Gundam: The Wind That Blows Through Space

Chapter 712 Resolution
After achieving complete victory over PLANT, there were only two problems left for the People's Revolutionary League. The first was the issue of the unification of the Earth sphere. Should they use the orbital elevator to boil the frog in warm water or use thunderous means to forcefully unify them?

At that time, the People's Revolutionary League, which was mainly composed of East Asia, tended to be conciliatory. As a result, the former chairman was assassinated, which completely cleared the way for Mina to come to power and implement A-Laws.

The assassination of the Chairman and the attack on Washington were two huge wounds on the body of the People's Revolutionary League. The latter was nominally explained after the destruction of Artemis and the killing of Zweig, but the People's Revolutionary League has never found any useful clues in the investigation of the former.

Even though the mastermind of the Rio bombing has been identified as the photocopy of Regret, Mayura's identity is an issue that cannot be avoided, especially since she has the same Orb background as the current chairman. It is hard not to associate the two with conspiracy theories.

The problem took a turn for the better after Ingrid woke up. She made a statement to the hearing group of the People's Revolutionary League as a party involved, in which she clearly expressed that the terrorist attack was the work of Orphee. As for the use of Regret's photocopy in the operation and using it as a medium to hypnotize Mayura, it was Tria's suggestion.

Since this was a matter concerning the death of a head of state, Ingrid, as a participant, could not escape the charge of being an accomplice. Even if Mina wanted to save her, she might not be able to do so. After all, she herself was not yet firmly established, and most of the former chairman's political power had now switched to her side. 'Revenge for the former chairman' was one of her campaign slogans.

In the end, it was Ingrid herself who saved her. Under Lacus's instruction, she exchanged the coordinates of the secret base of Compass for the pardon of the People's Revolutionary League. Considering that Dilanda tried his best but failed to find the secret factory of the terminal, the mobile force that the People's Revolutionary League can mobilize in the universe now is not even comparable to that of ZAFT back then. Once Ingrid was determined to keep it secret, no one knew how long it would take to find Compass, the "remnant of the previous dynasty".

Mina, who knew the inside story beforehand, chose to acquiesce to this action. On the one hand, Ingrid was the first Tuner to surrender, and she was an object of extremely high united front value both in terms of intelligence and research on this group.

On the other hand, Lacus has returned to PLANT and obtained an official identity. From the perspective of the country, it is obvious that Lacus' identity will be the most important diplomatic link between the Earth and PLANT in the future. Unless it is absolutely necessary, Mina does not want to offend such a political ally who is good at understanding people's hearts.

Compared with unifying the earth sphere, how to get along properly with PLANT is the biggest challenge that Mina and even the entire People's Revolutionary League urgently need to face.

Although the People's Revolutionary League, as the victorious party in the war, did sign a series of treaties against the will of the Council, and Aslan even lost his position as Speaker for this, but if you look into it, the Treaty of Junius was only something that happened four years ago, and treaties between countries are not much different from the paper used to wipe one's butt.

Between the two countries lies a naked blood feud. On one side is the bloody Valentine's Day, and on the other side is the April Fool's Day crisis. Billions of lives and the racial divide have torn the Earth and PLANT into two distinct camps.

More than sixty years have passed since George Gray revealed his identity. The gap between adjusters and natural humans has not only not narrowed but has widened further. Hilde has lamented more than once that the MS technology in the CE world has advanced far faster than any other Gundam dimension, and the terrifying research and development capabilities of adjusters are the key.

Perhaps in a broad sense, the People's Revolutionary League, as a victorious country, should have everything they want from PLANT, but in the relationship between countries, it is more appropriate to say that there are no eternal enemies or eternal friends. Adjusters without natural persons have no future, and natural persons without adjusters will also face the crisis of technological regression. At a time when human settlements have expanded to Mars, the benefits of cooperation between the People's Revolutionary League and PLANT are far greater than continued confrontation.

Fortunately, the world is fair. This privileged group has encountered great difficulties in reproducing offspring, and despite the concerted efforts of the PLANT nation, there is still no hope of completely solving this problem. Apart from a much-complained forced marriage law, this group of geniuses who can develop atomic annihilation-level weapons cannot solve the shackles that Mother Nature has set for all living things.

Not to mention that the forced marriage law also gave rise to war criminals like Durandal. In fact, in order to prevent similar incidents from happening again, the People's Revolutionary League has asked PLANT to lift the restrictions of the forced marriage law, and used this as a handle to grasp PLANT's biggest weakness, the population.

As long as PLANT is forced to abolish the forced marriage law, and with the current fertility rate, once the People's Revolutionary League refuses to replenish the population, PLANT will be in name only in less than 20 years. This is why, after listening to Siegfried's negotiation conditions in Copernicus, Lacus, with her cultivation, would pick up the slightly vulgar weapon of "girls' tears". It was really because Azleru and Patrick had done things too drastically back then, and there was no possibility of expecting a war to eliminate hatred.

Therefore, the fertility rate has become the focus of the game between the two sides. In fact, even if the People's Revolutionary League allows the forced marriage law to continue to exist, PLANT, which cannot replenish its population from the earth, still faces the problem of low fertility rate. The two major wars in three years killed not only natural soldiers, but ZAFT directly killed more than 70% of its troops in the Cutthroat Battle, and the largest proportion of these deaths happened to be the most important young and middle-aged group in a country.

As a result, Lux, who inherited her father's will and advocated peaceful coexistence between the two countries, became the person that Mina had to win over, so she chose to remain silent at Ingrid's hearing. It was Mina's silence that brought about the entire hearing team's pardon of Ingrid, and the whole process became a performance show of non-public cooperation between the People's Revolutionary League and PLANT.

In July, Ingrid revealed several secret bases of Compass in the universe. Three days later, the People's Revolutionary League formally passed a voting meeting and listed Compass on the list of terrorist organizations. At the same time, PLANT also expressed its support for the resolution of the People's Revolutionary League as an ally.

A day later, the remaining countries on Earth also unanimously expressed their support for the resolution. Before these countries expressed their views, the only independent armed organization in the Earth sphere, Celestial Being, launched a cleanup of the Compass stronghold. Ptolemy II drove directly from Earth to the universe without the help of orbital elevators and mass accelerators.

In the L3 space domain, in the wreckage area of ​​old Heliopolis, a red MS nearly the size of a MA was mounted under Ptolemy. As the restraints were released one by one, the Celestial Commander Aslan also pressed the protective goggles on his helmet.

"Aslan Zala, perfect justice, begin the extermination operation!"

(End of this chapter)