Humanity would soon withdraw its forces.
Once the Human Empire withdrew its troops,
they would be free to deal with Gamma World, which had been entrenched around them.
Gamma World had only taken advantage of the war with the Human Empire to temporarily seize their territory. Did they really think those places had been brought under their rule?
The Supreme Ethereal's order sent the High Council into a frenzy.
Once humanity retreated, not only could they reclaim the Eastern Fringe and expand its territory into Gamma World, but they could also reclaim their arrangements in Damocles Gulf. The Human Empire factions that had already been cooperating with them would become part of the gains from this expansion beneath the skies.
By then, Damocles Gulf would become their territory.
They would have far greater confidence for their next expansion beneath the skies.
Eastern Fringe.
After Gamma World finished building its interstellar "highway," the number of warships traveling to the Eastern Fringe gradually increased.
At first, they were military vessels. Through a series of operations such as occupation and destruction, they uprooted the Tau Empire's forces from the planetary regions at the outermost edge of the Eastern Fringe.
Expeditionary forces from the Silver-White Armor Legion, along with combinations of various Drone models and gunners, were continuously transported through Gamma World's interstellar highway by Gamma World transport ships and sent into the Eastern Fringe.
Farns World Enterprise, the Berit Private Enterprise Union, and Sidler Crime Enterprise followed behind the expeditionary forces.
By establishing vast numbers of colonies, they extracted resources through an extravagantly wasteful method. Mining ships, colossal burrowing "worms," devouring factories, megastructure furnaces, advanced ore refiners, giant energy-harvesting rings,
and a whole series of technological equipment continuously drained resources from underground.
The first habitable planet to be mined had lasted less than