The Golden Crow Civilization of the Milky Way Galaxy mobilized more than 150 billion soldiers. Even during its eighty-thousand-year war with the Dragon Race, it had never fielded so many troops.
As technology advanced, militaries needed fewer and fewer personnel. As long as the economy could sustain it, industrial production could supply a steady stream of military power without consuming too much of a civilization's precious population.
But this war was different. No one could sit idle in the rear. The Golden Crow Civilization had a population of only a little over ten trillion, and more than a tenth had entered military service. The rest supported the war through research, resource gathering, production, transport, propaganda, and every other means available.
From top to bottom, almost the entire civilization served the war effort.
And that was just the Golden Crow Civilization's core population, which had been shrinking for years. Its vassal races, including the Firebirds, Ancient Sparrows, and Light Claws, had even larger populations. They raised more than ten trillion soldiers, all of whom joined the Galaxy Legion.
With its advanced technology, powerful weapons, and material reserves, the Golden Crow Civilization was the undisputed main force, especially now that the Heavenly Heart Civilization and others had transferred away their Star Cluster-level war machines.
Of the Galaxy Legion's total combat strength, the Golden Crow's forces accounted for eighty percent, the Heavenly Heart Civilization for ten percent, and the rest of the Milky Way shared the remaining ten.
The other civilizations contributed a smaller share, but they were hardly weak. The Golden Crow Civilization had simply thrown everything it had into the war.
For sheer spectacle, the Star Alliance Allied Forces were even more breathtaking. Their ocean of fleets seemed endless, their arrays of battle stars vast and imposing. Strung end to end,