Gundam, but from the Ground Alliance to the Human Alliance to the out-of-control servitor

"Our Side 7 has declared a neutral area. Even if it is a military secret, then any problems that arise are also the fault of your federation who built military bases indiscriminately, right?"

'Is this the reason why Mr. Kai became a freelance journalist in the future and made many big news stories? '

Marco Polo looked at this big boy with messy gray hair and a rather cynical expression;

Maybe in her memory of her previous life, there was a special filter for the 'protagonist team', but after actually meeting her, at least now, she couldn't see anything special about these people. at.

Kay Sitting's defense is not wrong, but judging from the current situation and the regulations of the federal army, they did not explain their own questionable behavior.

Compared with the federal soldiers with different personalities she has come into contact with, as well as the countless user personality portraits she has seen in the training database and collected from the Internet;

She has seen a lot of netizens who complain and vent their dissatisfaction with the current federal government, such as what is the population of the earth?

'Is this what you call a character arc, because you haven't had enough conflict to go through transformation and growth? '

Marco Polo thought about which one dominates the achievements a person can achieve, his innate talent potential or his acquired personal experience——

Does a person have to work hard on his mind, work hard on his body, and make troubles in his actions before he can take on a big responsibility?If a person is like this, what about a country?What about human civilization?

Of course, in terms of driving skills alone, Amuro, who has already piloted a Gundam and scored enough kills to be called an ACE, may be an exception;

Even for those average Federation MS pilots who have transitioned from the fighter force, even if they are driving a Gundam, it is difficult to display its performance like Amuro;

The Ogas system, which has already mastered a large amount of MS driving data, can confidently assert this.

Marco Polo felt that the operating temperature of his host had increased a bit, but, 'the road must be walked step by step', and this system policy implementation guideline will not change;

Focusing on the current situation first, Marco Polo cleared up the meaningless thoughts running in the background.

"Don't worry. The specific situation will not be known until we examine the combat data on the White Base and the Gundam. Before that, all your descriptions of the situation can be summarized in one-sided words."

"So...even if we are not prisoners, we are still suspects, right?"

Sera frowned.

"The Luna 2 base is the last stronghold of the Federation Space Force in the universe. Although the Principality of Zeon gave up the frontal attack, it has never given up infiltrating inward through various channels. Therefore, we cannot allow any potential threats to enter the moon. God No. 2.”

"Oh, so what did we do wrong to deserve this kind of treatment?"

"Miss Serra, what kind of treatment are you dissatisfied with now?"

Sera Marston paused. She suddenly realized that after the seemingly fierce federal soldier entered the bridge, he did not do much other than requesting access to the remote control of the federal fleet flagship. He just stood there. That watch;

But Serra, who has a stronger personality, immediately caught the next loophole in Marco Polo's words:

"'Present treatment' - but what about later? If we are proven innocent, how will we be placed in the future? Will we be sent back to other colonial satellites in Side7?"

"Miss Serra, during the war, for whatever reason, since you have been exposed to the highest military secrets of the Federation, I hope you can realize that this cannot be simply solved by signing a "Confidentiality Agreement" There’s a problem——”

Marco Polo tilted his head slightly and looked at Captain Brad;

"——If you have received formal training, you should also know how important confidentiality is to the success or failure of military operations, right?"

"I don't deny that-"

Captain Blade covered his chin and felt a slight soreness in his teeth; at that time, he only thought about how to protect the White Base and the Gundam from the Zeon army's attack; he used all possible means, including temporary recruitment. Young soldiers join the battle.

However, at least at that time, he had no room to think about what the future would be like for these young soldiers.

When now, the imminent threat under the feet of everyone on the White Base has been temporarily lifted, and they can raise their heads, take a breath, and look towards the future again;

Captain Brad suddenly realized that if things were done in accordance with the regulations of the Federal Army, this meant...

"——But, it happened suddenly, and there is no other way. Miss Marco Polo, if you check the combat records on the ship, or ask Captain Paul for confirmation, you should be able to get a positive answer..."

He knew exactly what these young soldiers were thinking, and it was nothing more than:

'I was forced to be involved in the battle. As long as I survive this period of time and the situation calms down, I can take off my military uniform again, stay away from the battlefield, and continue my life. '

But Captain Brad also knew that things were definitely not that simple.

'Can you please make an adjustment? As a refugee, can we take into account special circumstances and handle it specially...'

Captain Brad's lips twitched, but he couldn't say the second half of his sentence; he looked around the bridge, looking from Amuro, Mirai Hachishu, Sera Mars, these boys and girls in military uniforms swept across his face one by one;

As the captain of the White Base, he must take responsibility and stand with them.

But even he, Brad Noah, can only appear authoritative in front of this group of civilians; if it is like the general just now, or the sergeant next to him who is monitoring them, What should I do long--

What did he do as a quick second lieutenant who was only drafted into the army after the outbreak of the One Year War?

"Of course, the final decision is not made by me. I can understand your worries, but it is meaningless to worry too much about uncertain things now; I recommend that you relax first and have a peaceful sleep—— "

Marco Polo's projection was focused, but through the camera in the bridge, he could see the worried or dissatisfied expressions of the people in the White Base one by one;

"——Enjoy the leisure time now. Why not wait until the future to talk about things that are still uncertain in the future?"

……

"Is this what the boy named Amuro made?"

At the same time, the data extracted from the White Base and the Gundam have been transmitted to the Marco Polo ship and presented to Vice Admiral Cunningham;

He frowned, looking half in surprise and half in disbelief at the video record taken from the cockpit of the Gundam on the screen:

After a few violent shakes, the Zaku of the Zeon army that was charging towards the Gundam was thrown back far away, and the Zaku machine gun was also shot to the ground;

Then, the Gundam relentlessly pursued Zaku, who was leaping in the air and escaping. There was a flash of purple light, and Zaku's remains, cut into two pieces, rolled to the ground.

Lieutenant General Cunningham was on hand to observe Zaku, who was captured by the Federal Army, when he was first tested on Luna 2 by pilots carefully selected by the Space Force;

Even for the elite fighter pilots of the Federation Space Force, boarding a mobile suit for the first time and piloting it is an embarrassing memory. Not to mention fighting, even if they can stand firm, there are only a few people who can walk normally.

"The facts are indeed shocking, but judging from the camera footage in the hangar on the White Base and the usage records of the driving suit, there is no other possibility."

This is probably one of the unreasonable qualities of 'New Type'. Marco Polo analyzed the driving data collected from the Gundam and shared his thoughts with Cynthia;

In the past few months, she had watched how the mobile suit pilots of the Federation Army on Luna 2 deduced the operating methods of the mobile suit bit by bit from a Zaku maintenance manual, summarizing through constant mistakes. Lessons learned through blood and sweat——

Step by step, he went from being unable to walk to being able to drive the pre-production model of Jim. Under the cover of the minefields and sentry guns around Luna 2, he worked with the experienced Zaku who were blocking the fleet with the Zeon army. Drivers circle around.

Amuro Ray, on the other hand, only sat in the cockpit of the Gundam for a few minutes and looked through the Gundam's technical manual a few times before he did it. No, he even surpassed many pilots of the regular federal army.

"Although it would not be surprising if he is the son of Tem Ray, the development director of Gundam, and has access to some of the relevant secrets, but at this level he can be called a prodigy."

Lieutenant General Cunningham repeatedly pulled the progress bar of the video and watched how the Gundam on the screen was able to deal with the approaching attack of the red Zaku while still finding time to use the beam rifle to pierce the target with one shot. Another ordinary Zaku for the wingman.

Lieutenant General Zaku Cunningham has also seen the crimson red aircraft. As early as when he was preparing for the Battle of Hart, he had seen this painted aircraft in many combat records. The question was about the top ace of the Zeon Principality Army.

However, Lieutenant General Cunningham did not think much about it. In his opinion, with the support of a population base of tens or even tens of billions, one or two prodigies with great potential in some aspects will occasionally emerge. From the perspective of probability, From a practical point of view, it makes sense.

……

The fleet of the Federal Space Force was divided into two routes. One route, including Vice Admiral Cunningham's ship Marco Polo, turned back to Luna 2 together with the White Base; while the other route continued to rush towards Side 7.

The White Base contained far from all the residents of the attacked colonial satellite. Now, after more than ten hours, the interference of rice particles spread by Char's troops gradually dissipated——

The Federation's fleet received a distress signal from the colonial satellite, and a large number of residents were still stranded in the air-tight air raid shelters. The breach in the outer wall of the satellite had not yet been repaired, and the air in the satellite continued to leak;

Unless the forces of the Principality of Zeon, who are planning to launch an attack, will come to their rescue, otherwise, the only thing that the colonial satellite, which is like an island in the universe, can count on now is the Federation fleet of Vice Admiral Cunningham.

Chapter 13: Military Uniform (3)

"Miss Marco Polo?"

Although Amuro Ray, who was supposed to have exhausted his energy during the fierce battle, couldn't sleep at all because his life had changed so drastically in the past two days.

He tentatively shouted into the pager at the door of his room.

"How can I help you?"

For Marco Polo, who has remotely taken over the internal communication system of the White Base, it is not difficult to be on call;

She can even switch to the pager, the small screen used for video calls within the ship, and generate her own anthropomorphic image directly on the screen.

Amuro was obviously startled by the sudden appearance of Marco Polo on the screen. He was stunned for a moment, then looked at Marco Polo and said:

"It's amazing. This background picture is the bridge, and Captain Brad can be seen; and then this figure is directly generated on it... Has Miss Marco Polo hacked into the communication system of the White Base?"

Lieutenant Brad's function as acting captain is currently unavailable on the 'White Base'. In addition, Brad, who calls himself a gentleman, cannot allow himself to rest first and ask those young ladies to take over the duty. ——

He had no choice but to watch the combat records downloaded from the Marco Polo while being on duty on the bridge, trying to hold off his sleepiness and pass the time.

'What is hacking? '

There is something baffling about Marco Polo;

[As an artificial intelligence, it cannot be as pervasive as Skynet and can invade any electronic system at will. I'm really sorry. 】

In the Earth Circle in the Universal Era, as the main place where humans live, each colonial satellite can be regarded as a semi-local area network without any wired connection to the outside world;

Coupled with the wireless communication obstacles caused by the dispersion of nanoparticles, it can be said that in today's human society, there is no relatively stable and high-speed Internet that can connect the world together like when humans were still living on the earth.

Large-scale network information synchronization between colonial satellites often requires sending a transport ship loaded with hard drives to physically complete the transfer of digital information.

"With Captain Brad's permission, for safety reasons, I have temporarily taken over part of the White Base's system; the replacement video signal input is only for the convenience of conversation, please don't get me wrong."

"Um...Sorry, uh, what was I trying to say?"

Amuro scratched the back of his head, looking a little disappointed, and lowered his head as if he was looking for a topic;

"Ah, by the way! Thank you just now, Miss Marco Polo."

"You don't have to be polite, but I shouldn't have done anything worthy of gratitude?"

This fast-moving and unintelligible topic gave Marco Polo a little bit of a new human shock; if possible, it was best for her to talk to someone who started with prefaces and kept the logic of the context during the conversation. More trouble-free.

"That's right. Miss Marco Polo probably doesn't know yet. Just now Captain Brad originally asked me to review my mistake of underestimating the enemy's advance in the battle just now, but it was interrupted by your appearance."

Amuro lay back on his bed, with a scared smile on his face; because he was currently the only pilot of the Gundam, and due to the large number of combat attrition, he now had a room to himself.

"Captain Blade was very fierce at that time. Obviously I shot down two more Zakus and sank an enemy warship this time."

Marco Polo played back the battle footage from the bridge of the White Base. It is not difficult to surmise that Captain Blade discovered that the Char force they originally planned to attack had two additional Musai-class ships carrying full Zaku— —

Moreover, when Amuro directly launched an attack and alerted the enemy, Brad felt desperate.

"This is indeed a very impressive result. Even regular MS pilots of the Federal Space Force can rarely achieve such results in a single sortie. Moreover, according to the Gundam's driving record, this is only your third time. Get on this MS."

"Yes! The first time I got on a Gundam, it was during the Zeon Army's raid. At that time, I had to look through the manual to find out where the Gundam's weapons were."

"Then, you destroyed two Zakus of the Zeon Army in your first attack and protected the White Base - that's really amazing."

"Hey, hey, I'm not as powerful as you say. If I exchanged bodies with the guy named Char who drives the red Zaku, I'm afraid I would have been shot down long ago, right?"

Although he was speaking self-effacing words, Amuro's expression gradually became much more relaxed; from Captain Brad, he only received words such as:

"Whether you are a driver of the regular army or not, you have to come in handy now."

"You rely too much on the performance of the Gundam."

"Since I gave you the Gundam to pilot, you have the obligation to protect this ship!"

With such harsh words, no one has ever praised him so directly - no, there is still no 'person' yet.

"According to information, the Zeon Army Major, Char Aznable, is the most outstanding graduate of the Zeon Military Academy. He also learned how to fly a mobile suit very early. By now, he is probably already in the mobile suit's cockpit. Over thousands of hours spent in—"

Marco Polo just objectively laid out the facts in front of Amuro;

"——You dared to fight Char when you were just starting out, and you were able to shoot down many of his subordinates. Moreover, I have also checked the combat records on the Gundam. You are actually still learning at a high speed to further explore the performance of the Gundam, right? "

"That's right! Miss Marco Polo, after every attack, I reflect on how I should improve. I also learn, including the driving skills of my opponent, the MS named Char."

Amuro seemed a little excited. Not only was he talking, he was also using his two hands, sometimes touching left and right, sometimes flying up and down, to indicate the positions and tactics of MS vs. MS battles.

"... Of course, it's also because of Captain Brad's warning. Now I don't just rely on the performance of the Gundam."

"It should be said that it can better utilize the performance of the Gundam. War is not a fair competitive duel. Being able to rely on will and tactics to make up for the gap in equipment performance is admirable, but there is nothing to feel guilty about having the advantage of equipment performance - "

Seeing that Amuro has taken Char, as a powerful enemy that has appeared continuously, and is currently the only opponent that can rely on Zaku and Gundam, as the target of pursuit, Marco Polo retrieved the memory from about half a year ago;

"——Including the enemy named Char; when he gained the name of the 'Red Comet', he was driving a Zaku equipped with a nuclear warhead to attack the Federation fleet and fighter planes that had not developed mobile suits at that time. That was not the case. It’s asymmetric warfare.”

“Is that so—Hey, if you put it this way, has Miss Marco Polo fought with Char before?”

Amuro seemed a little curious when he discovered that Marco Polo was talking about the 'Red Comet' and did not show shock or fear like Colonel Paul and some other federal officers.

"We have not had any direct contact, but we have all participated in the Battle of Hart. At that time, the number of Zaku invested by the Zeon Army reached four digits, and there was no room to pay special attention to a certain enemy machine."

'A four-digit Zaku, a three-digit battleship...' Amuro imagined the fierce battle scene in his mind - of course, he couldn't imagine it;

Even in science fiction movies, comics and other works that require direct construction of the picture, such grand scenes rarely appear; most so-called fleet battle scenes can be called burning if the picture can accommodate more than two battleships. Funded.

Amuro suddenly had the urge to continue on the skill tree of mobile suit piloting, even though the Gundam was essentially just a killing machine.

"In addition, it is already very late; as the only Gundam pilot on the White Base, it is also very important to take a full rest when you have free time to ensure that you can stay energetic when encountering unexpected battles."