Support fleets that had come from across the Empire to reinforce the border began returning to their respective worlds in batches. The evacuation would likely take several days to complete: before those fleets could return, many wounded soldiers and severely damaged ships still had to be dealt with. Especially the latter—countless ships had been destroyed in battle, leaving many Minion Army units and reserve echelons that had come as reinforcements without enough ships to return home. Large numbers of wounded soldiers and their Escape Pods remained stranded near temporary Void Nodes, awaiting pickup. The Macro World Network and military World Gates had limited capacity, making it difficult to disperse this enormous mass of troops gathered from across the Empire in a short time. Sandora therefore ordered hundreds of temporary garrisons established in the two nearest transit worlds to house the units that had suffered the heaviest losses. At the same time, we had begun summoning idle Life Goddess Church followers and more medical personnel from the rear to those garrisons, doing everything possible to save the wounded.
Postwar cleanup was sometimes even more complicated than prewar preparations. It was like having and raising a child: everything sounded easy before the child was born, but once they were born, they could give you a headache for more than a decade—especially if you got an unbelievably naughty brat like Xiao Xue. Then a few centuries of headaches would probably be perfectly normal. And this miraculous little brat could even come back before she was born to torment her dad... Ah, I was getting off topic.
The Celestial System Fleet had originally been supposed to return in full to the Civilization Community universe. But because so many damaged units needed to be accommodated, this fleet, composed of numerous Planetary Fortresses, also took on