Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1072 Come prepared
If the situation continues to develop in this way, the Reaper's conventional fleet will undoubtedly be defeated.

However, several civilizations on the United Front side knew that as a level six civilization that had dominated the Milky Way for tens of millions of years, the Reapers definitely had more than just these conventional fleets.

There is no upper limit on the number of warships a civilization can own. The reason why the ship scale of a level 6 civilization is about hundreds of billions is that if there are more, it will be affected by comprehensive factors such as maintenance costs, resources required to maintain the scale, human resources, and the level of technological popularization and social conditions of individual civilizations.

Even if it is a level six civilization, it is impossible for every intelligent life to be a scientist or engineer.

The same is true for the size of the main battleships.

Take the Shenju civilization as an example. As a level six civilization that has existed for who knows how many tens of thousands of years, if they had continued to build battleships, they would definitely have more than they have now. However, the size of their fleet has basically stopped increasing after it has developed to this extent.

Its population size also remains at a relatively stable level.

The reasons for this are, on the one hand, the influence of each civilization’s management model, and on the other hand, the cosmic environment in which this civilization is located.

It’s not like there haven’t been civilizations in the Milky Way in the past that attempted to expand infinitely, but they were slaughtered by electronic warships without any suspense.

The Reapers have not expanded to the entire galaxy, but the number of their battleships is definitely no less than 10 billion, and there are only more than 5 billion warships here now. It is conceivable that they must have other fleets.

Maybe it is hidden in the deep void behind, or maybe it has not arrived yet.

The Milky Way is so vast that the Reapers cannot teleport here all at once.

But the existence of those warships is something that the United Front must take into account. Therefore, since the beginning of the war, the Shenju Civilization and the Yinxin Alliance, which are the main conventional combat forces, have not invested all their strength.

This approach also happens to avoid the situation where electronic warfare ships are wiped out in one fell swoop once they appear, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

Maybe the United Front's countermeasures worked, or maybe it was the Reaper's plan.

As time went on, the battle between the two sides intensified, and such large-scale group battles made the warships of both sides seem to become consumables. The main battlefield starry sky expanded from a few light years at the beginning to dozens of light years, and the peripheral battlefield reached thousands of light years.

Within this range, no star is safe, because both sides will not hesitate to blow up stars in certain locations in order to achieve some strategic or tactical goals.

Supernova explosions caused by weapons of level VI civilization are more violent than those caused by natural conditions, because they will basically blow the star into ashes, all matter will be ejected, and endless energy will be radiated to all parts of the universe in the form of light balls.

Indeed, a supernova explosion does not have much impact on the battleships of the sixth-level civilization. They can even fight in the light of a supernova, as the Awakener and the Reaper did at that time.

In this war, the motivations of both sides to blow up stars are mostly to interfere with the detection field of the other side, and also to create some blockade barriers that small detectors cannot pass through, so as to reduce the possibility of penetration by the other side's detectors. Tens of thousands of stars have been destroyed by both sides in the battlefield starry sky. I believe that after the war, this star field will definitely have an empty area of ​​thousands or even tens of thousands of light years.

After thirty-one years, the situation on the battlefield finally changed.

The Galactic Heart Alliance's exploration team has never given up on rushing to the rear of the Reaper main fleet, but unfortunately there has been no progress in more than a decade. However, this is enough to show that there is something fishy behind the Reaper main fleet.

And in this year, a reconnaissance fleet finally succeeded in breaking through the Harvesters' layers of obstruction and crossed the previous detection lines. Although this reconnaissance fleet was quickly destroyed, it sent the latest news to the Galactic Heart Alliance before it was destroyed.

The Silver Heart Alliance received it, and all the civilizations on the United Front naturally knew about it. It was a fleet of about 1.3 billion people, and according to its location, it would probably reach the battlefield in a few years.

It's just a support fleet, the United Front is not afraid.

However, what the major civilizations on the United Front side could not have imagined was that a few months later, a piece of news from a reconnaissance fleet in the rear made several civilizations worried.

It is said that in the direction of the retreat of the residential spaceship cluster, traces of the Reaper fleet appeared. In order to find out the number of the fleet, the United Front has lost no less than 100,000 exploration fleets.

The final detection result was: a Reaper fleet appeared in the rear, with a number of about 1.5 billion.

This result made human civilization, the Galactic Heart Alliance, the Shenju civilization, and the Daya civilization very nervous, because they were the only four civilizations in the united front that had large-scale residential spaceship clusters.

This intelligence also indirectly told the United Front that the reason why the other Reaper battleships had not appeared was not because they had not arrived, but because they had gone around from the outer edge of the starry sky to the rear of the battlefield.

The sudden appearance of this situation made several major civilizations very nervous, because that was the foundation of civilization. This was the disadvantage of a nomadic civilization. If such a large-scale war broke out, the civilization's residential spacecraft cluster would be in danger.

Of course, settled civilizations are actually more dangerous. There are so many level six civilizations in the Milky Way, but they were wiped out by the Harvesters just because cats were in their own small universes.

As for the current situation, because the detection level of the sixth-level civilization is far higher than the effective range of various weapons of warships, discovering the enemy fleet does not mean being attacked, there is still time to react.

And the reaction time requires the lives of countless exploration fleets.

Human civilization, Daya civilization, Shenju civilization, and the Galactic Heart Alliance also responded quickly. After receiving the news, they immediately held a quick meeting and then took action.

The plan is to let the residential spaceship cluster return, and then the Shenju Civilization and the Yinxin Alliance will each send out one billion battleships to provide support.

At the same time, both sides deployed fleets to the main battlefield to put pressure on the Reaper battleships in the main battlefield, trying to force the electronic warfare ships out.

After fighting for so long, the electronic battleship has not appeared yet, which makes the United Front side deeply uneasy.

Even the Silver Heart Alliance, an organization that has been fighting the Reapers for countless years, feels that the situation can no longer remain so passive, because the Reapers rarely have such tactics.

In the past, the Reapers' electronic warships would have appeared long ago, but now they have allowed their main battleships to fall into a passive position.

If something goes wrong, it must be a monster.

In this decisive battle, from the moment the Reapers bet on the actions of the United Front, the latter fell into a passive position. And now, all battlefield situations seem to be under the control of the Reapers, and the two support fleets that appeared one after the other are enough to prove it.

Especially the fleet in the rear, which can be said to be attacking where the enemy must be rescued.

(End of this chapter)