Recaps

Count Klahu III visited Long Fei at the Mother Base to persuade him to immigrate to the Gas Empire with an offer of a dukedom, three Colony Satellites, and marriage to its three princesses. Long Fei refused, but left open the possibility of business cooperation while ruling out Gundam sales.

• Count Klahu III toured the Mother Base and met Long Fei in a manufacturing workshop.
• Count Klahu III offered Long Fei citizenship, a dukedom, three Colony Satellites, and any or all of the Gas Empire's three princesses as wives.
• Long Fei refused to immigrate, explaining that he already had someone and did not want to serve the Gas Empire through such an arrangement.
• Long Fei told Count Klahu III that the Skywing Group would not sell Gundams to any country, though it could discuss other cooperation.
• Long Fei had Sakchi arrange for the relevant company presidents to negotiate business cooperation with Count Klahu III.

Count Klahu explored Meteorite Eco-1 and discussed cooperation with Sky Wing Group, while Long Fei ordered new Gundams and rejected attempts to recruit him. The chapter ended with Li Jiaming warning that another war might break out in District Six Colony.

• Count Klahu enjoyed Meteorite Eco-1 and learned about Sky Wing Group’s other recreation areas before arranging talks with its presidents.
• Long Fei ordered three new Gundams and upgrades to their Psycho-frames, remote weapons, and power systems.
• Taoxiang teased Long Fei about the Moon Goddess Gundam’s design, and he explained its origins before reassuring her of his loyalty.
• Long Fei told Taoxiang that Count Klahu had tried to recruit him, and she accepted his explanation.
• Li Jiaming told Long Fei that the emperor wanted to recruit him, but Long Fei refused to return for rewards or a princess.
• Li Jiaming warned Long Fei that nations were preparing to resume fighting, most likely in District Six Colony.

Long Fei and Li Jiaming recognized that powerful nations were using the Fistam Democratic Republic to wage a proxy war, while Fistam prepared to attack the Philalip Nation and threaten Skywing Group's interests. Long Fei ordered Skywing forces to protect their employees and civilians but not to fire first, leaving the conflict poised to escalate.

• Li Jiaming told Long Fei that major powers were likely using smaller countries to target Skywing and its technology, and Long Fei ordered preparations.
• The Wanluo Federation and other powerful democratic nations pressured the Fistam Democratic Republic into war and supplied weapons that Fistam secretly had to pay for.
• President Amdandi approved a plan to take Skywing employees hostage in the Philalip Nation, expecting that would restrain Long Fei's forces.
• As Fistam's proxy war divided its civilians, the country attacked the Philalip Nation under claims of counterterrorism and human-rights violations.
• Long Fei instructed Li Jiaming to protect Skywing employees and their families, rescue civilians where possible, and never fire first unless Fistam attacked them or their people.

Sky Wing Mercenaries evacuated employees, their families, and as many Colony Satellite No. 9 residents as they could while the battle around the satellite worsened. After a Fistam Democratic Republic Swift MS accidentally fired toward their fleet, Sky Wing Mercenaries retaliated, helped drive the enemy back, and left for Colony Satellite No. 10.

• Sky Wing Mercenaries gave their employees and families priority boarding, then began evacuating local residents as fighting damaged Colony Satellite No. 9.
• The satellite's breaches and spreading combat forced the fleet to depart with some civilians still unable to board.
• After a Swift MS accidentally fired toward the fleet, Sky Wing Mercenaries attacked the Fistam Democratic Republic forces, enabling the Philalip Nation military to counterattack and forcing the enemy to retreat.
• Sky Wing Mercenaries recalled its MS units and headed for Colony Satellite No. 10.
• Sky Wing Mercenaries issued a statement warning that it would retaliate against any military that struck it, regardless of intent.

The Skywing Mercenary Group’s Wolf Hunters humiliated Fistam forces during a confrontation on Colony Satellite No. 4, while online ridicule spread. Amdandi realized powerful democratic nations had manipulated Fistam and Wanggui into wars meant to distract Skywing as they prepared to seize its main base and technology.

• A Wolf Hunters convoy and a Fistam patrol met head-on on an overpass, and the Wolf Hunters lieutenant snapped the Fistam lieutenant’s finger after he demanded they yield.
• Wolf Hunters troops beat the Fistam personnel, flipped their vehicles aside, and ordered them to take a detour; their Mk-II G forced the outnumbering Fistam MS squad to withdraw.
• Videos of the confrontation spread online, while military police took the beaten Fistam personnel away for punishment for disobeying orders.
• The Wanggui Republic attacked the Mitorun Kingdom with support from powerful democratic nations, and its president secured a promise of practical aid for the next phase of the plan.
• Amdandi and his ministers discussed how powerful democratic nations had used Fistam to exhaust Skywing while preparing to seize its main base and steal its technology.

Long Fei agreed to take a commission from the Mitorun Kingdom to stop the Wanggui Republic, but refused the condition that he marry the kingdom’s princess. The king withdrew that condition, and both sides signed the contract.

• Long Fei and the Skywing Mercenary Group’s leaders discussed the Wanggui Republic’s attack and decided to intervene because its real target was their main base.
• Li Jiaming told Long Fei that the Mitorun Kingdom offered mining sites and tax exemptions in exchange for help, but also wanted him to marry its princess.
• Long Fei rejected the marriage condition, warned that he would refuse the commission if it remained, and said he would join the operation.
• After Long Fei and Taoxiang left, Colonel Isis amused the leaders with a story about Taoxiang’s jealousy and Long Fei’s efforts to cheer her up.
• Li Jiaming relayed Long Fei’s terms to the Mitorun envoy, and the king agreed to remove the marriage condition so the kingdom could secure the commission.
• The Skywing Mercenary Group and the Mitorun Kingdom signed the commission contract.

The Skywing Mercenary Group’s seven Gundams ambushed and destroyed Lieutenant Colonel Mickey’s Wanguo Army fleet, testing the newly promoted ace pilots in battle. The surviving Wanguo forces surrendered, while their superiors remained unaware of the defeat.

• Long Fei’s Crimson Aegis Gundam and four other Gundams annihilated nearly eighty Swift MS units, overwhelming the Wanguo Army’s formation.
• The Gundams attacked Lieutenant Colonel Mickey’s fleet, while paralyzed communications and a disordered retreat left the warships exposed.
• The Obsidian Thunderbolt Gundam destroyed Mickey’s MS Carrier, and the remaining warships sent surrender signals.
• Colonel Isis asked the Mitorun Kingdom Army to handle the surrendering forces, and Long Fei questioned Taoxiang and Lixiang about the new pilots and Gundams.
• Long Fei met the four newly promoted ace pilots, Tols, Hamudada, Lamiel, and Maoxile, and demanded their loyalty to the Skywing Mercenary Group and to him.
• The Wanguo Army’s command remained unaware of Mickey’s defeat, and the Mitorun Kingdom kept its hiring of the Skywing Mercenary Group secret.

Yue Yangchun piloted GP03d through the Wanguo Army fleet, devastating its forces until Colonel Troy surrendered. As the Wanggui Republic’s government faced mounting concern over the Skywing Mercenary Group’s intervention, the president ordered soldiers to keep it secret.

• Colonel Troy’s live interview was interrupted when GP03d and the Skywing Mercenary Group fleet were detected, and he ordered his forces to engage them.
• Yue Yangchun evaded the Swift units’ attacks and destroyed nearly all the MS units and fighters sent to stop GP03d.
• GP03d tore through the Wanguo Army’s ships, and Colonel Troy ordered a surrender signal just before GP03d reached his command warship.
• The Wanguo Army units at the front line surrendered, while viewers condemned Colonel Troy after his panic was broadcast live.
• The Wanggui Republic’s defense minister told the president that the Skywing Mercenary Group could communicate and track forces despite interference, and the president forbade soldiers from revealing the intervention.

The Skywing Mercenary Group drove the Wanguo Army out of the Mitorun Kingdom, while fighting spread across District Six Colony and Skywing Arms Manufacturing Company profited from weapons sales. After a major power won the first monthly bid for an Argama MS Carrier, the God Hunter Special Forces escorted it through an attack, and the buyer began studying its nuclear fusion technology.

• Wanguo Army soldiers refused orders, surrendered, or sought discharge after learning they would face the Sky Wing Mercenaries, and the Skywing Mercenary Group retook the Mitorun Kingdom’s occupied Colony Satellites.
• The Skywing Mercenary Group rejected the Wanggui Republic’s commission offer and demanded an exorbitant price, while fighting intensified among the nations of District Six Colony.
• Skywing Arms Manufacturing Company sold Argama MS Carriers to eager buyers, and leaked footage revealed that their engines used nuclear fusion technology.
• President Sakchi put one Argama MS Carrier per month up for bidding, and a major power won the first bid and hired the God Hunter Special Forces to escort it.
• The God Hunter Special Forces delivered the Argama MS Carrier despite an attack, and the major power’s research organizations and company experts began dismantling and studying it.

Anton and the God Hunter Special Forces escorted the second Argama-class MS Carrier as an unidentified fleet attacked. The enemy was identified as a Wanluo Federation force, and the defenders launched their MS to meet it.

• Anton joined the escort mission piloting the Astaroth Gundam Rebirth Type and discussed likely attackers with Macaron.
• An alarm sounded, and the MS pilots and Tiger Roar Special Forces prepared to sortie.
• Anton considered the Xi'en MS and recalled his belief that Long Fei had designed it as a child before Feichi Military Science Company claimed it as its own.
• More than thirty enemy warships deployed over forty Tiger MS and nearly one hundred Puppet MS against the escort fleet.
• The defenders deployed eighty Xi'en MS, forty armored and high-mobility GM II units, and sixty Dagger series MS.
• The Xi'en MS force charged toward the enemy first as the GM II units targeted the Tiger MS and the Dagger series targeted the Puppet MS.

The Skywing Mercenary Group’s God Hunter Special Forces overwhelmed the Tiger MS and Puppet MS attacking the escort fleet, while the Xi'en pilots saw how far their machines lagged behind. After the unknown fleet retreated, the forces resumed escorting the Argama MS Carrier, remaining alert as they headed through a war-torn region.

• A GM II used its Penetrating Spiral Rocket Launcher to destroy more than twenty Tiger MS without suffering any losses.
• Xi'en MS pilots struggled against the Tiger MS but found ways to exploit the Puppet MS’s fragile joints, while the Dagger MS models and Anton’s Astaroth Gundam destroyed more enemies.
• The Tiger Roar Special Forces commander learned that his unit had suffered nine destroyed MS and dozens of damaged machines, while the God Hunter Special Forces had no losses.
• Anton charged toward the unknown fleet and cut a Tiger MS in half, prompting the fleet commander to order a retreat.
• The Tiger Roar and God Hunter Special Forces cleaned up the battlefield and resumed escorting the Argama MS Carrier through Colony District 6.

District Six Colony’s worsening war and economic crisis fueled crime and created a booming market for mercenaries. The Skywing Mercenary Group became the most sought-after escort force and protected colonies where it based troops or invested, leaving those areas as sanctuaries amid the wider chaos.

• The war and economic collapse left many civilians unemployed, driving some into pirate groups, human trafficking, drug cultivation, and other crimes.
• Corporations and militaries increasingly hired mercenary groups to escort ships and supplies as their own forces faced troop shortages.
• The Skywing Mercenary Group received more escort commissions than it could accept, while rival mercenary groups resented its reputation and high pay.
• The Skywing Mercenary Group maintained strict recruitment to guard against spies and continued training trafficked youths, whom it found especially loyal after they joined.
• After the Skywing Mercenary Group’s Seventh Branch Base destroyed Fistam Democratic Republic forces that attacked Philalip’s Colony Satellite 12, the group warned that attacks on designated colony satellites would be met with extermination.
• Skywing Group moved its investments to colonies with mercenary branch bases, and the Skywing Mercenary Group’s protection made those colonies and nearby areas safer.

Long Fei’s fleet received a distress signal from a Colony Satellite occupied by pirate groups, and Long Fei decided to intervene and rescue its civilians. As the mercenaries prepared for battle, Long Fei, Taoxiang, and Lixiang readied their Gundams to sortie.

• King of Thrace reflected on how the Skywing Mercenary Group had brought security and investment to the Mika'ang Kingdom.
• Colonel Isis told Long Fei that a distress signal came from Colony Satellite No. 3 of the Suluman Nation, where pirate groups had captured the colony and blocked further calls for help.
• Long Fei ordered an advance reconnaissance team to investigate and, after learning civilians had sent the distress signal, chose to rescue them and give the fleet a chance to fight.
• Taoxiang told Long Fei she understood that he prioritized protecting the Skywing Mercenary Group, and Long Fei took responsibility for the decision to intervene.
• Colonel Isis ordered the fleet to prepare for battle as the mercenaries cheered; Lixiang readied the Moon Goddess Gundam, while Long Fei and Taoxiang prepared to pilot the Justice Goddess Gundam F Type and Crimson Aegis Gundam.

Sky Wing Mercenaries attacked the pirate forces occupying a Colony Satellite, using coordinated MS units and stealth-painted GM IIs to overwhelm them. When pirates threatened civilian hostages, Long Fei refused to yield and ordered the pirates to surrender, leaving Taoxiang furious and the hostages at risk.

• Taoxiang and Lixiang piloted the Crimson Aegis Gundam and Moon Goddess Gundam as Sky Wing Mercenaries attacked pirate MS and spacecraft.
• Long Fei’s black-painted GM IIs used space camouflage and radar disruption to ambush pirate forces while the First Brigade Fleet destroyed ships along the perimeter.
• Several weaker pirate groups fled, while the inner groups struggled against the better-trained and coordinated Sky Wing Mercenaries.
• Pirate leaders threatened to kill civilian hostages unless the mercenaries withdrew, and Colonel Isis reported the threat to Long Fei.
• Long Fei ordered Colonel Isis to tell the pirates that the mercenaries would not be deterred by hostages, prompting Taoxiang to condemn his decision.
• Long Fei explained that refusing to yield would prevent hostage-taking from disrupting future missions, then told Colonel Isis to assign a codename to future operations that disregarded hostages.

Skywing Mercenary Group launched Operation Alpha to crush the pirates on the Colony Satellite, with Colonel Isis refusing to let hostages stop the assault. After surrendering, one pirate leader watched the Black Eagle Flag Pirate Group attempt to escape, but GP04 caught its captain’s flagship and forced him to surrender.

• Pirate leaders threatened to kill hostages and broadcast their demands, but Colonel Isis told them Skywing Mercenary Group would continue attacking and gave them one minute to surrender.
• Skywing forces overwhelmed the pirates across the Colony Satellite and in space, destroying ships and ground forces as many pirates surrendered.
• The pirate leader surrendered to Colonel Isis after seeing the one-sided battle, while some of his peers continued fighting.
• The Black Eagle Flag Pirate Group blasted a hole through the Colony Satellite and tried to escape, but GP04 and thirty Dagger MS units intercepted them.
• The Black Eagle captain’s flagship broke through after other ships sacrificed themselves, but GP04 caught up and aimed its Beam Gun at the bow, prompting the captain to surrender.

Long Fei and Taoxiang rescued Xu Jingyun, Shu Qianxue, and a purple-haired girl from pirates. Long Fei recognized Xu Jingyun and learned that Shu Qianxue was the fiancée his grandfather had arranged for him, but he rejected the match; he then explained that he had come because of the little girl’s distress call.

• Long Fei and Taoxiang followed a little girl's call for help and found pirates attacking Xu Jingyun, Shu Qianxue, and the girl.
• Taoxiang killed the pirates with Crimson Aegis Gundam, and Long Fei approached the three women.
• Long Fei removed his helmet and greeted Xu Jingyun, whom he knew as the Third Princess of the Hanxia Empire and his former university classmate.
• Shu Qianxue revealed that she was Long Fei's arranged fiancée, and Long Fei said he did not acknowledge the engagement.
• Long Fei told Xu Jingyun that he had not known she was there and had come to answer the purple-haired girl's distress signal.

Long Fei learned that Angelica had sensed danger and realized she was a Newtype, then evacuated her and Xu Jingyun and Shu Qianxue from the collapsing colony. After the Gundams returned to the mothership, Long Fei and the others sensed someone calling for help and rushed toward the signal.

• Angelica told Long Fei how pirates had attacked her and explained that she sensed people through a feeling like family, confirming to Long Fei that she was a Newtype.
• Long Fei took Angelica, Xu Jingyun, and Shu Qianxue aboard the Justice Goddess Gundam F Type and arranged for the colony’s residents to be evacuated to another colony.
• Angelica chose to follow Long Fei, who asked whether she was prepared to pilot an MS and fight, prompting Xu Jingyun to accuse him of being cold-blooded.
• After the Gundams returned to the mothership, Long Fei, Angelica, the Taoxiang sisters, and Yue Yangchun sensed a psychic call for help and set off toward its source.
• Angelica explained the sensed call to Xu Jingyun, and Long Fei told Xu Jingyun and Shu Qianxue to stay quiet and watch while they fought.

Long Fei and the Skywing Mercenary Group rescued Long Xuan’s merchant fleet from the Poison Centipede Pirate Group. After reuniting with his second sister, Long Fei boarded a refugee ship with his companions to investigate the refugees.

• Long Xuan ordered her merchant fleet’s mercenaries to help the refugee ships fleeing the Poison Centipede Pirate Group.
• The pirates overwhelmed the mercenaries until Long Fei and the Skywing Mercenary Group arrived in four Gundams and destroyed the pirate forces, including Scarred Old Man’s flagship.
• Long Xuan recognized Xu Jingyun as the Third Princess, then reunited with her younger brother Long Fei.
• Long Fei asked whether the refugees were traveling with Long Xuan’s fleet, then flew with Angelica to a refugee ship and demanded entry.
• Long Fei, Taoxiang, Angelica, Xu Jingyun, and Shu Qianxue left their cockpits and headed through the refugee crowd.

Long Fei told Alonso and his sister that Alonso’s psychic call had brought his group to the refugee ship, and explained that Alonso was a Newtype. He refused to take Alonso by force, but Alonso asked whether he could pilot a Gundam if he went with Long Fei.

• Alonso approached Long Fei and said he had called for help, while his sister worried that grief over their parents had made him unstable.
• Long Fei confirmed that he and his companions had received Alonso’s psychic fluctuations and explained that Newtypes had psychic abilities.
• Long Fei told Xu Jingyun and Shu Qianxue that Newtype abilities could remain dormant and might awaken after a catalyst, such as Alonso’s loss.
• Long Fei told Alonso’s sister that he would not take her brother against his wishes, and Alonso asked whether he could pilot a Gundam if he went with Long Fei.

Long Fei offered work and shelter to Cecilia and the other refugees, while his companions prepared to bring them to his home base. Long Xuan, Xu Jingyun, and Shu Qianxue joined the visit, and Long Fei introduced Taoxiang as his girlfriend before admitting that profit, as well as compassion, motivated his offer.

• Long Xuan asked Xu Jingyun about Long Fei's talk of Newtypes, and Shu Qianxue resolved to tell her grandfather what she had heard.
• After Cecilia described the refugees' uncertain future, Long Fei offered jobs, meals, and shelter to those with useful skills, and told Cecilia her brother could choose whether to join his mercenary corps.
• Long Fei told the refugees to contact their companions and follow his fleet, while Long Xuan arranged to visit his home base and Xu Jingyun and Shu Qianxue accepted his invitation.
• Angelica agreed to join Long Fei's mercenary corps, and Long Fei revealed Taoxiang's face and introduced her to Long Xuan as his girlfriend.
• Xu Jingyun praised Long Fei for helping the refugees, but Long Fei explained that their desperation would also bring his group cheap labor and high profits.

Long Fei resumed the asteroid conversion projects using refugees from fallen nations and reunited with his sisters at the mother base. He showed Long Xuan, Xu Jingyun, and Shu Qianxue the converted asteroids and explained that the refugees would work there, assuring Long Xuan he would not exploit them too harshly.

• Colonel Isis delivered the civilians from Suluman Nation's No. 3 Colony Satellite to the authorities and brought the nine refugee ships back to the mother base.
• Long Xuan told Long Kui and Long Wen she had met Long Fei, and Long Fei introduced Taoxiang to his sisters during a video call.
• Angelica tested at B for psychic sensitivity and A for spatial awareness, while Long Fei postponed Alonso's Newtype ability test.
• Li Jiaming resumed the suspended asteroid conversion projects after Long Fei arranged for the refugees from fallen nations to work there.
• Long Fei returned with Long Xuan, Xu Jingyun, and Shu Qianxue, then showed them Prairie Star, Countryside Star, Garden Star, and the factory asteroids.
• Long Xuan asked Long Fei to treat the refugees fairly, and he assured her that he would not exploit them too harshly.

Long Fei arranged jobs and housing for refugees and planned to build a school for their children, surprising his employees and visitors with his generosity. Long Xuan asked him to secure a long-term contract for her merchant fleet, while Xu Jingyun and Shu Qianxue saw refugees working safely and learned about the school.

• Long Fei arranged jobs, family housing, and wages for refugees, and decided to turn an asteroid into a school and recruit teachers.
• Taoxiang explained to Long Fei that his employees were surprised by his charitable plans, and asked whether the children rescued from trafficking could attend ordinary schools.
• Long Xuan asked Long Fei to arrange a discounted long-term Skywing Mercenary Group contract for the Xuanqian Group's fleet, and he agreed to speak with Li Jiaming.
• Xu Jingyun and Shu Qianxue visited an asteroid world and found Cecilia working as a livestock herder; Cecilia said her coworkers treated the refugees well.
• A refugee employee told others that Long Fei was creating a school for their children, surprising Xu Jingyun and Shu Qianxue.

Long Fei inspected the completed Seraphim Gundam and GN Codex Fighters, then arranged for Long Xuan and the others to leave while dealing with Alonso’s attempt to reach a Gundam. He climbed into the Seraphim Gundam to test it, and the chapter ended as it launched with a Blue Haro in the cockpit.

• Long Fei explained the Seraphim Gundam’s psychic system, Solar Furnace, and Haro-assisted GN Codex Fighters, and noted that the main base would shift to producing the Exia Gundam and Mass-Produced Gundams.
• Long Fei agreed to arrange Long Xuan’s departure the next day, and Xu Jingyun decided to leave with her despite her jealousy over Taoxiang.
• Yue Yangchun reported that Alonso had sneaked aboard an airship and demanded to pilot a Gundam, so Long Fei arranged for Cecilia to take him home.
• Alonso escaped into the ventilation ducts, but Long Fei and Yue Yangchun tracked him down and had a mercenary carry him away.
• Long Fei entered the Seraphim Gundam’s cockpit with Blue Haro and launched it alongside the GN Codex Fighters.

Long Fei tested Codex Seraphim’s different forms and its coordination with GN Codex Fighters. He then tested Alonso, whose exceptional mental abilities led Cecilia to agree to training for him after he started school.

• Long Fei tested Codex Seraphim’s first and second forms, demonstrating their remote weapons, target-locking abilities, and coordination with GN Codex Fighters.
• After the tests, Long Fei returned to base, where Yue Yangchun praised his design and Shu Qianxue encountered Cecilia disciplining Alonso.
• Yue Baixue and Long Fei urged Cecilia to consider testing Alonso’s abilities and letting him receive training, and Cecilia agreed to the tests.
• Long Fei tested Alonso and found that his brainwave and telepathic abilities were S-rank, while his other scores were mostly modest.
• Cecilia agreed to arrange training for Alonso after he started school, provided it did not interfere with his education.

Saintess Aina secretly visited Long Fei to thank him for saving her and propose that he design an MS for the Oya Cross Nation. Long Fei questioned whether the country could manufacture it and bluntly criticized its outdated military, leaving Aina grim-faced.

• On the journey away from the home base, Xu Jingyun accepted that she and Long Fei could not be together, while Long Xuan warned Shu Qianxue not to harm anyone Long Fei cared about.
• Long Fei gave Li Jiaming blueprints for human-piloted Taurus and Birgo MDs to help defend the home base despite its shortage of MS pilots.
• Three days later, Saintess Aina arrived secretly at the home base with John and Yuffie, and Long Fei and Sakchi welcomed her.
• Aina recognized Long Fei as the warrior who had rescued her and healed her guardian knights, then thanked him for saving her.
• Aina asked Long Fei to design an MS for the Oya Cross Nation, but he challenged its ability to manufacture one and criticized its outdated weapons, leaving her expression grim.