The wreck of the pre-war missile cruiser Orion was suspected of having been occupied by an illegal armed organization!
At present, The Alliance authorities were consulting with the Academy, the Corporation, and other factions to explore closer cooperation in countering the threat posed by weapons left behind from the pre-war era.
This reporter urged everyone to remain rational and not believe rumors! While lead could indeed shield against radiation to a certain extent, hanging it around one's neck or wrapping it around one's waist was meaningless and had no scientific basis.
—"Survivor Daily," Avent City Edition
The "Celestials" organization had surfaced! They were suspected to be digital ghosts of an expeditionary force from the Human Alliance era!
Experts from the Alliance Academy of Social Sciences published an editorial stating that the existence of the "Celestials" fully demonstrated that uploading one's mind to a circuit board was the foolishness of "marking a boat to find a lost sword," as well as an unreliable form of collective suicide.
However, some Academy of Social Sciences experts analyzed that the "Celestials'" extreme ideology stemmed from the overly homogeneous social strata aboard the Lagrange space station. Their predicament was similar to that of the Legion.
In any case, the threat from outer space had drawn the attention of the upper echelons of every faction.
During an interview with reporters, Sivin, Secretary-General of the Representative Assembly, declared that the esteemed President Li Minghui would fight the Celestial forces to the bitter end and would never flee at the critical moment.
Li Minghui himself had yet to comment on the Representative Assembly's statement. He merely said that one hundred thousand neutron torpedoes might be a severe challenge, and that the South Sea Alliance should develop high-orbit anti-missile systems as soon as possible.
—"Survivor Daily," Ring Island Edition