August 12, 2024.
Twenty-four hours after capturing the brain bug.
During those twenty-four hours, Andre, who was on the other side of the transit corridor, delivered 200,000 sets of UNSC Marine Corps equipment to P Star at William's request.
After learning the ugly faces of the Federation's higher-ups, the vast majority of the Third Expeditionary Force's mobile infantry voluntarily chose to sign Confidentiality Agreements.
The few Ghost Agents who needed to supervise the situation used their psychic powers to show "friendliness," making the Federation soldiers who refused to cooperate "voluntarily" sign the agreements.
With the 200,000 sets of Marine Corps equipment added, these mobile infantrymen finally underwent a complete upgrade, and became one of Umbrella's combat forces.
Although the mobile infantry's training was far inferior to that of Umbrella's Marine Corps and the UNSC Army, infantrymen equipped with advanced gear were still not to be underestimated.
All the captured ships of the Third Expeditionary Fleet were also refitted by tens of thousands of Umbrella-affiliated Engineering Team members working overtime around the clock.
The Federation's Third Expeditionary Fleet consisted of thirty-two ships of various tonnages and functions.
There was one Aircraft Carrier Transport Ship serving as the flagship, two cruisers that counted as heavy-firepower ships by Federation standards, six destroyers, and finally twenty-three Escort Transport Ships.
The massive turmoil caused by Yuri two months earlier had shaken humanity as a whole, while Umbrella had also recovered several hundred decommissioned vessels.
The main reason these vessels had been forcibly decommissioned was that their repair costs were too high, making it far more economical to build new ones.
However, many of their devices could be salvaged and reused, including AT Energy Shield generators of various grades.
Thus, the Engineering Team used this recovered "secondhand equipment" to install AT Energy Shields on the entire