Recaps

King Thrace and his children toured Skywing’s facilities, saw the Albion MS Carrier and watched the Gundam GP02 Physalis undergo testing. Thrace recognized Long Fei as the chairman and began a direct discussion with him, despite Long Fei’s refusal to sell Gundams.

• Thrace asked about buying the War God Armor Battle Suit, but Sakchi said it was not for sale while it underwent combat validation.
• Thrace toured the Albion MS Carrier with Li Jiaming and praised its advanced design, while Robina showed keen interest in the vessel and military technology.
• Thrace, Robina, and Gleidy watched the Gundam GP02 Physalis tests and saw its impressive performance alongside areas that still failed to meet requirements.
• After the test, Thrace approached Long Fei, who initially denied being the chairman before acknowledging his identity and greeting the king.
• Long Fei said Gundams were not for sale, and Thrace accepted his bluntness before inviting him to discuss other matters.

A month after the King of Thrace’s visit, Long Fei tested Gundam Chrysanthemum and reviewed the performance of its newly developed Minovsky Super Energy Thermonuclear Reactor. Princess Robina piloted a Proto Gundam, while Long Fei began researching superconducting communication to counter the reactor’s disruption of radar and communications.

• Long Fei piloted Gundam Chrysanthemum through a meteorite field and an MD-controlled ambush, completing its test as the watchers praised his skill.
• Princess Robina asked to pilot a Gundam, and Long Fei had the Zhou Ya Sisters take her to the Proto Gundam.
• Robina used her chip card to launch the Proto Gundam and performed evasive maneuvers and counterattacks that impressed the Zhou Ya Sisters.
• Long Fei reviewed the test report and found that the Minovsky Super Energy Thermonuclear Reactor boosted Gundam Chrysanthemum’s performance but could not be mass-produced.
• Long Fei recognized that Minovsky particles disrupted radar and search functions, then began researching superconducting communication.

Long Fei learned about the poverty and exploitation faced by people on colony satellites and unregulated asteroids as he reviewed new recruits for the Skywing Mercenary Group. He explained why War God Armor Battle Suit production had stopped and instructed Li Jiaming to send the princess back soon.

• Long Fei paused work on superconducting communications to develop a Minovsky Super Energy Thermonuclear Reactor for MS Carriers.
• Li Jiaming told Long Fei that many recruits had fled asteroid labor and described the taxes, violence, and weak legal protections they had faced.
• Long Fei questioned the recruitment of malnourished children and teenagers who had signed contracts of servitude, and Li Jiaming explained how they had been acquired and could be trained.
• Li Jiaming asked why production of the War God Armor Battle Suit had halted, and Long Fei said a Directed Energy Laser Weapon could defeat its defenses, requiring an upgrade or a new suit.
• Long Fei told Li Jiaming to send the princess back within the next few days.

Three months after founding his company, Long Fei traveled aboard the Albion No. 00 MS Mothership to establish the Seventh Branch Base in Philalip Nation. On the journey, he reviewed the group's investments and security threats, then learned that testing was about to begin on the Orchis Petals system.

• Long Fei departed aboard the Albion No. 00 MS Mothership with an escort fleet, heading to Philalip Nation to open the Seventh Branch Base with Li Jiaming and several ace pilots.
• Long Fei learned that the group's food plant was operating and that its other investments in Philalip Nation were expected to begin operations that month.
• Li Jiaming reported that foreign spies were targeting the group's companies and investigating Long Fei in hopes of kidnapping him for his military technology.
• Li Jiaming described how the group's reactors and communication systems had improved combat performance, and Long Fei agreed that equipment needed to be easy to operate as well as effective.
• Long Fei read Sakchi's report that Yue Yangchun would test the GP03 Dendrobium with Orchis Petals, while the Gundam pilots' training had improved their ability to control their machines.

Long Fei arrived at Base Seven with Commander-in-Chief Li Jiaming and learned that the Mercenary Guild’s representatives were waiting to meet them. As the Guild’s Jacob reconsidered how to deal with the Skywing Mercenary Group after hearing about the Albion’s firepower, Long Fei entered the reception room.

• Long Fei’s fleet entered the Colony Satellite after the country’s Defense Force verified its authorization documents and identified it as the Skywing Mercenary Group.
• Long Fei and Li Jiaming arrived at Base Seven, where Colonel Omni received them and reported that Mercenary Guild representatives were waiting.
• Omni told Long Fei that the Long Group had invited him to a banquet, but Long Fei ordered him to ignore them and went to meet the Guild representatives.
• Taiga described the Albion’s powerful beam cannon to Gude and Jacob, who realized its firepower rivaled that of national battleships.
• The reception room doors opened as Jacob reconsidered how to deal with the Skywing Mercenary Group.

Long Fei rejected Jacob’s invitation to join the Mercenary Guild, suspecting that its leaders wanted to control the Skywing Mercenary Group and its military technology. After Jacob’s companions considered retaliating, Taiga and Gude received invitations from the Long Family of Hanxia Nation and decided to attend.

• Jacob explained the Mercenary Guild’s benefits, fees, and commissions to Long Fei.
• Long Fei declined to join the Guild, and Taiga and Gude became angry at his refusal.
• Jacob departed politely, while Long Fei told Li Jiaming to monitor Taiga and Gude and predicted they might act against the group.
• Taiga and Gude discussed how to teach Long Fei a lesson, then received invitations from the Long Family of Hanxia Nation.
• Taiga and Gude decided to accept the Long Family’s invitations and find out why they had been contacted.

Long Taotian hired Taiga and Gude to capture Long Fei and take his technology, while Long Fei’s Sky Wing Mercenaries uncovered a spy at the restaurant. Long Huijuan confronted Long Taotian over the plan, but he refused to back down.

• Long Taotian paid Taiga and Gude to capture Long Fei and promised them additional payment after the job.
• Taiga and Gude concluded that the Long Family wanted Long Fei’s technology, but decided not to seize it themselves for fear of provoking the family.
• Sky Wing Mercenaries dealt with a spy in the restaurant kitchen while Long Fei received a report from Li Jiaming and continued eating.
• Long Huijuan slapped Long Taotian and accused him of trying to exploit Long Fei, then warned him to withdraw his plan.
• Long Taotian dismissed Long Huijuan’s warning and declared that he would make Long Fei submit to the Long Family.

Long Fei planned improvements for Gundams from several series, selecting models and systems his company could develop while shelving those beyond its capabilities. When pirate fleets began monitoring his forces, he sent a message exposing their surveillance and challenging the man behind them, Mr. Gude, to act openly.

• Long Fei considered developing Gundams from Gundam SEED and the Wing Series alongside UC models, while setting aside the 00 Gundam and Iron-Blooded Orphans series.
• Long Fei chose High-Energy Super Batteries for Strike, Duel, and Astray-series Gundams, Gundanium Alloy for Astray armor, and the PX System for development, while shelving the Type-0 System.
• Long Fei researched improvements to Gundams and received word from his commander-in-chief that their opponents had started moving.
• Long Fei changed into his pilot suit as pirate fleets remotely monitored his fleet from several directions.
• A pirate fleet's communications officer read a message from Long Fei exposing the pirates' surveillance and telling them to pass his challenge to Mr. Gude.

The Storm, Shadow Ghost, Killer Whale, and White Rose mercenary groups joined forces to capture Long Fei, while Skywing prepared to defend him. Despite being outnumbered, Skywing’s elite pilots and Gundams began overwhelming the attacking forces.

• Kellan, Mike, Fulin, and Meilan learned that their employers all wanted Long Fei captured alive, and Kellan ordered the mercenary groups to prepare for battle.
• Mike called Li Jiaming and demanded that Long Fei come with him, but Li refused, so Skywing launched its Specialized GM Mobile Suits and ordered its Gundam pilots to sortie.
• Long Taotian, Taiga, and Gude watched the battle begin from a guarded space yacht while discussing their business arrangement and Long Fei’s capture.
• Zhou Ya piloted Proto Gundam Unit 4 and destroyed five Harrier Fighters and eight Harrier MS units in less than two minutes.
• Zhou Na, Avina, Pani, and the elite Specialized GM pilots attacked from different directions, suppressing the much larger force of mercenary fighters and Mobile Suits.

Zhou Ya, Pani, and other Gundam pilots battled the numerically superior mercenary forces, inflicting heavy losses while protecting their allies. Commander Meilan learned that an unrecorded Gundam had broken through the Shadow Ghost Mercenary Group’s defensive line and demanded to know why they had failed to stop it.

• Zhou Ya rescued a damaged Specialized GM Mobile Suit and helped two others escape, then left Gundam White Orchid GP01’s pilot Ke Jie Xiong to cover the area.
• Commander Meilan heard reports of severe losses and learned her forces had destroyed only six Specialized GM Mobile Suits despite their five-to-one numerical advantage.
• Pani continued fighting in Proto Gundam Unit 7, destroying twenty-four enemy units before joining Gundam GP02 Physalis to attack the enemy together.
• Meilan received news that the Shadow Ghost Mercenary Group had requested emergency rescue after an unrecorded Gundam broke through its defensive line.

Long Fei’s solo assault in the Gundam GP04 Gerbera broke the mercenary fleet’s defenses, killing its commanders and forcing several groups to retreat or surrender. As Long Taotian and his companions reacted to their defeat, a Skywing fleet appeared behind their spacecraft.

• Long Fei used the Gundam GP04 Gerbera’s speed and weapons to penetrate the Shadow Ghost Mercenary Group’s fleet and destroy Captain Mike’s flagship.
• After Mike’s death, the Shadow Ghost forces fell into disarray, and Long Fei attacked the White Rose Mercenary Group’s flagship, killing Meilan when its chain of explosions engulfed her escape pod.
• Kellan and Fulin chose to retreat, while the leaderless Shadow Ghost and White Rose groups signaled their surrender.
• Long Taotian, Gude, and Taiga discussed the mercenaries’ defiance and their failed attempt to capture Long Fei.
• A bodyguard warned Long Taotian and the others that a Skywing Mercenary Group fleet, including a Gundam and many GM Mobile Suits, had appeared behind them.

Li Xiucheng defeated Long Taotian’s forces and brought him to Long Fei, who humiliated and beat his cousin before exposing his past crimes to the mercenaries. Long Taotian was left surrounded by furious mercenaries who wanted him punished for what he had done.

• Li Xiucheng’s forces overwhelmed Long Taotian’s MS squads and seized his Escort Ships, while Taiga and Gude were taken to meet Long Fei.
• Long Fei hosted Taiga and Gude for tea, then sent them back to their mercenary corps.
• Long Fei visited the detained Long Taotian, mocked him for his past arrogance, and punched him to his knees.
• Long Fei ordered Long Taotian taken to the hangar and told the mercenaries about his abuse of ordinary people, including the rape and death of a schoolmate.
• The mercenaries grew furious at Long Taotian, who trembled and regretted trying to capture Long Fei.

Long Fei ordered the Sky Wing Mercenaries to punish Long Taotian without killing him, and they tortured and whipped him while Li Xiucheng watched approvingly and Li Jiaming chose not to intervene. The chapter ended with the mercenaries continuing Long Taotian’s punishment.

• Long Fei told the mercenaries to torment Long Taotian but not kill him.
• The mercenaries dragged Long Taotian into a restroom and repeatedly flushed his head in the toilet while filming him.
• Long Taotian feared the footage would be uploaded and struggled when the mercenaries prepared to whip him.
• The mercenaries stripped Long Taotian and lashed his buttocks, leaving bloody welts as he screamed.
• Li Xiucheng welcomed Long Taotian’s punishment, while Li Jiaming decided not to stop it.

Long Huijuan visited Long Fei to negotiate the release of Long Taotian, whom Long Fei was holding responsible for his crimes. They agreed that the Long Family’s Philalip Nation industries would go to Long Fei for one dollar and that the family would pay three billion to ransom Long Taotian, while Long Huijuan left without obtaining one of Long Fei’s Gundams.

• Li Jiaming told Long Fei that a Long Family fleet had requested permission to board, and Long Fei accepted his aunt’s visit.
• Long Huijuan arrived aboard Albion 1 and saw the advanced ships, mobile suits, and equipment developed by Skywing Arms Manufacturing Company.
• Long Huijuan found Long Fei in the restroom and asked him to stop the mercenaries’ treatment of Long Taotian, but Long Fei reminded her of Long Taotian’s past abuse and crimes.
• Long Huijuan offered the Long Family’s Philalip Nation industries for one dollar and negotiated the ransom up to three billion, which Long Fei accepted.
• Long Huijuan asked to buy Long Fei’s earliest Gundam, but he refused and she returned to her spacecraft.

Long Huijuan persuaded Long Dingkun to stop provoking Long Fei and consider working with him, while Long Fei took over the Long Family’s investments and advanced his plans. A month later, he revealed that the battery-powered Gundams were a contingency against a technology that could disable nuclear power.

• Long Huijuan told Long Dingkun that Long Fei had defeated Long Taotian and warned that provoking him could drive him to support the Long Family’s competitors.
• Long Dingkun agreed to leave Long Fei to Long Huijuan and consider canceling the marriage alliance with the Shu Family.
• Several days later, Long Fei took over the Long Family’s fifteen-billion-dollar investments in the Philipp Kingdom and introduced advanced chip, network, and precision machine-tool technologies.
• A month later, Long Fei showed Li Xiucheng the completed Strike, Duel, Red Frame, and Zeta Gundams, explaining that some used batteries as a backup in case his Neutron Jammer sealed nuclear power.
• Long Fei told Li Xiucheng to arrange tests for the Gundams.

Long Huijuan told Long Kui, Long Xuan, and Long Wen that Long Fei had made his childhood Gundam designs real and was being secretly investigated. After intruders stole his blueprints from the family home, Long Huijuan left to handle the matter while the sisters resolved to strengthen their businesses.

• Long Huijuan showed the three Long sisters photographs of Long Fei's Gundams and explained that he had developed the designs into advanced military technology.
• Long Huijuan warned the sisters that Long Fei's inventions had drawn secret investigations and that they could be targeted to pressure him.
• Long Kui received a call that intruders had broken into the family home, and she returned there with Long Huijuan and her sisters.
• Butler Wu said the intruders had beaten him and Aunt Li, forced him to reveal Long Fei's room, and stolen Long Fei's old blueprints.
• Long Huijuan told the sisters to carry on as usual and left to handle the incident, while Long Kui urged her sisters to strengthen their businesses rather than confront Long Dingkun.

The Long Family examined Long Fei’s childhood blueprints and discovered that some designs were decades ahead of their military technology, while Long Huijuan confronted her father and relatives for trying to take Long Fei’s property. The chapter left Long Huijuan warning that the family would regret its actions, as Yang Ruoxi recalled the estrangement that had driven Long Fei’s parents away from the Long Family.

• Long Dingkun’s scientists, led by Han Xuyang, reported that Long Fei’s designs surpassed current military technology and that the Geon MS blueprint could outperform the Jianhong MS.
• Long Chenxuan proposed manufacturing the Geon MS, and Long Dingkun agreed to test it.
• Long Huijuan slapped Long Chenxuan and accused him and Long Yingxuan of harassing Long Fei’s household and trying to seize his things.
• Long Dingkun dismissed Long Huijuan’s objections, and she warned that the Long Family would regret what it had done.
• Yang Ruoxi told Long Huijuan she felt unable to protect Long Fei’s family, then explained how Long Dingkun’s resentment and disapproval of Long Fei’s mother had estranged Long Yingxuan and his family.

Yue Yangchun and the Skywing Mercenary Group devastated the Evil Fang Pirate Group’s hideout, while Long Fei discovered he could use his Newtype-like mental abilities to control weapons. The one-eyed captain was captured after fleeing through a secret passage and awaited punishment with his surviving subordinates.

• Yue Yangchun piloted the Gundam GP03 Dendrobium through the Evil Fang Pirate Group’s forces, destroying mobile suits and spacecraft with missiles, its Mega Beam Cannon, and Beam Sabers.
• Long Fei activated the Strike Gundam’s Psycho-frame, sensed the battlefield around him, and used his mental power to control its wire-guided cannons and destroy attacking pirate mobile suits.
• The one-eyed captain decided to abandon the hideout and ordered his men to hold the enemy off while he escaped with his confidants through a secret passage.
• Skywing Mercenary Group soldiers ambushed the one-eyed captain and his confidants at their escape craft, and he suspected one of his men had betrayed him.
• The soldiers escorted the captured pirates to the plaza, where the one-eyed captain saw his defeated men, rescued civilians, and the Skywing Mercenary Group inventorying supplies before he was told to await punishment.

After defeating the Evil Fang Pirate Group, Long Fei discovered that Yue Yangchun might have Newtype abilities and met his old university classmate Shi Tingfen among the hostages. He offered Captain Fales a chance to reunite with his family in exchange for most of his money, then gave Fales’s subordinates the same choice or death.

• Yue Yangchun told Long Fei he had sensed a connection to him during battle, and Long Fei suggested he might have Newtype potential.
• Long Fei explained Newtypes to Yue Yangchun and Li Xiucheng, then was summoned to hear that the Evil Fang Pirate Group’s supplies had been inventoried.
• Long Fei recognized Shi Tingfen, an old university classmate among the hostages, and arranged for her to stay in the lounge.
• Long Fei told Captain Fales that he had destroyed the pirate group to fulfill an employee’s request and pointed out the subordinate who had betrayed Fales after his family was taken hostage.
• Long Fei offered to spare Fales and reunite him with his family if he transferred most of his money, and Fales agreed.
• Long Fei told Fales’s subordinates to transfer most of their money to his designated account or lose their lives.

After sparing the Evil Fang Pirate Group’s leaders in exchange for their wealth, Long Fei explained the mercenary group’s financial needs to Yue Yangchun and used some of the money to resume normal Gundam development. He then caught up with Shi Tingfen, who asked for help avoiding Luo Tianyou, and Long Fei offered her work at one of his companies.

• The rescued civilians protested that the Skywing Mercenary Group had let the Evil Fang Pirate Group’s leaders go, but the mercenaries said they could capture them again if someone paid for the job.
• Yue Yangchun challenged Long Fei for sparing the pirate leaders, and Long Fei explained that they had bought their lives with their wealth and gave Yue two bank cards for himself and his sister.
• Long Fei admitted that Fales’s money had restored Gundam development to its normal pace, while noting that producing Gundams consumed huge sums of money.
• Shi Tingfen joined Long Fei, praised his success, and told him that Zhao Xinlin had been searching for him.
• Shi Tingfen complained that Luo Tianyou’s possessiveness had driven her to travel, and Long Fei offered her a suitable job at another company when they returned to the main base.

Long Fei reviewed the Gundam production delays and arranged for the Skywing Mercenary Group to help fund the project. After hearing about a derelict spacecraft from Jupiter carrying unknown metals, he decided to investigate it personally.

• Shi Tingfen admired the asteroid base and its automated factory, then asked to stay and work there, and Long Fei assigned Sakchi to arrange it.
• Factory Director Simmons told Long Fei that Gundam production would be delayed by material shortages, and they agreed that combat would prove which stealth technology worked better.
• Long Fei discussed Gundam funding with Li Jiaming and agreed that the Skywing Mercenary Group would contribute so the arms company could keep producing other equipment.
• Li Jiaming reported that a fleet had found an old spacecraft from Jupiter whose crew had died after its engine failed, along with containers of unknown metals.
• Long Fei ordered Li Jiaming to arrange a personal investigation of the spacecraft despite the danger.

Long Fei investigated an old transport spacecraft that had crashed into an asteroid after its Nuclear Fusion Engine exploded, and learned that it had been carrying unusual metals and liquids from Jupiter. He found research on the resources, including a white ore that might substitute for material needed to manufacture a Solar Furnace, and wondered how the Jupiter Sphere had developed.

• Long Fei arrived at the asteroid and entered the old spacecraft in the Strike Gundam, where Captain Bailieba briefed him on the investigation.
• Captain Bailieba explained that the spacecraft’s systems and work-use MS were mostly broken, and that the crew’s bodies and recovered records had been placed in a usable room.
• Long Fei reviewed reports identifying the vessel as a transport ship whose Nuclear Fusion Engine had exploded, forcing its captain to separate the damaged engine to limit casualties from radiation.
• Long Fei read research materials about special metals and liquids collected from Jupiter’s moons and found that a white ore might substitute for material needed to manufacture a Solar Furnace.
• Long Fei concluded that Jupiter’s resources might enable stronger MS and warships, and wondered how the Jupiter Sphere had developed during its decades without contact.

Long Fei watched the archived footage and learned how the Jupiter spacecraft’s crew perished after its engine exploded. He discovered that the captain had placed the sisters Taoxiang and Lixiang in cryogenic pods and hurried to find them.

• Long Fei watched recordings of the crew’s life aboard the spacecraft and saw an engine explosion that ended one video in screams and darkness.
• Long Fei viewed footage showing the crew’s failed attempts to control the accident and their unanswered distress calls.
• Captain Bickley’s final recording explained that radiation, despair, and madness had killed most of the crew, and that he had shot the last two crew members who threatened Taoxiang.
• Captain Bickley revealed that he had placed Lixiang and Taoxiang in cryogenic pods in a hidden room, gave rescuers the password yzj00, and then shot himself.
• Long Fei stood up and went to investigate whether the sisters were still alive.

Long Fei discovered two sisters in cryogenic hibernation aboard the spacecraft and learned that Taoxiang was a Newtype. After arranging their careful revival, he returned to business matters and ordered legal action against Feichi Military Science Company for stealing technology.

• Long Fei and Captain Bailieba found a hidden chamber containing Taoxiang and Lixiang in operating cryogenic hibernation pods, and Bailieba explained how to revive them safely.
• Long Fei touched Taoxiang's pod and experienced some of her memories before realizing she was a Newtype, then sensed deep fear when he touched Lixiang's pod.
• Long Fei instructed Captain Bailieba to arrange the sisters' revival and returned to reading documents while they prepared.
• President Sakchi reported that King of Thrace wanted Specialized GMs and that spies had stolen several technologies, including drone software and retired ship blueprints.
• Long Fei learned that Feichi Military Science Company was among the forces seeking Gundam technology and ordered Sakchi to sue them wherever possible.

After the warming pods arrived, Bailieba began reviving Taoxiang and Lixiang, while Long Fei gave Li Jiaming blueprints for new mobile suits and tasked him with managing their production and upgrades. Long Fei arranged for Sakchi to prepare the Strike Dagger for sale and learned that war might break out within a few months.

• Bailieba thawed Taoxiang and Lixiang and placed each sister in a warming pod aboard an Escort Ship, leaving their recovery up to them.
• Long Fei gave Li Jiaming the GM II and Dagger-series designs, and Li Jiaming assessed their battlefield strengths and manufacturing costs.
• Long Fei authorized Li Jiaming to manage production and upgrades for the GM II, 105 Dagger, Duel Dagger, and Storm Dagger.
• Li Jiaming advised Long Fei that war might break out within a few months, so Long Fei asked Sakchi to consider turning acquired factories into Strike Dagger manufacturing plants.
• Sakchi requested time to build and test a Strike Dagger before converting the factories, and Long Fei checked the news and suspected powerful interests were stirring up trouble.