Containment Control Starts With the Umbrella

December 1, 2026.

Location: Haffa City, Conference Hall on the top floor of Umbrella Hotel.

Local clock: 11:20.

Inside the conference hall.

The decoration and layout here are similar to the top-floor conference halls of other big city branches, but the space is more spacious and more luxurious.

The seats in the auditorium are not ordinary folding chairs, but comfortable single sofas.

After all, Haffa is the headquarters city of Umbrella, so it must be decent in face.

At this time, reporters of different skin colors and races were sitting on the sofa.

Of course, the race here is limited to humans, there are no elites, grunts or gnolls.

At the edge of the conference hall, there are still a large number of photographers following the reporters and adjusting the equipment.

Hey, buddy, what big news do you think Umbrella will announce this time?

I don't know, but I think it should be related to the war in the past few months.

Brilliant? The 'purple mushroom' in Earth's low-Earth orbit is explosive enough.

Hey, it doesn't matter what news is hot or not, I just hope that we humans can win.

Dude, you have to have faith in us humans, okay?

Since the press conference has not yet started, many journalists who know each other are chatting privately and are still guessing what Umbrella will announce.

Ordinary society today does not yet know that human beings have won a decisive victory in the battle with the Star Alliance.

A few reporters looked worried, as if they were worried that humans would lose to the Covenant.

But the vast majority of people are full of confidence, and firmly believe that Umbrella and the UNSC troops can win. After all, Sparta, Astartes and God Body are not vegetarians.

Click~——.

At this moment, the door at the front of the conference hall opened.

I saw Andre, who was wearing a black general uniform and holding a paper speech, walking slowly into the conference hall.

Seeing Andre, one of Umbrella's top generals, enter the arena, the reporters all ended their private conversations and got ready on the sofa to listen carefully to the information to be released next.

Andre walked slowly to the podium, came to the podium, put the paper speech on the podium, and adjusted the desktop microphone.

Ahem. Clearing his throat, Andre looked around at the crowd and said in a deep voice:

Everyone, what Umbrella and UNSC will announce at this press conference is a detailed briefing and results of the Human-Star Alliance campaign.

On September 21st of this year, the defensive battleship Observer stationed on the planet Harvest in the Epson Indian galaxy exchanged fire with an alien force calling itself the 'Covenant Alliance'.

In the end, the entire fleet and combat personnel of the Observer defeated three cruisers of the Covenant Alliance, referred to as the Star Alliance, with only one Paris-class tonnage frigate.

Captured an enemy cruiser, more than forty Sangheili races, and the artificial intelligence of a biological machine.

Since then, a large-scale interstellar battle in the Milky Way has broken out between humans and the Star Alliance, and the battle area is located on the edge of our Orion cantilever.

According to the latest statistics on November 15th, the number of our asteroid and terrestrial planet colonies has fallen to 34, and the number of severely affected ones is 14.

The number of human beings sacrificed was about 20 million, and the number of people who were seriously injured and disabled and unable to take care of themselves was 2.2 million.

...

Hearing the number of casualties reported by Andre, everyone present fell silent, and all of them showed sadness.

Another casualty of more than ten million people.

Since 2006, human beings have always encountered various natural and man-made disasters, and the number of casualties has far exceeded the sum of the first and second world wars.

But... Andre changed his subject:

According to the statistics of our Umbrella artificial intelligence, the number of casualties of the Star Alliance is about 1 to 1.3 billion.

On September 27 alone, in the EL-3 battle that took place in the Epson Indian galaxy, the Covenant lost a thousand warships at one time, and the number of casualties exceeded tens of millions.

Then, on October 21, Umbrella's Zero Fleet raided the capital of the Covenant, where the City of Fraternity is located.

During the raid, the Covenant's so-called invincible Armada was unilaterally ravaged by the Zero Fleet, losing nearly 3,000 warships.

And the city of fraternity, the capital of the Star Alliance, also fell under the offensive of the ground troops of the Zeroth Fleet.

Counting the large and small battles on Orion's cantilever frontier, the Covenant can only win by numbers when facing our human defense forces.

But I also said before that the city of fraternity, the capital of the Star Alliance, has fallen, so this war between humans and the Star Alliance ended with us humans winning an absolute victory.

What?! You actually won so quickly?!

Oh my god, I thought it would take at least a few years to win...

After hearing Andre's report, the reporters at the scene swept away the previous gloom and became surprised regardless of the discipline of the venue.

As a general, Andre, after hearing some turmoil in the audience, frowned and reminded: Please keep quiet.

Take it easy.

After the venue returned to calm, a female reporter raised her left hand, as if she wanted to ask a question.

Seeing this, Andre stretched out his left hand towards the female reporter, and said softly:

What's your question?

The female reporter who got the right to speak stood up, turned on the microphone clipped to her collar, and asked Andre:

Hello General, I am a reporter from FOX in the United States, and one thing I have been wondering is, what is that purple mushroom that is currently in the outer orbit of the earth?

According to some information you have released so far, the purple mushroom-shaped behemoth should belong to the painting and technology of the Star Alliance.

Purple mushroom... Hearing the question, Andre first repeated it softly, and then said with a kind smile:

The purple mushroom is the capital of the Star Alliance I mentioned earlier, the 'City of Fraternity'.

The City of Fraternity is the largest man-made celestial body under the Star Alliance. It can accommodate hundreds of millions, or even billions of people. This is a free trophy of the satellite colony.

It can also be seen as a souvenir that we bring back to prove that we humans have won this multi-ethnic interstellar war.

It turned out to be like this... The female reporter suddenly realized, and thanked Andre:

Thank you, General, for clarifying our doubts.

Sure, do you have any other questions? Andre continued to ask, looking around.

General. At this moment, a middle-aged male reporter raised his hand to ask a question.

Please speak. Andre indicated that the other party could ask questions.

The middle-aged male reporter stood up and asked Andre, General.

Recently, various social media, APPs and posts on the Internet have poured in a lot of photos and videos, most of which are Sangheili fighting side by side with us humans.

So General, could you please explain this situation to us?

Hehe, of course. Andre responded with a smile, and put his hand to the door on his right side, saying:

Then let the interim leader of the Sangheili, General Enzo Sa'om, clarify your doubts.