After many days of voyage, Macross finally broke through Jupiter's orbit and came to the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars.

There are about 500,000 asteroids gathered. So many asteroids can be condensed in the asteroid belt. In addition to the gravitational force of the sun, Jupiter's gravity plays a greater role.

"Well..." Captain Grofoe has been thinking about this recently. The density of asteroids is too high, and forcing a crossing is likely to cause damage to the hull. If the main gun is used to clear a way, the enemy will immediately chase after you.

Just as he was hesitating, the automatic door was opened

"I am the deputy captain of Valkyrie Skeleton Team, Lieutenant Beiyu"

Beiyu was shocked at the captain with a standard military salute and handed him a report

"That's what you proposed, install the point-shift shield onto the fighter?"

A few days ago, Beiyu accidentally remembered the point-shift protective shield in this world that can be loaded on the fighter plane by almost 2033. YF19 is a typical example.

He then wrote a report about the point-shift protective cover that could be loaded on the fighter. He first showed it to the technical department staff. They said they could try to develop it, but they needed to obtain the captain's permission, so he found Captain Grofoe

"Well...the idea is good, worth a try"

Captain Grofo couldn't help but sigh when he was reading the report. The young people are getting more and more arrogant. In contrast, he, a middle-aged uncle, is really too imaginative.

"captain"

"Um?"

"I hope that after the R&D is completed, the performance can be tested."

"Where are you going to test? It's time of war, and there's no room for you to fly."

"It's OK in the asteroid belt, but actually..."

Beiyu delivered another report about the strengthening of VF0 firepower

In the last battle, Beiyu could clearly feel that whether it was VF0 or VF1, in addition to machine guns, missiles, and laser machine guns for defense, it was a bit difficult for the influx of combat bag troops.

Super equipment should not be officially launched next year, and should still be under development and testing now

"You want to test it at the same time?"

Captain Grofoe did not object to his idea, strengthening combat power is necessary now.

"yes"

"In ten days we will pass through the asteroid belt, and we will give you a maximum of ten days."

These ten days are basically looking for minerals that can be mined in the asteroid belt, and by the way, they can detect the enemy's whereabouts

Leaving the bridge, he immediately told the technical department the captain's permission, and they said that they would carry out research and development immediately.

Now there is only the firepower enhancement aspect

"Director Nakajima, this is the plan I proposed to you before. Do you see if the current conditions allow for renovation?"

Beiyu had proposed a firepower enhancement plan with Nakajima Leizao before, but the hangar needs too many fighter jets to prepare, so there is no time to care about him.

Now the captain has approved

"Um……"

Nakajima Raizao wiped the oil on his face, picked up the VF0 plan and looked carefully

"What you think is that you can achieve the right firepower without equipping with a backpack?"

Nakajima Leizao can understand Beiyu's idea by looking at it; for example, adding a 12.7mm machine gun to each of the left and right robot arms in the form of a combatant

"What does your extra melee weapon mean? The fighter is not used by you as Dastro"

Melee weapons, literally, close-range use, in the world of the super-time fortress, the original VF0, VF1 abandoned the cannon, and only a pair of mechanical fists could be used in melee. Only at the time point of Plus, there was the kind of point-shift protection screen concentrated on the hands to form a Pinpoint Barrier Punch to increase destructive power.

At the time point of F, the VF-25 was designed to take into account the needs of close combat, and was equipped with a special alloy steel dagger in the left wrist shield. It can be used to move the protective shield at the point of the blade to increase the destruction force. When the damage force is used to move the protective shield at the point of the casting, it can easily cut the warship armor.

If VF0 can be modified with the loading point shift shield, the Pinpoint Barrier Punch is not surprisingly available, but just in case, installing melee weapons is not a problem.

He can exchange two beam sabers from the system mall, but when he is seen, he will be suspected. He doesn't want to do such a loophole.

"Also, I can't get your six-barrel Gatling machine cannon. If three-barrels are not enough, you still need six more bars?"

"Can you reduce the caliber?" Beiyu said with a wry smile

After being scolded by Nakajima Leizao, Beiyu reluctantly convinced him to change the cannon to a six-barrel type.

As for the original energy shield on VF0, Beiyu's idea is to change it to a point-shift shield type, which can save a lot of energy. Alter or himself can take charge of the control.

As for power output, the 50% limiter is lifted

The next day, the renovation officially began

The crew complained that the robot arm of the VF0 is very easy to renovate, and it will take less than a few hours to install a machine gun.

However, the transformation of other parts takes a lot of time. First of all, the head. Beiyu required to change the two laser machine guns to four-door specifications. Now the VF0 mechanical head cannot be expanded anymore. It can only barely combine the VF1S backup parts and the VF0 mechanical head parts to form a standard.

Another thing is melee weapons. What Beiyu needs are two alloy daggers, which can be left to the people on the factory in the ship, but it also needs to be modified accordingly to the location where the dagger can be placed.

In Beiyu's own plan, like the VF25's robotic arm design, a wrist shield is added on each left and right arms, and the dagger is stored inside. At the same time, the wrist shield is equipped with a point-shifting protective cover, and the machine gun is loaded under the robotic arm, which has no conflict with the placement of the wrist shield.

This takes time. It is completed within ten days. The technical department is also stepping up development. Everyone wants to beat Beiyu, but considering that if the transformation is successful, it can be mass-produced in this way, and the anger will be slightly calmed down.

The Zenith Star Man

"I found something interesting"

The record officer put a video to Bulitai. On the screen, a fighter plane was avoiding the attack of the battle bag at an astonishing speed, turning around and blasting the battle bag with a shot.

"This is……?"

"Please see this when the reconnaissance battle bag is sent back."

Another fighter also avoided attacks, but it was not as fast and smooth as the previous one.

"What do you want to say?"

"I have observed that many of the fighter jets with miniature humans cannot achieve the same speed as the first one, and can also detect that the first fighter jet has an unusual energy reaction. Whenever our combat bag attacks, there will be energy fluctuations."

"Energy reaction?"

"I'm sorry, I'm analyzing now, but there is no record of this phenomenon in my database."

"Is it something that miniature people develop by themselves?"

"Impossible"

"Well... I understand. Next time I pursue him, I send more combat bags to surround him and strive to capture him alive."

Now Beiyu is waiting in front of a house on the ship, yawning and rubbing his dark circles of eyes

These days, I have been in charge of the transformation of VF0 with the maintenance team. They can't hold on for several consecutive days of unstoppable work. They will rest and continue tomorrow

"Darling, do you want a rest?"

After a while, Miya Yuriya walked out of the house in her school uniform and bag.

This is the only school on the ship. Considering that education for young people cannot be given up, Captain Grove ordered the construction of a school.

Kamiyuriya is the only person who can go to school when she doesn't have to attend. After all, her age record is 18, which also meets the standards of students; for her, she is learning something she hasn't mastered before.

"I, I'm fine..." The two of them walked together and rested when they returned to the dormitory when they returned to the dormitory.

Unexpectedly, Beiyu's communication watch rang in the middle of the night. The technical department said that Beiyu's requirements had been completed and the point-shift protective cover was miniaturized.

“It’s done?”

“Yes, you can go into the test now”

He was overjoyed and ran to the technical department alone. After discussing with the other party, they said that it was not easy to miniaturize it with existing means, so how could he talk about mass production?

Eight days have passed

Today is the last day of the transformation. All the conditions are met, just as long as assembly is

Under the command of Nakajima Leizao, he started from the mechanical head and assembled bit by bit

"Listen, this wrist shield is equipped with a point-shift protective cover. Be careful when using it. If it breaks, I will hang you on the shield!"

The assembly is completed and the staff is undergoing final adjustments and spraying of paint

With Roy Foca's permission, Beiyu also painted his cockpit with his signature skull.

New VF0, no

VF-UX, officially completed

UX number was created by Nakajima Thunder, which originally means Unknown X factor, because no one would have thought that Beiyu would have such a strange idea.

"Oh, boy, I have a good idea. Why don't we change the machine?"

Roy Foca praised it all the time after seeing it, and the difference between VF-UX can be seen from the design drawings

"Forget it...I have feelings for this machine."

Testing begins on the ninth day

“Catapult clear to take off”

The VF-UX, which is still painted in silver and gray, was slowly pushed onto the deck of the Daytons mothership, ready to go
To be continued...