Gundam: From Piece to Player

It seems to have been confirmed that it was him. Sherington-Anna is no longer afraid that Karma will harm her brother. This can only be described as the downside of having too high a moral compass.

The four Death Vanguard machines left their tracks and disappeared into space.

The following week, feeling annoyed by her brother-in-law's excessive cooking, Kalmar made arrangements to send him and the driver, along with the car, back to the original Von Braun Highway.

Five days later, while looking at intelligence reports, Karma was browsing Earth news in the tavern on the destroyer, lost in thought, when Elubi came over.

"Dad, you're not considering a duel, are you?"

Why do you always ask that?

"I sense that you're considering it,"

"If the other party is just an evil villain, your father would agree without hesitation and blast him out of the solar system with one iron fist."

Karma poured herself a glass of wine and asked the bartender to pour Elubie a glass of milk.

"Dad, I'm already over sixty!"

"Sixty years old is still just a child in my eyes. Don't be like your sister Ye, drinking all day long. It's bad for your liver."

"I have medical nanorobots in my blood vessels."

"It's not a medical nanomachine specifically designed to process alcohol, is it? How can it work if you get the robot drunk?"

Just as Karma was about to argue with her daughter,

The alarms on the ship started to sound, and the alarms on my watch started to go off.

The two then headed towards the hangar... only to find that Liao had just been piloting the antimatter Sazabi toward the launch platform, Alice was piloting the antimatter EXS, and Du had just boarded the antimatter Gaplan.

"What's the situation? Commander Ye?"

"A plea for help from allies: Death Vanguard's antimatter mobile suit has been deployed again, and they have appeared over Australia on Earth."

"What are they doing?"

"The Earth Federation government is holding a meeting in Sydney... to discuss countermeasures against the lunar stripping plan, but the intelligence has been leaked."

Why can't we learn from this experience and hold meetings remotely? Or use quantum communication?

If we gather together, aren't we just waiting to be beheaded?

As for whether this counts as starting a war, of course it does. But when one side's military strength completely surpasses that of the other, it becomes the strong's army wantonly launching air raids and bombings on the territory of the weak, turning into a one-sided ravage.

The Earth Federation's counterattacks and resistance are extremely limited... The Federation's mobile suits and the Death Vanguard's antimatter mobile suits are not even comparable in performance.

Not to mention the stock and quality of strategic weapons.

If equal destruction cannot be achieved, even deterrence cannot be established.

The destroyer deployed four mobile suits and accelerated directly towards Sydney, Earth. Within a radius of 380,000 kilometers in the Earth-Moon system, including acceleration and deceleration, it would take about three minutes to reach Sydney.

On the antimatter ZUDA, Kalmar watched as Sydney was reduced to a sea of ​​fire, with craters in many parts of the city exceeding 500 meters in diameter—the result of the nuclear explosion directly triggered by the impact of a high-energy weapon on the Mifurnace.

Just then, four Death Vanguard antimatter mobile suits hovered in the air not far away, and the meeting place—a crater with a diameter of 5 kilometers—appeared on the site of the former Federal Sydney government.

The Death Vanguard probably didn't consider friendly fire either, and fired a single shot. The high-energy weapon vaporized innocent civilians, including the target, completely eliminating any possibility of escape.

"hateful!"

“Wait, Liao.”

Liao, piloting the antimatter Sazabi, was about to charge at the four Death Vanguards when Karma stopped him.

"Father?"

Karma said, "Don't use weapons that could trigger large explosions. First, tie them down and pull them out of the city before engaging them."

"……clear."

Despite his repeated warnings, the Death Vanguard group showed little regard for attacking, using the city's high-rise buildings as "cover" for their battles.

The four worked together seamlessly, suffering no losses, and successfully destroyed a New Federation antimatter machine.

And damaged three of them.

However, this "victory" is hardly convincing in the face of casualties.

Its antimatter reactor was destroyed during the battle, triggering a mass collapse that destroyed one-fifth of Sydney.

Protecting the city... only to find it all in vain.

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Today's update will be a little late.

Chapter 393 The Final Battle on Mercury (Part 1)

In the battle of Sydney, public opinion in the Earth Federation overwhelmingly condemned the Space Alliance.

After nearly two days of criticism, the Earth Federation government took measures to control public opinion and issued a diplomatic statement clarifying that public opinion does not represent the government's attitude.

The former is emotional anger; they need a punching bag that won't retaliate.

Driven by self-interest and relying on the protection provided by the Space Alliance as an ally in the cooperation agreement, the latter dared not protest, even if it might cause more civilian casualties.

If the Space Alliance withdraws, they'll just be bombed.

Although the new Federation is rather awful... it still falls short in terms of whether the Space Alliance has done its best to minimize casualties.

Actually, there is another way.

The other party's suggestion.

Since Anna said she wants something exciting, then let's do something exciting.

Even if it means killing Anna's current "body".

He still wasn't used to calling the other person by that awkward name...

A week after the battle began, he had a communications radio station prepared that could cover the entire Earth Sphere and connect to the Space Alliance.

It is both a declaration and a response to Sherington Rona.

"Even though the Alliance has ventured into deep space and established a foothold in the outer planetary belt, one thing remains unchanged."

"—Earth is our mother planet, the origin of human civilization, and bears the traces of human life and life on Earth; it also has an ecosystem that cannot be replicated in the universe. But now the New Federation wants to turn it into a living hell, and for absurd reasons, it plans to strip away the moon that has accompanied Earth for 45 billion years."

"This also goes against the original intention of the 'Federation'. You shouldn't be called the New Federation at all. You should be called Cosmic Babylon or something like Zanskar. I would like to ask those who have joined the New Federation: ask yourselves, was it your original intention to join the New Federation to make the moon look like this?"

"Our human civilization is less than 10,000 years old, and Homo sapiens has existed for less than 100 million years. Are we already so arrogant as to want to destroy our own place of origin?"

“Since you’re unwilling to do these things, then I’ll do them myself. Sherington Rona, I, Kalmar Zabi, an old man from the old days, accept your challenge. You are the challenger!”

The Space Alliance's cosmic broadcasts resounded throughout the universe.

A red Reverse X, refurbished with "new technology," is being tested in space, surrounded by flashes of red phosphorescence.

In the distance, the Abaoa Fortress had been "squeezed" into the shape of a Möbius strip by a powerful force.

There were no control sticks in the cockpit, and the girl, who wasn't wearing a pilot's suit, was drinking black tea. After she finished, the cup disappeared into thin air: "An old man of the era? Senior... I'm much older than you."

After Kalmar issued the declaration, the New Federation responded within just one hour.

"Where is the challenge located?"

They actually relinquished the right to decide the duel location.

Karma thought for a moment and replied, "Mercury."

The other party agreed without hesitation.

Earth-like planets like Mercury are not suitable for human development and habitation, so there's no need to hold back from attacking them.

Even if you delete this thing from the solar system with one click, it won't have any impact.

As for why Venus wasn't chosen?

Venus is just like this. It has the thickest atmosphere among the terrestrial planets in the solar system. Its main component is carbon dioxide. The extremely strong greenhouse effect makes the entire planet like it is in a pressure cooker, which is not only dark but also has smog.

It was dark and visibility was low.

In contrast, Mercury has an extremely thin atmosphere and is the planet with the greatest temperature difference between day and night in the solar system.

—Kalma wanted to pass on this ultimate battle to future generations, but it wouldn't be good if it turned into a mecha movie filmed at night.

The date finally agreed upon by both parties was October 3.

"Dad, are you really 100% sure?"

"I'm a dog if I lie."

Before setting off, Karma carefully put on his pilot suit and hugged each of the children one by one. Once upon a time, Karma was someone who had to look up to the New Humans. However, after countless artificial "active evolutions" and playing the role of his own God, the average New Human could not last long in front of him.

Now, standing in his way is the strongest new human in the world.

"It's okay to run away if you can't win. Don't be afraid to save face. We have the advantage in group battles," Xia Ya said.

"..."

"It's unexpected to hear you say that."

"I just don't want to lose my best friend."

Hmm, that's a good sentence.

Karma gave Char a thumbs-up, stepped on the gas, and the antimatter ZUDA shot into space like an arrow, heading straight for the large gray moon.

Eos-Nex-class warship.

With her gaze piercing through the sea of ​​stars, watching the meteor already speeding up, Sherington piloted her MS slowly into the airborne platform.

"Are you sure you don't need me to fight for you?" Tobia asked, "Professor, duels can be fought by a substitute."

“Don’t you know that scientists are actually the strongest in actual combat?” Sherington said. “This is my battle, so don’t interfere. Keep an eye on the rear for me.”

"Ok."

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Mercury's surface is covered with craters ranging from tens of meters in diameter to basins thousands of kilometers in diameter, as well as ridges stretching for thousands of kilometers.