Gundam Fire Still

The few blocks that hung externally on the sides and underneath the hull were the product of this Drake improvement project, and it was part of his mission on this trip to study whether or not these external anti-aircraft units could be useful in combat. After all, the ships had never been designed with certain situations brought on by MS in mind, such as the fact that it wasn't beams of light or linear cannons that penetrated armor, but blades of metal and the like, and these external small caliber multipurpose launchers could give a head-on blow to MS rushing into close quarters, and even if these small caliber projectiles couldn't hit them, it would be enough to break their fragile monitors or arms and legs, and those power lines. It could also be strengthened against light attacks if loaded with anti-beam blasts.

One of the most noticeable in the line of ships was the flagship Norfolk, it was twice as long as the frigates and had quite a bit of firepower both for air defense and against the ship, but that was only in the previous pre-determined situation, as far as fighting in the new situation, it was hard to say, but that was the duty of the technical officers, the next voyage of battle was about to begin, Jan thought, walking up to the ship.

"Excuse me, are you Fred . Young Technical Ensign?" There was a voice in front of him, what seemed to be a somewhat deep male voice, and Jan froze when he saw the epaulets of his visitor.

"Yes, sir. Technical Second Lieutenant Fred Young, reporting for duty. Technical Lieutenant Fred Young, reporting for duty. "Raise your hand in salute. How do you know me?"

"My name is Alexei, I was once the captain of this ship, now, the commander of this small fleet, remembered your face as I was going through the list of members, and I seem to have seen you at the refit site, I hope these added new gadgets work."

"Yes sir, they will come in handy against MS."

"Well that's good, too many people are scared out of their wits by MS, and speaking of fighting MS, that's good news for MA too, you can check out the hangar, the pilots might be able to offer some advice too, and Captain Carl has been the one to take down MS. Also, it looks like you've got a troublesome mission up there."

"Mission from the Ministry of Intelligence?"

"Indeed, quite, a tricky task, though not a necessary one, but one that seems to have been pinned on a great deal of hope."

"In connection with what?"

"Probably, something to do with the future of the Union Army."

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Chapter 9 Meetings

CE703.28, Lunar orbit

The task force sailed quietly over the moon, the crater where Ptolemy's base was located had disappeared from view, and below the ship's belly was the gray-white lunar wasteland.

The 130m class Cossack ahead of the column gave the "all clear" light signal to the flagship, and four MA's flew in formation towards the Norfolk's open flight deck.

"Trigger squad combat patrol complete, requesting landing."

"Permission to land, please prepare Hound Squad for departure."

"Roger, Hound Team is ready to go."

"Pay attention to the landing trajectory and signals for guidance, don't turn on the auto-return pilot, use manual for landing, Trigger 3, pay attention to deceleration, Trigger 2, wait a minute, good, one after the other" Carl kept his fuselage at the end of the formation and watched as the forward fuselage landed on the ship one by one

At the same time, the bow of the carrier Maas at the rear of the ship slowly opened, and out of the fish, also four MAs.

The first training flight went fairly smoothly, and Carl saw the good looks on the team's faces as he jumped out of the cockpit.

"Nice flying, gentlemen, next is break time."

"Sir, please go to the briefing room, there's a meeting there" the CIC personnel quickly relayed an announcement.

"The mission of this operation is to conduct a combat patrol around lunar orbit and then take L4's nova course, as you know, ZAFT suffered a setback on Earth, but they still have a fair amount of fight left in them, so whether or not they will make the moon a target next is a topic of great interest to our staff, and we are on this patrol to avoid the They're taking advantage of the weakness and invading the Moon; the later leg will be to reconnoiter the Aegis and attack possible ZAFT targets, in fact" the Captain took a sip of coffee and cleared his throat "in fact this second half of the voyage will be into the ZAFT's area of activity, which means that the likelihood of a battle is high, and " he laughed bitterly "Or, basically, it had to be a fight, and the command seemed to want to save morale, I guess, and the Intelligence Combine offered to want to recover the MS wreckage and, say, try to be more complete wreckage, not the shell-shocked leftovers from Earth."

"It's... a little more difficult," said Technical Officer Yang first, "although the benefits would be quite obvious, as the wreckage on Earth is quite damaged and the value of the research is greatly diminished, if we can get some moving parts. Both knowledge of them and our development would be advantageous, but" he shook his head "feasibility is a serious concern."

"True, and the order wasn't a dead order, but, Dan, that guy from the Intelligence Unity still stuffed the ship with some cables and nets, and as to how to use them, you might want to look into that?"

"It might be possible to take down MS, but it's not easy to catch MS, even if it's wreckage, both sides are moving at high speed during an engagement, and the fragments that break through will have the same high velocity, even if it's hard to retrieve hands and feet that aren't martyred or something, the MA team isn't trained in a similar way, but it can be tried." Carl expressed his opinion as a representative of the MA team.

On the communications screen Halsey nodded "Salvage cables are indeed in the hangar here, but the brothers aren't quite sure how to use them yet."

"No, don't do any special training on salvage, prioritize against MS, if you can't win, there's no way to salvage any of your wreckage?" The captain tapped the table "You guys should train how you want to train,"

"Understood" the MA team in charge nodded, running into such an officer was a rare stroke of luck, especially when there were still some newcomers on the team.

"That kind of thinking is just irresponsible," complained Jan with a forked hand in the hallway after the meeting was adjourned, "What's that guy Dan up to?"

"He is, after all, one of the heads of the intelligence services, so it's only right that he should be eager to obtain information on this matter of the enemy, right?" Carl leaned against the wall in the hallway, "Like you said, if we can get it, it's a big deal for anyone, although the difficulty level is a little more demanding"

"The first few photos were not taken seriously, and as soon as the fight started, all sorts of options came up to get the MS, as unfeasible as they were," Yang said, shaking his head ruthlessly. The video of the battlefield stimulates the same, those designers every day to knock on the door of the field staff, Undersecretary Fritz and the rats are quite impatient, I also had a hard time to get this opportunity to go aboard the ship," the young technical officer said with emotion.

"Rats? What do you mean?" Carl took two cans of coffee out of the vending machine and tossed one to his interlocutor, "Those agents?"

"Actually I should say, ex-agents, at least now they're still sitting in offices and don't get much chance to do their old jobs, but they're still called rats by those research majors, the same color as the building, I don't think it's a big deal, I did learn some intelligence analysis back in the day in military school after all. But I never thought," he pulled off the lid and chugged down a mouthful of bitter liquid, "that the Under Secretary would agree to bring nets and cables and try to catch MS in such a brain-dead way?Are you kidding me? While I'd like to study it up close myself, there's no need to risk it for that."

"If you can get MS information, you can find out a better way to combat it, which is worth the risk, and besides, then the possibility of doing it successfully exists, if the pilots work together well enough."

"Are you going to do that?"

"Probably, but at least it can't be now."

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Chapter 11 - No War on the Western Front

CE70.4.1

The command room of the Moonbase was once again noisy, the screens occupying one wall were displaying things in different angles and ways that the people here didn't want to see.The Zaft build-up had been confirmed before, but there were different views in the coalition about their goal, another airborne drop or invasion of the Moon, were the two main views, and now those on the screen The blue planet below the "ugly Zaft battleship" rules out the latter possibility.

The last airborne operation might have been just a test, but this time it was about to get real, and there were plenty of people who thought that way. But Dan didn't think so, and while the intelligence work had limited success, it was possible to know the approximate capacity of the Plant, and adding up the equipment installed when the Plant was first built and the various supplies and machinery that arrived via transport afterwards, and counting the number of production lines they may have produced themselves, wasn't a huge number, even if every satellite was working overtime to produce MS and ships, and It was unlikely that there would be any risk of dropping precious troops on Earth just to test the waters, it was dead ground that would be difficult to evacuate, and even if adequately equipped, the population of the satellite cluster would be limited; if the enemy commander wasn't too stupid, he was bound to take the elite troop route, so putting elite troops into an encirclement that lacked support couldn't be a test. But on the other hand, their last defeat was already a fact, and it could also be explained that their need for raw materials and resources on the planet was indeed quite urgent, and the theoretical basis for the argument that they were desperate for scarce resources existed. Regardless of the outcome of this argument, these people in the smoke-filled command room could now only watch as Zaft completed their battle plan.

"They're starting to drop in," came the voice. Dan looked up, the Zaft ships on the screen opened their bottom drops as they had last time, the side of the screen switched to an image taken from Earth, a few meteors were beginning to slice through the atmosphere, and another screen showed the slightly reddened outer heat shield of what was being dropped. The operator zoomed in and the screen locked onto those dropped objects. Several of them stood up.

"Isn't that the MS drop pod?" cacophony

"Shit" Dan realized what it was and he felt the room darken for a second

Those drop pods were starting to spread out, their own momentum making it so that their landing points would be spread out over a wide area of the planet, which was undoubtedly not the way to drop an attack force.

"Bastards" the guys who were standing sat down for a second, and Dan vaguely heard the sound of breaking glass

------. ---Earth... ------. ------.

A white umbrella flower opened in the air and a black object beneath it slowly fell towards the ground, as all four of its feet touched the ground, it opened beneath it and an outstretched drill pointed at the ground and began to rotate, it soon disappeared in the ground and something else followed it down into this newly dug out tunnel. With a small explosion, the empty shelf left on the ground turned into a pile of charred scrap metal. The Union Army jeep that came speeding in the distance found only the

That parachute and a pile of puzzling wreckage.

This happened in many parts of the planet.

That night, from the satellite, the earth darkened so much that the star-like points of light that used to represent the city no longer seemed to exist.

After the first use of neutron jamming and the confirmation of its nature, many believed that Zaft would not use neutron jamming on Earth, an inhumane weapon that endangers the lives of hundreds of millions of innocent civilians; however, this illusion was shattered and the shadow of an energy crisis swept across the planet, without electricity, there is almost nothing of modern life, and a harsh spring is coming for the inhabitants of Earth.

CE 704.2, Special Mixing Unit

Urgent communications from HQ brought the people together, and then they dispersed sadly, not for lack of intent to fight the enemy, the crew was well aware of how dangerous ZAFT was dropping on Earth, but the anger meant little to the detachment on patrol, the enemy was in Earth orbit and not only was it a whipping boy, but even if they could get there, they couldn't do anything other than lose this fleet! What; with suppressed emotion, the fleet continued to sail in a lonely orbit.

Carl cancelled his training schedule, and with the exception of routine reconnaissance flights, the crew was all on standby aboard the ship, and the MA was kept in a ready to strike position for any possible encounter. The battle lines were much closer.

4.3

One of the MA's that went on a reconnaissance mission didn't return in time, which worried Carl, according to the schedule they should have returned to the ship 20 minutes ago, but now, they hadn't, and communications were down, which was not a good sign, he had his squad ready to strike, intending to search if necessary, but then word came from the bridge that the lost squad had returned, and with it a message .