>>23345040
No, they were powered by powerful newtypes. Puru proved that it doesn't take any souls to do anything Kamille did. She was able to hijack the Psycho Gundam II's reflectors to power up her suicide charge and even contained the Qubeley's explosion until she could kamikaze it into the Psycho Gundam. And Judau does the same newtype shit with or without "souls". He does everything and more he did against Haman when he gets angry at Puru II for killing Puru. He even makes the ZZ fly at ultra high speeds without any thrusters. It's just his telekinetic powers. And there's no souls involved.

>the pilots hadn't met showed up there
They learned of them by interfacing with other newtypes. Kamille meets Char and Quattro and other newtypes. Judau does that weird trance thing with Kamille and meets a bunch of other newtypes and presto "ghosts"