Chapter 457 Franklin's Request for Help

When the Atlas Group completely withdrew from the Rubion Galaxy and did not even retain an office in public, various forces in the Rubion Galaxy began to make small moves one after another.

Before the Atlas Group withdrew, the Galaxy Autonomous Government, with the assistance of the Atlas combat troops, had always maintained "semi-military control" over the entire galaxy.

In addition, Atlas implemented the same strict management system as the headquarters for the companies under its control, so the local forces in the Rubion Galaxy were unable to effectively infiltrate these companies.

Faced with these two "iron plates" that would not disappear for a while, various civil groups, opposition parties in the Rubion Galaxy, and forces supported by the federal government, the military-industrial complex, and even the Star Dragon Empire could only choose to rest and recuperate temporarily, and dared not act rashly.

This situation continued until the relationship between Atlas and the Federation gradually deteriorated, and finally withdrew from the Rubion Galaxy as a whole.

The wave of public opinion that affected the entire Rubion Galaxy and the subsequent riots were fueled by multiple forces. Each party hoped to gain enough benefits from this conflict in order to have more bargaining chips in their hands after the situation stabilized in the future.

As for the civilians who were induced by them to escalate the conflict step by step, they were just consumables that could be used to achieve their goals.

Franklin, who was devoted to the affairs of the Galaxy, naturally noticed this quickly, but he found that he could not do anything with his current identity. He could only watch the Galaxy Autonomous Government continue to issue orders for the military and police in various regions to implement "armed stability maintenance".

The Rubion Galaxy Autonomous Government is actually very clear about the real situation of the Galaxy, so the re-established police force - especially the police force on Rubion V, is essentially a paramilitary unit.

Faced with the "mobs" in various places who were unarmed and had at most some civilian exoskeletons or engineering robots, these police teams, which were trained by the Atlas Group to deal with such special situations, also 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 set off riots.

Just when most people except Franklin thought that the situation could at least slowly stabilize and not deteriorate, an "accident" happened.

A police force on Rubion V, when it was dispatched to perform the "armed stability maintenance" mission again, directly surrendered to the "mob" side and raised the slogan of "resisting the tyranny of the galaxy autonomous government".

When this news spread, most of the senior officials and employees of the autonomous government suddenly felt that the sky was falling, because they never thought that the violent units affiliated with the autonomous government would "defection" like this.

But Franklin knew from the beginning that when the galaxy government sent out police forces and lifted their firing restrictions and asked them to "arm riot control", it would definitely come to this step.

Because these rebuilt police forces are all locals, most of their families work in related companies, and their families are actually victims from a certain perspective.

In this case, sending them out and letting them point their guns at people who may be their relatives, friends, and neighbors will eventually make these armed police officers who are caught in a dilemma choose to stand on the side of their families.

The subsequent development was the same as Franklin expected. The "defection" of this police force seemed to become a signal. In the following days, the riot police teams deployed in various places continued to "defection".

Although these teams surrendered to different mob teams, and the actual controllers behind these teams were different, and it can even be said that they were not necessarily in the same camp, it made no difference to the Luion Galaxy Government.

Because no matter what camp it was, what the ultimate goal was, the current goal of these "mobs" was still very consistent - that is, to destroy the current order and eventually let the Luion Galaxy Autonomous Government completely lose control of the galaxy.

With the continuous "defection" of the armed police force, these "mobs" in the Luion Galaxy officially transformed into more advanced "armed mobs", their morale was greatly improved, and they also received support from weapons and equipment.

Although the galaxy autonomous government has not yet officially issued a statement, when Franklin attended an internal meeting, his superiors had already used 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 losing money in the "armed suppression" operations day by day, and the morale of the police officers is also falling.

After all, in order to maintain order and stability, they are on duty in dangerous areas every day, and they have to keep exchanging fire with the "armed mobs" with increasingly strong combat effectiveness, and the death rate is also rising.

In this situation where they have clearly used their lives to maintain normal order, many people's families and friends will say behind their backs that they are accomplices of the galaxy autonomous government, cold-blooded executioners, and have no sympathy for other oppressed civilians.

The senior management of the Rubion Galaxy Police Center quickly reported the current situation of the entire police team and said that if it continued, the remaining armed police forces would soon lose their normal service capabilities.

So they suggested that the galaxy garrison troops should formally take over the current situation to prevent the situation from further deteriorating.

This suggestion was quickly adopted after it was submitted along with the report.

Because according to some intelligence, some large enterprises and consortiums in the Rubion galaxy also stabbed the autonomous government, the previous "ally", and their "small moves" became more and more obvious.

If they don't strike hard again, the autonomous government may really lose control of the galaxy.

So, not long after the conflict between the federal government and the Atlas Group on Pyla IV ended, the garrison troops rebuilt in the Rubion galaxy also began to formally carry out "counterinsurgency" operations.

Counterinsurgency - 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 obtain support from the federal government.

However, the latter request was rejected at the speed of light, on the grounds that the federal government is currently focusing on the war on the front line and has no energy to deal with the problems of the Rubion galaxy, so it hopes that the Rubion galaxy autonomous government will withstand the pressure and solve it on its own.

After hearing the news, Franklin knew that at this stage, a larger-scale civil strife was inevitable.

And his judgment was verified again. After the galaxy garrison began to carry out the counter-insurgency battle, the autonomous government's expectation of quickly suppressing the "armed mobs" in various places to restore order did not occur.

Instead, it caused a more violent backlash and rapidly increased the level of conflict in this civil strife.

At the same time, what happened to the armed police force also happened to the rebuilt galaxy garrison.

At that time, when the garrison was rebuilt, since the federation had relaxed restrictions on the autonomous governments of various galaxies, the source of soldiers for this newly built force was not from other galaxies in the federation, but directly recruited from local "fellow villagers".

It is precisely because of this that the Rubion galaxy autonomous government "justifiably" cancelled the "hometown subsidy" in the salary of the garrison soldiers, and this fee accounted for nearly 30% of the basic salary of the grassroots soldiers.

In the eyes of the people of the galaxy autonomous government, since everyone is now serving locally, this "hometown subsidy" obviously does not exist.

To some extent, this decision seems to be fine.

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 level of the garrison, their salary has dropped by nearly 30%.

Even those soldiers who can understand the reason are not happy. After all, the garrison is not in a densely populated area, so even if they stay in the garrison, they are still far away from their hometown.

You see, the resentment of the grassroots soldiers is not here?

History has told people again and again not to withhold soldiers' salaries, otherwise there will definitely be big problems.

But as the old saying goes, the only lesson that humans can learn from history is that humans never learn lessons from history.

In the garrison rebuilt in the Rubion galaxy, a large number of grassroots soldiers were already dissatisfied with the sharp drop in wages during their service.

In addition, some soldiers' families were also victims of the collective salary cuts by the companies. Before the riots happened, they learned about it in the "visit communication" with their families. Therefore, most soldiers knew why the conflict started and subconsciously stood on the side of the oppressed civilians.

When they arrived at the combat zone and saw the civilians who suffered again because of the conflict, and the cities that had just been rebuilt and were destroyed by war, the long-suppressed dissatisfaction in their hearts broke out completely.

At the same time, a tacit "consensus" emerged among the grassroots soldiers.

"I joined the garrison to protect my hometown from the invasion of the imperial devils, not to point the gun at my fellow countrymen!"

Not long after the armed counterinsurgency operation codenamed "Cast Lead" was launched, the garrison troops in various war zones began to "defection on the battlefield", especially those troops that did not properly handle the dispersion of their hometowns, resulting in "fellow villagers gathering together", and even transformed themselves into "rebels" in battalions and companies.

The "frequent good news" on the counterinsurgency front made the already overwhelmed Rubion Galaxy Autonomous Government make more stupid decisions in the subsequent decision-making.

One of the orders, "allowing each enterprise to organize its own security forces to stabilize the situation in the region", made Franklin's eyes go black.

Watching the situation in the Rubion Galaxy gradually develop from riots to the brink of civil war, Franklin, who did not want his hometown to be ravaged by war again, but had no other choice, only had one last choice.

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 was driven out of the Rubion system was much stronger than before in terms of comprehensive strength.

But when he really made up his mind to ask Amber for help, he found that he didn't seem to have the contact information of the Atlas boss behind the scenes. Although he had a good chat with him at the cocktail party, it didn't mean that he was qualified to get his contact information.

And the last Atlas office in the Rubion system had been closed for a long time, so it was 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 stretched out his hand and clicked on the icon, and then the personal terminal, which was connected to the built-in terminal on the desk, initiated a communication request to a network communication address built in under the 'Contact Us' - and it also automatically Switched to quantum entanglement communication line.

After waiting for only a few seconds, the communication was connected, and a sweet female voice sounded in Franklin's ears.

"Hello, this is Atlas Group's 24-hour customer service hotline. How can I help you?"

The female voice was gentle and melodious, like an oriole's cry, but Franklin still heard that it 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 configured permissions are also limited. It is relatively low and may not be able to meet his communication request of "direct communication to Tianting".

However, after a moment of silence, Franklin still held the mentality of 'it's connected anyway, let's give it a try', and said nervously:

"Hello, I'm Franklin Abraham from the Lubion Galaxy. Can you 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. Who would call the customer service line of another company and then specify that he wanted 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.

"Customer identity confirmed, please wait"

"ah?"

The AI ​​operator's answer stunned Franklin for a moment. He never expected that he would hear such an answer, and he didn't expect that after he casually clicked 'Contact Us', it seemed that he was actually going to contact the man?

"Mr. Rebir is currently idle during this 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 encrypted line. Switching completed and transferring for you."

Suddenly there was only a beep indicating 'transferring' in the communication channel, and Franklin became more and more nervous, because he just had the mentality of giving it a try and hadn't even thought about it yet. say something.

But the next second, a familiar voice sounded in the encrypted communication line.

"Hey, Mr. Franklin, you are really fine. Why did you suddenly think of looking for me?"

After hearing this voice, Franklin calmed down almost instantly, and then said in an anxious but calm voice:

"Mr. Rebil, I need... no, the people of the Lubion system need your and Atlas's assistance!"