Gundam: The Wind That Blows Through Space

Chapter 648: Hitting the wall (Part )
"Commander, Blue 3 and Charlie 14 have reported contact."

"Let Team Chris handle it. Meanwhile, let the Zaim go to the D5 defense zone and take over from the Paris to retreat and rest."

Inside the bridge of the Seraph, acting commander Alexei Omi tapped the armrest with his right index finger unconsciously. Unlike his seemingly relaxed appearance, his brain was working rapidly, and in front of him was the complete defense map of the First Fleet near PLANT.

"Neo Yagama called. They have arrived at the target defense zone and are assisting the Kassandros in retreating."

"Call them back and tell them to stay alert. How are the Ravens doing?"

"All solar furnaces have been ignited and are ready to go at any time."

"Let's maintain the current situation for now and see how the situation develops."

Omi frowned. In recent times, the harassment against PLANT has become more and more frequent, and the quality of them is mainly the Wingdams carrying nuclear bombs. Although these Wingdams' attacks are no different from suicide in front of the elite pilots of the First Fleet, Omi still sensed a conspiracy from this abnormality.

"Two Nelson-class ships had power failures within half an hour. Is this a coincidence?"

Bakirolu left with the Orb Lion, and the public reason was to return to Granada for replenishment and rest. After all, this 600-meter steel behemoth had hardly had any rest since the end of the Lunar Orbit Battle. However, most officers and soldiers in the fleet knew that their immediate superior had gone to see Cagalli.

Only Omi knew that Bakilulu's departure concealed a deeper purpose, which was to make the "unstable factors" within the fleet feel that they had an opportunity to take advantage of it, and thus complete the internal cleansing ahead of time.

Compared with the ground forces that failed to catch up with the war, the First Fleet was composed entirely of colleagues who had "conquered the world" with Siegfried. However, the current situation was no longer a dispute between the two political systems of the People's Revolutionary League and PLANT, but a divergence in the lines within the People's Revolutionary League. Everyone in the fleet had a few good friends in the army. At least Omi himself had received no less than five "letters of persuasion to surrender."

Therefore, Bakilulu decisively decided to complete the internal detoxification operation before the situation collapsed further. Once the conflict between conservatives and radicals got further out of control in the future, she needed to ensure that her fleet would not intervene in the civil war as much as possible, so as to avoid tearing the relationship between the Revolutionary League and PLANT that had just begun to be repaired again.

"You can decide when a war starts, but you can't decide when it ends. This statement is always true."

After sighing to himself, Omi turned his gaze back to the bridge. The two protracted wars not only consumed the limited resources of the Earth and the PLANTs, but also resulted in the loss of billions of lives.

Bloody Valentine's Day, April Fool's Day Crisis, Operation Cutthroat, Battle of Jakin, Battle of the Moon, when Siegfried visited PLANT, he jokingly told Lacus that he had a lot of blood debts among the adjusters, and he was almost on par with Patrick.

When talking about the first person responsible for PLANT, Patrick, who led the Cutthroat Campaign, has a position that no one can shake. Even though Siegfried changed from Meteor to Silver Thunder, the number of people he killed from beginning to end was not as many as the number sent by Patrick. This is also a major reason why Aslan could not keep his position firmly. With a 7% casualty rate, it is not an exaggeration to say that every family in PLANT is in mourning.

The same situation also happened on Earth. Although PLANT was not as cruel as Zeon, the number of Earthlings who died directly or indirectly from the neutron jammer was not small. The People's Revolutionary League once conducted a background check in the military and found that more than 40% of the soldiers had various hatreds with PLANT, a large proportion of which was due to the energy shortage caused by the April Fool's Day crisis.

The current commander-in-chief of the Kingdom's Royal Guard, Reina Imelia, is a typical example. Abandoned by the Atlantic Ocean, she should have returned to the People's Revolutionary League as a matter of course, but the five students Reina was most proud of in her life all died in the Heliopolis turmoil. It is impossible for her to make peace with that group of ZAFT just because of a ceasefire. If it wasn't for the fact that it was Isaac who helped when the Copies attacked the Kingdom's transport convoy, she probably wouldn't even look at this former red-clothed man.

The hatred caused by billions of casualties will not disappear immediately because of a treaty between the two governments. Similarly, there are some guys in the First Space Fleet who have the idea of ​​"killing all the adjusters". Bakilulu has no way and is impossible to identify these potential unstable elements one by one. It happened that Cagalli asked her to meet in Granada. This excellent captain immediately thought of the trick of luring the snake out of its hole, so she teamed up with Omi to act out a half-true and half-false drama.

"Enemy detected in defense zone C3!" "Send Team Locke to C3 for support. Telegraph Captain Kuratis to keep an eye out for any abnormalities in the surrounding area."

In the C5 defense zone of the First Space Fleet, an old antique Nelson-class ship was being towed slowly away from this space area by a tugboat. Coincidentally, Abby was also repeating the order from the Seraph, and Kuraitis also gave her own response after pondering for a moment.

"Let all MS units go out and put everyone on first combat alert."

"Yes, everyone, first combat alert, MS troops, move out immediately!"

Arthur did not feel sorry for the cancellation of his rest. Instead, he conveyed the captain's order with a serious face. Then the entire Neo Agama immediately became busy, and everyone from the CIC to the maintenance team entered combat mode.

In the hangar, Thiago hurriedly grabbed the energy drink and took a few big sips. He had just completed a round of patrol missions, and according to the procedure, he should have had a rest period of no less than 12 hours. However, Kuraitis's order directly dragged him back from the lounge, and now he hasn't even had a bite of food.

"I brought you some food, eat it quickly."

He reached out and caught the lunch bag thrown by Nicol. Wino behind him had already signaled that the Judgment Gundam was ready for attack. Tiago had no choice but to quickly return to the cockpit with the lunch bag in his mouth.

"Don't eat in the cockpit. In a zero-gravity environment, food crumbs will float everywhere. Hygiene is secondary. Which switch is affected is the real problem."

The image that appeared on the screen was naturally Nicol's. After swallowing the food in a few mouthfuls, Thiago pounded his chest a few times to calm it down before reluctantly speaking, "Why are you becoming more and more like Aslan? If I had a way, who wouldn't want to sit down and eat properly?"

"No eating in the cockpit is a rule that the military academy has repeatedly emphasized."

While the two were chattering, the team channels were activated one after another. Soon, Michal and Lina's avatars appeared one by one, which meant that the original ZAFT pilot team was ready to attack.

"Captain Elsman, the captain is already urging us!"

"Got it, got it." Thiago tried the tightness of the pedal a few times, until the three green lights came on, he pushed the joystick hard, "Thiago Elsman, Judgment Gundam, attack!"

"Nigel Amalfi, Sky Punishment Gundam, attack!"

"Michail Koster, Gozagu Wolf, attack!"

"Lina Sera Yae, Test Type ν Gundam, attack!"

(End of this chapter)