Chapter 6452 Incentive to Lose

Chapter 6452 Incentive to Lose

Ves continued to receive briefings on all manner of confidential information in the next two days.

The fog that long obscured the true foundation of red humanity slowly peeled away.

Although Ves had no illusion that he was able to learn all of the secrets held by different factions and organizations, just the intel shared by the Secret Department was enough to give him a much better understanding than before!

At the very least, he had a better idea on who he could afford to provoke, who he should not provoke and who he could ally with. He also learned of a few weaker and declining powers that he may be able to annex if the conditions were right.

Ves also gained a much greater insight on the true war situation of red humanity.

The numbers and graphs painted a bleak picture to him. On the whole, the statistics roughly matched his expectations.

The original 5 defensive bands in the border regions had served their purpose and successfully blunted the tip of the Red Tide Offensive for the most part.

The god pilots that continually circulated through many beleaguered star systems had destroyed more enemy warships and other assets than anyone could count.

The salvage gathered from these annihilations played a crucial role in propping up the war economy and helped to mitigate the resource shortages suffered by every industry. However, that did not change the fact that the situation in the rear was not that optimistic.

When humans originally invaded the Red Ocean Dwarf Galaxy, they first appeared in the galactic rim and built Bridgehead One at one of the most remote and obscure star systems.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

While this strategic choice meant that humans were able to sneak into the Red Ocean and gradually infiltrate the surrounding territories without prematurely alarming the13 major alien races, the fact of the matter was that red humanity's current territorial holdings were not that impressive in terms of resource endowments.

The situation in a dwarf galaxy like the Red Ocean was different from a much larger galaxy like the Milky Way, but the general pattern was still the same. All of the more resource-rich star systems were much more prevalent around the galactic core. What this meant was that even the native aliens were losing a huge amount of tons worth of high-grade alloys every day, they still had a lot more to spare!

The loss of manpower was also fairly minor. While the native aliens were starting to lose an increasing amount of veteran soldiers and powerful phase lords, their population bases in the Red Ocean were so large to begin with that they could easily sustain this consumption for a long time!

"How can the Red Cabal command the native alien races to send out so many of their soldiers to die?" Ves asked with clear confusion on his face. "I mean, if you told human soldiers to suspend their cozy guard assignments and command them to engage in a mission as suicidal as diving head-first into the jaws of a god pilot en masse, they would probably rebel against their superiors. Why are these aliens so willing to accept near-certain death?"

combat readiness of their societies.

The Secret Keeper slowly nodded. "I see you understand. Right now, the native alien leaders have begun to take us more seriously, but they are not in a hurry to go all-out against us. They still maintain many standing forces in the rear that they have yet to mobilize against us. On the one hand, they still do not take us seriously enough yet. On the other hand, they want to avoid losing too much of their armed forces by letting them get slaughtered by god pilots with ease. The alien leaders are still on guard against each other, and do not dare to send too many of their warships to the frontlines at once. This gives us enough breathing space to survive, but it also means we are locked in a battle of attrition where we are at a heavy disadvantage."

"We need to turn this war around in a big way." Ves frowned. "The Deep Strike Plan should have given us hope of completely throwing the native aliens into disarray, but ever since Bridgehead One got isolated, I don't know if we can still go through with our

original plan."

"The Bridgehead One issue is problematic, but there is not yet cause for despair. We have confidence that the greater spacetime bubble will be breached. The isolated star system not only holds the Polymath, the First Flame and the Dominion of Man, but also numerous grand works and entire planets and space stations populated by the most formidable scientists, engineers and other works."

"I know about all of that, but even if they can cobble together a solution, the time differential is too great. Time moves a hundred times slower inside that bubble. I fear that there is not enough time for the people who are trapped to break their cage from

within."

Secret Keeper Closier-17 acknowledged Ves' pessimistic outlook. "Your words may very well be true. There is no denying that the Deep Strike Plan is at risk now that we are cut off from the greater beyonder gate. If too much time has passed without any positive developments, then we must eventually accept that we cannot proceed according to the original master plan. That... may be the moment where the Xenotechnician makes his move. Once he reintroduces his Diplomacy Plan to a red humanity that is much more desperate and running out of options, think about how we will react to his proposal." Ves' expression grew uglier. "If the Xenotechnician really pulls this off at the right timing, then I fear that not as many humans will be eager to cling to their increasingly empty belief of human supremacy. Between honor and survival, almost everyone will pick the latter over the former."

Was this a part of the Xenotechnician's grand scheme?

If this was true, then this painted a frightening picture!

In order for the Star Designer to realize his goals, he gained a strong incentive to make red humanity lose a lot of battles and suffer a huge amount of losses!

Only when red humans got repeatedly brutalized would they be willing to embrace the

notion of allying with friendly alien races!

This incentive to lose was extremely poisonous, because made the Xenotechnician a lot less reliable than before!