From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 357 Conflict Renewed
In the humanities courses of the Atlas Group's employee children's school in the future, when teachers mention the "butterfly effect", they will tell students that a butterfly flapping its wings in South America during the Blue Planet period may cause a tornado in North America.
At the same time, the children of these Atlas employees will also be told that the suicide bombing that occurred in the small town called Portia on Pyla IV finally put the Atlas Group in the spotlight and transformed it from a pawn to a player after a series of events.

Every class of students will also have a "study tour" activity - visiting the small town of Portia and reliving the rise of Atlas to become a global giant in the memorial hall.

But looking at the present, even Amber did not expect that the Portia Town incident would become the fuse for a series of "major changes" later.

He thought that in the end, the worst that could happen from this incident would be a bite to the Federation, letting them know what pain was.

But I didn't expect that this time I finally tasted the taste of "regret" and "disappointment".

What they didn't expect was that after the real fire was ignited, the wound would be like a wound that could not be stopped from bleeding or sutured, slowly tearing the federation apart completely.

Of course, he didn't know all this would happen yet, as he was listening to the report from the Intelligence Analysis Center.

The content of the report was concise but not simple—the Federation's offensive fleet in the Pella galaxy had been adjusted.

The fleet that was originally used to wipe out the remnants of the Empire within the galaxy was transferred to the front line where the battle with the Imperial Fleet was the most intense because of its more complete organization.

Replacing them was the 13th Fleet led by Vice Admiral Guterres, which had just withdrawn from the front line.

They will replenish personnel, ships, and supplies in this galaxy with less intense combat, take over the tasks of friendly forces while resting, and continue to clear out the remaining fleets of the Empire.

Although Amber had never met this Vice Admiral of the Federal Navy, she did not feel unfamiliar with him.

Because he was the one who followed the instructions of the "Cyber ​​Kit" left by Marshal Trafalgar and destroyed Robert IV with a proton annihilation bomb when the battle in the Robert galaxy was lost.

"There are so many fleets with more complete organizations that can be deployed, but they chose to transfer this guy here. They really think highly of us Atlas."

After learning the news at the intelligence exchange meeting, Amber had a rather helpless smile on her face.

As the first and second commanders of the fleet, Cleves and Randall, who were also dragged to attend the meeting, showed a series of expressions of "first confusion and then sudden enlightenment" after hearing Amber's words.

However, some of the other participants in the meeting obviously did not get this point, and they all cast puzzled looks at Amber.

"No, your intelligence department cannot just focus on the enemy's fleet strength. The commander's experience and level are also very important."

Looking at everyone's curious eyes, Amber suddenly felt that Atlas' intelligence personnel also needed to study more besides work.

"Even if we look at the entire Federation Navy, this vice admiral is a rare one who has fought almost the entire battle from the beginning to now. In terms of experience in commanding large-scale fleet operations, he is one of the best in the current human world."

After Amber said this, everyone suddenly realized what they had overlooked, and the sense of crisis in their hearts began to rise rapidly.

Especially Cleves and Randall, the 'duo of the Naval Academy', showed unprecedented solemn expressions at this moment.

"Boss, I really have no confidence this time."

Although it is a taboo to be timid before a battle, Cleves felt that he still had to speak out his thoughts in this internal meeting. "Why are you panicking? Don't you always fight me to a 50-50 draw in mock battles?"

"A simulated battle can't compare to an actual battle. And I know that although you are very strong, you probably lack actual combat experience in fleet command, right?"

This is Cliffs' art of speaking. While pointing out the problem, he also does not forget to praise his boss.

"You're hurting my boss. I used to be very strong."

"Amber, weren't you a psychic agent before? Why do you have to learn this?" Isabel said.

"If you don't believe me, forget it~"

Amber curled her lips and decided not to continue arguing on this topic.

No matter how strong Guterres' command ability is, it is a fact that he has now led the fleet to the Pella galaxy.

Now that people are here, there is no point in arguing any further. It is better to be prepared to face the possible battle.

"I will train you more these days and teach you some tricks. If you have to fight with Guterres, I will make sure you will not be at a disadvantage."

"Boss, you are so thoughtful."
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The Federation's move to transfer the 13th Fleet to the Pella Galaxy was basically a clear warning to Atlas, hoping that the company would be as obedient as other companies.

On the surface of Pyla IV, as public opinion fermented, "Don't be soft on the Imperials" has become the highest call.

In addition, there were two suicide bombings on the planet similar to the one in the town of Portia, which caused many casualties among federal soldiers.

The tolerance and sympathy of the people towards the imperial people have reached the lowest point.

In such an environment of public opinion, the actions of the federal ground forces became increasingly lawless, and there were even acts of "massacre of villages" and "massacre of towns" without any reason or distinction.

They also deliberately began to block the actions of Atlas ground forces, preventing them from rescuing imperial civilians.

By the time the ground troops arrived at the scene, they could often only see broken roofs and charred corpses on the ground.

Although Atlas is constantly being exposed through the 'Eye of Truth', the Federation can always find some reasons to 'whitewash' it.

The two sides fought fiercely in the field of public opinion, but in the end the Federation always had the upper hand. For a time, Atlas seemed to have been "defeated" under the Federation's public opinion offensive.

Under such circumstances, Mike Connor, director of the Center for Subversion and Public Opinion Inducement of the Federal Central Intelligence Agency, decided to add fuel to the fire and let Atlas "get burned".
Soon, a new order was transmitted to the portable terminal of the psychic agent Aurora. After the latter decrypted the encrypted information with the key, he and the Hanged Man also saw the next action instructions.

"Complete a massive suicide bombing, this time having the attackers attack directly against Atlas' team."

(End of this chapter)