Gundam: From Piece to Player

“Ingrid, since they’ve made their choice, we should respect their fate.”

Karma thought to himself, "The termites are unwilling to leave Earth...that's a good thing."

“That makes sense.” Ingrid hesitated for a moment. “But I need to get the data and proof… Also, do you have any antimatter mechs that are a little less powerful? We need security too. I’m afraid the New Federation might pull some more tricks.”

"Don't worry, I'm more generous than you think. I also need to recruit qualified individuals from your Federation to join the Solar System Defense Force and work together to destroy the ancient civilization."

"What's that name? It sounds really weird."

Although she had some objections to the name, Ingrid was reassured by the invitation and assurances from the Space Alliance—rumors had even circulated in the time following the duel that the New Federation and the Space Alliance had made a private deal.

While the Space Alliance is unwilling to suffer economic losses, it still has a sufficiently steadfast group of allies.

Three months later, Ingrid's Industrial Party declared a state of emergency in the Union—in order to prevent the lunar stripping project from becoming a reality, the following measures would be taken against the project.

The Federation has decided to purchase temporary colony housing from the Space Alliance.

As for ships, since the Space Alliance has previously carried out large-scale immigration operations, there is absolutely no problem with transport capacity.

Despite the statement adding that this is not the doomsday ark and there is no lottery for boarding.

However, the first batch of 5000 million tickets sold out in 5 minutes. The tickets were given priority to the top nouveau riche and the middle class... It was obviously unequal, but there was nothing that could be done about it; it was an imbalance of resources.

The large migration ark, originally intended for immigration, was now put to good use, fulfilling the Industrial Party's promise.

— Rather, it's more accurate to say that they've been able to maintain real power in parliament because they've monopolized communication channels with the Space Alliance, thereby gaining access to advanced technologies and more favorable technical terms.

Over the past fifty years, other political parties have briefly come to power within the federal government.

The Space Alliance immediately made the difference known to the people of Earth—most people don't care about national affairs, but the economic crisis leading to rising energy prices, price fluctuations, and inflation can immediately make ordinary people pay attention to politics... This is the manifestation of the Space Alliance's influence on the Earth Federation.

The second and third batches of tickets were also released one after another.

Although the time since the market was sold out was very short, at least the residents of Earth now know that the Earth Federation will not abandon them.

Of course, there were some minor hiccups along the way, such as various conspiracy theorists, for example, that the Industrial Party had become a puppet of the New Federation.

But none of this can stop the general trend, and it can't make a ripple.

The Republic of Jupiter joined the team through channels from the New Federation.

It is said that Benatti Dekach is now in charge, along with Tobias, the new Federation's ambassador to Jupiter, and they have brought back research on the boundary markers at the edge of the solar system.

This can also be considered as leaving physical evidence of the weapons used by ancient civilizations—to be made public after the situation stabilizes (when the immigrants go to heaven).

Chapter 400 Challenging Ancient Civilizations

In UC155, after five years of preparation, the three major powers finally managed to send two billion Earthlings willing to go into space, along with their important industrial assets, into space.

The lunar people were relocated entirely, and compared to Earthlings, their assets were actually much lighter.

Meanwhile, the other sides also moved to the asteroid belt, preparing for this final battle in temporary shelters.

To prevent failure, Karma agreed to Anna's plan on the moon: if final victory in the war could not be achieved, a contingency plan would have to be prepared.

The lunar thrusters were activated, causing it to brake... and then it crashed towards Earth.

When the moon gets close to the Roche limit of about 18.5 kilometers, Earth's gravity will tear it to pieces, which will then rain down on Earth like a "fire rain".

The energy generated by the impact completely melted the Earth's surface, turning it into a "fireball" made of magma. The resulting high temperature was enough that even the [?system] of ancient civilizations could not withstand it.

Earth will enter a cooling period that will last for hundreds of millions of years.

After cooling, Earth may have a new atmosphere composed of methane and carbon dioxide, but it is unlikely that liquid water and life will reappear.

We can only turn Earth back to its original state when humanity has the ability to terraform planets again.

If saving Earth requires sacrificing all of humanity in the solar system, then those people should be charged with crimes against humanity.

Kalmar stayed in Gambastane, waiting for the final countdown.

Three, two, one.

At the very moment of the countdown, the warships scattered throughout the solar system, commanded by Haiwen, opened fire instantly—their antimatter cannons bombarded all the "boundaries" of the solar system, and the shields and sensors on them were completely destroyed by annihilation energy in just 1 second.

Such a confrontational act... has drawn a response.

The detection stations set up on Earth instantly detected more than 500 targets appearing on the surface.

The system has been activated.

"Everyone, let's proceed with the plan."

"Yes, Your Excellency."

The first wave of 1000 antimatter machines began descending from outside the atmosphere.

VSBR-type MEGA energy cannons, developed by the Space Alliance and named the "Steel Spike" series by Kalmar, have been deployed in low Earth orbit to provide orbital reinforcement for ground offensive forces.

It's time to let the second-rate AIs of the [System] know the power of the [steel nail].

In just 3 minutes, the first wave of [System] was completely wiped out.

In the ancient underground facility, the central control panel slowly materialized into the image of a bald old man wearing a long robe and glasses.

This is the main control AI of the [? system].

He was very kind and seemed to be a harmless old man.

This is the form that the ancient civilization shaped for this AI, the image of the "creator" as he understood it.

"Humanity's way out is not in the universe, so can't we think about how to make humanity live on Earth forever?"

The AI ​​in charge quickly entered the second-level response mode, and it only entered the second-level response mode twice out of countless restarts.

One of these incidents involved fighting against a civilization powered by some kind of light particle energy... but ultimately, a portion of them managed to escape the universe.

On another occasion, it could summon some kind of mysterious power to unleash various attacks that were impossible in a practical physical sense, defying the laws of physics, but it was ultimately destroyed by the [? system].

In the second-level response mode, countless MEGA fortress cannons rose from the ocean and the earth's crust, while the multi-path support system released from the hangar included five ?-99 units.

Those machines are equipped with a learning and analysis system, which can identify the opponent's attacks to a certain extent and thus call upon the technologies from the restarted civilization to deal with them.

Its appearance began to evolve... mimicking the form of the machine that ended every civilization.

They led a fleet of aircraft to Asia, Europe, Africa, South America, and North America to fight against the Allied forces.

The relevant images were transmitted back to the Steel Buster via brain quantum waves.

Karma looked at the Gundams and smiled knowingly, thinking that quite a few of them looked familiar.

Gundam DX, Devil Gundam, Wing Zero EW, Strike Freedom Gundam, Gundam 00 Quantum.

Could this be the loser's bracket from before?

Since the enemy has sent out their generals, we cannot afford not to respond. Therefore, we have already organized several combat groups before the battle, each led by a combat group leader, to carry out the attack.

"Let Ye go and deal with that muscle machine."

Fighters should be dealt with by melee specialists.

"OK!"

"Lei Jun, could you please deal with that asymmetrical machine that's emitting light particles everywhere? That machine might have the ability to jump through space, so be careful."

"Understood." It's better to leave the units with solar reactors to Amuro; he understands them better.

"Banaji, you go deal with that one with the six-pointed star on its back."

The Magnums were in charge of dealing with the Moonlight Butterflies.

"Okay, Dad."

"Camus, you go deal with that eight-winged angel that's radiating golden and pink light. It has a very powerful split cannon on its forehead... I don't know how it works, but it needs to be charged up before firing."

"Received, I apologize for what happened before."

"fine."

Although there had been some unpleasantness before, they reconciled with Camus with Anna's help. After all, he wasn't a bad person at heart, mainly because he hadn't caused any real losses in the war with the Space Alliance.

There's also a Wing Zero EW... Did this mobile suit come to the wrong set? Apart from shedding feathers and having a cannon, it doesn't seem to have much strength.

"Xiao Du, I'm leaving that to you. Be careful, it might have hidden functions."

"receive."

Each front is supported by strong enough combat power, but if the central command is not eliminated...

The opponent's [? system] can continuously produce troops indefinitely, and Karma overlooks the entire battle situation on Earth.

"Anna, have your brainwaves located the most frequent point of quantum communication within the enemy's [? system]?"

Karma asked Anna, who was sitting in the driver's seat next to him, "Gundam Buster uses a side-by-side cockpit."

The Gunbuster is equipped with a high-powered brainwave generator... which, combined with Anna's abilities, allows it to perform operations similar to 'scanning' the Earth.

"The bottom of the Mariana Trench contains the most concentrated array of brainwave signals."

"Alright, let's start building the communication base station."

Gunbuster flew directly above the Mariana Trench and pulled out a huge sniper cannon—a special cannon whose shells used high molecular forces as their outer shell.

It can penetrate the earth's crust and then detonate at a fixed depth.

If we had to use an analogy, it would be like giving the Earth a shot, while previous antimatter attacks would be like stabbing it in the back, which could potentially cause massive bleeding (like magma bursting).

With this in mind, Kalmar gave the Mariana Trench a shot.

On the battlefield, the sub-units of the [? system] began to sluggish, and this sluggishness bought their troops time to counterattack and regroup.

After all, there are just too many of them on the other side, and they are still multiplying.

Chapter 401 The End of [?] (The Finale)

After the command base was destroyed, the enemy's command was in disarray for about a minute, but its backup base quickly came online.

After all, it's a multi-path command system built with Earth as its main base, so it must have backup nodes.

In about 30 minutes, five enemy [? system] general units were killed one after another, but only 3 minutes later, they began to revive under the action of the nanomachines.

Karma withdrew the first wave of troops and began replacing them with the second wave.

Anna, on the other hand, would re-spot the enemy after the enemy reappeared at the node, allowing him to snipe again.