Gundam Super G Universe

Chapter 316 The gears of fate begin to turn again

Although the visiting delegation from Mars was not in the plan, Red had to receive them no matter how much he disliked it. After all, they came for him. After all, they were the only one in the Earth's circle who could travel back and forth to Mars in a month. They didn't even have the option of looking for other countries to solve the problem.

So, the conference room where Red received diplomats from various countries welcomed guests from Mars this time.

As he was not familiar with the political situation on Earth, Agnes Brach, as the leader of the delegation, submitted a request for a meeting to Her Majesty Angelique, the Queen of the New Mislchi Kingdom. So Red attended the meeting as Angelique's companion this time.

The Mars visiting delegation was composed of Agnes Brahe and his deputy Nael Herschel.

It was the first time for both parties to meet, so they started by praising each other and testing each other's character through words.

The result was the same on both sides. Angel and Agnes Brahe, the "leaders", basically only said a few words when they talked about themselves, and the rest of the time it was Red and Nahe Herschel who talked.

In this way, Nahe Herschel also knew that Red probably had the final say in this meeting of the New Mislchi Kingdom, especially when he knew that Red was the inventor of the light wave propulsion device.

So, the meeting got down to business. After Nahe Herschel gave Agnes Brahe a look, he said very formally:

"Your Majesty Angelique, Chairman Red, we are here as representatives of the Mars Colony Circle and would like to conduct a series of cooperation and transactions with your country."

In fact, it doesn't need to be told what Red can think of, it's nothing more than the most basic supply of materials.

However, Red said that it was meaningless to just sell some food. There would be another world war soon, and it really didn't make much sense for him to send a ship to Mars every month just for some metals.

So Red pretended to be

"Captain Agnes (head of the delegation), trading with the Martian Sphere is no small matter. The distance between the two sides is too far, and this route is not often used. If we want to stabilize the trade, we basically need to open up a new route. For our country, which has just completed the exploration of Jupiter, the cost is too high."

Agnes didn't really know nothing. Seeing that Red wanted to cry poor, his impulsive character was exposed and he said directly

"This is a minor problem. The need to open up new routes is reasonable. If there are any financial problems, we in the Martian Sphere can bear them. As long as we are allowed to pay with various precious metals."

When Red heard this, he thought Agnes had taken the bait, so he pretended to be puzzled and asked again:

"Precious metals? Is it the price on Earth or on Mars?"

Before Agnes could answer this question, Nahe answered first.
"Obviously, it is not reasonable to simply convert the prices on both sides. I think we can discuss a conversion standard later."

When Red heard this, he said that Nahe Herschel was the one who was in charge of thinking. Just as he said, in fact, it was not appropriate to use the price of either side to convert the transaction between the New Mislchi Kingdom and the Mars Circle.

You know, the price of a bottle of water on Earth is a thousand times higher than that on Mars. According to the news brought back by the Jupiter pioneers, the Martian colonies have not yet discovered that there are groundwater resources deep underground on Mars.

In the Martian sphere, the prices of many rare element ores are similar to those of iron ore in the Earth sphere, because you can get a lot of them by just mining on Mars. However, many of these rare element ores are unavailable on Earth.

In fact, the best option for the New Misluchi Kingdom is to open a chamber of commerce in the Martian circle, buy supplies from Earth and sell them on Mars, and then buy rare element minerals locally.

With the carrying capacity of the New Mislchi Kingdom's cargo ships, once light wave propulsion becomes popular, this chamber of commerce will soon expand into a Martian version of the East India Company.

However, although the people in the human Martian colony are small, they are not stupid and are very united. If Red plays this game openly, he probably won't be able to do it without defeating them.

And right now, Red has no interest in starting a war on Mars.

So Red nodded and answered directly
"Indeed, it is more reasonable to redefine the conversion standard. Then let me ask you first, assuming that the route is opened up, what do you Mars want? What can you provide? You can't just provide ore, right?"

Agnes answered Red's question immediately.
"We need food, water, and some chemical products that Mars cannot produce. As for what to provide, the Martian currency should not be recognized by Earth, and it seems that we can only exchange goods. But it seems that we only have a lot of various minerals on Mars."

After hearing this, Reid shook his head and said directly
"No, you not only have minerals, but also mines. I know that all the mines in the Martian Sphere are under unified management."

When Agnes heard this, he immediately felt that Chairman Red had a big appetite. It was like you going to buy fish from a fisherman, but ended up buying his fishing nets and fishery together.

If this happened in any other country, Agnes would have wanted to turn against the country, but it is obviously impossible now.

Along the way, Nahe Herschel brainwashed Agnes by describing the importance of the New Misrchi Kingdom.

The New Misluchi Kingdom is the only one that has a spacecraft that can travel to and from Mars in a month. After arriving on Earth, it can be basically confirmed that what the people on the Jupiter exploration ship said was true. Therefore, if the Martian colony wants to develop, it cannot offend the New Misluchi Kingdom.

So, when Agnes suppressed and calmed down his emotions, Nahe Herschel asked tentatively
"Can I ask how many mines your country wants in the Mars colony?"

Reid smiled and replied

“You two may have misunderstood. Our country is not going to take advantage of your misfortune to seize the mines controlled by you.

Our request is very simple. Please mark the location of your mining area. After the return route is developed, our country will send a chamber of commerce to establish a military base in the non-controlled area on the surface of Mars.

We will then open mines on Mars ourselves, and you will need to ensure the safety of the military base established by our Chamber of Commerce and provide industrial support in the initial stages of construction."

When Red said this, Agnes and Nahe Herschel were stunned.

Agnes asked incredulously

"The New Misirchi Kingdom is going to settle on Mars and establish a Martian colony? Do you think we will agree to this?"

Red knew that the Martian colony would instinctively reject his request.

It's like there is only one tribe in an unowned land. Although this tribe cannot occupy or control the land because of its small population, it will still drive away outsiders who want to settle in.

But from a legal point of view, Red is actually right, so Red said directly
"Captain Agnes, according to the Space Colonization Regulations, you do not own Mars either in actual or legal terms. In principle, the Martian Sphere is still an unowned area to be developed, and any country or force has the right to establish a colony or military base there."

After Red said this, Agnes couldn't refute anything, and didn't even dare to threaten anything.

Because from the information Agnes has learned so far, he could not have predicted that the Earth would soon experience a major war.

In his opinion, if the current Martian colony fights with the New Misluchi Kingdom, even if they win, they will suffer heavy losses because the transportation capacity of the two sides is not on the same level.

What Agnes could see, Nahe Herschel could see, so when faced with the New Misrchi Kingdom, which would eventually settle there regardless of whether they agreed or not, Nahe Herschel could only say
"Of course, it is your country's freedom to decide whether to settle on Mars. We welcome friends in our Mars colony."

Nael Herschel's words clearly stated that the Martian colony welcomes friends.

So how can we become friends of the Mars colony? Of course, we need to be people who can provide help and bring benefits.

So the next step was relatively simple, and both sides began to discuss the goods to be traded and the demand.

As for the Martian colony's desire to buy a transport ship with a light wave propulsion system so that they could bring back more Earth specialties this time, Red rejected the request on the grounds that light wave propulsion systems were not for sale.

Red made it clear that when the first batch of cargo is sent to Mars, the troops that open up the route will escort the two back, and at that time there will be space left on the transport ship for the two.

Yes, in order to prevent the Martian colony from directly seizing his ship with light wave propulsion for research, Red planned to recycle some of the automatic robots that were originally going to be eliminated and directly bring the armed forces over.

With the current combat capability of the Martian colony, it would be more than enough to send three amazing robots, Jing Baofan and a group of automatic soldiers over to guard the base. At worst, they can hold on until the ship explodes.

Red handed over the follow-up details of commercial communication issues in the Martian colony to Letty, and two months before the start of the story in October CE73, a new round of protagonists began to gradually step onto the stage.

First of all, in the New Mislchi Kingdom, Shin Asuka successfully graduated from the Military Academy. However, this guy did not graduate as the top student, because his academic performance was just above the passing line.

Shin Asuka then led the Delta Plus, which had its special weapons removed, and was incorporated into Bugilulu's ship. Red was ready to let Bugilulu teach him a lesson.

Also graduating were Nami and Mayu Asuka, who skipped a grade.

Because Nami is good at writing and debugging fire control systems, she is later assigned to Bugilulu's ship and is responsible for debugging the MS system.

Mayu Asuka was worried about her brother, so she gave up a better job opportunity and volunteered to join Bakirolu's ship as a CIC staff member.

Of course, with so many people joining Bugilulu's ship, Red felt that the original Archangel was no longer up to standard, so he simply gave her a new ship, and kept the Archangel for her to continue driving when Mariu wanted to return to the position of captain.

The design of the new ship was completed independently by Nain within this year. Based on the Archangel, he combined the already small-scale produced Pseudo-Ayagama to create a ship similar to the assault mode of the Diva in AGE.

The ship's bridge can sink to the middle of the ship during combat, just like the Minerva, which has not yet been officially announced by PLANT.

Then the glass will be lowered from the original position of the bridge and a twin-mounted 600mm main gun will extend out, giving a surprise to the MS that wants to attack the bridge directly. There is a real ammunition depot under the bridge.

Also, because the actual bridge is inside the ship during the battle, Nain moved the Archangel's 225cm twin high-energy beam cannon to both sides of the bridge, and it can rotate 180 degrees horizontally according to the side (that is, the left turret can turn 180 degrees to the left, and the right turret can turn 180 degrees to the right)
Then there are four 110cm linear cannons on the left and right sides and four 8-mounted anti-aircraft defense missile launchers "Hell Dart", with two launch ports on the upper and lower parts of the ship.

The positron city-breaking cannon was installed by Nain at the lower part of the ship. It can be extended individually when needed and can also be rotated.

Of course, the Ayagama's iconic central super main gun is also included.

However, this gun was replaced by Nain with an improved ship-borne destroyer beam cannon.

This gun has enhanced particle binding capabilities and can no longer fire out a beam of sixty to seventy meters in one shot, but its range and beam penetration have been greatly increased. It is specially designed to deal with the large light wave shields that are a specialty of the CE universe.

Of course, with all the weapons, this warship is 400 meters long, which is considered a large warship among normal warships, but it can only carry MS. So it is better to say that this warship is a super gunboat than a MS.

In terms of power, it is naturally the dual power of the Minovsky particle large nuclear fusion reactor and the AC universe large nuclear fusion reactor. The propeller is naturally the light wave propeller.

In terms of systems, the ship is equipped with an ultra-large I force field generator that is only equipped on large MAs, as well as a Minovsky flight system and a blind umbrella system.

In terms of armor, the I-force field ensures that the power of beam weapons is greatly reduced, and the dual power sources ensure no energy shortage. The entire ship uses TPS armor, which is a combination of an outer layer of laminated armor and an inner layer of PS armor.

To be honest, only Red's laminated armor and PS armor can be synthesized at a low price from factory modules, otherwise the cost of the armor of this ship would be enough to build an Archangel.

If the military of other countries knew that the shipbuilding of the New Misluchi Kingdom was so luxurious, they would probably drool.

This ship was finally named Secret Angel. Anyway, Buggy Lulu herself would not be brought to the AD universe, so there was no need to worry about the ship having the same name as the other ship.

After Shin Asuka and his group graduated, the time quickly came to October CE73.

Due to the chaos in ZAFT, which resulted in the loss of various units, Durandal, in the name of revitalizing ZAFT's image, passed the Council to hold a "launching" ceremony for the new ship Minerva on the Armory Colony Satellite. At the same time, three next-generation Gundams will appear as surprise Easter eggs.

Of course, the theft of the armory was still staged by Durandal himself. He had leaked the information to the Atlantic Federation long ago and deliberately lured the Atlantic Federation special forces to steal the aircraft.

The purpose is simple, to create an alibi for the subsequent colonial satellite crash, and at the same time to make sure that there is no Speaker in PLANT and no one has the power to order a large force to stop it. At the same time, it can also deepen ZAFT's image as a victim, killing three birds with one stone.

Therefore, in order to ensure the smooth implementation of the plan, Durandal specially invited Red and the prime minister of the neighboring country Orb to attend the ceremony, based on the fact that Red had previously taken him to see the Skystrike Gundam display.

In fact, Durandal wanted to tie Red down so that he would have no time to command the response to the falling debris of the colonial satellite at home.

(End of this chapter)