Green Skin Orcs, of course, had no need to rule over humans. They indeed captured prisoners and enslaved humans, but these were sporadic cases; most of the ti, they chose to slaughter. However, the forces that Green Skins deployed on various planets were actually insufficient.
Four years ago, Titus leading the Green Tide, in just a few short months, had spread the flas of war across hundreds of worlds in the Dragonhawk Star Domain. His thod was certainly not to conquer each planet one by one; how slow would that be?
In any case, at that ti, the human fleet had been defeated by him and was only concerned with fleeing. The vast Star Domain was all exposed, so naturally, he took his fleet and chased them down relentlessly. The many Star Systems they passed through were casually populated with tens of thousands, millions, tens of millions of youngsters and about weather whatever amount depending on the value of the planet.
So key locations, like the Light Blessing Star, might now have an active Green Skin population of over 1.5 billion. Although a considerable portion of that had grown on the planet itself over the past few years, the fact that it could grow so quickly and so much was definitely related to the substantial number of Green Skins that were initially deployed there.
In so places, like the Shui Wuheng Star System next to the Temir Star System, there are two ocean worlds, the natural environnt mainly consisting of scattered islands and floating continents, mainly surviving on fisheries and underwater resource harvesting.
This star system is not on the main route, and the natural environnt is not suitable for growth of Green Skins––actually, it's not that suitable for human survival either. The original population scale of the two planets was also around two to three hundred million. The Beastman invasion only deployed a scale of several tens of thousands, and even after establishing an ecosystem on so islands, their expansion was severely limited due to the large mariti environnt being hard to expand, frequent ocean storms, and the presence of powerful sea monsters within the great ocean.
Now, four years after the Green Skins invaded the Shui Wuheng Star System, the situation hasn't deteriorated too severely.
After the Human Fleet arrived, they bombarded the Green Skin-occupied islands from orbit, then deployed about a million troops from the Pact Army, along with a substantial amount of weapons and equipnt, arming the local Planetary Defense Forces to reclaim the islands.
With this step, the issues on Shui Wuheng No.3 and No.7, two human colonization planets, were essentially resolved.
Of course, they also signed the Seven-Horse Covenant, becoming part of this frawork. The two planets could even contribute fifty million Tax Currency in Imperial Tax revenues per year.
Gu Hang adopted similar asures and promoted them in the Golden Pass, Copper Barrier, and Jiaoshou Star District.
The overall approach and ans were as follows: the Fleet arrives, destroying the main enemy strongholds; deploying a portion of the Alliance Army and Pact Army as the main force to hold the ground; providing supplies, relief, and resettlent for local civilians, arming local forces, and inducting them into the Pact Army ranks to clear the local Green Skins.
The Fleet's arrival was a symptomatic treatnt, a crude sweep, and suppression; the Alliance Army provided confidence to the local planets; the last move was to integrate the planet and eradicate the problem for good.
Of course, for worlds that could still be saved, they would be treated this way.
For so hopeless worlds, like the Light Blessing Star, a crucial transit hub in the Green Skins' campaign, human activity was scarce, and Green Skins had invested a large number of troops from the beginning, slaughtering almost the entire planet.
But the Alliance didn't bother dropping a Skyburn Torpedo on Light Blessing Star.
There was no need.
Locking down the star system and bombarding the surface a few tis was sufficient.
Anyway, after bombing the important Green Skin Trash Cities on Light Blessing Star, not to ntion the heavy casualties among the Green Skins, their main production capacity was also lost; they didn't have the capability to build Starships to leave the surface—at least not temporarily.
Then, the Alliance started to continuously deploy troops to the surface.
Even if there was no hope for it, its importance as a transportation hub remained. The human forces deployed would establish so strongholds or repair so of the existing fortresses on the planet, and place so of the transferred Orbital Cannons on this planet.
Gu Hang, of course, still had to guard against the main Green Skin reinforcents.
However, the Alliance's military strength and its transport capabilities were ultimately limited and could not employ a retaking strategy for every planet. Matters needed to be prioritized, and although Light Blessing Star was beyond saving, its high value as a traffic hub ant that the Alliance had to commit forces to attempt its recapture. The core objective was to establish enough fortresses and Anti-Orbit Cannons on the planet to prepare for any potential wars that might follow.
But there were so planets that were both beyond saving and of little value.
For instance, planets like Lengfeng Star in the Jiaoshou Star District, Tarulah III, the Brass Star System, and the Natuo Star System all fit this description.
They were similar to Temir II, with a high activity of Green Skins and hardly any human presence; yet, unlike Light Blessing Star, they were not located in strategically contested areas.
The approach to such star systems had to be situation-specific.
If the number of Green Skins on a planet was relatively low—say, around ten or twenty billion—then the tactic would be to bomb them in one go, destroy the larger Trash Cities, and then perform regular patrols to make sure that no significantly sized Green Skin factories capable of constructing starships would erge.
However, if the surface of a planet was teeming with Green Skins, as was the case with Golden Pass III, where estimates suggested there were over fifty billion of them gathered, one could assu that these were reserve forces Saru had placed there in preparation for the Temir campaign. The only reason they hadn't all been transported to Temir No.5 was due to the limits of transport capabilities. Yet, even on this planet, those billions of Green Skins weren't idle; humans had even spotted an open-air Green Skin factory from orbit, appearing to assemble sothing resembling starships.
For such planets, there would be no discussion—just send down a Skyburn Torpedo directly.
Fifty billion Green Skins gone in flas.
Yet, by doing so, the planet itself would be virtually condemned to waste. Even the thought of landing to build fortresses faced difficulties, since the planetary geology had to stabilize over several years first. As for recolonizing and utilizing the planet, that would require climate reconstruction technology, which the Alliance still lacked.
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Beyond the retaking and cleansing operations in the three major star sectors, the Alliance Army had two tasks of equal importance.
First, establishing an Orbital Defense System on Thumb Star and Capital Star in the Jiaoshou Star District as well as in the Light Blessing Star System. This was to transform these three planets into Fortress Worlds that could serve as reliable strongholds in case the Green Skins should counterattack.
This task actually consud a significant chunk of the Alliance's efforts. Out of the twelve billion-strong main expeditionary force, half had been allocated to these destinations. Additionally, more military personnel and workers were continuously being sent there to bolster these key locations.
Should these three planets, especially Light Blessing Star, be properly fortified, the Alliance would have a barrier to the west and the strategic chokehold at the Green Skins' throat.
The other task was to invade the Green Skin holands.
This mission seed perilous, but when Gu Hang, aboard the Firebath Nova, along with one-third of the Alliance Fleet, arrived in the interior of the Silver Pass Sector, he found that it was not difficult at all.
Each planet here might have fallen decades ago, with hardly any humans left.
However, the number of Green Skins was not as high as one might expect.
The reason was simple: a substantial number of Green Skins had been conscripted by Titus!
His expedition was indeed an all-out effort by the Iron-Tooth Clan!
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