The humans and the M'tok had different ideas about how to fight this decisive battle.
The M'tok Union believed that the humans, having just fought a major battle, needed time to recover and would certainly make no major moves in the immediate future.
Therefore, they should first recall their main fleet to the Homeworld System, assemble their remaining ships, and take the initiative once more in a decisive battle.
With the Celestial Dragon guarding the Homeworld System, the humans would not be foolish enough to attack it. The crushing defeat the Zirick Cooperative's fleet had suffered at the dragon's hands all those years ago was still fresh in everyone's memory.
The M'tok had now lost their Criminal Enterprise Branches in the Zirick Cooperative and the Nier Guardians. Their income had plummeted, and they could not afford to drag things out much longer.
No one had expected the war to reach such a horrific state.
Victory would make everything better. Defeat would mean the destruction of their nation.
That was the M'tok's situation.
But the humans were clearly different. The Interstellar Human Military Junta's territory was exceptionally stable, and its colonies steadily produced resources. They had enough wealth to sustain these wars.
According to preliminary calculations, military spending accounted for 90% of the Interstellar Human Military Junta's annual budget. The rest went toward maintaining jobs and population.
Ninety percent on military spending-that was terrifying!
How had they managed it? What form of government could unite them so completely?
The M'tok could not make sense of the Interstellar Human Military Junta's system. It was just as Xi Yan had said: how could the M'tok Union, rife with violence, division, and crime, withstand a united, cohesive, and powerful Interstellar Human Military Junta?
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