They could still hold the capital homeworld purely because the remaining soldiers were all native-born. Soldiers from other colony worlds had already been removed from the military ranks, which was how they had prevented the capital homeworld from falling as well.
To counter the Collectors' color-changing offensive, the ruling regime of the Boful Hegemony on the capital homeworld promoted the terror of the Amoeba race among the soldiers while also considering how to swiftly destroy the Amoeba race.
Because of this strategic shift, the Boful Hegemony's ruling class had instead become the side most eager to end the war as quickly as possible.
However, this wave of attacks by the Collectors was not nearly as easy to resolve as the Boful Hegemony had imagined.
Those soldiers who had come from other colony worlds to fight, only to be removed from the military ranks—surely they could not drive them out of the capital homeworld again?
Whether for public or private reasons, that was impossible. Doing so would only make those who still trusted the decision-makers believe that they had completely lost their minds.
Yet these colony-world soldiers scattered across the capital homeworld became sparks of rebellion. Many of them came from colony worlds that had already been sacrificed.
The logic was perfectly straightforward. Their families had died, and they wanted revenge for them. Now that the great cause of protecting their race no longer existed, only the desire for vengeance remained.
As for whom they would take revenge on? Whoever had killed their families was the one they would avenge themselves against!
Thus, the Boful Hegemony had to defend not only against the joint forces of the steadily advancing Collectors and the new Boful regime, but also against knives thrust into their backs from behind.
The frontlines were manageable enough, but