After seeing off the first class of students, East Blade Military Academy welcomed a much larger influx of new recruits.
Including those who had arrived earlier, the second class numbered more than 3,200.
And unlike the first class, when many member states had taken a wait-and-see approach, this time every member state of the Blue Star Crisis Response Coalition—except for a few small countries that had lost all contact and were unable to respond—had done everything they could, sparing no expense, to send personnel for training.
Behind this was not only the footage of that strike at the stadium, which had somehow suddenly spread and come to the attention of senior officials in various countries, but also another important reason.
Through its foreign affairs department, the Supreme Command Center had announced a highly attractive new policy within the Blue Star Crisis Response Coalition.
It was an idea Lin Yi had mentioned in passing to Nie Chang before he was appointed principal. He hadn't expected the higher-ups to quietly turn it into reality.
Near the end of the first class's training, Xia Kingdom's foreign affairs department had led the establishment of the "Source Energy Equipment Research and Development Department" within the Blue Star Crisis Response Coalition, and released a detailed catalog of existing technical blueprints.
It had also announced that any coalition member state that shared Source Energy-related blueprints not already included in the catalog with the department would receive two additional student slots for every blueprint it contributed.
Furthermore, the blueprints contributed would count toward that country's "Contribution Points," which could be used to redeem other blueprints already held by the department, at an approximate exchange rate of one to two for blueprints of the same rank.
In other words, the points earned from one new blueprint could be exchanged