Chapter 730 Red penetrates the atmosphere.
After waking up from the blue mist pearl, only ten minutes had passed, but Tilan felt as if she had experienced a long time mentally, so much so that she felt a little unfamiliar with the furnishings and objects in the room.
"You really gave me too many expectations." She rubbed her eyebrows slightly.
Regarding the future of mankind, she had a vague outline of the direction, but at present, it still needs to be constantly explored and adjusted. Who can say that it will be perfect all at once? This is an unknown road with no history to learn from.
"Son of Man", "Son of Star", "Son of the Sea", this is the inevitable differentiation caused by different living environments and concepts after entering the interstellar era. If they are allowed to develop independently, sooner or later mankind will be divided into three branches.
The road ahead is long, and we must explore up and down.
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The central star region, the star where the "Tear Moon Crown" lives.
The blue and emerald sea of flowers spreads across the mountains and fields. In the center of this beautiful land, there is a huge lake, which is shaped like a full moon with a missing corner, like a teardrop with a bite taken out, so it is called the "Tear Moon Lake".
The name "Tear Moon Lake" has appeared many times in the history of the elves, so that when the elves later faced similar and beautiful lakes, they would also name it "Tear Moon Lake". The earliest Tear Moon Lake originated from the palace where the Elf Queen lived in the Emerald Forest. The huge lake surrounding the palace was the earliest Tear Moon Lake. It separated the residence of the Elf Queen from ordinary people with a lake, which not only maintained a bit of tranquility and mystery, but also prevented the Elf Queen from being too alienated from other elves.
Today, the road leading to the Tear Moon Lake is full of people in different clothes. They protested the privileges of the elves in the Federation and occupied too many high-level positions. They accused the elves of being parasites of human society, occupying resources and power far exceeding their own population share with less than 1% of the population.
Of course, this kind of speech often comes from the media controlled by competitors, and it has only emerged in the past few hundred years. In the early days of the Federation, when Isenissa was in charge of the Federation, no one would mention it, because Isenissa was a hybrid of humans and elves, and the elves also made great contributions in the early days of the Federation, and their achievements cannot be erased.
But history always moves forward, and people cannot always remember the favors of the past. To use an ancient Eastern proverb, "The wealth left by the wise man ends with the third generation."
It has been more than 1,200 years since the establishment of the Federation. For the long-lived elves, more than ten generations have passed, so the environment cannot change.
In today's battle between the two singers, 'White Rose Harp' and 'Volcano Queen', everything is becoming more intense. In order to strike the opponent as hard as possible, the remarks that denounce the elves are not also frequently appearing, and the human group that originally supported 'White Rose Harp' Ewen Qilin is also facing a dilemma.
If they continue to support 'White Rose Harp', they will definitely be called traitors of mankind, and the core groups and families around Ewen Qilin do have some elf blood, so it is difficult for them to reach the core level. But if they give up now, all the previous investment will be in vain. The position around 'Volcano Queen' Pulin Koko has long been occupied by the group that surrendered first. If they go there, it will only be icing on the cake and they will not get too much benefit.
In the past, Ewenkilin's status in the Central Star Region was unique, so she naturally didn't have to take these into consideration. Moreover, Ewenkilin was not a pure elf, unlike Orles. In the Federation, the mixed-blood identity was actually a kind of honor, politically correct, and easier to win over different groups, just like the "Golden Flame Flower" Isenissa was a mixed-blood.
But the past situation was broken seven years ago. After the independence of the Western Star Region, the authority of the Central Council was shattered, and they also lost control of the distant star region. This caused the various chaebol groups that originally laid out the entire Federation to have to shrink their tentacles, sell assets, and curl up in the Central Star Region.
The small room cannot accommodate two elephants, but now there are more than two "elephants" in the Central Star Region. The various large chaebol families and giant companies must devour enough assets to maintain the past scale and strength, otherwise they will slide from the past position. This is also the reason why the contradictions between the various forces in the Central Star Region have rapidly intensified.
In the past, the Central Star Region was like the heart of a giant dragon. It had the most and thickest blood vessels, constantly absorbing and transporting blood from the dragon's limbs. It controlled assets in many star regions of the Federation, and large groups across star regions also set up their headquarters here.
Since the Central Council lost its financial power and control over local star regions, the various parts of the dragon's body have gone their separate ways. They no longer provide blood for the heart of the Central Star Region, nor do they assume market functions to digest the various goods and services produced by the Central Star Region's chaebol groups.
Local groups in various star regions have risen up, eating up the market that the Central Star Region Group was forced to vacate, and the major chaebols that have retreated back to the Central Star Region have had to engage in brutal competition and fighting in order to continue to survive in the Central Star Region.
Mediation of conflicts requires sufficient interests to meet the needs of all parties, but the existing interests cannot be met structurally, and struggle is almost inevitable until one side wins completely.
Roads in the sea of flowers lead to the central lake from all directions. Now every road is crowded with protesters. They denounce the evil and greed of the elves and say that these parasites must be liquidated. The signs held high are full of slogans and appear in many media cameras. Then they are photographed and posted to various platforms and websites, and ferment and evolve again on the Internet.
In the sky, a heavy shuttle flies slowly, and the people on it observe everything happening below.
"Do you think such a protest is useful?" They are considered the organizers of this event, but they are relatively marginal members.
"Use? Of course, protests are not directly useful." His colleague sat at the table and leisurely ate food with a knife and fork.
"They can't directly pull out the enemy and kill him, nor can they directly clear the assets in the other party's bank account."
"However, protests are still of great indirect use, which is to rationalize our subsequent actions." The other party took a bite of steak and then took a sip of red wine.
"To deal with a good person rashly will incur great social costs and bring about a great crisis of public opinion, shaking our social and political foundations."
"But what if we deal with a bad person, a bad person that everyone thinks should be punished?"
"There is no need to stipulate in writing how to deal with him. We just need to look at each other and make the same decision."
"It will cost a lot to get legislators to propose a proposal that goes against common sense, and it will be difficult to pass. Even if it is passed, it will be difficult to implement at the grassroots level. But if many people tacitly agree to this proposal, it will be passed very quickly, easy to promote, and there will be no psychological burden during the implementation process."
"We don't need those protesters to really defeat the other side. We just need to publish their protest behavior on various platforms, let countless mouthpieces speak for us, and let the majority of the public in society believe in this set of rhetoric, then we will succeed."
"The general public will think that our actions are just and reasonable and should have been done long ago. At this point, we will have a huge advantage, and any counterattacks and protests from the other side will confirm this statement, saying, 'You see, they are indeed restless and have long had ulterior motives.'"
"This is the power and fear of public opinion. Fortunately, we are now in the upper hand, while the other side is losing ground."
"If you ask me whether I have a guilty conscience, the answer is no, because we gave them opportunities in the past. If Miss 'Silver Snow' Ores had shined in the civil war seven years ago and allowed the Federal Central Council to win, we wouldn't have come to this point now."
"The elves are too weak, they don't deserve to occupy their current position."
With a heavy roar, the shuttle slowly flew over the Tear Moon Lake. The camera equipment on it recorded everything that happened below and forwarded it to various platforms simultaneously.
As the operator said, facing the overwhelming public opinion attacks, the aristocratic tycoons of the elves were defeated step by step. All forces put the blame for the defeat seven years ago on the weakness of 'Silver Sky Snow' Orles. In addition, the core of the elves' faction, 'White Rose Harp' Ewen Qilin, was not a strong person. In the face of various insults and attacks, she fell into a state of depression and self-blame, and it was difficult to launch a strong counterattack. This made the group forces gathered around her waver and begin to waver.
Finally, the comprehensive collapse of public opinion reached a critical point. At the new round of the Federal Central Council, some members proposed to deprive the elves of the large amount of land and property illegally occupied in the central star field, and hand them over to the federal government for re-auction and distribution to make up for the federal government's deficit for many years.
At the meeting, before the members of the elf faction had time to stand up and object, a loud chorus sounded in the conference hall. The singing was rising step by step, with a little sadness in the grandeur, as if it was a elegy in the face of despair, which was moving.
This is the famous song "Distant Nebula" sung by Emuralin, the 'Cobalt Blue Tears'. It is said that this song was left behind by Emuralin when she was most confused and hesitant before the split of the Federation four hundred years ago. It sings the sadness and sorrow of that era, as well as the heaviness of not seeing hope for the future.
With this song as the dividing line, violent conflicts began to break out within the Federation, everything was burned to the ground, and then reborn in the fire.
The elven faction councillor, who was still in a state of indignation, saw more and more people joining the chorus and the singing drowned the entire venue. A trace of despair and sadness flashed across his face. Finally, he sat down slowly in vain, leaning back on the chair weakly, allowing the entire parliament scene to be led to an extreme direction by this song.
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In March 1267 of the Sixth Era, on the day when the special proposal of the Central Council was passed, the most intense conflict in the past four hundred years broke out in the Central Star Region, and the members of the two factions directly entered a hot war state.
The planet where the 'Tear Moon Flower Crown' lived, outside the atmosphere.
Starships passed over the outer edge of the planet, blocking the routes in and out of the planet. Then, heavy shuttles flew out from the belly of the starships and rushed into the atmosphere.
The whistling sound penetrated the sky. The shuttles with tail flames that stretched for thousands of meters were like crimson comets descending, shattering the hundreds of years of peace on this flower sea planet. The
roaring gray iron steel swooped down to the land at the end of the field of vision, and then brought about a sharp airflow explosion.
The hatch of the shuttle opened, and the crimson sharp-angled outline appeared in the slanting sunlight. This was the sixth-tier main mecha of the Federation in service, the 'Fierce Red Falcon-A1' type. Compared with the 'Black Letter-A2' type that was equipped in large quantities in the southern star region, they were equipped with a more powerful furnace core, which could provide higher energy output for straight-line impact and covering attacks.
One after another, the 'Fierce Red Falcon-A1' mechas escaped from the shuttle and rushed into the low sky. The six huge nozzles behind them lit up with orange-red hot jets, making the heavy large mechas move forward at an unimaginable speed.
On the ground, those areas where the elves live in large numbers also sounded rapid and sharp alarms. Countless people followed the instructions and fled to the underground shelters in a panic. The vehicles on the streets were in chaos, and the various hovercrafts in the sky were also flying in chaos. Various collisions and crashes occurred frequently.
A few minutes later, anti-aircraft missiles rose from the underground pits, and then burst into violent flames, pushing them up and entering the atmosphere.
Facing the countless bright spots on the radar, the shuttles swooping in the sky released a large number of guided missiles. For a time, violent white smoke and sparks flooded the sky, and even the hemisphere in the dark was illuminated by the shining light bullets.
Ordinary people still didn't know what was going on, and the elf upper-level who knew the situation were also anxious and nervous at this moment, awakening all the power they could use.
"How dare they..." Looking at the dots marked on the huge projection screen, the elves standing below could hardly believe it.
"This is definitely premeditated, completely targeting us, and an extremely bloody action..."
On the day the bill was passed, without giving the elves any room to ease their reaction, a starship of an unknown force blocked the planet and quickly sent a landing team to land. It is impossible to say that there was no advance preparation.
The 'Tear Moon Crown' planet is one of the three major planets in the Green Moon Star Region. Nearly 40% of the population here are elves. If the military force of this planet is used to deal with the elves, it will definitely face huge resistance and be difficult to implement. In addition, many officials and government agencies on the local planet are elves. It is basically unrealistic to deal with the elves from within the planet.
Considering this, in order to extinguish the elves' counterattack as soon as possible and avoid the expansion of the conflict into a painful and long-term civil war, the forces supporting the 'Volcano Queen' Princkoko made an extremely careful plan this time, and the passage of the bill in the parliament also meant that the final horn was blown.
The supersonic missiles in the sky flew at a speed of 120 Mach. Some of them hit the guided missiles scattered in the air, and some hit the shuttles with gray iron bodies, directly turning them into explosive fireballs, melting and falling from the sky.
Although these missiles greatly hindered and destroyed the shuttles that rushed into the atmosphere, the high-level mechas that had already landed were not something these missiles could destroy. When the mechas were fully in combat mode, the golden-red halo covered the area with a diameter of hundreds of meters around them. Any missiles that approached would be directly detonated, and the scattered explosions would at most leave scratches on the mecha shells, and could not break the defense at all.
Then, the local defense forces of the planet began to take off. The mechas with white shells and golden branches and leaves quickly rose, spread their flexible wings, and began to fight with the crimson mechas that entered the planet.
The 'Golden Rose-a14' mecha, the fourteenth generation of advanced mechas in the Golden Rose series, has always been the main force guarding the central star field. In the early days of the Federation, they were also regarded as the guards of the 'Golden Flame Flower' Isainessa, and now they still protect the most important core area of the Federation.
Blazing lightsabers crossed in the air, sizzling and boiling sparks overflowed. These most elite warriors of the Federation once again fought against each other after four hundred years.
(End of this chapter)
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