While Angelica and Alonso joined their comrades in wiping out a clone force, Yue Yangchun and his wife were eliminating a Dion Pirate Group unit at the same time.
Scattered battles broke out in various locations.
A Silver Thunder used a Big-W II to directly destroy a meteor one kilometer in diameter.
The Skywing Empire military no longer destroyed every meteor or piece of wreckage the moment it saw one. As long as smaller meteors were no more than thirty meters in diameter and scans by Scanners, detectors, and the like found nothing unusual, they were simply allowed to pass.
Even if such meteors plunged toward Mars, the Martian atmosphere would be enough to burn them away through friction.
As for wreckage, larger pieces were blasted apart before being handed over to the Steel Ball Work Ship for processing.
The Skywing Empire military repeatedly checked the endless meteors and wreckage for bombs hidden inside. Once one was discovered, it was immediately detonated or destroyed.
Earlier, a Steel Ball Work Ship had been clearing away meteors and wreckage when a bomb concealed within suddenly exploded.
It had even destroyed the factory, prompting the authorities to respond at once.
Meanwhile, after the Skywing Mercenary Group wiped out all of the Dion Pirate Group's main bases, it began clearing out the various sources of those meteors and wreckage.
If nothing unexpected happened, meteors and wreckage would no longer drift into the Mars Sphere in about a month.
At present, the people of the Skywing Empire paid little attention to the situation and were even rather unconcerned about it.
The meteors entering the Martian atmosphere were merely treated as shooting stars by the public.
Meanwhile, Long Fei reviewed the reports sent over by military affairs. Rather than feeling reassured, his unease only grew stronger.