This referred to the separatist movement currently making a huge stir within the Alliance. During Feno Berenkaist's tenure as Grand Commander, besides the few member states that had already announced their secession from Nefi, another seven member states and four autonomous territories had jointly submitted proposals to the Azure Palace, hoping to obtain greater local governing authority.
Grand Commander Feno had replied, "Dumbass." There was no doubt about it; those were his exact words, and they even made the media headlines.
Anyone with eyes could see that a civil war was inevitable.
In fact, the Alliance fleet had already been deployed to the "rebellious regions."
By this point, many people had probably forgotten that the root of all these events seemed to be nothing more than a protest march by the city's workers.
Of course, anyone with eyes also understood that, given the Free Stellar River Alliance's scale, even if civil war broke out, it could not possibly affect the Alliance's core star regions. Prices in Nefi had not changed in the slightest. Nevertheless, this would inevitably have a considerable impact on the military mobilization of this federal nation.
Belmont knew that this was one reason the Alliance had to watch this war from the sidelines and could not intervene recklessly.
Of course, it was only one of the reasons.
As Krell pondered, he continued filming the scene and transmitted the footage through his terminal to the other end of the call.
"How's it looking? Can we replicate an aether engine with the same performance?" he asked expectantly.
"That depends on whether you can remember the rhythm of the psionic fluctuations. But judging from the information we've obtained so far, this will at least help our country avoid many wrong turns in developing our aether engines. Krell, your efforts have