Gundam: From Piece to Player

Amuro had seen a post about Side2 on the dark web—and learned that the person in front of him had secretly bought construction pipes from AE during the Battle of Britain, saving hundreds of millions of lives, which also proved the person's relationship with AE.

Watching Amuro try to convince himself.

Kalmar knew that this clandestine deal was probably 80% complete, and it was time to add fuel to the fire.

"Lei Jun, didn't you just ask me when I could release you?"

“This November, I will send someone to drop you off in Spain. At that time, I will give you an electronic account with $100,000 in it, as a gift from me to you as a friend.”

$10 million?

The amount of money wasn't a huge sum, especially considering the other party's financial resources.

—Amro felt as if he had grasped the root of federal corruption.

"Thank you, General, but I don't need the money."

Amuro hesitated for a moment, his willpower was being tested, but his simple sense of justice made him refuse.

He felt that if he accepted the money, his mindset would have to change.

"You don't have to use it, but I'll still tell you my account and password. You'll need money in Spain eventually, and you can just pay me back whatever you've spent."

This time Amuro didn't refuse.

If it's just a loan... he can get past that mental hurdle.

If I do need money after being released.

Seeing that he did not reply, Alice the Spider spat out a printed note with two strings of numbers on it.

"I have to go now. You can tour the base. This is a pass issued by our Deep Space Industry to civilian technicians, but just don't go into any restricted areas."

Karma also placed another pass on the table.

"Thank you, General."

The spider robot, like a puppy, jumped onto the other person's arm and transformed into a watch.

"That's kind of cool," Amuro thought.

This comparison with Hello is really stupid.

On September 21, three days after the Gundam capture operation, RX-78-2 had basically completed the repair of the damage it had suffered in the battle.

It just so happens that it is equipped with a learning computer, so Alice can seamlessly access its "predecessor". Garma plans to organize these technologies of Gundam and see which ones can be reverse engineered.

They also took the opportunity to study the technology of beam weapons, which is not only Zeon's weakness, but also his own.

He knew virtually nothing about Minovsky physics.

Unfortunately, beam weapons are all directly related to these theories.

Chapter 112 So that's how beams of light are shot

After the machine was started, an image appeared on the armored hatch in front of me.

Let's look at the information Alice found.

—It is based on the images captured by the Gundam's eyes... and then projected onto the pilot's field of vision.

In short, it turns people into giants like Gundam... to look around.

It really emphasizes an immersive experience.

Outside of the main screen, you can rely on eight small cameras in total, located at the top, bottom, left, and right. Although they can be displayed on the main screen, the clarity is quite poor.

It's equivalent to the difference between 4K and 480P.

The 78's cockpit battlefield observation relies heavily on the head-mounted monitor... it's the kind of monitor that has a huge impact if it breaks down.

Therefore, Karma's capture tactic really hit the nail on the head.

If a panoramic cockpit with partially blurred camera images could be reconstructed using CG, the blindness wouldn't be this severe.

"Alice, is there any difference between this learning computer and the ones we use?"

The mechanical spider has inserted the data interface at its tail into the port of the learning computer.

"Let me see... It can make fine adjustments and corrections based on the driver's operating habits, and it can also imitate the driver's style to correct the movements."

"—Once a set of movement patterns is formed, it can be copied and downloaded to the onboard computers of other MSs to intervene in posture and movement control. This is a new function that the learning computer developed by the master does not have."

No wonder GM was learning Gundam's moves in the later stages of the war; other mobile suits didn't have computers that could specifically correct their operating systems one-to-one.

It's more likely that Amuro's driving habits were directly ingrained in the entire army's GMs.

Even if the pilot's operation is not up to par, the onboard computer will correct the action.

In layman's terms, it's just copying homework.

There are pros and cons... This ensures a minimum standard, but it also means that the pilot has to adopt their own fighting style, making it difficult to develop an ace with their own unique style.

Style is a luxury for most people.

Following the crowd is a way to maintain a minimum standard of living, but in war, choosing to maintain a minimum standard of living might be a wiser choice.

"Let's analyze this. As the war progresses, it's indeed time to copy others' strategies... We Zeon have more aces, and our DLC mode should be more comprehensive."

"receive."

"Also, help me decrypt the beam rifle's file."

This is also what Kalma is most concerned about.

"Yes."

As the data was declassified, Gundam's maintenance blueprints and wiring details, including those related to the beam rifle of the RX-78-2, were projected onto the main display screen.

He forced himself to read the electronic instruction manual for more than 10 minutes and finally managed to sort it out.

The beam fired from the warship is called the "Mega Particle" beam cannon, which is formed by the fusion of positive and negative rice particles.

The fused Mega Particles, through pressure regulation and convergence via the I-Field, can unleash tremendous destructive power in a specific direction.

However, the MS's small rice furnace is too inefficient to fire the [Mega Particle] cannon.

In order to enable mobile suits to fire mega particle cannons, Federation experts came up with a solution—to have warships and supply bases recharge the temporary energy boxes.

It forms an intermediate state before activation, which is the bullet... and then it is handed over to the MS.

MS's Mega Particle Cannon only requires pulling the trigger to unleash the Mega Particles that battleships can fire.

This is 【E-CAP】.

This is also why Gundam needs to change magazines frequently.

In order for the Gundam to unleash its beam, Garma would have to capture the entire White Base.

It can be simply understood as a white base with E-CAP "fast charging".

Karma checked and found that the 78 Gundam can also be charged using its own rice furnace.

It just takes a bit long.

It takes half an hour to charge one round, so a total of 16 rounds in the magazine takes 8 hours to charge.

It can be described as "5 minutes of fun to turn on, 8 hours of charging".

No wonder Project V itself included the white base... it was a comprehensive package of aircraft and warships.

Without a battleship, the 78 Gundam cannot unleash its full power.

Is there really no way to have fun?

Looking at the 78 Gundam's self-charging mode...

Karma suddenly realized, "What if we connected the Kau's power source to the Gundam first, and then used the Gundam as a 'converter' to charge the E-cap?"

"Is this alright, Alice?"

Kalmar didn't wait and immediately asked about the feasibility of such a thing as artificial intelligence.

"Brother, the 78-meter rice stove's self-charging function is only for emergencies. If you mess with it like this and overheat the wiring, it won't be able to be repaired."

We also need to be careful about electrical safety... Karma touched her hair.

If the E-CAP were made exceptionally large, wouldn't a single shot be equivalent to the power of a warship?

He suddenly remembered... wasn't this the idea behind the Nu Gundam's beam rifle?

Larger capacity and higher compression ratio mean greater power... From the perspective of ease of use, it is indeed more comfortable than the Mega Particle Cannon.

To implement the Mega Particle Cannon firing on a Mobile Suit, the Mobile Suit would have to be huge, like the ZZ Gundam... That would be a complete misdirection of the tech tree. If you really want a Mega Particle Cannon, just use a Mobile Armor.

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Amro was already familiar with the place... After that conversation, Kalma Zabi did not confine him, but simply made him wear a work pass.

He spent a lot of time loitering around the military base, not for intelligence gathering.

He couldn't make any sense from just looking at the intelligence reports.

Compared to the Federation, which only has Gundam, this place has a wide variety of unique and distinctive mono-eye mobile suits, making it feel like visiting a mobile suit museum.

After walking for several days, he finally saw a red Zaku... without an air duct.

He couldn't resist walking over... thinking he might cause some damage, like secretly pulling out a few wires or something.

This can be considered a consolation to Vice Captain Long.

"Who are you? State your affiliation."

A magnetic voice came from behind.

A blond man wearing a white antenna helmet with a silver mask underneath, dressed in a red Zeon military uniform, with a gun holster at his waist.

Oh no, I've been caught.

Amuro raised his hand and turned around, knowing full well who this person was... There was only one strangely dressed person in the Zeon army, and he quickly gave a perfunctory explanation: "I am an engineer sent by Deep Space Industries."

"Really? I feel like you're a spy. Why don't you use honorifics when you see my rank?"

Amuro looked at the other person's shoulder insignia... He couldn't understand Zeon's ranks at all.

"Colonel Char, hello."