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In every Gundam series, there's always a thrilling moment in every episode. The Ad Stella timeline of this franchise also brings in jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring events amidst a period of fear and trying to keep one's head down, and they're all amazing.

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PROLOGUE and Star of the Cradle

• The launch of the Gundam Lfrith in the prologue. It explodes out the side of the station and then proceeds to make short work out of three grunts. The One-Woman Wail also accompanies the sheer thrill, celebrating the Lfrith's capabilities and the start of the Gundam's advent. Oh, and the pilot is just 4 years old and is knocking those grunts like nobody's business.
• Suletta is already able to match Elnora's high scores in the shooting games (effectively training sims) Aerial has loaded in its system at 6 years old.
• At 11 years old, Suletta is already a competent Ace Pilot. While Aerial is an extremely powerful mobile suit, during the mission to rescue one of Mercury's elders from an accident in a mining base, it's clear from her narration that Suletta is the one coming up with the entire plan of action. She's memorized Mercury's surface and features to the point that she can navigate its hostile atmosphere without effort, is surgically accurate with Aerial's laser blade, and completes a dangerous course back to base with three minutes to spare. And despite receiving nothing but harsh criticism from the man she just rescued, her primary concern remains his safety.
  Aerial: She isn't lying. If Suletta says we'll be back in four, we'll be back in four.

Episode 1: The Witch and the bride

• Suletta defeating Guel in their duel. After blocking Guel's shots, she sends her Gundam's Bit Staves forward, effortlessly carving the limbs off the Dilanza - and before the now-incapacitated mobile suit even hits the ground, she dashes forward, beam saber in hand, and destroys the Dilanza's vertical antenna, securing her victory - All of this in under a minute.
  • Suletta doesn't know it, but with her win, she unintentionally caused problems for Vim Jeturk and his plans to assassinate Delling Rembran.

Episode 2: Cursed Mobile Suit

• Miorine, despite having a golden opportunity to flee to Earth, decides instead to confront her own father at the Shin-sei Corporation's Witch Trials, turning his own dueling rules against him and using his own words against him to goad him into accepting it after drawing courage from Suletta's little mantra or else he will be seen as an untrustworthy hypocrite for not following his own rules. Lady Prospera and Jeturk are all too happy to take advantage of the perfect storm she gives them, with Jeturk quick to seize the moment to rally all the dissatisfied shareholders that were previously afraid to speak up against Delling, by offering a reasonable counterpoint as another member of the Big Three of the Beneritt Group. Miorine ultimately manages to get a reprieve for Aerial and Suletta, repaying her aid, before effectively choosing them as her champion(s) for the duel.

Episode 3: Guel's Pride

• Vim may be at his wits' end, but he still manages to get his company to build his son a brand new red mobile suit, the MD-0064 Darilbalde. It has a fifth-generation AI which helps the mobile suit respond to attacks and act accordingly with an autopilot function, new weapons and defences, and more. And all these get used in the duel, while also showing off the wealth of Vim's company.
• The whole duel. To wit, the Gundam Aerial is an amazing mobile suit with its Bit Staves, but Guel's Darilbalde still has enough features to give it a run for its money...
  1. The Darilbalde is faster and sleeker than the Dilanza before it, letting it dodge Aerial's shots. It launches its beam blade spear at the enemy while still gripping onto it. The spear which blocks it with its shield, only to get attacked when it homes in on Suletta.
  2. It can block a mighty shot from the Gundam's Beam Rifle with its shoulder anti-beam shields.
  3. The spear can split into two smaller swords with beam blades on top.
  4. It can deploy it extra pair of arms and shoulder shields to float around it just like the Bit Staves. This allows the machine to attack the enemy and defend itself at the same time.
• When Vim and his sons' dorm cause a downpour in the field to dissipate the Aerial's shots, Miorine tries to stop the duel. When that fails, she plays her part to give Suletta a chance to win...by angrily hopping into a mobile worker to find who's controlling the fire-extinguishing sprinklers. Sure enough, once she finds who's doing it, she smashes the controls, disabling the water sprinklers. Looks like this girl's got better things to do than be her dad's tool...
• With the sprinklers deactivated, Suletta goes on the attack again with her Aerial's Bit Staves wailing on Guel and his Darilbalde, eventually firing together into one mighty shot which destroys his shields.
• Guel calls out his father for cheating to give him victory, after getting pushed around for "failing" him. Deciding to win on his own terms, he slams his fist on the AI, shutting it down, and goes manual. The result is him, despite having a heavily damaged mobile suit, blocking Suletta's final blow and keeping up with the Aerial with his Daribalde's speed, versatility, and claw feet, and his own mobile suit combat prowess. Suletta even admits that she underestimated him after the duel.
  Guel: This... is my fight! It's mine... ONLY MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE!!!!!!!!!!!!! [Darilbalde clashes with Gundam Aerial]
• Despite the sheer pressure from Guel, Suletta and her Gundam take advantage of getting swung around to find a landing spot to launch over to Guel. Avoiding his arm beam sabers, the Aerial throws its beam saber to pin one arm, uses the now-open hand to grapple and lock the other arm down, then rises up over the Darilbalde and strikes off its horn with its fuselage, earning Suletta her second win, her place in the school, the Aerial and hundreds of students congratulating her.
  Suletta: This guy is strong... But Aerial and I won't lose! After all... [Aerial launches off a pillar to charge towards the Darilbalde]
  Guel: Guel Jeturk cannot looooose!!!!!!! [Darilbalde ignites its arm sabers]
  Suletta: There's still so much left on my wish list!!! [Gundam Aerial pierces her foe's arm with its beam saber and bumps into the Darilbalde's head, breaking off its horn]

Episode 4: Unseen Trap

• While it ends with Suletta and Chuchu needing to retake the exam, Suletta does manage to competently pilot blind.
• Miorine may not be the best pilot, but she manages to teach herself to become a competent spotter and mechanic in a couple of days at most. And she's the one who guides the blinded Suletta through a minefield.
• And, honestly, Chuchu just decks the bullies that ruined her and Suletta's exams, punching them so hard they both get knocked out. In fact, she hits the first one so hard that she's just straight-up knocked out for the duration of the fight. And, when one of them makes the mistake of punching Suletta, Chuchu punches her so hard that it's implied she was knocked unconscious.
  Chuchu: You're not carrying anyone else's hopes and dreams...DON'T INTERFEEERE!!!!!!!!

Episode 5: Reflection in an Icy Eye

• Up until the very end, the duel between Elan and Guel showcases both pilots using both skill and improvisation to gain the advantage.
  • Guel is piloting his brother's Dilanza, a mobile suit that is a far cry from the Darilbalde he piloted two episodes earlier, even lacking the ability to fly, he still manages to adapt to the situation when Elan activates his GUND format and attempts to stun-lock his mobile suit. Despite having little to no time to really think, he still manages to keep the fight going and stays in the game. However...
  • Once Elan's GUND format is in play, it's clear that Elan has the upper hand for the rest of the battle. He even manages to manipulate Guel's aggressive tactics against him so that he ends up stunning himself, leaving him open to Elan's brutal dismembering of his suit.

Episode 6: A Gloomy Song

• The Gundam Pharact is a machine from the Peil House and all of its machines boast high mobility and maneuverability. The Earth House's solution? Build their own flight backpack for Aerial despite having little money to their name, in their own compound, with a box of scraps. They manage to complete this invention before the day of the duel. Speed, precision, and care are key, much? They even try to test it out right before the day of the fight arrives, a sign that this ragtag crew makes sure of the quality and functionality of their inventions are top-notch.
• The whole duel. To wit:
  1. Aerial's new backpack allows her to reach speeds she could never reach before receiving it. It allows her to keep up with the breakneck speeds of the Pharact.
  2. The Gundam Pharact possesses openable boosters on its body, allowing it to go really fast. Ojelo and Martin seem to be right about the Peil House's machine having high mobility.
  3. Both machines have their beam sabers in play, the Pharact hidden in its arms and the Aerial below the thruster wings. The first time they clash up close, the Pharact opts to kick Aerial away.
  4. The Pharact gains distance and fires its sniper rifle, but Aerial proves it already has all she needs for such a situation like this in the form of her eleven Bit Staves blocking the shot. Those little bits follow Aerial and protect her, moving like a hive of bees amidst a high-speed chase.
  5. The Pharact deploys its own bits and Suletta and Aerial, under Nika's guidance, evade them while still maintaining their speed, the bits doing likewise. It appears the new backpack is doing its work, another sign of the ingenuity of Earth House.
  6. One of Aerial's Bit Staves gets hit by the Pharact's electromagnetic stun-lock beams and is left open. Elan opens fires at it, only for the rest of Aerial's bits to deflect the shot and two of them to destroy the attacker.
  7. When Aerial assumes Bit-On form, her speed combined with the flight backpack's power, allows her to close the distance between her and the Pharact, despite Elan activating Permet Score four and unleashing all of his Gundam's speed boosters and dodging an asteroid at an extremely fast speed. Her Stave Bits also manage to land a hit on Elan as well.
  8. The Pharact reveals it can fire lasers from its feet, blowing off Aerial's backpack.
  9. As the fight climaxes and Elan goes on the attack with all of its drones, Aerial reveals a taste of her full power by emitting a pulse that disables all of the enemy's drones and the Pharact itself, leaving it open for her Bit Staves to advance on the black Gundam and wail on it really hard, eventually chipping off its v-fin.
• Minor one at the beginning of the episode. When Belmeria tries to chastise Prospera on the latter's revenge scheme for something 21 years ago, the latter cuts her off, and throws Peil Industries' use of expendable clones back at her. Belmeria can't say anything as Prospera walks away.

Episode 7: Shall We Gundam?

• While it, unfortunately, doesn't last due to the CEOs scheming, when Suletta is put on the spot in front of a massive crowd of people, she only briefly stammers before remembering Miorine's words to stand up straight, followed by pulling herself together and holding a clear and eloquent speech that leads the room into applause.
• It's a little silly and very heartwarming, but when Peil Industries puts Suletta on the spot by attacking her over Aerial being a Gundam (also revealing that Pharact is a Gundam and using that to "prove" the same of Aerial), Miorine rushes in to save the day with her management skills. In about a minute, she composes an entire ad hoc business proposition for the assembled company bigwigs, essentially defying the Cathedra agreement, capping it off with swallowing her pride for Suletta's sake, and guilting her father into playing seed funder for the new company.^note Quite a few fans have considered this one of the most awesome noncombat moments in the history of the franchise
• After we saw how callous Vim is about Guel in the last episode, and how much more Lauda cares about falling in line than even his own brother, it's cathartic to see them gnashing their teeth at being outplayed by Miorine's boldness, and Delling surprisingly acquiescing, completely screwing Vim's plans. By contrast, Zenelli, Elan, and the Peil quartet take this curveball with much grace, more curious at how this plays out.

Episode 9: If I Could Take One More Step Toward You

• Mixes with Heartwarming. Both times Shaddiq tries convincing Suletta to either make Miorine stand down and accept the ownership deal or accept defeat and that it is Miorine's recklessness that is hurting her and her friends. Suletta promptly stands her ground and calls Shaddiq out for disregarding Miorine's feelings, followed by her affirming her belief and faith in Miorine - something that actually upsets Shaddiq.
• A subtle one: at the start of the fight, Shaddiq goes straight for Chuchu to try and take her out of the picture. She's driving a modified trainer - basically an obsolete version of what was a grunt suit to begin with - that's built for sniping, and he's in a top-of-the-line close combat machine, and managed to close to nearly hand-to-hand distance. And despite this, it takes more than two minutes before he can even land a hit on her, whereas her teammates in newer suits were taken out in seconds, AND he has to team up with Ireesha to take her down.
• With Aerial's bit staves disabled by the anti-GUND Format "Antidote," all seems lost for Suletta until she has a heart-to-heart with her Gundam and apologizes for relying on it too much. After this, she's immediately able to override the Antidote and then proceeds to decimate Shaddiq's team. The implication here being that this was the first time Suletta was piloting on her own while Aerial focused on overriding the Antidote.
• Chuchu won the match by sniping Shaddiq's Michaelis' head. Thanks to all the damage his teammates dealt trying to keep the Aerial away from him, Shaddiq is able to pin the latter down to where he can get a shot at its head. However, it turns out that the rest of the GUND-Arm, Inc. team had set up a trap to give Chuchu a clear shot at the Michaelis' head.
  Chuchu: I told you not to underestimate Earth House. Dumbass.
• Looking at the way every Mobile Suit is positioned in the arena at the end of the duel, it becomes clear that in the earlier scene where Miorine was sitting in her greenhouse in front of her tomatoes, she wasn't simply waiting for Suletta to arrive: she was actually able to predict with pinpoint accuracy the outcome of the battle and prepared a strategy ahead of time, counting on the fact that Shaddiq was not going to rely on his teammates to take out Suletta, and leaving the final blow to his Mobile Suit to the remains of the Earth House team. Furthermore, she laid out her tomatoes out in the open for Shaddiq to see knowing he would underestimate her as he would not think anything of it due to his inability to trust Miorine and his overconfidence.

Episode 10: Circling Thoughts

• Guel ran off rather than accept his father's cushy job after being pulled from the academy. The once supremely arrogant Holder willingly humbled himself as a manual laborer and "the new guy" on the job than put up with his dad's abuse anymore. What's even more awesome is that he did it on his first try compared to Miorine who has failed multiple times, and he has managed to successfully keep a low profile for two months. No one in school has a clue to his whereabouts. It is also implied in episode 11 that Vim despite his resources, has a hard time searching for Guel.
• A lot of credit is due to Miorine. She is only sixteen, but she is proving herself to be a capable businesswoman to the point that even her father had commended she had managed to accomplish a significant amount in two months while also giving his own critiques.
• Shaddiq takes matters into his own hands by going around his adopted father's back to arrange the assassination of Delling to fulfill his ambition of breaking apart the Benerit group rather than taking it over.

Episode 11: The Witches From Earth

• When Miorine is unable to physically keep up with Suletta during their chase scene, she instead uses her cunning to catch her because she knew Suletta is too nice to leave her behind when she is exhausted.
• This is mixed with heartwarming. Unlike other characters who have let the trope of Poor Communication Kills fester, Miorine gets Suletta to finally tell her how she really feels about wanting Miorine to rely on her. Miorine also tells Suletta how she turned her life around as well.
• Dawn of Fold quickly establishes themselves as a serious threat by flawlessly executing their assault on the prominent Plant Quetta Front. First jamming the station's communications, swiftly followed by Norea and Sophie attacking in their Gundams and severing an entire wing of the station from the rest of the asteroid using truly massive beam cannons.

Episode 12: Keep Marching on Instead of Running Off

• Villainous example, but Sophie thrashes four Beguir-Pentes; after initially getting suppressed by the Antidote, she ups her Permet Score to 4 (and reveals that Antidote only works up to 3) and annihilates them.
• The introduction of the Aerial Rebuild in all its glory, emerging from behind a smoke cloud after blocking Sophie's attack, shell units ominously glowing red while her bits fly around like an angry swarm before making a Unicorn impression and blasting out of the hangar taking the Lfrith Ur with it.
• Suletta holds her own against the other two Gundam units before finishing things non-lethally by revealing the Rebuild's shiny new beam cannon, pulling another trick out of the Unicorn's book by missing yet still melting other mobile suits from sheer proximity to the blast. Notably, her beam weapons are still green throughout this entire encounter, which has been confirmed to be a low-output setting, or in other words, she effortlessly matched two ruthless Gundam pilots and their entourage while holding back.

Episode 13: Envoys from the Earth

• Suletta was able to defeat at least five challengers in a row without getting a scratch.
• Suletta pulls a Big Damn Heroes moment to save Nika and subsequently challenges Norea and Sophie to a duel to get them to spare Nika if Suletta wins. And keep in mind, she was doing this while Norea was in the Pharact and could easily squash her without a moment's notice.
• Most expected Miorine to hate Suletta after the shocking event at the end of Episode 12, and to a degree, she's clearly still disturbed and uncomfortable about the trauma that occurred with witnessing the person she trusted the most commit such a horrible act. But rather than inherently blaming Suletta, she's quick to realize Prospera was responsible and calls her out on manipulating Suletta to kill. Even despite having every reason to think Suletta was crazy, she already paid enough attention to know something was up, and she's moving to figure out why on her own terms.

Episode 15: Father and Child

• With Guel providing a momentary distraction, Olcott is given the chance he needs to destroy three top of the line Zowort Heavys using his old Prodoros that we have so far seen being slaughtered with little difficulty.

Episode 16: Cycle of Sin

• While it's slightly nightmare-inducing, Ericht straight up kicks Elan #5 out of Aerial's systems when he tries to steal it. As Belmeria puts it, Aerial is far beyond anything Elan can handle.
• Miorine makes a grand return by putting an end between conflict between Earth House and other students by recording Martin being assaulted. She also is able to find out that Nika was kidnapped by people pretending to be security. This appears to officially earn the respect of everyone in Earth House, including Chuchu.
• Till is able to see that Suletta was feeling anxious, and he takes action to make sure Miorine is aware of Suletta being in the room.
• Miorine averts any kind of relationship drama after realizing how indoctrinated by Prospera's influence Suletta is, as instead of thinking badly about Suletta, she instantly confronts Prospera about her manipulations.

Episode 20: The End of Hope

• With Norea slaughtering the school security forces, Felsi gets in her MS and goes out to fight her. Based on her line about it being up to her, she was fully ready to face one of the perpetrators of the Rumble Ring attack that nearly killed her alone. Never let it be said that Felsi Rollo is a coward.
• Chuchu’s Big Damn Heroes moment, sniping a Gundolva with the Demi-Barding to save a pinned Felsi. Furthermore, despite the lingering Spacian/Earther tensions, the two quickly go Back-to-Back Badasses to fight off the drones, with Chuchu even going so far as to use the Demi Barding's rifle as a melee weapon.
• Guel is able to more than hold his own against Shaddiq, despite still operating on academy regulations while the latter is at full power, and even eliminates Sabina after she tried to make it a 2v1 without even taking his attention off Shaddiq. Shaddiq never attempted to duel Guel specifically, and this episode shows why.
  • Interestingly, the way he beats Shaddiq is awesome in its own way since he takes advantage of one of his biggest flaws: Shaddiq's pride and inability to see other people's growth. Guel intentionally lures him into a direct confrontation by seemingly going for a direct hit, making him think he had the upper hand only to completely dismantle him using his attack drones which he had positioned in advance. And since Shaddiq refused to see Guel as anything but the Hot-Blooded muscle head, he didn't see it coming at all.
  • Just the fact that the Jeturk engineers built an independent AI system able to dismantle enemy suits with Attack Drones, without requiring a psycommu or inflicting psychic stress, unlike other series. This was the difference maker in their fight, even taking into account Guel trying to block or stall Shaddiq when manually piloting his suit.
• By the time it gets dark outside, Suletta is still trying to get people out of the rubble, her hands roughened and bloodied as she moves entire slabs of concrete by herself. She pauses only for a moment when Earth House finds her, and she immediately asks for their help to look for more survivors, refusing to lose hope.

Episode 21: What We Can Do Now

• Quiet Zero is finally revealed to be a massive space fortress with Aerial at its core, capable of using remote-controlled Gundnodes to spread the data storm and hijack any and all Permet-based machinery. Prospera uses it to annihilate the Space Assembly League’s fleet without so much as a scratch.
• With Quiet Zero now activated, the only chance anyone may have in stopping Prospera is Calibarn, a Gundam confiscated by the Space Assembly League in the aftermath of the Vanadis Incident, with Guston recommending that Suletta pilot it. However, Belmeria points out that the Calibarn has no data storm filters unlike other Gundams, and with Suletta no longer protected from the data storm by Eri, there is a very high chance that piloting it will kill her in the process. Nevertheless, Suletta asks Guston to take her to the Calibarn, willing to take the risk if it means stopping her mother’s rampage.
• The very idea that characters from every faction (save Shaddiq and House Grassley) in the series who had up to then been plotting their own agendas are now working together to stop Quiet Zero. And for the sake of all humanity, shelving the Earthian-Spacian grudge match which had previously cost many lives, and spawned hatred, on both sides.

Episode 22: The Woven Path

• In what can be seen as homage to both the original Gundam series as well as Utena, Suletta defeats Guel in a fencing duel. He gives her back her Holder outfit, officially making her Miorine’s fiancée again. Similar to Episode 17, Guel accepts this is how it is, and he steps out of the way.
• Unlike Guel in the previous episode, Suletta’s words are able to get through to Miorine. In a positive parallel to Episode 12, Suletta extends her hand, and Miorine accepts this time allowing Suletta to pull Miorine out of the dark.
• During the mission briefing, Guel shows how far he's come since the first episode by immediately asking if the Schwarzette could be modified to withstand a higher Permet Score, implying that he's fully ready to support Suletta within Quiet Zero's area of influence despite having no innate resistance to Data Storms. He's told that there isn't enough time to modify the Scharzette for that, but the sentiment was amazingly brave and selfless.
• Because Quiet Zero overrides any and all Permet Links that aren't a sufficiently high GUND Format score, Earth House decide to support Suletta using an older, non-Permet-based shuttlecraft. Since it's essentially an antique it requires some serious repair work, which they do with seemingly no help from the adults, just their own expertise working with older and junk parts.
• Suletta is able to reach Score 5 without Eri, showing Suletta does have some level of natural resistance to data storms.
• Lady Prospera is surprised by Calibarn appearing followed by Suletta tearing through some of the initial defense of Quiet Zero. Bear in mind, outside of the Prologue, this may be the first time Lady Prospera has been visibly surprised by something. It also appears she has been sufficiently distracted by Suletta.
• During the fight at Quiet Zero, Suletta finally gets to show off her piloting skills without Eri's help, absolutely obliterating dozens of GundNodes with nothing but a rifle and a beam saber. She doesn't take a single hit, but not by blocking with bits like with Aerial - instead Suletta dodges every single shot fired at her since Calibarn apparently has no GUND-Bits. She does all this in a suit she never piloted before, is over two decades old and while completely unprotected from Permet Score 5 datastorms; any question about Suletta's piloting skills without Aerial are gone, the girl is a genuine Ace Pilot. Even her entrance is also badass, dropping down the Data Storm before stopping with a star catch, fearlessly flying towards the screen with a determined look on her face despite suffering the full effects of Permet Score 5, clearly not afraid of her mother or even Eri anymore. The visuals being an homage to Banagher and Riddhe's battle in the Full Armor vs. Banshee Norn also help.
• When Lauda is about to attempt to kill Miorine, Guel runs interference against a Gundam despite not having the best history of dealing with Gundams in the past. And in his infamously previously humiliated Dilanza (minus the giant feather) from all the way back in the first episode no less!
• Mixed with Heartwarming, the end card shows Suletta, Miorine, Guel, Elan, Felsi, Earth House, Rouji, Belmeria, and Kenanji all walking together forward toward the light. The heroes have finally assembled to stop the evil witch's plans once and for all.

Episode 23: Unrelenting Tenderness

• Gundam Schwarzette, in its only battle in the series, proves to be a sight to behold.
  • The gigantic cleaver-buster it was shown wielding at the very end of Episode 22 is revealed to actually be comprised of GUND-Bits, which it can use to create one hell of a laser light show. These GUND-Bits can also attach to its shoulder to form a sort-of shield or mantle, which coupled with the Schwarzette's Grayscale of Evil coloration, give it a very imposing and intimidating appearance.
  • Schwarzette's cleaver actually hides another katana-like beam saber within it, which it can use alongside its GUND-Bits' swarm attacks in a very oppressive manner.
  • Lauda actually keeps Guel on his toes during the entirety of their fight; though Guel could have just been holding back in fear of accidentally killing his brother like he did with Vim, his track record with fighting Gundams has also been rather poor given how much better-performing they are thanks to the GUND-Format. Additionally, while Lauda might have been largely dependent on the Schwarzette's superior technology and armaments, how competent he was at piloting a type of machine that he fully understood was infamous for killing its pilots still deserves to be mentioned.
• Guel manages to get through to his brother not through force, but through mercy. And at the same time, damage the Schwarzette's Permet circuits to save Lauda from Permet Score overload.
• Just as Guel is about to die, who should show up other than Felsi Rollo with a fire extinguisher. After saving Guel's life, she proceeds to give the two brothers a royal chewing out for being stupid enough to nearly kill each other in a sibling spat.
• Miorine having had enough of Prospera's Parental Favoritism towards Ericht over Suletta, as she calls her out for never factoring Suletta's feelings by telling her how Suletta's feelings is what motivated her to pilot the Calibarn in the first place, and telling her that if she truly is a mother then she should love both her daughters equally. Mixes with Heartwarming.
• Miorine managing to turn the situation around in Quiet Zero. While this is mixed with heartwarming, it is amazing of Miorine to then offer her hand to Lady Prospera rather than trying to take revenge against her for the hell she put Suletta and herself through. This showcases how she and Suletta are attempting to end the cycle of hatred and revenge.
• Elan #5 proves he can handle a gunfight by protecting Miorine and Belmeria from Prospera and a few Haro bots while they try to shutdown Quiet Zero. And he did it without killing anyone, just as he told Kenanji.
  Enhanced Person No.5: Let me take care of them. Nobody will get killed this time.
  • #5's dispatching of Prospera deserves to be mentioned due to the insane quick thinking it required. Mere seconds before Prospera could pull the trigger on Miorine and Belmeria, Elan #5 baits the Haro turret's sensors with a discarded magazine, causing it to not only move forward and block Prospera's path... but also give Elan enough time to jump to the side and land a headshot on Prospera in zero-g.
  • If one looks carefully, they can see that Elan either also hit the Haro turret with a single bullet, or that he ricocheted it off the Haro to hit Prospera.
  • And even with all of this, whether accidental or deliberate, Elan #5's bullet wasn't a killing shot: all it did was knock Prospera's helmet off and leave her stunned long enough for Miorine to shut down Quiet Zero.
• After Quiet Zero is deactivated, the Space Assembly League elects to destroy the station with a massive satellite laser cannon, disregarding all potential collateral damage. Eri immediately puts herself and the Gundnodes in the direction of the cannon’s fire in order to shield Suletta, Prospera and the others and succeeds, but at the apparent cost of her life.

Episode 24: May All Blessings Find Their Way to You, I'm Wishing It

• Suletta not obeying her mother’s wishes to plug Eri back into Quiet Zero’s core and makes a decision for herself on how to handle the situation, by connecting herself to Quiet Zero in order to save Ericht and foil her mother’s plans at the same time.
• Calibarn reaches Permet Score 9.
  • Suletta and Eri are able to attach Aerial's bits to the Calibarn, going beyond the impossible and transcending Permet Score 8 to transmit Miorine's message dissolving the Benerit Group and redistributing their assets to Earth to everyone in the Earth Sphere, and the Space Assembly League receive it on the Moon and discover they can't block it. All the Peil CEOs can do is angrily curse Miorine’s name as they realize they’ve been thoroughly outplayed.
  • Special mention also goes to Miorine, who while being held at gunpoint by Godoy moves forward and taunts him with the barrel of his gun literally pressed against her forehead. If the following sequence of events goes to show, Godoy had no choice but to give in to her resolve.
  • After reaching Score 9, Calibarn's data storm changes from stark white to a rainbow of colors, showing just how incredibly powerful they have become.
  • This is followed by Suletta and Eri remotely summoning the Schwarzette and the Pharact to join the Calibarn and Aerial in creating a data storm so powerful that it disables the giant laser. The look on the Space Assembly League's President says it all.
  • All of these events are set to the main theme of The Witch from Mercury, which had gone unheard for the majority of the second season.
  • Throughout the entire episode, there isn't a single actual fight. No fists are thrown, no shots are fired, no beam sabers are unsheathed. Suletta saves everyone without fighting, and no one had to die. Suletta proves Sophie wrong that Gundams aren't just machines of violence, but can also be used to save lives. At the same time, however, the effort of doing this destroys Quiet Zero and every known Gundam in existence (that we know of), vindicating Sophie by destroying the weapons of war entirely.
• Miorine’s deal with Shaddiq led to the dissolution of the Benerit Group, along with being able to achieve Shaddiq’s goals through more peaceful means. Shaddiq himself is in awe of how he couldn’t compete with Miorine.
• The real Elan pulling a Screw This, I'm Outta Here on the Peil executives with style after Miorine manages to screw them over.
• Suletta’s rescue crosses between this and heartwarming:
  • It is revealed that Eri was able to save her sister’s life by sending out a signal. Eri proves herself to be a great big sister. Also a redeeming Call-Back when she and Prospera abandoned her in episode 18. Now pacified, Eri herself is the one who serves as the signal to make sure Suletta is rescued.
  • The fact that Miorine personally got out into the middle of space to retrieve Suletta rather than have someone else do it says a lot about Miorine and her love for Suletta.
• At the beginning of the season, it seemed as if Jeturk was the most likely of the Big Three to fall. Now, Jeturk appears to be the only one to be operating and recovering, while Peil is out of business and Grassley executives are being tried.
• Mixed with heartwarming that GUND-Arm Inc. appears to have become a thriving business, and has proven helpful in building a connection between Spacians and Earthians.
• The fact that Suletta is recovering from basically being crippled from piloting Calibarn and she is able to smile is awesome in and of itself, since it would be understandable that it could cause people to fall into despair. The fact that Miorine is there to support her wife certainly helps.

Misc

• While it looks slightly horrific, the second outro has an abstract representation of Aerial merging with Suletta - complete with power lines across her body, followed by a sequence of Suletta controlling Aerial's GUND stave bits in a fluid dance.

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