Recaps

Long Fei comforted Taoxiang after she worried about his taking concubines and having more heirs, while insisting he would remain devoted to her. The Skywing Empire’s advanced MS demonstrations and Life Extension Potion stirred international envy and controversy, as Long Fei viewed longer lifespans as essential for humanity’s future interstellar expansion.

• Taoxiang told Long Fei she planned to study palace dramas and novels so she could manage his harem, but Long Fei said he would take no concubines and reaffirmed his love for her.
• On June 1, Cosmic Year 129, the Skywing Empire tested upgraded MS units that performed complex dance movements using new technologies, and Long Fei released footage of them to the media.
• Military experts around the world praised the MS demonstrations but attributed the machines’ abilities to Noah technology, while Junior knew Long Fei had independently developed the technology that enabled their movements.
• Countries pressured the Skywing Empire to share its Life Extension Potion, but the empire refused to give it away and offered to sell it instead.
• Purvi of the Wanluo Federation denounced the potion as dangerous, while Long Fei dismissed the criticism and considered longer lifespans necessary for interstellar travel and expansion.

The Skywing Empire used AS units to crack down on illegal immigration and drug trafficking, then sent its Border Defense Force across the Metadeng border to attack a criminal organization and mafia. The operation escalated into a battle with Metadeng MS units, and Skywing forces continued their assault as reinforcements arrived.

• Long Fei studied alien languages using the Noah database’s translator technology.
• Skywing Empire AS units improved police operations, while border forces struggled with illegal immigration and criminal smuggling from the North Inca region.
• A corrupt border police officer was exposed, and two M9 Karnzbachs ambushed and incapacitated twelve drug smugglers in the jungle.
• The Skywing Empire’s border army crossed into Metadeng territory to attack a local illegal organization and mafia that had colluded with corrupt officials.
• M9 Karnzbachs and M9D Falcons destroyed targets and defeated several GM IIs before Jegans and other Skywing units arrived to confront the Metadeng military.
• Skywing AS units continued ground combat as Border Defense Force troops entered the target city.

Metadeng Nation officials were forced to accept the Skywing Empire military’s demands as its troops withdrew after an attack. At an international conference, Saintess Aina urged nations to unite against a possible extraterrestrial invasion, while Purvi demanded control of the Skywing Empire’s technology and Long Fei challenged his claims.

• Skywing Empire military officers berated Metadeng Nation officials over their objections to troops entering their territory, and the officials apologized under threat.
• Metadeng Nation’s military withdrew its GM IIs after receiving orders, and the Skywing Empire Border Army detained local criminals and gang members before leaving the attacked city.
• Pope David retained his position as chairman in the July 1 vote, and Saintess Aina called on nations at the July 5 conference to prepare together for a possible extraterrestrial invasion.
• Purvi demanded that the Skywing Empire share its technology and argued that democratic nations were best suited to resist an invasion, but Long Fei countered that Noah history showed powerful nations had been empires.
• Purvi exceeded his speaking time and protested when Pope David cut his microphone, then turned off his video feed and left the meeting.

Long Fei reviewed intelligence revealing that the Dion Pirate Group had obtained new MS units from the Dongyang Empire’s Hundred Demons Night Parade organization, and he connected their technology to Kuroda Seiya. Meanwhile, world leaders weighed Pope David’s call for unity against an extraterrestrial invasion, as other powers struggled to keep up with the Skywing Empire’s military upgrades.

• Long Fei read a report about the elusive Dion Pirate Group, which preyed on merchant ships and small nations and had acquired weapons from the Hundred Demons Night Parade organization.
• Long Fei watched footage of the Hundred Demons Night Parade’s Evil Night Demon MS and recognized that it used considerable Dion Empire technology.
• Long Fei suspected Kuroda Seiya was trying to reclaim the Dion Empire and recalled that Kuroda had caused the massacre at the detention center.
• Long Fei learned that the Hundred Demons Night Parade was also monitoring its own country and used suicide operatives to prevent failed agents from revealing intelligence.
• National leaders considered Pope David’s proposal to unite against a possible extraterrestrial invasion, but political divisions made cooperation difficult.
• Major powers watched the Skywing Empire replace outdated weapons while their own industries and development timelines prevented them from catching up.

Long Fei reviewed military preparations against a possible extraterrestrial invasion and heard Lin Yunxin report on the results and problems of the empire’s school combat courses. He kept the courses and public-school system in place, leaving foreign parents and private-school advocates without the changes they sought.

• The Skywing Empire and Skywing Mercenary Group used red-versus-blue exercises with varied equipment and scenarios to prepare for an extraterrestrial invasion, a practice other countries had also adopted.
• Lin Yunxin told Long Fei that schools had added daily physical training, combat, and shooting classes, and that students had developed fighting skills.
• Lin Yunxin reported that students were using those skills in fights, causing injuries and complaints from domestic and foreign parents.
• Long Fei refused to cancel combat courses and instructed foreign parents to keep their children from provoking local students.
• Lin Yunxin reported requests to establish foreign schools and private academies, and Long Fei rejected them, insisting that all schools remain public.

Lin Yunxin explained the Skywing Empire’s education system, from demanding physical and combat classes in primary school to specialized Military Industrial Schools and universities that prepared students for military service. The report left Long Fei’s emphasis on physical strength, varied talents, and military readiness clear, while describing the personal cost of harsh discipline for Long Fu and Long Guo.

• Lin Yunxin described primary-school schedules, where children received combat and physical training alongside regular academic lessons, and retired soldiers harshly instructed shooting and fitness classes.
• The Ministry of Education defended the harsh teaching methods with videos of the princesses being scolded, including Long Fu being slapped after she cried, and Long Fei supported the teacher when he investigated.
• Long Fu grew distant from her father, and Long Guo also felt that Long Fei had become unusually strict.
• Lin Yunxin explained that Military Industrial Schools taught specialized technical, combat, and piloting skills to Newtypes, Coordinators, and outstanding ordinary students, who could enter the military with ranks based on their skills.
• Lin Yunxin described Military Industrial Universities, the more demanding training for military-track students, and the high status and benefits given to soldiers in the Skywing Empire.

Long Fei recalled punishing a noble family for humiliating soldiers and discussed the Skywing Empire’s education system with Lin Yunxin. He learned that Pope David had proposed an International Exchange University in the Oya Cross Nation and said he would consider helping as long as it did not endanger his empire.

• Long Fei stripped an officer of his uniform for failing to defend his soldiers and stripped an Earl of his title after the Earl’s wife and daughter insulted them.
• Long Fei ordered the Earl’s family imprisoned and punished, making an example of them, and later had Salamander draft laws against humiliating soldiers.
• Lin Yunxin told Long Fei that other countries criticized the Skywing Empire’s military education while adopting similar programs themselves.
• Long Fei explained that the empire’s military training prepared children to protect themselves from invasion by the Extraterrestrial Race.
• Lin Yunxin reported Pope David’s proposal to build an International Exchange University in the Oya Cross Nation, and Long Fei said he might help if the project posed no danger to the Skywing Empire.

Long Fei and the world’s leaders discussed establishing an international exchange university in the Oya Cross Nation and arranging an MS exchange meet. The conference ended with the Wanluo Federation expelled, while Long Fei agreed to provide support and said he would ask surviving Noah people to teach Newtype abilities.

• Purvi objected to the university being built in the Oya Cross Nation, insulted Newtypes, and demanded it be located in the Wanluo Federation.
• Long Fei offered Skywing Empire scientists and advanced industrial instruction, then threatened to withdraw if Purvi and the Wanluo Federation remained in the conference.
• Pope David muted Purvi, and every country except the Wanluo Federation voted to remove it from the conference and deny it admission to the university.
• Long Fei offered to help build a simulated virtual venue, while Pope David described an MS exchange meet for pilots to learn from one another.
• Pope David asked Long Fei to arrange for Noah people to teach Newtype abilities, and Long Fei said he would consult them before agreeing.

Long Fei explained the technological gap between Earth and extraterrestrial civilizations, then discussed the need to unite under one international leader. He agreed to consider leading the alliance only if other countries placed at least half their forces under Skywing Empire command during an invasion.

• Long Fei described the hostile history of advanced extraterrestrial races and explained that Noah civilization had not reached Tier 2.
• Long Fei listed the technologies required for Tier 1 status and said the Skywing Empire had mastered most of them, while it was still developing planetary environment controls and considering light-speed navigation.
• Long Fei said the Skywing Empire was researching antimatter bombs as protection against extraterrestrial threats, while Purvi spread rumors accusing him of planning a Unification War.
• Pope David proposed that the nations unite under the Skywing Empire, but Long Fei rejected the idea of making his country the first target in a war.
• After other leaders offered support, Long Fei agreed to discuss leading the alliance and demanded that every country place at least half its forces under Skywing Empire command during an extraterrestrial invasion.

Long Fei demanded that every country surrender half its forces to the Skywing Empire’s command in the event of an extraterrestrial invasion, giving them a year to consider. Meanwhile, Purvi rejected the proposal and secretly cooperated with Number 9 Red Demon and the Otherworlders, whose connection to Newtypes and interest in the Skywing Empire became clear.

• Long Fei told the country leaders that they must hand over at least half their armies for the Skywing Empire to command during an extraterrestrial war, and gave them a year to decide.
• Purvi denounced Long Fei and the Skywing Empire online, while Wanluo Federation scientists, military generals, and citizens criticized him for rejecting the International Exchange University opportunity.
• Purvi secretly told Number 9 Red Demon, Asuka Daiki, that the demons he requested were ready to be handed over, and warned him about using their abilities.
• After Purvi ended the call, Mr. Mai emerged from a hidden compartment and warned him to take Newtypes seriously; Purvi admitted that he meant to use their power against the Skywing Empire.
• Mr. Mai explained that the Otherworlders were a branch of Newtypes and had technology comparable to the Noah’s highest-end technology, and said they had found the star system after detecting two powerful mental forces colliding.

Purvi learned that the Jupiter Federation still existed and decided to investigate and contact it, while Long Fei dispatched an expeditionary fleet to Jupiter to explore and pursue diplomatic relations. The fleet departed equipped with Gundam Astrays designed for long-range space exploration.

• Mr. Mai told Purvi that the Jupiter Federation had inherited Yama technology, possessed some Newtypes, and had rejected the extraterrestrials’ earlier attempt at cooperation.
• Purvi decided to send troops to investigate Jupiter and try to contact the Jupiter Federation before the Skywing Empire could act.
• On September 20, Cosmic Year 129, Long Fei held a send-off ceremony aboard the Emperor Rebel for a fleet bound for the Jupiter Federation.
• Long Fei’s expeditionary fleet set out to assess Jupiter’s development and seek diplomatic ties, carrying Gundam Astrays built for interplanetary exploration.
• The chapter described the Gundam Astray’s photon-powered propulsion, autonomous exploration AI, and nanocomputer repair system.

The Skywing Empire launched a voyage fleet to search for the Jupiter Federation, broadcasting its journey and displaying technology that other nations could not match. As the fleet traveled toward Jupiter, the Taoxiang sisters watched its reports, and Taoxiang wondered whether life in her distant hometown had improved.

• Long Fei entrusted a Dionda major general with protecting the diplomatic ambassador and making the fleet's peaceful intentions clear before the voyage began.
• The Skywing Empire's fleet set off, and live broadcasts of its ships, advanced systems, and Gundam Astray drew attention from nations and viewers around the world.
• Experts from other nations discussed the Radiant Transmitter Propulsion System, mistakenly assuming Gundam Astray used the newest controlled nuclear fusion technology.
• The Taoxiang sisters watched the fleet's broadcasts and remembered the hardship and food and water rationing they had endured in the Jupiter Federation.
• Taoxiang wondered how her hometown had developed and whether its people's lives had improved.

Nations negotiated the terms and leadership of the International Exchange University while preparing students for its eventual opening. In outer space, Avina tested the new Gundam AN-01 Tristan and found that its modern technology gave it excellent performance despite its Proto-series appearance.

• Skywing Empire demanded withdrawal and veto rights, control over its teaching subjects, and half the scholarship slots, and most nations accepted its conditions to gain access to advanced technology.
• Pope David proposed Skywing Empire as international leader, but Purvi’s bid to lead for the Wanluo Federation drew widespread rejection, delaying the decision until after its next election.
• The nations settled on a coastal plain south of the Oya Cross Nation’s capital region for the university and began arranging to send their best students next year or the year after.
• On November 1, Cosmic Year 129, Avina inspected and launched Gundam AN-01 Tristan from the La Clam MS Carrier for testing.
• Avina tested Tristan’s speed, evasion, mobility, and moving-target accuracy, then confirmed that its wrist-mounted Gatling Cannons pierced thick alloy armor with both live ammunition and energy fire.

Long Fei’s ministers reported that the Skywing Empire’s prosperity had driven widespread food waste and attracted waves of illegal immigrants seeking its wealth and citizenship. The chapter left Long Fei facing the consequences of the Empire’s extravagance as its population exceeded six hundred million.

• Zeng Huanpeng reported that the Empire’s GDP and budget had roughly doubled, while incomes rose and food prices stayed low.
• Ethan presented evidence that citizens wasted enormous amounts of rice, produce, and meat, including by discarding oversized meals and uneaten school lunches.
• Ethan showed Long Fei that stray cats and dogs grew obese by eating citizens’ leftovers and discarded food.
• Lin Yunxin confirmed that students often wasted school meals and large portions brought from home.
• Jack told Long Fei that illegal immigrants and sex workers repeatedly entered the Empire to seek work and national IDs, drawn by its prosperity and low food prices.
• Long Fei learned that the Empire’s population had surpassed six hundred million, with immigrants—more than three quarters of them women—accounting for much of the population growth.

Long Fei reviewed reports on food waste, the Skywing Empire’s finances and trade, and its labor force, then ordered measures to curb waste and counter the Wanluo Federation’s restrictions. The chapter ended with ministers reporting that foreign laborers filled many low-wage and low-end jobs because citizens were reluctant to take them.

• Long Fei learned from Ethan that nobles and members of the royal family, including Long Wen and Lixiang, wasted food, and he ordered media campaigns to promote food conservation.
• Zeng Huanpeng reported that the Skywing Empire’s currency had reached parity with Earth Sphere Credits, while Feng Jie reported foreign trade profits and 800 trillion in foreign exchange reserves.
• Feng Jie described foreign criticism of the Empire’s economic policies and reported that President Purvi had banned Wanluo Federation countries and businesses from cooperating with Skywing enterprises.
• Long Fei ordered that businesses connected to the Wanluo Federation be barred from cooperation, investment, and trade with the Skywing Empire.
• A minister reported that citizens’ minimum wages supported a modest living, but foreign laborers filled most cleaning, sanitation, and low-end factory jobs.

The Skywing Empire’s Star Gate project alarmed other nations and drew the attention of Mr. Mai, while Wanluo Federation businesses and citizens turned against President Purvi. After a mysterious spacecraft appeared, Junior identified its design as belonging to the Otherworlders and warned that they might be seeking Star Gate technology.

• The Skywing Empire’s boycott order caused Wanluo Federation businesses to flee, its markets to collapse, and protests demanding Purvi’s resignation to spread.
• The Skywing Empire revealed that its Star Gates would connect the Earth and Mars spheres, and Junior explained that the technology was beyond even the Noah people at their peak.
• Mr. Mai watched news of the Star Gates and decided to send subordinates to report the technology to his country while he made other preparations.
• On February 20, the Skywing Empire detected a five-hundred-meter cigarette-shaped spacecraft, and Long Fei summoned Junior to assess it.
• Junior said the spacecraft’s design belonged to the Otherworlders and suggested they might be monitoring the Skywing Empire to steal Star Gate technology.

Captain Moss and his crew discovered that the Skywing Empire had detected their cloaked spacecraft and attacked it with overwhelming force. After electromagnetic smoke exposed the hidden ships and mechs, both sides searched for one another in the clouds.

• Moss and Nali discussed the Skywing Empire's advanced mech control system and its emperor's technological achievements.
• A Shield Breaker II Destroyer detected Moss's cloaked spacecraft, fired an Electromagnetic Velocity Cannon, and damaged its armor after breaking through all three shields.
• Skywing forces attacked the damaged spacecraft from multiple directions and boarded it while Moss's crew fought back.
• Moss ordered Electromagnetic Smoke Bombs launched, exposing the spacecraft, its mechs, and the Skywing Ms concealed nearby.
• Both sides' mechs searched for each other inside the electromagnetic clouds using their detection systems.

The Skywing Empire forces overwhelmed the Extraterrestrial Race’s Sphere Guards while Moss’s warship was crippled and boarded. A suppression squad captured the command room and the mothership, ending the battle without the Sphere Guard force realizing what had happened.

• Richer Type B destroyed a Purple Sphere Monster MS, while the Mars Jacket severed another Sphere Guard’s limbs before it escaped as a purple sphere and attached replacement parts from the mothership.
• Sathiel destroyed two Sphere Guards and deployed twenty-four funnels to support its allies, while Inverse Δ destroyed another Sphere Guard and blocked a beam attack with its Beam Shield.
• Moss saw that the Sphere Guards were being outmatched and that the enemy had captured disabled MS units as the warship’s shield systems failed and its long-range communication was cut off.
• Enemy forces poisoned the warship’s air ducts, paralyzing Moss, Nali, and the crew as a six-person suppression squad entered the command room and restrained them.
• The suppression squad learned to operate the warship, stopped it, and told their comrades to cease attacking, while the Sphere Guards continued fighting unaware that their mothership had been captured.

Mr. Mai feared the Skywing Empire’s growing technological strength after its forces captured a Las Kingdom reconnaissance team. Long Fei concluded Las Kingdom could attack the Solar System in about fifteen years and began planning preparations, while the captured scouts revealed why they had come.

• Mr. Mai learned that the Skywing Empire had detected and attacked his reconnaissance team, and he worried that Long Fei’s technology could threaten Las Kingdom.
• Hoxish identified the captured warship as likely belonging to Las Kingdom and helped Long Fei estimate that an invasion of the Solar System could begin no earlier than fifteen years later.
• Long Fei urged the Solar System’s nations to prepare for possible war and considered developing advanced weapons, spacecraft, and combat mechs.
• Moss, Nali, and the other Las Kingdom prisoners endured interrogation and revealed that they had come to investigate reports of two powerful psychic forces clashing in the star system.

Long Fei and the Skywing Empire determined that Las Kingdom agents were likely hiding in the Solar System and warned major powers of a possible attack in fifteen years. The chapter ended with Long Fei urging them to adopt Dion Empire technology and warning that a great power’s betrayal could doom their defense.

• Skywing Empire agents found that Moss's group resisted Truth Serum because Gene Enhancement Surgery had strengthened their bodies and immune systems.
• Long Fei and his ministers concluded that the Las Kingdom had superiors in the Solar System and suspected they were hiding among democratic nations.
• On February 28, Cosmic Year 130, the Skywing Empire warned several major powers about the Las Kingdom and shared selected Dion Empire technologies to strengthen their industries.
• Skywing Empire intelligence traced Las Kingdom ships to Sectors Seven and Eight of the Colony Sphere, making the Wanluo Federation a leading suspect.
• During a secure conference, Long Fei explained the technological gap and why Dion Empire technology was easier for other nations to absorb than Noah technology.
• Long Fei warned that the Las Kingdom would overwhelm the other powers if they made no progress, and said they could remain undefeated only if they improved their technology and avoided betrayal by any great power.

Long Fei explained why the Skywing Empire would share Dion Empire technology only with trusted countries and urged other nations to exchange intelligence about possible Las Kingdom contacts. Meanwhile, Purvi and Asuka Daiki planned an operation against the Skywing Empire, while Mr. Mai worried that Long Fei’s research could give him a major technological advantage.

• Long Fei told the leaders of several major powers that the Skywing Empire had ruled out Las Kingdom contact with them, but would not share technology with countries whose loyalties remained uncertain.
• Long Fei warned that other nations needed Dion Empire technology to overcome their industrial bottlenecks and asked them to share intelligence about suspicious countries.
• Long Fei suspected that Purvi and the Wanluo Federation had obtained advanced technology from Las Kingdom, and wondered what Kuroda Seiya and the Dongyang Empire were planning.
• Purvi asked Asuka Daiki when they would begin their operation, and Asuka insisted they wait another year to prepare against the Skywing Empire.
• Mr. Mai monitored Purvi’s communications, judged the plan likely to bring disaster on the Wanluo Federation, and worried that Long Fei was developing antimatter technology and studying Las Kingdom’s warships.

Long Fei and the Skywing Empire’s scientists examined Las Kingdom technology, identifying its reactor as Quark Fusion and discussing its military and strategic implications. Long Fei assigned teams to study the captured warship and its systems, then inspected its unusual MS design and engine.

• Long Fei identified the Las Kingdom reactor as Quark Fusion and showed the scientists how it could sustain a chain reaction.
• Long Fei explained that Las Kingdom’s reactor used thermal Quark Fusion, while the Skywing Empire could control both cold and thermal fusion, and warned against sending ships into unknown star systems with unstable sub-light drives.
• Dr. Cordelia urged a study of the Las Kingdom’s advanced shields, and Long Fei ordered the scientists to preserve and examine them while adding Quark Fusion to the Empire’s technology reserves.
• Dr. Hu Yanyou requested and received permission to form a thousand-person team to study the Las Kingdom’s sub-light navigation device.
• Long Fei inspected the captured warship and its compact, non-humanoid MS, concluding that its 3,000 kW engine-equipped standard unit could have beaten an older Richer but was slightly inferior to the current model.

Long Fei disciplined Long Quan for racing through the palace, then discussed their children and Long Quan’s training with Taoxiang. Taoxiang asked whether Long Fei planned to give the three RX 0 Series Gundams to their children, and he confirmed that they were gifts for them.

• Long Fei told Long Guo and Long Fu to carry their own backpacks and handle their own affairs.
• Long Fei caught the masked Long Quan after he ran through the garden and teased the palace maids, then took him to Taoxiang.
• Long Fei and Taoxiang discussed Long Quan’s mischievous behavior, the twins’ studies, and Long Fei’s plans to train Long Quan as his heir.
• Taoxiang asked if Long Fei intended the Unicorn, Banshee, and Phenex Gundams for their three children, and Long Fei said they were gifts for them.

The Skywing Empire investigated a growing flow of meteorites and wreckage drifting toward Mars, which began to reveal signs of a deliberate threat. Intelligence linked the Wanluo Federation’s past cooperation with Las to the strange arrivals, leaving the Federation as the prime suspect.

• Purvi learned that Mr. Mai and the Las nationals had vanished, leaving the Wanluo Federation unable to reproduce their advanced technology and struggling with economic decline.
• The Hundred Demons Night Parade organization told Purvi that the first step of their joint plan was underway.
• The Border Defense Force reported that increasing numbers of meteorites and wreckage were drifting toward Mars from different directions, and the Ministry of Military Affairs suspected deliberate targeting.
• On June 12, Quantum Detectors found explosives and weapons among the wreckage, prompting the Skywing Empire to strengthen precautions and reassure the public.
• Skywing Empire intelligence confirmed that Las had cooperated with the Wanluo Federation and identified the two as likely responsible for the meteorites and wreckage.

Skywing Empire agents used the Mind Extraction Crown to interrogate Doman Koda, a Las Kingdom infiltrator posing as a Wanluo Federation official. He revealed details about the infiltration and his superiors, but said another force from the star system had cooperated with the Wanluo Federation to launch debris at the planet.

• The Skywing Empire shared intelligence about the Wanluo Federation and Las Kingdom with major powers, including the Oya Cross Nation.
• A Skywing Empire agent identified the bound Doman Koda as a Las Kingdom infiltrator who had killed and impersonated a Wanluo Federation official.
• The agents placed the Mind Extraction Crown on Doman Koda and forced him to disclose that ten thousand people and ten warships had come to the star system, and that he knew of eighteen infiltrators.
• Doman Koda named other infiltrators and countries Las Kingdom had contacted, while revealing that his superior remained in the Wanluo Federation.
• Doman Koda denied that Las Kingdom had participated in throwing debris at the planet and said the Wanluo Federation had cooperated with an unknown force from the star system.