"Chester, you said earlier that more than a hundred thousand people took part in the strike movement from the very beginning?"
Yu Lian felt that an organization capable of launching a strike movement on such a scale must have had tremendous influence among the local workers. It didn't seem like something an armed group like the Sons of Loha, which waged guerrilla warfare on the frontier planets, could pull off.
"Confirmed! There were so many participants that no matter how tightly the Alliance tried to suppress the news, it couldn't keep a lid on everything. All kinds of rumors have already started appearing on small websites. The wildest claim is that a massive occult disaster struck Icevale City, and the Alliance razed the entire city to the ground, along with more than two hundred residents."
...Uh, that rumor was going a bit far. During the Glorious Mission exercise, the Empire really had suffered a massive occult disaster. The Void's ghosts had been so densely packed that it had almost looked like a zombie siege. Even so, the Empire hadn't razed Sarnat to the ground. Whatever else you could say, the Alliance still handled things more carefully than the Empire.
"What actually happened?" Yu Lian asked.
"Public order in Icevale City has basically been restored. From what I know so far, more than two thousand people have been arrested. The entire urban area is under martial law. Also, the Thor Industries site has been retaken, and the damaged factories have been repaired. The tractor beam arrays we're supposed to receive should be finished in thirty-six hours."
Yu Lian sighed. "Decisive and efficient, as always!"
Rozes nodded in agreement, then added, "Director Creel Belmont informed me that the remaining three Main God-class ships will definitely be completed on schedule next week, after