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More than two months passed in a flash, and the opposing sides on Sweet Star began playing a game of coloring in the map.
More than sixty Hive Cities were scattered across Sweet Star's northern and southern hemispheres. Half the planet's population lived within those sixty-odd Hive Cities.
The other half consisted of agricultural workers, scattered across the planet to farm, and were not included in the count.
In other words, whoever captured those sixty Hive Cities could control most of the planet's population and resources.
After the initial panic, the people in the Main Hive Cities controlled by the T'au gradually regained their composure.
Mainly because caviar was exhausting to make even once, leaving them worn out for days. They could not make caviar every day, or they would be worked to death.
And after the pleasure faded, the T'au discovered that the end of the world did not arrive all at once. It came slowly.
That gradual process gave the T'au Regime time. They slowly recovered from their initial panic and indulgence, and reason regained control over impulse as they began confronting the Imperium of Man.
Although they had lost the Planetary Computer, the T'au had ruled the planet for over sixty years and had established a mature governing apparatus.
The T'au Government immediately took action, dispatching envoys to the other Secondary Hive Cities—mainly those in the northern hemisphere—to reaffirm T'au rule.
On the Imperium's side, backed by Li Qinwu's three hundred thousand elite private soldiers and more than five hundred high-ranking officials capable of serving as emperor, they mainly focused on coloring in the southern hemisphere.
The rulers of some Hive Cities had been killed by Genpei and his people. With humanity regaining