Recaps

Long Fei prepared for possible wars by expanding weapons production and testing new Mobile Suits, while his research on Haojin enabled him to build a more powerful, safer Solar Furnace. He decided to manufacture a 0 Gundam to test the furnace in combat.

• Long Fei watched international conflicts and suspected that war could reach the Sixth District within months, so he resolved to prepare and study the Jupiter spacecraft materials.
• President Sakchi tested the easy-to-operate Strike Dagger Mobile Suit, and Shi Tingfen further simplified its operating system before the unit was promoted publicly.
• The Strike Gundam and Deathscythe Gundam entered testing, while the Aegis, Buster, Gatling Gunner, and Gemini Brothers were scheduled for production.
• Long Fei identified Haojin as a substitute material for Solar Furnaces and successfully built one that produced harmless cyan particles, offered improved energy output, and could avoid disrupting radar and communications.
• After finding that Haojin was scarce and Pseudo Solar Furnaces still produced harmful particles, Long Fei chose to build a 0 Gundam for Solar Furnace and combat testing.

Long Fei’s staff discussed the Solar Furnace’s remarkable power while he spoke with Shi Tingfen about her work and his plans to keep researching. At an arms exhibition, Skywing Arms Manufacturing Company displayed its Mobile Suits as countries weighed their performance and prices.

• Base employees marvelled that Long Fei’s Solar Furnace could power the entire base, and Shi Tingfen learned that testing had ended so the units could be used in Gundams.
• Long Fei told Shi Tingfen he planned to continue researching rather than return home, praised her improvements to his OS, and went back to his laboratory.
• Skywing Arms Manufacturing Company displayed the Specialized GM Mobile Suit and Strike Dagger at an arms exhibition, drawing attention from representatives of many nations.
• The Mika'ang Nation’s GM Mobile Suits had destroyed numerous enemy aircraft and Mobile Suits in combat, prompting countries in the Colony Sphere's Sixth District to buy GMs despite their high price and long delivery schedule.
• Buyers found the Specialized GM’s eighty-million price difficult to afford, while the Strike Dagger was offered for thirty million and was widely assumed to be less capable.

A public demonstration showed that the Strike Dagger was exceptionally easy to operate and highly responsive, prompting nations to place far more orders than Skywing Arms Manufacturing Company could fulfill. President Sakchi tried raising its price and refunding orders, but demand rose past 3,000 units, while other arms companies watched buyers flock to Skywing’s booth.

• Skywing Arms Manufacturing Company invited an inexperienced exhibition attendee to test the Strike Dagger, and he quickly learned to dodge attacks and hit targets.
• The company let representatives from purchasing delegations test the Strike Dagger, and they praised its ease of operation, responsiveness, enemy detection, and alertness.
• Nations placed orders for thousands of Strike Daggers and other military equipment, far exceeding President Sakchi’s expectations.
• President Sakchi ordered the company to refund Strike Dagger purchases and raised its price from 30 million to 35 million Space Colonial Currency per unit.
• The returned orders brought the Strike Dagger total above 3,000 units, and President Sakchi realized her company could not handle the orders at its current capacity.
• Representatives of other arms companies watched buyers crowd around Skywing Arms Manufacturing Company’s booth while their own booths sat nearly empty.

Skywing Arms Manufacturing Company’s Strike Dagger MS defeated rival machines in simulated battles, bringing its orders to four thousand units. President Sakchi began arranging contract manufacturing with competitors, but the dinner gathering took an unexpected turn when Long Huijuan of Feichi Military Science Company arrived.

• Rival companies challenged the Strike Dagger MS to simulated battles, but it won every test, even when the pilots exchanged machines.
• Buyers increased their orders, bringing the Strike Dagger total to four thousand units, and Sakchi ordered her vice president to find a site for a new factory and add production lines.
• Snopin of Festa Company offered to contract-manufacture some of Skywing Arms Manufacturing Company’s orders, and Sakchi agreed to negotiate.
• Several rival company presidents intercepted Sakchi and Snopin, then joined their dinner to seek contract-manufacturing work; Sakchi decided to share some orders to avoid their sabotage.
• Long Huijuan of Feichi Military Science Company arrived at the dinner and exchanged polite introductions with Sakchi, pretending not to know her.

Long Fei developed Medical Nanomachines and successfully used them to heal a severely injured pilot, then planned mass production and a patent application. With several Gundams nearing completion, Commander-in-Chief Li Jiaming considered adding Hyaku Shiki and Mk-II to a production line.

• Skywing Arms Manufacturing Company distributed hardware subcontracting work among industry peers while keeping MS cockpits and software in-house, and Deathscythe Gundam and Strike Gundam successfully destroyed pirate hideouts.
• Long Fei named two newly researched metals Silver Rhenium and Pot Steel, planned to develop Barbatos and Astaroth, and began researching Medical Nanomachines.
• Long Fei rested for three days after explaining the Medical Nanomachines design to Li Xiucheng, then returned to his research.
• After nearly a month, Long Fei completed the first Medical Nanomachines Medical Pod, which healed an unconscious pilot's severe blast wounds and left no scars.
• Long Fei decided to manufacture Medical Nanomachines Medical Pods in large quantities and apply for a patent as Gemini Brothers reached fifty percent completion and 0 Gundam reached ninety percent.
• Commander-in-Chief Li Jiaming considered using a production line for Hyaku Shiki and Mk-II as mass-produced units and Captain Units for elite squads.

Long Fei discussed new mobile suit production and considered the political forces behind a widening war before learning that Taoxiang had awakened. Taoxiang recovered memories of her past, learned that she and Lixiang were Newtypes, and reunited with her sister, who had also awakened.

• Li Jiaming reported that the GM II and Dagger series production lines were complete, and Long Fei approved the Mk-II and Hyaku Shiki for elite units.
• Long Fei read reports of a war spreading across Zone 7 and suspected that the Wanluo Federation and Gas Empire were backing opposing sides.
• After learning Taoxiang had awakened, Long Fei visited her and explained how he had seen fragments of her memories through their Newtype resonance.
• Taoxiang remembered her name, her Jupiter Federation origins, and the crisis aboard her spaceship, then asked whether Lixiang was also a Newtype.
• Long Fei told Taoxiang that she and Lixiang had been asleep for decades, and she wept at the news.
• Lixiang awakened, and Taoxiang went to her infirmary, asked to care for her there, and requested the spaceship's records to recover her forgotten memories.

Taoxiang agreed to stay with Long Fei after learning her homeland had fallen, while the Strike Dagger MS helped Kexer Kingdom defeat Las Kingdom and intensified the war in District Seven. Long Fei’s fleet searched for pirates to test new Gundams, and its sensors detected a convoy near the District Six–District Seven border.

• Long Fei tested Lixiang’s psychic abilities, then learned Taoxiang wanted to return to her homeland and arranged for the sisters to stay and receive life-extension treatment.
• The Strike Dagger MS gained popularity across neighboring districts after military successes, and Kexer Kingdom used it to reverse its losses and destroy Las Kingdom.
• Long Fei prepared to test the 0 Gundam and Gundam Gemini during a pirate-search mission, while older Proto Gundams were mothballed and plans advanced for the Hyaku Shiki and Mk-II G.
• After a week without finding pirates, Long Fei’s fleet approached the District Six–District Seven border, where a long-range camera spotted a convoy.

Long Fei learned that the Oya Cross Nation had come to Aipake Nation to advocate peace as the war in the 7th District Colony drove millions of refugees from their homes. Saintess Aina’s mission met resistance, and her fleet came under attack by a large Pirate Group, which John suspected had been hired to target her.

• Long Fei discussed the Oya Cross Nation’s arrival and its effort to limit the war’s spread, noting that it had taken in more than three million refugees.
• Saintess Aina was disappointed when Aipake Nation’s leaders supported peace in words but defended their involvement in the war.
• Aina asked John whether nations could coexist peacefully, and he stayed silent rather than dash her hopes.
• A soldier reported that a Pirate Group five times larger than Aina’s fleet had attacked them, and Aina went to the bridge with John.
• Yuffie reported that the pirates had ignored warnings and that she had ordered the MS and fighter craft to attack.
• John suspected arms dealers had hired the attackers to kill or capture Aina because her peace advocacy threatened their profits.

Long Fei and his fleet joined the Oya Cross Nation’s battle against the Pirate Group to test the 0 Gundam and other mobile suits. After the Gundams turned the battle around, Long Fei concluded that the 0 Gundam test had succeeded and that they could develop more Solar Furnace Gundams.

• Sock mobilized the Pirate Group’s upgraded forces, which overwhelmed the Oya Cross Nation’s fleet despite its new MS and fighters.
• Yuffie sent Joseph, Bach, Kuhn, Juan, and Bella into battle, where Joseph, Kuhn, and Juan were shot down and Bella was left stranded under attack.
• Long Fei arrived in the 0 Gundam with the Zhou Ya Sisters in the Gemini Brothers and several other MS to test their machines against the pirates.
• The 0 Gundam rescued Bella and disrupted both sides’ radar, while the Gemini Brothers and other MS joined the fight.
• Long Fei shot down nearly thirty enemies in a minute, and the Zhou Ya Sisters destroyed fifty-two; Long Fei declared the 0 Gundam test successful and planned further Solar Furnace Gundams.

The Zhou Ya Sisters activated the PX System and turned the battle against the Pirate Group, while Soke ordered a second-phase assault on the Oya Cross Nation space fleet. As pirate forces boarded the flagship, Long Fei entered it to confront them, and a wounded crewman witnessed pirates dying from an unseen attacker.

• Long Fei ordered the Zhou Ya Sisters to activate the PX System, and they used its enhanced reactions and predictive abilities to destroy many enemy units before it shut down.
• Soke ordered airships to attack the Oya Cross Nation space fleet, while Long Fei destroyed several of them and refused a request to prioritize shooting them all down.
• Long Fei saw pirate airships breach the flagship's hangar, equipped his Sparta Battle Suit and weapons, and entered the ship.
• Saintess Aina left the command room under escort as pirates fought the flagship's defenders in its corridors.
• A wounded crewman watched an unseen attacker kill the pirates who had cornered him and concluded that the Holy Lord had intervened.

Long Fei rescued Saintess Aina and her companions from pirates using his invisible black armor, then gave Aina Healing Gel to treat John and Yuffie's gunshot wounds. The chapter ended with both wounds healing completely, leaving the crew astonished by the technology.

• Pirates stunned Aina's defenders with an electric grenade, wounded Yuffie, and forced John and Aina to surrender.
• Long Fei attacked the pirates from concealment, killed the minor leader, and revealed himself in his black armor.
• Aina thanked Long Fei and ordered her crew to lower their weapons, while Long Fei warned them to move away from his MS.
• Long Fei gave Aina two doses of Healing Gel for John and Yuffie before leaving.
• A crew member injected John with the gel, which expelled the bullet and healed his wound without a scar; Yuffie's wound healed the same way.

After the Gundams drove off Soke’s forces, the Skywing Mercenary Group accepted a commission to escort the Oya Cross Nation fleet to the war-torn 7th District Colony. Long Fei joined the larger Guardian Fleet, where Taoxiang’s appointment as an Ace Pilot remained a source of resentment among some pilots.

• Soke reported his defeat to Lord Billy, who spared him but ordered him to investigate the Gundams and find a way to steal their technology or capture their developer.
• John asked Captain Bruce to escort the Oya Cross Nation fleet, and Bruce arranged protection while seeking approval for the journey to the 7th District Colony.
• Commander-in-Chief Li Jiaming approved the commission on the condition that a larger fleet be sent, and John accepted the increased fee of two hundred million Earth Sphere Credits per day.
• Several days later, the Guardian Fleet arrived with two MS carriers, destroyers, escort ships, and supply ships, while Long Fei joined the escort to see the fighting in the 7th District Colony firsthand.
• Li Xiucheng, Avina, and Ke Jie Xiong discussed Taoxiang’s promotion to Ace Pilot and the resentment it had caused among other pilots.

Taoxiang prepared for her first mission while Saintess Aina sought business with Skywing Group and traveled with its escort fleet. In the Rhineman Emirate, she met Rhineman IV and heard why his country had refused to accept war refugees.

• Long Fei reassured Taoxiang that her sister would not be forced to pilot an MS or join the war, and Taoxiang prepared the Z Gundam for her first mission.
• Saintess Aina asked Colonel Shrek to arrange a meeting with Long Fei about business, but Long Fei said Healing Gel was not for sale while it remained in testing.
• Colonel Shrek escorted the Oya Cross Nation fleet safely for several days, earning the mercenary corps substantial fees.
• The fleet reached the Rhineman Emirate, where Rhineman IV invited Saintess Aina to his palace.
• Rhineman IV explained that his country had turned away refugees because it lacked the resources to accept them, drawing condemnation from democratic-bloc nations.
• Saintess Aina defended the Rhineman Emirate's right to refuse refugees, and Rhineman IV thanked her for understanding.

Long Fei and three special mercenaries traveled through the peaceful 7th District Colony and stopped at a teahouse, where they learned why its government refused to accept war refugees. After the diners saw news of Saintess Aina’s visit, Long Fei explained that his group was escorting the Oya Cross Nation’s space fleet.

• Long Fei and the three special mercenaries rode through the colony’s grasslands and admired a family herding sheep.
• Long Fei’s group shared a table at a teahouse with Bizhuo and Zhelin and ordered local drinks and snacks.
• Bizhuo and Zhelin explained that refugee crises had brought spies, unrest, and civil wars to countries that accepted refugees, while the democratic blocs criticized their country for refusing them.
• Long Fei called the democratic blocs hypocrites, prompting a nearby diner to ask why his group had come to the colony.
• Long Fei revealed that his group were mercenaries escorting the Oya Cross Nation’s space fleet, and the diners recognized the mission from news about Saintess Aina’s exchange visit.

Long Fei took Taoxiang to a pastry shop and urged Li Xiucheng to accept her, but Li insisted she had to prove herself through results. Meanwhile, Aina praised the peaceful Rhineman Emirate as Ambassador Nixon claimed its ethnic minorities were being persecuted.

• Long Fei invited Taoxiang, who had been left out by her colleagues, to ride with him and Li Xiucheng to a pastry shop.
• Taoxiang enjoyed strawberry cream puff cake and wished she could bring her younger sister there once the region was at peace.
• Li Xiucheng told Long Fei that Taoxiang would be accepted only after she proved herself in the field, and Taoxiang left the shop.
• Long Fei explained that Taoxiang and her sister had no one to rely on, but Li Xiucheng said her appointment as an ace without combat experience angered the others.
• Ambassador Nixon met Aina and challenged her praise of the Rhineman Emirate, claiming its ethnic minorities were being persecuted.

Ambassador Nixon accused the Rhineman Emirate of persecuting minorities and possessing weapons of mass destruction, while Rhineman IV and Chancellor Chen denounced the Democratic Bloc’s alleged pretexts for intervention. After learning that a massive fleet had entered the emirate’s territory, Aina exposed what she believed was the Bloc’s plan to seize its grain and impose a capitalist-controlled government.

• Rhineman IV challenged Nixon’s accusation of ethnic persecution, and Nixon presented testimony from an asylum seeker claiming the emirate committed genocide against minorities.
• Chancellor Chen pointed to the government’s diverse ministers, while Aina suspected the Democratic Bloc was trying to force the emirate to adopt democracy.
• Chen criticized the Bloc’s democracy, and the Minister of Justice reported that the asylum seeker had fled after committing defamation and assault.
• Rhineman IV accused Nixon of using false claims as a pretext for attack, but Nixon alleged the emirate had weapons of mass destruction and demanded an investigation.
• The Minister of Defense received a report that a massive fleet had entered the emirate’s territory, and Nixon said the Bloc had acted because the emirate refused to cooperate.
• Aina accused Nixon of planning to seize the emirate’s grain and install a government controlled by capitalists.

Aina and Rhineman IV rejected Ambassador Nixon’s demands as the democratic camp prepared to investigate the Rhineman Emirate, while Long Fei and the Sky Wing Mercenaries readied defenses. The chapter ended as a massive investigation fleet arrived, leaving Long Fei and the other Ace Pilots on alert for a possible attack.

• Aina accused Ambassador Nixon of using human rights and democracy as excuses to interfere in other nations, then had John alert Yuffie and Colonel Shrek.
• Long Fei ordered Colonel Shrek to recall the Sky Wing Mercenaries and prepare the Guardian Fleet for battle; the fleet deployed ships and MS units to guard the colony and Aina.
• Long Fei and Colonel Shrek discussed the democratic camp’s tactics, and Long Fei asked him to prepare ways to guard against an attack and catch the investigation team in the act.
• John requested an MS squad to protect Aina, and eight 105 Daggers accompanied four Saint MS units to the royal palace.
• Nixon accused Aina of supporting Rhineman with advanced MS units, but Aina explained they belonged to the Skywing Mercenary Group; Rhineman IV refused Nixon’s request to deploy investigation-team MS units at the palace.
• A large fleet arrived at the Colony Satellite, and Long Fei judged it looked prepared for battle as the Ace Pilots waited in their Gundam cockpits.

Eli and Claire investigated Sky Wing’s advanced fleet and the Rhineman Emirate’s alleged weapons of mass destruction. Rhineman IV agreed to the inspection only if his people and Aina’s representatives accompanied the team, while the defense minister secretly issued instructions.

• Eli learned that the advanced warships near the Oya Cross Nation’s fleet belonged to Sky Wing, a mercenary group from District Six Colony, and ordered investigators to observe them.
• Claire arrived with the Democratic Alliance’s investigation team, recognized the GM and Strike Dagger MS units, and questioned the origins of their technology.
• Aina asked Yuffie to apologize to Stunk Country because their interview had to be postponed.
• Reporters challenged Claire at the royal palace gates over the investigation’s evidence, methods, and respect for Rhineman sovereignty.
• Rhineman IV allowed the investigation on the condition that his people and Aina’s representatives accompany the team, and the defense minister secretly sent instructions to his subordinates.

Long Fei learned why port workers resented the Democratic Camp investigation team and confronted patrol soldiers after they beat a teenage boy and bullied a little girl. As both sides called in reinforcements, the confrontation grew into a brawl, with Long Fei ordering his mercenaries not to fire first and asking Colonel Shrek to record everything with drones.

• Long Fei spoke with Bizhuo and Zhelin at the port and learned that workers feared the investigation team would use accusations about weapons of mass destruction as a pretext to attack their country.
• At the convenience store, Long Fei found Sky Wing Mercenaries protecting Bizhuo's injured son and crying daughter from five Democratic Camp patrol soldiers.
• A witness explained that a patrol soldier had slapped Bizhuo's daughter after she spilled milk tea on him, and his comrades had beaten her brother when he intervened.
• Long Fei ordered two mercenaries to attack the five soldiers after one of them insulted the local people, and the mercenaries quickly knocked them down.
• More patrol soldiers and Sky Wing Mercenaries rushed to the scene, so Long Fei called for reinforcements, told Colonel Shrek to deploy recording drones, and ordered his side not to fire first.
• The growing confrontation turned into a brawl.

Long Fei’s mercenaries defeated the foreign patrol soldiers, while Aina and John rejected the ambassador’s attempt to blame their country. After Long Fei joined the dormitory families’ campfire party with Taoxiang, Aina showed Chief Rhineman IV evidence that prompted him to prepare to confront those responsible.

• Shlaik warned Colonel Eli that his mercenaries would fight back, then ended their call as Long Fei’s forces stripped and displayed the defeated patrol soldiers.
• Bizhuo thanked Long Fei and invited him to eat with his family, while Ambassador Nixon demanded an explanation from Aina and John denied responsibility for the mercenaries’ actions.
• Bizhuo invited Long Fei and members of the Sky Wing Mercenaries to the dormitory families’ weekly campfire gathering, where Long Fei felt drawn to the community.
• Kabaya gave Taoxiang a drawing to thank her, and Long Fei brought Taoxiang to the gathering, where she joined the dancing and captivated him.
• Aina showed Chief Rhineman IV a video, and he thanked her for helping clear his country’s name before she said someone else deserved his gratitude.

Rhineman IV exposed Ambassador Nixon, Claire, and their team for planting weapons evidence with help from KS Long, and the plot’s failure was broadcast internationally. The democratic bloc’s fleet was ordered to withdraw, while Rhineman IV arranged support from Saintess Aina and offered the Skywing Mercenary Group rewards for its help.

• Claire and the investigation team discovered weapons of mass destruction, but Rhineman IV showed footage proving that Nixon’s agents and KS Long had planted them.
• Rhineman IV revealed that KS Long had been arrested and confessed, then ordered Nixon to leave with KS Long’s family and detained Nixon and Claire’s team.
• Rhineman IV asked Saintess Aina to spread the footage, thanked the Pope for supporting his country, and offered trade benefits to Aina’s nation and the Skywing Mercenary Group.
• Colonel Eli received orders to withdraw his fleet after international news exposed its attempt to frame the Rhineman Emirate, and he realized the plot had backfired.

After the Rhineman Emirate framing scandal weakened the democratic camp, the Wanluo Federation secretly staged a poison gas attack and blamed the camp, reigniting sanctions and the war. Saintess Aina persuaded Stunk Country’s president to accept responsibility and seek peace, and he publicly admitted his government’s sins and requested a ceasefire.

• Countries across the Earth Sphere and Colony Sphere condemned the democratic camp after learning it had framed the Rhineman Emirate, while soldiers refused deployment and civilians protested the war.
• Commanders abandoned occupied Colony Satellites and returned home with their troops, allowing resistance groups and countries to reclaim territory.
• The Wanluo Federation secretly released poison gas on several Colony Satellites and framed the democratic camp, prompting countries to impose sanctions.
• Saintess Aina urged Stunk Country’s president to admit wrongdoing, apologize, and compensate its enemies if he truly wanted peace.
• Stunk Country’s president decided to stop the war despite the political cost and publicly confessed his sins, requesting a ceasefire from Kex Country, Maga Country, and Dak Country.

The leaders of Stunk Country, Kex Country, Maga Country, and Dak Country negotiated a ceasefire with Saintess Aina as a witness, agreeing on the return of occupied Colony Satellites and compensation. As the signing day arrived, Aina and the four nations’ leaders gathered at the venue while Long Fei watched the media coverage and focused on keeping her safe.

• The President of Stunk Country apologized for the poison gas incident and requested a ceasefire, prompting Kex Country, Maga Country, and Dak Country to pause their attacks and agree to negotiate with Aina as a witness.
• The four countries held negotiations on Stunk Country's Colony Satellite No. 5, while Long Fei received updates on new Gundam production and discussed protecting Aina with Shlaik.
• After three days, the delegations agreed that Stunk Country would return the occupied Colony Satellites, provide partial compensation, and acknowledge the war in its textbooks.
• The four countries announced their ceasefire agreement and signing date, and Aina arrived at the venue under the protection of a Sparta Battle Suits squad.
• The leaders of all four nations greeted Aina and posed for photographs as international media covered the signing event and Long Fei watched from the Strike Gundam.

A terrorist attack disrupted the peace declaration, and Long Fei and the other pilots deployed to stop armed men and rogue MS from slaughtering civilians. After rescuing a little girl separated from her mother, Long Fei prepared to fight more MS with her in the cockpit.

• Aina announced the peace agreement, but an attacker tried to assassinate her before Sky Wing Mercenaries stopped him and the leaders agreed to a joint interrogation.
• Explosions struck outside the hotel, and armed men and unregistered MS attacked civilians as the four countries' forces focused on protecting their leaders.
• Long Fei, Taoxiang, and Li Xiucheng launched their Gundams, and Long Fei sent the 105 Dagger MS squad to guard Aina while the three pilots went after the attacking MS.
• Long Fei destroyed several hostile MS and rescued a frightened little girl who had become separated from her mother.
• When more MS appeared nearby, Long Fei asked the girl if she wanted to help smash the bad robots, and she agreed.

Long Fei rescued civilians by destroying four attacking MS, then learned that coordinated attacks were disrupting the peace agreement across Colony Satellite No. 5. After he left the scene, new explosions and an evacuation alert signaled that the crisis was continuing.

• Long Fei's Strike Gundam destroyed or disabled four MS and ordered the Sky Wing Mercenaries to capture two pilots.
• Long Fei reunited Sophia with her mother, while Long Kui and Long Xuan saw footage of him on Long Wen's phone.
• Long Fei learned that MS hidden aboard cargo ships had attacked Colony Satellite No. 5, and that the leaders and Saintess Aina were safe but temporarily unable to leave.
• Long Fei received intelligence that the attacks were funded by arms dealers and that two captured mercenaries belonged to Dusk.
• Long Fei ignored a reporter's questions, threw her aside when she blocked his path, and left in the Strike Gundam.
• The captured prisoners were beaten, explosions shook the area, and an emergency evacuation signal sounded.