Recaps

Mother Rabbit reported that Roaina’s guerrillas wanted to cooperate with the Skywing Mercenary Group, and Salamander met Roaina to discuss their proposal. Roaina offered secret routes and informants to help capture Dion Empire facilities in exchange for autonomy, then reunited with Salamander and Relina over dinner.

• Mother Rabbit told Salamander that Roaina’s Anti-Dion Longsog Army wanted to cooperate, and Salamander agreed to meet Roaina.
• Roaina met Salamander and the Skywing Mercenary Group’s officers at Shinoshud Base and offered secret passages and informants to help capture Emasina Base and nearby facilities.
• Roaina said her guerrillas wanted to liberate occupied villages and cities and gain autonomy, and Salamander invited her to share tactical suggestions using a holographic map.
• Roaina reviewed international news and concluded that Long Fei and the Skywing Group had turned the tide against the Dion Empire.
• At dinner, Roaina recognized Mother Rabbit as her old comrade Relina and teased Salamander about Youyou before the three began catching up.

Salamander and Relina learned about the resistance on Mars as Roaina discussed her guerrilla force’s demands. On June 3, Cosmic Year 126, the Great Sword Shield Unit and Anti-Dion Longsog Army secretly infiltrated Emasina Base, seized key facilities, and planted trackers in Ink Shadow Saint Machines while the base’s leaders remained unaware.

• Salamander asked Roaina whether her guerrilla force had contact with other units, and Roaina said they exchanged intelligence but could not fully trust them.
• Roaina said her forces had additional demands, and Salamander agreed to hear them and promised to help if he could.
• The Great Sword Shield Unit and Anti-Dion Longsog Army captured facilities around Emasina Base and used hidden passages and undercover agents to infiltrate the base.
• Cloaked Sky Wing Mercenaries seized control rooms, sent false communications, and uncovered a factory producing Ink Shadow Saint Machines.
• Marmot Squad Two and the other Marmot squads took over the factory, planted tracking devices in completed machines, and reported their destinations to their superiors.
• The Great Sword Shield Unit shared the tracking intelligence with allied forces while Emasina Base remained unaware that enemy teams controlled its facilities.

The Great Sword Shield Unit took control of Emasina Base, sabotaged its factories, and sent information about the Ink Shadow Saint Machine to its superiors. Salamander interrogated Dimitri Efremov, who revealed that Flano Serac had betrayed the Longsog Kingdom and attacked its king, before Salamander left Dimitri in charge under their control.

• The Great Sword Shield Unit uncovered Emasina Base's underground railways and sabotaged its Salamander, weapons, and ammunition production lines.
• The infiltrators recorded the Ink Shadow Saint Machine's structure and components, and Salamander relayed their findings to Long Fei.
• On June 5, Cosmic Year 126, Salamander met with Dimitri Efremov after Emasina Base had been brought under control.
• Dimitri told Salamander that Flano Serac controlled the former Longsog Kingdom capital and had secretly sold information to the Dion Empire.
• Dimitri revealed that Flano had piloted the black Saint Machine that ambushed the Longsog king during his fight with Fadis.
• Salamander ordered Dimitri to remain in charge of Emasina Base and promised to protect him as long as he followed instructions.

Salamander considered his next move as the resistance liberated parts of the former Longsog Kingdom, while Li Xiucheng and the Big Mad Dog Unit planned how to breach Goloya Fortress. After mapping routes through the surrounding mountains and underground passages, they prepared a coordinated attack and requested orbital bombardment support.

• Salamander requested reinforcements from the Mieweng Unit as resistance forces liberated settlements and destroyed Dion Army hideouts.
• Takuroa told Li Xiucheng that guerrillas could guide ground forces through natural tunnels and underground passages to enter Goloya Fortress past Titan's Wall.
• On June 4, the Big Mad Dog Unit sent ground forces with Payadi Guerrilla Squads to explore the labyrinthine routes, using drones and Mechanical Dogs to map them.
• After seven days, the ground forces identified three exits into Titan's Wall, and the Super Quantum Computer calculated routes for different kinds of forces.
• The Big Mad Dog Unit chose a practical attack plan and requested firebombardment support from the Mieweng Unit in outer space, which agreed.

On June 16, Cosmic Year 126, the Big Mad Dog Unit began its assault on Goloya Fortress under the Deceive Heaven Conceal Earth plan. Song Guowei’s AGE-3 Fortress Type dominated the opening battle, and the chapter ended with the Dion Army recognizing him as a Wild Newtype.

• Li Xiucheng led a force of Gundams and Delta units toward Goloya Fortress while Special Colonel Xu Tianmin commanded the main assault fleet.
• Lieutenant General Gustavo placed Goloya Fortress on Level One Alert and ordered missiles launched against the approaching Big Mad Dog Unit.
• The Big Mad Dog Unit’s point defenses intercepted the missiles, and Song Guowei led the Shadow Mad Dog Squad into battle alongside allied mobile units.
• Song Guowei used his X-rounder senses to anticipate enemy movements, destroying fifty enemy mobile suits in five minutes with the AGE-3 Fortress Type.
• The Shadow Mad Dog Squad and Skywing Mercenary Group supported Song Guowei as his AGE-3 Fortress Type evaded attacks and continued shooting down enemies.
• The Dion Army realized that the AGE-3 Fortress Type’s pilot was a Wild Newtype.

Li Xiucheng’s Sky Soaring Dog unit emerged from mountain tunnels and launched a surprise assault on Goloya Fortress, destroying facilities and enemy forces. As the battle continued, the unit’s Gundams struck down a warship and several powerful enemy machines.

• Li Xiucheng led Sky Soaring Dog through the mountain tunnels and ordered the exit widened with explosives.
• Sky Soaring Dog emerged and attacked Goloya Fortress, prompting Lieutenant General Gustavo to order the enemy units to sortie.
• EX-S, the Phantom Impulse Gundam, and the Destiny Gundam pierced a warship’s Energy Shield and destroyed the vessel.
• The Destiny Gundam led ten Delta units to attack another location while the Phantom Impulse Gundam damaged a Typhon.
• Li Xiucheng used EX-S to destroy a silver-gray Special Saint Machine and a Salamander.
• The eighty Delta pilots fought in coordinated groups against the Dion Army forces.

The Delta pilots of the Skywing Mercenary Group used coordinated tactics to overwhelm Goloya Fortress’s less experienced forces, prompting Lieutenant General Gustavo to rely on superior numbers. The Gundam force withdrew under heavy fire and intercepted most of the fortress’s defensive missiles, leaving Gustavo surprised by the resilience of their armor.

• Lieutenant General Gustavo watched the Delta squads destroy his forces with coordinated cover fire and close-combat tactics, then dispatched more units to overwhelm them with numbers.
• Li Xiucheng led EX-S and the Deltas in attacking enemy units and a transport warship before Chen Jianwu reported that reinforcements had blocked their advance.
• Li Xiucheng ordered the Gundam force to retreat while drawing enemy fire, and Destiny Gundam and Phantom Impulse Gundam covered the withdrawal.
• After the squads regrouped, the Gundams and more than seventy Deltas intercepted Goloya Fortress’s defensive missiles, destroying most of them.
• The remaining missiles struck the force, but its Gundams withstood the bombardment, surprising Lieutenant General Gustavo.

The Ground Mole Dogs and Shadow Mad Dogs launched a coordinated assault on Goloya Fortress, using stealth infiltration, aircraft, and ground forces to overwhelm the Dion Army. With Li Xiucheng, Pani, Chen Jianwu, and the Payadi guerrillas advancing alongside them, the attack pushed toward the fortress’s underground levels and key facilities.

• Shadow Mad Dog teams infiltrated Goloya Fortress’s reconnaissance stations, eliminated the personnel, and disrupted the radar’s identification systems.
• Ground Mole Dogs and aircraft emerged from hidden exits as Sky Overlords, Mobius Zeroes, Wired Pod Strike Packs, and Exuses attacked the fortress from the air.
• Payadi guerrillas and Sky Wing Mercenaries fought through the fortress while drones, Bloodhounds, and Mobile Engineers struck Dion Army positions.
• Li Xiucheng, Pani, and Chen Jianwu led Delta Gundam units into battle, while Li Xiucheng’s EX-S used its cannons and Spirit Cannon to clear a path.
• The Ground Mole Dog Unit advanced under Gundam fire support and, guided by the Payadi guerrillas, began entering underground levels and important facilities.

The Skywing Mercenary Group captured Goloya Fortress by seizing its power plants and orbital bombardment, then took Lieutenant General Gustavo prisoner. Li Xiucheng used Gustavo’s wife and daughter to make him cooperate, leaving Gustavo to choose their safety over his silence.

• A sixty-man Shadow Mad Dog unit captured a nuclear power plant, while rebels and Skywing forces took control of Goloya Fortress’s underground facilities and backup power plants.
• Lieutenant General Gustavo ordered troops to shelter, signaled the front lines to withdraw, and allowed the remaining defenders to surrender or keep fighting.
• After the power plants were shut down and Titan’s Wall’s barrier disappeared, the Mieweng Unit bombarded areas that refused to surrender, and ground units swept the ruins.
• Cleanup troops found Gustavo and his subordinates in the command building’s air-raid shelter, and interrogators failed to break his silence with questioning, beatings, or drugs.
• Li Xiucheng showed Gustavo photographs of his wife and daughter and threatened to bring them to the fortress unless he cooperated, so Gustavo agreed to answer questions.

Salamander returned to Dark and reunited with his mentor, Grandpa Mai, whom he had believed died in the war. As Salamander cared for him and they discussed the former Longsog people’s views, Grandpa Mai privately reflected on the family relationship Salamander had already known about.

• Salamander returned to his damaged childhood home in Dark with Relina, who promised to have it restored.
• Grandpa Mai appeared, and Salamander embraced him after learning he had survived the war.
• Salamander arranged comfortable accommodations and dinner for Grandpa Mai, then told him about his experiences.
• Grandpa Mai said most former Longsog citizens wanted decent lives and despised the traitors, while few would accept Princess Youyou as their ruler.
• After Salamander left Grandpa Mai to rest, Grandpa Mai recalled that he was Salamander’s biological grandfather and had watched over him after becoming estranged from Salamander’s parents.

The Skywing Mercenary Group captured key Dion bases and exposed the limits of the Dion Empire’s stealth technology, while its growing technological advantage alarmed nations around the world. Salamander began planning to seize the former Longsog Kingdom’s capital and target Flano Serac.

• Skywing Mercenary Group forces used tracking devices to locate and kill cloaked Ink Shadow Saint Machine pilots attempting a secret mission.
• After Emasina Base was captured and returned to the ground on June 13, Cosmic Year 126, the Skywing Mercenary Group sent informants and MS units to report its loss to the Dion Army.
• Yelishao De received reports of hacked communications, destroyed ambush forces, and the capture of Goloya Fortress, while Dion scientists suspected the Skywing Mercenary Group had superior stealth and anti-stealth technology.
• Long Fei and the Mieweng Unit began modifying captured Factory Battleships to produce Skywing Mercenary Group warships, while its other facilities continued manufacturing weapons and units.
• International leaders assessed the Skywing Mercenary Group’s military and technological advantage and considered how to respond if it defeated the Dion Empire.
• Salamander planned to seize the former Longsog Kingdom’s capital after learning that Ink Shadow Saint Machines were hidden in new underground hangars there, and threatened Flano Serac.

The Great Sword Shield Unit and the Anti-Dion Longsog Army launched a coordinated assault on Poseidon, triggering explosions and uprisings across the city. As Flano Serac directed the defense, F90M units struck Dion forces underwater and infiltrated Poseidon’s underground hangars.

• Flano Serac faced mounting pressure as Poseidon remained under martial law and enemy forces surrounded the city.
• The Great Sword Shield Unit deployed amphibious machines and F90M Marine Type units, which used cloaks to conceal themselves underwater.
• At night, Mountain Rat Unit squads detonated bombs across Poseidon, and the Anti-Dion Longsog Army attacked checkpoints and police precincts.
• Former Longsog citizens joined the uprising, while Flano Serac directed the city’s defense from the former royal palace and ordered warships to fire missiles.
• F90Ms attacked Flying Fish units, surface warships, and submarines with rockets, torpedoes, and heat Short Swords.
• F90Ms and unmanned submarines entered Poseidon’s underground hangars through floodgates as the Skywing Mercenary Group’s amphibious forces began their assault.

F90Ms, RF Goggs, and Juaggus launched a devastating assault on Poseidon City’s underground facilities, fleet, and Amphibious MS. As the battle spread into the city streets, the attackers overwhelmed their opponents, though Scorpion Tigers proved unexpectedly agile in the skyscraper-filled terrain.

• F90Ms attacked underground docks, hangars, and facilities, while Haro-controlled submarines supplied their equipment sets.
• RF Goggs and Juaggus joined the raid, destroying submarines, warships, and Amphibious MS; one RF Gogg devastated an MS Carrier’s deck and control tower.
• Poseidon City’s eastern command received reports of mounting losses as more than 80 percent of its surface vessels and over 90 percent of its underwater Amphibious MS were destroyed.
• F90s, RF Goggs, and Juaggus emerged across the eastern district and overwhelmed defending MS, including Koukai, Salamanders, and Blood Red.
• Scorpion Tigers used their scorpion forms to maneuver through streets and climb skyscrapers, evading attacks until an F90L sniped one and an RF Gogg destroyed another.

Flano Serac's forces lost control of Poseidon City as four Shambala Mobile Armors helped the Skywing Mercenary Group overwhelm Dion defenses. After the southern forces fell, Zhang Lili reported on angry citizens attacking Longsog collaborators, while the Sky Wing Mercenaries and Anti-Dion Longsog Army restored order.

• Flano Serac learned that Poseidon City was under attack on several fronts, and four Shambala Mobile Armors landed on the eastern coast and devastated Dion forces.
• Flano discovered that guerrillas had evacuated local citizens to Skywing-controlled areas, confirming extensive infiltration within his forces.
• Dion commanders concentrated their attacks on the Shambalos, but their weapons, Beam Reflectors, and supporting F90 and RF Gogg units overwhelmed the defenders as the city fell.
• Flano learned the southern forces had been defeated and left the command room to escape aboard his personal Special Saint Machine.
• Zhang Lili interviewed angry citizens, who explained they hated Longsog soldiers serving the Dion Empire as traitors and attacked them more fiercely than Dion citizens.
• Sky Wing Mercenaries and the Anti-Dion Longsog Army intervened, warned the crowd, and persuaded the citizens to return home while fighting continued.

Flano Serac fled Poseidon City in Glekkala, evading the pursuing F90s and other enemy units until Salamander intercepted him at the eastern coast. After a battle against Koshi Gundam, Gundam TR-6 Faber II, and its six Gihal IIs, Flano was captured and Salamander refused his plea for mercy.

• Flano launched Glekkala from the former royal palace and fled as enemy forces overran Poseidon City.
• Flano dodged pursuing F90s and ground units, choosing the eastern route while the former royal palace command post fired surrender flares.
• Salamander intercepted Flano at the eastern coast with Koshi Gundam and Gundam TR-6 Faber II, accompanied by six Gihal IIs.
• Flano and Salamander argued over Flano's betrayal of the Longsog Kingdom before Flano attacked.
• Salamander's forces disabled Glekkala, severed its limbs, and left Flano with no chance to escape.
• Flano offered Salamander his hidden wealth in exchange for his life, but Salamander said he would give him the fate he deserved.

After the battle for Poseidon City ended, Salamander accepted the citizens’ gratitude while declaring that the Longsog Kingdom no longer existed. A powerful psychic presence led him to the sealed room of the late King Boske, where he encountered Boske’s spirit.

• The Koshi Gundam abandoned Flano among the citizens, who beat the former traitor to death.
• Salamander returned to the Longsog royal palace, learned that Boske’s room had been sealed, and ordered it opened as his forces secured and began rebuilding Poseidon City.
• Salamander told the grateful citizens that he was now a brigadier general in the Skywing Mercenary Group and that the Longsog Kingdom had vanished from the land.
• Princess Youyou smashed her wineglass in anger after hearing Salamander’s broadcast, while her guards recognized that the territory belonged to the Skywing Group.
• Salamander and the other Newtypes sensed a powerful psychic force from Boske’s room, where Salamander found the late king’s half-transparent spirit.

Boske’s spirit thanked Salamander and asked Long Fei to protect his people before fading away. As Long Fei reviewed the conquered territories, he gave Salamander authority over the lands he had marked around Poseidon City.

• Boske thanked Salamander for saving his people, apologized for the suffering Youyou had caused, and asked her to spare his daughter a chance to live.
• Long Fei entered Boske’s room, promised to treat his people well, and heard Boske ask him not to make Youyou’s life too difficult.
• Boske’s spirit vanished, and Salamander ordered her subordinates to preserve and clean the room.
• Long Fei toured the palace as his commanders discussed their advances into the former Reink Nation and the Dion Empire.
• Long Fei sat on the Longsog throne and discussed the Dion Empire’s greater imperial grandeur with Salamander.
• Long Fei projected a map and placed the marked land around Poseidon City, including Salamander’s hometown and base, under her administration.

After the Skywing Mercenary Group conquered the former Reink Nation, Long Fei arranged for Salamander to manage his homeland and rejected Princess Youyou’s request to reclaim the former Longsog Kingdom. The Mieweng Unit then used nine Satellite Microwave Cannons to breach Titan’s Wall, forcing Dion forces to evacuate the military port.

• Long Fei assigned Salamander to manage the lands of the former Longsog Kingdom and promised investment to restore the local economy.
• The Big Mad Dog Unit captured the former Reink Nation, and Long Fei refused Princess Youyou’s request to return the former Longsog Kingdom.
• Ke Jie Xiong and twelve MS GX Bits prepared to fire Satellite Microwave Cannons at Titan’s Wall while Mieweng Unit forces fought off Dion attackers.
• Dion forces shot down four MS GX Bits, but nine Satellite Microwave Cannons breached Titan’s Wall and triggered explosions at two fusion power plants.
• The Dion Army carried out Plan C, evacuated the military port, and destroyed its defenses as the Mieweng Unit took control.

Long Fei and his commanders planned the next phase of the Mars campaign, while Yelishao De and the Dion Empire’s generals prepared to resist the Skywing Mercenary Group. Both sides considered strategies for a long war as the chapter ended with Yelishao De weighing proposals for defending key locations.

• Long Fei met with Shlaik, Salamander, and other commanders to discuss the campaign after capturing nearly half of Mars.
• Salamander warned that the Dion Empire would concentrate its forces and try to drag the Skywing Mercenary Group into a war of attrition, and he proposed a prolonged blockade if the war lasted beyond a year.
• Shlaik mapped a three-pronged offensive using the former Reink Nation, Longsog Kingdom, and the Mieweng Unit in outer space.
• Salamander and Mother Rabbit reported that Dion forces had few male soldiers left and that women were being conscripted, then Salamander proposed a plan to avoid fighting them or reduce casualties.
• Yelishao De and the Dion Empire’s officers discussed trading space for time and debated whether to abandon less important locations to strengthen key defenses.

The Skywing Mercenary Group launched a coordinated assault on Dion Empire territory, capturing bases while avoiding civilian casualties. After learning that the Dion Army had taken away most working-age residents, Long Fei and the generals ordered the mercenaries to try communicating with the hostile children and elderly left behind.

• The Mieweng Unit disrupted Dion defenses and attacked across the border as the Dion Army withdrew from some locations with civilians in tow.
• The 2nd Brigade Fleet of the 5th Corps, 1st Army Group captured a frontline base, and the Mieweng Unit began repairing seized facilities for use as new bases.
• Skywing teams found villages and towns inhabited mainly by children and the elderly, who blamed the mercenaries for their missing relatives and threw stones at them.
• The Skywing Mercenaries followed orders not to retaliate, and some left food and notes explaining that they meant no harm, though locals rejected their efforts.
• Salamander suggested a response to the civilians’ hostility, and Long Fei and the generals approved new orders directing the mercenaries to communicate with local residents.

Sky Wing Mercenaries reunited elderly people and children with imprisoned relatives, easing hostility in occupied towns, while the Mieweng Unit prepared to advance against the Dion Army. The chapter ended with Dion soldiers beating an old villager after discovering his hidden food, as a young girl called out from a concealed space in the roof.

• Sky Wing Mercenaries treated elderly people and children, gathered names of missing relatives, and arranged video calls with prisoners they identified.
• The Sky Wing Mercenaries recorded names, photographs, and videos from local families as the Mieweng Unit prepared its next offensive on July 12, Cosmic Year 126.
• A Dion Army scout reported the Mieweng Unit's vehicles, soldiers, and drones while observing them from cover.
• Dion Army soldiers insulted an old villager, searched his house, and found food he had stored underground.
• Dion Army soldiers accused the old villager of hiding someone, knocked him down, and beat him until a girl cried out from a hidden space in the roof.

Sky Wing Mercenaries wiped out a Dion Army platoon in a town and won the villagers’ cooperation by promising to help them find their abducted relatives. They also captured Dion scouts, whose tortured confessions exposed the locations of Dion ground units.

• Dion Army soldiers threatened a young girl and her great-grandfather, but Sky Wing Mercenaries infiltrated the house and killed the soldiers before they could harm them.
• Sky Wing Mercenaries captured or killed the nearly one hundred Dion soldiers who had entered the town to demand food, then stopped villagers from attacking the captives.
• The mercenaries asked villagers for information and records of relatives taken by the Dion Army, gave them communication devices, and secured their cooperation.
• Dion scouts tried to relocate, but Sky Wing Mercenaries captured them and used intercepted communications to locate and defeat the ground units they had contacted.
• A captured scout resisted questioning until torture forced him to reveal what he knew, after which the mercenaries dragged him into a dark room.

Yelishao De explained to his generals that villagers were helping the Sky Wing Mercenaries because the Dion Empire had oppressed and starved them, while the mercenaries offered food, supplies, and fairer terms. The chapter ended with Yelishao De learning that Salamander had planned the strategy and regretting that he had spared him.

• Yelishao De heard reports that villagers and city residents were aiding the Sky Wing Mercenaries and attacking Dion Army soldiers.
• General Akude blamed the villagers’ rebellion on their rejection of the Emperor’s Newtype doctrine, but Yelishao De challenged his explanation.
• Yelishao De showed General Akude the meager food villagers ate, and the general spat it out in disgust.
• Yelishao De showed the officials how the Sky Wing Mercenaries supplied villages, freed captured soldiers, and promised to take a smaller share of harvests after three years.
• Yelishao De learned that Salamander had planned the strategy and regretted sparing his life.

The Skywing Mercenary Group used drones to broadcast Dion soldiers’ families pleading for them to come home, then showed four women safely reuniting with their families. Mass desertions weakened the city garrisons, forcing Dion commanders to consider abandoning their positions as the Mieweng Unit accepted surrendering soldiers.

• Salamander proposed using drones to persuade forcibly conscripted Dion soldiers to surrender, and Long Fei and most commanders supported the plan.
• Sky Wing Mercenary commanders told soldiers who did not want to fight that they could surrender and, if possible, return to their hometowns and families.
• After four women escaped a city and reached their families safely under Sky Wing Mercenary escort, their reunions were broadcast to Dion troops.
• Forcibly conscripted Dion soldiers began attacking those who tried to stop them and fled the cities to surrender to the Mieweng Unit.
• As fewer soldiers remained at successive roll calls, Dion city commanders realized the garrisons could lose more than half their strength without an assault.
• Some commanders began retreating and offered soldiers from occupied towns the choice to surrender or withdraw with them.

The Mieweng Unit steadily captured Dion Empire territory as conscripts defected and Salamander’s psychological warfare slowed the advance. By August 10, Cosmic Year 126, the Dion Army and Mieweng Unit had begun fighting in some locations.

• Yelishao De released conscripts whose homes and relatives were in Skywing-controlled territory, while relocating civilians from areas still held by the Dion Army.
• The Skywing Group attracted investors to the Mars Sphere under harsh terms as Taoxiang helped manage its affairs and cared for their three children.
• The Mieweng Unit observed that Dion Empire territory had fallen to 40% of its former extent, and Salamander’s strategy began losing effectiveness as civilians left villages and towns.
• Long Fei avoided devastating attacks that could harm civilians, while the Mieweng Unit maintained space defenses and produced military equipment.
• The Mieweng Unit surrounded cities, cut off supplies, and intercepted relief forces; on August 10, Cosmic Year 126, fighting began in some locations.