Chapter 297: Huayan 2
"Alright, Nami, we'll go with your plan." Tolle was very satisfied with Nami's proposal—after all, the tougher his warship's hull, the better.
But Tolle also realized that besides his fear of insufficient firepower, he had now developed a fear of insufficient defense as well.
Following his instructions, Nami began modifying the Seraph-class warship.
Inside the storage space, Tolle watched the Seraph's reconstruction process—it looked like someone had pressed a fast-forward button dozens of times.
Under the diligent work of a large swarm of new dg cells, the ship was completed in just a few days.
The final result was a multipurpose warship more than four hundred meters long.
And on paper, it could carry a maximum of eight Gundam-type units.（The Archangel carries about six MS; most ZAFT warships can only carry five MS.）
After everything was finished, an entirely AI-controlled multipurpose warship was complete. In essence, it was a replica of Satellite Zea, so all internal operations could be controlled by Nami.
To commemorate his home world, Blue Star, Tolle—who was terrible at naming things—once again chopped off the start and end of a name.
He named the completed multipurpose warship Huayan, meaning it belonged to the descendants of Huaxia and Yanhuang.
Then he released Lynn Minmay, Ange, Zola, Sophia, Coco, and Miranda, and told them, "Minmay, Ange, Zola, Sophia, Coco, Miranda—our new warship is complete.
I've already set up your permissions. You can freely enter and exit the warship's core space from inside the ship.
But for anyone else, I still need to personally escort them in."
Lynn Minmay and the others immediately tried it out curiously. Finding it fun, they said, "Brother Monty, this is really cool. But here's a problem—if we fall asleep at night and accidentally sleepwalk, will we end up slipping back and forth between spaces?"
Coco and Miranda nodded vigorously beside her. "Yeah, brother, what do we do if that happens? That sounds really scary."
Tolle was stumped by the sudden question, but quickly came up with a solution. Since all the permissions were set by Yumi, he would simply have her configure a traversal password and restrict access to moments when the user was consciously aware.
Lynn Minmay and the others finally felt reassured. They roamed around the Huayan, exploring and searching for their living quarters.
But all of it was pointless—Tolle had already picked out their rooms. All were right next to the captain's quarters—his own room.
Naturally, this was for convenience during nighttime activities.
After they'd had their fun, Tolle instructed Nami to have the Huayan roam through space, hoping to locate a satellite base belonging to the Librarian organization.
If possible, he planned to assimilate the entire facility and turn the clone soldiers into his own troops.
Unfortunately, dreams were beautiful, but reality was cruel. After circling around for quite a while, he found no trace of anything related to the Librarians.
Just as Tolle was frowning in frustration, a Hyperion Gundam flew toward them. With its beam rifle raised, it opened communications with the Huayan and said, "Transport ship up ahead, stop immediately. Your vessel has been requisitioned. Halt now or I will open fire."
"Requisitioned? Are you out of your mind?" Tolle found the voice strangely familiar and reflexively replied, "But you sound an awful lot like Kira."
Unexpectedly, the Hyperion, with communications already open, responded again with a voice very similar to Kira's, laughing loudly. "Hahahaha! Didn't expect to run into someone who knows Kira Yamato here. That means I definitely can't let you go.
Tell me where Kira Yamato is, or I'll destroy your ship!"
Then Tolle suddenly remembered—wasn't this the Canard he himself had grumbled about before? He hadn't expected to encounter him here.
Since he'd been irritated by the fruitless search for the Librarians, Canard was the perfect outlet for his frustration.
"I'm not telling you. I'm not telling you. I'm not telling—YOU!" Tolle sat in the captain's chair, completely unbothered, even singing as he teased him—though he only knew those three lines.
After singing, Tolle deliberately pretended to pick a nonexistent booger and, looking down on Canard, continued, "I'm just not telling you. What are you gonna do about it? If you've got the guts, go ahead and attack."
Canard flushed bright red with rage. "You hateful bastard! I gave you a chance, and you didn't cherish it—then go to hell!"
He maneuvered the Hyperion Gundam and fired his beam rifle at the Huayan. Bursts of short beams shot out in rapid succession.
But when they hit the Huayan's Ahab Nanolaminate Armor, the hull showed no reaction—no ripples, no impact marks, nothing.
After firing for a long time and seeing zero damage, Canard was stunned.
Meanwhile, Tolle walked toward the hangar, continuing to mock him. "Sigh… that's it? It's not even enough to scratch my spaceship. Use everything you've got."
"You bastard! You've gone too far!"
The Hyperion's backpack weapon rotated up over its shoulders, activating the Bragging Beam Cannons, and fired a thick, continuous green beam straight at the Huayan.
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Huayan（Exterior modeled after the Eternal）
B+-tier warship
Terrain Adaptation: Sea B / Land — / Air A / Space A
Fixed Armaments:
High-energy converging fireline cannons ×4; Large positron breaching cannons ×2; Electromagnetic linear cannons ×2; Automatic anti-air multi-barrel laser CIWS ×24; Ship-to-ship missile launchers; Anti-air missile launchers; Meteor equipment emplacements for MS ×4.
Defensive Armor: Layered armor; Gundanium alloy;TP + PS hybrid armor; Ahab nanolaminate armor; Energy defense field.
Special Equipment:
Transformation structure（Flight Mode, Assault Mode); Magnetic field-reflection drums ×100; Reaction-force wing system; Mirage system; Anti-beam mines; Pinpoint barrier system; Omnidirectional shield system; Faster-than-light jump（subspace navigation).
Power Systems:
Large ultra-advanced deuterion reactors ×2（propulsion); Anti-neutron jammer; Large Ahab reactors ×2（armor power supply).
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Hyperion Gundam
B-tier unit
Terrain Adaptation: Sea C / Land B / Air — / Space A
Fixed Armaments:
RBW-7001 beam daggers ×2; RFW-99 beam machine gun（with beam bayonet）×1; Bragging Beam Cannons ×2; Beam shields ×2.
Special Equipment:
Mono-phase light barrier; PS armor.