In normal times, if seven or eight star beasts attacked at the same time, the defense of an agricultural planet would be very difficult, but now it is a wartime state, and the army's battle fleet arrived quickly, reducing the losses to a minimum.
But thousands of people died.
Not only the Federation, but the Empire was also attacked.
The Federation is a democracy, and each system has increased its defense.
The empire is a monarchy, and its intensified defenses are mostly placed near the capital galaxy and on the private planets of various nobles and plutocrats. It does not pay much attention to ordinary residential stars, and even transfers the original armies on these planets to private planets.
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The inhabited planets that were attacked suffered heavy losses, and millions of people died.
After the Federation was attacked twice by two families, killing nearly 10,000 people in total, the people of the Federation were very resentful of the Federation.
After the attack on the empire's residential star came out, the people of the Federation were in mourning.
"I no longer envy the empire for having princesses and princes. The ancestors were right, they are just things that lie on the heads of the people and suck blood."
"Don't be better than dead. The dead people on Jiaming and Nong 5 didn't think the Federation's defense was any better."
"Hey, if you like the empire, just go by yourself. Kindly guide me. Saran Star, just go to the place and say you want to join the empire."
"There is a problem with the defense of the Federation. Does anyone still remember that the war we fought with the Kuiton tribe more than a thousand years ago has been fought intermittently for nearly a hundred years. A large number of soldiers are sacrificed every year, but on average, the number of civilians killed is less than a year.
To five thousand!”
"To be fair, the population and the number of planets a thousand years ago were much smaller than they are now, so the defense line would not be too wide. However, our ancestors were also very tough."
"Let the upper echelons of the federation worry about these things. What's the point of us ordinary people being dissatisfied."
The people in the federal military have the biggest headache, because they have not been able to decipher the methods used by mutants to drive the star beasts.
When the star beasts attacked the agricultural star, none of the mutants showed up.
This is very different from previous attacks in which mutants personally went into battle.
It can only be said that mutants are more cunning.
There was a heated debate at the military meeting.
"I agree with the extermination of the mutants in the asteroid belt. Kill their home bases on planets x-3 and x6, and see how they can survive."
The commander of the Seventh Legion, Meng Yaoming, is a young man. Since he took office, he has proposed to eliminate all mutants to avoid future troubles.
Geng Mao, the commander of the First Army, said, "I still have the original view and I don't agree with this. The reason has been mentioned before. The risk of large starships passing through the asteroid-dense area is too great. It is too risky to use small combat ships."
Being the main force can only kill the mutants."
Regarding this issue, there have always been two factions. The young faction, which has not been in office for a long time, mostly advocates taking the initiative to attack mutants.
The corresponding conservatives who have been commanders for more than decades put safety first and do not agree with the proposal of entering the asteroid belt.
The Young Faction is represented by the most radical Meng Yaoming, "Shouldn't we be more alert after this incident? If we don't drive out all the mutants, it is equivalent to giving them time to grow up. Now they have something that even the Federation can't figure out."
means. Who can guarantee that they have not developed weapons with greater lethality."
Geng Mao could understand Meng Yaoming's eagerness to make meritorious deeds.
The Federation has been at peace for many years, and these older generation commanders have come up step by step by virtue of their military exploits in fighting foreign enemies. They are very prestigious among the people.
Although the latest generation of commanders were promoted based on their military merits, most of their military merits were gained from carrying out rescues on planets within the Federation, or from annihilating star thieves.
The two military merits have different focuses.
Although the new generation is regarded as an idol by many because of its youthfulness and handsomeness, in terms of prestige among the people, the commanders of the older generation far exceed that of the new generation.
The new generation feels that it is shorter than the older generation.
Launching an attack against the mutants is a good opportunity to gain military merit and establish prestige.
"It is precisely because we don't know whether the mutants have more lethal weapons that we can't rush in. The mutants have a fatal flaw. Their number is small. As long as we keep a tight lid on the inside and prevent new mutants from escaping the federation,
Mutants won’t make much of a difference.”
After mutants appeared, humans began to study mutants.
The fertility of mutants is very low, and some have no fertility at all.
Even with artificial screening, the mortality rate of mutant human fetuses and post-birth mortality are very high.
This is another reason why the Federation did not exterminate mutants at first, but only expelled them.
The current population source of mutants mainly comes from new genetically collapsed people.
The Federation's current method of dealing with newly converted mutants is to exterminate them.
Mutants also know the shortcomings of their population growth, so they will try their best to let the newly transformed mutants escape from the Federation.
There is a special way of contact between mutants. The newly transformed mutants will immediately get in touch with the mutants and escape into the mutants' lair with their secret assistance.
Meng Yaoming disagreed, "Who knows whether mutants have overcome fertility barriers now. Just controlling our federation will not reduce the number of mutants much."
The Federation does a good job in this regard, but the Empire's management is not very strict. A large part of the new mutants are transformed from the Empire.
This is one of the themes that the Pan Yao Federation protests against to the Star Luo Empire every year.
The Empire is far away from the asteroid belt, while the Federation is closer and is attacked most frequently by mutants.
The commander of the Third Army snorted coldly, "Let's see if the empire is sincere in controlling the number of mutants this time."
The Commander-in-Chief of the Military Ministry acted as the intermediary and said, "Okay, let's talk about entering the asteroid belt later. What needs to be solved urgently is the problem of mutants driving star beasts."
"I think it's better to open the wormhole and go to planet Z-43 to check it out. Didn't four mutants appear on it? A careful search should yield some results."
"You need to be cautious when opening wormholes. The Empire failed to rescue in time, mainly because an important wormhole was blown up by mutants. The Empire's starships detoured, which delayed a lot of time.
Who can guarantee that the mutants did not set up an ambush, waiting for the wormhole to open and collapse it."
Everyone has different opinions on this matter, but generally speaking, the main thing is to be cautious.
No one can guarantee whether mutants will set up an ambush across the wormhole.
But it is imperative to observe in the past.
The commander-in-chief made the final decision, "Let's go around. Lao Geng, I'll leave this matter to your First Army Corps."