The war had raged on for more than a month, a little under two months. The most immediate effects of the war had already rippled across human civilization. The catastrophic crash of stock markets, the spiking of interest rates and of insurance premiums sent massive tsunamis that disrupted every single edge of human civilization. Even the furthest edge of humanity on the other side of Arima III wasn't unaffected by such a change.
The immediate financial catastrophe destroyed many firms and enterprises. Astro-economics had always been brutal compared to its planetary equivalent. Transporting goods and services by crossing light-years between stars was much more complicated and intensive than traveling by land or by sea between nations on a planet.
