The Mech Touch

Chapter 6799  Deteriorating Economy

[The Upper Zones are holding for the time being. The defenses built up by the Red Three, the Terran Alliance and the Rubarthan Pact have proven their worth many times over. Countless native alien warships have tried to break our orbital defenses, yet found themselves crashing against a wall of alloy and energy beams…]

[The first wave of superweapons designed by Star Designers have made an appearance across the frontlines. Predominantly concentrated in the Upper Zones, their technological supremacy has taken the enemy aback and successfully forced the phase whales into passive positions. However, analysts fear that the Red Cabal will respond to the appearance of human superweapons by matching our escalation with their own superweapons…]

[OUR ANNIHILATION IS AT HAND! DEATH HAD DESCENDED UPON THE RED OCEAN AS OUR ALIEN EXECUTIONERS ARE ON THE VERGE OF BREAKING THROUGH OUR LAST LINE OF DEFENSE! SURRENDER TO THE INEVITABLE AND MAKE PEACE WITH THE FACT THAT WE WILL ALL REUNITE WITH EACH OTHER IN THE AFTERLIFE!]

[The slow collapse of the fifth defensive band has generated massive economic upheaval. Planets and states located closer to the frontlines have already entered into deep recessions as they are suffering from the consequences of the Red Tide Offensive. Skilled employees have paid the profligate prices charged by passenger liners to emigrate from their vulnerable homes while consumers are not buying anything except vehicles, survival gear and nutrient packs. Millions of companies have gone bankrupt, with more to follow in the following months unless stability returns to the frontlines…]

[The cosmopolitans were right all along! Huh? I know that what I am saying will get me arrested, but who cares about that when our planet will soon get raided and bombarded until not a single human organic cell is left alive? If I am destined to die, then I will make sure to leave a memory of myself behind by speaking what is really in my mind! As far as I am concerned, our obsession with making humanity the only race that matters has backfired! We should have tried to befriend some of the native aliens when we first arrived. By making enemies out of all of the major as well as minor races, we have doomed ourselves as soon as the Great Severing took place…]

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