It was confirmed that the matter of sending people to the military base where Durandal was located did not delay Xiao Ran too much. It was just an order to arrange for two days to get it all done. In view of the fact that there might be a battle on the way or when returning to Orb. A situation arises, so Xiao Ran specially dispatches the Lord Angel as the ship for this entourage, and the person in charge is naturally Bucky Lulu.
In addition to Bucky Lulu, Mu will also go together as the MS battle commander. The MSs going together include Midnight Gundam, Dawn Gundam, Strike Gundam, Crimson Forbidden, Pitch Black Strike, and Emerald Green captured from the United Earth. Storm, Black Thunder, True Red Holy Shield, Azure Duel, and Xiao Ran also arranged Stella, Sting, and Orlu to accompany them on the Main Angel. In addition to these special machines, there were also two teams of Murasame, Dozens of aircrafts filled the Archangel's gnaku to the brim.
As for those participants, they continued to investigate the librarians. The investigation actually meant allowing these participants to act freely within certain limits, and even allowed them to act freely and proactively with the help of Orb's intelligence department. To trigger possible side tasks, Xiao Ran usually treats his own participants so favorably.
Although sending the Midnight Gundam may give the pilots Mayu and Zhen Asuka a chance to meet, Xiao Ran believes that both Zhen and Mayu can definitely handle this matter, and Mayu's official surname in Orb is no longer It's called a flying bird.
After such a long period of cleaning up and arranging, Orb is now gradually on the right track. In addition to the usual lack of resources, Xiao Ran basically does not need to worry too much under normal circumstances. Of course, after settling the group of After the waste recyclers, they also received some support from the waste dealers' union in terms of resources. It can be said that it also slightly alleviated some of Orb's resource shortage problems. However, Xiao Ran did not let Orb receive these materials for nothing, but in a suitable way. The purchase price is not high, but it is not so high that the waste merchants will lose money.
After all, waste merchants often take great risks when recycling waste, so in such an equal transaction, Orb not only gets benefits, but the waste merchants also get rewards. The recyclers are willing to give Orb a very low price in return for Orb's help to them. They also hope that Orb will become stronger. Only in this way can they continue to provide them with protection.
For such a long time, Xiao Ran has been focusing on the current situation of Orb without much time to rest. He is absorbed in Orb's things every day. Internal affairs, military, and diplomacy account for most of the time. But now Orb was on the right track, and all the things that needed to be done were arranged and there was no need for Xiao Ran to sit in the office all the time. However, before Xiao Ran could really start to take a good rest, there was still a problem that needed to be dealt with.
That was the countless coalition soldiers captured in the previous battle, and there were many senior coalition officials among them. The coalition had sent letters to Orb many times asking Orb to exchange prisoners. From the beginning His tone was full of threats, and he had always sent troops here. Now his tone has softened, and he was even willing to exchange conditions. However, for such a long time, Xiao Ran simply ignored the alliance. It was not that Xiao Ran deliberately ignored the other party, but really There is no time to argue with United.
But Xiao Ran also asked the people below to compile a list to see how much these prisoners could be sold to the United Fleet. You must know that the soldiers captured from the United Fleet do not belong to only one federation, the Eurasian Federation, the Atlantic Federation, or even A small number of East Asian Federations, as well as some prisoners from other countries who later joined the World Security Alliance and wore United Earth military uniforms, are very complex in composition. After all, it is a true 'joint' fleet, so No wonder the joint headquarters is so anxious.
There were quite a few enemies captured in the last battle. You must know that there were about two hundred battleships alone. With so many battleship personnel, there were not a few captured. It is normal for a battleship to have one to two hundred people. , this is still at a minimum, being locked up like this every day is a big expense just eating and drinking. Xiao Ran has long been eager to send all these prisoners back to the Union, lest Orb have to find a place to raise these prisoners.
Of course, Xiao Ran is not prepared to return the battleship MS and the like. Even if the United battleships are not the same model as Orb's, they are roughly the same. They only need to be repaired and can be used directly with Orb's flag. , and many of these battleships have MS carrying capabilities, and even the existence of aircraft carriers. If we really want to build a fleet of this size, we don’t know how much material and manpower Orb will have to consume to do it. Xiao Ran is an idiot to do this. The battleship is returned to the Earth United.
As for the MS, even if the models are different, it doesn’t matter. Just replace the machine body with Orb’s system. Anyway, the operation methods of the MS are basically the same. A normal pilot can operate it, even if it is used as a defensive line of fire along the coast. It's better to use them than to return them to the Alliance, especially the two Destruction Gundams (one of the three exploded, completely destroying the military port). Now they have been repaired. According to Director Simmonds, those things don't have much technology at all. Content is a strategic weapon built out of volume, mass, energy, and firepower.
However, even large-scale strategic weapons without much technical content cannot be piloted by ordinary people. The amount of armed firepower of the machine makes it impossible for ordinary people to operate it. But of course it is no problem for participants like Xiao Ran. The only difference is The level gap and experience gap between participants only reflect whether the gap can truly bring out the full performance of the machine.
Simonds also pointed out that it would be a waste of size to operate the Destruction Gundam, which is more than 50 meters high, with only one person operating it. If it were operated by three or five people, the Destruction Gundam could be built into a A real firepower fortress, equipped with more weapons, equipped with three, four or five solar furnaces, and even manufacturing combat parts for the Destruction Gundam. In that way, it may not need other support, and it can directly go on a single-machine rampage and solve any enhancement. type fleet.
After Xiao Ran heard what Director Simonds said, he quickly gave up Director Simonds's idea. Xiao Ran didn't want to create a mobile fire fortress here, and then the United Alliance followed suit by creating a bunch of them, asking for trouble. Even if you want to do it, you can't do it now. At least you have to wait until you kill the United and Zaft.
Xiao Ran originally asked the pilot who assigned these two machines to Orb to use them, but even a normal adjuster pilot would find it a bit clumsy and difficult to fly such a machine, so Xiao Ran had no choice but to hand them over to Orb. Participants use it, but to be honest, it is impossible for normal participants to like this kind of bulky machine with obvious advantages but equally obvious shortcomings. The most critical one is that the flexibility is too poor, so bad that it is unreasonable. This is definitely an unacceptable shortcoming for those who care about their lives.
And even if they accept it, they really may not be able to turn this machine into their own and take it back to Prometheus. They might as well fly a machine that has been carefully adjusted by themselves, but it will be able to exert greater combat power, and once they accept it, These two machines will inevitably be subject to certain restrictions in their movements. After all, these two machines will serve as Orb's first line of defense to guard Orb and cannot go out to perform tasks. This is also difficult for the participants to accept.
But if there is a team and it is the kind of team with very good internal relations, then the role of this machine will be reflected. Even if a team sends one person to garrison Orb, the other people can continue to go out to perform tasks. Once fighting, with the assistance of team members, the Destruction Gundam can indeed exert its powerful power, so in the end the two Destruction Gundams were handed over to two participants with their own teams for use.
Of course, Xiao Ran didn't show up for all this. He just gave an order and someone would naturally run errands. Anyway, although the participants of Orb now have some suspicions that there are also participants among the top officials of Orb, they have not really locked this participant. In Xiao Ran's body, but I don't know how many people Xiao Ran has arranged around them, watching their every move at all times, and also selecting participants with good and trustworthy character to join his Burning Legion. middle.
The proportion of members of the Burning Legion today is too strange. Although the four members of Ashe have joined, it is still very problematic. New participants account for the absolute majority. The high-end participants are Xiao Ran’s team, and the middle-class participants Almost none. Of course, although Captain Jeffrey on the Border has an intermediate level of strength, they are still newcomers after all, so Xiao Ran also hopes to add more middle-class participants to the legion. Come.
In addition, among the prisoners of the Alliance, although they were prepared to return these prisoners to the Alliance, there were a few people that Xiao Ran was prepared to intercept. The first one was the pilot of the Dark Attack, Sven Carl Bayan. The second one is Emilion Bodley, the pilot of the True Red Holy Shield.
Both pilots have a history of surrendering. This description is not quite right. It should be said that both of them have the idea of changing the status quo. They are not the kind of weapons that only know how to fight, but have their own Thoughts, but due to the environment they were in, they could only live numbly. Now that they had been held captive by Orb for such a long time, these quiet days should have given them more ideas. (.)