Iron Ship Man's Traveling Journey

"This is not a concept. We are not refusing to go to war with the Earth Alliance, but the Earth Alliance has the upper hand. We need at least one channel to communicate with the other party. Even if we can get a little news, it is a good thing!"

"Hmph! After all, you still want to surrender?"...

In PLANT's Supreme Council, disputes broke out as soon as the top councilors met. Several peaceful councilors tentatively proposed whether to negotiate with the earth, but they were besieged by the hardline councilors who had an absolute advantage.

However, compared to the beginning of the original plot of "Gundam SEED", when the peaceful faction of the PLANT Supreme Council was already evenly matched with the main combat faction, the most obvious change brought to PLANT by the wings of a certain Fengshen pterosaur is that PLANT has not experienced a series of wars called "victory" with the earth at all, but it is actually a quagmire. For example, the ZAFT army in the original plot seems to have swept all the way to the moon, and even fell to the earth. The ZAFT army consumed countless soldiers and materials in this process, and the consequence was naturally that the peace faction on the PLANT side rose.

Now, although the ZAFT army has two defeats in the low-earth orbit volley and the new star battle, the overall loss has not reached the level at the beginning of the original plot of "Gundam SEED", which was wiped out by the gradually fierce war "Blood Valentine's Day" With the heart of revenge brought about by the tragedy, the ZAFT army still maintained a high will to fight. Most of the people in PLANT also supported the ZAFT army. In addition, the chief of defense Wei Sara took a lot of chips to carry out a vertical and horizontal alliance The strategy of PLANT hardliners is unprecedentedly powerful.

The dispute in the PLANT Supreme Council was provoked by the weak peace faction wanting to show off, otherwise the peace faction would have Speaker Klein and two members left, while the hardliner PLANT Supreme Councilor would There are five members in total, and the remaining four centrist members all tend to be more or less hardliners.

Therefore, although the disputes between the peace faction and the hardliners are quite fierce, they actually don't focus on the current war at all, which is extremely annoyed by the defense chief Sara!

"enough!"

Seeing the arguing scene that made people feel agitated, Sara, the head of the defense commissioner, felt the blood vessels in her forehead throbbing. She resisted the tempting idea of ​​calling the guards outside to shoot those idiots, and took a deep breath. He punched the conference table in front of him with a straight fist, and then looked coldly at the members of the Supreme Council who fell silent, his words could not hide the coldness in the slightest, "Everyone, what we are going to discuss now is whether PLANT The matter of turning into a full-scale wartime state is not for the purpose of arguing whether to negotiate with the Earth Alliance, I propose that PLANT enter a full-scale wartime state and start a formal vote!"

hiss~!

Hearing the speech of the Chief of Defense Wei, Sara, the rest of the PLANT Supreme Council gasped. Their eyes on the Chief of Defense Wei became even more complicated. Several members of the peace camp and the hardliners hesitated.

The proposal of an all-out wartime state was the result of Sara, the Chief of Defense Force, being reminded by her own think tank that when PLANT is currently facing a powerful enemy like the United Earth, the internal forces still have not been fully integrated: Compared with the original work of "Gundam SEED", the current power held by the Chief of Defense Wei Sara is much stronger than that of him at the same time. However, facing the more powerful Earth United, he now only feels that the Power is not enough at all. For example, many large companies and forces in PLANT choose to be close to the hardliners, but there are still other forces in PLANT that do not belong to the hardliners. For example, the peace faction headed by Speaker Klein is the best. Although they also agree with PLANT's war against the United Earth, they have no intention of handing over the resources and power in their hands to Sarah, the head of the National Defense Commission.

For this kind of thing, Sara, the head of the National Defense Wei, naturally knew the inside story, but because PLANT was founded in the beginning, it was composed of many adjuster teams and countless adjusters, including him and his dead wife. If he wants to fully integrate PLANT and enter a state of war, it is already the last time he has exchanged interests and borrowed the atmosphere of "Blood Valentine's Day". La has to face the secret obstruction of the peace faction and even the neutral faction headed by Speaker Klein.

After all, if PLANT completely enters the wartime state, it means that the rights of the ZAFT army will completely override the Supreme Council, and all personnel, materials, and industries will be produced by the ZAFT army. Sara, the chairman of wei, made a decision with one word, that is to say, Speaker Klein and other members of parliament will become decorations. Whether they are in their own rights or the interests of the group behind them, they will not rashly agree to this kind of truly let PLANT Proposal to enter a state of total war.

After the failure of the Battle of Nova this time, after the initial anger, Sarah, the chief of the National Defense Commission, realized the opportunity brought by it, and prepared to implement the proposal of PLANT entering a state of full-scale war without hesitation!

"Your Excellency, Minister of National Defense Sarah, is it a little bit to put PLANT into a state of full-scale war now..."

After a strange silence, Senator Irene, who belongs to the peace faction, bit the bullet and opened her mouth, trying to obstruct the proposal of the Secretary of State for National Defense Sara.

"Something?!"

For the obstruction of the peace faction, Sarah, the head of the National Defense Commission, who had been psychologically prepared, did not speak. One of the hardline members of parliament, Isalia, took the initiative to interrupt the other party (she is Yitzhak's mother). She looked at the competitors who belonged to different camps in the past, but the sarcasm in her tone made the other congressmen look solemn: "Don't forget, the battle of Nova was our army's defeat and heavy losses, and the United Earth side was called 'Gundam'." The emergence of cutting-edge mobile suits and cutting-edge space battleships represents only the beginning, and if PLANT cannot be fully united and use every bit of power for war, the strong foundation and production capacity of the Earth United , the failure of PLANT is a matter of time, shall we hand over the fate of everyone in PLANT to the blue cosmos?"

The truth of Congressman Isalia has left the peace faction including Speaker Klein and Congressman Irene speechless, including those neutral congressmen who lean toward the hardliners. If you really believe the words of the blue cosmos , PLANT is already over, right?

Moreover, judging from the current atmosphere of PLANT, the vast majority of adjusters support the hardliners and fight with the earth to the end!

"Everyone, let's officially start voting!"

Seeing the reactions of Speaker Klein and other congressmen, Sara, the head of the National Defense Commission, spoke slowly, and directly promoted the proposal voting procedure in her own capacity.

Undoubtedly, when the proportion of hardliners and hardline MPs has reached 75%, PLANT's proposal to enter a state of all-out war this time was passed with a majority of votes in favor, and Clay, who did not choose to vote in favor Because the speaker and other peaceful MPs only abstained and did not vote against it!

……

Later, a reception room in the PLANT Supreme Council building.

The current speaker of PLANT, Speaker Klein, watched his friend Sarah walk in with an extremely complicated expression. He opened his mouth to say something but was unable to say it for a while.

I don't know when it started, the relationship between Chairman Klein and Secretary of Defense Sara turned cold. A year ago, the two families discussed getting their children engaged, and they had different ideas. But they are all fighting for PLANT, and the relationship between the two in private is quite good.

However, since the "Blood Valentine's Day" incident, Chairman Klein has never seen the smile of the Chief of Defense Wei Sarah. He has completely devoted himself to the revenge war against the United Earth, and even his son Aslan also returned to PLANT from the lunar city of Copernicus and joined the ZAFT army, and in several large-scale space battles including the Battle of Nova, the forces of the ZAFT army and PLANT hardliners have greatly expanded, and they are already completely dominant. For example, Speaker Klein still has confidence in his friends, but other members of the peace camp can't sit still, trying to jump out and fight for the right to speak of PLANT.

Speaker Klein did not take the lead. Although he was a little uneasy about the power of the hardliners in PLANT, he did not intend to oppose it for his own interests as other peaceful MPs. Otherwise, with his prestige as the current speaker of PLANT, the hardline MPs And centrist lawmakers did not pass the proposal for a full state of war so easily.

Therefore, after the proposal of PLANT entering a state of all-out war just passed, Speaker Klein once again decided to find his friend and prepare to have a good discussion with the other party, trying to make the other party take it seriously and let PLANT enter a state of all-out war!

"Klein, what do you want from me?"

Seeing his former friend, a flash of memory flashed in Sarah's eyes, and then she said plainly.

"Sarah, you can control the entire plant now, but if we enter a state of all-out war, unless we can be sure to win, the consequences will be hard to say..." For Klein, he said to his friend He knew his personality very well, and when he heard the tone of the other party, he felt a chill in his heart, but he still bit the bullet and reminded the other party well.

"Klein, don't say any more!"

Hearing Speaker Klein's words, Sara, the head of the National Defense Commission, suddenly felt a nameless anger in her heart, but at any rate, the other party was her friend, and now that he has seized the power of PLANT, she still held back her anger and died. He opened his mouth and said: "Only when PLANT enters a state of full-scale war can we have hope of defeating the United Earth. At least we will not count on those blue cosmoses for peace. We regulators must use our own strength to create our own future!! !"

Before Chairman Klein could continue, Sarah, the head of the National Defense Commission, got up and left the room. Klein watched his friend leave with a helpless and sad state of mind.

Now, Speaker Klein has discovered that PLANT is completely dominated by the hardliners, and the state of full-scale war just promoted by the head of defense Wei, Sara, has given the ZAFT army the right to unify the PLANT completely. brought it into a state of war, and Speaker Klein now has no room to speak to PLANT except for the name of the current speaker of PLANT. He can only watch the defense chief Sarah and a group of tough Pai began to dominate the power of PLANT.

Afterwards, Sara, the head of the National Defense Commission, came forward in person, led directly by her own team and hardline members of parliament, and directly established the Supreme War Coordination Committee of PLANT. The first important task of the Supreme War Coordination Committee was to count the PLANT All important information such as enterprises, personnel and materials, and integrate the entire PLANT into a powerful war machine...

(Hmm, I’m still blowing on the electric fan on vacation so I can calm down and code words. I’ve already saved another chapter to save manuscripts. It’s expected to be full attendance this month. ^O^~!)

Chapter 22

"Sir Sarah, do we still want to unite with Orb?"

On an industrial satellite under the newly established PLANT War Coordinating Committee, Councilor Amalfi looked at Sara, the head of the National Defense Commission who came to inspect in surprise, and couldn't help asking his boss.

Well, Congressman Amalfi’s life points are almost all in IQ and scientific research, interpersonal communication and other aspects are average, such as the overall situation, he didn’t vote for a few points at all, except for national defense. The scientific research and integration orders issued by Wei Chairman Sara did not pay attention to the secret game between PLANT, Orb, and the Earth United forces. Even the voting process of the PLANT Supreme Council a few days ago, he had obtained Sara in advance. voted in favour.

Of course, this kind of performance of Amalfi Councilor made Sara, the head of the National Defense Wei, very satisfied. As the boss, it is very good to have a subordinate with excellent ability, but a smart person who knows too many secrets and is too curious People are a bit of an eyesore!

"Amalfi, haven't you read the summary of information I gave you?"

Seeing the dazed look in Amalfi's eyes, and already knowing enough about Amalfi's character, Sara, the head of the defense department, felt that there was no need to get angry at all, and directly said that she had made this decision The reason: "In terms of the United Earth, apart from the two specially equipped mobile suits called 'Sura Gundam' and 'Unicorn Gundam', what really worries me is the one called 'Windam'. The new mass-produced mobile suits and other new types of MA, the most important thing is the Dawn-class battlecruiser just produced by the Earth Alliance. They are the killers of the Earth Alliance in this Nova Battle. PLANT wants to obtain its due rights. You must have the strength to counter the United Earth!"

"...Could it be that we can only unite with Orb?"

Listening to the words of Sara, the head of the National Defense Commissioner, Amalfi understood part of the content, but he still didn't understand his boss's thinking.

"That's right! Orb's strength is inferior to ours, but at any rate, they have certain strengths on the earth and in the universe. Now there are not many forces that have the courage to unite with the earth and have disagreements. Orb wants to belong to himself It is normal and good to have new weapons such as new mobile suits and MA, otherwise we would not spend so much effort to collect information on new mobile suits and new MA, so now we have a common hostile goal with them, and Orb can still get involved A part of the energy of the Earth Alliance..." As for her subordinate, Sara, the head of the Defense Force, did not have the idea of ​​playing charades anymore, and directly stated her own strategy.

For a very simple reason, Sara, the head of the Defense Department, also had a very bad premonition about the prospect of PLANT's war with the Earth Alliance: he himself died because of the death of his wife who was inseparable with each other, and he couldn't wait for the Earth Alliance and the blue cosmos It is about to be completely wiped out, but his ability to judge and think has not been affected in the slightest. If you want to talk about the low-earth orbit interception battle and the battle of Yakin Duwei, he can still command the ZAFT army calmly, holding the same earth If the alliance continues to fight, the disastrous defeat of the Battle of Nova and the powerful strength displayed by the Earth Alliance will make him clearly realize that PLANT is in a very dangerous situation, and a little carelessness may completely plunge PLANT into a situation of extinction.

The strength of the new space battleships and Gundam bodies displayed by the Earth Alliance in the Nova Battle has already surpassed all the weapons currently installed by the ZAFT Army. Going forward, it will take at least half a year to come up with newer MS test machines and new warship prototypes. Judging from the super productivity of the Earth Alliance, PLANT is absolutely no match for the powerful industry of the Earth Alliance. ability, then Chief of Defense Secretary Sara naturally has to think of other ways.

Among them, Sara, the head of the National Defense Commission, ordered the modification project code-named "Genesis" to be included in the first sequence on several resource satellites controlled by her own private power, and then allocated a large number of resources to the industrial department headed by Amalfi Representative A few resources, and later on, he thought carefully about how to hinder the union of the earth. For example, the country of Orb came into his eyes, and he was going to spend a certain price to win over cannon fodder.

As far as Congressman Amalfi is concerned, of course he doesn't know what his boss thinks, but he has no doubts about the order of Defense Chief Sarah, so he simply agrees and prepares to go to Orb quietly!

……

Earth, United Arab Emirates

Orb, who is flying the flag of a neutral country, appears to be quite peaceful and peaceful overall. Even domestic regulators and natural persons don't have many conflicts.

After all, before the Earth United took the initiative to come to the door, Orb was a country with quite good overall strength. Looking at the Nanyang region, it was one of the best forces. Even the other small island countries around it did not threaten it. Due to the various influences of Bu, Orb, who is in a peaceful environment and has a relatively high level of technology, naturally became prosperous very quickly.

Although the world of "Gundam SEEE" originated from the flapping wings of Liu Yuan, the Fengshen pterosaur, the overall plot has become completely different from the original plot line. Orb did not get the ZAFT army to attack the Nova satellite group and land on the earth to fight The war dividends brought about by a series of battles (such as various talents trying to escape the war and the technology and funds they possess), but thanks to the blue cosmos raging around the world before, the space port where Orb is located is the adjuster They chose an important channel to escape from the earth, and Orb Prime Minister Uzmi’s skills are quite good, many adjusters stayed on Orb and contributed their own strength, which made Orb’s development speed during that period of time very impressive. It's amazing.

Now, Orb is already among the top ten countries in terms of industrial capacity and influence on the entire earth. They even use the secret deal with PLANT to rapidly increase their strength, in order to maintain a certain influence between PLANT and the United Earth. Instead of being regarded as fat meat waiting to be slaughtered, and after the Earth Alliance showed a strong position, Prime Minister Uzmi paid more attention to the cooperation with PLANT in order to obtain more resources to make Orb stronger.

Therefore, the secret arrival of Congressman Amalfi and his party was warmly welcomed by Prime Minister Uzmi, and he ordered his confidants to arrange for Congressman Amalfi and others in secret before meeting with the other party!

"Your Excellency Amalfi, welcome to Orb!"

Inside a high-end hotel on Obon Island, Prime Minister Uzmi, who had disguised himself, looked at the Amalfi MP who also disguised his face, and welcomed him with a sigh.

"Prime Minister Uzmi, I'm also glad to be here in Orb!"

Faced with Prime Minister Uzmi's greetings, Congressman Amalfi's eyes flashed a hint of exclamation, and after a casual sentence, he said directly to Prime Minister Uzmi: "However, our PLANT is not as peaceful as Aub , if the Earth Alliance launches an attack again, the ZAFT army may retreat to the PLANT homeland to defend the homeland, and in order to change the dilemma faced by PLANT, I came to Orb..."

"Chairman Amalfi, what is Plant planning to do?"

Hearing Mr. Amalfi's blunt answer, Prime Minister Uzmi reacted in a daze, looked at him and asked directly.

Prime Minister Uzmi is not surprised by the straight-forward attitude of Amalfi MP: It is different from what many ordinary people imagine, for example, private negotiations between heads of state or countries with acquaintances, there will be no bright side In the fancy diplomatic clichés, everyone directly showed their bargaining chips and demands in private, and then directly negotiated with each other, and finally reached an agreed transaction.

Besides, the relationship between Orb and Plant is good, and in addition to the pressure from the behemoth of the United Earth, Prime Minister Uzmi still wants to know the real purpose of Plant's coming to Orb!

"It's very simple. PLANT needs allies. Orb has a good relationship with us in the past. We are willing to work with Orb to develop new mobile suits and new space battleships!" Councilor Amalfi looked at Prime Minister Uzmi, looking around the room only for himself He and several of the other party's trusted subordinates did not hesitate to follow the request of Sara, the chairman of the national defense committee, and directly expressed the proposal of PLANT.

"Work together to develop new mobile suits and new space battleships?!"

Hearing the conditions given by the PLANT side, Prime Minister Uzmi's eyes sparkled, and he really wanted to agree immediately.

New mobile suits and new space battleships are the hottest topics in the world right now!

The Earth Alliance released the news of the victory of the Nova Battle. The news that its new special-equipped MS body called "Gundam" and the new space battleship directly caused heavy losses to the ZAFT army has spread all over the world and shocked the top leaders of all countries. .

A Gundam that can rival hundreds of mass-produced mobile suits, and a Dawn-class space battleship that is more than 1000 meters long and looks like a small mountain range. The two main factors of the military's disastrous defeat in the Battle of Nova have always been the key factors carefully studied by countries on the earth, and Orb is no exception. As early as in the low-earth orbit volley and the battle of Yakin Duwei, They consciously collected the wreckage and information of advanced weapons such as MS and MA on both sides through various channels, trying to strengthen Orb's force.

It is a pity that Orb's own technology is not bad, but it is not enough to compare with Earth United and PLANT: In the plot of the original "Gundam SEED", Orb's own technology level produced a mass-produced MS Murasame. , which is much worse than the G-series Gundam, the Heretic Gundam is quite difficult. If it hadn’t secretly absorbed some of the confidential information of the Atlantic Federation’s G-series Gundam and the Archangel, and in the later stage, it would be to find an opportunity to learn from the Strike Gundam. After obtaining the key information, they would not be able to produce Dawn Gundam at all. However, advanced mass-produced mobile suits and mass-produced mobile suits such as Zaku Warrior, Bigelow, and Thunderhawk, such as Earth United and PLANT, which Liu Yuan took the initiative to open up. Not to mention the type MA, the X-series Gundam suits and advanced space battleships of the United Earth will definitely not be developed jointly with Orb, and they can only work hard on their own first.

It's a pity that Orb's scientific and technological strength is quite good compared to countries such as the African Union, the Oceanian Union, and South America. However, if you want to design an advanced MS or advanced MA from scratch, the technical flaws will be obvious. , They didn’t have a design plan for the MS body at all before. With the help of the Zeon MS wreckage obtained from various channels and the subsequent Zaku Warrior wreckage, the unmanned MA Mobius wreckage, and the Thunderhawk MA wreckage, it cost It took several months and a lot of manpower and material resources to reluctantly come up with an early plan for a mass-produced MS called "M1 Misguided", which is still in an incomplete experimental stage.

However, after the Battle of Nova, Prime Minister Uzmi and Orb's top executives discovered that the mass-produced MS did not perform very well. To catch up, you need to spend a lot of manpower and material resources. At any rate, you have to have the corresponding technical background and industrial production capacity. Otherwise, if you don’t even have these two prerequisites, no matter how much manpower and material resources you spend, you will just fetch water from the sea. drifted.

What makes people feel helpless is that Orb's technical background and industrial production capacity have not yet reached the point where they can produce Gundam and Dawn-class battlecruisers, and PLANT has not reached the corresponding standard line in this regard. It is completely impossible for Aubuk to perfect the immature technology and turn it into productive force!

"...Then, doesn't PLANT have any other requirements?"

Although Prime Minister Uzmi was very excited and wanted to agree to it immediately, but as an old fox, he still held back his eagerness and remained silent for a few seconds before opening his mouth to probe.

"It's very simple. Plant and Orb work together to develop a new type of mobile suit and a new space battleship. Orb must pay at least 70% of the material consumption in advance. In terms of technical personnel, Plant can send someone to guide them. Orb also needs to provide it to Plant free of charge. A certain amount of supplies..." In the face of Prime Minister Uzmi, Congressman Amalfi felt a little embarrassed, but he still followed the instructions of the National Defense Chairman Sara before he set off, directly in the framework of the two-party cooperation proposal to Orb, Several terms were proposed that were very favorable to PLANT.

If this is the case, Prime Minister Uzmi is also aware of it, but now it is not a buyer's market but a complete seller's market: if PLANT does not cooperate with Orb, it will cost more time and energy at most, and he will not be affected by any However, if the Orb side loses this opportunity, who knows when they will be able to come up with a suitable new MS and new warship plan. Anyway, according to Erica Symonds, the person in charge of the Dawn Club, she wants to use the Orb To deploy our own strength to manufacture Gundams and new space battleships, we must at least expand the size of the Shuguang Club by more than ten times, so that we can have enough scientific research talents to carry out targeted scientific research. If we want to produce results, we must use years as a unit Let's do the math.

In contrast, PLANT proposed a cooperation agreement that is quite conscientious. If Orb is in the position of PLANT, the cooperation agreement proposed by Prime Minister Uzmi is likely to go too far, and Prime Minister Uzmi has already felt it recently. The maliciousness from the Earth United, of course, has not yet happened to invade Orb or spy on intelligence, but the ambassador of the Earth United embassy in Orb has come to chat with him many times, discussing with him some affairs about PLANT. It has already made him feel uneasy.

After careful consideration, Prime Minister Uzmi still did not immediately agree. He just expressed his interest in Congressman Amalfi and needed some time to convince other high-level officials of Orb. After greeting for a while, he directly Returned to my residence and contacted other high-level Orbs!

……

"Prime Minister Uzmi, are you going to board the PLANT ship?"

Later, at the prime minister's residence in Orb, Prime Minister Uzmi looked at the top-secret communication channel in front of him, and listened helplessly to the voice of Mina Sahak on the opposite side.

"Patriarch Sahak, you should be aware of Aubra's current situation. The United Earth side is already a tentative act, and they want to bring Aubla into their side!"

Facing Mina Sahak, Prime Minister Uzmi was somewhat displeased with the other party's offensive behavior, but as one of the most influential high-level executives in Orb, the other party's status and control power are only inferior to his own, considering It is impossible to avoid the other party in cooperation with Plant this time, and he can only suppress the displeasure in his heart, telling the cold truth very solemnly: "Joob is only confined to a position of obeying orders, There is nothing wrong with following the United Earth, but if Orb wants to maintain a neutral and independent position in the future, he will probably be hit by the United Earth and the blue cosmos. We need a power that can make the United Earth afraid, PLANT The proposed cooperative research and development plan for new mobile suits and new space battleships is our best opportunity now..."

"...That's true, then I joined this plan on behalf of the Sahak family!"

Hearing the truth from Prime Minister Uzmi, Mina Sahak also froze and was speechless. After a while, her pretty face became very serious, and then said that she joined the plan on behalf of the Sahak family. promise.

Mina Sahak is naturally not a novice. Known as the "Orb's Shadow Army God", she is more aware of the dangerous situation Orb is currently facing: as Orb who chanted the neutral slogan early , I really can't believe the integrity of the three giants of the United Earth. The value of a space colony satellite and the fourth mass accelerator of the earth owned by it is too high. Moreover, Orb's secret hook-up with Plant, coupled with taking in many adjusters in his own country, has long aroused the dissatisfaction of Blue Cosmos. What the earth is lacking now is an excuse. It may be the United Earth Army that came with the attitude of Mount Tai.

This extremely dangerous sign naturally made Mina Sahak worry about it. If the Earth Alliance really took action against Orb, the Sahak family and the other major families would not have much choice. , unless you obediently serve as a dog for the Earth United, otherwise you can only find a way to hold on, and the only thing that can make the Earth United fearful is to let Orb show not weak strength, let the Earth United and the blue Cosmos feels that if their military operations against Orb have to pay more than they gain, Orb can maintain the current neutral posture.

Therefore, Mina Sahak only thought for a few seconds before agreeing to Prime Minister Uzmi's proposal, which is to let the two of them join hands with PLANT to cooperate in private to obtain new MS and As a deterrent, the new space battleship turned Orb, a country that seemed to be trying to maintain neutrality, into a hedgehog that made the Earth United fear three points.

However, Congressman Amalfi, Prime Minister Uzmi, Mina Sahak and others still don't know that the secret cooperation they discussed has long been known by Liu Yuan. , successfully let Orb step into the deep pit of cooperation with PLANT!

(Well, I just took the time to read the current report of the global epidemic. America is indeed the beacon of freedom. The number of millions of people diagnosed and the death toll of more than [-] people are leading the way, leaving us far behind o( ￣▽￣) d)

Chapter 23

At the end of the Battle of Nova, the Earth United and PLANT maintained a strange peaceful posture. The two sides did not engage in large-scale battles, but became busy.

Needless to say about the United Earth, Liu Yuan unified the three giants of the Earth United, but there are still many things to be busy, and considering the need to force out the full war potential of PLANT, naturally, he did not continue to fight against it after the Nova Battle ended. PLANT launched a new attack.

Of course, the excuse of the Earth Alliance is also very good and powerful, saying that the newly commissioned experimental Dawn-class battlecruiser and the two Gundams need to return for inspection, plus upgrading the defense measures for the Nova satellite group and multiple controlled resource satellite groups, Naturally, most of the troops were transferred back to the moon. Many offensive plans were made against the PLANT side, but overall, they did not continue to launch large-scale battles. Instead, their energy was used for internal adjustments and space defense. .

After all, if the United Earth is a behemoth, the internal situation and forces are too complicated. Even if Liu Yuan opens a golden finger with full information transparency and integrates with many people, it will take a few months for the United Earth to be fully integrated. It is still an impossible task. In fact, what Liu Yuan has completely integrated is the earth's joint moon and space satellite group, the territory of the three giants on the earth, and the control areas of all parties. It will take a year or two. Time may not be able to fully integrate and perfect, and it is still based on the fact that Liu Yuan has a strong enough golden finger. If it is replaced by an ordinary person, even if he has climbed to the position of the leader of the Big Three, it will be difficult to integrate his own internal forces. Even more difficult, it would be a nightmare level of difficulty to integrate the Big Three.

Now, Liu Yuan has enough means to integrate the forces of the United Earth. The moon and space resource satellites he has fully integrated alone have enough strength to launch an attack on PLANT. However, Liu Yuan's idea is not Immediately end the war, instead prolonging the war as much as possible through various methods to make the space war mode and war weapons on hand more advanced, and then let PLANT and secretly support them.

PLANT didn't know Liu Yuan's thoughts, but after careful study, Chief of Defense Wei Sara and a group of confidantes found that the Earth Alliance had no intention of launching an attack for the time being. It was a cooperation agreement quickly reached with Orb.

Inside PLANT, Sara, the head of the National Defense Commission who has passed the proposal for a state of war, under the influence of her own think tank's proposal and the current harsh war situation, did not hesitate to imitate some of the actions of Comrade Iron and Steel: Of course, national defense Chairman Wei Sara has not yet reached the level of ruthlessness of Comrade Iron and Steel in terms of status and strength. He conducted private consultations with other high-level leaders of the neutral and peaceful factions, and established the Supreme War Coordination Committee of PLANT. Most of PLANT's industrial systems and high-end laboratories have been brought under its command, and unified scientific research project development and industrial production have been carried out. In less than a month, PLANT's industrial capabilities have reached a new level, with a length of more than 400 meters and The NASCAR-class high-speed battleship that can accommodate 12 MS has entered the rhythm of mass production, and the "S-series Gundam Project" that was re-used by PLANT as nuclear fission power has entered the research and development stage. At the same time, the new generation of Zaku Warrior II mass-produced MS Projects have also been established, and other new weapons and MS carrying ships have also been established, and they have entered the research and development process as quickly as possible.

In addition, the biggest change in PLANT is the integration of forces from all parties. The peace faction and the neutral faction have lost their greatest influence, and the hardliners have completely occupied the mainstream of the PLANT side. In addition to power, the hardliners integrated the power of the entire PLANT, and with the large number of manpower "sent" by Liu Yuan to Sara, the head of the defense department, PLANT began to maximize its power.

Based on the statistical data received by Chief of Defense Wei Sara, it will take at most one month for the ZAFT army to make up for all of its losses from the Battle of the Nova, and after another three months, the ZAFT recruits from the training camp A large number of qualified recruits who have graduated can expand the ZAFT army to three times its current size, and all kinds of advanced equipment will enter service at the fastest speed.

In contrast, in the cooperative project of Orb, the PLANT side has the mentality of adding obstacles to the joint earth, and what they give is not the most confidential technology used by mobile suits and the design of new ships.

But for Orb, they are not qualified to be picky at all. The United Earth side is completely controlled by Liu Yuan, and there will never be a private cooperation with Orb like the original "Gundam SEED". They want to quickly obtain Gundam and new models. For space battleship technology, PLANT is their only hope.

Therefore, after PLANT and Orbu reached a cooperation intention, Orbu's side (mainly the forces represented by Prime Minister Uzmi and Mina Sahak) used the fastest speed, and the Hayley under Orbu The Oupolis satellite is preparing for the development of the Gundam and the new Gundam carrying ship code-named "G Project": Anyway, PLANT will not carry out this plan on its own site, and the land area of ​​​​the earth on the Orb side is very small. , considering that the United Earth may supervise the giant space station of Orb’s homeland and the Pillar of the Sky, Orb’s only choice is his own Heliopolis satellite in space, and Orb has a private relationship with PLANT The trade of personnel and materials can cover up PLANT technicians' visits to the Heliopolis satellite and some of the more sensitive materials, and it is also conducive to experimental projects such as space testing of new Gundams and new Gundam carriers.

Seriously speaking, although PLANT did not expect much from Orb to play a role, they still support Orb's involvement in the Earth Union's energy. For the "G Project" Gundam project and the new Gundam carrying ship project, it is true. It provides first-class technologies that are not top-notch, such as the high-energy battery technology that both PLANT and Earth United have (for Orb is the version of PLANT for its own use, which is at least 20% weaker than that of Earth United), PS armor and PS armor. The improved TP armor technology (adopted the forbidden Gundam and other body technologies of the original "Gundam SEED", the TP armor is activated only when the attack is about to hit, in order to save body energy), high-energy beam cannon and electromagnetic gun technology and other technologies and scientific research personnel. Supported.

The "G Project" that PLANT and Orb cooperate with is expected to produce five Gundams whose performance will surpass that of the original G Project. The overall performance will also surpass the current Zaku Warrior captain machine equipped by PLANT. In addition to the nuclear gundam machine and the new mass-produced MS, it is ready to be used for comparison to see whether it can be equipped as a new mass-produced MS or captain machine. Even the MS frame, weapon interface, and backpack interface are all in the same specification, which can be easily It is easy to achieve generalization of equipment and convenient maintenance on the battlefield.

Orb doesn't know that PLANT treats them as guinea pigs... Or, even if they know, it's useless. Only the PLANT family can provide Orb with new MS technology and new space battleship technology. Instead of staring at themselves with "benevolent" eyes, Prime Minister Uzmi and Mina Sahak must find ways to enhance their own strength, together with the new Gundam body, the new mass-produced MS and the Compared with the new space battleships, it is not worthwhile to be secretly taken advantage of by PLANT. Moreover, in the original world of "Gundam SEED", the five Gundams of Project G use the skeleton design of the Zeon body and the universal energy interface, otherwise ZAFT Why did the military put the captured four G-series Gundams into the battlefield so easily?It is also easy to resupply in your own ship and the ZAFT base on the earth. Isn't it due to the design of the Gundam body?

However, this time, PLANT took the initiative to use the universality of weapons and logistical maintenance as the interface, and directly used the Zaku warrior captain model MS as a template, and cooperated with Orb to prepare a new G-series Gundam body construction project, and like It is naturally impossible for a new type of ship equipped with a G-series Gundam body to be named "Archangel". It was directly assigned the name of a "multi-purpose test ship", and a 400-meter-long ship was designed and built. A special type of test ship.

Of course, PLANT uses Orbu as a wallet and a guinea pig, and Orbu also has his own little calculations. Prime Minister Uzmi and Mina Sahak asked the technicians of Orbu Dawn Society to strengthen the supply of PLANT. Technology learning and research, and at the same time develop Orb's own Gundam body and MS mass production machine project.

Compared with Orb, who is trying to be a little transparent and strengthen himself, the war between the Earth United and PLANT has stopped for a while, and they are also rapidly strengthening their respective strengths!

In the two months since the end of the Battle of Nova, Earth United and PLANT have been in a de facto ceasefire. Earth United has strengthened the defense of space resource satellites, while PLANT has rapidly strengthened the rhythm of internal integration. Every ounce of strength has been invested in the development and growth of the ZAFT army.

Therefore, from the first ten days of August of CE70 to the middle of October of CE8, the relationship between Earth United and PLANT became quite peaceful. After deducting a few reconnaissance firefights, there were no large-scale battle scenes, and even the "peaceful" situation between the two sides was still Confused a few neutral countries such as Orb, for example, the blind mentor tried to continue to call for peace to increase the sense of existence, but the result was directly ignored by both sides.