Ch.474″It’s the conscientiousness of a user.”

My declaration was nothing special.

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Title: Gonna fight the Punishment Fleet yep

Author: Icarus

Content: [Image of Tannhäuser Gateway Fortress positioned right in the middle of the Punishment Fleet’s advance route.jpg]

I didn’t want this

But anyway that’s how things turned out yep

They’re trying to take me out first to crush the anti-faction users, but am I just gonna sit here and take it?

Planning to crush the Punishment Fleet yep

Comments:

-[What is this?]

-[What’s going on]

-[Holy shit suddenly an epic party is happening]

-[LOLOLOLOL]

-[Central Zone users who were peacefully farming, shocked by sudden war news]

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It was just about showing that the advance route had naturally changed to come this way because of my quest planning a battle with the Punishment Fleet. I was simply proving that I ‘had no choice’ but to fight.

And the users’ reactions to my post could be broadly divided into three categories.

First, the most supportive ones were, naturally, our anti-faction friends who had been in danger of getting beaten up by the Punishment Fleet.

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Title: “Are we going to lose?”

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Image of a toad with a Kraken’s head photoshopped on it, staring straight ahead.jpg]

“We’ll win.”

Comments:

-[He is a god!]

-[“The undisputed king of the Central Zone.”]

-[Oh my looooord]

-[LOLOLOLOL]

-[We may not have a fleet, but we’ve got pride]

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Title: Is this for real?

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Image of I-carus boldly declaring in the public chat that he won’t surrender to the Punishment Fleet.jpg]

Wow

Why is that guy suddenly going all out

Comments:

-[Looks like they deliberately set up an event to open the path since Icarus’s territory falls on the Xenovia Punishment Fleet’s advance route]

-˪[“We are dispatching troops to conquer Ming, so Joseon should open the way.”]

-˪[What?](Author)

-[But honestly the Punishment Fleet is really annoying, the Xenovia Empire’s attitude this time is so authoritarian they’re being total jerks to Central Zone users]

-˪[What are they doing exactly?](Author)

-˪[They attack any fleet that gets in their way or annoys them, whether it’s a resource fleet or combat fleet]

-˪[Those bastards tried to attack my base too, claiming it was in the way of their advance]

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Title: You’ve realized it, come to the anti-faction

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Image of a toad pulling out a gun photoshopped as a Gigantia-class cruiser from a table, looking at a monitor screen with Icarus’s chat message composited on it]

Time to defend our user pride

Comments:

-[LOLOLOLOL]

-[These guys ran away after getting their asses kicked, why are they acting so dramatic lol]

-˪[There’s nowhere else to run anyway]

-˪[There’s Humanity]

-˪[That Humanity is currently getting screwed by the rebel event, you’ll die if you go there]

-[Finally, it has come]

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When I declared that I would stop Xenovia’s Punishment Fleet, some responded with “Yes, that’s right!”

Or they started bringing out their fleets that included various “faction flagship” vessels, including the Gigantia-class cruisers they had painstakingly acquired while getting beaten up by the factions.

For some reason, they were pretending I was an anti-faction user like them, and were bringing large fleets from their bases into my territory.

But anyway, since they were participating in the war, I decided to do the tedious work of changing my stance with each of these users to “friendly neutral” as I always did, in order to let the anti-faction users’ fleets into my territory.

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Next were the reactions of users living within my territory, including Tannhäuser.

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<Central Neutral Zone Official Chat Room>

<Notice: Xenovia Empire Punishment Fleet planning to attack here>

-[Is this some kind of prank?]

-[<Link to Icarus’s gallery post>]

-[It’s true]

-[Is this real?]

-[Please tell me this is a lie]

-[Doesn’t the Punishment Fleet have over a million ships?]

-[Yeah, they have over 100,000 battleships alone]

-[No way]

-[I came to watch the anti-faction burn, but it turns out our home is about to be destroyed]

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At first, they were crying “Hoeeeeeng!” like that, looking like police officers shouting “What do we do?!”

But as time passed, perhaps because nothing changed by just crying “Hoeng”…

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<Central Neutral Zone Official Chat Room>

<Notice: Xenovia Empire Punishment Fleet planning to attack here>

-[It can’t be helped]

-[The anti-faction users are just different in attitude from us, but we’re all equally homeless, right?]

-[We should at least mass-produce patrol ships and try to fight against the Punishment Fleet]

-[In a way, this is actually good, it’s an opportunity to level up our gacha ships and superhumans]

-[Let’s try to look at this positively]

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The users within my territory were either showing an attitude of resignation, thinking they had no choice whether they liked it or not.

Or, as mentioned above, they were trying to see it positively and participate, viewing it as an opportunity to level up their ships and superhumans in a stable way (because there would be so many enemies).

And as for the “mercenary” users docked at Tannhäuser…

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Title: Real-time status of mercenary users docked at Tannhäuser.txt

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Image of the chaotic state of the Tannhäuser mercenary chat room.jpg]

At first the mercenary users decided to stay neutral

Because they thought Icarus was picking a fight out of competitiveness when he could have avoided it

So they were like “we’ll see” unless Tannhäuser itself got attacked

But when Icarus said “Of course Tannhäuser is the target, did you think they’d ignore my fortress cannons and defense fleet?”

They were like “oh crap” and reluctantly joined the war

Comments:

-[LOLOLOLOL]

-[Your home is about to burn down, what can you even do lol]

-[I heard Icarus is waiving Tannhäuser docking fees for a week for those who participate in this war]

-˪[Isn’t that only worth about 1,000 resources total?](Author)

-˪[He’s also paying employment fees for those who actively participate in combat]

-˪[Oh, then that’s fair](Author)

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Title: The mercenaries at Tannhäuser are hilarious

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Image of a toad eating bread with tears in its eyes]

At first they were like “oh I don’t care whether you fight or not~” even when Icarus offered to pay them

But as soon as it was revealed that Tannhäuser was the target, they hurriedly decided to fight, which feels really strange

Comments:

-[What are you talking about?]

-[Weren’t the users planning to stay neutral until Icarus offered to pay them, then they rushed in?]

-˪[That’s what I thought too]

-˪[Why does every user have a different story? Damn]

-˪[Do you believe gallery reactions?]

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Since I was waiving Tannhäuser docking fees for a week and even paying “employment fees” on top of that.

Their initially lukewarm response disappeared, and they suddenly expressed their full intention to participate.

In this way, I was diligently gathering users’ fleets, concentrating the defense fleets from each stronghold at Tannhäuser as much as possible.

In addition, I was preparing the fortress cannons to be ready to fire at any time.

I was truly making the “maximum effort” with “all available means” to deal with the damn Punishment Fleet.

However, even with all this effort, there was one very disappointing thing.

And that was…

“Jessica, Jessica, where have all our awesome Leviathan Squadron gentlemen gone?”

“They seem to be within our territory, but I can’t confirm where they are.”

The fact that I couldn’t locate the Leviathan Squadron, who were the original cause of my burning fighting spirit and who should serve as a kind of ultimate weapon.