Getting a Technology System in Modern Day - Chapter 1009: Logistics Wins Wars
Chapter 1009: Logistics Wins Wars
(There was an election in my country, Tanzania, and a protest erupted, so they shut down the internet for the past week)
John J. Pershing once said, “Infantry wins battles, logistics wins wars,” and the Terra Empire had taken that to heart in everything they did. No matter how minuscule it was in the grand scale of things, they used VR’s time compression ability to take a long and detailed look and come up with a logistical plan for every event, as all possible variables were taken into account.
However, humans have a tendency to reduce their vigilance and focus during these meetings, and at some point, they get complacent. The empire, aware of human nature, implemented a program that actively combated complacency in all the VR devices imperial government workers used to log into the imperial government instance. This was to make sure that no matter how long someone had been serving in the government, there was no chance of them ever getting complacent, as the empire knew complacency is the slow death of governments.
Thanks to that and a few more countermeasures put in place, historians said that for the first time, the government could be fully trusted to do everything it promised to its best quality. People actually trusted the government to do what it said, and even more so when it came to war, which was something they liked to show to everyone.
Since the times when the empire was yet to be founded and the current imperial military was still a private military responsible for the security of two countries, they had the habit of showing everyone on their side how the war was going while it was happening. This was to convey the confidence they had in their ability to fight. That habit had now become a norm, as both the empire and the people liked it, since it allowed the empire to be transparent while preventing miscommunication and fabricated news from spreading and causing mass panic and hysteria. Currently, the official feed showing the happenings of the war was displaying a large-scale military logistical mobilization on a scale never seen before.
While the top ten were consolidating their military strength among one another as they prepared themselves for the inevitable arrival of the empire, the empire had just completed taking over all of the civilizations under the top fifty. This was done either through surrender or sheer crushing might that left no one in the government with the power to deny the imperial takeover. They were now consolidating all of the fleets that were previously spread out to take over these civilizations in preparation for the move on those in the top fifty, which were expected to put up a more difficult fight than the ones they had just conquered.
Logistical hubs were being set up in strategic locations so that the forward fleets could return for all of their logistical needs. This was a means of separating the empire’s core from the active war forces in the Conclave. In one of the many war simulations, a team playing as the Shadari had managed to piggyback on a returning fleet by keeping their stealth active, gaining access to very important locations. This separation was the countermeasure they came up with.
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“Who do you think they are going to attack first?” a leader of a civilization asked inside the situation room.
In the past few weeks, he had lost quite a few kilos from stress, as reports of the empire taking over another civilization kept arriving. The empire was not hiding it at all and even made a highlight reel that was made accessible to all civilizations still using the VR, which the empire did its best to make sure continued running, even inside the civilizations they had yet to attack. This was to act as demoralization, which, although it might not work on the military, was definitely going to work on the citizens. This was their target, as a means of preventing civilian-led fightbacks. Although such resistance would be weaker than the military forces, its small-scale nature made it very difficult to deal with in a timely manner, and it might lead to slowing down the imperial forces when they could have moved on to the next target.
But that was not the end of the empire’s means of keeping the civilian public in check. Imperial citizens who continued registering for the avatar program, upon seeing people raking in Merit Points with each passing minute, were now being deployed in the captured or surrendered civilizations to keep and maintain security. They were also dealing with anyone who attempted to fight back by arresting them and keeping them in stasis pending their case being checked and a decision being made about them.
“Based on the movement information we managed to get our hands on, they are going to go for at least twenty civilizations at once, if not more. The information is all from our super-long-range mana detectors, so we can be sure there is more we are not seeing, so it could be more,” the general responsible for the security of a sector of the civilization said without mincing words, knowing that the empire was going to come with everything they had to end it as fast as possible.
“……..” The leader went silent for a moment, as his mind was a mess. At the moment, the Conclave was nothing but a name, as it was practically disbanded without anyone saying it was. Everyone was now fully focused on themselves, so there was no chance for them to receive any help or form a united front. Everyone knew that the empire had their absolute coordinates, meaning they were going to be targeted by wormholes from the inside of their star systems, unlike a normally expected fight which was fought like a normal ground war where you meet the forces after detecting them coming, allowing you to prepare ahead of time. The fight with the empire didn’t allow for that, as they would always arrive at your back doors so long as you had no means of scrambling the absolute coordinates, like the top ten civilizations were doing at the moment. This meant they needed to prioritize specific star systems to the detriment of other less important ones, as it required the civilization’s fleets to be spread to all star systems to face the imperial forces that would be arriving at any time.
“Are we fighting or surrendering?” the man in the Ministry of the Interior position asked nervously.
“We will fight to the last man,” the leader said with conviction, but that almost soon disappeared when his security team entered the room and started walking with him for the evacuation process. They had discovered the imperial forces already opening wormholes in their star system, so they wanted to send him to one of the safe locations hidden in the unknown underground of a moon or an uninhabitable planet for him to continue controlling his country during the fight, while avoiding capture and being forced to surrender through coercion or torture.
The second phase of the war had finally started, and the empire looked to be on target to finish everything within the month, as the Emperor’s healing process seemed to have matched the earliest expectations from Ayaka, who kept checking on his health daily.
