In the more than twenty years since the emergence of mecha warriors, as the focus of Federal recruitment, mecha warriors have basically exhausted two generations, yet the most they could maintain was an active force of 300,000, and many of them had never earned a Gold Star.
This shows that the value of the Independent Group far exceeds the more than one hundred billion in firepower quotas that the Federation has invested in them today.
As long as the Independent Group can maintain a certain number of survivors after today's battle, even without considering the Gold Stars already obtained by the Independent Group, which represent captured value, the Federation would still profit.
Even if it is...
"Commander, do you really not... suggest that the Independent Group abandon the mechas that haven't completed repairs and perform a genuine strategic retreat?"
In the South Sky Gate Command Center, someone made a suggestion to Ivanovic.
