Salar: I Never Signed This Document!!?

At the Eurasian Federation's space port, far from the Artemis space fortress, the ZAFT battleship Gamow—a Laurasia-class ship—was watching the fortress from a distance. The fortress nominally belonged to the Earth Alliance. The Gamow neither attacked nor showed any intention of retreating. It simply kept watch from afar, even entering the fortress's orbit and flying in sync with it around the solar system.

The other ship in Rau's two-ship formation, the Vesalius, a Nazca-class high-speed battleship, had been ambushed by the Earth Alliance's Mobius Zero. One of its engines had been pierced, and several compartments had caught fire, forcing it to retreat to P.L.A.N.T. for emergency repairs. It was no longer accompanying the Gamow, so the Gamow was now the only ship monitoring the Eurasian Federation's enormous space fortress...

"Report, Captain!"

"The enemy ship Archangel entered the fortress three hours ago. If they were there to resupply, they should have finished by now, but there's still no movement inside. The steel doors of the military port remain closed. Awaiting your orders!"

After checking the time, the radar officer tasked with monitoring Artemis finally stood up, as instructed, and loudly reported to Captain Ades.

"Keep monitoring!"

"Yes, sir!"

"..."

Ades waved dismissively at the radar officer, looking somewhat troubled. Then he turned to the white-uniformed commander sitting in the captain's chair on the bridge, who seemed lost in thought.

"C-Commander Rau?"

"The Gamow is the only ship we have here to pursue the Archangel. Isn't that a little too few? This is Artemis. We can't take on either that beam shield or the Earth Alliance fleet inside the fortress..."

"So..."

On the Gamow's bridge, Captain Ades was trying to tactfully dissuade the masked white-uniformed commander who had insisted on coming here: Rau, leader of the two-ship formation.

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