"Father, please make a decision as soon as possible." In the Prince's Mansion, the aging Deggin Sodo Zabi looks tired, and the tall, muscular, cold-faced man beside him is the de facto controller of Zeon.

Kilian Zabi.

“。。。。。。” The old prince Dejin sat in his magnificent, wide chair, his eyes half-squinted, as if he had fallen asleep.

"Your Majesty, please make a decision as soon as possible." Seeing that Deggin did not react, Kilian bowed slightly and made another request.

On the table in front of Deggin sat a document, the contents of which were related to three things.

The first is the declaration of a state of emergency in the Principality of Zeon, the suspension of parliamentary elections, and the entry of the state into military control.

The second is to start the general mobilization of SIDE3, lower the age of conscription to 18 years old, raise the retirement age to 50 years old, and expand the Zeon Space Force to four times its current size within 6 months.

In parallel with the national mobilization, the general mobilization of industry was also carried out, and the Zeon Defense Military-Industrial Commission was established to coordinate the production of armaments, and the National Defense Military-Industrial Commission was directly headed by Commander-in-Chief Kilian Zabi.

Related to this is the current roster of all industrial-related units of Zeon, both state and private, pro-Zabi and anti-Zabi, and next to the roster is a letter of approval for the temporary authorization given to the internal affairs forces of the Commander-General's Office to arrest 'non-nationals' and 'collaborators with the enemy'.

The third is to ban the Colonial Satellite Commune, confiscate all the property of the federal state or federal capitalists in the Principality of Zeon, and all the existing ships and unfinished satellites owned by the Colonial Satellite Commune will be placed under the jurisdiction of the Space Force, and all employees of the Colonial Satellite Commune who remain in SIDE3 will be conscripted into the newly established Principality of Zeon 'Alien Force' (Foreign Legion).

Each one is naked in preparation for war.

"Kilian, can't negotiations with the Federation continue?" Deggin opened his eyes and said, "There has to be a war?" ”

"Yes, father, although we have communicated our desire through SIDE5 that we want to negotiate again, the Federation still insists that we disband our army before we are allowed to negotiate," said Kilian, "so we have no choice but to fight the Federation." ”

"You didn't do anything in it, did you, Kilian?" Deggin suddenly stared at Kilian and said, "You have been advocating war with the Federation since the past, and you have not done anything such as deliberately making the negotiations fail, right?" ”

"Not at all, father, I am not enough to put my personal will above the state, we have a record of the whole process of negotiations with the Federation, I will know if I have intervened or not," Kilian looked back at Deggin unwaveringly, his eyes were like a piece of cold steel: "Besides, even if I don't interfere, this negotiation will definitely fail, the Federation has no sincerity in negotiations, and even the Father of the Nation, Zeon Dyken, believes that there must be a war between the people of the universe and the Federation, and this is just the war he predicted has come." ”

"Do you think you know Daken better than I do, Gilian!" Deggin suddenly stood up and glared at Gilian condescendingly: "Daken does realize that if the Federation does not change its policy towards the people of the universe, there will be a war between the two sides, but he has never thought that it is irreconcilable, if you can exchange some concessions for peace, why kidnap the people and let them die for your ambitions!" ”

"It is impossible for a colonial satellite nation to win against the Federation! Not only will it not be won, but it will become an unprecedented and tragic interstellar war! Zeon Dyken wouldn't expect that to happen! ”

"Do you want to be the Hitler of the cosmic century?"

Looking at his father with angry eyes, Kilian sneered: "That's Daiken's mistake, there is no path of peace between the people of the universe and the people of the earth, either they conquer us, or we suppress them!" ”

"What did you say!?"

"Father, you say I kidnap people and make them die for my ambitions?" He strode to the window, pushed it open with all his might, and the sound outside the window filled the hall at once.

"And now, in order to serve our country, we regard the overthrow of the burden of the Union as our natural obligation, and the government should stand with us!"

"Whoever stands with the people, the people will support him, and whoever will win! And all the people of the universe stand with our Principality of Zeon, because getting rid of the corrupt and incompetent federation is not only the will of our SIDE3 people, but also the will of all the people of the universe! ”

"I kidnap people? No, I represent the people! Kilian said coldly: "The people of SIDE3 have long been full of anger against the Federation, they were originally assigned to SIDE3, the most marginal colony of the earth circle, and have never enjoyed the benefits of the Federation in their lives, they are jealous that people on the earth can live on the ground, and they envy that people in SIDE5 can freely enter and exit the earth without restrictions, they are tired of having to live in a 10-square-meter pig kennel, relying on liquid food for a living, they don't want to work 12 hours a day, The fruits of hard work are all plundered by the federal consortium with scissors! ”

"I kidnap people? Without me, Zeon would have to go to war with the Federation, the difference is who governs. If we in power do not go to war with the Federation, the wrath of the people will burn us to ashes! ”

"At first, the new industrial products passed the tariff law, and then we had to pay taxes to the federation even on imported air and soil, and now we can pass on this burden to the people, but when we can't maintain the stability of our country in the economic aggression of the federation, when the people can no longer bear these burdens, that's when our Zabi family dies!"

"The contradictions between us and the Federation are irreconcilable! In the past, we were the only heavy industry in the various sides of the global sphere, and although the pressure was enormous, the people's lives were still sustained, but now we 。。。。。。 ”

He strode up to his father, staring at his father's eyes without fear, his tall body was even half a head taller than Deggin: "The Federation has consciously transferred heavy industry, and as we speak, the first satellite of SIDE7 has been built, and once SIDE7 is completed as a whole—it will only be a matter of ten to twenty years, and the situation in which we used to control all the capacity of heavy industry will completely change, and if people can get industrial products without SIDE3, our international status, Our economy will all dive together! ”

"We're going to be marginal governments like SIDE4 and SIDE6, maybe we're better off than them because of the development of Jupiter and Mars, but there's no essential difference."

"Now, only now, is the best time to attack the Federation!" "SIDE7 has been put into use and is still barely productive, but the situation is improving every day!" ”

"Now is when the Federation is at its weakest!"

"The later we start the war, the more disadvantageous we will be, and once SIDE7's heavy industry has formed a scale, SIDE3 will have to completely become a foundry for the capitalists of the Earth Federation!"

"When the time comes, we will produce what they ask us to produce, and the hard work will only be exchanged for the coins they have leaked in hand, and we will not be able to sustain the resource extraction and geomorphological transformation of Jupiter and Mars, nor will we be able to update the production technology, let alone maintain the army."

"Do you think the Federation will be willing to negotiate with us at that time? They won't even make a show, let alone independence when the time comes, they won't even be able to maintain their current autonomous status, the chaebols and big families can jump to the side of the federation as long as they are willing to cut their flesh, they are now respectful to us, and they will not hesitate at all when they betray the Zabi family, and they will even take the initiative to participate in the division of the cake left by the disintegration of Zeon. ”

"But what about our Zabi family?"

"When the time comes, how will we feed the two billion people of Zeon (Note 1)? If we can't feed the people, we will be hanged immediately! ”

"Or, before we were hanged, we were tied up by the rebellious army and sent to The Hague for trial, and those traitors were happy, because all the black cauldrons were carried by the Zabi family, and they changed their flags and continued to be human beings."

"Even so, do we have a chance of winning the war now?" Deggin's tone had already begun to become weak: "No matter how nice it sounds, no matter how long you think about it, you can't cover it up, this is a military adventure, once we fail, we don't have to wait until twenty years later, tomorrow we will be finished!" ”

"No, we have new weapons and elite fleets, although the scale is not as large as the Federation, but if we really have a decisive battle, we will definitely not lose," Kilian pushed the document that needed to be signed in front of his father: "Father, you should have faith in Dozru, the Zeon Space Force that we have spent 20 years building will definitely defeat Reybir's toy fleet!" ”

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Note 1: According to the information I have, there are about 40 habitable colonies in the Duchy of Zeon, and as mentioned in Gundam, almost all of Zeon's colonies are closed colonies with a large habitable population, each with a capacity of about 50 million.

And according to the official information "The Complete History of the One Year War", in 0050, the population of the whole universe has exceeded 10 billion, and 80% live in space, and in 0079 it was about 11 billion people, so Zeon has a population of 2 billion, which should be a more reasonable number.