Federation Year 97.
The Human Federation launched a surprise attack on the Babawi Empire's Capital Sphere, destroying 74.5 million Babawi warships in a single battle and capturing 2.5 million more!
According to post-battle statistics, humanity lost a full 57,000 warships, with casualties reaching as high as 38 million!
Of course, that was only humanity's losses. The bulk of the actual battle damage had fallen upon the Io Federation and the Civilization Allied Forces under its command, amounting to roughly ten times humanity's losses.
After all, they had deployed more warships, and their vessels were still somewhat inferior to humanity's in performance. Naturally, their losses were greater. It was not as though Lin Fan had shoved them forward as cannon fodder.
Still, to them, those losses were insignificant.
For the Io Federation, losing nearly the equivalent of one legion's worth of warships was nothing much!
As for the Civilization Allied Forces, it was even simpler. Once the losses were spread among each civilization, they cared even less than the Io Federation did!
Only humanity found it painful. After all, humanity's population was too small—just over 30 billion even now, with nearly half still minors!
Fortunately, humanity had now entered the stage of reaping population growth. Large numbers of people came of age every day, and with the emergence of genetic enhancement drugs, human lifespans had increased dramatically. Humanity had practically entered an era of pure population growth!
Moreover, according to feedback from the Department of Scientific Research, the second-generation genetic enhancement drug was now being developed and had reportedly made tremendous progress. Once it succeeded, human lifespans would be measured in millennia.
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Babylon, formerly the Babawi Empire's Capital Sphere, had now been renamed Babylon by the Federation.
Although the Babawi Empire's Capital Sphere had been captured, its territory was simply