The Frie's Military Strength was of high quality, but its scale seemed far too small to Xiao Ran. Though it could not compare to the Earth Force or the current ZAFT, it far surpassed Orb. With over a thousand units available for deployment, it would have counted as a massive force even on Earth.
Furthermore, its quality exceeded that of every other faction's military forces at this point in time. Sending merely one-fifth of its strength to Ovan was already enough to let him completely control the entire region where he had landed and easily help that Earth Force resistance hold the line against the Alien Beasts, preventing them from rampaging.
As for the remaining units, after capturing the Earth Force's Moon Base, Xiao Ran intended to retain only half of them there and send all the rest to Earth. Without dispersing their combat strength too much, they would strike in as many places as possible and intensify their attacks against the Alien Beasts.
Still, it had to be said that these Alien Beasts truly seemed like pioneers of environmental preservation. They planted trees everywhere, along with those unnatural Radam Flowers. They had even caused considerable ecological changes in many areas of Earth, turning quite a few places lush and verdant. Even Xiao Ran had to admire their tree-planting capabilities, admitting that the Burning Legion's environmental transformation technology could not compare.
Before long, the Earth Force did indeed discover traces of the Frie. Beneath the Moon's enormous fissures, they found signs of artificial excavation that had never been discovered before, as well as things that seemed like relics from a prehistoric civilization to them. Naturally, those objects and structures were all products left behind by the Frie many, many years ago.
Finding these things merely confirmed for the Earth Force