Outcast Omega Pampered by the Alpha General novel Chapter 440

Chapter 440 Nowhere Is Safe

Did you think proximity to the Central Region made you safe?

No.

Humans.

You are not safe at all.

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At the same time Mercury Star fell, Koental Star, Oberlin Star, Ryderg Star, and several other major commercial worlds also lost contact with the outside.

Only when starships approached those planets did anyone discover the truth.

The spaceports had been destroyed. Countless insectoid shadows moved across the surfaces below. The witnesses were terrified, yet they still remembered to record the scenes and upload the footage to StarNet.

[Oh my God, that’s Mercury Star! Even Mercury, that close to the Central Region, has fallen. Are we safe here?]

[Where is the military? What are you doing? Why aren’t you moving? If you’d acted sooner, would all these people still have died?]

[Do you understand? My entire family went to Mercury Star. Everyone except me. Everyone…]

[…]

The military’s official account drowned beneath an avalanche of comments.

People sobbed. People demanded answers. Most of all, they feared the future and could no longer feel secure in the present.

Marshal Atlas Ashford addressed the public immediately and urged everyone to remain calm and view the crisis rationally.

His words accomplished almost nothing.

Then several new reports spread, and the entire Empire erupted.

“All Central Region Rescue Teams Missing”

“First Legion Alpha Rescue Unit Feared Dead”

“Mercury and Other Commercial Worlds Completely Overrun”

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“Does Humanity Still Have a Future?”

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The grim news struck from every direction.

Julian had just returned from the front and finished helping Rowan advance to 2S-class. The moment he turned off Do Not Disturb on his wrist terminal, a flood of messages crashed over him.

Several live trends occupied the top of the screen.

Julian recognized every word.

He still could not understand what they were talking about.

“Breaking: His Grace Julian Shaw Will Personally Lead the Insectoid Purge”

“The General Guards the Border; His Grace Protects Our Homes”

“His Grace Julian Shaw Is Unmatched”

“Your Grace, We Love You”

Julian: “?”

What?

Me?

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Without Julian knowing anything about it, StarNet had already torn itself apart over the fall of the commercial worlds.

The resort planets had been different. Most were scattered along the edges of the major regions. Because they existed for tourism, they possessed almost no military or research infrastructure, and their defenses were naturally thin.

Commercial worlds were another matter.

Some stood in the center of a region. Others occupied the junction between multiple major regions. They were genuine economic arteries.

Compared to a city, a resort world was a distant suburb.

If something exploded in the suburbs, how many people believed it would reach them?

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Most watched from afar and thought, As long as I stay home and stop traveling, I will be safe.

A commercial world’s collapse felt entirely different.

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It was an explosion in the city’s central business district. If the people responsible wished, anyone in the city could become their next target.

Calls for the military to patrol the interior and restore public security grew louder by the hour, nearly reaching the point where no one could contain them.

After all…

The First Legion rescue team stationed in the Central Region had disappeared, and even its Alpha unit was feared dead.

The Beta mecha forces already deployed by the military were no longer enough to reassure the public completely.

[If even the First Legion’s Alphas couldn’t handle it, I can’t trust a mecha unit made up only of Betas. I’m not insulting Betas. I’m a Beta too. I just value my life. I don’t want to die…]

[I heard the military has been fighting the swarm again over the past few days and winning, but I’ll say it anyway: secure the home front before fighting abroad.]

[My planet is close to Mercury Star. The wealthy are buying tickets overnight and chartering private ships to leave. It isn’t happening only here. Several nearby planets are doing the same…]

[…..]

Countless citizens posted their fear, irritation, and anxiety online.

They did not want to pressure the military. Everyone knew the Calamity Swarm still waited beyond the border.

They were also terrified for themselves.

The fear was worst on worlds close to the fallen commercial hubs.

Mass evacuations had already begun. Ticket prices rose to astronomical levels. Pets that could not be taken aboard were abandoned casually in the streets.

The wealthy could purchase tickets immediately, pilot personal starships, or charter entire

vessels.

The ordinary people left behind suffered most.

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