Chapter 355 The Federation Takes Action
Although the batch of A3 heavy-duty power armors that the teaching team received was not completely copied from the one that Amber used at the time.
After all, a lot of psychic-related technologies were used on the ‘Ver. Amber’, and the people in the teaching team were just natural persons, so the cost of this part was also saved.
But in terms of ‘hardware indicators’ such as firepower, protection, and mobility, the batch of A3 heavy-duty power armors that the teaching team received did not shrink at all, unlike Atlas’s foreign trade products, which were basically ‘monkey versions’ of self-use equipment.
However, Baninger laughed, but after receiving the ‘package’, he still became solemn in his heart.
Although Amber did not say it clearly, at this juncture, sending them equipment for frontal combat, which was more of a special operations team behind enemy lines, actually explained the problem.
“It seems that Boss is not optimistic about the situation after Pyra IV. It seems that the self-explosion attack two days ago was really not simple.”
Although he thought of this in his mind, Baninger still concealed his emotional changes and did not show it.
While Baninger and the other members of the teaching team were "happy" to receive the new equipment, a closed-door meeting was also held at the Federal Central Intelligence Agency far away in the federal capital galaxy.
"The effect of public opinion guidance this time was very good. Atlas's full live broadcast can be said to have helped us a lot."
Mike Connor, director of the Subversion and Public Opinion Guidance Affairs Center, was summarizing the action on Pyra IV.
"In the past, after the incident, we needed to spend a lot of energy to guide public opinion in the direction we wanted through the Internet and the media, but this time it not only perfectly met our expectations, but also attracted a high degree of attention."
Mike Connor's tone was somewhat complacent. After all, as the director of the Subversion and Public Opinion Guidance Affairs Center, this action on Pyra IV was enough to add a strong stroke to his resume.
"I know that the operation led by your center was completed very well, but this is just the beginning. I hope to know your next plan."
On the main seat of the conference room, an elderly man slowly spoke:
"After all, this is related to my application to the president and the secretary of defense for direct support from the navy. If there is no complete plan, I believe they will not dispatch enough fleets to cooperate with us."
"I know, Director, this is exactly what I will say next."
Mike Connor nodded, stopped bragging about his "great achievements", and began to get to the point.
"Everyone knows that the ultimate goal of our current series of plans is to completely disintegrate the Atlas Group before it grows up and obtain the cross-galaxy real-time communication technology in their hands.
And their active intervention in the battle of Pyra IV is just digging their own graves, and it also saves us from planning to drag them into this war.
So next we will focus on the work of "stigmatizing" them, and do everything we can to deny their "neutral position".
The most perfect ending is to force them to have a head-on conflict with the federal ground forces, so that we can justifiably punish them through force."
Mike Connor spoke a lot of words. As an old hand who has been "deeply cultivating" public opinion guidance for more than ten years, he can be said to be extremely experienced in "throwing dirty water" on others and promoting internal divisions.
Coupled with the plan he prepared in advance, the senior CIA officials who participated in this closed-door meeting were also persuaded by him one after another.
After listening to Mike Connor's plan, the old man, the director of the CIA, first took up a cup of water to moisten his throat, and then announced his decision:
"Improve the plan, and come with me this afternoon to report to the president and the secretary of defense in person."
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After the self-explosion attack in Portia Town, the Federation and the Star Dragon Empire had a rare verbal war over this not-so-large-scale incident.
The Star Dragon Empire accused the Federation of committing many crimes against humanity during the war, which eventually led to the persecution of civilians in the war zone to rebel.
Princess Agnes and the Regent even made speeches because of this matter. While accusing the Federation of crimes, they expressed regret and deep condolences for the experience of civilians in the war zone, and promised that the imperial army would recover the lost land as soon as possible and let the people of the empire bathe in the sun again.
The Federation has more tricks on its side.
As a country that far surpasses the Star Dragon Empire in media and public opinion guidance, the Federation can be said to have used all channels to start publicizing this matter.
Their purpose is also very clear, which is to portray the civilians of the empire as "terrorists" and suppress the public's opposition to "indiscriminate attacks on civilians".
At the same time, they also secretly "sneered" at the Atlas Group, believing that the latter had a tendency to take sides in this incident, which was inconsistent with the statement Atlas had previously issued.
Some media outlets with official instructions and more courage have even bluntly stated that the behavior of the Atlas Group is likely to be a "symbol" of the Thousand Star Empire trying to intervene in this war.
"These people are really good at talking, making it seem as if you elves are going to attack tomorrow."
While seeing these reports, Amber also teased Alanita on the other side of the screen.
"Yo, Mr. Amber, you don't seem to be in a hurry at all. Obviously, Atlas is now at the cusp of the storm."
The background of the screen is a beach. Ellenita is wearing a boldly designed swimsuit, lying on a beach chair and drinking an iced drink while talking.
"So what if it's the cusp of the storm? Other companies may worry that public opinion will cause their stock prices to fall, causing losses to the company's shareholders, but Atlas has not been listed in the first place, so why should I worry about this~"
"But if public opinion ferments, it will eventually have an impact, right? What's more, the enemies hiding in the dark cannot let it go. They definitely want to use this wave of public opinion to create another bigger one."
Ellenita said with a somewhat solemn tone. She has been in the business world for so many years, so she has naturally seen a lot of this kind of method.
If Atlas and Amber were not prepared, they would probably fall into an infinite self-evident trap.
"At this time, it is not a wise choice to argue with public opinion or even try to reverse public opinion. After all, human society is not in a peaceful era."
Amber looked at Ellenita across the screen seriously and continued:
"There is no point in arguing or defending one's innocence in the field of public opinion. Only those who survive in the end are qualified to speak for themselves.
So, Ms. Ellenita, have you got the ‘big treasure’ that I asked you to help me get? "