Gundam: From Piece to Player

Hearing Karma say that, Char actually asked.

"If you become prime minister, you have to allow me to sell books in the country."

Selling books?

"...I want to sell my memoirs to make money."

It wasn't about making money; Kalmar actually wanted to insert his own message into the book, in order to encourage Zeon youths to "start businesses" with him in the asteroid belt.

Before Char could reply, Alice's disguised watch rang, and Karma glanced at the caller ID.

【Third Brother Dozru】.

"It seems the Battle of Solomon is about to begin."

Karma said this to Char, and then answered the phone... It can only be said that what was bound to happen will happen.

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Flagship of the 101st Division Fleet, during non-combat periods.

Sally entered the password at the door, went into the laser communication room, and then activated the optical communication equipment.

After a CD was inserted into the device's port, the wavelength of the laser communication signal changed.

This allows the device to conduct some communication without being monitored, and to avoid signal interception and recording, the communication is only audio.

"Professor, good evening."

The other person's voice sounded somewhat neutral.

"Good evening, Aronnax... I saw the news. You tested Char Aznable, right? How was his ability?"

"This is the first time I've seen such a weak Newtype. If there hadn't been a very powerful Newtype here, he wouldn't have known I was going to attack him... Now I finally understand that Char didn't become an ACE because of Newtype abilities."

“…Received.” Sally nodded, squeezed the bracelet on her wrist, and continued to ask, “What do you think of Karma Zabi? You should have fought against him before.”

"He's a very interesting man."

Sally didn't react to this comment, but instead asked:

"During the test, did you feel any discomfort in your body when you were doing strenuous exercise?" Sally asked.

"No, it's even stronger than my original body. By the way, is biomedicine really that hard to master?"

"Of course, it took me 20 years to master it, and it feels like I'm putting together a mobile suit with a bunch of parts."

Over the next 20 years, I was finally able to make some 'innovations,' modify some unreasonable aspects of the human body, and even incorporate 'mechanics' to do some upgrades and modifications.

"As expected of a professor."

"No need for compliments. The Federation is preparing to attack Solomon, and the war probably won't last long," Sally said. "I've received intelligence that NT1 has been shipped to Side 6... Go and retrieve NT1."

"Wow, at least give me a break, Professor."

"...You want me to rob it?"

Sally's tone was unfriendly.

"Okay, okay, I'll go right away."

"You can take a vacation after you finish this task. Keep up the good work!"

"You can also take a break... I heard that your mission in Zeon has lasted for almost 3 years. You must be very tired."

“It’s alright,” Sally said. “Not particularly tiring.”

"I heard... you're dating that young master? Is it true, or is it an act?"

"He already has many women."

Sally didn't answer whether it was real or an act, but her answer was already quite ambiguous.

Aronask thought to himself... Karma Zabi is quite capable; even though the Professor had already tried his best to make himself "unpalatable" in the Zeon setting.

I didn't expect the other party to be so fierce, so I got hard.

They even forced the professor to stage a surgical procedure.

In an attempt to comfort the professor, he said, "Actually, I can understand him. He probably doesn't want the girl who loves him to get hurt, but sometimes he has no choice..."

"——".

The other party immediately cut off the communication.

It seems the professor really cares.

Aronask was a bit confused and had no choice but to put down the satellite laser phone.

He was located in Houston, North America.

The sun had just set, and the night breeze was very cool.

After completing his "probing" work, he came here to fish... and also to visit the rocket museum on Earth.

"Miss, would you like some more whiskey?"

"Another drink, please," Aronnax said, taking off his sunglasses. "By the way, I'm a guy."

"I'm sorry... I'm so sorry."

Upon seeing his appearance, the freckled bartender blushed instantly, like a young girl in love.

The muscular men who had been spying on him from the corner earlier seemed even more excited.

Aronaxton felt it was not a good time to stay there any longer and put his sunglasses back on.

He placed the bills under the glass.

Looks like it's time to ask the professor if I can get a more ordinary appearance.

This body part performs very well, but its appearance has been adjusted to be too attractive, which is not conducive to various covert operations in the future.

Chapter 141 Battles Outside Solomon

After the Battle of Loum, only 30 warships survived from the Federation's 1st and 2nd Fleets, while the 5th and 6th Fleets, although new fleets, were well preserved, with a total of 150 warships of various types.

Based on this, Tiam reorganized the personnel, dispersing and reorganizing the veterans of the 30 warships and the personnel of the 5th and 6th Fleets. Using this as the core, he transferred graduates from military academies to rebuild a new combat fleet.

The new combat fleet emphasizes combat deployment and flexibility.

15艘为一组分舰队，包括10艘改进型的萨拉米斯巡洋舰、1艘麦哲伦级战列舰、4艘补给舰，可以搭乘30-40架吉姆。

Two squadrons form a main fleet.

After nearly nine months of continuous deployment, the Federation doubled the size of its space fleet, bringing the total number of ships to 300.

The intermediate production standards inevitably dropped again and again, and all the warships produced in this batch were crudely made industrial waste.

Tiam's requirements were simple: just ensure there were no quality issues for two years... He only needed these warships to be used in the major battle, and he didn't mind sending them to be scrapped.

Of course, in order to transport enough mobile suits to the outskirts of the Solomon Islands, the old Columbus-class transport ships were mass-produced, with 520 ships used for the Solomon Islands offensive and defensive operations. Transport ships of this size had very low survivability on the battlefield, so they would withdraw from the front lines after releasing mobile suits, fighters, and assault boats.

Considering the casualty rate in offensive and defensive battles, damaged aircraft can be temporarily fixed on the combat ship for recovery.

But by putting these together, the number of federal troops deployed was successfully increased.

A total of 300 capital warships, plus 280 small assault boats (Republic-class); 880 fighters/Iron Balls; and 5000 MS (GM).

而吉翁军在所罗门的兵力为1艘多洛斯级、3艘格瓦金级、8艘契卡重巡、40艘姆塞巡洋舰（共48艘战舰）；制宙战斗机580架；MS（主要为扎古、大魔）3000架。

The ratio of fleet size alone is 5:1, while the ratio of mobile suits is 5:3.

The overwhelming disparity in naval strength meant that in the battles outside the Solomon Islands, the Zeon fleet could only defend itself through guerrilla warfare and harassment, relying on fortresses to inflict as much damage as possible on the Federation forces.

After learning about the Federation's fleet size through intelligence and discovering that his own country had only sent one Great Zam to reinforce the area, he learned that the Federation had only sent one Great Zam.

Dozru made the arrangements.

In the living quarters of Fort Solomon, the Zabi family's maids began packing their belongings in the rooms.

In the crib, Mineva Zabi, who is less than one year old, is held by her mother.

"Are we really going to evacuate?" Serena, who had been a princess for a year, asked her husband in a low voice.

“I’ve already spoken to Karma, and he’ll send a fleet to meet you,” Dozru whispered, comforting his wife and children.

"I also graduated from military academy. The fact that the commander-in-chief hasn't sent any combat troops means this place is just a stall for time. Darling, why don't you retreat with us?"

Serena began to sob softly.

“Sena, someone like me can’t survive to the postwar era. I don’t have Kalmar’s military talent and political wisdom, and I can’t explain to the grown-up Mineva what I did…”

Dozru looked at his daughter and laughed, a laugh that was more unpleasant than crying, and the laughter seemed to wake Mineva.

You woke her up.

“My daughter has a very loud voice, so I said… there’s always a place like me.”

Serena burst into tears.

Two days after his family evacuated, Dozru finally encountered the besieging Federation fleet.

The Federation fleet surrounded Solomon in layers.

The fleet battle on the periphery broke out suddenly, and the outcome was not in any suspense.

Due to the vast difference in numbers, Zeon's space fleet lost a quarter of its strength within minutes. The Federation fleet, on the other hand, suffered only minor damage.

After a year of reorganization and training by the Federation... the qualitative advantage brought about by the artillery superiority of both sides could hardly reverse the absolute numerical disadvantage.

Zeon's space fleet began to retreat, relying on the dense "shore artillery" firepower of the Solomon Fortress for defense.

Faced with the bombardment from the fortress cannons, the Federation fleet began to retreat.

The 280 Republic-class attack craft released, carrying special munitions, stormed toward the fortress.

The defensive barrage composed of small mega particle cannons on the Zeon fortress shot down one-third of them.

However, two-thirds of them successfully crossed the line of fire and fired special ammunition.

The specially designed ammunition exploded over the Solomon Islands, quickly forming a strange, colorful film of light.

This is the beam disruption screen that Karma once used.