Faida Planet, Derapha City.
Boom—!! Boom—!!! Explosions rang out without pause, tearing open the city's main avenues and pulverizing countless Corpse Puppets beneath overwhelming firepower.
LAAT/I assault transports landed with large numbers of Clone Troopers aboard. Without a word, they immediately moved into position.
Along every major route, the gangs and mercenary groups had long since erected lines of defense using cars and scrap. Those with deep pockets had even hired construction crews to reinforce the barricades further with bulldozers and other engineering machinery.
For ordinary Corpse Puppets, these were already insurmountable obstacles.
Thus, once the Clone Troopers began landing, the gangs and mercenaries considered the situation under control. They showed no friendliness toward the Clone Troopers who had come to help; some even threatened to wipe them out along with the Corpse Puppets.
Still, talk was one thing. These gangs had enough self-awareness not to truly clash with the Clone Troopers who had earned such a fearsome reputation on battlefields across the Milky Way Galaxy.
Boom! Boom! Boom!! With the regular army's firepower joining the battle, artillery fire shook the skies over the entire city. Under the combined air-ground strikes of AV-7 self-propelled artillery and Y-wing bombers, the Corpse Puppets were blasted to pieces before they could form any effective organization.
In barely a few dozen minutes, hundreds of thousands of Corpse Puppets had been destroyed in the bombardment.
Seeing this, the gangs, smugglers, and mercenaries no longer wished to remain with the Galactic Republic Army. One after another, they withdrew from the front and retreated toward the planet's capital, Chynesti City.
These lawless types naturally understood that even if they repelled the Geth attack this time, the Galactic Republic Army would not be leaving again.
In other words, their good days were over.
Yet at that moment, the