In the more distant reaches of the airspace, the mobile suit battle was even more chaotic. Countless points of light flickered across the screen, moved, then went dark.
"Report. A heat signature suspected to be the Eternal has been detected inside the harbor. However—"
The bridge radar operator, Addis, turned toward Rau Le Creuset to make his report. There was a trace of uncertainty in his voice.
"Hmm..."
Rau Le Creuset gave a low response.
He raised his white-gloved right hand, lightly resting his index and middle fingers against the lower edge of his mask. It was a habitual gesture whenever he sank into thought.
The situation truly was complicated. The Archangel and Dominion, two warships that should have belonged among the Earth Alliance's finest, were now standing with Orb and fighting both the Earth Alliance and ZAFT Forces.
Orb warships were covering them. That made sense.
But what about the Eternal inside the harbor? What role was that warship, regarded as the core of the Klein Faction, playing here?
In Rau Le Creuset's memories, the Archangel and Creuset Team had shared countless "fateful encounters."
What he could not understand was what kind of connection existed between the Archangel and the Eternal.
"In another combat zone, signals from the Freedom Gundam and that Nuclear Energy Experimental Zaku have been confirmed..."
"At the same time, the mysterious mobile suit that previously came to support the Eternal at Jachin Due has also been sighted."
Addis brought up an enlarged image of another area on the screen.
In the footage, two highly distinctive mobile suits—a mobile suit with angelic wings and a Zaku-shaped mobile suit—were locked in a fierce battle with three new Earth Alliance mobile suits.
Behind his mask, Rau Le Creuset's eyes lingered on the image of the white mobile suit