with demand, so Sakchi outsourced production while the Skywing Mercenary Group deployed to protect its investments in the Gas Empire.

• The Gas Empire's emperor overrode opposition and ordered mass purchases of Jegans, which pilots praised for their simple controls, maintainability, and battlefield survival rate.
• Countries across both spheres increased their Jegan orders, and the Gas Empire began reducing Storm production in favor of Jegans.
• Nations placed large orders for Fuji-class Transport Ships, Trafalgar-class Light Space Carriers, and Saramis Kai-class Space Light Cruisers, overwhelming Skywing Arms Manufacturing Company's factories.
• Sakchi invited other arms manufacturers to take outsourced orders, and Long Huijuan's Challenger Arms Manufacturing Company received authorization to produce Jegans and several warship models.
• The Skywing Mercenary Group deployed to the Gas Empire with its approval to protect Skywing Group investments, factories, local industries, and employees.

Long Fei welcomed Xu Jingyun’s group and other visitors to the Skywing Mercenary Group’s main base for military study and exchange. The visitors learned how the group’s tactics, logistics, and simulations had helped it defeat the Dion Empire’s army.

• Long Fei learned that Saintess Aina and John were a couple and offered to design a knight-type MS for John, while Xu Jingyun asked for an MS and Xu Chaoge asked for one too.
• Xu Jingyun reassured Xu Chaoge that he could pilot her MS, and Long Fei began considering designs for them.
• Skywing instructors taught Xu Jingyun’s group the group’s combat methods and battlefield analyses, including an operation that combined special forces inside a Colony Satellite with frontline troops outside.
• Ivan asked whether the group had obtained Dion Empire intelligence during the operation, and the instructor replied that the information was classified.
• Xu Chaoge studied the group’s drone-swarm resupply tactics, while John recognized that its Red-versus-Blue simulations had prepared it to counter the Dion Empire’s methods.
• The exchange visitors concluded that the Skywing Mercenary Group’s tactics and military theories had given them valuable lessons.

Taoxiang showed Long Fei a video of Big Gray Wolf getting Long Guo and Long Fu to do their homework, while the Dion Believers Organization resumed terrorist attacks across the Colony Sphere. After Dion forces occupied a Gas Empire Colony Satellite, Skywing Mercenaries protected the group’s employees and families, and Dion officials backed down when challenged.

• Taoxiang showed Long Fei a video of Big Gray Wolf using a clothes hanger to make Long Guo and Long Fu stop watching anime and do their homework.
• The Dion Believers Organization resurged after the Wanluo Team and Gas Team were defeated, recruiting new members and carrying out terrorist attacks across the Colony Sphere and Earth Sphere.
• Skywing Mercenary Group intelligence agents tracked the organization’s covert operations and moved identified targets to safety, while Dion forces occupied several Gas Empire Colony Satellites.
• Skywing Mercenaries deployed a regiment-level fleet to protect Skywing Group employees and their families on an occupied satellite where the group had investments.
• When Dion officials tried to force employees to accept Dion Empire identification, the Sky Wing Mercenaries commander threatened them, and they withdrew.
• War correspondents recorded similar confrontations at Skywing Group sites, and the footage spread internationally as evidence that the Dion Empire did not dare provoke the Skywing Mercenary Group.

Long Fei showed his family and companions the preserved Gundams, explaining that their successors had been developed and that he would never sell his designs. After visiting the orphans at Joy Park, Saintess Aina asked to learn body-strengthening methods so she could teach them to children in the Oya Cross Nation.

• People across many countries sought to join the Skywing Group, while democratic nations urged the group’s subsidiaries to invest in their countries.
• Long Fei brought Taoxiang, their daughters, Xu Jingyun, Saintess Aina, John, Ivan, and the others to see the preserved Gundams.
• Long Fei explained that he had rebuilt destroyed Gundams as reminders of the past and said successor models existed for the Dynames series; he also revealed that limited Solar Furnaces constrained his next GN-series design.
• Long Fei let his daughters explore the Proto Gundam’s cockpit and showed everyone the 0 Gundam, stirring memories of how they had first encountered him and the Skywing Mercenary Group.
• Saintess Aina visited the orphans at Joy Park and asked Long Fei for permission to learn body-strengthening methods from Gouken and Xia so she could teach them to children in the Oya Cross Nation.

As the Wanluo Federation collapsed under a Dion Empire offensive, Long Fei presented Xu Jingyun and John with their custom-built G-Bouncer and Taurus. Xu Jingyun and John began test flights, while Xu Weiran confirmed G-Bouncer was a gift for his daughter and ordered Xu Chaoge to return home after his studies.

• The Dion Empire overran the Wanluo Federation, which lost more than thirty Colony Satellites after the Earth Sphere sent supplies but no troops.
• The Wanluo Federation asked the Skywing Mercenary Group for protection, but the group refused its terms and withdrew its assessment teams.
• Long Fei unveiled G-Bouncer for Xu Jingyun and Taurus for John, explaining that the machines used third-generation Gundanium Alloy and matched Gundams in performance.
• Long Fei gave Xu Jingyun and John the MS data files and described G-Bouncer's new weapons and Taurus's weapons, while John prepared for the machine's high G-forces.
• Xu Jingyun showed G-Bouncer to Xu Weiran, and Long Fei assured him that the MS was a gift for her and that he did not mind if its technology was studied.
• Xu Jingyun and John test-flew G-Bouncer and Taurus and made final adjustments.

After reports exposed Third Prince Alexandre and Duke Mollicet’s family as the masterminds behind attacks on the Skywing Group, Long Fei demanded their heads and threatened war unless the Dion Empire complied within forty-eight hours. Fadis punished Alexandre and Mozart while using the crisis to weaken the Mollicet family, leaving war looming.

• International media reported that Duke Mollicet’s family and Third Prince Alexandre had directed the Dion Believers Organization and its attacks on the Skywing Group.
• Long Fei demanded an explanation from the Dion Empire and threatened war, while Commander-in-Chief Li Jiaming deployed troops and Skywing fleets gathered as civilians evacuated the Colony Satellites.
• Fadis offered to punish Alexandre and Duke Mollicet’s family and compensate the victims, but Long Fei demanded their heads within forty-eight hours.
• Fadis berated Alexandre and Mozart, then confined Mozart to his home and reassigned positions held by the Mollicet family to weaken its influence.
• Fadis ordered Alexandre to remain confined to his palace for three months.

The Skywing Mercenary Group used Minov Particles and its new Gundams to cripple the Dion Empire military’s forces in the 98th Colony Satellite. Pani defeated a Crimson Wolf with the Impulse Gundam, then returned to the Minerva to recharge and switch packs before rejoining the battle with Ke Jie Xiong.

• The Skywing Mercenary Group’s Minov Particle missiles paralyzed many Warheads and Koukai, while Shieldbreaker Destroyers destroyed the Dion Empire military’s Sky Rocket Battleships.
• Pani launched in the aerial-combat Impulse Gundam as Ke Jie Xiong launched in the Destiny Gundam, followed by the Chaos, Abyss, and Gaia Gundams.
• Pani evaded Crimson Wolf’s attacks, studied its pilot’s combat patterns, and counterattacked, with the Gaia Gundam also attacking Crimson Wolf.
• Pani destroyed Crimson Wolf by damaging its Beam Saber with the Impulse Gundam’s CIWS and piercing its cockpit with a Beam Saber.
• The Minerva recharged the Impulse Gundam through the Deuterium Core Beam Power System and sent it a cannon-equipped pack; the war correspondents recorded the technology and pack change.
• Pani and Ke Jie Xiong returned to battle, using the Impulse Gundam’s Beam Cannon and the Destiny Gundam’s Plasma Convergence Beam Cannon to suppress distant enemies.

The Skywing Mercenary Group and United Army crushed the Dion Empire Army after Minov Particles and specialized Gundams undermined its forces. The Dion commander surrendered, leaving the Dion Empire Army with less than 20% of its original force.

• The Skywing Mercenary Group's Gundams and mobile units overwhelmed Dion Empire Army forces across the battlefield, while Big Rang repaired and resupplied allied units.
• The Dion commander learned that a United Army fleet had appeared behind him and ordered his forces to break through while retreating from the Skywing Mercenary Group.
• The United Army's stronger mobile suits clashed with the weakened Dion forces, while Shieldbreaker Destroyers pierced Dion warships with Electromagnetic Accelerator Cannons.
• Skywing Mercenary Group and United Army forces attacked the Dion fleet from both sides, destroying many warships and forcing the Dion commander to surrender.
• War correspondents reported the Dion Empire Army's first crushing defeat, and the Skywing commander judged the victory a modest win despite losses below 5% among his mobile suits and Mobile Armors.

The United Army used electromagnetic weapons and coordinated attacks to counter the Dion Empire’s Warhead swarms, but both sides suffered heavy MS losses as pilots fought outnumbered battles. The Dion Empire fleet then faced an ambush by the Skywing Mercenary Group, whose ships had evaded its search radar.

• The United Army used electromagnetic missiles and beam fire to disable and destroy enemy units, then relied on electromagnetic weapons in close combat to exploit brief shutdowns.
• An Azure pilot awakened his Seed ability while surrounded by three High Zakus, but two Jegans joined the fight and he was killed after taking one High Zaku with him.
• A Crimson pilot used psychic power to restart nearby Scorpion Tigers and other unmanned MS, counterattacked the surrounding Jegans and Vedas, then gathered surviving units and fled toward fewer enemy signatures.
• An Emerald Saint Machine pilot used remote cannons and psychically controlled MS to defend against encirclement, but was overwhelmed and destroyed by beams from High Zakus and Jegans.
• The Dion Empire fleet commander prepared to deploy more Warheads, then ordered evasive maneuvers after the Skywing Mercenary Group ambushed the fleet’s left flank with Shieldbreaker Destroyers.