Chapter Summaries

Long Fei and Shlaik discussed the Dongyang Empire’s hidden technology and the flying saucer fleet monitoring the Skywing Empire. The fleet’s ships remained under surveillance, with three cut off from communications as Skywing forces prepared to act.

• Long Fei gave Shlaik Kuroda Seiya’s file, and they concluded that Fahdina Samulas might have brought secret Noah technology to the Dongyang Empire without enabling it to match the Skywing Empire.
• Long Fei told Shlaik to keep observing Kuroda Seiya’s actions and discussed the Oya Cross Nation’s planned investigation into whether the Noah were the gods of its scriptures.
• On February 20, Cosmic Year 128, the Skywing Empire deployed aircraft and MDs to monitor five scattered flying saucer warships at its frontier.
• Captain Maeda and Captain Yamamoto discussed their lost contact with three ships, the Skywing Empire’s surveillance, and rumors that other nations might unite against it if it remained weakened.
• The captains of Flying Saucer Warships No. 2, No. 4, and No. 5 tried to restore communications but stayed inside Minov Particle zones, fearing the Skywing Empire would attack if they moved.

A Border Defense Force fleet attacked Saucer Battleship No. 2, where Colonel Morishita deployed Night Demon MS and activated the Yata Mirror Battleship’s defenses. Full-equipped Jegangs overwhelmed the Night Demon forces and breached the Yata Mirror’s shield, leaving the battleship badly damaged.

• Colonel Morishita watched the Border Defense Force’s three warships arrive and order their MS to attack Saucer Battleship No. 2.
• Morishita deployed the Night Demon MS and activated the Yata Mirror Battleship’s defensive guns and Energy Shield as the fleet attacked.
• Night Demons fought Jegangs and Murasames, while MkⅢs, Delta Plus units, Val. Valos, and Mass Production Psycho Gundams gave the Border Defense Force the advantage.
• Four Full-equipped Jegangs joined the battle, and one destroyed a Night Demon before a Full-equipped Jegang outmaneuvered and overwhelmed a Night Demon Commander.
• Two Full-equipped Jegangs launched twelve MS-use Mobile Drill Missiles at the Yata Mirror Battleship from close range.
• Seven missiles struck the Yata Mirror’s Energy Shield, exceeded its critical limit, and blasted into the battleship’s interior, causing considerable damage.

The Border Defense Force and regular army attacked the Yata Mirror Battleships, whose crews resorted to mass suicide as stealthed n Dagger n units sabotaged them. Long Fei sensed he must spare one particular Night Demon MS and stopped the pursuit, while the surviving Night Demons retreated to Yata Mirror Battleships Number 1 and Number 3 before their commanders were ordered to withdraw.

• Colonel Morishita sent the Yata Mirror Battleship's remaining Night Demon MS units to cover its retreat, but stealthed n Dagger n units killed the escorts and breached the ship.
• After n Dagger n units entered the battleship, Morishita ordered Plan D and killed himself, followed by the crew; Night Demon MS units on the front line fled or self-destructed.
• Yata Mirror Battleship Number 4 was besieged, and its captain ordered Plan D, leaving only a handful of Night Demon MS units alive.
• Long Fei, piloting the Bull Gundam with Li Xiucheng in the EX-S, felt unable to attack one Night Demon MS and blocked the forces from pursuing the retreating enemies.
• Long Fei shared information about the suicide troops with Li Xiucheng and ordered him to take it back for study.
• The survivors reached Yata Mirror Battleships Number 1 and Number 3, and Captain Yamamoto and Captain Maeda activated their Stealth Devices and withdrew after receiving orders to retreat.

Long Fei and his scientists examined the captured Yata Mirror Battleship and found that its mixed technologies performed poorly because the Dongyang Empire lacked a complete industrial system. Meanwhile, Number 9 Red Demon struggled to understand why Long Fei had spared him, and Long Fei left the scientists to continue their investigation.

• Number 9 Red Demon told the other pilots that the Skywing Empire’s forces were powerful, while Number 6 Black Demon mocked him for escaping Long Fei before Black Demon Head reprimanded his subordinate.
• Number 9 Red Demon recalled that Long Fei’s Bull Gundam had repeatedly aimed at him without firing and had prevented other units from pursuing him.
• Long Fei and Dr. Cordelia examined the Yata Mirror Battleship and its Night Demon MS units, identifying Noah, Dion Empire, and Dongyang Empire technologies among their components.
• Long Fei concluded that the Dongyang Empire’s incomplete industrial system and poorly integrated imitations weakened the captured equipment, while the Skywing Empire was positioned to surpass its rivals technologically.
• Long Fei instructed the scientists to check their findings and prepare a report, then left as they discussed the Star Gate technology under construction.

Long Fei assessed the Skywing Empire’s industrial limits and considered developing Mazinger Z, Getter Robo, and Master Phoenix Gundam. He concluded that their costs and advanced technologies made improving industrial capacity the urgent priority.

• Long Fei reviewed the empire’s technologies and worried about threats from the Jupiter Federation and unknown extraterrestrial civilizations.
• Long Fei projected Mazinger Z and Getter Robo blueprints and estimated that Mazinger Z would cost at least three trillion Earth Sphere Credits to manufacture.
• Long Fei identified the high cost of Getter Ray, Super Alloy G, and Getter Robo’s transformation systems as barriers to development.
• Long Fei used the Super Quantum Computer to compare the Super Robots’ durability with Gundam weapons and found that several Gundams could damage or destroy them.
• Long Fei projected Master Phoenix Gundam’s blueprints and determined that its Super Nano Skin System was beyond the empire’s current production capabilities.
• Long Fei concluded that the Skywing Empire needed to advance its industrial technology before it could manufacture the three units economically.

Long Fei showed Taoxiang his designs for powerful super robots and explained that developing them would require industrial advances and enormous funding. He then studied Noah technology, focusing on its manufacturing, automation, information, and medical fields.

• Long Fei worried that current technology and Skywing Arms Manufacturing Company’s funds could not support developing Mazinger Z, Getter Robo, and other advanced mechs.
• Taoxiang asked Long Fei about real robots and super robots, and he showed her designs including Grungust Type-0, the SRX and Huckebein series, and Eternal Gundam.
• Long Fei told Taoxiang that he wanted stronger mechs in case another extraterrestrial race like the Yama people threatened Earth, and they discussed upgrading industrial technology over the next decades.
• Taoxiang massaged Long Fei’s head and urged him to rest, while he remembered the Psycho Gundam MkⅢ and Destroy Gundam designs and planned to discuss them with Shlaik.
• Long Fei found that the Dion Empire had poorly studied the Noah people’s advanced medical technology and decided to investigate Noah manufacturing, automation, information, and medical technologies.

Long Fei inspected the Skywing Empire’s maintenance robot factory and reviewed how robots such as Haros and Mechanical Hounds were changing work and daily life. The chapter left the Empire enjoying rising incomes, birth rates, and economic growth as its citizens increasingly preferred life under the new regime.

• Long Fei, Empress Taoxiang, and the young royals made a surprise visit to a state-owned maintenance robot factory, where Long Fei examined its models and approved of their performance.
• The chapter described how maintenance robots had eased labor shortages, while Haros became common in homes and businesses and companies employed people alongside them under laws limiting robot use.
• Employers raised wages and offered some citizens nominal positions, but authorities investigated and fined people and companies that abused the arrangement.
• Higher incomes and low living costs supported domestic demand, an eighteen-million newborn cohort, and projections that the Skywing Empire could surpass the Dion Empire’s peak GDP within one or two years.
• The Empire’s police and military used both human personnel and robots, including Mechanical Hounds, whose durability contrasted with the social rapport and limited lifespans of biological hounds.

Amanda lived peacefully with her son while she and Najedah discussed the ongoing investigation into a hidden culprit and Miroslav’s fight at school. Long Fei heard about Youyou’s hardships, and the Oya Cross Nation’s archaeological team arrived in the Skywing Empire.

• Amanda told Najedah that she was content running her dessert shop, and they discussed the government’s efforts to dismantle restoration organizations and their investigation into a tragedy.
• Amanda explained that Miroslav had injured a classmate who insulted her and mocked him as the son of a defeated general.
• News announced that an archaeological team from the Oya Cross Nation would visit the Skywing Empire, while Long Fei and Taoxiang discussed Youyou’s mistreatment at Salamander’s ducal residence.
• Taoxiang told Long Fei that Relina was six months pregnant and had delegated most of her Black Rabbit Unit duties to her deputy, Black Rabbit.
• On April 20th, Cosmic Year 128, the Oya Cross Nation’s archaeological team arrived in the Skywing Empire and was welcomed by officials, its ambassador, and accompanying media and government teams.

Long Fei oversaw harsh punishments for nobles and officials implicated in fraud involving Electromagnetic Orbital Elevator construction. Meanwhile, Oya Cross Nation's archaeological team uncovered a hidden chamber at the underground Noah site, leaving them poised to make a major discovery.

• On April 30, Oya Cross Nation's archaeological team investigated the underground site where the Dion Empire had found a Noah spacecraft as media covered Marquis Tadeusz's arrest.
• Long Fei refused pleas for leniency and ordered officials, nobles, and merchants involved in the construction fraud punished under the Empire's laws.
• Authorities stripped implicated nobles of their titles and assets, sentenced some to prison or criminal slavery, and reclaimed their fiefs.
• Salamander processed the sentences and condemned the greed of his former colleagues and subordinates.
• On May 10, Oya Cross Nation's archaeological team found Noah artifacts and historical records, then accidentally activated a mechanism that opened a deeper underground chamber.

Long Fei investigated Noahian technology before learning that an archaeological team had uncovered a hidden chamber containing six living Noahians in cryosleep. He examined the chamber’s advanced facilities and began viewing a Noahian documentary about their history on Mars.

• Long Fei compared the Palace of Noah’s blueprints with the Crimson Palace and considered how the Skywing Empire could develop Noahian technology.
• Long Fei’s subordinate reported that the Oya Cross Nation’s archaeological team had opened a deeper underground passage, so Long Fei went to the site with Anton and security forces.
• Long Fei found six people sleeping in Cryosleep Pods and ordered the archaeological team and media crew to stop their work.
• Long Fei examined the chamber’s Miniature Cyclic Generator and found that it sustained the facilities by regenerating energy.
• Long Fei used a projection touchscreen to play a Noahian documentary that appeared to record the history of Noahian life on Mars.

Long Fei awakened six surviving Noahs from cryosleep and established communication with them. Junior explained that the Noahs had planned to observe humanity’s development and share their advanced technology if humanity had reached space and evolved into Newtypes.

• Long Fei decided to awaken the six Noahs after learning how their Cryosleep Pods worked.
• Long Fei used his spiritual power to reassure the newly awakened Noahs, and Junior adapted the translator so they could communicate more easily.
• Junior told Long Fei that the Noahs had intended to awaken after five hundred years, but their instruments had kept them asleep for nearly two centuries longer.
• Junior explained that the Noahs had entered cryosleep after the Yama people attacked their planet with environmental and mass-destruction weapons, forcing them to abandon their mission and leave data behind.
• Junior said the Noahs' decision-makers had planned for the six survivors to assess humanity's development and consider sharing advanced technology if humanity had entered space and become Newtypes.

Long Fei questioned Junior about the Noah, their technology, and the history and abilities of extraterrestrial races. Junior demonstrated telekinesis and offered to teach Long Fei its other applications.

• Junior explained that the Noah considered the Solar System the rightful domain of its native humans and had planned to share their technology if humanity met their requirements.
• Junior revealed that the Noah had hidden their most advanced blueprints from the Yama people, and he praised Long Fei for developing powerful combat equipment independently.
• Long Fei asked about Newtypes and extraterrestrial races, and Junior described the Noah, Yama, Spirit, Insectoid, and Beastmen.
• Junior explained that the Yama people were half-human and half-Spirit, with blood from the savage Dark faction of the Spirit race.
• Junior demonstrated telekinesis by lifting a fountain pen into his hand and offered to teach Long Fei its other applications.

Junior and Long Fei discussed the Noah people’s history as Oya Cross Nation’s people insisted on worshipping them as gods. Junior’s group then saw Long Fei’s independently developed warships and Gundams, and Long Fei explained that the Noah’s comfortable, complacent way of life had left them vulnerable to the Yama people.

• Junior told the Oya Cross Nation people that the Noah were not gods and that Blue Star’s peoples could have developed civilization without Noah guidance.
• Long Fei showed that the Hanxia Empire’s ancestors had developed their own civilization, but the Oya Cross Nation people continued to revere the Noah for their sacrifices against the Yama people.
• Junior gave the equipment in the secret chamber to the Oya Cross Nation people and left with Long Fei, while Anastasia and Stefano stayed behind to pack it.
• Long Fei showed Junior’s group his Guanwana-class MS Carrier, warships, and Gundams, explaining that he had designed most of the equipment himself.
• Long Fei told Junior that Noah’s complacency and failure to prepare for danger had made their extinction inevitable once the Yama people appeared.

Junior and the Noah group toured the Skywing Empire, where Junior gave Long Fei access to Noah’s top technology and learned about humanity’s history. At the imperial palace, Long Quan shocked both the Noah and his parents by instantly imitating Junior’s telekinesis and Mental Vision.

• Long Fei allowed the Oya Cross Nation team to report that the Noah had survived, and he said Junior’s group would be welcomed if they chose to stay.
• Junior learned that Anton’s spinal device was the Alaya-Vijnana System and asked to speak with Long Fei about the Skywing Empire’s technology.
• Junior gave Long Fei the password to the Noah’s top-technology database and asked to see current international news and human history records.
• Junior explained the Noah’s Newtype ranks to Long Fei and demonstrated telekinesis before Long Quan, who immediately copied the skill and moved Junior’s steel pen.
• Junior used Mental Vision to examine Long Quan but found his mental strength too vast to see inside his body, and Long Quan promptly imitated Mental Vision and examined Junior.

Junior demonstrated mental abilities to Long Fei’s children, and Long Quan quickly mastered the skills, impressing Junior enough to agree to teach all three children. Later, Junior discussed lessons and the history of Noah’s people with Long Fei, leaving Long Fei with an account of the Noahs’ role in observing and influencing Blue Star’s development.

• Junior demonstrated mental skills, and Long Quan quickly imitated them while Long Fei learned one through observation.
• Long Guo and Long Fu became discouraged by their younger brother’s talent, and Taoxiang comforted them.
• During a card exercise, Long Quan used Mental Probe to identify Junior’s card, then avoided looking at his own card to exploit the skill’s weakness.
• Junior agreed to mentor Long Quan, Long Guo, and Long Fu, and Long Fei arranged lessons on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
• Junior told Long Fei that Noah’s ancestors had settled on Mars, observed Blue Star’s people, and sometimes caused trouble while posing as gods.

After the Noah survivors were confirmed, Long Fei allowed the Oya Cross Nation to publicize their discovery, and the news spread worldwide. Junior met with international ambassadors and explained humanity’s place in the universe, Newtypes, and the dangers humanity should prepare for.

• The Oya Cross Nation’s archaeological team and media crew reported their discovery of living Noah people to their embassy, prompting Pope David to contact Long Fei.
• Long Fei permitted the Oya Cross Nation to release its footage and announce the survivors, while the Skywing Empire publicized the discovery through its own media.
• After countries questioned the footage, the Skywing Empire’s evening news showed the six Noah people awakening and speaking with Long Fei, leading foreign ambassadors to request meetings.
• Long Fei asked Junior whether he would meet the ambassadors, and Junior agreed.
• On May 20, Junior answered the ambassadors’ questions in a live broadcast, explaining Newtypes, advanced Noah technology, and the wider universe.
• Junior urged humanity to avoid civil wars, develop its technology and weapons, and prepare for possible invasions by Extraterrestrial Races.

Junior praised Long Fei’s scientific talent and the power of the Gundams, while Kuroda Seiya watched the broadcast consumed by envy and hatred. As nations sought ties with the Skywing Empire and Purvi spread anti-Newtype claims, Long Fei judged that Purvi was heading toward his own destruction.

• Junior called Long Fei an exceptional scientist and Newtype, praised the Gundams, and said he would give Long Fei Noah’s most advanced technologies.
• Kuroda Seiya envied the technologies Long Fei would receive and wished to seize them, while Miyamae Asami comforted him as she held their daughter Miyamae Yuyang.
• Kuroda Seiya reflected on his marriage to Miyamae Asami, his concealed origins, and his role in killing her brothers and placing her on the throne.
• The Anglo-Saxon Democratic Republic and the Wanluo Federation regretted not recognizing the Skywing Empire earlier and considered seeking diplomatic ties and access to its technologies.
• Purvi claimed that Newtypes were demons and declared himself chosen by God to destroy them, drawing both support and widespread mockery.
• Long Fei assessed that Purvi was going further down the road to his own destruction.

Purvi returned to the Wanluo Federation presidency and condemned the Oya Cross Nation, Noah, the Skywing Empire, and Long Fei, while Kuroda Seiya considered using him against the Skywing Empire. By September of Cosmic Year 128, Purvi had begun cooperating with Kuroda Seiya’s mysterious organization, leaving Long Fei unaware of the threat taking shape.

• Purvi won 70% of the vote and returned to the Wanluo Federation presidency.
• Purvi denounced the Oya Cross Nation and Noah worshippers, called the Skywing Empire and its people demonic, and urged democratic nations to sanction them.
• Kuroda Seiya reviewed Dongyang Empire’s progress with Dion Empire technology and concluded that its military technology still lagged behind the Skywing Empire’s.
• Kuroda Seiya decided to draw the Skywing Empire into war and hoped to use Purvi as a tool against it.
• In September of Cosmic Year 128, Purvi contacted Kuroda Seiya’s mysterious organization and agreed to cooperate after it offered him advanced military technology.
• Long Fei remained unaware that Kuroda Seiya and Purvi were secretly working together against the Skywing Empire.

On New Year’s Day, Long Fei heard reports on the Skywing Empire’s economic growth, industrial upgrades, foreign relations, labor rules, and new transportation regulations. The empire continued its rapid development as it prepared to admit Newtypes seeking asylum and allow hover vehicles on public routes.

• The Skywing Empire celebrated the new year, and ministers reported that its GDP had surpassed the Dion Empire’s prewar peak while its per capita income had risen beyond the Dion Empire’s.
• Rooks reported that the Skywing Coin had become the sole national currency and gained international demand because of the empire’s popular high-tech exports.
• The Industrial Ministry reported that Noah technology had improved more than fifty industrial technologies and could cut the empire’s overall upgrade timeline to five to eight years.
• Long Fei instructed officials to observe Newtypes seeking asylum and grant them Skywing Empire identification if they posed no problems.
• Long Fei set limits on foreign workers’ wages and numbers, and the Transportation Minister reported that new rules would permit hover vehicles on public roads, rivers, and the sea.

Long Fei met with Minister Shlaik and Commander-in-Chief Li Jiaming to choose new mobile suit models as the military planned to phase out its aging Jegans and Murasames. They selected models for development and testing, and Long Fei presented additional designs for the two officials to fund together.

• Long Fei held an all-day meeting with ministers, then slept late while Taoxiang handled palace affairs and Skywing Group documents.
• Long Fei summoned Shlaik and Li Jiaming to discuss replacing the Jegan and Murasame in regular military units with newer models.
• Long Fei showed them designs including the Gustav Karl, Anksha, Jesta S, Richer, Sathiel, Zaku Phantom, and several Mars-oriented models.
• Li Jiaming selected models for elite units and special forces, while Shlaik chose the Defense Shield, Reverse Δ, and Mars Jacket for development and testing.
• Long Fei told them to develop their selections with their own budgets and revealed several more designs for them to fund jointly.