No one knew the Jupiter Circle's stance. Under the Jupiter Federation authorities' arrangements, the Skywing Empire's expeditionary forces began moving into designated Colony Satellites.
Long Fei had not expected the expeditionary forces to contact the Jupiter Federation in less than a year.
Meanwhile, the captured Dion Pirate Group members had been sent to prisons for hard labor.
However, the Skywing Empire military discovered that a large portion of the captured Dion Pirate Group members were not originally citizens of the Dion Empire.
Yet these people were extraordinarily loyal to the Dion Empire. Some had suffered harm at the hands of the Dion Empire, while others had even been kidnapped and abducted by the Dion Pirate Group.
Did these people have Stockholm Syndrome? How could they be loyal to an organization that had harmed them?
At first, the relevant Skywing Empire authorities were utterly baffled.
They could not understand why these people were loyal to the Dion Empire, loyal enough to die for the country without hesitation.
By all rights, these people should have hated the Dion Empire and the Dion Pirate Group. After all, their relatives had died at these people's hands.
This piqued the relevant departments' curiosity. They subjected some genuine Dion Empire citizens to a round of brutal torture and extracted intelligence from them.
It turned out that the Dion Pirate Group's medical specialists had developed a hallucinogenic drug. Once injected into a person's body, it would plunge them into a hallucinatory state.
With suitable hypnosis, the person's memories could be erased and replaced with new ones. They could then be hypnotized again and made to firmly believe that their new memories were real.
These people would believe that they were citizens of the Dion Empire. Moreover, while implanting the new memories, the Dion Empire citizens used