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>John: A.Baoa.Qu's ruins have been secured. No response from Neo Zeon forces at Side 3 yet...
>Bernard: General Kowen, we just finished patrolling the shoal zone. Their forces have completely abandoned this entire area.
>John: Not even a decoy force to keep us occupied? Neo Zeon's last gamble with the colony drop must have put them on the verge of collapse if they can't afford to defend such a vital junction of space...
>AEUG Officer: General, we have just received news from the Side 1 sector. Londo Bell has encountered no resistance at the colonies. Neo Zeon appears to have completely abandoned their holdings there as well.
>John: Something isn't right here. There should at least be some resistance...unless they intend to place everything on guarding Side 3 and Solomon. Even so, they are leaving themselves open on so many different-

Recalling Dozle's last public appearance, John begins to accept that Neo Zeon may be suffering from decaying leadership. Even so, John readies his Nahel Argama to mobilize for Side 3 airspace in preparation for an invasion of the old Zeon homeland. Meanwhile at Solomon, Rakan readies his new model Doven Wolf for battle.

>Rakan: Doven Wolf corp! Not even a single Mobile Suit will pass Solomon today! These machines are worth over a hundred of their worthless slag heaps! Show them no mercy, and kill them all!
>Yazan: This had better be the mother of all battles I was promised...
>Henry: What a strange Mobile Suit...but it will suffice for the carnage that approaches. Come, ghosts of the dead Federation. Come and give me the battle I have waited years for!

[Battle of Solomon has begun]