Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt manga volume 16 features story and art by Yasuo Ohtagaki.

Daryl Lorenz and his fellow Zeon defectors have made it back into space, but they’ve got the entire Earth Federation fleet between them and the Nanyang Alliance rendezvous point. Renegade Zeon General Galle can help, but his assistance comes at a price, and getting through the blockade will require an audacious plan that only Daryl Lorenz can pull off—stealing an advanced Mobile Armor equipped with the advanced Psycommu control system, right out from under the Federation’s noses!

Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt manga volume 17 features story and art by Yasuo Ohtagaki.

Nanyang Alliance forces begin preparations for Operation Maitreya, their attempt to seize the Republic of Zeon's Solar Ray weapon. The wreckage of the Side 4 Moore colony provides the ideal training environment for the assault, but Io Fleming and the Newtype Lily - piloting the cutting-edge Zeong MS and equipped with the Psycommu system - are closing in. Although the vast fields of debris give excellent cover, the Alliance deploys a new Psycho Zaku pilot to hold off Io and the oncoming Earth Federation fleet. As the combatants close to contact, the sound of jazz once again returns to the Thunderbolt Sector...

Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt manga volume 18 features story and art by Yasuo Ohtagaki.

The refugees from the Nanyang Alliance have slipped through the Earth Federation’s orbital blockade and arrived at Side 6, a neutral colony. Side 6’s conditions for accepting the refugees are strict - the Alliance refugees will have to disarm, leaving them defenseless.

When an incoming Earth Federation patrol bent on hunting down the refugees kicks off a fierce battle near the colony, the Nanyang fleet begins a risky operation to reach safety. The battle rages as Side 6 struggles to maintain their neutrality in the face of a savage conflict that threatens to engulf them all.

Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt manga volume 19 features story and art by Yasuo Ohtagaki.

When the Beehive II arrives at Anaheim Electronics’ headquarters on the moon, the crew is shocked to see that the city’s numerous domes are all part of an ambitious project developed by Io Fleming’s father before his death - a project that could be humanity’s last hope of restoring Earth’s environment.

But to defend his father’s legacy, Io must use the only effective weapon against Daryl Lorenz and the Psycho Zaku, the Psycommu-equipped Perfect Zeong, a weapon as likely to destroy its own crew as it is the enemy...