However, the internal environment is ultimately internal, while the external environment is far more difficult to manage than the internal one.
During the internal environmental reorganization, in order to ensure the situation on the front lines, avoid distortions in the Adam Two Star System, and formally establish a systematic rotation system for frontline troops, the Pale Church Regent Duoxia had to issue another decree to carry out military reforms.
Its orders were: frontline troops would be rotated every three years, with no more batch support; instead, a permanent force of five hundred trillion troops would be stationed, divided into batches with quotas shared equally among various planets, supported by the Pale Church, and commanded by officers selected by local authorities, conducting independent legion-style operations.
Logistics and supplies were provided by the local authorities and arrived at the front lines along with the army.
This reform is quite interesting, as it completely decentralizes central power, allowing local authorities to control their own armies, seemingly making a large-scale leap towards warlordism.
While such reforms may indeed provoke local resistance and enthusiasm, their future is almost entirely predictable.
As expected, with the start of military reforms, local cities in the galaxy actively formed reserve teams and conducted intensive training in order to be ready to rush to the battlefield at any time.
At this time, the population was enormous, and the allocated quotas were only a drop in the ocean for each planet, making it manageable.
In Norton 3344, another wave of troops arrived on the battlefield via space jumps to wage a full-scale war.
Since the military and even logistical supplies are all under the unified responsibility of the local authorities, and legion-style operations are implemented, the Pale Church no longer has the authority to take over command. As a result, the attitudes of cities in various star systems towards the expeditionary forces have changed. Instead of the previous approach of sending them out without any intention of taking them back, they have begun to find ways to maintain the military system, reduce casualties, and expand frontline construction so that subsequent legions can have a better future with fewer casualties and preserve more local military strength.
Therefore, most of the frontline troops abandoned the previous large-scale legion warfare and instead mobilized manpower on various planets to build defenses and military bases, hoping to give their city legions a foothold on the front line.
Consequently, cities in various star systems began to send more non-combat personnel to the front lines for related construction and building work.
High-tech bunkers rose up one after another, and high-tech automated weapon defense base stations were poured onto the front lines as if they were free.
This warlord-style reform seems to have revealed a profound hidden meaning to the administrators of all the star system cities, prompting them to invest desperately in the front lines as if they were throwing away their entire fortunes.
This approach has indeed been quite effective.
Compared to the large-scale space battles involving warships in the past decade or so, this time, building on a planet can not only share the front-line firepower and lure a group of Aberration to attack cities that are already deserted, but also use bunkers and automated defense base stations that are much harder to penetrate than warships to fight against Aberration.
Under the normal troop deployment model of five hundred trillion troops, this operational pattern actually dragged the battle line all the way to the Adam Two Star System.
However, such achievements came at a price that is immeasurable.
Since Norton 3344, the number of troops that the Human Federation has deployed to the front lines each year has been immeasurably heavy. Less than 10% of the soldiers are able to return to the rear for rest and recuperation after the three-year rotation period. Often, the soldiers who survive for a year will be promoted to the position of legion commander and become the commander of the next batch of reinforcements.
Furthermore, with the excessive number of soldiers killed on the front lines and the excessive concentration of Soul Particle, the number of Aberration increases dramatically every year. As a result, Regent Duoxia in the rear has to expand the size of the garrison at the front, increasing by an average of one hundred trillion every year.
In just five years, a force of ten trillion was needed to maintain a permanent presence on the front lines to sustain the conflict.
However, stationing troops in the country for a quadrillion does not mean that they only need to contribute a quadrillion people. In fact, depending on the intensity of the war, they need to contribute 80% of the stationed population to support the front line every year to prevent it from collapsing. On this basis, an additional quadrillion people are needed to replenish the troops.
In other words, this year's troop deployment of 10 quadrillion treasuries is only 100 trillion treasuries larger than last year, but in reality, they need to deploy 900 trillion treasuries to ensure that troop deployment is achieved.
Even so, the troop presence continues to expand every year in order to counter the ever-increasing number of Aberration.
The annual death toll of 10 quadrillion seems pitifully small compared to the annual birth toll of 20 quadrillion, but in reality, the total number of deaths has already reached 10 quadrillion in just ten years. And it continues to increase by 10 quadrillion every year.
This exponential growth is simply suffocating and despairing.
Although the size of the birth population and the number of births each year are constantly increasing, too many people require more urban construction, which means that population growth will eventually reach a limit. In contrast, the replenishment of troops at the front is growing much more rapidly.
During these five years, although the size of the frontline garrison has been increasing at an average rate of one hundred trillion per year, the actual support arrangement is not a straight line, but an upward line.
For example, in the first year, it would only take 40 trillion to increase the size of the army to maintain the balance of power. However, in the second year, it would take 80 trillion to increase the size of the garrison to maintain the balance of power. In the third year, it would take 100 trillion, in the fourth year, it would take 120 trillion, and in the fifth year, it would take 160 trillion.
In other words, not only is the size of the troop presence at the front lines increasing exponentially, but the increase in the size of the troop presence is also increasing exponentially.
Moreover, the growth rate was extremely fast, increasing several times in just a few years.
It is almost foreseeable that, perhaps hundreds or thousands of years from now, these Aberration will likely launch a full-scale invasion. At that time, if the human race is to continue, a generation may be wiped out in a single year!
At that point, with such a massive base, the growth of this index will only explode, and humanity may become completely extinct within just a few decades!
This is based on the assumption that the Adam Two Star System is not completely distorted and that no second Aberration with an intensity equivalent to Sixth Stage has been created.