Federation Year 17135.
It had been a full twenty years since this war began.
Although the Alliance had caught the Tianshu Church off guard at the outset, Jiang Hai quickly reacted and implemented a net-casting strategy.
The advantages of the Federation's Realm Folding System were greatly weakened as a result.
Over those twenty years, the Alliance armies had marched from victory to victory, wiping out roughly 30 million Tianshu Church fleets while suffering losses of fewer than 1 million fleets themselves.
A kill ratio of over thirty to one could be called exceptionally impressive.
However, ninety-nine percent of the 30 million forces eliminated by the Alliance had been Tianshu Church believer armies.
As for the Tianshu Church's main fleets, not only had their numbers barely declined, they had actually increased.
According to the compiled intelligence, the Tianshu Church's Crusader Army had numbered around 20 million forces at the start of the war. It had now reached 22 million.
Lin Fan gradually realized that he seemed to have been dragged into a war of attrition of another kind.
It was not merely the Tianshu Church that was expanding its forces frantically. The believer civilizations beneath it were doing the same, and their expansion rate was several times faster than the Tianshu Church's.
If this continued, the Alliance would likely lose more than half its forces before even confronting the Tianshu Church's main force.
That was not a good sign.
Therefore, Lin Fan needed to change tactics. He could not allow those believer army fleets to keep dragging him into attrition.
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Inside the operations conference room.
The atmosphere was somewhat silent, as everyone had more or less seen where the war was heading.
"Everyone, over these twenty years, we have continuously wiped out large numbers of the Tianshu Church's fresh forces.