Gundam Super G Universe

Chapter 104 "The Land of Peace" Orb

Australia, Carpentaria Base, this is a large military port built between Arnhem Land and Cape York Peninsula in northern Australia. It is 670 kilometers wide from east to west and about 600 kilometers long from north to south. The maximum water depth is 80 meters.

In order to conceal its whereabouts, the Aries left the Far East base of the East Asian Republic and headed directly to the middle Pacific Ocean, crossing the entire Pacific Ocean and heading straight for Australia.

From the perspective of the non-East Asian republics, the Aries was heading for the Hawaiian Islands, so after receiving the news, the Atlantic Federation urgently dispatched diplomats and a large number of navy personnel to the Hawaiian Islands, preparing to "invite" Red back to the country first.

Unfortunately, Red made a 90-degree turn halfway through the journey and headed straight for Australia. The Aries dodged various merchant ships along the way and only hid near Saipan and Agana, which had become uninhabited islands (ZAFT directly wiped out the Atlantic Federation forces here after building the Carpentaria base, and due to lack of food, all the people died) a week later.

I have to say that ZAFT has a very sharp vision. According to the reconnaissance of the mass-produced Wing Gundam, this is a natural site for building a naval port. The terrain is deep and the draft is deep, and there are natural sites for building artillery positions on both sides.

There is also a large island of the former Papua New Guinea directly in front of us, serving as a natural barrier.

In the current situation where ultra-long-range missiles are completely unusable, the advantage is that it is easy to defend but difficult to attack.

There is also a mass accelerator in the base, so it is equipped with a large number of air defense systems. Red looked at the images sent back from the mass-produced Wing Gundam in the front, and his claustrophobia was about to occur, and his scalp felt numb.

No wonder the Earth Federation in the original work already had a great advantage on the Earth battlefield with its massive number of assault daggers. However, the Atlantic Federation's "Operation 88" still had to take a long detour, launching its troops into space first, then airdropping troops from central Australia, and sending the entire Pacific Fleet to attack ZAFT and the Oceania Federation from the sea.

But even so, the Carpentaria base was not taken down, and the Oceania Union defended its territory and avoided being annexed by the Atlantic Federation.

Of course, after this battle, the Oceania Alliance's dependence on PLANT became increasingly deep, and a year later it had basically become its yes-dog on Earth.

Red wanted to observe the Carpentaria base in order to prepare for the future war with ZAFT. He couldn't stay away from Earth forever. In Red's opinion, even if the system base was located in the L3 space domain, he still needed to have a foothold on Earth to feel at ease.

The Carpantaria base is the only base that is still controlled by PLANT throughout the two seasons of the intensified plot (all other bases were lost at the end of the first war, so when the peace treaty was signed later, there was a clause that ZAFT only retained the Carpantaria base and gave up all others. However, during the SEEDD period, these bases that originally belonged to ZAFT were basically all recaptured, and they also invaded the heart of the Eurasian Federation)
After all, even PLANT cannot escape the constraints of Earth's food, and he relies on the system. Again, if the main mission fails one day, the world ends, and the system really runs away, Red feels that the territory on Earth is more reassuring.

Red's frequent explorations of the Carpantalia base went very smoothly. The people at the Carpantalia base knew nothing about it. They never thought that anyone would use an aircraft similar to the Mirage system for high-altitude exploration.

You know, in the current environment on Earth, under the influence of a large number of neutron jammers, drones must be very close to the ship to be used. If they are a little further away, the signal will be cut off and the drone will become a headless fly.

Therefore, there is no need to worry about the earth environment of high-altitude drones in the CE universe. Similarly, various high-altitude electromagnetic wave detection systems are also directly useless.

The only tools available to Earth right now are primitive optical instruments and a few basic radar waves. As for satellites? Does CE Earth still have satellites? Aren't they just pieces of scrap metal flying in orbit outside the Earth? If it weren't for the war, Earth would probably have to find someone to clean up all these useless and obstructing satellites.

However, the Oceania Joint Meteorological Bureau has had a headache recently because many meteorological equipment are no longer usable and the accuracy of large-scale weather radars has been greatly reduced.

Recently, there have been frequent inrushing heat waves over Carpantaria. However, it is spring now, which is the season when tropical cyclones begin to become active in Australia, so the Oceania Federation has been issuing typhoon warnings for Carpantaria.

However, the next day, the sky over Carpantaria was still clear, with no signs of a typhoon.

After a few times, the Carpentaria base began to ignore the completely inaccurate weather forecast from the Oceania Alliance.

The people in the Meteorological Bureau were not soldiers, so they did not pay much attention to this abnormal situation. After all, the whole world was at war, and matters such as the environment and climate had to be put on hold.

Because for the ZAFT troops at the Carpentaria base, finding the Archangel that had just broken through the Strait of Malacca was the most important thing. In the previous battle, the Archangel had been damaged, and it was time to pursue the victory.

Therefore, only a small part of the Dean patrol team at the Carpentaria base was left to patrol the area around the base, and the rest flew to the Equatorial Union territory every day.

The Equatorial Union was a small and invisible force in this war, but because PLANT's behavior of releasing neutron jammers was too inhumane, the Equatorial Union was hit badly by this wave of AOE. Rural and coastal areas might be better off, but some large inland cities that were extremely dependent on external food supplies even had a tragic scene of nine out of ten houses being empty.

Therefore, although the Equatorial Union cannot afford to offend ZAFT, they can only let Dean fly in their own airspace without anti-aircraft guns, and there are even various ZAFT ships in their territorial waters. But they can help all forces that fight against ZAFT.

The Archangel is naturally one of them. In principle, there are islands everywhere after breaking through the Strait of Malacca. As long as ZAFT has a little better popularity among the locals, the Archangel will have nowhere to hide.

But at this time, the Equatorial Union took the initiative to help the Archangel hide its whereabouts, and many islands became interference factors. ZAFT was unable to find the Archangel, which was already slightly damaged and unable to be repaired.

It is also said that the Equatorial Union is now so poor that it has to make ends meet and cannot help the Archangel with repairs and supplies. Otherwise, the Archangel would be in its prime through the Equatorial Union.

So in the end, the Archangel successfully sailed around the Philippines from the Strait of Malacca to the Pacific Ocean.

Red calculated the date accurately and left Saipan and Agana directly on the 20th, then dived into the depths of the Pacific Ocean to observe the situation in the waters near Orb and Oceania.

The Archangel was still punctual. On the 22nd, Xia Yulan's mass-produced Wing Gundam discovered the trace of the Archangel on its routine patrol. On the 23rd, the Archangel, which had lost the protection of many islands, was discovered by ZAFT.

That afternoon, Red personally drove the Secret Thunder, hiding in the sky, and watched the four little strong men cooperate with Gun to attack the Archangel.

Yes, in the plot, there are only Athrun, Izaak, Diego, and Nicole beating up the Archangel.

But how could this be possible in reality? Aegis, Duel (with corpse suit version), Thunderbolt, and Storm all rely on the support of Gwu to fly in the atmosphere. Their mobility and speed are far inferior to Dean, and their range of action away from the ship is not even as good as Gwu in the water.

Therefore, the four Aegis machines can only be transported by underwater mothership, and Gun, which is also deployed on the underwater mothership, can naturally arrive.

The Carpentaria base was nearby. As long as the base commander, the Nine Clans, was not made of steel, it would be impossible for the four princes to go deep into the enemy territory alone and fight against the Archangel that killed the North African commander. (After Nicol's death, ZAFT actually sent out all the troops it could in the next battle. At that time, it was the Ouroboros plan deployment stage, and there was really no extra troops to support Aslan and his men.)
In Red's eyes, the Archangel was really in danger. After he took the green heretic away, Mu could only continue to fly the United Flag. Now this Flag was also in tatters. It had not been repaired after passing through the Strait of Malacca and arrived here. It was obvious that the Archangel's repair parts were beginning to be scarce.

Moreover, the Union Flag type basically uses live ammunition, and is at a great disadvantage in fighting against four Gs. It can only hover under the Archangel and shoot those Gerns that show their heads and want to fire missiles. As for the Archangel, not only must it launch a barrage to deal with aerial attacks, but the Bariant electromagnetic cannon must be aimed at the water surface in real time. After all, a Union Flag type cannot defend the entire ship below, and must have other firepower cover.

Fortunately, after all these battles, Kira finally became a skilled fighter. He could fight against four machines of the same level with the Air Combat Strike and not lose to them.

Of course, there is a reason why only two of the other four Gs can actually exert most of their combat power. In addition, the Air Combat Assault is more adaptable to air combat environments than these four machines.

The Aegis Gundam's Siren Energy Cannon is completely useless in the Earth's environment, and it cannot transform at will, nor can it attack at high speed, so its combat power is at least halved.

The Thunderbolt Gundam is even worse. What good results can be expected from a head-on confrontation between an assassin who cannot be invisible and a heavily armored warrior? In addition, Nicole's driving skills are already poor. Now the Thunderbolt Gundam can only provide long-range support with a beam rifle and can't do anything else.

However, Storm and Corpse Duel Gundam are relatively adaptable to the Earth's combat environment. Their armament level is basically unaffected, especially Storm. In the Earth's environment, even if Archangel has a divine helmsman at the helm, its evasive ability and evasive space are still greatly limited. Storm Gundam can infinitely pour out its firepower.

However, Aslan and his men had learned their lesson and no longer thought about knocking down the Assault before knocking down the Archangel. Aegis and Thunder tried to entangle the Assault, while the firepower of Corpse Duel and Storm was poured onto the Archangel.

This decision was the right one. In this vast ocean, as long as the Archangel sinks, there is no need to launch a surprise attack. It will lose power and fall into the sea after a while.

So Red watched as the Archangel was hit from small damage to medium damage, the laminated armor could no longer hold up, and smoke was coming out of the hull everywhere.

At this moment, Red discovered that Qiangxiong's movements changed instantly. In the critical moment, Qiangxiong's body reaction speed and attack accuracy seemed to be turned on.

First, he found an opportunity to shoot Geu, who was in a corpse suit duel, to death, causing him to fall into the sea and lose his ability to attack.

Then he dropped his beam rifle, turned on the thrusters to the maximum and knocked Thunderbolt off the G-U, and stabbed Thunderbolt's G-U with a sword.

Afterwards, facing the counterattack of the Holy Shield, the Strike kept adjusting his position in the air while jumping back to the deck of the Archangel, just enough to make Aslan's shots at the body miss. Then he fell back to the deck of the Archangel, picked up the beam rifle and continued to fight back.

When Red saw this scene, he knew that Kira's seed had been fully awakened. In this state, a person's neural processing speed would instantly increase dramatically, and physical abilities would be greatly developed. Even a natural person could burst out with physical abilities that exceed those of an adjuster after activating the seed.

If the battles between new humans and enemies are all based on pre-reading, then the seed bursters are purely competing in reaction speed.

There is no absolute difference between the two abilities in actual combat. It just depends on whether your improved nerve reaction ability can offset the amount of time I can predict your attack and dodge.

Of course, if the new humans were equipped with a mental force sensing frame, it would be like having a special weapon. Seed holders don't seem to have any special weapons now. At this stage, seeds will lag behind new humans in all aspects.

But Kira's efforts could not change the situation of the battle, and it would not be surprising if the Archangel was shot down at any time.

At this time, the battle between the two sides had already reached the territorial waters of Orb.

Red was able to spot the Archangel a day in advance. Orb, who had been keeping an eye on the Archangel, and whose guard Rednir Chisaka could also report the location, naturally knew that the Archangel would pass by here.

Therefore, the Orb Navy had already been on high alert in the territorial waters, waiting for the Archangel to approach and prepare to put on a show for ZAFT.

The appearance of the Orb Navy attracted the attention of both sides.

Kira took the opportunity to find Baofeng's weakness, blew up his Geu with one shot, and sent it into the sea to duel with him.

But Diego was obviously not going to take a bath like this, and while falling, he ran the engines at full blast, buying himself some time in the air. Then he combined his two-handed weapons into a 350mm anti-armor shotgun and fired at the Archangel's engine.

The Archangel's engine was half destroyed and it could only crash into Orb's territorial waters helplessly.

What followed was a big drama. Cagalli's action of publicly revealing her identity and forcing the Orb Navy to give way made Red shake his head in the cockpit. This child was too naive. No wonder she was almost fooled by the Seran family two years later and almost gave away her marital happiness.

Fortunately, the commander of the Orb Navy was professional and quick to react. He righteously rejected Cagalli's unreasonable demands and directly opened fire on the Archangel that fell into the territorial waters, and dispersed ZAFT's troops by the way.

However, as long as Aslan was not blind, he could see that Orb was not attacking the Archangel at all. All the shells fell into the sea around the ship, raising large columns of water, making it seem that he was firing at full force.

But now Aslan had no choice but to retreat. Captain Cruze had been severely warned by the parliament for dragging the New Misrchi Republic into the water in Heliopolis. Aslan also attended the meeting.

Therefore, it is impossible for Aslan to chase into Orb now, and the captain of the Vosgulov-class underwater mothership that came with him does not have the courage of Cruze to directly attack a neutral country without orders.

So ZAFT had no choice but to retreat and lurk near the territorial waters of Orb to observe the situation.

After seeing this, Red returned to the ship, and then it was time for him to perform.

Two hours later, Red ordered the Aries to sail in a swagger to the same waters as the Archangel entered Orb, and presumably fired a few flares into Orb's territorial waters in front of the ZAFT ship.

The poor Orb Navy had just returned to the port and had not had much time to rest when they immediately received an urgent notice from the military to turn back to the waters they had just left. This was not an act. The information ship of the New Misrchi Republic came to the territorial sea without any notice. This could be considered a provocation. It was not impossible for it to turn into an act of war.

Therefore, the Orb Navy quickly returned to the sea area with a serious attitude.

However, Red looked like a bad boy at the moment, and he also turned on the global broadcast and said
"Marine of Orb, I came to Orb at the invitation of Londe Mina Sahak, the eldest daughter of the Sahak family, one of the five major families in Orb. Please ask her to come here to pick me up. Forget about other people, I won't acknowledge anyone who comes!!"

(End of this chapter)