The day after Ito Cheng was sent to prison, that is, on February 18, Plant Speaker Klein issued a du li declaration at the state funeral held in memory of the victims of "Bloody Valentine's Day" and a declaration of complete resistance to the United Earth War. It also stated that countries that did not participate in the Earth Federation would give priority to providing material supplies. In response, the Oceania Federation and the United States of South America, which were not members of the Plant Council, responded positively.

On February 19, the Union Army directly invaded the United States of South America by force and carried out military suppression of the Panama Spaceport. The South American continent was merged into the Atlantic Federation.

On February 20, affected by the military operations of the Atlantic Federation, Oceania United criticized the coalition's military operations invading Central and South America and expressed its support for Plant, that is, becoming a "pro-Plant country." In response, Earth United declared war on Oceania United.

On February 22nd, a fierce battle broke out between the Earth Alliance and Zaft at the "World Tree" on L1, the Alliance's bridgehead to the moon. The Alliance launched the First to Third Fleets into the fierce battle. Zaft, on the other hand, put the "neutron jamming device" with the ability to inhibit nuclear fission into experimental combat. Although it successfully proved its effectiveness, Zaft inevitably suffered great losses during the battle between the two sides. loss. Eventually, the "World Tree" was destroyed into dust in a gravel belt.

Among them, the most eye-catching performance was that of the pilot U-le-Creuze. In this battle, he destroyed a total of 37 Earth Alliance MA37s and sank six battleships. For his meritorious service, he was awarded the "Nebula Medal" by Plant.

Half a month after the "World Tree" battle. That is, on March 8, Zaft began to attack the earth. Zaft attacked the "Victoria" spaceport in the first descent operation from orbit to the earth. However, the operation ultimately failed due to lack of support from ground combat forces.

On April 1st, "April Fool's Day", zaft began to spread "seed interference devices" on the earth. Affected by this "neutron interference device", the United Earth countries experienced a serious energy crisis, causing the United Earth countries to fall into a state of material shortage. Some even starved to death. The people's anti-plant and anti-center sentiments have reached their peak.

On April 2nd, zaft took advantage of the chaos. The base facilities were landed in batches from orbit to Carpentaria, a port in the pro-plant country Oceania and the Australian region, and the infrastructure construction of the Carpentaria base was completed within 48 hours.

During this period, the Union Pacific Fleet went to attack. But it ended in defeat.

On April 17, the 5th and 6th fleets of the coalition launched an attack from the lunar base towed to Plant's home country, and engaged in a battle with Zaft near the resource satellite "Yakin-Duwe" under Plant's management. After this incident, the Plant Council decided to convert Yakin-Duwe into a defense fortress from the perspective of defending its own country.

On May 3rd, Zaft began to attack with the goal of Tolemea, and set up a base in the "Lorenzi Crater" on the inner side of the moon. The two sides used the "Glimaldi Crater" as the boundary to divide the moon into two. Partly, small-scale conflicts continued to occur. Since then. The lunar front was called the "Grimaldi Front."

On May 18, Ito Cheng ended his three-month imprisonment and was released from prison. However, his superiors did not immediately ask him to return to the team, but allowed him to move freely. However, Ito Cheng can always feel the gaze of the people around him.

May 20th. The Carpentaria base on Earth was officially built and equipped with MS Dean for air combat that had been developed in advance as a ground combat force.

On May 22nd, Zaft used the Carpentaria base as a bridgehead, officially began to attack strongholds on the earth, and began to attack the Mediterranean. This is the "First Naval Battle of Casablanca"

On May 25, the Mediterranean fleet of the coalition (with the Eurasian Federal Forces as the main force) clashed with the Zaft diving aircraft carrier fleet. Zaft's underwater MS Gern was put into actual combat for the first time.

The zaft that won this battle invaded the Mediterranean and began to invade southward from the north coast of Africa. The zaft began to build the Gibraltar base.

On May 30, the coalition forces and Zaft ground forces launched a defensive battle with Alamein as the battlefield. Facing the large tank troops of the Eurasian Federation, Zaft was in a hard fight. However, under Andy Butterfield's ingenious plan, the land war using MS Baku achieved fruitful results. From then on, Zaft began to move south from the north coast of Africa. After this battle, Andy Butterfield won the title of "Desert Tiger".

On June 2nd, an offensive and defensive battle was launched at the "Endymi Urn" crater, an important resource supply base for the Alliance forces on the Grimaldi front. Although they suffered a painful blow when the Third Fleet was annihilated, the Alliance forces deliberately made the original The "Cyclops", a device used to destroy mineral deposits, facilities, and melt ice containing rare metals, went out of control and defeated the Zaft army, but the coalition forces also suffered heavy losses. In this battle, the Ma Mobius piloted by Mu-la Flagg shot down 4 gold aircraft and was known as the "Eagle of Endymi Urn". This battle was Ito Cheng's first battle after his release from prison. While he shot down seven MSs, he also harvested more than tens of thousands of soul fragments.

Due to the impact of this battle, Zaft abandoned the Grimaldi Line of Defense and temporarily retreated from the moon.

On June 14, the coalition forces launched an offensive and defensive battle with Zaft's resource satellite "Nova" under the management of the East Asia United Nations in L4. However, neither side achieved a decisive advantage, and small-scale confrontations continued for nearly a month, during which most of the L4 colonial satellite group was damaged. Ito Cheng gained about 3,000 soul energy from this battle.

On July 12th, the Union Army abandoned "Nova", and Zaft decided to convert it into a military fortress and moved it to L5 (plant's home country). From this point on, large-scale military operations between the two sides decreased, but small-scale conflicts continued to occur, both on earth and in the universe, and the war situation fell into a stalemate.

In order to open up the war, the plan to develop a joint mobile phone (i.e. Plan G) proposed by Commodore Halbarton of the Eighth Fleet was re-adopted, and Orb's company "Auroville Society" was also involved. The official development of the MS-carrying battleship Archangel as an operational ship began in Heliopolis.

In August, Ito Cheng, who felt that the surveillance had become less frequent, applied for leave. After being approved, he took a transport plane and returned to Earth. He secretly met Chen Deren on Earth and obtained "ecosystem construction technology" and "ecosystem construction technology" from the other party that had been considered useless. "Nuclear fission technology", and Ito Cheng once again asked Chen Deren to contact arms dealers, requesting "actual parts of neutron interference devices", "MS manufacturing technology", "MA manufacturing technology", "space battleship manufacturing technology" and other technologies.

certainly. Ito Cheng also does not think that Chen Deren can obtain these technologies only by relying on his financial resources, so this request is just a matter of course, and what he can get is what he can get. As for the remaining shortcomings, he will naturally find a way to make up for it.

Ito Cheng, who obtained "Ecosystem Manufacturing Technology" and "Nuclear Fission Technology", directly entered the world of Rubik's Cube, after throwing two pieces of information into the Gate of Truth for backup. They found Lakshatta, Royd, Cecil and Nina, and handed over the nuclear fission technology to the four people. At the same time, they asked whether a solution to neutron interference could be found.

The four people who obtained the new information immediately devoted themselves to research, and took the miniaturization of nuclear power that they were already studying a step further. And during the development period, we will think about possible methods to combat neutron interference.

In September, Ito Cheng returned to the lunar base again after a month-long vacation, and engaged in small-scale conflicts with Zaft. He absorbed as little as dozens or as many as hundreds of soul energy at a time, replenishing his will power. Energy group.

On October 22nd, in order to break the stalemate and improve the state of hunger. With the goal of ending the war, under the influence of Mentor Malchior, United Earth Secretary-General Albanier and Speaker Klein once planned a secret meeting, but the negotiations ultimately failed.

"Mr. Marchio... that mysterious guy, he appears in almost every field. I really don't know who he is." Ito Cheng looked at the news about Mr. Marchio and thought to himself, "But from his perspective He often talks about fate. Judging from such idealistic terms, he may be the representative or leader of the completely lonely religious system in the seed world. I think this is the only way to explain why he has such a big fortune. influence and resources.”

"It's already December, and there's still one month left until ce71, and it's only more than three months before the plot begins. It's time to find a way to get to Heliopolis." Ito Cheng finished telling Marchionne After guessing his identity, he shifted his mind to the plot. After all, following the Datianhao would help him get something better. For example, Gundam's os and data, such as some of Orb's technologies.

But before he could take any action, orders came down from above, asking him to escort a batch of supplies to Heliopolis, and to temporarily stay in Heliopolis for one month, waiting for the next batch of escorts. Arrival of personnel.

"It's true that when you get sleepy, someone will give you a pillow." Ito Cheng took the transfer order and shook his head in a funny way. He returned to the room and sorted out his belongings, then came to the space port and met with the person in charge of transportation. After the connection, we boarded the transport ship and waited for departure.

After a while, with a slight vibration, the transport ship slowly left the lunar base and flew towards the neutral country Orb's satellite Heliopolis at high speed.

About three hours later, with another vibration of the ship's hull, the transport ship landed at a military space port in Heliopolis. Ito Cheng and the person in charge of the transport ship stepped off the transport ship and saw the people coming. Greeted by officers.

"Welcome both of you." The middle-aged officer who came to greet him stretched out his right hand, shook hands with Shigei Ito and the person in charge of transportation, and said with a smile.

"You're welcome." The person in charge of transportation smiled and said politely.

"This is Ito Cheng, the escort for this trip and the garrison for the next month." The person in charge of transportation introduced the middle-aged officer who came to greet him.

"I know he is a big star in the army. I feel more at ease with him." The middle-aged officer laughed.

"It's just a false name." Ito Cheng said modestly.

"Okay, let's go down and sit down first. Someone will take care of those supplies." The middle-aged officer said.

"Okay." Ito Cheng agreed together with the person in charge of transportation. Then, led by a middle-aged officer, they arrived inside the satellite through a secret passage. In the secret factory where the Archangel was being built, they walked into a bright room and sat down one after another, chatting.

More than two hours later, a young officer walked into the room and reported to the middle-aged officer that the materials had been loaded and unloaded. Immediately, the person in charge of transportation stood up from his seat, said goodbye to the middle-aged officer and Ito Cheng, and left the secret factory. . Afterwards, Ito Cheng did not stay long and asked the middle-aged officer to find a place for him to live in Heliopolis. After that, he also left the secret factory and returned to the secret factory under the leadership of the young officer who came in to report. On the ground of Heliopolis, he came to the room arranged for Ito Cheng to live temporarily.

"This is it." After the officer opened the door, he said to Ito Cheng beside him.

"Very good." Ito Cheng thanked him.

"If there is no problem, I will leave first. There are still some things that I need to deal with." The officer said.

"No problem, you go." Ito Cheng said.

Then the officer nodded politely to Ito Cheng, turned around and left the room, returning to the secret factory the same way he came.

"According to the data in the main chapter and side stories of Gundam Seed World, in addition to the Archangel currently under construction and the five Gundams including Strike, there are two Gundams currently on Heliopolis. With the Heretic Gundam built privately by the Orb Dawn Society, you can steal it, and then pluck the relevant data and information of the Gundam from it, especially the PS phase transfer armor. It will definitely be very useful on Knightmare when used on Earth. Invincible." Ito Cheng walked to the chair in the room and sat down, thinking secretly, "And you can also grab part of the world's power from the protagonists of the side story. This deal is definitely worthwhile."

With the decision made, Ito no longer thought wildly. He stood up and briefly familiarized himself with the layout of the room, then took a rest. Early the next morning, after Ito had a homemade breakfast, in addition to walking around the secret factory, he spent the whole day wandering around the Heliopolis Industrial College, and visited During this day, I found the laboratory belonging to the Dawn Society where Kira Yamato worked part-time in the original work.