A month passed in the blink of an eye.
"It can begin..."
With Lee Stein's confirmation, the long-prepared Disaster Association immediately mobilized in full.
The Disaster Association had spent years lurking and preparing within the Federations, and its influence had long since permeated every aspect of the Three Great Federations. They had not been idle during this past month either.
Through political, economic, and even military operations carried out at any cost, they had finally gained control of most of the world's energy plants. Wireless power transmission base stations had also been erected everywhere under the pretext of network infrastructure.
The Association's various factories had been anything but idle. Existing robot factories, hidden arms factories, and laboratories went without saying, but even the seemingly ordinary privately owned automobile plants had become a major source of production.
The term "automobile plants as reserve arms factories" was no exaggeration. A complete heavy-industry system and established procurement channels for materials and components allowed capable automobile plants to easily transform into arms factories during wartime. In fact, many automobile plants had originally been restructured from military-industrial and arms factories.
These plants were the easiest assets for the Disaster Association to acquire and offered the best value, so they existed in enormous numbers. After their production lines were modified and pushed to full capacity, countless Mechanical Cruisers were produced every day, along with the Electric Stimulation Battle Suits, Magnetic Storm Infantry Sets, electromagnetic cannons, laser cannons, ion cannons, and more provided by Lee Stein...
The Disaster Association existed to defend against disasters from beyond the heavens. How could it possibly have made no military preparations? It had been embedded within and infiltrating the Federations since their founding. Under the original course of development, it would have eventually pushed for the establishment of the Mechanical Cruiser