Ch.462Are These Factions Actually Weak? (1)

After the tumultuous bounty incident with the Pirate Alliance…

Unlike the periods previously known as “no-update periods” when there were no events whatsoever, users now…

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Title: Upvote if life is just spectacularly entertaining these days

Author: Anonymous

Content: [A collection of Excel charts organizing various “updates,” “events,” and “incidents” that occurred over the past 3 months.jpg]

Life is spectacularly entertaining, every day is literally a dopamine overload

Comments:

-[Actually too busy to participate in some events]

-˪[For real lol]

-[The Pirate Alliance bounty at the end was seriously entertaining]

-˪[But wasn’t that just an accident that happened by chance rather than an event?]

-˪[Whatever, it was fun so I’m happy]

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Perhaps it’s because if you just take a moment to breathe, all sorts of incidents naturally occur, and whether it’s user-initiated, NPC-driven, or organized by the admins, events keep happening one after another.

For better or worse, most users were experiencing days where there was never a dull moment.

And while chaotic “user-initiated events” like Eros continued to pop up causing commotion, dangerous incidents weren’t occurring…

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Title: Today’s News) Current status of each zone and major clans.txt

Author: News Boy

Content: [Image of Antares declaring in the public chat that Humanity’s territory has stabilized.jpg]

After the revolution and nearly two months of chaos where Humanity couldn’t focus on other areas,

they’ve used this opportunity to address internal complaints and issues, successfully stabilizing their internal territory

[Image showing Humanity and its subordinate clans dividing the former Earth Federation territory, with dozens or hundreds of subordinate clans divided like vassal states around Humanity’s massive central territory.jpg]

Something like this?

And the other clans are in similar situations

[Image of Loki Clan’s territory, which has become the ‘largest’ in area, with various subordinate clans chaotically mixed within.jpg]

Since the Loki Clan’s territory became too large compared to their member count,

they negotiated agreements to hand over some territories and outposts to subordinate clans for management

[Image of Justice Clan’s territory, which has grown very slightly from before.jpg]

As for the Justice Clan, since they’ve established such a strong image compared to other clans,

they continue to grow as small clans and individual users keep joining them

[Image of users who rose up calling themselves the New Southern Alliance being suppressed again.jpg]

[Images of those users’ bases being completely destroyed and new bases being constructed in the central zone.jpg]

Separately from the Pirate Empress bounty event, the Xenovia southern rebellion that heated up the gallery ended with the Magellan Clan’s victory

Moreover, since the Magellan Clan firmly joined hands with Humanity during this process, some Humanity users entered Xenovia

and successfully crushed the rebelling users, so it can be considered completely stabilized now

[Image of a bizarrely white glowing area amidst rotten oranges.jpg]

And the central zone is roughly in this chaotic situation

Users from all four zones who came together are somehow disbanding again and regrouping randomly

The Yellow Turbans, reduced to 6,000 members, have somehow formed a proper “clan” contrary to their initial claims

[Image of ‘Freedom Legion’ vs ‘Libertarian’ clan confrontation.jpg]

And opposing these Yellow Turbans, the Freedom Legion Clan is criticizing them for suddenly forming a clan now

The two clans are fighting each other throughout the central zone

Icarus is still just doing his own thing in the center

And the rest of the original central zone users are still living independently regardless of all this

Comments:

-[Wow things are really complicated]

-[Are there still solo players in the central zone?]

-˪[Quite a few, there are even users from the four zones who switched to solo]

-˪[The central zone population is around 130,000-140,000, and about 90,000 are solo or in small clans]

-˪[Wow]

-[Humanity forever!]

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‘Everyone seems to be living quite peacefully.’

As can be seen from the post by that journalist(?) with the fixed nickname “News Boy”…

The chaotic situations of the mega-clans had stabilized quite well while time passed with game events and other activities…

All users including myself naturally felt that things were “peaceful” in many ways.

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The problem might be that this peaceful period began with an event(?) where “factions asked users for help.”

Or perhaps it’s because one of the four major factions, which had seemed so unshakable, was finally subjugated by a user clan.

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Title: Upvote if you honestly think the 4 or rather 3 major factions are pathetic now lol

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Collection of humiliating moments for each faction.jpg]

Upvote if you think user groups are stronger than factions now lol

Their flagship gets stolen by a single user’s fleet, they chase after it in a hurry, and when they realize they can’t catch it, they put a bounty on users

They’re just losers who keep losing outposts and shrinking lol

Earth Federation even got trampled by Humanity lol

Comments:

-[Lolololololol]

-[This is seriously true, I saw it]

-˪[What did you see exactly?]

-[They’ve just become ordinary trash now]

-[Humanity finally crushed them by joining forces with subordinate clans, and now with users’ fleets being even stronger, they’ll definitely crush them]

-˪[For real lol]

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Unlike before, users had developed a tendency to view each faction quite “lightly.”

Of course, the members of the Humanity clan and its subordinate clans mentioned there…

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<Humanity Official Chat Room~>

<Notice: If there are any mercenaries or users who haven’t received compensation, go to <Humanity Official Inquiry Chat Room>>

-[Do you agree factions are pathetic?]

-[But there were too many casualties, agree?]

-[Ah, agreed]

-[I just don’t understand why other people underestimate the factions lol]

-[If they tell me to do it again, I’m running away]

-[It’s just funny seeing people make such a big deal about losing 5 or 6 outposts]

-[For real lol]

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They had actually succeeded in bringing down a faction, regardless of the process.

But through that process, they had learned just how tough a “faction” truly was when it got serious.

And despite three years of preparation and drastically weakening Earth Federation’s forces throughout, they “almost” lost, so…

They could only shake their heads at users from other zones underestimating the factions.

But since there was no way for other zone users to widely know this fact…

Most users, unlike before, were showing a very, very, very strong tendency to underestimate faction fleets.

And not long after, this tendency and atmosphere persistently manifested externally.

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Title: Today’s News) Frequent attempts to capture high-grade ships from each faction recently

Author: News Boy

Content: [Image of user fleets attacking “Honor Guard Fleets” patrolling within each faction’s territory.jpg], [Image of Gigantia-class cruiser (Pirate), Paragon-class dreadnought (Monster), Lingua-class aircraft carrier (Xenovia) listed on the trading market.jpg]

Many users and clans are targeting faction honor guard fleets and their high-grade capital ships

And as a result, these items are actually appearing on the market

Comments:

-[Whoa]

-[Hey I wanted one of those, must be sweet]

-[Lol they’re openly selling ships that had bounties placed on users?]

-[This is awesome, factions have become completely pathetic]

-[Faction guys are total pushovers]

-˪[I don’t think that’s the right meme for this situation]

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As if they were stateless pirates, users began showing behavior of frantically plundering faction ships.