An advanced guide for experienced modelers, from building blocks to hand-building Gundams

"This one is..."

Mu looked at the machine in front of him and his expression became serious.

He had just witnessed the battle between this mecha and Cruze, from the brief moment of conscious control in directing Cruze's gun to keep his attack away from the Gundam, to the subsequent use of forged fragments to suppress Cruze's movement, and finally the fleeting close combat and disengagement. Clearly, this mecha's pilot wasn't just an ACE, but also an elite.

"It's the personal mobile suit of a space scrap dealer named Ross Links. It's called Jegan."

Malu explained, moving closer to Jegan.

"Pfft..."

The hatch of Jiegan opened, and a figure wearing a red and white pilot suit appeared in front of the hatch.

Seeing the scene in front of him, Mu couldn't help but whistle.

"I don't know why the scrap dealer is here, but he looks much more professional than these boys and girls."

"Roz!"

Malu shouted towards the figure.

"Hey, Malu, I just took a look around your factory. These should be useful."

Rhodes waved his hand and pointed to the equipment he had just picked up below.

Speaking of which, the original Jegan Type A was also made by Ross by hand using various scrap metals and rubbing them together on those green-skinned production lines. Now, the process of picking up equipment made Ross have hallucinations of himself picking up garbage and rubbing the machine by hand.

Rhodes stepped on the lifting rope and walked down.

"Maintenance team, take this thing back."

Mari took a look at these equipments, most of which were spare equipments from several Gundams that had been stolen.

"Thank you, Roz, that's been a great help."

"It's okay...are these the only people left among you?"

Ross glanced at the people behind Maru, who were wearing Earth Army uniforms.

Obviously, such a number of people is not enough for the normal operation of a warship. Even if the warship is highly automated, it will require overload work to maintain operation.

"Hey, boy, your skills are amazing. You can actually beat Cruze like that."

At this time, Mu spoke and gave Ross a thumbs up.

"Cruzet?!"

Maru and Bakilu were shocked. This name was very famous in the Earth Army.

After hearing the name, Ross narrowed his eyes and asked Christina using the communicator in his helmet.

"Yeah, Cruze, that guy came here with two warships on a capture mission, it was really annoying."

Mu spread his hands helplessly.

"If it's him, I suggest you gather your supplies now."

After listening to Christina's explanation in the communication, Rhodes gave his own opinion.

"He just entered the satellite by destroying its axis. There's no guarantee he'll blow up the satellite's axis."

"This……"

Baki Lulu obviously didn't expect this and was a little dazed.

"Lieutenant Bakilulu, please organize the personnel and start moving the supplies."

Malu also understood that no matter whether Ross was right or not, now was not the time to dawdle.

"Roz, I remember you're a scrap dealer. I'd like to give you a commission."

Maru looked into Ross's eyes beneath his helmet.

"...Let me make it clear first, my price is not cheap."

Ross had already guessed a little about Malu's thoughts.

"I would like to hire you to escort this battleship and the Gundam to the Atlantic Federation."

Listening to Mariu's words, Ross fell silent.

The Atlantic Federation, the headquarters of Blue Cosmos. Although this extremist organization will not openly appear to take over the Atlantic Federation, many officers have already joined Blue Cosmos.

Although his identity and traces of the MS had long been erased, and electromagnetic interference was used when the research institute was destroyed to destroy all images, and even the footprints were changed into Zaku patterns similar to Zaftekhin, it was inevitable that some accidents would occur.

But in the current situation, Heliopos is destined to be destroyed, so we can only go to the homeland of Orb.

"...I can only accompany you to Orb's homeland. I won't escort you to the Atlantic Federation."

In the end, Rhodes chose a compromise.

After all, before coming to this world, Ross was a flower grower, and flower growers always make compromises.

"Phew... Thank you. As for the reward..."

Thinking of this, Malu felt a little embarrassed.

After all, it seemed that the Archangel really had nothing to give to Ross, the space scrap dealer, as a reward.

"We'll talk about it when we get to Orb. The first priority is to survive."

Ross once again boarded the Jegan.

"Send me the location of the supplies."

Picking up trash is part of Gundam, if you don’t like it, don’t play it.

……

With the help of Jie Gang, the supplies were transported very quickly.

Various spare parts that had been forced to be abandoned were brought back to the Archangel, and even a lot of water resources were transported from the Dawn Society.

Christina also brought the Haro people to move all kinds of weapons and parts of Jegan onto the Archangel.

"But I must remind you, Ross, the Archangel doesn't have rockets of our specifications. As long as we use our ammunition, we'll have one less."

Christina, still wearing the white coat, stood in front of Ross and explained to Ross the serious situation they were facing.

"Don't panic, I can make an adapter. We can use the Earth Army's equipment..."

Rhodes stood beside Christina, looking at Jiegan who had just been fixed.

"Huh... Hey, we don't know much about your machine, so we might not be able to help you right now."

At this time, a middle-aged man with purple hair and wearing orange and white work clothes walked up to Ross's side. He looked at the machine in front of him, which he had never seen before, and sighed.

Since the Archangel's maintenance tools and related data protocols are all derived from the G series, when facing this Jegan handcrafted by Ross, only the universal hangar and catapult rail can be used.

"It's okay, we can make the preparations ourselves."

Ross nodded to the uncle in front of him.

"You've worked so hard, having to go into battle and also prepare the machine yourself."

The uncle sighed and extended his hand to Ross.

"Sergeant Maddock, leader of the maintenance squad."

"Roz Links, personal cosmic scrap dealer."

Rhodes held out his hand, and the two shook hands before parting.

"Just now, the factory building I bought in order to settle here was bombed."

"Is that so... How unfortunate."

Madoc sighed and was about to leave.

Small machines controlled by Haro connected to the universal frame that fixed Jegan, and then extended their robotic arms to start preparing Jegan.

"It's really... incredible."

Seeing the scene before him, even Madoc, who was knowledgeable in the field of aircraft maintenance, couldn't help but feel envious.

But now is not the time to lament these never-before-seen new technologies.

After all, everyone knows that outside Heliopos, ZAFT is waiting eagerly, and once the Archangel sets sail, it will surely be a tough battle.

However, no one expected what kind of person Cruze, the team leader, was.

……

"Really...incredible driving skills."

Outside Heliopos, on the bridge of one of the ZAFT warships.

The few people who had just participated in the Gundam seizure operation, as well as Cruze, whose machine was badly damaged, were gathered around a simulated sand table, watching the images recorded by the three machines just now.

In the video, the dark blue Jegan used only two moves to cripple the two Jinns, and in the subsequent battle with Cruze, the guidance that could not be detected in a short time and the attack like a storm.

"If it weren't for these videos, the captain's reputation would have been severely damaged after flying the Xigu. That wouldn't have been a good reputation."

Cruze, wearing a white uniform, floated in the air and sighed.

"Although he probably came out to stop us because his factory was attacked, for whatever reason, he got mixed up with the Earth Army."

Cruze looked at the red icon on Jegan's left shoulder in the video.

"Unicorn... Hehe, it's more like a young animal whose horn hasn't yet formed, rather than a unicorn."

In the image, Jegan's head was enlarged, and Cruze smiled and commented on Jegan's appearance.

"Since he's already sided with the Earth Army, let's destroy him as well, along with the remaining Gundam and the battleship."

"Prepare to use the D-type equipment against the fortress."

The D-type equipment is actually four large anti-ship missiles loaded on King via a special rack.

"D equipment? But Heliopos..."

On the side, Aslan in red uniform looked a little confused.

"Aslan, you are a kind man."

Cruze looked at Aslan and shook his head.

"But after Orb participated in the development of the Earth Army's cutting-edge mobile suits and battleships, they were no longer a neutral nation."

"Your kindness will be exploited by our enemies. They will use your kindness to hurt your friends and our compatriots."

"I hope you can think these things through."

Listening to Cruze's words, Aslan fell silent.

After a long time, Aslan looked at Cruze and nodded.

……

In Heliopos, aboard the Archangel.

Most of the supplies have been loaded, and even the most scarce water resources have been transported from the Dawn Society.

But if we really set sail now, the supplies are still not sufficient.

"……Um?"

Ross, who was resting in the cockpit of Jegan, suddenly seemed to sense something.

Ross dialed the communication to the bridge.

"This is the bridge, please speak."

A familiar voice came, and it was obviously Baki Lulu who answered the phone.

"Who's the captain now? I want to attack."

Ross closed the Jegan's cockpit door and started the machine.

"The current captain of the Archangel is Captain Lamias. Please explain the reason for the attack. I don't have any... mobile suit signals appearing here?!"

The Archangel's radar was quite good. After Ross finished speaking, Bakilulu saw several small spots of light suddenly appear on the radar outside the icon representing the ZAFT battleship.

Rhodes gripped the joystick tightly, the tingling and cold feeling coming from his brain making him quite aware of it.

This time, ZAFT came with the intention of destroying everything.

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