A Colossus rushes in at the start

Chapter 31: Staff Strategy Overly Imitation

Star Alliance, Military Staff Headquarters.

The military headquarters of the Star Alliance consists of a virtual platform comprised of large computer groups located in open areas between star systems.

Because interstellar warfare is so massive, and the General Staff Headquarters needs to coordinate the overall situation, if the General Staff Headquarters were located in reality, the military materials sent in every day would be enough to overwhelm the entire General Staff Headquarters.

The beauty of virtual space lies in its ability to disregard physical space to the greatest extent possible, ensuring the most efficient exchange of information and guaranteeing that massive amounts of information can be delivered to military advisors of various civilizations in the first instance.

Currently, a heated debate is raging in the virtual space of the Star Alliance's General Staff.

The core of the debate lies in which war strategy the Star Alliance should adopt to counter its enemies.

One advisor suggested adding faster-than-light engines to the war machine fleet, giving these massive man-made objects the mobility for interstellar travel.

However, after calculations, the staff found that this idea was not practical.

"There isn't enough time, the resource requirements are enormous, and the workforce that needs to be mobilized is also huge. Installing a mobile faster-than-light engine on each war machine group means that the war machine groups would have to choose to stop production, which is unacceptable at the moment. The Alliance's fleet needs logistics."

Another military staff officer added, "The more critical issue is the lack of time. With the situation on the front lines changing, would the Babel swarm give the alliance such a breathing space? What the alliance needs is a faster way to resolve the problem."

"Mobile war machine swarms are a good idea, but they're not suitable for the current situation."

As the military advisors, and even those from their own civilization, expressed their approval, the representative who had come to listen on behalf of the alliance's decision-making body began to get restless.

It's important to understand that due to the infection tactics employed by the Babel swarm, many members of the Star Alliance have been fragmented, with some even actively accepting infection.

"What the alliance needs now is a way to turn the tide, not just some 'unsuitable' statement. If the swarm creatures continue to maintain this initiative in the war, the alliance's situation will only worsen day by day," the alliance representative said.

The Star Alliance urgently needs a strategic countermeasure against its adversaries. The decision-makers do not expect to eliminate the enemy in one fell swoop or turn the tide of the battle, but at the very least... they cannot allow those damned swarm creatures to extend their tentacles any further.

At this moment, a military staff officer stepped forward.

"May I say a few words?"

"Bona, this is not a military academy, but a virtual space for brainstorming. As long as it helps the war effort, there are not many taboos. Please speak."

"Understood."

Bona shook the membrane wings behind him, and then slowly explained his thoughts.

"I believe that the underlying logic of the previous plan was sound. Although mobile war machine swarms are not suitable for the current war situation, the key to the current situation does lie in the war machine swarms."

"In order to ensure the safety of the war machine group, the Allied fleet can only adopt a defensive posture and deal with the swarm of bee creatures with limited options."

Bona's remarks won the approval of many advisors, and the alliance representative nodded slightly in agreement, rubbing the whiskers on his cheek.

It was precisely because of concerns about military logistical facilities such as the War Machines that the Star Alliance had to shift its fleet from offense to defense.

The Star Alliance has no intention of engaging in a home-trading strategy with the Swarm. Having fought interstellar wars with the Babel Swarm for so many years, they are well aware of the industrial system the Swarm possesses.

Bona continued, "I think that since the swarm creatures can use nebulous matter to induce black holes to resist the Alliance's induced black hole attacks, we can also follow their example and envelop the entire star system in dust."

"Then, in the asteroid belt at the outer edge of the star system, set up numerous gravitational interference points to intercept faster-than-light travel, preventing the swarm of bee creatures from directly rushing into the vicinity of the star to carry out an attack."

"As a result, the swarm of bee creatures will no longer be able to launch attacks on the star as quickly as before and destroy the war machine swarm."

"With ample time to respond, the fleet forces responsible for guarding the war machine group will naturally be reduced."

"Then, we will divert these fleets to launch an attack to disrupt the swarm creatures' offensive strategy. When the war machine groups in other star systems of the alliance increase the size of their fleets, that will be the time for the Star Alliance's great counter-offensive."

Just as Bona finished explaining his strategic thinking, someone raised a question.

"Nebula matter alone is not enough. Numerous battle records show that swarm organisms can quickly locate the position of generated microscopic black holes, thereby deflecting them for defensive purposes. How would your strategy deflect and induce the generation of microscopic black holes?"

"If the defense cannot be deflected, the resulting microscopic black holes will still pose a threat to the star."

The Star Alliance doesn't have the overpowered convenience of psionic energy. Nebulous matter has no effect on the psionic energy release of swarm creatures. They can sense it immediately using the psionic network and then throw out the incoming microscopic black hole in an instant. But what about the Star Alliance?

Although the Star Alliance can also send a large number of sensors into space to mimic the scout nebula of planetary life, how to deflect the microscopic black holes generated in the nebula becomes another problem.

Nebula matter also has a significant weakening effect on all weapons of the Star Alliance. After discussion, it was unanimously agreed that kinetic bullet interception was the most ideal option, with the bullet impacting the microscopic black hole and using the bullet's own momentum to deflect the black hole's motion.

While ray interception can achieve the same deflection effect, ray interception is prone to scattering in nebular matter, thus affecting the distribution density of nebular matter.

Although kinetic energy projectiles will be worn down and have their kinetic energy consumed by nebula matter, they will at least not affect the distribution density of nebula matter. At most, they will create a straight trajectory in the nebula, without affecting the nebula's ability to intercept black hole-induced attacks.

As for the issues of nebula material wear and tear and energy loss, these can be addressed by shortening the launch distance.

A large number of kinetic energy turrets are evenly distributed within the star system. When a microscopic black hole appears, the nearest turret fires a projectile to deflect it.

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Meanwhile, the Babel bee swarm, utilizing planetary creatures with level twelve psionic brains, completed its incubation and upgrade.

The process is actually not complicated; it simply involves replacing the original brain of the Behemoth with a brain of the same structure that governs the brain.

Since the Overlord's brain is only one-eighth the size of the Behemoth's brain, the upper limit of the brain that a planetary creature can hold is directly increased eightfold. A single planetary creature can hold five million Behemoth brains and forty million Overlord brains.

More importantly, these psionic brains are all level twelve psionic!

This means that the new generation of planetary beings is absolutely superior to the original planetary beings who used level 10 psionic energy, both in terms of range and energy level.

However, theory is one thing, but ability testing is still very necessary.

After directly comparing the range and strength of psychic energy with that of multiple planetary beings, it was proven that the theory was indeed consistent with reality.

Especially in terms of psionic power, the original planetary creatures could only extract one giant pillar of fire from a star at most, while the new generation of planetary creatures can extract multiple pillars of fire at once.

After extraction, multiple plasma planets expand simultaneously to accelerate cooling. In terms of incubating similar beings, its efficiency far surpasses that of planetary creatures with level 10 psionic energy.

After various tests, Lu Shang conducted the final test.

(End of this chapter)