Gundam: From Piece to Player

"I'd like to ask, what exactly are you talking about?"

Harman interrupted their conversation, trying to avoid becoming invisible.

Aronnax glanced at Haman.

"The professor means that we need to negotiate with the federal government and make diplomatic and military preparations for this."

Just as Aronnax was about to continue, Haman offered a suggestion: "Why not compromise?"

"compromise?"

“Yes, we can first contact Brad Noah, the commander of the Side 1 garrison stationed here. I have been studying him for a long time. During the war, there were two New Humans on his ship. He has the Eight States Group behind him. He is probably a potential collaborator.”

Harman offered what he thought was a good suggestion.

However, neither of them praised the decision.

“This person might be very useful in the future, but right now, Tianm can replace him with a single order,” Anna explained.

"If only we could get past the military," Aronnax said.

"Impossible. You saw it in the last lunar battle. They'll resort to underhanded tactics unless the Federation gets the outcome they want from negotiations."

Aronnax nodded in agreement; the federal government couldn't control the military.

A silence fell over the air, but Anna didn't let it last long:

"My informant within the Federation told me that, in order to deter Zeon, the Federation will most likely hold a fleet parade in January 1982, which will be attended by high-ranking officials."

This would be a great opportunity, what do you think?

"can."

After some back and forth, Aronnax realized that this was Anna's concession.

If we act too late, we won't even get a scrap of the soup in the great changes to come, let alone a share of the pie.

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Although the Federation Expeditionary Force had reached the asteroid belt, life still had to go on.

In a three-story villa, Karma was having a family dinner with his two wives and two children.

The food consists of second-generation natural crops grown in the Juneau Eco-Capsule.

The reason Elo was called away by the child's mother to take care of her younger sister wasn't because either of them had a baby, but because Elo had been adopted by Karma.

The child is almost 11 years old this year. At first, he didn't like this 'task', but after getting to know Elubi, he found that this little sister was quite 'fun'.

Of course, there's also a new family member at this party—Alice has finally gotten her own body back.

"Alice, please introduce yourself to everyone."

Meixi led her in by the hand.

"Yes, mother."

"Hello, ladies and children! I'm Alice, and I've finally got a body!"

"That's pretty impressive," Iserina remarked.

The sound attracted everyone's attention. After seeing Alice, even the lid on the drink that Eloby was halfway twisting seemed to freeze.

The "girl" wearing a yellow dress is a humanoid figure composed of simulated human skin, a Luna titanium alloy skeleton, high-performance batteries, and sensors. She is 150 cm tall and her age is set at 13 years old.

After that, Karma was able to get Alice to call him "Dad".

Unfortunately, the rice cooker couldn't be further miniaturized. It uses high-performance hydrogen electricity and is also equipped with a certain level of defense system... making it an essential item for home and travel.

"Alice?" Iselina circled Alice curiously. "Can I hug you?"

"As long as it's not too violent, there's no problem."

It can only be said that Iselina is still very playful in this regard, and she did something daring.

She put her arm around Alice's waist and tried to lift her up... Surprisingly, although it was difficult, she actually managed to lift her up.

Fearing she might get hurt, Karma quickly went behind her to support her, explaining as she was the designer of Alice's body:

"Alice's skeleton was developed using Luna Titanium Alloy, which, although not very dense, is exceptionally strong."

"Put me down, Sister Aisie." Alice's words made Iselina release her.

"Can you eat something?" Iserina asked, wearing gloves, as she picked up a roasted chicken leg.

“I can eat it, but it only provides me with negligible calories,” Alice observed Iserina’s expression. “I can’t taste it either.”

"Oh, I see. I'm sorry."

If this body has any flaws, it's that its thought process is fundamentally different from that of a real human.

Despite its high level of intelligence, it is still an imitator.

But ultimately, it only resembles a human; it has not yet become a human.

This aspect requires the support of biochemical technology. To achieve "immortality," part of the research involves whole-brain simulation technology.

By reconstructing the brain's billions of neurons and connecting them to a virtual body, enabling it to autonomously perform various human activities, it is demonstrated that behavior can emerge naturally from structure.

McToni's research has now successfully simulated the behavior of Hakimi, a type of lower organism, and has clarified the principles behind their breathing and biting.

The cat's brain has about 2 million neurons... which is also thanks to the supercomputer on the USS Juno.

But that's far from enough.

However, to replicate the 860 billion neurons of the human brain, Kalmar would need a computer with even greater computing power... 430 times that of the former, in order to understand how the machine "human" thinks.

Whether for the senior student's ideals or her own goals, this project is unavoidable.

Kalmar once asked AE if they could build him a supercomputer to achieve the desired function, but unfortunately, he will probably have to build it himself in the end.

But right now, the most important thing is to be happy with my family.

Midway through the family gathering, there was a knock on the door. Karma continued cooking in the kitchen—because Elobi was eating more than expected, so she needed to add more ingredients.

"Senior, please open the door for me."

"Oh."

Meixi went to open the door and found it was Haiwen. She was a little embarrassed... Oh right, did she forget to call her?

Karma had told her about this before; it wouldn't be accurate to say it was new, as she had known the child for a long time.

Sigh, we can't just let this girl live alone for the rest of her life, can we?

Just as she was about to invite the other person in, Haiwen spoke first, but it was something quite important—

Her current role is the fortress defense commander of Juno, a position that was arranged when Kalmar went to the Jupiter Sphere, and it seems likely to be a long-term post.

"Sister Meixi, our reconnaissance team has spotted a small enemy fleet of three warships in the airspace. I need to report to Big Brother to see if they should move or engage them."

Chapter 189 The First Battle in the Asteroid Belt

"The enemy has arrived?"

“Yes,” Haiwen said. “Brother, I can handle it.”

"You go back and take command, and synchronize the information with my dad... This is a local invasion, and as the town mayor, I can't just sit idly by."

"clear."

After leaving, Haiwen got into a jeep and drove away, while Karma walked up behind Meixi and hugged her: "I'm leaving the banquet and the house to you, senior."

"Don't rush into battle."

"clear."

Karma kissed her cheek; marrying his senior was one of the best decisions he had ever made.

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Twenty minutes later, 400 kilometers outside Juneau, the three-ship federal reconnaissance fleet slowly crossed the designated perimeter. Anyone who entered this area would have to bear the consequences.

A few minutes later, the three-ship formation (three Salamis) approached from the flank and rear, entering their detection range.

After the Federation reconnaissance fleet discovered that the fleet had lost its identification signal, it immediately realized that they had collided with the Zeon reconnaissance fleet, made a sharp turn, and launched mobile suits.

Upon seeing the fleet heading towards them, Karma ordered his own fleet to move further away to avoid friendly fire.

ZUDA has deployed 25 silver fiber-optic guided floating cannons in this area, constructing a "spider web" zone within a 30-kilometer radius, like a spider completing its web... or perhaps like that world-famous cosmic demon flower—with even longer tentacles than that one.

"1, 2, 3, ... 10 MS, all sorts of colorful GMs and Type 78s... Hmm, there's one I don't recognize."

Using fiber optic drones with cameras spread over a distance of nearly 20 kilometers, Kalmar determined which mobile suits were directly shootable and which were of value.

Suddenly, I felt like I was in a dungeon, seeing what kind of monsters I could defeat.

The results of this scan were quite simple: apart from the one we didn't recognize, the Type 78 had some value for recovery and research.

All others can be shot down.

When the enemy reached 15 kilometers, Kalma activated the manual firing mode of the fiber optic floating cannon.

The advancing Federation MS formation was attacked.

The beams of light shooting upwards were powerful, and five of them, which were slow to react, had their chests pierced instantly by the beams.

The remaining five units turned their guns downwards when attacked from below, but the next second, three beams shot down from above pierced through the GM's propulsion backpack and detonated the nuclear fusion reactor.

The remaining Type 78 and the unknown machine stood back to back, looking at the attacks coming from an unknown direction, clearly in a defensive posture.

The two survivors had not yet discovered ZUDA's existence. Karma, watching this scene through the fiber optic floating cannon, felt sorry for them.

Although it wasn't successfully applied to Sirocco's mobile armor, it seems like it was actually the right thing to do.

—Floating cannon weapons are often easily detected and avoided by Neo-humans and Enhanced Humans.

But in dealing with OT pilots, clearing out mobs, and fighting in groups... it achieved results that even Karma found cruel.

No matter how exquisite your close-range shooting skills are... you can't even touch your opponent. You're like prey trapped in a spider web, struggling in vain, unable to attack the spider itself, only wasting your energy fighting the web.

Let's call this weapon the "Spider Web Floating Cannon".

In order to capture the enemy, Karma adjusted the output power and continued to fire the funnels at the two MS back to back.

The beam of light tore chunks of flesh from the enemy's body like a piranha, while the two poor wrecks fired wildly into the darkness without thinking.