Gundam: From Piece to Player

Is there any way to get the message out so that the other warships can escape now, or simply to open fire on his warship and take this demon to hell with them in a mutual destruction?

That expeditionary force at least had some value in having existed.

By the way, Ceres, we can still turn the tide there if they can defeat Karma Zabi's fleet.

Then Wakanda saw Karma Zabi sit in his seat, pick up the phone, and give instructions.

"All fleets, listen up! I have just received news that the Marine Corps has suffered defeats in the battle and most of them have surrendered. Although this decision was not difficult, all fleets are to send retreat orders to the MS units, recover the MS still in combat, and return with me to Ceres Base to avoid losing Ceres Base after the failure to attack Luna II."

He then hung up the phone and set the warship to automatic navigation mode to return to Ceres.

Originally, Hua Ken thought the other side would use some kind of optical camouflage, like that terrifying humanoid robot—disguised as a captured soldier.

At first, Warken didn't believe that Kalmar could command his troops, but when he saw the warships through the outer portholes starting to retreat, he had no choice but to accept the reality.

That makes sense. The enemy can already hijack the signals on the warship, so it would be even easier for them to forge images and issue evacuation orders.

“Commander Wallace, how about we make a bet? Do you think Ceres is still in your hands?” Karma asked with a smile.

Chapter 199 The Demise of the Federation Expeditionary Force

After a 20-minute flight.

Under Kalmar's command, the Federation fleet has arrived over Ceres.

Contrary to what Huaken had imagined—a scene of fierce fighting—there appeared to be no battle taking place here.

“You’ve lost, Karma Zabi,” Wakana laughed, his leg bone shattered by a heavy blow from Alice for his misbehavior during the voyage. “The fleet you sent out has already left you.”

“Don’t rush to open the champagne,” Kalmar said. “Keep watching.”

The Magellan-class spacecraft slowly docked in the harbor inside Ceres.

Hua Ken then realized that for some reason, the vehicles and cargo in the port were floating as if they had lost their gravity. There were some port staff trying to organize order, but they could not cover up the violent chaos that had just occurred.

What did you do?

Karma did not answer. Not only that, a large number of Cyclops emerged from the ambushing tunnels at the port, blocking the Federation warships that had just entered the port, preventing them from leaving. The Federation MS forces were also blocked in a narrow airspace.

They are now completely trapped.

Meanwhile, Kalma's "landline" ZUDA had slowed down and approached from the outside, while simultaneously releasing contact lines that jammed onto the Magellan-class bridge—communication was established.

"Big brother, we have completed the suppression of Ceres."

Haiwen's voice turned somewhat cold, causing Kalma to not recognize her at first glance.

But at that moment, Karma was thinking about something more pleasant and didn't care, "Can you explain to Commander Waken how he did it? And how he broke through their carefully set up defense?"

"I sent a small force to capture the gravity generator on Ceres, adjusted the intensity of gravity generation, and brought the habitable areas of the entire asteroid belt to one-fifth of the gravity level before launching our attack."

As expected of Haiwen, she has completely grasped the core tactics of colony conquest (generally, colonies need to capture weather bureaus and power supply centers), and now she has even managed to apply this knowledge to other situations.

"How dare you do this? This place has over 90 people!"

Huaken is just spreading alarmist rumors again; he's simply losing his bearings.

While bumps and knocks are unavoidable, at most one-fifth of them will only make things lighter.

Based on the combat briefing sent back by Haiwen before his arrival, he took advantage of the anomalies in the low-gravity environment to lead the MS forces in launching a special operation amidst the chaos, capturing key members of the Caruso family.

The deployment of the Wakeman on Ceres consisted of a garrison regiment stationed at the port, plus a guard fleet of more than 10 warships.

The garrison fleet clearly failed to play its defensive role... Ceres has a diameter of 950 kilometers, and Haiwen obviously took advantage of the Federation garrison fleet's low orbit around Ceres to launch a mobile suit into Ceres (Ceres has no atmosphere, its gravity is extremely thin, and there are no obstacles).

After completing their mission on Ceres, they may use a coordinated attack, combining mobile suit and battleship forces, to eliminate the Federation's ambush force stationed in orbit.

The so-called port garrison regiment never played a role.

After everything became clear, Karma looked at Waken:

"Well, Commander Wallace, have you given up? Or are you hiding some cards that I don't know about?"

Faced with all-around setbacks, the resentment in Hua Ken's eyes gradually faded, turning into a sense of helplessness and resignation.

If you gave a person with such pride a handgun right now, he would most likely commit suicide by shooting himself in the face at Karma.

Well, to be honest, Karma didn't specifically target this guy to deliberately mess with him.

When Luna II was in the garrison, he was unlucky, but now Wallace, as the commander of the expeditionary force, is offering himself up.

Sometimes, when the punching bag is delivered right to your door, it's really hard to resist hitting it.

The Federation Expeditionary Force fleet held out for 23 hours under heavy siege. Except for a few ships that managed to escape to the Earth Sphere with fuel, the remaining troops, running out of ammunition and food and facing survival problems, finally surrendered completely to Juneau in September 0081. Nearly 9 people, including the fleet and Marine brigade, were captured.

Meanwhile, Kalmar, under the guise of disaster relief and repairing Ceres's dilapidated gravity system, relocated all 90 residents of Ceres, regardless of age or gender, to Juno.

Why do we need to do this?

Because it is necessary to take stock of all unregistered persons on Ceres and re-screen them to establish a complete household registration file management system.

Another aspect is to eliminate the lingering gangster atmosphere and negative psychological influences on Ceres.

Aside from 16-year-olds who are forced to join gangs, anyone over 16 who has killed someone, regardless of age or gender, has only one course of action—execution.

After screening through the group and killing approximately 1200 notorious bandits, Haiwen told him that he had missed quite a few.

Karma understood her unspoken meaning and handed the task over to her... Haiwen then used the computing power mobilized by Alice to easily begin investigating the dark web inside Ceres, including its internal bounty and bounty payment settlement system.

They successfully compiled a list of 2 criminals, of whom 7000 were wanted for murder, while the remaining 1.3 had been involved in illegal businesses such as drug trafficking, slave trading, bounty hunting, protection racketeering, and running brothels.

Given this population ratio, the security situation in this area is absolutely terrible.

—A city in a state of anarchy is truly terrifying.

"Are there really so many people who have worked for the mob? Is one in 45 people a criminal?"

"You're talking about serious criminals... Brother, I haven't even included thieves."

What are your thoughts?

“For the future of Juno, we cannot tolerate them,” Haiwen said.

Haiwen's words also made Kalmar make up his mind, but the trial was not held immediately.

These 2 people underwent a second screening. After being screened using an assessment formula, 8000 people, who were considered "marginalized groups," were allowed to survive and were assigned to the Redemption Town, where they were placed next to the 101st Division's headquarters to receive socialization and rehabilitation education.

It could even be described as a literacy class; these gangsters were all dropouts from prenatal education, and when asked, they all said they had never been to school.

The other 1.2 felons were all publicly tried, their crimes explained on Juneau's television station, and executed—the station's most-watched program since its inception.

The 9564 captured Federation Expeditionary Force soldiers were also sent to this town of atonement as punishment for disrupting the peace of the place... but compared to the former, these soldiers were managed much more leniently, mainly to make them realize that Juno Town and the Principality of Zeon are fundamentally different.

They needed to understand the fact that they were tools of the federal government's violent rule, and there was also anti-privilege education... Karma directly categorized the roots of Zeon's birth and the evil consequences sown by the Federation's actions.

The senior commanders, led by Wakken, were clearly dissatisfied with this and formed an officer corps to resist "ideological reformation," but that's another story. Kalmar didn't mind sending his forces and pens to fight these stubborn Federation members.

Karma transmitted images, interview videos, captured mobile suits, and Federation warships back to Zeon. Side 6—the complete annihilation of the Federation Expeditionary Force—once again became a trending topic in the Earth Sphere.

Although the federal government wanted to downplay the issue, the overwhelming amount of footage made it appear as an admission, and any denial would be seen as sophistry.

The compilation, bound together with various previous news reports praising the expeditionary force's victory, gives one a strange feeling.

The Federation Army isn't invincible, is it? Why are they so weak now?

Chapter 200 Moon People

At 8 p.m. on November 1, 0081, there were only a few people left in the University of Granada's dining hall.

Amuro glanced at the dazzling array of menus and was overwhelmed with choices.

For some reason, I remembered the hamburgers that the head chef used to make at the White Base, so I decided to have a hamburger feast tonight.

After picking up my food, I found a seat and started browsing my phone, then opened a popular current affairs live stream.

An expert commentator, who bears a resemblance to Kai and whose hair is already slightly graying, is being interviewed as a guest.

The video being played showed a group of federal officers sitting on the ground, their expressions clearly showing their discouragement.

"Mr. Xiting, do you believe the released video is fabricated from your professional perspective?"

"The images themselves are real... but there is also the possibility that they were staged."

"Is it the same even though the video clearly shows the corresponding military identification?"

"Yes, stereoscopic projection technology or even the simplest 3D mask printing can achieve a lifelike appearance."

Seeing that the guest was about to steer the conversation toward something boring, the host quickly switched the camera to dozens of GMs of various types captured by the "Asteroid Belt Zeon," as well as two or three Gundams with Federation designs.

"Could these mobile suits also be fakes created by Zeon from the asteroid belt?"

"I have also photographed a lot of military equipment, and I can only say that these mobile suits are probably real, but Zeon seems to have done a large-scale repainting and color change on them, which is another matter."

Amuro glanced at the comments; most of them were from Moon People.

A comment floated across the screen: "It's like it said something, but it's also like it said nothing at all."

Two minutes of life were wasted.

[Unfollowed, this interview was of very low quality]

[This is completely on the federal government's side, and it's still considered neutral media.]

The Federation is overestimating its own capabilities by engaging in such a foolish operation.

[Knowing they're going to lose, they still send soldiers to their deaths. What a trashy federation.]

Even if it's the truth, the federal government won't admit it, as it concerns the government's credibility. It seems the expeditionary force is going to disappear.

During his time studying in Granada, Amro witnessed firsthand what true press freedom was like. It seemed that the news he had seen in Side 7 was broadcast after being censored and reviewed... inevitably pro-Federal.

On the moon, Amuro could sense that the lunar inhabitants had a superior attitude towards the inhabitants of other federation regions.

Compared to SIDE1-SIDE7, taxes are also levied on air, gravity, and other factors.

The moon levies almost no taxes in this area, and the Free City government does not need to rely on this revenue.

It boasts the most complete industrial system, service industry, and the most large enterprises. Unlike the residents of old colonies who worried about the safety of colonial buildings—the moon itself has gravity, and the maintenance of the dome is thanks to a healthy finance and the large municipal government's tireless efforts.

Amuro was just about to type out a 'shocking' comment to attract the red dots when he saw his phone screen quickly turn into an incoming call display.

【tutor】

Amuro's expression immediately contorted to some extent, but he ultimately took the phone.