December 1, 2026.
Location: Halifax City, Umbrella Hotel top floor conference hall.
Local clock: 11:20.
Inside the conference hall.
The decoration and layout here are similar to the top-floor conference halls of other big city branches, but the space is more spacious and more luxurious.
The seats in the auditorium are not ordinary folding chairs, but comfortable single sofas.
After all, Hafa is Umbrella's headquarters city, so it must be decent in terms of reputation.
At this time, sitting on the sofa were reporters of different skin colors and races.
Of course, the race here is limited to humans, there are no elites, Grunts or Gnoll.
At the edge of the conference hall, there were still a large number of photographers following our reporters and debugging equipment.
"Hey, man, what breaking news do you think Umbrella is going to announce this time?"
"I don't know, but I think it has something to do with the war in the past few months."
"Exciting? That 'purple mushroom' in Earth's low-Earth orbit is explosive enough."
"Hey, regardless of whether it is exciting news or not, I just hope that we humans can win now."
"Man, you have to have faith in us humans."
Since the press conference has not yet begun, many reporters who know each other are chatting privately and are still speculating on what Umbrella will announce.
Today's ordinary society still doesn't know that mankind has won a decisive victory in the battle against the Covenant.
A few reporters looked sad, as if they were worried that humanity would lose to the Covenant.
But the vast majority of people are full of confidence and firmly believe that Umbrella and the UNSC troops can win. After all, Sparta, Astartes and the Divine Body are not vegetarians.
"Click~--."
At this moment, the door at the front of the conference hall opened.
I saw Andre, wearing a black general uniform and holding a paper speech in his hand, slowly walking into the conference hall.
Seeing Andre, one of Umbrella's top generals, enter the scene, the reporters all ended their private conversations and got ready on the sofa to listen carefully to the information to be announced next.
Andre walked slowly to the podium, came to the podium, put the paper speech script on the podium, and adjusted the desktop microphone.
"Ahem." Cleared his throat, Andre Vision glanced at everyone present and said in a deep voice:
"Everyone, what Umbrella and the UNSC will announce at this press conference is a detailed briefing and results of the Human-Covenant battle.
On September 21 this year, the defensive warship the Observer stationed on Epsilon Indian System and Bountiful Star exchanged fire with Alien Forces, which claimed to be the 'Covenant Alliance'.
In the end, the entire crew and combat personnel of the Observer, with only one frigate of Paris-class tonnage, defeated three cruisers of the "Covenant Alliance", referred to as the Covenant Alliance.
Captured an enemy cruiser, more than forty members of the Sangheili race, and a biological machine Artificial Intelligence.
Since then, a large-scale interstellar battle broke out between humans and the Star Alliance in Milky Way Galaxy. The battle area is located on the border of our Orion Arm.
According to the latest statistics on November 15, the number of our asteroids and Earth-like Planet colonies that have fallen is 34, and the number that has suffered serious damage is 14.
The number of human sacrifices was approximately 20 million, and the number of people seriously injured and disabled and unable to take care of themselves was 2.2 million."
"..."
After hearing the number of casualties reported by Andre, everyone present fell into silence and looked sad.
Another tens of millions of casualties.
Since 2006, mankind has always encountered various natural and man-made disasters, and the number of casualties has far exceeded the first and second World War combined.
"But..." Andre changed the subject and said:
"According to our statistics at Umbrella Artificial Intelligence, the number of casualties in the Covenant is approximately 1 to 1.3 billion.
On September 27 alone, in the EL-3 battle of Epsilon Indian System, the Covenant lost a thousand battleships at once, and the number of casualties exceeded tens of millions.
Then on October 21st, Umbrella's Fleet Zero raided the Covenant capital and the edge system where City of Brotherly Love was located.
In the raid battle, the Covenant's so-called invincible Invincible Fleet was unilaterally ravaged by Fleet Zero, losing nearly three thousand battleships.
Moreover, City of Brotherly Love, the capital of the Star Alliance, also fell to Fleet Zero's ground force offensive.
Counting the large and small battles on the Orion Arm frontier, when the Covenant faces our human defense force, it can only win by relying on numbers.
But I also said before that the capital of the Star Alliance, City of Brotherly Love, has fallen, so this war between humans and the Star Alliance will end with an absolute victory for us humans."
"What?! You actually won so quickly?!"
"Oh my god, I thought it would take at least a few years to win..."
After hearing Andre's report, the reporters present swept away the previous "gloom" and became surprised regardless of the rules of the venue.
As a general, Andre, after hearing some commotion in the audience, frowned and reminded, "Please keep quiet."
Slowly.
After the venue returned to calm, a female reporter raised her left hand as if she wanted to ask a question.
Seeing this, Andre stretched out his left hand towards the female reporter and said softly:
"What's your question?"
The female reporter who had the right to speak stood up, opened the Mike wind clip on her collar, and asked Andre:
"Hello General, I am a reporter from FOX in the United States. One thing I have always wondered is, what is the purple mushroom in the earth's far orbit?
According to some of the information you have released so far, that purple mushroom-shaped behemoth should have a coating and technology that belongs to the Star Alliance."
"Purple mushroom..." After hearing the question, Andre first repeated it softly, and then said with a kind smile:
"That purple mushroom is the capital of the Star Alliance I mentioned before, 'City of Brotherly Love'.
City of Brotherly Love is the largest man-made celestial body under the Star Alliance. It can accommodate hundreds of millions or even billions of people. This is a free 'Satellite Colony' trophy.
You can also think of it as a souvenir we brought back to prove that we humans have achieved this multi-racial Interstellar War."
"So that's it..." The female reporter suddenly realized and thanked Andre:
"Thank you, General, for clarifying our doubts."
"Yes, do you have any other questions?" Andre Vision continued to ask in a circle.
"General." At this time, a middle-aged male reporter raised his hand to ask a question.
"Please tell me." Andre indicated that the other party could ask questions.
The middle-aged male reporter stood up and asked Andre: "General.
Recently, there have been many photos and videos flowing into various social media, apps and posts on the Internet, and most of them are of Sangheili people fighting side by side with us humans.
So General, could you please explain this situation to us?"
"Haha, of course." Andre responded with a smile, moved his hand to the door on his right side, and said:
"Then let the temporary leader of Sangheili, General Enzo Saum, answer your questions."