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The Alliance Army, with four hundred million troops, had a total construction cost exceeding twenty billion and required nearly 2.1 billion in military expenditure each year for maintenance.

This expenditure was considerably larger than that required to maintain thirty million Star Realm Army troops, even on a per capita basis.

It meant that although the Alliance Army ranked lower in the empire's order and was essentially a Planetary Defense Army, its actual combat effectiveness was likely much stronger than that of standard Star Realm forces like the Dragonhawk Legion.

Normally, the Alliance wouldn't have been able to afford such an army. Besides personnel training, the production and maintenance costs of military equipment were prohibitively expensive.

But in reality, the Alliance hadn't spent that much money.

Most of the equipment, especially the expensive items, were offered to the Alliance Army at least at half the reported price.