"So Androla, Mr. Marius, and the others succeeded?" Chun Jun looked delighted.
"Succeeded? It's nowhere near that simple." Tan Jize shook his head. "This is the capital of the New Atlantis Sector. The garrison force here on Olympus alone has a hundred thousand troops under the sector government's command, and their equipment is no worse than the Marines'. There's also a fleet in orbit."
The Second Fleet stationed in the New Atlantis Sector probably wouldn't get involved in a local government's "public security incident," but the sector's garrison fleet was equipped with cruisers, too.
Put simply, the disparity in strength between the two sides was enormous. The people had been stirred, but they were nowhere near desperate, awakened, or ready to resist.
"They have no chance of succeeding. I knew that, and I told them so, but I couldn't persuade them to give up." Tan Jize sighed.
"...Actually, they respect you a great deal. I can tell."
What she meant was that if Tan Jize had pressed them a little harder, he might have persuaded those young people to give up.
"Giving up would certainly be the smart and rational thing to do, but I'm not sure it would be the right thing." Tan Jize managed a slightly stiff smile.
"Miss Chun Jun, your junior uncle-master, Mr. Qi, and the others seem to have high expectations of me, an ordinary law student no one's ever heard of. But I really don't have much confidence in myself. I've only been in New Atlantis for two months. I can hardly claim to understand everything here. How could I dare to speak for the locals in their struggle and offer such shallow opinions?"
"Mm, I understand what you mean. My grandmaster and my master are like that with me, too. Truthfully, when it