For five grueling days, the skies above the Western Hemisphere had been a constant battlefield. Endless skirmishes, a brutal dance of death between the desperate, outmatched forces of the United Earth Defense Pact and the relentless invasion fleet of the Krill's 54th Battle Fleet.
But with the sudden, game-changing intervention of the Terran Retribution Command, the tide had slowly, agonizingly, begun to turn. Richard's forces, their advanced ANV fleets providing overwhelming air and atmospheric superiority, had systematically dismantled the Krill's atmospheric presence.
Crucially, TRC's rapid logistics and supply deliveries had kept UEDP ground forces armed and fighting, while the devastating precision of Richard's Planetary Defense Weapons had picked off Krill reinforcements before they could even enter the atmosphere. It was a grinding, bloody push, but the UEDP, bolstered by this new, powerful ally, was slowly but surely pushing back the enemy forces.
