As Dulan withdrew, the Star Alliance stepped in to suppress the unrest.
The forces Anunnaki had deployed this time could only be considered quasi-micro-particle era. Before the Star Alliance, they were nothing.
The armed forces of the Star Alliance stationed across the major Open Stars were equipped at the very least to the early Micro-particle Era standard. Some important Open Stars even had Micro-particle Flourishing Stage, or even peak-level forces.
So all the bosses knew that the Star Alliance had held back.
But knowing they had held back was useless. At the very least, the Star Alliance would not allow the Open Stars to truly be destroyed. After delaying for ten minutes, they still came in to clear the field.
That was still better than placing their headquarters in the reserves. The reserves of the various civilizations had no Star Alliance protection, and the financial magnates within those civilizations were no pushovers either.
As cross-civilization enterprises, Light Burst and Lingzhu had large numbers of non-Beisel employees. It was inconvenient for their headquarters to be located in the reserves.
With their headquarters here, enemies like Anunnaki would have to lose three thousand of their own to kill eight hundred of theirs.
Anunnaki was wealthy and powerful, willing to bear such losses. What could they do? They had essentially been hammered at any cost by the other side. All that could be said was that they were too weak.
This time, the Star Alliance confiscated that Nine Palaces Class Starburst War Cloud and killed or captured large numbers of Blackstone Mecha Warriors.
Most of those Blackstone Mecha Warriors were operated by Slave races. Under Anunnaki, "people" were the cheapest thing there was.
But the Blackstone mechas were very valuable, and they were equipped with Tri-Phase Power Neutralization Modules capable of breaking through