Border Star had issued a "Level Two Alert" rather than a "Level One Alert" because it had just gone through a long, brutal war. By normal logic, another war was unlikely to break out anytime soon.
But a Level Two Alert was no small matter either. The entire planet's military had been mobilized, and even the reserves had received notification.
Then everyone discovered in astonishment that it was because... Lower Dragon City's suspected power consumption had been too high, causing a circuit breaker to trip?
Of course, that was the explanation given to the public. If anyone really pressed the issue, there was no way to explain where so many instantaneous surges of current had come from. Did they really think nobody had a clue?
However, Border Star had always operated under wartime administrative regulations. Ordinary people could grumble privately, but as long as they did not openly question things, there would be no trouble.
But the tiny group at the very top of Border Star truly knew what had happened.
For a period of time, data streams had fallen into tremendous chaos. Massive amounts of data converged and underwent computation at multiple data centers. Packet attacks and the like were nothing more than surface phenomena.
Was it merely a data attack? Impossible. With the Evil God Cult's and Rebel Army's limited data-attack capabilities, they could not have caused such a commotion on a military stronghold like Border Star. At most, they could have caused widespread blackouts; they could never have burned through the power lines themselves.
What especially needed to be emphasized was that this small group knew the classified details of the Second Robot Uprising.
Considering that Left Capital and Right Capital had also experienced strange power fluctuations earlier, they could basically confirm that this data war was