A Colossus rushes in at the start

Chapter 28 The Planet Destroyer Attack Was Too Sudden

Whether it was due to the effect of that mocking video or not, the Star Alliance's military decisions have become noticeably more cautious, with multiple fleets providing mutual support.

As soon as a fleet engages in battle with planetary creatures, several fleets within a few light-years, along with a colossus fleet, will immediately travel at faster-than-light speeds to arrive.

It has become much more difficult for Lu Shang to devour the Star River Alliance fleet with just a few planetary creatures, as he had done before.

However, the problem wasn't too serious. This mutual support model directly led to a significant decrease in the speed at which the Star River Alliance could conquer the Swarm Starfield.

After all, for fleets to support each other, some fleets need to be in a non-combat, idle state. If they are all in combat and unable to get away, which fleet can provide support to friendly forces?

To solve this problem, we need to continue to expand the current fleet size, but production takes time. Warships aren't something that can be built like a hen laying eggs.

Therefore, during this period, Lu Shang's side doesn't need to worry too much about the Star River Alliance pushing through the maps like crazy.

The Overlord was quite farsighted; after anticipating the Star River Alliance's goal of expanding its fleet, he specifically came to Lu Shang to discuss it.

"What's the panic? Their massive shipbuilding program is exactly what I want."

"I didn't understand," the ruler replied.

Lu Shang said, "Building warships definitely requires building them in arsenals, and on such a large scale, the commotion is bound to be significant, and there's no way there won't be any news. Now is the time for their arsenal to be exposed."

As he spoke, Lu Shang immersed his mind in the swarm network.

……

Banner Consortium, a red dwarf star system.

A massive man-made machine revolves around this red dwarf star, constantly extracting the scorching star matter and channeling the cooled star matter into a processing plant.

One after another, colossal vessels, far exceeding the size of Star Alliance battleships, were quietly assembled in space docks. Countless mechanical parts moved up and down in the docks, and occasionally, dazzling sparks could be seen flashing by on the massive mechanical constructs.

This is the closest war machine group to the star system where the Overlord Swarm is located, and it is also the place responsible for maintaining the first new-type fleet. The Star Alliance hero, Bante, once visited the warship manufacturing site here.

Although the fleet that needed their maintenance had left, the supervisors did not find any respite, as the intensity of the war increased and the number of construction tasks that the war machine group needed to undertake also increased day by day.

Take the recent period as an example. The Colossus Fleet and the new fleet were completely destroyed in less than half an hour of fighting the enemy. The commanders of the war machine group and other logistics personnel were shocked. It will take them a lot of time to replenish these losses.

The supervisor asked, "How much longer will it take to complete Construction Project No. 4? The front lines are waiting for it."

The subordinate replied, "The Colossi require too many resources to build. It will probably take some time before we can complete the target of building 8,000 Colossi."

Knowing that things were equally difficult at the front, the officer urged, "Hurry, we must finish as soon as possible. The soldiers at the front are forced to slow down their advance precisely because they lack enough warships."

"How much of the next star's orbit will it complete?"

Faced with his superior's question, the subordinate thought for a moment and replied, "About four thousand five hundred Colossi."

"For the next star revolution, deliver these 4,500 Colossi first," the supervisor said.

"clear!"

The subordinate saluted and was about to turn and leave.

Suddenly, the ground shook violently, causing the supervisors and subordinates inside to lose their footing.

You have to understand, this is outer space, where earthquakes are impossible.

That leaves only one explanation...

In a panic, the supervisor immediately turned on the projector and asked the subordinate in charge of control, "What happened?"

"The stars, the stars! The stars are collapsing!" The subordinate in charge of control reported incoherently.

Finding the conversation too long, the subordinate simply switched the camera to the direction of the red dwarf star.

What appeared to be a small-mass star, which was surrounded and revolved by a swarm of war machines, was now covered with many large vortexes on its originally round, hot, and reddish surface!

After a simple scan, the supervisor confirmed that these giant vortexes were frantically devouring the planet's matter!

A star is a binary opposition structure, consisting of the opposing forces of nuclear fusion and gravity. The heat energy generated by nuclear fusion is applied to the atoms, and the thermal motion of the atoms supports the entire shape of the star against its own gravity.

Now, a portion of the star's mass has been swallowed by a microscopic black hole, resulting in an uneven distribution of gravity. This means that gravity is weakening in some regions of the star, and stellar nuclear fusion will inevitably spiral out of control.

The star exploded.

……

The planets where the Star Alliance war machines were located were detonated by black hole-induced strikes launched from outside the star system.

Because the attack was ordered through the psionic network and launched simultaneously, by the time the Star Alliance reacted, more than 100,000 Star Alliance war machines had been wiped out.

This incident directly shocked the entire Star Alliance's decision-making body, and various member forces urgently mobilized a large number of ships to protect their remaining war machine fleets.

These are the industrial cores of their civilization, and countless manpower and resources were spent on their construction.

The impact of this surprise attack was extremely negative, even causing unrest among the members of the Star Alliance. At the meeting, the civilization representative angrily accused the Alliance forces of inaction.

"What the hell is your fleet doing! Why aren't you tying down the enemy's main force!"

The Allied forces representative explained, "The Allied forces need to capture the swarm's outposts in space, otherwise they could easily find themselves surrounded."

"Then why don't you launch a full-scale attack? Why are so many of your fleets on non-combat alert?" a representative of one civilization questioned.

The Allied representative explained, "These are support fleets. If a support fleet is engaged in combat, it will be unable to provide support to other engaged fleets."

These explanations are reasonable, but they are only reasonable; the representatives of civilization cannot accept them, and it's all in vain.

"Don't talk to us about military strategy; we don't care about that. All we know is that the alliance's military-industrial complex needs the alliance forces to defend it. Do you think your logistical supplies just appear out of thin air?"

"Without logistics and industry, the Allied forces will have to fight the swarm of bees with stones from the ground!" the civilization representative roared in fury.

Following this surprise attack, the roles of offense and defense were reversed, and the Star Alliance's strategy shifted to a defensive posture.

(End of this chapter)