The mission The Story's End was, despite everything, a massive success! The log can be read here.

The canons Super Robot Wars Alpha 3 and Super Robot Wars Unification are both complete! No further canons remain unfinished in the game... but it is not the end yet.

Participants:
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Notes:
-As the rest of Project Unification and allied forces created a defensive perimeter, the Discovery of Self and its escorts made it into the Lady-controlled realm. There the Discovery's real, humanoid form was revealed, and we fought against Loni Gavin. The stay in the realm didn't make any favors for his mental health, but he fled after being beaten, and the path to the Lady was open.
-The Lady tried to persuade everyone about the rightfulness of her way of doing things, but no one was convinced. Her and her minions' power was overwhelming but Inspector Jou managed to personally crack the tiny crystal that was created as a weapon to serve against her. Despite all doubts it was enough to strip the Lady off her power, and the Inspector survived the attempt too (thanks to Gwen).
-The Lady's loss was a cue for a new opponent to appear. Keisar Ephes, also known as the true Balmarian god Augustus, an ancient opponent of the Lady with the power to control the dead as his minions. He sought to control all life in galaxy, with what remains of Discovery being his key. Selena tried to stop him, but his powerful End of the Galaxy power seemingly killed her in return.
-Right after, Princess Armana and her Balmarian allies arrived to reinforce us, but came under attack by the Lady returning with minions. Neither the Lady nor Keisar Ephes were willing to cooperate, both enemies hellbent on destroying each other - and us!
-Selena then returned to the world of the living (courtesy of Elma using her electric whip as a defibrillator), carrying a message - a song from those who have fallen but still wished to protect the Earth. They spoke to us directly, with UG's fallen friends and allies offering words of encouragement, and Commander-in-Chief Roland Antov hijacking an enemy Grunbein with help of Rani and Brye.
-Seeing her minions fall and her strength wane, the Lady decided to hijack the BrightSaber, as Loni stumbled back upon the battlefield. Unfortunately for her, he was done being a puppet and forcibly threw her out of his unit, critically wounded her and fled. The Lady was then finished off by Walt Schmertz - for good.
-His command of the dead neutralized by the song, Keisar Ephes fought desperately but his unit was in the end destroyed. Ephes himself tried to flee, and kill Selena for good after she pursued him... only to be stopped by the spirits of Albhard, Captain Symphonia and the rest of Team Jelba. Selena then finished him. For good.
-The Lady has fallen and her sphere of influence is gone from Earth. The Discovery of Self was destroyed in the process of defeating her, but its components are still being examined because there was something within them that interested Keisar Ephes. We also regained access to the ruined Fort Alhambra base, though it won't be used by us because...
-With its mission over and marked as a success, Project Unification will remain for some time yet, just in case. Afterwards, it will be dismantled. Its members will either transfer back to their original units (for military people) or go on their own seperate ways (for the rest).

The mission One Who Got to Know God was a success. The log can be read here.

The canon Guns of God is now completed.

Participants:
Daniel
Gwen Douglas
Astara Kellin
Roy Garnette
Lenore Iblis

Notes:
-The Lost Seekers stronghold turned out to be guarded surprisingly lightly, though including the final Centurion Chloe. However that was an ambush, and many Seekers more were lying in wait, lead by Jason Godefroy who also became a cyborg in search of enlightenment.
-The huge enemy force was stopped thanks to a Deisitic Disarmament Field, which turned everyone's Guns of Gods off. The ones responsible - Rupert Nestore and Marjory Marita, Daniel's long lost friends who turned out to exist after all, even if he remember their names wrongly! With their sole weapons gone (and their melee capabilities being quite bad), Godefroy ordered the Lost Seekers to stop fighting and surrender.
-The fight should have stopped there, but having discovered that they were the unjust that needed to be killed for Guns of God to bring someone closer to understanding God, Godefroy remotely blew all the other Seekers' machines instead! This allowed him to activate Apostle Mode himself, and he tried using his newly acquired power to travel to God directly - and take Earth with him.
-In the end, after a hard fight Jason Godefroy was killed and Earth isn't going anywhere. His last words were to call out to Daniel as the only one who could meet God now. The Lost Seeker stronghold actually did contain a portal that allowed the worthy to do just that.
-After a moment of consideration, Daniel turned the portal off.

The mission Smoke Over Earth was a much-needed success. The log can be read here.

Participants:
Daniel
Gwen
Flit Asuno
Willis Clades
Elyssa Soleil
Leos Klein (and the strongerest robot)

Notes:
-With the Lost Seekers performing simultaneous attacks all over the globe, Project Unification was stretched thin to respond to them all. Our only chance was to stop their commander, who was leading the attacks from the (not-so) abandoned old Seeker compound.
-We faced off against the commander, Smoke Centurion Masaru, as well as Light Centurion Chloe. The former turned out to be a real bastard who thinks nothing of using even his own men as living bombs, and managed to critically damage the Steel Wanderer and seemingly kill Daniel...
-Only for Daniel to realize he has unlocked the true power of the Gun of God! The key to that was to kill enough unjust, which he did by fighting the Lost Seekers. With his newly attained Apostle Mode, Masaru was killed and Chloe was forced to flee. With her signal to retreat, the Lost Seekers all over the world withdrew as well.
-Daniel marked one of the retreating Seekers with a transmitter so we know where they're going to now. As soon as the location of their hideout is pinpointed, Project Unification will move out to put a stop to their crusade.
-The Lost Seekers actually did attack Sakihama just like Masaru told the mission participants, but unlike what he said, the attack was repelled without much difficulty thanks to all the security and Project Unification forces stationed there. It turns out villains sometimes lie or tell half-truths, who knew.

The mission Devastation was completed successfully!  The complete mission log can be read here.

Combatants:
Grimlock and then Optimus Prime
Gwen Douglas
Sielje
Daniel
Dido Sybil

Notes:
- The conference with the Decepticons got impeded by swarms of Insecticons that were attempting to "Cyber-form" Earth.  The cause of this was the Proudstar, an ancient Cybertronian vessel from before the Great War that had crashed on Earth and had abruptly activated.
- As it turned out, VIPER was involved with all of this, and among their ranks were several renegade Autobots who'd been recruited by Apogee.  There also had been a simplistic clone of Jen herself who they tried to pass off as the original, alive and well, but the truth was exposed easily enough with her chatbot-grade dialogue.
- The real villain though was the ancient Nova Prime, captain of the Proudstar and who had fallen under the influence of Unicron.  Nova'd intended to Cyber-form the planet into a new body for him and the surviving members of the VIPER team who still had some sense fled when they found out about that, leaving us facing just Nova, the absurdly powerful combiner Monstructor, and Decepticon fanatics under Nova's command.
- Grimlock and the other Dinobots were severely injured in the fight, but Nova's insistence on drawing out their deaths gave us time to save them all, courtesy of Optimus, Soundwave, Devastator, and Menasor arriving to help even the odds.  Nova's forces were wiped out, and he first attempted to make us surrender by revealing that the Cyberforming was being controlled by the Ferrotaxis; a computer holding the collective knowledge of Cybertron's culture and history.  Optimus and the other Cybertronians blew it apart with little hesitation, valuing Earth far more than Nova Prime had ever thought.
- In the end Nova Prime attempted to feign freedom from Unicron's corruption to try to get one last shot at killing Optimus, but quick thinking from Soundwave was able to expose Nova's trick for what it is, Dido and Sielje helping save Soundwave and Optimus's lives respectively before Optimus finally killed Nova Prime.
- The Jen clone was similarly dealt with, and the remains recovered after the battle confirm she was a simple, unthinking physical clone with a computerized brain with a bevvy of combat programs loaded in.
- In spite of the circumstances of the crisis, the cooperation displayed by and toward the Decepticons has gone a long way into helping solidify relations with them.

The mission Force Shut Down was a success. The log can be read here.

The canon What Lies Beyond is now completed!

Participants:
Fyra
Astara Kellin
Daniel
Eva Barton
Selena Recital
Calvin Eldred Edwards

Notes:
-Quintus attacked Mount Etna in search of a Causality Reactor that would make him complete. The reactor turned out not to be there - as a suddenly appeared Fyra revealed, it was moved to her own tomb and she obtained it instead.
-Quintus had the power of all four Orders, even Fyra's Death Order. But with the Reactor, she was able to counter him and summon a phantom army as support - including the phantoms of the other three Riders.
-One by one, Quintus' Orders were destroyed and he himself was then defeated by our joint efforts. Quintus survived and has been captured to receive proper punishment for his crimes (even though there was a notion to deliver swift justice on the spot). Without the Causality Reactor, he wouldn't have a long operational time remaining either way.
-The local defense force suffered heavy casualties, but thanks to everyone the city of Catania was untouched. As for Fyra herself...

The mission Staring Into Thee was a success. The log can be read here.

The canon "Staring Into The" is now completed!

Participants:
Roy Garnette
Astara Kellin
Asagi Toshikazu
Eva Barton
Lenore Iblis

Notes:
-Beatrice Willson tried to forcibly take over the world through mind control. Following her psychic signal we appeared at a psionically stealthed abandoned colony "Panopticon"... where it turned out Dakova is not quite dead, having been revived and controlled by the SCCF leader.
-Though the opponent was overpowering, Roy took John Dotrice's legacy to heart and created an opening at a cost of great damage to himself and te Wagner. In the end, Dakova was relieved that it could have died for real.
-Beatrice survived and was captured. The SCCF is truly gone, and its leader will receive judgement for her crimes by a lawful court.
-The Panopticon was destroyed by the lava cannon used by VIPER. By the time of the debriefing, VIPER was defeated as well - which means the Cambio Protocol is finally neutralized. For good.

The mission Master of Two Worlds was a surprising success. The log can be read here.

Participants:
Mizuki Onodera
Willis Clades
Elyssa Soleil
Dido Sybil
Walt Schmertz
Hetepheres

Notes:
-The area around the crash site was turned into a place under the Lady's influence. This includes the people, with the locals playing the role of helpless civilians, the recon team squad the role of bandits - and Gavin and his friends as heroes, of course.
-Despite receiving reinforcements in the form of more Grunbein copies and their Lucent Gunsword weapons, the trio has been bested. This is when it was revealed that Desta and Ilinka knew about the fake show Lady put up all along, but went along with it for the sake of Loni's happiness.
-Desta told the two others to flee while he himself used the Lady's power to become a Guardian. We've killed him and now he is gone for good. The two others have departed to parts unknown, but it's almost certain we will hear of them yet...
-The Discovery of Self has been reclaimed and the area and its people have returned to normal!
-The surroundings of the fight sustained a lot of damage, but casualties were kept to a minimum thanks to our active efforts. All units participating received heavy damage, however.

The mission Fugitive's Truth was a failure - but one that brings a possible change of winds. The log can be read here.

Participants:
Selena Recital
Asagi Toshikazu
Kei Kugimiya
Willis Clades
Grimlock (and the rest of Dinobots)

Notes:
-The Balmarians launched an attack on Sakihama city in order to force Armana out of hiding. Princess Armana turned out to be a Balmarian, to the surprise of pretty much no one.
-The attack was led by Spectra and Luria. The latter is Armana's bodyguard and revealed the motives behind the attack - Balmar needs the Priestess of Zehirut to sacrifice herself to avert disaster. Armana was given time by the Spirit Emperor, but now the Prime Minister of Balmar is in charge and he wants her back, by any means necessary.
-To make matters even worse, Apollonius "Loni" Gavin appeared and tried to free Armana both from Balmarians and from Unity Group.
-Spectra managed to grab Armana and destroy Selena's unit. The Balmarian forces withdrew, but Selena was nowhere to be found in or near the Soleares...
-Loni was forced to withdraw by SSR's sudden appearance. As it turns out, Viletta and the rest weren't there for no reason, and hold more important news for us...
-Damage to the city was relatively minor due to the Balmarians' precision and our quick reaction, but one has to wonder why people still insist on living anywhere near Sakihama Base.

The mission The Name of God was a success, despite all the complications. The log can be read here.

Participants:
Daniel
Eva Barton
Volya Alkaev
Kei Kugimiya
Astara Kellin
Grace Wallach
Roy Garnette

Notes:
-The Lone Earth terrorist group attacked the exhibition, motivated by anti-alien sentiments and Project Khnum's use of not-quite-human clones. However the assailants were quickly wiped out as another enemy used this opportunity to ambush and surround us - the Lost Seekers.
-The Lost Seekers were commanded by Greta, the Steel Legion centurion and Daniel's old boss. Her mission was to dispose of him as a traitor.
-Project Khnum cloned soldiers assisted us in a fight but proved to be of limited use, due to their unwillingness to kill humans - a weakness which the enemies ruthlessly exploited. However in the end, Chou, Eva and Volya managed to work together and break the clones' programming by using the last mote remaining of Ren's memories in Chou.
-Though his Gun of God has been broken, Daniel managed to overpower Greta and learn the third name of God in the process - at least as the Lost Seekers see it.
-Security and moral concerns ensure that Project Khnum has been pretty much cancelled indefinitely. Edward Mcdowell is not happy, not that he can do anything about it.

The mission The Magic Flight was a failure. The log can be read here.

Participants:
Willis Clades
Selena Recital
Kei Kugimiya
Hetepheres
Calvin Eldred Edwards
Seta Albreich

Notes:
-Apollonius "Loni" Gavin and his friends turned out to be alive and well, to the surprise of pretty much no one. They made their re-appearance during the fight with Balmarians, aided by Lady-made copies of the Grunbein.
-Loni's objective is to be the hero who will use the Lady's boon to save the world. He decided to do it by beating up everyone who threatens the Earth, including Balmarians - and apparently both UG and the SSR.
-The Lady spoke again, talking of her visions of the future. According to her, neither the world guarded by SSR nor one by Unity Group will turn out well.
-Loni's gang took a pretty serious beating, but they managed to activate the Discovery of Self and make a really quick escape on the ancientspaceship. It departed to parts unknown...
-The Balmarian reconnaisance fleet was wiped out, but it'd be too optimistic to think their invasion ends on that.