In the blink of an eye, another two years have passed!
During this time, the world's problems with the part of the population that didn't want to fight the outside enemy increased, with more attacks and more people joining the cause of those who wanted to surrender to the aliens.
World leaders had tried to convince their populations that the external enemy was not coming to this world to talk or to replace the world's experts. They were coming to take over their world, kill everyone in their path, and only keep what they were interested in: the world's resources.
For the members of the Mechanic Empire, all that mattered in this world was how it could be used to their advantage with the economic exploitation of these lands.