Among the Empire's troops stationed at the breaches, traitors had appeared before, but they had always been isolated cases.
And the Empire's Traitor Elimination Squad was no mere decoration.
The Traitor Elimination Squad never spared any cost in eliminating traitors, all to dispel any hopes of getting lucky among The Latecomers.
Fewer than ten Imperial soldiers or penitents had survived more than ten years after surrendering! Most notably, the Traitor Elimination Squad had once detonated an astronomical amount of explosives to kill a defecting Supreme.
That violent explosion had even blasted a Habitable Star out of its orbit, and the Alliance had paid an enormous price to correct it!
Of course, the outcome went without saying. That Supreme was still eliminated, and the Alliance issued threats of "retaliation in kind."
When Mage heard the news, he had not chosen to believe all of it. He felt it was merely Imperial propaganda.
Blasting a planet out of orbit... just how insanely large would the charge amount of that explosion have had to be? Yet this also showed, from another angle, exactly what attitude the Empire had toward traitors.
Traitors elsewhere might have had a chance, but traitors among border garrison troops could basically forget about surviving. Their comrades would also be implicated.
So this time, the surrender of a large number of soldiers, including entire units surrendering as organized formations, was enough to shock the Empire.
After the two breaches fell one after another, the Empire had no time to send reinforcements, and maintaining secrecy was also a major problem.
Thus, after layer upon layer of approval, the "Ultimate Graveyard" plan was activated.
This was the Empire's ultimate trump card for defending the breaches, though Mage did not know exactly how it worked.
But without question, Ultimate Graveyard harmed others even