At the Mariupol Sector Capital, the Star Language Reader Hall, upon receiving the distress signal from Rostov, immediately informed all relevant departments in the Star District.
This news, like a bombshell, instantly caused a huge stir among the various power agencies in the Star District.
The departments that received the distress call immediately erupted.
The Ecclesiarchy clearly could not abandon Rostov, a crucial planet that had almost become synonymous with a Holy Land.
The Star District Bishop immediately exerted the Ecclesiarchy's influence, demanding that the Star District Department of Military Affairs dispatch reinforcements, while also contacting the Star Territory Department of Military Affairs and the Imperial Navy for support.
The Ecclesiarchy even called for a Holy War, preparing to mobilize believers for an expedition to the Rostov Sub-Sector to utterly annihilate the xenos.
The call for this Holy War quickly spread among believers, and many fanatical believers had already begun to gather, ready to fight for the Emperor's glory.
The Inquisition was also furious that a xenos civilization dared to attack an Imperial World, especially the Outreach Ordo, which was greatly incensed by this.
Because this was something within their purview, such an occurrence could be said to be their dereliction of duty.
Although Alex was also a Outreach Ordo Inquisitor, he was currently resisting the xenos civilization's attack, so the primary responsibility did not fall on him.
Moreover, from the current situation, the forces Alex had gathered were undeniably strong: there were Space Marines, Battle Sisters, Astra Militarum, and a fleet consisting of multiple cruisers.
This was already the maximum force an Inquisitor could normally mobilize.
Such a force, for the xenos civilizations the Empire might usually encounter, truly constituted a fleet capable of annihilating a nation, save for a slight shortage in the number of ground troops.
But even such a force was now being beaten to the point of calling for aid, which showed the strength of the enemy Alex was facing.
How could it not be a dereliction of duty that the Inquisition had not discovered such a powerful xenos civilization?
Precisely because of this, while the Inquisition mobilized the resources it could to support Alex, it also put pressure on the Department of Military Affairs and the Navy.
However, the greatest pressure faced by the Department of Military Affairs and the Navy at this time did not come from the Ecclesiarchy and the Inquisition.
After all, the pressure from these two was mainly official; as long as the Department of Military Affairs and the Navy took action, there would be no major problems.
But the political pressure from the Star District nobles and the Star District Governor himself was somewhat overwhelming for the Department of Military Affairs and the Navy.
Because Mai Mai had secured many sponsorships when promoting the Sub-Sector development plan in the Star Sector Capital, the nobles of the Mariupol Sector and the Star District Governor were very concerned about the development of the Rostov Sub-Sector.
Alex's actions were certainly not slow; the two planets that had already entered the construction phase gave the Star District nobles great confidence.
They were very optimistic about this plan and were prepared to make further investments later, even planning to organize an exploration team themselves to develop planets in the Sub-Sector.
After all, the profits that could be brought by developing planets were considerable.
Perhaps the top few families among the Star District nobles would not care, but for the middle and lower-class nobles, the profits from a single planet were still astonishing.
As for developing an entire Sub-Sector, that was a generous profit that even the Star District Governor could not refuse.
Even if the Star District Governor himself did not care, his family could not abandon such immense profits.
It must be known that if supported by the profits from an entire Sub-Sector, the Governor's family could firmly hold the position of Star District Governor for generations.
It was precisely because of such immense profits that when news broke that the Rostov Sub-Sector had been attacked by a xenos civilization and the entire Sub-Sector might become a battlefield, leading to the loss of profits, these nobles went crazy, pressuring the Department of Military Affairs and the Imperial Navy, demanding that they immediately rescue Rostov.
The Star District Governor's office was practically inundated with petitions and protest letters from the nobles, and some nobles even brought their retainers and private soldiers directly to the Department of Military Affairs to exert pressure, demanding immediate action.
Under such pressure, the Department of Military Affairs and the Navy had no choice but to accelerate their pace of action.
The Star District Department of Military Affairs quickly assembled nearby Astra Militarum corps, preparing to head to Rostov for support.
The Imperial Navy also urgently dispatched a main fleet consisting of a battleship and multiple cruisers, preparing to head to the Rostov Sub-Sector.
At the same time, the Inquisition's Outreach Ordo also sent elite Inquisitors, preparing for a thorough purge of the xenos civilization in the Rostov Sub-Sector.
The entire Mariupol Sector seemed to be caught in a storm, with all factions moving for the fate of Rostov.
In such a tense atmosphere, the massive reinforcements, consisting of the main fleet urgently dispatched by the Imperial Navy, 200,000 Astra Militarum urgently conscripted by the Department of Military Affairs, 800 Space Marines led by elite Pacification Inquisitors from the Inquisition, and a million Ecclesiarchy Holy War Army and 100,000 noble private soldiers, gathered within three months as the vanguard of this reinforcement, and then majestically advanced towards the Rostov Sub-Sector.
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Even before the reinforcements departed, the war on Rostov II had already ended.
Both the fleet in space and the large army on the ground were found and crushed by Rostov's military forces.
In fact, Alex only had the Star Language Reader send out the distress signal after the battle had ended.
At first glance, it seems a bit strange why he would wait until the battle was over to call for aid; even considering the Empire's low administrative efficiency, he should have called for aid before the battle began, not after it ended.
But Alex's actions were not problematic.
The Space Necrons that appeared on Rostov II were enemies Alex intended to withstand with his own strength; at the very least, he had to hold the line so that he could wait for reinforcements, rather than for them to collect corpses.
And after defeating the Space Necrons army that appeared on Rostov II, Alex's main goal shifted from resisting the enemy to solving the problem once and for all.
Undoubtedly, a Necron Dynasty, even an insignificant small dynasty, was not something Alex was currently capable of dealing with.
Even if he could get reinforcements from the Adeptus Mechanicus, which he did—Wise One Kristen guaranteed to help call a Titan Legion from Griya Forge World, and Ovilia re-contacted Cawl, explaining the situation to him and requesting the use of what was beneath the Forge.
Alex did not know the specific situation yet, but it was clear that at least he would receive assistance from a Titan Legion.
But these alone were not enough to deal with a Necron Dynasty, unless Griya Forge World brought out all its family's assets.
And Griya would obviously not do that, unless Alex could somehow find a star god shard from the Necron Dynasty's treasury.
Therefore, seeking aid from the Empire and requesting the Empire to provide reinforcements became inevitable.
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