Half a year passed in the midst of the Federation's frantic preparations. The Federation's activity, along with the production of countless MS units and warships, brought tremendous industrial growth. Yet the manufacture of MS units also consumed resources that should have gone elsewhere. If it had only been a single region using such resources to manufacture MS units for a short time, it could still have been explained as developing new armaments.
But when it became a worldwide effort, even those powers and nations that had once resisted the Federation voluntarily joined it, contributing their already limited resources. They were willing to let Federation forces enter their territories and even actively helped those forces stabilize the situation. That gave the whole matter a very different feeling.
Over the past six months, the entire world had remained extraordinarily peaceful under the Federation's administration. Even the places that had once been turbulent had become eerily quiet. A sense of tension from the top down had unknowingly enveloped Earth. Even the slowest civilians could sense that the current Federation was completely different from before. There were many improvements: life was better, and war had vanished. Yet that inexplicable tension had also made the atmosphere of the world somewhat strange.
Especially in the news, every senior military and political official who appeared wore an abnormally grave expression. Whatever they said was brief and direct, and they left immediately afterward, as if even speaking a few extra words was a waste of time. And when brand-new MS units were manufactured in factories around the world and sent to designated locations, the stir and impact they caused could not possibly be concealed.
As long as MS units were being built, workers would inevitably come into contact with them. Even more people would see them being transported