Reinforcements Arrive

Ever since the first fleet sent to the Federation was "completely wiped out," Andromeda Company had refused to send any further fleets to carry out missions for the Federation, citing a lack of faith in the Federation's strategic deployments.

At the same time, Andromeda Company began prohibiting Federation transport ships from approaching the Ambeita III Planetary System where Andromeda was located, forcing all cargo vessels to receive supplies only at the periphery of the system.

If Andromeda Development Company hadn't been providing the Federation with a steady stream of resources in exchange for intelligence, the Federation likely would have severed ties with them entirely.

Following the "total annihilation" incident, Tang Shizhe had Andromeda begin mining the planets at full capacity, with all excess resources dumped directly into space.

The trail left behind by the Andromeda ship was filled with floating raw materials, which were then recovered by drones and transported to the edge of the system to be handed over to the Federation's transport ships.

As for the Xin Ore obtained through this frantic mining, aside from the portion sold to the Federation, the vast majority was used to construct the faster-than-light engines within Andromeda.

After more than a year of effort, every planet within the entire star system had been violently stripped of its resources.

If one were to look at all the planets together, it was clear that massive holes had been bored into them; while most of the planets remained intact, their cores and roughly one-sixth of their total mass had been completely hollowed out by Andromeda.

Deprived of the structural support from Andromeda's force fields, these planets with hollowed-out cores began to collapse.

It was estimated that in time, these planets would collapse into new, smaller celestial bodies due to their own gravity.

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