The matter of the Earth Alliance base being attacked was not something the Earth Alliance questioned Orb about.
They were guilty enough themselves, so of course they had no nerve to raise the issue.
Cagalli's father took the incident and used it in certain negotiations, seemingly trading silence for some kind of benefit.
For Cagalli, who knew the truth, that only made her furious all over again.
But she knew there was nothing else to be done. The urgent priority was to make Orb strong enough that it would no longer be underestimated.
Only then would the time come to perform the great surgery, when they could cut out the rot at its roots.
This development clearly went against Orb's principle of neutrality.
But it could not be helped. It was not only because they could not stand by and watch those devils destroy the world. It was also because, from what they had learned about the original course of events, several major tragedies were going to happen.
Orb would even be attacked by a satellite cannon and nearly annihilated as a nation.
So Orb would develop its military power. It was not a shameless act of using justice as an excuse. It was for its own survival.
Now, they had arrived at a secret base. This was where they would begin extracting the technology he had brought.
"Th-This can't be real. This can actually be done?"
The incredulous voice came from a woman who appeared to be in her thirties. Cagalli knew her very well. She was Erica Simmons, Morgenroete's technical director.
At the moment, Erica was staring in shock at the data on the tablet he had opened. At the same time, she looked in disbelief at the device beside him, roughly the size of a ten-liter water jug.
It was an energy device.
This was probably a miniaturized nuclear power unit.
Not only had it been miniaturized to this extent, it was also resistant to Neutron Jammers. That truly shocked Cagalli as well.
She was not a specialist, but she had often spoken with Erica, so she understood the current difficulties in energy development.
She knew how hard it was to miniaturize a nuclear power unit.
"It's fusion. No wonder Neutron Jammers don't work on it."
"Huh?"
Cagalli was stunned by what she said.
"Fusion? Isn't this nuclear fission?"
Murrue was also shocked. She had always assumed it was nuclear fission.
It was not that this world had never tried to develop nuclear fusion. It was that they had made almost no progress at all.
As for one of the Archangel's propulsion systems, laser nuclear fusion pulse propulsion, it also seemed to include the words "nuclear fusion," but that was entirely different from a nuclear fusion reactor.
One was an engine. It was not a nuclear fusion reactor.
"It isn't fission. It's fusion."
Erica Simmons answered with certainty, staring obsessively at the ten-liter-jug-sized device like an artist gazing upon a masterpiece.
This was actually a nuclear fusion reactor miniaturized to this extent.
Her gaze shifted again to the firearm he had taken out, a weapon whose shape gave off a somewhat antique impression.
"What is this?"
The other party did not answer. He simply aimed at the wall beside them and pulled the trigger.
In an instant, a laser flashed past, and a hole appeared there.
After freezing for a moment, Erica immediately ran over to the hole that had been "burned" into the wall. Once she confirmed how deep it was, she found it even harder to believe.
She knew exactly how much punishment this room's walls had been designed to withstand. Yet that brief flash of laser fire had melted a hole like this straight into it.
"With this level of power, even the Strike's Phase Shift Armor could be threatened if it took a direct hit."
"What?"
Murrue was stunned again. She roughly understood just how strong the Strike Gundam's Phase Shift Armor was.
And yet the gun-type weapon Mr. Kain had taken out, which looked roughly the size of a heavy machine gun and was clearly meant to be used by a person, could threaten the Strike just by firing a laser?
Then ordinary tanks and mobile armors would have their armor pierced outright.
"I don't have the technical data for this thing. If you want to research it, you'll have to disassemble it yourselves and reverse-engineer it. You don't need to worry about breaking it. I still have piles of these on my end."
Kain had already thrown plenty of these laser weapons over to A2 and Tessa for them to research.
A2 also had laser weapons on her side, but their power seemed to be somewhat weaker.
"If you put it that way, then I won't hold back."
If there were only one sample, she would have had to be extremely careful. But since he could provide many more samples, Erica naturally began disassembling it without restraint.
She looked back down at the tablet he had given her.
"This is electromagnetic shield technology."
It was another technology that made her eyes shine.
"And this is miniaturized laser nuclear fusion pulse propulsion technology. It's actually been miniaturized to this level. That variable fighter model Ho 229 must be using this technology."
Morgenroete also possessed laser nuclear fusion pulse propulsion technology. The new warship Archangel used that technology.
But miniaturizing it to this degree was not something they could accomplish within the next thousand years.
That said, even with the technology he was currently providing, they still could not manufacture it immediately due to limitations in certain materials.
However, with such complete technical data, if they synthesized the materials regardless of cost, Erica believed they could manufacture it very soon.
"Hm? That technology isn't here?"
She did not see the technology she very much wanted to understand: the field technology deployed by the special Ho 229 this man piloted. That was definitely not electromagnetic shielding.
"That one only exists as finished products. Right now, there are only three units."
As for A-Driver technology, Lacus had told Kain that even if he truly had the complete technology, he should not bring it to this side for the time being.
She was worried that if it leaked, this technology, which seemed somewhat magical, or perhaps more like a superpower, would make this world even worse.
Among the technologies he had brought over, the most dangerous one had not yet been viewed. It was at the very end.
It was also technology he had obtained from that planet, and it was related to the planetary energy engine.
"That really is a shame."
As Erica continued reading, she saw another epoch-making technology.
"Supercavitation propulsion technology."
Standing beside her, Murrue, who could be considered half a technical expert herself, stared at the new technical data in shock as well.
With this technology, they could effectively fly through the sea.
So based on the technologies he had provided so far, if Orb used them all and applied them militarily, it was impossible to imagine how powerful Orb would become.
At that moment, Murrue felt as though Pandora's box had been opened.
When the next critical item appeared before her eyes, her eyelid twitched.
This truly was Pandora's box.
Even Erica herself did not dare click further. She also felt that if she continued, she would be releasing some horrifying monster.
So the two of them stared with trembling pupils at those words:
Crustal High-Frequency Seismic Fracturing Mining Technology 737.
Those words alone might not convey its power, but the attached effect diagram made them swallow hard.
"Lacus, are you certain this technology should be released too?"
Murrue asked her that because the technologies being provided had been selected by Lacus.
"It is necessary. This is meant to intercept falling colonies as a precaution. It is also meant as a safeguard against the unknowns of deep space."
If a colony really did fall toward Earth and was captured by the planet's gravity, then with their current technology, they had no way to destroy it.
Even Requiem and GENESIS could not destroy it completely. Massive fragments would still strike Earth.
But with the technology from Mr. Kain's side, it could definitely be shot down.
According to Mr. Kain, this technology was used for mining on his side. But that kind of mining treated the planet itself as the mine.
Its power could shatter a crustal layer with an average thickness of about seventeen kilometers, punching straight through the crust.
Of course, Lacus also understood that bringing out this technology meant opening Pandora's box.
If even one thing went wrong, she would become a sinner.
The reason she still chose to bring it out, or rather, the reason her father had instructed her to bring it out, was not only to prepare for the possibility of a colony falling to Earth.
According to Mr. Kain, in this world, the later story seemed to involve an invasion by extraterrestrial life.
PLANT had also been developing as quickly as possible because of concerns in that direction.
After all, extraterrestrial life truly did exist. The remains of a whale-like life-form with wings had been discovered on Jupiter.
So this technology was also meant as a safeguard against the unknowns lurking in deep space.
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