The process was completed quickly, and the female captain and the Gundam pilots readily agreed to assist with space exploration.
This had originally been part of the agreement. Using the Space Fortress's space-folding ability as an interstellar transport ship was their greatest value.
In the anime setting, this heaven-defying ability consumed only some conventional energy, and not even that much. It could bring the terrifying cost of interstellar transportation down to a level humanity could bear.
However, Wenren Sheng's plan failed—it got stuck at the very first step.
The problem lay in disinfecting the physical space.
Before disinfecting it, they sent a Gundam into the Eastern Continent's Absolute Physical Space. It had currently expanded to several hundred square kilometers, though its expansion rate was slowing and had nearly come to a halt. Yet the moment it entered, the previously imposing Gundam immediately fell apart! First its arms, then its legs, and finally its entire body. Only the escape pod remained intact.
Perhaps the escape pod's design was more in line with the Laws of Physics.
"Uh, how did this happen?" Jila, piloting the Gundam, lay inside the escape pod and asked innocently.
"Just as expected." Director An shook his head.
The other scientists did not look surprised either.
The Gundam itself was extremely incompatible with aerodynamic design. That humanoid design existed only for artistic flair, to attract attention, personify technological warfare, let ordinary viewers smoothly transition from Martial Arts films to sci-fi films, and strengthen their sense of immersion.
Its fights with others were no different in essence from street thugs brawling. That was precisely where the sense of immersion came from.
With the support of Mysterious Power, it could still function well enough. After all, Mysterious Power did not obey the Laws of Physics.
But once it entered this