Ch.529The Struggle with the Scout Unit. (2)

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Title: F!!!!!CK!!!!ING!!!!FORERUNNER bastards!!!!!!!

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Image of superhumans and internal forces resisting against Forerunner troops who have stormed into the base.]

Why! Shit!

When the fleet! Is right! There!

Base defense! Couldn’t stop them! Fucking! Shit!

S;H!

Sh

Shit!!!

Comments:

-[Why are they getting destroyed like that?]

-[Where did they dump the fleet and faction detachment?]

-˪[Those fleets and mercenary groups are all fighting hard right now, shit!](Author)

-˪[<Image of the base exterior, showing fleets battling each other.>](Author)

-˪[Even though my fleet is blocking them, dozens of ships still crash straight into the base, so fucking busy dammit](Author)

-[Whoa;;;;]

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Looking at this user overcome with emotion and unable to hold back their tears.

I couldn’t help but recall my past life as a true solo player, tears welling up in my eyes.

‘Unfortunately.’

But when I looked at his situation and thoroughly searched through the gallery, I found more users than expected suffering from Round 1.

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Title: Isn’t Stage 1 too brutal;;

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Image of results screen showing victory against the Forerunners], [Image showing only 10 ships remaining excluding resource mining vessels, with fewer than 5 large ships among them.]

I somehow managed to push them back thanks to the mercenaries hired from the mercenary agency not being counted as part of my forces

But it was really dangerous

[Image showing faction detachment with less than 20% forces remaining.]

The mercenary groups were completely wiped out, yeah

Comments:

-[Wow]

-[Are you perhaps not docked at any stronghold, just living completely alone?]

-˪[Yes](Author)

-[This event is pretty tough for solo players to endure]

-[Did you not invest properly in defense facilities? Built the Nemesis Orbital Ring?]

-˪[Yes, but I haven’t been able to build additional defense facilities yet](Author)

-˪[That’s why you got wrecked]

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Title: Haha, solo players who don’t live in strongholds are getting screwed big time right now lol

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Collection of complaint posts appearing in the gallery.]

The Forerunners’ structure means they come in with numerous small ships

Due to the poor performance of individual Forerunner ships, they increased their numbers to balance things out, making them more numerous than player ships

The problem is, this almost guarantees Forerunner forces will infiltrate your base if you face them alone

Their troops are quite strong for an event, so unless you’ve produced an adequate number of superhuman soldiers from your superhuman training facility, you’ll easily get overwhelmed

Even if you try to block them with your fleet, there are too many enemy ships for one person to handle

Comments:

-[It’s not that, it’s just not written in the announcement, but they calculated how many mercenary groups we can hire from the mercenary agency and sent that many]

-˪[What](Author)

-[As the comment above says, it was designed to be barely manageable only if you hire the maximum number of mercenary groups]

-[I also thought I wouldn’t need to do it without mercenary groups and got screwed lol]

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Title: Those about to get wrecked in Round 1, don’t be stupid and mobilize every force you can

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Image of a fleet appearing out of nowhere when another fleet is about to be annihilated.]

It doesn’t have to be your fleet

Just use your connections or whatever, even beg the players who raid you, and plead “Please save meee”

Otherwise you won’t survive

[List of users whose bases were almost captured.]

Of course, no matter how tough the Forerunners are, they can’t win against the superhumans you should have accumulated by now, so your base won’t be taken

But your fleet and internal facilities will be destroyed and take forever to repair lol

Comments:

-[This is seriously messed up;;]

-[Solo players crying]

-[Oh shit]

-[Is there no other way?]

-˪[If there’s a stronghold with fortress cannons nearby, call for help. If they have capacity, they’ll fire their cannons in your direction to help you out](Author)

-˪[Not easy, damn it]

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There were many other discussions, but to summarize…

“Unless you’re docked at a stronghold with fortress cannons or within their range, or living with other commanders, everyone’s suffering.”

“…That’s exactly right.”

Before I could even think, our Jessica showed off her intelligence from her ample intelligence pouches.

I immediately grabbed both of Jessica’s ears to punish her for interrupting what I was about to say.

But at this point, I forgot one very important fact…

That the Central Sector had the highest number of ‘solo players’ who were eliminated in this event, not the next one.

And that fact would later return as a serious problem for me and other users…

Unfortunately, there was no way for me or other users to know this at this point, so all we could do was show ‘reactions’ like sympathy or mockery toward those users.

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Anyway, the important thing was that there would be no more offensives from the damned ‘Icarus Republic’… or rather, the ‘Forerunners’ in my territory.

Users with strongholds like me and clans quickly began recovering their forces, and users started preparing for the next stage.

Of course, for those like us whose fortress cannons had taken care of everything, there wasn’t much to prepare.

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<The Most Sacred and Great Icarus Republic Official Chat Room>

<Notice: Prepare for the next stage of the event, prepare to enter the event map>

-[Not much to prepare since the fleet is intact]

-[At least run the superhuman rest area to restore their condition]

-[My superhumans are fine too, so I’m thinking of mining, what should I do?]

-[Then let yourself get mined and call it baby seed supply]

-[Waaaaaah]

-[You crazy bastards]

-[Ah, not enough shipyards to repair my ships]

-[We need a system to borrow other people’s shipyards!!!]

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“Everyone’s so energetic.”

“Commander, isn’t it true that you don’t have much to do either?”

Everyone was showing remarkably relaxed and leisurely behavior despite this being a ‘combat event.’

However, this only applied to users like us who had breezed through Stage 1…

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Title: Solo players who didn’t dock at strongholds are seriously getting screwed

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Image of all shipyards working frantically to repair ships.]

I’m worried we might not be able to finish repairing ships before Stage 2 starts

Actually, forget repairs, I couldn’t even replace the ships that were destroyed, damn it

Comments:

-[For real, we got so wrecked in Stage 1 that we won’t be any help in Stage 2]

-[Should have captured some Forerunner ships]

-˪[I could not save my ships](Author)

-˪[What’s with the sudden translator?]

-[If you had been within fortress cannon range, you would have survived. PVP is prohibited, so fortress cannons directly hit the Forerunners without affecting your fleet or superhumans]

-˪[Wow, really?](Author)

-˪[Is this for real?]

-˪[<Image of Forerunners being swept away by fortress cannons while superhumans just stare blankly>]

-˪[Yep]

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The poor solo players’ forces were getting too severely damaged.

Throughout the gallery, there was concern that at this rate, even if they entered Stage 2, they would be mere placeholders rather than actual combat forces.