Getting a Technology System in Modern Day - Chapter 1014

Capítulo 1014: Debrief

Five billion prisoners, that number was nearly a quarter of the total imperial citizens in the empire, and all of them were now the empire’s responsibility.

The reason many countries directly killed prisoners of war or elected to massacre villages instead of capturing them was because a human is very difficult to keep alive, and even more so when they are prisoners, as they are now your full responsibility. This meant the empire had to field a large enough logistics force to be able to feed, clothe, and contain five billion prisoners on a daily basis.

The situation was further complicated by the fact that the five billion prisoners were not from the same civilization, meaning they couldn’t all be fed or kept in the same conditions. Each civilization had different nutritional, dietary, and even environmental requirements, so the logistics had to take that into consideration.

It would be a nightmare for any civilization to pull it off, even more so without any problems occurring that could lead to thousands, if not millions, of deaths. But the empire, which had just been a two-star system, had managed to do exactly that without even a hint of an obstacle from the start, as it was something they had already considered and planned for ahead of time.

Atomic printers had, at some point, even stopped producing anything but more atomic printers, which did the same, all for the sake of ensuring that the war machine kept being fully supplied with whatever it needed to be fully effective.

The top ten civilizations had expected the empire to crumble, unable to keep control of the civilizations they had captured due to the responsibility they would be taking on, paired with their inexperience in such wide-scale governing, having only had experience ruling two star systems.

This was one of their most optimistic plans: to use the period when chaos occurred in the captured civilizations’ star systems and, as the empire tried to quell that and have their forces tangled in the mess, to attack and gain leverage to bring the empire to the negotiating table and have an iron-clad mana oath that would protect them for the foreseeable future. But to their surprise, no such news reached them. It was as if the empire had streamlined the takeover structure into Lego-sized pieces, allowing them to build the structure to be as large or as small as the situation required and be able to apply it to any situation without any trouble.

Other than dealing with the living beings in these civilizations, another problem the conquerors would face would be the data side of things. Unfortunately for the conquered, the empire specialized specifically in that. The program that had been created and refined to go through the Conclave-wide VR data was applied to all of the collected data across all of the conquered civilizations, backed up as they were in different server clusters, with a few of them being taken offline for a more secure backup.

A version of the data was then converted into the Terra Empire data format, analyzed, filtered, and parsed for anything important for immediate analysis. Another, slower and more thorough program went through the entire data set to capture anything the fast-parsing program might have missed, before all of it would then be presented for the empire to use to its advantage. The slow and thorough program was still going through the data, organizing and cataloging it into the Akashic Server for later release to the public.

{For those who are not causing any problems, we have provided them with VR devices for them to be able to continue logging into VR to receive updates on their specific planets or situations, while having them use it as an escape from their real-world situation. Due to the curfew being limited to only the most problematic sectors, the majority of people are already living their lives as normal, with only a few inconveniences, like the stock market, that we have forcibly frozen to prevent an additional fall that we had triggered through financial attacks before moving to capture those star systems.

Leaving it to continue crashing would cause more problems for us in the future, but stopping it should allow us to control when they reopen and if we want to shift everything in their financial markets into our imperial government’s market before reallowing access to those funds post-conversion. It gives us the widest margin of control…}

Nova went on and on, updating Aron on everything major that had happened during the takeover process, starting from when the takeover took place to a summary of how things were going at present, with visual aids being present the whole time for easier digestion of information. Despite her knowing that the Emperor didn’t need them in the first place, she also knew that seeing is better than hearing when it comes to how you contextualize information.

When she was done giving the update on what happened to the conquered civilizations, their surroundings paused for a moment before the middle part of the uncaptured Conclave started enlarging as the captured parts vanished. The larger that part got, the more information about their surroundings started appearing. At first, only small dots could be seen in the shape of a circle, as if a render of a ball had been made transparent, revealing what was inside, while the outer circle had only its grid’s connecting parts visible as points.

{These are our imperial fleets, currently fully mobilized and awaiting your recovery for you to make the decision on what to do,} Nova said, pointing at the dots, while speaking calmly as if unaware of what that image would do to a normal person once they realized what it meant. Each point was a mini imperial fleet, and the number of them neared a hundred thousand.

The empire had literally created an encirclement of the entire uncaptured Conclave territory, consisting of the top ten.

Although it was not an airtight encirclement, as one fleet was at a minimum of five light-years from another, in space, this was as close as it gets. The empire had already mapped all of the area within the circle, meaning there was no need to have ships shoulder to shoulder, since they could arrive at any part of the circle at any moment through wormholes to deal with any anomaly.