Chapter 48: Ch-48 It was rare
She then shifted her focus to a more strategic angle—the viability of the technology itself. Though John had yet to provide her with detailed blueprints, the recordings alone revealed enough.
She had seen the signatures, the energy outputs, the weapon configurations, and the fleet logistics involved. With that alone, she was able to estimate with absolute certainty:
If these technologies were properly studied, replicated, and mass-produced, they possessed more than a 100% potential to change the fate of humanity as it stood. The tide of the war could be turned. The frontlines could not only be stabilized, but even reversed.
Retaking lost regions would no longer be a distant hope—it would become a viable, tactical objective.
And it wasn’t just about survival or holding the line. These ships—if truly developed and deployed—could lead to the Federation establishing full control over new regions. Even more territory could fall under human command. The potential was overwhelming.
From her perspective, even the "risk" of Kallus becoming a warlord was, ironically, a favorable trade. Within Federation law, gaining a planet or a single star system’s authority through merit was difficult—requiring substantial achievements, including retaking multiple star systems or achieving breakthroughs of historic scale.
By contrast, supporting Kallus—who had already demonstrated technological capability that humanity might not be able to recreate even in the next few decades—was not just logical, it was strategically advantageous.
The trade-off was clear and weighed heavily in the Federation’s favor. Her calculations showed that humanity stood to gain exponentially more by allowing Kallus room to grow than they would lose by clinging to centralized control.
These two Tier-7 ship technologies—and the associated systems used to construct them—were nothing short of revolutionary. Had they emerged through conventional Federation research channels, it might have taken humanity decades, perhaps even centuries, to reach their level.
And yet, here they were—fully realized, battlefield-proven, and operating on principles that likely could not have even been conceived back in the Milky Way, especially due to the absence of the red energy field now present in this galaxy.
Given humanity’s historical rate of technological assimilation—especially within the hyper-competitive, innovation-driven environment of the Federation—stagnation was out of the question.