Liberalism
Annaj Planet's capital district was a massive urban area spanning more than 300 kilometers, and the planet's primary population center.
After the battle broke out, some civilians from the capital district were evacuated. Others were arranged to shelter in air-raid facilities, while another portion hid in basements that had long been prepared beneath their homes. Only a small number of residents could not be accommodated in time. They could only find the sturdiest buildings they could and pray that the Galactic Republic's devastating bombardment from the sky would not fall on them.
But guns and artillery showed no mercy, and vast numbers of civilians still died as collateral casualties of the fighting. Especially after the Galactic Republic carried out several low-intensity Orbital Bombardments of the capital district to support its operations, civilian casualties surpassed a million!
Yet such actions only further stirred the people's shared hatred of the enemy. Many even enlisted on the spot, picked up weapons, and immediately became part of the Annaj Planet Defense Force!
In truth, although the people of the Modell Sector greatly disliked Tang Xiao and clamored for autonomy every day, they held the Galactic Republic in even greater contempt—indeed, outright hatred!
During the period when the Ayrou dominated the sector, the Ayrou, who wanted nothing more than to be local emperors in the Modell Sector, had never thought highly of the Galactic Republic. They only joined later under pressure from the Fourth Civilization. After war broke out between the Fourth Civilization and the Ayrou, not only did the Galactic Republic refuse to help, it also dumped obsolete starships on them at inflated prices. That act of profiting from disaster made the Ayrou hate the Galactic Republic to the bone!
Thus, after the First War between the Ayrou and the Fourth Civilization ended,