Recaps

The Skywing Mercenary Group countered the Dion Army’s superweapons and prepared for a decisive offensive as Long Fei confronted Fadis over the meaning of Gundams and the fate of Newtypes. The battle widened into a series of fierce duels, ending with Long Fei and Fadis locked in a destructive fight that pushed their Gundams beyond their limits.

• Mother Rabbit’s Black Rabbit Unit ambushed Amanda’s retreating fleet with new weapons, destroyed her flagship, and forced the remaining Dion warships to surrender.
• After Amanda reunited with her son by video call, Long Fei reconsidered the purpose of his Gundams and resolved that they should oppose and end meaningless wars.
• Ke Jie Xiong’s GX units destroyed most of the Dion forces in Combat Zone 17, but Fadis launched Super Nuclear Explosion Missiles in other zones.
• Shlaik’s Neutron Interference Missiles weakened Dion weapons and engines while leaving Skywing’s Minov-powered machines operational, giving the Skywing Mercenary Group a decisive advantage.
• Long Fei and the Skywing commanders prepared for a final offensive, then met the Dion Army in a massive battle as Taoxiang, Salamander, and the other commanders fought the Royal Knights.
• Long Fei and Fadis clashed in Bull Gundam and Crimson Emperor, arguing over Newtype rule and whether Gundams were weapons of war or symbols meant to end it.
• The duel spread through the battlefield as Taoxiang and other Skywing forces fought Grisina, Julius, and the Dion units, while Long Fei repeatedly joined allies against Fadis and his reinforcements.
• Bull Gundam and Crimson Emperor destroyed their weapons and attacked each other at close range, breaking one another’s arms as their Psycho-frames and mental wave devices drove them beyond their limits.

After Long Fei fell unconscious in his mental battle with Fadis, Taoxiang and their unborn child helped protect the Skywing Mercenary Group and bring Long Fei back. Long Fei secretly resumed directing the group as it purged traitors, expanded its military plans, and prepared for future conflict, while the Dion Empire shifted under Yelishao De.

• Long Fei and Fadis struck each other’s machines with their mental power, leaving both commanders unresponsive as the battle raged around them.
• Taoxiang realized their unborn child was controlling funnel weapons and strengthening Skywing’s Newtypes, then the child slowed a nuclear missile enough for the defenders to escape its weakened blast.
• While Long Fei remained unconscious, Taoxiang took charge of the group and followed Salamander’s advice to withdraw, leaving the Annihilation Army’s escape to stir conflict within the Dion Empire.
• The unborn child helped Long Fei break free from Fadis’s mental space, and Long Fei awoke after about eleven days and secretly kept his recovery from foreign powers.
• Long Fei and Taoxiang purged corrupt officers and associates, while the Skywing Group forced the Wanluo Federation to surrender Jamus and return materials obtained from traitors.
• Long Fei reviewed plans for new ships, weapons, and units as Taoxiang managed the group, negotiated investments, and oversaw a surge in mercenary and escort work.
• Yelishao De consolidated power in the Dion Empire, ended child conscription, and failed to reach a deal with Skywing for the return of captured soldiers.
• Long Fei decided to keep the prisoners and develop capture weapons so Skywing troops could subdue child soldiers without killing them or suffering lasting psychological harm.

As Dion’s civil war ended, the United Army invaded the Mars Sphere and suffered heavy losses against Dion’s forces and satellite cannons. The Skywing Mercenary Group finally revealed its hidden fleet, destroyed the Mars Sphere’s satellite cannon, and ordered the United Army to leave.

• Yelishao De restored diplomatic relations with the Oya Cross Nation, but Alexandre’s secret attacks and political intrigue sparked a civil war that Kuroda Seiya helped inflame.
• Taoxiang gave birth to Long Quan as Long Fei waited for the Dion factions and United Army to weaken each other before intervening.
• After Dion’s factions made peace, Victor led the United Army’s invasion of the Mars Sphere, where Dion’s stealth units and guerrilla attacks disrupted its advance.
• The United Army suffered further losses amid poor coordination and Muswati’s atrocities, while Skywing forces captured Muswati and the Dion Army withdrew toward Mars.
• Julius and Sylvia fought United Army aces as Manius defended Mars, until Alexandre’s satellite cannon and Manius’s Super Nuclear Explosion Missile devastated both sides.
• Alexandre died when the United Army destroyed the second satellite cannon, and Manius was killed when the Skywing Mercenary Group’s hidden fleet destroyed the Mars Sphere satellite cannon.
• The Skywing Mercenary Group rejected Victor’s request for contact and ordered the United Army and its member nations to leave the Mars Sphere.

Long Fei launched the Mieweng Operation against the Dion Empire, defeating its space forces and capturing Factory Battleship No. 1 while rescuing child soldiers. The campaign then moved onto Mars, where Skywing forces seized bases and facilities and began cooperating with the Longsog resistance.

• Long Fei announced the Mieweng Operation, and the Mieweng Unit’s missile assault crippled the Dion fleet as Skywing forces and experimental machines battered its defenses.
• Dr. Cordelia’s upgraded TR Series and Black Rabbit’s new Sniper GM IIIs and Silver Thunders proved effective in battle, while the El-Ariels and other test units destroyed Dion forces.
• Sky Wing Mercenaries breached Factory Battleship No. 1, captured its child and teenage soldiers, and broadcast footage of Dion troops forcing them to fight and strapping bombs to them.
• After Yelishao De saw the footage, he punished Valery Lagrand’s faction and agreed to a ceasefire that sent children under thirteen home, when fighting resumed, he ordered Factory Battleship No. 1 to surrender.
• Long Fei and the Skywing forces defeated Julius and Margarita’s final stand, killing both commanders and routing the Dion Empire’s outer-space forces as its survivors retreated to Mars.
• The Mieweng Unit bombarded Martian defenses and began its ground campaign, capturing Shinoshud Base and taking control of facilities with Neutron Jammers.
• Salamander led the advance toward Emasina Base, and the Cross Vanguard captured a solar power plant whose loss threatened the base’s operations.
• Black Rabbit intercepted a Rarium Silver convoy, then War Rabbit 1162 met Bal, who offered the Longsog resistance’s local guidance and informants to help fight the Dion Empire.