But because of its special political status, this planet still supported a massive population of over a hundred billion. To sustain them, enormous numbers of starships brought water and food from all across the Milky Way Galaxy every day, supplying Terra's people.
After the Fusion of Two Realms, sacred Terra was stripped of its halo of myth. The vast population on the now-uninhabitable planet was forcibly relocated, and the Department of Environmental Management took over the planet and began Planetary Reconstruction Project Two.
The towering hive cities of old were torn down and rebuilt, while historically significant buildings were preserved. The completely ruined environment was gradually restored. In the dried-up Pacific basin, the sprawling jumble of buildings was leveled, and frozen asteroids brought back from outer space were dropped into the ocean basin,
where they melted into a new sea.
This world, once prosperous but destroyed by humanity, was gradually coming back to life through the massive reconstruction project.
And just as the environmental restoration project was in full swing, a massive Ark World over fifteen thousand kilometers long suddenly appeared in the Terra Galaxy.
The Foreign Invasion immediately alerted the Galaxy Defense Army. The Defense Fleet sprang into action and heroically attacked the Ark World.
By the time Lin Zhichen saw what was happening, the Defense Fleet—barely a thousand warships strong—had already engaged the Ark World's Escort Ships in a fierce battle.
Fortunately, the Imperium was in an era of steady ascent, and the entire nation was on the rise. Even local defense forces were receiving attention, with their equipment upgraded in rotating batches to prevent trouble before it arose.
Equipment once kept in reserve proved invaluable now. Though the Defense Fleet was small, its gear was highly advanced, meeting the standard of a Super Civilization. Although it was