Gundam: From Piece to Player

It's said that some new humans understand how to operate and pilot a mobile suit within minutes of getting on board. Can new human babies do that?

Thinking this, Karma saw the indicator light on the Psycommu device on the machine light up, and the cockpit began prompting whether to switch to [Brainwave Piloting Mode].

Of course, this is just a light up.

During the development of the machine, Karma gave the researchers instructions... that the priority of manual driving must override the brainwave system.

And make sure that you can switch to manual transmission at any time if you want.

In his opinion, the idea of ​​certain mechs hijacking their pilots is utterly stupid.

To create something that could go out of control at any moment—if you create a gun that you can't even control who it's pointed at, isn't that the same as creating a living father?

Mental Force Type 78 slowly walked to the hangar exit, then stepped out from the opened deck platform and floated up.

Kalmar didn't use the onboard rudimentary AI to drive the autopilot; he was just showing it to Elubi.

"Erubi, have you learned how to drive this car?"

Elobi in his arms rolled her eyes at him.

It seems to be saying that even for Newtypes, it's a bit much to let a 3-year-old pilot a mobile suit.

Let's go for a drive then.

Karma slowly pressed the accelerator, and the Type 78 accelerated smoothly and linearly. Karma had already set the acceleration of the machine to not exceed 0.5G.

It's fair to say that the current acceleration of this machine is no different from that of a baby stroller.

Five minutes later, the warship was no longer visible in the distance.

Not far away, there was a spacecraft wreckage that was over ten meters in size.

"Eruby, can you sense that there are a few remote-controlled toys on this car?"

"Remote control toy?"

"Yes, yes, now try to take them off the shelf."

Airubi stretched out her little hand and grabbed at something in the void, but nothing happened.

"I can't lift it."

……

Karma checked everything and realized she seemed to have forgotten to turn off the weapon safety.

Embarrassed, I quickly switched modes.

The moment it was opened, the floating cannons seemed to gain freedom and began to dart around wildly.

Elobi seemed startled as well.

"Don't rush, Erubi. Imagine this car as the center, and then make the remote control toy circle around it."

As Karma spoke, she opened the 3D projection teaching aids... The image immediately made Airubi understand.

Before long, the eight floating cannons began to orbit the Type 78 itself like a planetary system. Obviously, this was not complicated for Ailubi at all.

"That's great."

Karma offered him a gummy bear as a reward.

Elobi ate it all in one go.

This child has very good hair quality; it doesn't seem like the type that curls and bounces.

"Fifth Uncle, it seems like bad guys are coming."

"Bad guy?"

"How far is it?"

“It’s coming from a very, very far place in my direction.”

Elubi clearly doesn't understand concepts like distance and location yet; if there were specific descriptions, Karma could respond accordingly.

However, he didn't have to wait long; the other party was very fast.

It has already appeared on radar at a range of 100 kilometers, with a speed close to Mach 30 (at this time, no Minovsky particles were dispersed, and the Type 78 was still equipped with a high-performance radar).

Karma piloted the Gundam almost without thinking to evade the enemy's flight path.

This kind of spacecraft is unlikely to be something that space pirates could have created... It must have an official organizational background, and it could only be the Jupiter Fleet.

My own Mach 78 has a maximum speed of only Mach 10, while the other one is a genuine three times faster.

He was hoping the other side wouldn't turn on their radar.

Are you kidding? How can you fight with a child in your arms?

Then... he noticed that the other party started making rounded turns (it's impossible to catch a right-angle turn at high speed) and was chasing after him.

Despite having already launched laser communications.

But the Magellan-class destroyers don't have that kind of reaction time.

Is that how you play it? Then he won't hold back anymore.

...You'd better not slow down.

Kalmar switched his weapons to hypersonic missiles with a speed of Mach 25, genuine radar-guided weapons.

It's unlikely that the opponent's machine has a device for dispersing Minovsky particles, and even if it did, it couldn't have done it so quickly.

Then Karma saw the enemy's aircraft at a distance of 50 kilometers... and launched a hypersonic missile first, which was hurtling towards her aircraft.

Because of the high speed of the airframe itself, hypersonic missiles can achieve a very high initial velocity.

Normally, Karma would have to consider giving up on the choice of the mecha.

In energy-based air combat, the player is at a complete disadvantage and will only be toyed with to death by the enemy in beyond-visual-range combat, as the enemy will not willingly enter the range of your weapons.

"Eruby, control the car and fire! Shoot down everything that's flying at us."

"Um!"

The beams on the floating cannons were reactivated at Elubi's command and fired at the incoming missiles.

It only took five seconds.

The missiles were all shot down.

"here you go."

"Fifth Uncle, candy."

Since Elubi said that, Karma had no choice but to continue feeding him.

Hopefully, she won't develop the habit of opening MS while eating.

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On the other side, the purplish-black MA maintained a speed of over Mach 25 and did not enter the range of the enemy aircraft on the radar.

"Lord Paptimas, our missiles were intercepted before they hit their targets."

Sarah was somewhat shocked; this was the first time the pirates had come to clean up the area... The Jupiter fleet had suffered several incidents of helium-3 being hijacked, resulting in considerable economic losses.

Therefore, the sweeping operations are carried out almost weekly, focusing on the outer perimeter of Ceres.

With this test machine named Mesara, the task of sweeping away pirates was actually quite simple; this high-thrust MA could easily catch up with all kinds of spaceships.

Then we'll use hypersonic missiles to finish the fight... although it's not cheap.

But for a well-funded fleet, the economic loss from a single hijacking is enough to buy 5000 hypersonic missiles.

If the ammunition cost is replaced with the Mega Particle Cannon in the future, it can be further reduced.

This is also a necessary security expense for the fleet... especially after the end of the One Year War, there may be a lot of Earth Sphere weapons sold on the black market and gradually ending up in the Mars-Jupiter region.

If these weapons fall into the hands of wicked and ruthless space pirates, they will greatly impact energy security.

Sarah turned to look at the leader in the back seat, but he did not respond.

But they found the captain resting with his eyes closed.

"..."

"grown ups……"

Sarah had no choice but to continue reminding her.

"Interesting. They're probably not pirates. We've got some rare guests in our area."

As Sarah was saying this, she noticed that the radar image was becoming blurry.

Chapter 178 Changing Pilots VS Changing Machines

"Lord Papidimas, the radar seems to be encountering [celestial interference], but this isn't Jupiter. Could it be a solar flare?"

Because Jupiter has the strongest magnetic field among the planets in the solar system, the broadband radio radiation generated by its magnetosphere will hinder flight over Jupiter, but at most it will cause radar to malfunction temporarily.

But even more powerful is the lightning in Jupiter's atmosphere... its intensity is about ten thousand times stronger than the strongest lightning on Earth, and it can produce interference across the entire frequency range from extremely low frequencies to gigahertz.

This can cause the radar to become completely paralyzed and unusable... This forces drivers to have good "intuition" to deal with the interference.

But as one of the best, this young captain of Jupiter was able to distinguish it from Jupiter's "celestial interference".

"This is probably not a natural phenomenon; it is likely man-made—most likely the legendary Minovsky particle dispersion phenomenon."

Sarah was puzzled upon hearing this.

What is the Minovsky particle dispersion phenomenon?

For those still on Jupiter in the Federation Jupiter Fleet, this war in the Earth Sphere is hundreds of millions of kilometers away from them.

Only the captain would occasionally look at the intelligence transmitted back from the Earth Sphere.

"Just think of it as [atmospheric interference], it might cause the radar to malfunction... It's said that the Zeon army is very good at fighting in this kind of environment... Sarah, get up, I'll take the pilot."

"Yes."

Although she didn't know why the captain wanted to steer the ship himself, the crew members' obedience to their superiors had become second nature, so Sarah quickly switched places with Sirocco.

The moment Sarah took over the wheel, she felt as if her internal organs had been thrown into a washing machine.