Gundam: From Piece to Player

"That Jupiter girl... she can actually pilot a mobile suit?"

"It would be strange if she were a Jupiterian. I've been spending a lot of time with her lately, and she's told me so many stories I've never heard before."

"What story?"

"The story of their early nation-building in the Jupiterian sphere."

What kind of bloody and tearful history of nation-building by conglomerates?

To be honest, Karma was actually quite curious about this: "Then call her out, let's fight the Jupiters and see how we can get used to their strength sooner."

This Miss Jupiter did not return to Jupiter after the Dekach evacuation, but instead applied to settle there and become a citizen of the Space Alliance.

After confirming that she posed no threat, Karma didn't pay much attention to her anymore.

According to Iselina's description, as a Newtype, she naturally entered the MS Development Agency, where she usually worked as an MS test pilot and spent time with her wife.

Five minutes later, a signal was detected at the edge of the radar, indicating that the enemy aircraft was moving very fast.

The machine's serial number is Prototype Rick Diaz. Because the Decaz Corporation had given Zda to him, and because of their relationship, their president also sent the design drawings of this MS, which they used to participate in the Republic's 0084 bidding, to Karma.

He said that if he thought it was suitable, he could buy the entire production line at once... because besides them, only the Zeon Republic military would buy it, and the Lunar Army would definitely use AE's, so the market is actually very small.

Kalmar's intention was to support established companies while also testing the performance of the next generation of machines.

Kalmar also had the developers build one based on the design drawings, which was also considered as a test machine for the next generation of mass-produced MS.

Karma's Cupid also received a radio message: "[Shall we start fighting?]"

"How are we supposed to fight, Nex? You think you can take on both of us by yourself?"

It's not impossible.

Nex responded with a smile.

"That minute, it will officially begin in one minute."

These new humans are so arrogant.

Karma wanted to teach her a lesson, so she brought up the system selection interface of the machine and changed the default electronic system of the simple artificial intelligence to exam.

Although it's an old item from several years ago, it should still be effective in countering the new humans.

Then, several MS units responsible for data recording launched a high-concentration Minovsky particle enrichment bomb.

The detection range of both radars gradually decreased, and Kalmar watched as the central control radar screen in front of the cockpit also began to shrink.

The battle begins.

Chapter 228 The Jupiterians Who "Hold Back"

What is Kalma's current driving skill level?

If he were to give his own evaluation, to put it positively, he would be a weapons master who can make full use of the machine's performance.

To put it bluntly, without a high-performance machine, it would be difficult to even deal with veteran Titans soldiers.

There's nothing he can do; his driving skills are limited to these three basic moves, with little room for improvement in the future. Moreover, his reactions will only slow down as he gets older, and besides, he's not a new human and doesn't have any special sensory abilities.

They can only use their physical capabilities and pull out various "toys" to bully the other side.

Under the fictional fog of Minovsky particles, the machine's detection range dropped to only 20 kilometers.

Cupid spread his wings like a butterfly, resembling a large, fluttering moth. Large blue beams of light shot out from the thrusters on both sides, instantly increasing his speed above that of Rick Diaz. However, instead of approaching his opponent, he deliberately kept his distance.

Karma was in no hurry to close the distance and engage in melee combat.

Cupid is an excellent energy management unit. The ample energy supply system provided by the three Mifurnaces can even charge the multiple generators on the unit during high-speed cruising, automatically replenishing the energy of the Mega Particle Cannon.

Without using weapon systems, the machine can maintain a combat endurance of up to 120 hours powered by the helium-3 fuel fusion reaction carried inside its body; and in high-intensity combat, the endurance can reach an astonishing 5 hours.

This allows it to conduct prolonged probing and attacks within a safe range after calmly completing its reconnaissance mission.

Compared to Karma, who turned and ran, Iserina was much braver, driving her Zaku 3 straight ahead.

【You're actually leaving Aisie to fight alone, Lady Karma?】

The sound was transmitted directly through the EXAM brainwave receiver inside the machine, and then played out as an electronic female voice.

“Miss Eos, if Aisie and I go together, you can just ‘restart’.”

Karma thought to himself, "This guy is really taking advantage of my kindness. If we all attacked together, he'd just become a piece of trash on the side of the road and get wiped out instantly."

Thinking this, Miss Eos's Rick Diaz actually let go of the Zaku III that had already taken out its beam rifle and was firing at her.

Eos flew directly towards Karma.

(Her) doing this will put her in a pincer attack... This is an extremely reckless act according to the MS tactics manual.

Then I have no choice but to grant your wish.

Without turning his head, Cupid presented a rearview mirror view directly in front of Karma from the panoramic cockpit.

With the help of the image rendering system, the opponent was positioned within the crosshair.

Cupid fired two powerful mega particle cannons from his back directly at his back, while Iserina simultaneously opened fire using the Zaku 3's dedicated beam rifle.

This created a pincer attack, and during his sprint, Rick Diaz used the AMBAC and multiple attitude thrusters on his machine to begin evasive maneuvers of varying degrees.

Simultaneously respond to beams of fire from both the front and rear.

Even after Aisie emptied both magazines of her mech, she still hadn't hit anything.

The Newtypes' predictive abilities are almost unfair.

[Hehe, even if you all attack together, I'll still be "alive" and doing just fine.]

"Don't get too excited." Karma cursed under her breath at the arrogant brat.

The aircraft's weapon system was switched to fiber-optic guided missiles that utilize Minovsky particle dispersion, with a range of 10 kilometers.

As the aircraft turned its nose, missiles were launched from the four wings on either side of its shoulder.

After completing the initial flight phase, the power line snapped, and the missile hurtled toward Rich Diaz at Mach 30. Just as Ios was about to use the same trick to dodge,

The missile exploded first.

When it gets within 100 meters of Rich Diaz, it will actively self-detonate. The warhead uses magnetization induction - when the highly sensitive electromagnet inside the warhead resonates with the enemy's metal alloy, it will be passively triggered.

"Looks like we won."

No sooner had Karma finished speaking than Ricky Diaz burst out of the smoke, carrying a beam rocket launcher and continuing to blast Cupid.

Out of the corner of her eye, Karma saw the opponent's machine durability displayed on the simulation system.

40%.

Is this simulation system malfunctioning? How can it still have so much durability left?

They actually blew it up right in front of us.

Karma removed her hands from the control sticks and began to ponder, at which point the artificial intelligence system took over the machine.

The artificial intelligence system uses the EXAM system to evade the New Humans' preemptive attacks—the New Humans sense the distance and direction of movement of objects through brainwaves, and when the New Humans' murderous intent persists to a certain extent and they want to launch an attack.

It will relentlessly "illuminate" the target, much like a fire control radar—somewhat like an attack wind-up, and also somewhat like so-called "killing intent."

The EXAM system can achieve evasion and defense based on the brainwaves emitted by the Newtypes and the pre-attack animation (which also emits brainwaves).

In other words, I predicted your prediction.

The beams of the beam rockets shone into space, but none of them hit their targets.

Eos also showed a puzzled expression, then manipulated Rick Diaz to raise his arm and block the Zaku 3's beam axe slash from behind.

After the attack was blocked, Iserina continued to maneuver her machine into a series of forward attacks.

—In Kalmar's view, this was probably the end, because Miss Iserina's attacks had become completely chaotic.

Surprisingly, Ricky Diaz, who had been so composed just moments before, was unable to completely block the attack.

After a barrage of attacks, the Newtype piloted Rich Diaz was unable to withstand the onslaught and was "cut down" to death by an ordinary elite pilot.

"I'm filing a complaint that Eos Nexus threw the match!"

"Sigh, why did you report it?"

"What's that guy who was just strolling around so leisurely saying? He couldn't even predict this attack?"

After the exercise ended, Cupid approached the opponent's machine, and Karma began to recount the fact that the opponent had thrown the game—which reminded him of his first battle when he first rose to prominence.

Although they won in the end, they took quite a few punches from Lamba during the process.

Giving your all is the only way to show respect to the other side. This guy doesn't respect himself at all; he actually held back during the exercise.

“You can’t blame me, blame Aisie… she’s a muscle-bound idiot, she doesn’t use her brain at all when she attacks,” Eos said.

"How can you, a Jupiterian, have such low standards? -- Get out of the cockpit, I'm going to give you a good talking to."

Karma feigned anger, but actually suspected that the other party was acting.

The so-called "selling an opening" was not really his belief that Iserina's skills had improved to the point where she could break through several Black Knights' mind-reading abilities by relying on intuition and reaction, just like Shin Asuka. Her speed was so fast that her movements were impossible to defend against.

Cupid's hand touched Rich Diaz's machine.

The enemy's hatch opened.

Eos, however, did not come out; she remained inside her shell (the machine's interior) like a hermit crab.

It's just a drill, why is she so wary of me?

Chapter 229 MS Course Instructor

Karma thought this, but the Jupiter still hadn't come out of the cockpit.

Seeing the stalemate, Iselina stepped in to smooth things over: "Your Excellency, Eos simply doesn't understand the fighting spirit we have here, where we must go all out in exercises like this."

"Alright, I'll forgive you this time, but you'll have to go all out in your next battle."

Seeing that he hadn't gotten any answers—despite Karma's questioning, the other party was still in no hurry to come out of the cockpit to prove himself.

Maintaining room for resistance, he couldn't directly exert pressure.

This guy is clearly a new human who has undergone ability development, unlike Marianne who was born into the Flanagan Institute.