Gundam: The Wind That Blows Through Space

Chapter 646: Victory and Defeat

In the lunar orbital battle two years ago, the winner in a broad sense was naturally the People's Revolutionary League, otherwise it couldn't be that the top leader of the PLANT died on the front line. But from a deeper perspective, the People's Revolutionary League had also been overdrawn to the limit and had long been at the end of its strength.

The Earth is stronger than the PLANT in terms of both population and resources. This is the information that every Earthling has received. They don't know that in the first war between the United Nations and ZAFT, Atlantic had already started to live beyond its means until it was finally taught a lesson by two consecutive attacks from Genesis. For a time, the size of the Earth Union could not handle such hundreds of thousands of casualties.

Natural humans were already at a disadvantage in MS combat, and a large number of experienced veterans were killed in Panama and Jakin Fortress. The new recruits who were added at that time were not much different from flying turkeys in front of the adjustment personnel.

Just two years later, the war broke out again. This time, although the AI ​​provided by Hilde has shortened the gap between natural humans and adjusted humans as much as possible, and ZAFT also has a large number of new recruits, there are still countless neutron jammers on the earth. Except for talented players like Orb who rely on geothermal energy, other countries are always in a state of extremely tight energy.

The huge refugee crisis in Europe today is just the manifestation of two major wars in three years. Even Cagalli was criticized for diverting the already scarce energy resources to military industry, not to mention the three brothers of the old alliance who are struggling to protect themselves.

Therefore, the people on both sides are actually trapped in the information cocoon woven by their own governments. Naturally, the people on this side think that the People's Revolutionary League has won the battle, the hard days are over, and all that remains is to wait for PLANT to confess and pay the price for their crimes.

On the other hand, the PLANT people did not feel that they had lost, or rather, they only admitted that they had lost to Siegfried and not to the People's Revolutionary League. One must know that such a large new political system might be able to suppress conflicts among all parties during wartime, but once the war was over and there was no external pressure, the old East Asian faction, the old Orb faction, and even the indifferent Scandinavian and Equatorial Alliance would all have their own interests.

The reason why the Council refused to surrender was because some people within the People's Revolutionary League had contacted them privately. PLANT's production capacity is limited, and the first place to supply it will be able to restore energy self-sufficiency one day earlier.

After all, the orbital elevator has just begun to be built, and even if Hilde turns on the acceleration plug-in, it can only mean that it will take 5-8 years to form a certain range of energy transmission, so the hidden danger of splitting has always existed. Compass and Van Dyson only provide it with a suitable environment for growth.

Finally, Bakilulu couldn't stand it anymore and cut off Aprilius's food rations. At that time, the armistice treaty had not been signed yet, and her power as the successor commander had not been restricted. So driven by "hunger", the most primitive instinct of human beings, Aslan passed the vote of the council and signed the defeat treaty.

It is impossible for the People's Revolutionary League to completely destroy PLANT. In the fields of energy, medical care, industry, and even agriculture, astronomy, and cosmology, the Adjusters have almost crushed the PLANT in these technological fields. Therefore, the Council is well aware that the two sides will continue to survive in this state of love-hate relationship for a long time.

However, the People's Revolutionary League could not do it, but Siegfried could. The act of former Senator Juul smashing the satellite made the natural people on Earth feel unprecedented fear at that time. Siegfried saved the world. If he had given an order at that time to completely wipe out PLANT, the source of evil, he could have achieved the effect of raising his hand and gathering followers.

But that kind of haloed state was not permanent. The almost unlimited power in Siegfried's hands was soon diluted with the signing of a treaty. Later, in the negotiations between heaven and earth, the Asha and his wife also made certain concessions. PLANT was extremely lucky to avoid a possible catastrophic disaster.

After the treaty was signed, as the nominal loser, PLANT naturally assumed the task of supplying energy to the People's Revolutionary League, but the gap between people and nature was also increasingly severed by the propaganda of the high-level government in recent years to rationalize and justify the war. Monsters in the sky, ignorant primitive people, this kind of stigmatizing name has long become the norm for both sides. How fierce the propaganda of the Union and PLANT was in order to recruit soldiers, how fierce the hostility between ordinary people and grassroots soldiers on both sides is now.

The only thing to be thankful for is that Siegfried cut the aorta of PLANT with his knife, and the humane policy of reducing the number of people forced people, who were already having a hard time adjusting their fertility, to face the noose around their necks. However, the hatred led by their own government still underwent a qualitative change after the attack on Washington, and eventually gave birth to Compass, a monster that was infinitely close to Titans.

As an Adjuster, but also the lifelong enemy of the Adjuster, Siegfried has to thank Durandal's Destiny Plan for his mixed reputation in PLANT. If it weren't for the propaganda of the Destiny Plan that whitewashed his life experience (being trained as a combat weapon by Orb), Siegfried would now be just an executioner with a lot of blood in the eyes of the Adjuster.

According to the data released by the People's Revolutionary League, from the time he piloted Gin in Heliopolis to the time he piloted Balmung to intercept satellites, Siegfried's number of kills exceeded 400, and remained at 462.

Thanks to the powerful weapon Meteor and his habit of killing every enemy he saw, Siegfried became the king of kills in the CE world. Among the remaining two Meteor pilots, Kira was used to the Mercy Gun, and Aslan's relocking speed was not as fast as the other two, so Siegfried was left behind in the number of kills.

When Siegfried heard his official record for the first time, he was filled with a sense of astonishment, "I surpassed Amuro?" But Amuro had never fired any killer weapons, and even if the white meteors killed people like cutting vegetables with just a MS, it was no match for a volley of meteors.

Therefore, on the side of the natural people, Siegfried is a hero who saves the world, but he is also an artificially cultivated killing weapon, a cold-blooded killer without any emotions. On the side of the adjusters, although many people "sympathize" with him for going astray, there are more people who think that he is a traitor to the adjusters. He should have fought for the future of the adjusters, but he became an accomplice and executioner of the natural people.

As the identity of the transformers was gradually revealed, Siegfried became the pioneer and leader of this new group. Currently, except for Luna and Canard, all the other members of the Celestial Team have awakened their transformer talents.

At the same time, Hilde announced that the plan to create the first batch of artificial transformers had officially begun. Everyone focused their attention on this new group. They were eager to know whether every transformer could display superhuman abilities like Siegfried.

'The seeds of change have begun to sprout, but no one knows whether it can become the last ray of hope in this desperate world.'

'The dragon-slaying hero was sitting there quietly, his body was tied up with iron chains carved by human hands, and only a few unclear words could be heard from his slightly opened mouth.'

"I'm just Siegfried."

(End of this chapter)