Recaps

Long Fei and Colonel Shlaik investigated missing Escort Ships in the Rhineman Emirate and discovered that an armed force had infiltrated the country by disabling its radar detection. As Shlaik joined the Emirate’s search, Ghost Squad prepared to attack another Escort Ship.

• Long Fei noticed that no Rhineman Emirate patrols had inspected his fleet and worried that the country had neglected its defenses.
• Long Fei’s fleet found three wrecked patrol Escort Ships, and Shlaik’s MS squad determined that an organized armed force had ambushed them.
• The Rhineman Emirate found devices that had disabled several search radars for days, then asked Chris and Shlaik to help search for the infiltrators.
• Shlaik agreed to assist and requested that the Emirate share its intelligence with his fleet.
• Ghost Squad reported spotting an outdated Rhineman Emirate Escort Ship, and Red Ghost One ordered the squad to destroy it and leave immediately.

A Rhineman Emirate Escort Ship was destroyed by an infiltrating force, and Colonel Shrek tracked down and disabled two enemy space submarines. After one submarine’s commander surrendered and killed himself, Long Fei suspected the attackers’ outdated weapons might be part of a plot to frame an imperial nation.

• A mixed squad destroyed a Rhineman Emirate Escort Ship and its six M1 Fighters, leaving injured survivors behind.
• Colonel Shrek used the attacked ships’ radar blind spots to locate two hidden space submarines and ordered the Zhou Ya Sisters to disable their propulsion systems.
• Major Matthew’s submarine was immobilized by a directed-energy strike, and the Sky Wing Mercenaries fleet disabled the second submarine as well.
• Major Matthew ordered his crew to destroy records, then surrendered and shot himself after his deployed fighters and MS were wiped out.
• Colonel Shrek ordered intelligence extracted from the captured militants and informed the Rhineman Emirate Ministry of Defense of the captures.
• Long Fei told Colonel Shrek that the attackers’ old weapons might have been bought on the black market or used to frame an imperial nation.

Long Fei suspected the Yuda Democratic Republic had framed the Gudrian Empire to gain control of the Rhineman Emirate’s grain exports and profit from wartime shortages. Interrogations confirmed his deduction, and Shlaik said the intelligence had been handed to the Rhineman Emirate’s Ministry of Defense.

• A captain told Shlaik and Long Fei that prisoners had named the Gudrian Empire, but their destroyed voyage records and resistance to Truth Serum cast doubt on their claims.
• Long Fei and Shlaik considered the map and the countries’ relative strengths, and Long Fei argued that the Yuda Democratic Republic was framing the Gudrian Empire to seize agricultural resources and profit from grain prices.
• The captain reported that his subordinates had found encrypted documents aboard the captured submarine, while Shlaik ordered harsher interrogations.
• A female prisoner revealed what she knew after mercenaries tortured her lover, and a Sky Wing Mercenary later shot them both before reporting the intelligence.
• Shlaik told Long Fei that the prisoners’ information confirmed the Yuda Democratic Republic was behind the frame-up and that the intelligence had been sent to the Rhineman Emirate’s Ministry of Defense.

After learning that the Yuda Democratic Republic had planted poison gas devices across the Rhineman Emirate, Long Fei, Colonel Shrek, and Colonel Chris joined the emergency response. Poison gas outbreaks killed residents across several districts, while Sky Wing Mercenaries fought attackers and evacuated civilians toward their warships.

• Long Fei ordered his fleet toward the Rhineman Emirate's Colony Satellite after he and Colonel Shrek uncovered the Yuda Democratic Republic's poison gas plot.
• Rhineman IV declared a nationwide alert, and Colonel Chris equipped his troops with protective gear and joined the operation to capture the spies.
• Colonel Chris's squads found and dismantled poison gas devices at air filtration plants, but an explosion released yellow smoke near the tenth plant.
• Poison gas outbreaks spread through air ducts and urban districts, killing residents as Colonel Chris ordered drone sprays and rescue teams to evacuate survivors aboard the warships.
• A reporter filmed armed attackers shooting fleeing civilians, and Sky Wing Mercenaries killed the attackers and directed survivors toward their warships.

Toxic haze and armed attacks devastated the Rhineman Emirate's Colony Satellite as rescue forces came under fire. After his GM II MS was disabled, Sergeant Rael evaded the attackers, captured an agent, extracted her intelligence, and killed her.

• GM II MS units tried to purify the toxic haze while armed groups attacked residents and obstructed rescue operations across the Colony Satellite.
• Long Fei's fleet and the Rhineman Emirate's Defense Force rushed to the satellite to help, but armed men shot down Sergeant Rael's GM II MS.
• Rael escaped his disabled unit under camouflage and discovered that toxic haze, corpses, and a communications jammer prevented him from contacting his comrades.
• Rael recorded three armed men's conversation, killed two of them, and captured the third, a woman, before taking her to a hardware store.
• Rael tortured the woman until she revealed what she knew, recorded her intelligence, and killed her.

Sergeant Rael exposed the Yuda Democratic Republic’s role in the Rhineman Emirate poison gas attack, and further evidence left the country under international condemnation. As the fighting ended and aid arrived, the Rhineman Emirate counted more than six hundred thousand dead, leaving survivors grieving and asking why they had suffered.

• Sergeant Rael restored communications by destroying jammers, reported his evidence to Colonel Chris, and sent intelligence that was forwarded to Colonel Shrek and the Rhineman Emirate authorities.
• Rhineman IV accused the Yuda Democratic Republic of the terrorist attack, and Long Fei ordered captured-submarine intelligence handed over to the Rhineman Emirate authorities.
• The Yuda Democratic Republic’s president ordered officials to deny involvement, but the Rhineman Emirate released evidence of its covert operations and dead agents.
• The Rhineman Emirate military sent protected ground forces and anti-poison teams into toxic-smog zones while officials distributed antidotes and searched homes for poison gas canisters.
• The Rhineman Emirate sought international aid as rescue teams arrived from neighboring countries and the Oya Cross Nation, while the Yuda Democratic Republic faced worldwide condemnation.
• Colonel Shrek’s deployment helped bring the fighting on the Colony Satellite to a close, and the Rhineman Emirate counted more than six hundred thousand civilian deaths as survivors mourned their relatives.

Long Fei mourned Bizhuo and Zhelin and their families, who had died in a poison gas attack in the Rhineman Emirate. After Li Xiucheng showed Long Fei and Taoxiang the Yuda Democratic Republic’s defiant press conference, Long Fei vowed that those responsible could not be forgiven.

• Long Fei found Bizhuo, Zhelin, and their families listed among the dead, then placed flowers beside their bodies in the morgue.
• Taoxiang wept beside Kabaya’s body, and Long Fei caught and comforted her when she nearly fell.
• Li Xiucheng arrived, recalled the poison gas attack, and explained that capitalists had backed it to seize control of the Rhineman Emirate’s agricultural exports.
• Li Xiucheng showed Long Fei and Taoxiang the Yuda Democratic Republic’s press conference, where its spokesperson blamed Rhineman IV and claimed an apology should end the matter.
• Taoxiang condemned the Yuda Democratic Republic, and Long Fei, trembling with rage, declared that none of those responsible could be forgiven.

The Skywing Mercenary Group launched a surprise invasion of the Yuda Democratic Republic, using the Justice Goddess Type-F Gundam and Judgment Goddess Gundam to disable its defenses and crush its forces. The Border Defense Force base was overwhelmed, and its commander and staff were killed after surrendering.

• Long Fei piloted the Justice Goddess Type-F Gundam and destroyed an Iron Horse patrol, while Taoxiang and the Gemini Brothers destroyed another patrol fleet and its mothership.
• Fourteen days after the Yuda Democratic Republic’s press conference, the Skywing Mercenary Group entered its territory under Solar Furnace particle interference and destroyed its point-defense radar and patrol forces.
• Colonel Shrek’s fleet attacked a Border Defense Force base as Long Fei and Taoxiang led coordinated Gundam strikes that broke through its defenses.
• GM II and Duel Dagger squads entered the base harbor and supported the landing suppression forces while the defenders’ communications were intercepted.
• The base commander ordered his forces to surrender after the conference room lost power, but the Sky Wing Mercenaries stormed in and killed everyone inside.

The Yuda Democratic Republic’s leaders watched the Skywing Mercenary Group devastate their forces and seize a hidden Tactical Nuclear Missile base, leaving them unable to stop the attack. Long Fei then authorized the use of the captured missiles, and Li Jiaming publicly declared that the Skywing Mercenary Group would sanction the Yuda Democratic Republic.

• The president and officials watched footage of the Skywing Mercenary Group defeating Yuda forces, killing government personnel, and looting four Colony Satellites, while five more were reported attacked.
• The commander-in-chief told the president that the Skywing Mercenary Group’s equipment surpassed Yuda’s and that its Mass-produced Gundams had combat ratings of at least twenty.
• The president ordered the minister of foreign affairs to seek help, then asked whether nuclear weapons could defeat the Skywing Mercenary Group.
• The commander-in-chief learned that Skywing troops had infiltrated and captured a hidden Tactical Nuclear Missile base using cloaking combat suits, and the president saw a broadcast announcing the missiles’ confiscation.
• Long Fei reflected on the Gundam’s purpose, decided to use its power to impose sanctions, and gave the commander-in-chief his instructions.
• Li Jiaming announced in a live broadcast that the Skywing Mercenary Group would use the captured Tactical Nuclear Missiles to sanction the Yuda Democratic Republic for its crimes against the Rhineman Emirate.

The Skywing Mercenary Group devastated the Yuda Democratic Republic, repelled its nuclear retaliation, and faced rising international opposition after Li Jiaming threatened the Wanluo Federation. With the Gas Empire warning the Federation against intervention, the Yuda Democratic Republic gathered its remaining forces at its capital Colony Satellite for a final battle.

• Avina and Talisa broke through Yuda's defenses and helped annihilate its fleet, while the next day GP02 destroyed another main fleet with a Tactical Nuclear Missile.
• The Yuda Democratic Republic launched all eighty of its remaining nuclear warheads, but Skywing's defenses intercepted every missile.
• Skywing visited twelve Yuda Colony Satellites, transported plundered resources to the Rhineman Emirate, and captured fleeing civilians, officials, and capitalists; Li Jiaming answered international criticism by exposing the capitalists' dealings with the Yuda government.
• GP02 destroyed another major Yuda fleet, and Li Jiaming challenged the Wanluo Federation after its spokesperson threatened intervention.
• Emperor Taksgas VI warned the Wanluo Federation not to intervene, and other nations outside the democratic bloc threatened to stop any countries that sent aid to Yuda.
• The Yuda Democratic Republic gathered its remaining forces at its capital Colony Satellite for the final battle.

The Skywing Mercenary Group launched its overwhelming assault on the Yuda Democratic Republic's capital satellite, rapidly breaking through its defenses. Long Fei and Taoxiang led the attack into the port as ground troops began landing.

• The Skywing Mercenary Group deployed six fleets and sixteen Gundams to encircle the capital satellite and attack the Yuda Democratic Republic's defenses.
• Yue Yangchun's GP03D devastated enemy fighters, mobile suits, and warships, while Long Fei and Taoxiang led their forces through the defenses in Sector Seven.
• The Yuda Commander-in-Chief received reports that multiple defense fleets and lines had fallen, and recognized that defeat was inevitable.
• The Zhou Ya Sisters broke through the second defense line in Sector One, while Long Fei and Taoxiang breached the final line in Sector Seven.
• Long Fei and Taoxiang entered the capital satellite's port and destroyed attacking Iron Horse II units as allied mobile suits and ground forces arrived.

The Skywing Mercenary Group seized control of the Yuda Democratic Republic’s capital Colony Satellite, forcing its soldiers and police to surrender and capturing the president and senior officials. The chapter ended with a mercenary naming the attack “Justice from the Heavens, Judgment Descends” as a war correspondent filmed the captured leaders and the two Gundams.

• Taoxiang destroyed Electromagnetic Skateboards while the Justice Goddess Type-F and Justice Goddess Type-F Gundam blocked escape routes, and Long Fei ordered the Skywing Mercenary Group to give enemy forces one hour to surrender.
• The Skywing Mercenary Group’s public apology turned international criticism back on the Yuda Democratic Republic, while the commander-in-chief accepted the surrender demand and disclosed the president’s hiding place.
• The police commissioner ordered the remaining soldiers and police to disarm, and war correspondents filmed their surrender across the capital Colony Satellite.
• Malok livestreamed the assault on a secret storage facility as the Justice Goddess Type-F and Judgment Goddess destroyed its defenses and ground forces entered.
• Sky Wing Mercenaries captured the president, prime minister, and defense minister, and a captain told Malok the operation was called “Justice from the Heavens, Judgment Descends.”

The Skywing Mercenary Group handed Yuda Democratic Republic officials and financiers to Rhineman IV, where they were tried and executed for the poison gas deaths. Long Fei and Taoxiang later paid respects to Bizhuo's and Zhelin's families, while Rhineman IV welcomed the mercenaries and granted them land for a tax-free base.

• Colonel Shrek handed Yuda Democratic Republic's president, prime minister, and defense minister over to Rhineman IV as civilians demanded justice.
• The Yuda Democratic Republic officials and capitalists were convicted and sentenced to death in a public trial.
• Executioners shot the condemned men before a field of flags representing the more than one million civilians killed in the poison gas incident.
• Long Fei and Taoxiang visited the graves of Bizhuo's and Zhelin's families the next day.
• Long Fei ordered the Sky Wing Mercenaries to pay for their purchases despite locals' attempts to treat them for free.
• Rhineman IV gifted the Skywing Mercenary Group land for a base and exempted it from taxes for one hundred years.

Shrek's fleet returned to the main base with resources seized from the Yuda Democratic Republic, and Long Fei's group discussed how to distribute the spoils and respond to requests from the United Nations and other powers. Long Fei then spent seven days developing technologies based on the AGE System and MD System before finally finishing his research and returning to his room to sleep.

• Rhineman IV accepted one-quarter of the seized resources for the Rhineman Emirate, and Shrek's fleet departed for District Six Colony before returning to the main base nine days later.
• Lixiang reunited with Taoxiang, who thanked Yue Baixue for looking after her younger sister and agreed to treat her to a meal.
• Long Fei proposed selling some acquired resources to reward the mercenaries and their fallen comrades' families, then rejected the United Nations' requests for tactical nuclear missiles and medical technologies.
• Long Fei declined to attend King Thales's birthday banquet himself and told Li Jiaming to send an important representative instead.
• Li Jiaming recommended considering Lixiang as a Gundam pilot, and Long Fei told him to discuss it with the Taoxiang sisters without pressuring them; Li Jiaming also explained that he and Xiucheng had refused their families' summonses.
• Long Fei researched the AGE System and MD System for seven days, completed his new designs, and returned to his room for a long sleep.

Long Fei discovered that Lixiang had beaten nearly all the Ace Pilots in the MS simulation room and challenged her to a match. After defeating her ten times in a row, he encouraged her to keep improving and warned the Ace Pilots to work harder.

• Long Fei learned that Lixiang had reached third place in the simulation rankings after defeating most of the Ace Pilots, while Yue Yangchun remained first.
• Long Fei challenged Lixiang and defeated her ZZ Gundam with his Justice Goddess Type-F Gundam.
• Lixiang challenged Long Fei to another match, but he won ten matches in a row, causing her ranking to fall to sixth place.
• Long Fei encouraged Lixiang after her losses, and she vowed to defeat him someday.
• Long Fei reprimanded the Ace Pilots for their poor results and warned that he would demote them if they did not improve.

Long Fei discussed Lixiang’s wish to pilot a Gundam in battle and urged Taoxiang not to stifle her younger sister’s potential. Taoxiang agreed to let Lixiang fight after she completed training, while Long Fei asked that she be assigned to fight alongside her sister.

• At the cafeteria, Long Fei learned from the Commander-in-Chief that Shlaik’s fleet’s successful escort and response to a terrorist attack had brought the mercenary group more contracts and higher profits.
• Lixiang told Long Fei she wanted to pilot the ZZ Gundam in battle, but Taoxiang refused, and Lixiang ran out of the cafeteria in tears.
• Long Fei told Taoxiang that overprotecting Lixiang could hold back her growth, then brought food to Lixiang and encouraged her to reconcile with her sister.
• Long Fei led Lixiang back to Taoxiang, and Lixiang apologized; Taoxiang agreed to let her enter battle if she completed the required training.
• Long Fei asked the Commander-in-Chief to arrange for Lixiang to fight alongside Taoxiang after training, and the Commander-in-Chief agreed.

Top MS ace pilot Anton watched footage of the Skywing Mercenary Group’s Gundams and praised the pilot of the Justice Goddess, while dismissing a new MS his employer wanted him to test. When an alarm sounded aboard the merchant fleet, Anton and Sonia prepared to defend the ship carrying Feichi Military Science Company’s new MS.

• Anton and Sonia discussed the Gundams’ combat performance as they watched footage aboard the merchant fleet heading for Tiangui Satellite.
• Anton explained that the new MS from Feichi Military Science Company was likely only comparable to Skywing’s Strike Dagger, and he praised the Justice Goddess pilot’s skill.
• An alarm sounded, and Anton and Sonia hurried to their MS and prepared to sortie.
• Anton told Sonia he suspected a competitor of Feichi Military Science Company was targeting the merchant ship to destroy its new MS, and they set out to stop the attackers.

Anton and Sonia fought a much larger force of Strike Dagger MSs belonging to a Destroyer Organization, while Anton held the defensive line under mounting pressure. Rake shot Anton’s crippled War Swallow MS down, leaving Anton gravely injured in his escape pod as Sonia carried him toward the mothership and the Hanxia Empire’s Border Defense Force arrived.

• Anton and Sonia launched to defend the merchant fleet from more than 100 Strike Dagger MSs, and their forces began a fierce battle against the Destroyer Organization.
• Sonia fought off the attackers as more Strike Dagger MSs arrived, while Anton shot down dozens and drew enemy fire to keep the defensive line from collapsing.
• After the upper-left defensive line was breached, Anton sent Sonia and three teammates to reinforce it and continued fighting alone against the advancing enemy.
• Rake prepared a sniper shot, and Anton dodged it at the last moment but lost his War Swallow MS’s left arm joint; as the allied force dwindled, Anton ran out of ammunition and his MS was destroyed by Rake.
• Sonia retrieved Anton’s escape pod and rushed him toward the mothership, while Anton remained unconscious with severe injuries; the Hanxia Empire’s Border Defense Force arrived.

Anton learned that a dangerous surgery might let him walk and pilot mobile suits again, and he chose to undergo it despite the risk of dying. Long Fei and Mellis were left to arrange his immediate discharge and surgery.

• Sonia told Anton that the merchant ship had only been bait and that the real mobile suit had already been sent elsewhere.
• Long Fei and Mellis visited Anton and offered a surgery using a modified Alaya-Vijnana System that might restore his ability to move.
• Long Huijuan arrived on behalf of the Long Family and gave Anton a consolation payment.
• Long Fei warned Anton that the surgery had a low chance of success and a substantial risk of death.
• Anton refused to wait and asked Long Fei to arrange his discharge so he could undergo the surgery immediately.

Long Fei discovered that Feichi Military Science Company was developing the Xi'en MS, which he believed had been stolen from him, and furiously attacked Long Yingxuan and Long Chenxuan. The chapter ended with Zhao Xinlin recognizing the MS as one Long Fei had designed and identifying the reason for the beating.

• Long Huijuan invited Long Fei and Mellis to dinner, where Long Chenxuan mocked Long Fei's armed guards and Long Huijuan slapped him.
• Long Huijuan asked Long Fei for access to his medical technologies and better business terms, and Long Fei arranged preferential deals for her companies.
• Mellis showed Long Fei a news video of Feichi Military Science Company's new mono-eyed MS, and Long Fei demanded to know why it was developing the Xi'en MS.
• Long Fei took a stick to Long Yingxuan and Long Chenxuan's private room and beat them while Long Huijuan cleared the onlookers away.
• A Sky Wing Mercenary struck Xu Jiayun after she insulted Long Fei, and Zhao Xinlin recognized the MS as one Long Fei had drawn before.

Long Fei returned to his base after confronting the Long Family, whose patriarch chose reconciliation over revenge and tried to win Long Fei back. After three nanomedical surgeries, Anton recovered his ability to move and pledged his loyalty to Long Fei.

• Long Fei slapped Xu Jiayun for insulting his father and warned that Long Dingkun would have to kneel and repent when he arrived at the Long Family estate.
• Long Dingkun refused Long Chenxuan's request for revenge, sent apologies and business concessions to Long Kui and her sisters, and threatened to expel Long Chenxuan if he harmed Long Fei or his sisters.
• Long Fei returned to the main base and began nanomedical treatment for Anton two days later.
• After three surgeries spaced ten days apart, Anton regained normal movement and swore lifelong loyalty to Long Fei.
• Anton admired the Gundams at the base and declared that real men piloted Gundams.

Anton defeated the base’s ace pilots in MS simulations before drawing with Long Fei, revealing that his spatial awareness came from the Alaya-Vijnana System surgery. Long Fei announced new technology was coming and ordered the pilots to keep fighting Anton.

• Anton defeated Lixiang, Taoxiang, and Yue Yangchun in simulation battles, extending his record to forty-two victories without a loss.
• The ace pilots urged Long Fei to challenge Anton, and Long Fei accepted, piloting the Justice Goddess against Anton’s Astaroth.
• Long Fei and Anton fought through the Meteoroid Zone and struck each other’s cockpits at the same time, ending the battle in a draw.
• Anton told Long Fei that the Alaya-Vijnana System surgery had given him spatial awareness while imposing a price, and that he could sense it only in Barbatos and Astaroth.
• Long Fei announced new technology for the ace pilots and told them to battle Anton again, prompting them to suggest fighting him in groups.

Wanluo Federation commanders and other great powers discussed the Skywing Mercenary Group’s advanced technology and the risks of trying to seize it. While the powers held back, Skywing completed several new Gundams and designated the Tomis MS Carrier as Long Fei’s personal warship.

• The Skywing Mercenary Group tested a system that let skilled pilots summon and operate Gundams, astonishing the Wanluo Federation commanders watching the battle footage.
• Commander-in-Chief Admiral Reiz told the commanders that Skywing Group’s young leader was credited with its technologies and that Anton had recovered through Alaya-Vijnana System surgery.
• Admiral Felix and Admiral Rosa asked whether the Federation could seize Skywing’s bases or companies, but Reiz explained why military force and confiscation were impractical.
• The Hanxia Empire considered attacking Skywing but abandoned the plan after war games predicted it would lose seventy percent of its military strength and risk invasion by the Russo-Soviet Republic.
• The Skywing Mercenary Group designated the Tomis MS Carrier as Long Fei’s personal warship and completed the Wing Gundam, Gundam Nataku, and Gold Astray while beginning production of Hyperion, Aquarius, and Gusion.

Taoxiang completed a VR combat simulation while Long Fei and the pilots trained at the base. The Sky Wing Mercenaries accepted a Russo-Soviet Republic commission to disrupt the Metadeng Nation’s deployment, with the Taurus slated for a combat test.

• Taoxiang finished a battlefield simulation in the Zeta Gundam, and Long Fei said he was training to keep his skills sharp.
• Li Xiucheng teased Taoxiang and Long Fei about dating, while Lixiang and Yue Yangchun arrived exhausted from training.
• Commander-in-Chief Li Jiaming spoke with Lev Krivoshekov of the Russo-Soviet Republic about a commission to disrupt the Metadeng Nation’s deployment near an Electromagnetic Orbital Elevator.
• Lev offered three hundred million Earth Sphere Credits per day with losses reimbursed, and Li Jiaming accepted the commission for next month.
• After Lev left, Long Fei told Li Jiaming he would not interfere with the decision and said the Taurus must be deployed to test its combat capabilities.

The Skywing Mercenary Group fleet arrived at Lorria Sea City in the Russo-Soviet Republic, where Colonel Shlaik met the officers overseeing their mission. With three days before the operation began, Long Fei took Taoxiang and Lixiang out to explore the snowy city.

• Colonel Alexey and a Russo-Soviet Republic escort ship led Shlaik’s fleet toward the orbital elevator, while patrol fleets experienced radar malfunctions near the cyan particles from the Taurus MS Carrier.
• The fleet descended to Earth and docked at the military port beside Lorria Sea City, where soldiers gathered to watch it arrive.
• Colonel Leonid introduced Brigadier General Victor to Shlaik, and Victor offered to explain the operation’s mission.
• Long Fei invited Taoxiang and Lixiang to explore Lorria Sea City with him, then rode out of the base with the sisters in his motorcycle’s sidecar.
• A group of Russo-Soviet Republic second lieutenants speculated that Taoxiang and Lixiang were child soldiers as Long Fei and the sisters traveled toward the snow-covered city.