I Became a Commander in a Crappy SF Game.

Ch.242″Ranking rewards are sweet.”

by fnovelpia

Now that I thought about it, it was true.

Why on earth would they list every little detail in the announcement but leave out the ‘ranking rewards’?

‘Admins, are you really pulling this nonsense?’

It seemed the other users had also just realized there was no mention of ‘ranking rewards.’

I could see the forum discussions shifting toward demanding the ‘ranking rewards.’

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Title: Hey admins, why aren’t you giving out ranking rewards?

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Collection of screenshots showing ranking rewards from previous events.jpg]

Are you kidding me?

You should be delivering rewards promptly and doing what needs to be done

How can you be so strict about moderation but completely ignore the rewards?

Comments:

-[For real lol]

-[Shouldn’t rewards normally be distributed by now?]

-[For real lol]

-[Admin nonsense never changes~]

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Title: Honestly, upvote if you’re as angry as I would be after 100 failed pulls

Author: Angra Mainyu

Content: [Image of a toad hitting a smiling toad]

Actually, upvote if you’re as angry as you’d be after 1,000 failed pulls

Comments:

-[thispersonjustsaidupvote]

-[Sigh, just this once]

-[thisupvotepersonjustsaid]

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-[Admins, is this right?]

-[whereareourrewardswhereareourrewardswhereareourrewardswhereareourrewardswhereareourrewards…(continued)]

-[Damn it, stop spamming]

-[Give us our rewards, admins]

-[You run a good event and then pull this nonsense at the end?]

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And as public opinion flared up like this regardless of ranking, spreading through the forums, public chat, and private messages alike.

About 5 minutes after things really started heating up, the admins, seemingly in a panic, sent out an announcement with typos as they rushed to put out the fire.

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<<<‘Legacy of the Ancient Empire’ Reward Information>>>

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However, despite their obvious panic, proper rewards weren’t immediately provided.

Our mischievous users didn’t calm down until four hours later when the error was fixed and rewards were finally distributed.

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Four hours later.

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<Commanders, rewards for the ‘Legacy of the Ancient Empire’ event have been distributed as of now!>

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<3rd Place Ranking Reward>

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“Nice.”

“Wow, that’s amazing.”

My goodness, our stingy admins are handing out rewards like this?

Of course, getting 25 gacha tickets all at once was simply because my ranking was extremely high.

Other users would definitely receive much less than me, regardless of how much they got.

Anyway, with that thought in mind, I decided to immediately use these amazing rewards to strengthen my forces.

Of course, by now even I had to admit, just like Jessica…

“With this combined with what we’ve accumulated during the event period, our resources will be quite abundant!”

“…Hmm.”

Since I didn’t really expect to get anything worthwhile from the gacha, I headed toward the gacha machine with the casual attitude of someone taking a stroll.

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Meanwhile, at the same time.

With the end of the southern campaign and to commemorate the end of the event…

Using this as an excuse, at the Humanity Clan’s command headquarters positioned conspicuously close to “Earth” for easier coup d’état against the Earth Federation.

Inside, Antares, the leader of the Humanity Clan, and his staff were just bringing up a new topic after discussing various matters in their meeting.

“Now for our next topic, the plan to capture and punish Icarus.”

“Hmm…”

“Judging by his combat power during the event, if we can’t recruit him to our side, we need to use any means necessary to crush him through sabotage.”

The problem was that this was none other than a plan to eliminate our protagonist, Icarus.

After about several dozen minutes of complicated discussion, the summary was as follows:

“So in summary… we should use our forces, including our superhumans, to attack and destroy Icarus’s base as an act of terrorism?”

“Well… you’ve left out quite a bit, but that’s basically it.”

However, most of the Humanity executives expressed rather negative opinions about this idea:

“Is there any need to provoke someone who’s minding their own business?”

“I could understand during the Central District invasion, but now there’s no reason to touch the Central District.”

“Aren’t we just wasting valuable superhuman forces needed for the Federation coup by provoking him unnecessarily?”

“We already sent five of our frontline forces with everything they had except base defense, and still lost. How much more force do you want to waste?”

Various opinions were expressed, but they essentially boiled down to “Why provoke someone who’s not bothering us and make ourselves bleed?”

However, in response to their reactions, the staff members on the opposite side could only shake their heads.

“Think about it. Icarus has maintained 3rd place three times in a row, and he stood out during the last Central District invasion, didn’t he?”

“According to Indefatigable, who’s on our side, Icarus is essentially the leader of the Central District.”

“Plus, he’s shown an almost excessive dedication to solo play until now, but what if he abandons solo play and decides to establish a clan?”

“Or if not establishing a clan, what if he joins an existing one? We could get stabbed in the back while carrying out the Earth Federation coup.”

Their opinion could be summarized as “We’re worried about getting backstabbed, so let’s strike preemptively before we get betrayed!”

But no matter how logically the staff tried to argue and persuade…

Fundamentally, this plan would turn Icarus—who wasn’t particularly friendly to “Humanity” but wasn’t hostile either, maintaining a neutral stance—into a definite enemy.

So the remaining staff members who hadn’t proposed the idea, along with executives who included former Unity Clan (now disbanded) users who had lost their main ships after being beaten by Icarus last time, just shook their heads, thinking it wasn’t a good idea.

They were even on the verge of scolding the staff who proposed such ideas for not considering the bigger picture.

But that didn’t last long.

“Ahem, let me share my opinion here.”

“Ah, Clan Leader.”

As Antares, who had been observing the situation, finally spoke up, the chaotic meeting of the Humanity Clan was able to calm down temporarily.

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