The Allbright System - A Sci-Fi Progression LitRPG Story

“The victor of a war is not the one with the most firepower, but the one who can afford to keep firing.”

In a war where every single ship costs billions and a single batch of Marines can run the price of a mid-world’s capital-city’s annual GDP, the real battles aren’t fought with rifles, tanks or orbital bombardments—they're waged on ledgers, budget tables, and fiscal projections.

For every Marine on the frontlines, there are a hundred others back home ensuring they’re fed, armed, equipped, deployed, healed, rearmed, and shipped back out again.

Logistics may move armies, but Credits are what allow logistics to exist in the first place.

Fuel is bought. Ammunition is manufactured. Ships are built from alloys mined by laborers paid in wages, secured by investors, insured by financial arms of Faction-run megabanks.

Every pull of a trigger is an invoice sent down the supply chain.

Every Marine that is Zero’ed is a cascade of spreadsheets being updated.

Every volley of missiles is a transaction—ultimately approved or denied by an algorithmic calculation deep in UHF High Command's infrastructure.

No wonder then, that sectors rich in raw resources, energy production, or economic throughput are oftentimes more heavily defended than military outposts, is it not?

Losing a manufacturing hub hurts more than losing a thousand Marines—because the Marines can be remade, but the Credits needed to do so cannot be conjured from sentiment.

Ammunition is cheap. War is not. If you want to win a war, forget the rifles.

Instead, make damn sure your accountants are better than theirs.

– Marshal Renk Tavros, Strategic Oversight Division, PFC 933”