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958 - Dear Mana
🕑 Added 2025-08-08 01:27:54 +0000 UTC{As you have already learned, our citizens are currently being held as hostages in their space stations, and the rescue forces will be moving in half an hour, which will also be five minutes after you start your missions,} an Athena sub-AI provided the mission briefing inside what looked like a large theater, as soldiers in their military dress uniforms sat at attention and listened.
Ismail, just a speck among the ten thousand mecha pilots present, sat at attention and wondered what they were going to be doing that required them to move five minutes ahead of the rescue forces. Still, it was easy to guess the general reason was to attract and divert the Conclave forces' attention to facilitate an easier rescue, despite knowing the potential of it working was very little.
{Since they attacked by surprise and took our people hostage, we are going to return the favor. In return, we are going to hold a thousand of their planets hostage. This should act as both our response and a large enough distraction that our rescue operation can proceed so quickly that they won’t realize what's happening in time to retaliate.
Each planet will be besieged by ten mechas, and you have been assigned your teams based on your abilities and synergy; information on your team members will be provided by the end of the briefing. The star systems selected have a balance between value and defensive capabilities, to allow for the Conclave to receive a heavy blow and have them reconsider their following actions, potentially causing the Conclave members to reconsider their united actions depending on the planets they lost and cause at least a delay by having them argue with each other.
Keep in mind you are still under the military code of conduct, even during the war and against civilians from enemy planets.
That is the general overview of the situation. You have twenty minutes to get acquainted with your fellow team members and assimilate the information regarding your assigned planet. You are dismissed,} Athena said, bringing the briefing to an end as all the seated soldiers started dissolving before rematerializing in rooms in groups of ten.
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The moment Ismail found himself in the room, he and the other nine team members approved the knowledge assimilation, bracing themselves for the mental impact that came with the process.
It took ten minutes for the whole process to take place, and by the end of it, they all had enough information about each other to operate as if they had been team members for decades.
“Although we already know each other, I believe we should formally introduce ourselves if we are going to be fighting side by side during this war,” Ismail said calmly, not worried about starting such small talk when only ten minutes remained before the operation, as they were given the liberty of increasing the time acceleration in the VR room to allow for them to spend enough time to get used to each other and get into a fighting mentality.
Though the majority of imperial forces responsible for facing the enemy use personalized robots, the mecha division went to the fight with their actual bodies as a mandatory requirement if they wanted to use their personal awakened abilities, which was too good to give up. All the pilots were chosen due to the power and diversity of their individual abilites, and despite the making of their personalized mechas taking at least a year to build due to having to wait for the biological aspects of the mecha to grow and match the mechanical parts under constant monitoring the empire still went ahead with it as the results were completely worth it. But the lack of fear is due to knowing that the empire valued them to the point that the backups placed in all of their mechas gave them the peace of mind to take their actual bodies to war.
“My name is Ismail…” he started, and so the socializing began between the ten members.
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The moment five minutes remained on the clock, they were all automatically logged off from VR as they woke up in their Mechas, standing in front of massive oval gates that were currently inactive.
On the side of his HUD, he could see the timer going down, and below it, his teammates' avatars appeared, showing that they were online and he could keep communicating with them despite all of them being in different bases. The delivery to their operational locations didn’t require all of them to be in the same place, after all. “We go as we modified the plan,” he said, talking to his team members as he looked at the system log to see if the final checks had been completed. The chances of something being wrong without his mecha alerting him were near zero, but he was nervous, like nearly all of the ten thousand mecha pilots about to embark on their first real-world deployment.
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4… as the timer reached four, the massive rings started releasing light from the edges, getting brighter and brighter with each count. The moment the countdown reached zero, FWUM, a pitch-black wormhole appeared, and without any warning, tractor beams started appearing, grabbing mechas and throwing them into the wormhole anchored on the Stargate. There was a delay of mere milliseconds between each launch as the wormhole constantly changed its opening coordinates for the next mecha, and by the end of ten seconds, all of the mechas in all of the bases were already deployed as the Stargates powered down from active to a passive, instant-activation-ready mode.
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Inside the central command of the Conclave forces, in a hidden location, all of the military and government officials were currently speechless at the information they were receiving from their sensor constellation. In a matter of ten seconds, they received alerts from a thousand planets, all sending information that foreign objects had appeared following spatial disturbances. They detected only five foreign objects per planet, but they were not even attempting to hide their presence, as the mana sensors were nearly fried from the amount of energy the objects were radiating.
“Dear mana…”
Comments
ismail hamisi salum
Will try
GripenSupremacy
Great chapter. May we have a mass release soon?
Wait4Mi
Most impressive thing is the confidence of the empire in taking hostage one whole planet with only ten méchas, then do it 999 more times with 100% confidence at the same time. Straight up impressive
