Chapter 457 Franklin’s Asking for Help
When the Atlas Group completely withdrew from the Lubion system and officially did not even retain an office, various forces in the Lubian system began to engage in Made a small move.
Before the Atlas Group had not evacuated, the galaxy autonomous government, with the assistance of the Atlas combat forces, had always maintained "semi-military" control over the entire galaxy.
In addition, Atlas has implemented the same strict management system for the companies it controls as the headquarters, so the local forces in the Lubion system have not been able to carry out any effective penetration into these companies.
Faced with these two 'iron slabs' that will not disappear for a while, various civil society groups in the Lubion system, opposition groups, and forces supported by the federal government, the military-industrial complex, and even the Star Dragon Empire , I can only choose to recuperate temporarily and dare not act rashly.
This situation continued until the relationship between Atlas and the Federation gradually deteriorated, and they finally withdrew from the Rubion system as a whole.
Behind this wave of public opinion that spread across the entire Lubion galaxy and the subsequent riots were the fueling of many forces. Each party hopes to gain enough benefits from this conflict to seek for the future. After the situation stabilizes, you can have more chips in your hands.
As for the civilians who were induced by them to escalate the conflict step by step, in their eyes they were nothing more than consumables that could be used to achieve their goals.
Franklin, who was devoted to galaxy affairs, naturally noticed this very quickly, but he found that he could not do anything in his current capacity. He could only watch the galaxy autonomous government continue to sign and issue Let the military and police in each region implement the order of "armed stability maintenance".
The Lubion System Autonomous Government is actually very clear about the real situation in the galaxy, so the re-established police force - especially the police force on Lubion 5, is essentially a paramilitary unit.
Facing unarmed 'mobs' everywhere, with at most some civilian exoskeletons or engineering robots, these police teams, trained with the assistance of Atlas Group and specialized in dealing with special situations like this, slowly stabilized the situation.
After all, although light armored vehicles and multi-legged tanks are at the bottom of the 'armored food chain', they are still extremely difficult to contend with for the 'mobs' who started the riot.
Just when most people except Franklin thought that the situation would at least gradually stabilize and stop deteriorating, an 'accident' happened.
When a police force aboard Lubion 5 was once again dispatched to perform the task of "armed stability maintenance", the entire organization directly surrendered to the "mob" side, and launched a "resistance to the tyranny of the galaxy autonomous government" slogan.
When the news spread, most senior officials and employees of the autonomous government suddenly felt that the sky was falling, because they never expected that the violent units affiliated with the autonomous government would rebel like this.
But Franklin knew from the beginning that when the system government dispatched police forces and lifted their firing restrictions, allowing them to 'arm riot control', they would definitely reach this point.
Because these rebuilt police forces are all locals, and most of their families work in related companies, their families are actually victims from a certain perspective.
Send them out under such circumstances and let them aim their guns at people who may be their relatives, friends, and neighbors. The final result will be to put these armed forces in a 'dilemma' The police chose to side with their families.
The subsequent development was just as Franklin expected. The 'renegade' of this police force seemed to be a signal. In the days that followed, riot police teams were deployed in various places, one after another. There are constant instances of 'renegades' from the establishment.
Although these teams surrendered to different mob teams, and the actual controllers behind these teams were also different, it could even be said that they were not necessarily in the same camp, but for the Rubin system government Saying it makes no difference.
Because no matter what camp they belong to and what their hidden ultimate goal is, the current goal of these 'mobs' is still very consistent - to destroy the current order and ultimately allow the Rubin Galaxy Autonomous Government to completely lose control of the galaxy.
With the continuous 'defection' of the armed police force, these 'mobs' in the Lubion system have also officially transformed into more advanced 'armed mobs'. Their morale has been greatly improved, and they have also gained Weapons and equipment support.
Although the galactic autonomous government has not officially issued a statement, when Franklin participated in an internal meeting, his superiors were already using the description of 'armed rebellion' to describe the current chaos in the galaxy.
On the other hand, the violent institutions controlled by the Galaxy Autonomous Government are still suffering losses in the day-by-day ‘armed suppression’ operations, and the morale of the police officers is also constantly declining.
After all, they are on duty in dangerous areas every day in order to maintain the stability of order, and they have to constantly exchange fire with the "armed mob" who are becoming more and more powerful, and the death rate is also rising.
In this situation where they have clearly sacrificed their lives to maintain normal order, many people's family and friends will say behind their backs that they are accomplices of the galaxy's autonomous government, cold-blooded executioners, and have no sympathy for other civilians who are oppressed. Xin Yunyun.
The top brass of the Lubion Galaxy Police Center quickly reported the current situation of the entire police team and said that if this continued, the remaining armed police forces would soon lose their normalcy. service ability.
So they suggested letting the galaxy defense force formally take over the current situation to prevent the situation from deteriorating further.
After this suggestion was submitted along with the report, it was quickly adopted.
Because according to some intelligence, some large local enterprises and consortiums in the Lubion system have also backstabbed the autonomous government, a former 'ally', and the 'little tricks' of their subordinates have become more and more obvious.
If we don't strike hard, the autonomous government may really lose control of the galaxy.
So, not long after the conflict between the federal government and the Atlas Group ended on Para IV, the rebuilt garrison of the Rubian system also began to officially carry out 'counter-insurgency' operations.
Counter-insurgency - this is the term used by the galaxy autonomous government when reporting to the federal government, and while reporting the situation, the galaxy autonomous government also hopes to receive support from the federal government.
However, the latter request was rejected at the speed of light. The reason was that the federal government was currently focusing on the frontline war and had no energy to deal with the problems of the Rubian system. Therefore, it was hoped that the autonomous government of the Rubian system could withstand the pressure and solve the problem on its own. .
After learning the news, Franklin knew that at this stage, larger-scale civil strife was inevitable.
And his judgment was verified again. As the galaxy garrison began to carry out counter-insurgency operations, the situation that the autonomous government expected to quickly suppress the 'armed mobs' in various places and restore order did not occur.
On the contrary, it caused a more violent backlash and rapidly increased the level of the civil strife.
At the same time, what happened to the armed police force also happened to the rebuilt galaxy defense force.
When the garrison was rebuilt at that time, since the Federation had relaxed the restrictions on the self-government of each system, the sources of this new force did not come from other systems in the Federation, but were recruited directly from the local area. fellow countryman'.
It is precisely because of this that the Lubion Galaxy Autonomous Government has 'justifiably' canceled the 'home leave allowance' in the salary of garrison soldiers, and this fee accounts for nearly 10% of the basic salary composition of grassroots soldiers. 30% ratio
From the perspective of the people in the Galaxy Autonomous Government, since everyone is now serving locally, this ‘home leave subsidy’ obviously does not exist. To some extent, there seems to be nothing wrong with this decision.
But the bad thing is that most of the grassroots soldiers don’t actually understand the reason. They only know that compared with the previous salary levels of the garrison, their wages are sharper. It was reduced by nearly 30%.
Even those soldiers who could understand the reason felt unhappy. After all, the garrison was not located in a densely populated area, so even if they stayed in the garrison, they were far away from them. hometown.
Look, isn’t the resentment of grassroots soldiers coming out now?
History has told people time and time again not to deduct soldiers' pay, otherwise big problems will definitely occur.
But as the old saying goes, the only lesson that mankind can learn from history is that mankind never learns from history
In the rebuilt garrison of the Lubion system, A large number of grassroots soldiers are already dissatisfied with the significant drop in wages during their service.
In addition, the family members of some soldiers were also victims of collective salary reductions by companies. Before the previous riots occurred, they learned about this in the "visit communication" with their families. So after this back and forth, most of the soldiers also knew why the conflict started, and subconsciously sided with the oppressed civilians.
When I arrived at the combat zone and saw the civilians who had once again suffered due to the conflict, and the city that had just been rebuilt and was now being devastated by war, the long-simmering dissatisfaction in my heart completely burst out. .
At the same time, a tacit 'consensus' has emerged among the grassroots soldiers.
“I joined the garrison to protect my hometown from the invasion of imperial devils, not to point the gun at my compatriots in my hometown!”
Armed counter-insurgency codenamed 'Cast Lead' Not long after the operation started, the garrison troops in various theaters began to have "battlefield defections" one after another, especially those troops that did not do a good job in dispersing their place of origin, resulting in "fellow villagers gathering together", and the units of battalions and companies were transformed into 'Rebels'.
The "frequent good news" on the counter-rebellion front line has made the already-struggling Lubion System Autonomous Government even more confused in its subsequent decision-making.
One of the orders, "Allowing each company to organize its own security forces to stabilize the situation in the region," made Franklin black-eyed.
Seeing the situation in the Lubion Galaxy gradually developing from riots to the brink of civil war, Franklin, who didn't want his hometown to be ravaged by war again, but had no other options, had only one last option left.
Try to request the intervention of 'external forces' - that is, the Atlas Group.
After reading some relevant news during this period, he already knew that this giant company that had been kicked out of the Lubion Galaxy was much stronger than before in terms of overall strength.
But when he really made up his mind to seek help from Amber, he found that he did not seem to have the contact information of the boss behind Atlas. Although he had a good chat with him at the cocktail party, But this does not mean that I am qualified to get his contact information.
The last Atlas office in the Lubion system has also been closed long ago, so it will be impossible to contact the relevant personnel for a while.
Just as Franklin was thinking about what he should do, he saw the Atlas official website on the virtual screen on his desk, and an inconspicuous 'Contact Us' below.
By some strange coincidence, Franklin reached out and clicked on the icon, and then the personal terminal, which was connected to the built-in terminal on the desk, initiated a communication to a network communication address built into the 'Contact Us' section. request - and automatically switched to the quantum entanglement communication line.
After waiting only a few seconds, the communication was connected, and a sweet female voice also sounded in Franklin's ears.
"Hello, this is the 24-hour customer service hotline of Atlas Group. How can I help you?"
The female voice is gentle and graceful, like an oriole's cry, but Franklin still heard it. This should be an AI operator, not the real operator he was looking for - the former is more used to deal with simple problems that are repeated in large numbers every day, so the configuration permissions are relatively low, which may not satisfy his 'direct access to heaven' communication request.
However, after a moment of silence, Franklin still had the mentality of 'it's connected anyway, let's give it a try', and said nervously:
"Hello, I'm Franklin from the Lubion Galaxy. Abraham, can you please help me contact Mr. Ray Bill, the chairman of your company?”
As soon as he said this, Franklin wanted to slap himself, because it sounded so stupid. Would you call the customer service hotline of another company and then specify that you want to talk to the other company’s boss?
Even if the person on the other side is an AI operator, he will probably recognize this communication as a prank communication.
Just when Franklin was about to add a few more words to prevent the other party from recognizing his communication as a prank, the sweet female voice on the other end of the communication sounded again.
"The customer's identity has been confirmed, please wait"
"Huh?"
The AI operator's answer stunned Franklin for a moment. He never expected to hear such an answer, and even more Unexpectedly, after I casually clicked 'Contact Us', it seemed that I was actually going to contact that man?
"Mr. Rebel is currently idle during the current period. Do you want to confirm the call?"
"Confirm!"
Franklin almost trembled and replied, "This went so smoothly that he began to wonder if there were other Mr. Ray Bills in the Atlas Group?"
"Switching to the encrypted line. The switch is complete and is being transferred to you."
The communication channel suddenly only had the beep sound representing 'transferring', and Franklin also He became more and more nervous because he just had the mentality of giving it a try and hadn't even thought of what to say yet.
But the next second, a familiar voice sounded in the encrypted communication line.
"Oh~ Mr. Franklin, you are really fine. Why did you suddenly think of looking for me?"
Franklin, who heard this voice, calmed down almost instantly, and then said in an anxious but calm voice:
"Mr. Rebir, I need. No, the people of the Lubion Galaxy need you. and Atlas’s assistance!”
(End of this chapter)