As the Federation expanded the scale of the occupation army crazily, and under the high pressure of 'security enhancement', the guerilla troops were crushed one after another. The 'heroes' of the Water Crystal Sector were sent to the decomposing platforms of mystic rays and destroyed in body and soul.
The resistance of the natives of the Water Crystal Sector seemed to be getting weaker and weaker. The seriously damaged mining bases were repaired one after another, too. The enormous resource harvesting machines were activated and running more and more smoothly. The cost of mining was finally reduced to an acceptable level.
Everything seemed to be developing in a good direction.
But at this time, the Forest Ocean Sector and the Nether World Sector, two other new worlds, were discovered one after another.
In reality, because the Water Crystal Sector had a precedent of joining the Federation peacefully after a successful negotiation, and because of the serious internal problems in the Forest Ocean Sector and the Nether World Sector, after a series of tortuous and difficult negotiations, they followed the example of the Water Crystal Sector and joined the New Federation peacefully.
However, in the virtual timeline, because the Water Crystal Sector was conquered by the Federation by force, such important intelligence could not be kept a secret at all. Very soon, the Forest Ocean Sector and the Nether World Sector learned about the 'new life' of the crystal people under the 'security enhancement' policy. Naturally, the Forest Ocean Sector and the Nether World Sector were unwilling to be swallowed by such a Federation.
Compared to the New Federation, which had a strong army, the forces of the two new worlds were perhaps relatively weak, if not primitive.
However, the New Federation, which had not completely recovered from the previous war of conquest, could not launch two new expeditions at the same time in any case.
Therefore, the New Federation, the Nether World Sector, and the Forest Ocean Sector maintained a subtle, cautious, and even hostile relationship with each other for more than ten years.
Within the Federation, the benefits brought by the conquest of the Water Crystal Sector made the military and magical equipment complex even stronger than before. The war-hawks completely occupied the mainstream of the people and the parliament. They could not tolerate the stalemate anymore and prepared for war in secret, preparing to wage war against the Nether World Sector and the Forest Ocean Sector after the resources of the Water Crystal Sector were completely digested.
"In any case, before the expedition army of the Imperium arrives, we cannot have two worlds that are hostile to the Federation next to us!"
Such voices once again converged into a torrent of steel, rampaging above the parliament.
The General Staff of the Union Army deduced that the Nether World Sector, which was a wasteland, and the Forest Ocean Sector, which was full of forests, could not resist the scourge of the Federation's fleet at all, just like the Water Crystal Sector, which was a world of deserts.
The war would perfectly replicate the entire process of the 'War of Conquering the Crystal', and it would be won easily. This time, they had accumulated enough experience on how to be an occupying army and how to control the local natives with high pressure.
When the second expedition of the New Federation was finally launched, the commanders and captains of the expeditionary army played by the game experts all thought so.
It was not a wrong idea. When the expedition army split into two groups and arrived outside of the atmosphere of the mother planet of the Nether World Sector and the Forest Ocean Sector, it was true that the panicked native army did not have much strength to fight back. Very soon, they threw away their armor and collapsed.
However …
When the fleet of the Uranian Ring Sector, made of a thousand main-force starships, appeared without a sound behind the expedition army of the Federation, it was destined that the 'game' had completely failed no matter how many game experts and tactical successes they had achieved.
Yes. In this timeline, the Federation did not disguise its ambitions for the Forest Ocean Sector and the Nether World Sector at all. Naturally, the natives of the Forest Ocean Sector and the Nether World Sector would not wait to be killed, either.
The bravest and most adventurous among them secretly flew to the depths of the universe to search for the expedition army of the Imperium that the 'evil Federation' feared like a tiger, hoping to be protected by the Imperium.
In the end, although they did not find the Imperium, they were found, or rather, the Uranian Ring Sector discovered their existence.
Different from the Forest Ocean Sector, the Nether World Sector, and the Water Crystal Sector, the Uranian Ring Sector boasted rather advanced space navigation abilities and an enormous space fleet.
The natives of the Uranian Ring Sector, who had learned what the Federation had done, naturally would not watch such an ambitious civilization grow right next to their bed while doing nothing.
Therefore, the natives of the Uranian Ring Sector, the Nether World Sector, the Forest Ocean Sector, and the Water Crystal Sector formed an alliance in secret to resist the powerful and brutal New Federation.
At this point in the timeline, the outcome of the war itself did not matter anymore.
Tactically speaking, the Forest Ocean Sector and the Nether World Sector, which had the support of the Uranian Ring Sector's fleet, were impossible to be completely conquered and absorbed by the New Federation in only a few decades, not to mention the homeland of the Uranian Ring Sector that had been prepared for war decades earlier.
Under the interpretation of different game experts, the timeline had hundreds of different variations. But even in the best variation, the Xing Yao Federation did not manage to conquer the four new worlds until 'Year 155 of the New Federation Calendar' despite heavy casualties, economic stagnation, social rigidity, and the unsteady belief of countless Cultivators.
According to the probability calculation, there was a 97% chance that the Black Wind Fleet had already arrived at that time.
Leaving aside the fact that the New Federation, whose resources and blood had been drained by the protracted war, did not have much strength left to deal with the Black Wind Fleet.
The people of the Uranian Ring Sector, the Nether World Sector, and the Forest Ocean Sector, who had just been conquered by blood, would never support such a Xing Yao Federation sincerely.
The final outcome was that the New Federation of the 'failed worlds' seemed to boast seven worlds and an unprecedentedly enormous Union Army, but it was soon destroyed by the Black Wind Fleet unstoppably without much struggle.
When the last Rising Dragon of the Nine Stars flag was slowly lowered from the 'Federation Square' in the capital city of the Heaven's Origin Sector, cheers and applause were echoing from the crowd nearby.
The New Federation died in the most humiliating way.
The rainbow of everything was the attitude of the Xing Yao Federation toward the Water Crystal Sector, the first world that the New Federation joined, in the 31st year of the New Federation Calendar.
Should they choose difficult, compromising, and protracted negotiations, or should they simply and neatly choose the conquest that seemed to allow them to harvest countless crystals quickly and inject a dose of excitants into the Federation?
The story of the first failed world came to an end.
The choice that the second failed world had to make was whether or not to grant the natives of the Blood Demon Sector, namely the 'demons', complete residency and even citizenship in the 55th year of the New Federation Calendar.
In the era of the old Federation a hundred years ago, the Blood Demon Sector joined the Federation through a 'conditional surrender' after a series of internal conflicts.
But at that time, there had always been a barrier between human beings and demons. Most of the demons were sent to the resource planets as miners to pay the 'war reparations' in such a way. Naturally, the rights that they enjoyed were different from those enjoyed by human beings.
However, after sixty years, as the Water Crystal Sector, the Forest Ocean Sector, and the Nether World Sector joined the Federation one after another, and even many natives of the new Sectors became 'citizens of the Federation' in various ways, was it time for the demons who had been making contributions to the New Federation in silence since sixty years ago to be unshackled and qualified to become real citizens of the Federation?
It was not just a matter of title or concept.
Politically, it meant that the enormous population of demons had a vote that was of paramount importance and could influence the future development of the Federation. It paved the way for more leadership of demons to emerge in the government of the Federation. Today, Jin Xinyue was running for the Supreme Speaker of the Federation.
More importantly, from the economic point of view, once the 'Defeat Clause' signed sixty years ago was completely abolished, the benefits, salaries, and holidays of the demon miners would all be improved. Almost all the resource giants' mining cost would be doubled or even higher. It seemed to be slowing down the federation's rapid development in the exploitation of more resources.
In reality, under Jin Xinyue's persuasion, persuasion, and even coercion, parliament finally passed the 'Bill of Rights for Full Equality'. The human beings of the Tian Yuan Realm, the spectral Cultivators of the Nether World Sector, and the demons of the Blood Demon Sector were all equal in the Federation.
In the virtual timeline, the players who believed in the supremacy of the human race could naturally reject Jin Xinyue's proposal without any hesitation. They could even strike the leader of the demon race who was too active, including legal and illegal, open, and clandestine approaches.
However, in the 55th year of the Federation's calendar, the miners of the demon race, who had contributed for sixty years in silence without complaint, had reached the limits of their patience and their desire for a better future. It was not something that any parliament in the universe could reject.
"Even the barbarians of the Forest Ocean Sector who do not wear clothes and the ghosts in the Nether World Sector who are buried in garbage can become citizens of the Federation! Why can't we? Why? "
Such angry voices floated like flames in the sky above the mines on the remote resource planets.
The productivity of the miners of the demon race plummeted. Slacking and sabotage activities appeared on every resource planet. The feeble sparks congregated into the flames of a strike, which then escalated into rioting magma. There was nothing that Jin Xinyue could do about it. She was even soon replaced by the new leader of the demon race who was even more radical and dangerous. The new Federation was likely to fall apart again.
The chaos lasted for more than ten years, until the Uranian Ring Sector was discovered and the 'Uranian Ring War' broke out.
This time, the new Federation was torn apart. Human beings and demons did not trust each other and had their own plans. It was impossible for the new Federation to organize and maintain a powerful expedition army at a super high efficiency like in reality.
The Uranian Ring natives keenly sensed the internal strife within the Federation, too. Spies were sent out to get in touch with the radical new leader of the demon race.
In the end, the outcome of this timeline was the same.
No matter how successful the tactics were and how the flames of rebellion of the demon race were nipped in the cradle time and time again, it was impossible to stop the 'Uranian Ring War' from being dragged and protracted. When the expedition army of the Imperium arrived at the city, it was still impossible to complete the internal integration. The glory of a hundred years was just a passing cloud that vanished in the blink of an eye.
Countless players tried countless strategies, but none of them could save the Xing Yao Federation under such circumstances. The rainbow of everything was the moment when the 'Bill of Rights for General Equality' was passed in the 55th year of the Federation's calendar.
Rise and fall with a single thought, nothing more than this! (To be continued.)
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