Gundam: From Piece to Player

"General, what do you mean?"

Cliff had expected General Gop to say something like, "Gather the troops and send all the rebels in Shangri-La to heaven."

However, Gop's answer was unexpected.

"Let's talk to that woman again... If she has made some achievements in this area, it's fine to let her join the enhanced human technology research, and we can deal with her later... If we take a hard line, she might just destroy the technical data."

Cliff nodded in agreement, though he had indeed felt humiliated just now.

After calming down, he understood General Gap's thoughts.

Although the Federation forces successfully deterred Zeon on the moon (Federal side).

However, making such a fuss over a single company, even if you win, will only make the federal government look like a mess.

Just as Cliff was about to leave the room to tell Brad about the situation...

The entire warship trembled violently, and then the lights in the corridor seemed to be pulled out by darkness.

Cliff was filled with regret. Now, the other side didn't know they wanted to talk and was already planning to take action.

that's the truth.

The battle will not stop because one side has the thought of backing down; it will only continue.

Hamman was simply using drones to dismantle the Albion.

In the few minutes that Cliff was chatting, three mobile suits were casually destroyed by Harman's funnels, and the pilots' fates are unknown.

The Albion became the next target, despite the fact that this warship had been enhanced in its air defense system.

But it was nothing more than a giant target in front of the NT Gundam piloted by Haman.

With a thought, Hamman deployed the floating cannons to dismantle the anti-aircraft guns on the warship.

After destroying the anti-aircraft guns, Harman began removing the exposed antennas from the warship.

Having seen the internal diagrams of the Pegasus-class ships before, Harman, like a doctor, knew exactly where to dismantle them to cripple the warships and make future repairs easier—currently, they were poor and had nothing, so they could only seize Federation warships to use.

The moment the MS unit was destroyed by a single enemy MS, Brad had already begun to retreat with the bridge crew, because he had determined that the warship had completely become meat on the enemy's chopping board.

He quickly asked the communications officer, "Has the radio transmission been sent out?"

"I don't know, Commander. The concentration of Minovsky particles is too high."

Brad thought to himself: Next time, before clarifying the nature of the enemy, I must give orders not to scatter the Buminovsky particles indiscriminately.

During the journey, the ship suddenly vibrated again... The next second, Brad felt the ceiling turn upside down, and a feeling of nausea rose from his stomach.

"Could it be that the other side has some kind of new weapon?" This was the last thought in his mind.

The gates of the port of the Shangri-La colony were blown open and not repaired, and transport barges were unusually busy.

Meanwhile, the municipal news repeatedly broadcast reports of the Federal Albion's direct bombardment of the Shangri-La colony with its Mega Particle Cannon.

Chairwoman Anna Al quickly gave a radio address, explaining that the federal government had its eye on a certain trade secret of Al Pharmaceuticals and was about to take military action against Al Pharmaceuticals, which could potentially affect civilians.

We apologize for any potential disruption, and Alphard will cover the costs of all transportation services incurred during this evacuation period.

"Lady Anna, we support you."

"The federal government is really incompetent."

"Do you have a donation account? We can transfer money into it."

Thanks to the good policies implemented over the past year, the people did not complain but instead chose to support them. Even those few who had some reservations could not bring themselves to curse them. To be honest, Anna El could have simply ignored them and left, letting the riot-style Jim descend upon the streets of Shangri-La.

The people of Shangri-La City simply dislike Zeon, which doesn't mean they like the Federation that much. In their view, there's no need to compare these two sets of defenses... Do they want to test the waters?

Many people couldn't help but think... how wonderful it would be if they were working in a country ruled by Lady Anna.

Unfortunately, facing the evil federal government, Lady Anna and El Pharmaceuticals will most likely have to leave.

Inside the shuttle transport plane of Alphard Pharmaceuticals.

The federal spies are now in electronic shackles—and they still don't understand how they were discovered.

"Thanks to you, I was able to judge Senator Cliff's purpose so accurately... Of course, I am very disappointed. I didn't expect that there would be federal rats in our company."

"Chairman, please forgive me, I was just momentarily confused!"

"Throw him into outer space. I hate traitors the most," Anna declared, delivering the final verdict.

The guards acted swiftly, throwing the only spy in the cabin who wasn't wearing a spacesuit out of the spacecraft door, and within ten seconds... he was turned into an ice sculpture.

Afterwards, the transport plane slowly approached the Albion, which had been hit by the infrasound weapon, and armed personnel and maintenance staff began to open the hatches and enter.

The personnel in charge of electronic warfare immediately began dismantling the firewalls of the Federation warships and taking control of the engines. The hangar troops appeared, accompanied by armed personnel, whose main task was to capture Federation prisoners in Albion.

An hour later, the Albion was completely taken over by Al Pharmaceuticals, and the broken wiring on the ship's exterior was quickly repaired by the prepared personnel. The warship soon became a "traitorous" warship.

Officers below the rank of lieutenant were placed in lifeboats and thrown out of the cabin to eliminate the risk of future recapture.

Commander Brad Noah, Senator Cliff, MS pilots, and other important prisoners of war, including officers, were held hostage and their videos were filmed, with the location shown as being on the Albion.

They uploaded it directly to the Earth Sphere network, along with the "reason" for their appearance there.

The arrest of the commander of the Federal Side 1 Fleet and a member of parliament who is expected to become the federal prime minister by a private company has immediately caused a huge uproar online.

Alphard's demands were also released along with the video:

1. They argue that the federal actions violated the federal constitution's provision that "private property is inviolable" and that the federal government should compensate for the economic losses caused by the chaos.

2. The federal government's use of civilian neurosurgery drugs for military human trials must be stopped immediately.

3. The federal government must issue a public apology and declare Shangri-La a free city.

In response, the federal government froze all of Alphard's assets in federal government banks the following day.

If the other party does not agree, Alphard will use the Albion to launch a "revolution" in the Earth Sphere.

At the same time, the planned naval review near the Solomon Islands was cancelled, and the fleet was immediately dispatched to Shangri-La Colony 1 to suppress the rebellion.

The suppression operation, personally led by Admiral King Colliny, was seen as a “response” to the rebellion.

Chapter 215 Not as Powerful as Divine Thunder

"Sir, there is something I need you to look into immediately, concerning Miss Sally."

At 5 a.m. in the asteroid belt, Karma, who was sleeping with Iserina in her arms, was woken up by Oliver's phone call. She was going to be grumpy when she was woken up, but when she saw the message, she was wide awake.

No other reason than that Anna's smiling close-up had made it to the front page of the "Zeon Daily News," while the adjacent columns featured the battleship Albion, Brad, and a square-faced senator who looked like an important figure.

The title also reads "Corporate Rebellion".

A quick glance at Karma told him that his wife was up to something "big".

They directly seized a new Federation warship and declared war on the Federation. Now, the hundreds of Federation warships that were originally participating in the naval review in the Earth Sphere are doing nothing but chasing after her.

They directly stole the trending topics from their own nation-building and embargo issues.

My goodness... Anna, you're so energetic!

However, your current situation is not much better than Hathaway's, but Kalmar did not dwell on the reasons for this for too long... He only cared about the practical thing: how to help his wife.

—It would take at least six months to get back now, by which time everything would be over.

"Is the light sail device ready to use?"

"Sir, what do you intend to do?"

"Didn't we use Axis data to build an MA as a test machine? It's a good opportunity to test the carrying capacity of the new light sail equipment."

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The Federal Intelligence Service mobilized all its resources and manpower to begin collecting intelligence on Anna Al, only to discover that this mysterious heiress of Al Pharmaceuticals had left behind very little information about her.

According to the records, she almost never attended a public or private school. Although she had activity records in SIDE6 from UC0074 to UC0076, her records from 0077 to 0081 were extremely rare. When she reappeared, although she had inherited the family business again, her group had also been reorganized.

It was as if that day had finally come. In fact, its affiliated companies had already cleverly severed ties with Alphard Pharmaceuticals. Although the federal government had also taken over these companies, the current owners had been out of contact with Alphard for many years. The only strange thing was that they did have 200 billion helium in federal banks, and this money was immediately frozen by the federal government, which was basically determined to be confiscated.

If that captured warship is not sunk, it will be a great disgrace to the Federation.

Just when the Federation thought it was hiding, the Albion appeared openly and legitimately on Side 2...

Upon its appearance, it destroyed 15 old warships retired from the Federation by Hardy in Side 2.

Considering that Brad Noah, a son-in-law supported by the Eight States Group, was on board, and that Side 2 was increasingly leaning towards the federal government, it's hard not to say that it was intentional.

—The other side is now using SIDE2 as a shield.

This forced the Federation to abandon its solar laser system, as there were too many obstacles here that it couldn't attack.

We can only use MS units... which means casualties, since the enemy has the legendary Newtype units combined with Gundams.

After careful consideration, the Federation Army decided to send MS units to the front lines.

The first MS squadron was led by Major Reed Wolff of the Federation (ranked 3rd on the Federation's kill leaderboard), the second by Major Charles Gisingham (ranked 4th on the kill leaderboard), the third by Major Ron Hong (ranked 5th on the kill leaderboard), and the fourth by Major Franklin Nortoni (ranked 6th on the kill leaderboard).

The above personnel are all elite pilots who have shot down more than 40 mobile suits. Each person leads an elite force of 26 mobile suits, totaling 108 skilled pilots.

"Faced with a force like this, even a Newtype would have to surrender obediently, right?"

Admiral Kim Colliny, who was in command, thought so, and he didn't have to wait long; contact was made just 30 minutes later.

Sixty-nine damaged mobile suits escaped from the colony cluster of Side 2.

In just one attack, 39 mobile suits were lost, nearly a third of the combat power was lost, and what was even more terrifying was that all the dead were officers - mobile suit battalion commanders, company commanders, and mobile suit squad leaders - a total of 3 ace pilots, 9 company commanders, and 27 mobile suit squad leaders all sacrificed in the battle.

Even during the entire One Year War, the Federation forces had not experienced such severe losses.

We cannot compare them using wartime standards... The MS units that were downsized after the war are incomparable to the soldiers who only pursued quantity and not quality during the war.

The officers of these MS units are the best of the best, and the death of a squad leader, company commander, or battalion commander is extremely damaging to the entire MS unit, and may even damage the soul of the unit.

Ordinary drivers without official positions survived, but their mental state was severely impacted.

"The captains have all been killed."

Can we really defeat the new humans?

Meanwhile, the NT-dedicated Gundam and the Perfect Zeon returned to the Albion for resupply, beginning a rapid E-CAP replacement and propellant replenishment operation.

The pilot on the plane did not disembark from the MS.

As they returned to their warship, Hamann, piloting a Swordfish (a type of floating missile), was conducting reconnaissance operations to ensure that the Albion maintained situational awareness of its surroundings during its operational readiness period.