The matter of sending people to the military base where Aube was did not take up too much of Xiao Ran's time. With just an order, everything was settled in two days. In view of the possibility of a battle on the way back to Aube or during the process of returning, Xiao Ran specially sent the Dominion Angel as the ship of the entourage. The person in charge was naturally Bakirulu.
In addition to Bakirulu, Mu would also go with them as the combat commander of MS. The MS pilots that went with them were the Midnight Gundam, Dawn Gundam, Assault Gundam, Crimson Forbidden, Dark Assault, Emerald Storm, Dark Thunderbolt, Crimson Sacred Shield, and Azure Duel. Xiao Ran also arranged for Stella, Sting, and Gnacou to accompany them on the Dominion Angel. In addition to these specially-made mechs, there were also two small teams of Murasame. More than ten mechs filled the Dominion Angel's Gnacou to the brim.
As for those participants, they continued to investigate the librarians. Although it was called an investigation, it was actually letting these participants act freely under a certain limit. With the help of Aube's intelligence department, they were allowed to take the initiative to trigger possible side missions. Xiao Ran generally treated his own participants very well.
Although sending out the Midnight Gundam might give the pilot Aube a chance to meet the real Flying Bird, Xiao Ran believed that whether it was the real Flying Bird or Mayo, they would definitely be able to handle this matter well. Moreover, Mayo's official surname in Aube was no longer Flying Bird.
After such a long period of cleaning and arranging, Aube had gradually gotten on the right track. Except for the lack of resources, Xiao Ran basically did not need to worry too much under normal circumstances. Of course, after settling the group of waste recycling merchants, they also received some support in terms of resources from the Waste Merchant Union. It could be said that it had slightly alleviated Aube's resource shortage problem. However, Xiao Ran did not let Aube receive these materials for free. Instead, he bought them at a suitable price. Although it was not high, it was not enough to make the Waste Merchant Union lose money.
After all, the Waste Merchant Union often had to take a great risk to recycle waste. Therefore, this kind of equal transaction not only benefited Aube, but also the Waste Merchant Union also got a return. The Waste Merchant Union was willing to give Aube a very low price to repay Aube's help to them. At the same time, they also hoped that Aube would become stronger. Only then could he continue to protect them.
For a long time, Xiao Ran had been focused on Aube's current situation and did not have much time to rest. He spent most of his time on Aube's affairs, internal affairs, military affairs, and diplomacy. Now that Aube was on the right track and all the things that needed to be done were arranged, Xiao Ran did not need to sit in the office all the time. However, before Xiao Ran could really start to rest, there was still a problem that he needed to deal with.
That was the countless soldiers of the alliance captured in the previous battle. Among them were many high-ranking officials of the alliance. The alliance had sent letters to Aube many times to ask him to exchange the captives. At first, their tone was full of threats, and they would send troops at any time. Now, their tone had softened, and they were even willing to exchange the captives with conditions. However, Xiao Ran did not pay attention to them at all. It was not that Xiao Ran deliberately ignored them, but he really did not have time to argue with them.
However, Xiao Ran also asked his subordinates to compile a list to see how much these captives could be sold to the alliance. It should be known that the soldiers captured by the alliance did not belong to only one Federation. The Eurasian Federation, the Atlantic Federation, and even a small portion of the East Asian Federation. There were also some captives from other countries who joined the World Security Alliance and wore the Earth Alliance's military uniform. The composition was very complicated. After all, it was a true 'alliance' fleet, so it was no wonder that the alliance headquarters were so anxious.
The number of captives in the previous battle was not small. There were about two hundred battleships alone, and with so many battleships, the number of captives was not small. It was normal for a battleship to have one or two hundred people, and this was on the lower side. Every day, they were locked up like this. Just eating and drinking alone consumed a lot of resources. Xiao Ran had long been eager to send all these captives back to the alliance, so that Aube would not have to find a place to raise these captives.
Of course, Xiao Ran did not plan to return the battleship MS and the like. Even if the alliance's battleships were not the same model as Aube's, they were roughly the same. They only needed to be repaired and they could be used directly under Aube's flag. Moreover, many of these battleships had the ability to carry MS, and there were even aircraft carriers. If he really wanted to build a fleet of such a scale, he did not know how much resources Aube would have to expend to complete it. Xiao Ran would be an idiot to return these battleships to the Earth Alliance.
As for the MS, even if the model was different, it did not matter. He could just replace the body of the MS with Aube's system. After all, the operation method of the MS was not much different. Any normal pilot could operate it. Even if it was stacked on the coast as a defensive line, it would be better than returning it to the alliance. This was especially true for the two Gundams (one of the three exploded and completely destroyed the military port). They had now been repaired. According to Director Simmonds, those things did not require much technology at all. They were just strategic weapons built with volume, mass, energy, and firepower.
However, even if it was a large-scale strategic weapon that did not require much technology, it was still not something that ordinary people could operate. The firepower of the body of the MS was simply too much for ordinary people to operate. However, for participants like Xiao Ran, of course, it was not a problem. The only difference was the level difference between the participants, the difference in experience, and whether they could truly display the full performance of the body.
Director Simmonds also suggested that it would be a waste of the Gundams' size to be operated by only one person. If it was operated by three or even five people, they could completely turn the Gundams into real firepower fortresses. They could equip the Gundams with more weapons, install three or four solar furnaces, and even manufacture combat parts for the Gundams. In that way, they might not even need other support. They could directly destroy an enhanced fleet on their own.
After Xiao Ran heard Director Simmonds' words, he quickly dispelled Director Simmonds' idea. Xiao Ran did not want to create a mobile firepower fortress here, only to have the Alliance follow suit and create a bunch of other firepower fortresses. Even if he wanted to build one, he would not do it now. At the very least, he would have to wait until after the Alliance and ZAFT were eliminated.
Xiao Ran had originally intended to assign these two mechs to Aubrey's pilots, but even a normal adjuster pilot would find it somewhat clumsy and difficult to pilot such a mech. Hence, Xiao Ran could only helplessly hand it over to Aubrey's participants. However, to be honest, a normal participant would not like such a huge mech with obvious advantages but also obvious disadvantages. The most important of which was that its agility was too poor. It was so bad that it was beyond reason. This was definitely an unacceptable disadvantage for participants who valued their lives.
And even if they accepted the body, they might not be able to turn the body into their exclusive body and bring it back to Prometheus. It would be better to operate a body that had been carefully adjusted by themselves. That way, they would be able to exert more combat power. Once they accepted the body, their movements would inevitably be restricted to a certain extent. After all, these two bodies would be the first line of defense for Aube, and they would not be able to go out to perform missions. This was unacceptable to the participants.
But for a team with a very good internal relationship, the body's usefulness would be reflected. Even if a team had to send out one person to guard Aube, the others could continue to go out to perform missions. Once in a battle, with the help of the team members, the Gundam would indeed be able to exert great power. Therefore, the two Gundams were ultimately handed over to the participants of their respective teams.
Of course, Xiao Ran did not show up for all of this. He only gave an order, and his subordinates would naturally run errands for him. In any case, although the participants of Aube had some suspicions that there was also a participant among the higher-ups of Aube, they had not really locked onto Xiao Ran. However, they did not know how many people Xiao Ran had arranged around them to watch their every move at all times. At the same time, he was also picking out trustworthy participants to join his Burning Legion.
Now, the ratio of Burning Legion members was too strange. Even with the addition of Aeschi's four-man team, there were still many problems. The majority of the participants were newcomers, and the high-end participants were Xiao Ran's team. There were almost no mid-level participants. Of course, although Captain Jay Vry and the others on the Frontier had mid-level strength, they were still newcomers after all. Therefore, Xiao Ran also hoped to replenish the Legion with more mid-level participants.
In addition, among the captives of the Alliance, although they were going to return these captives to the Alliance, there were a few people that Xiao Ran wanted to keep. The first was the pilot of the Dark Assault, Sven Karl Bayan, and the second was the pilot of the Red Holy Shield, Emilion Bedeli.
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