A Colossus rushes in at the start

Chapter 54 These Masterminds Are Too Panicked

The Star Alliance's offensive against the Babel Tower Swarm is unstoppable!

To defend against the Star Alliance fleet's attack, the Babel Tower Swarm had long ago set up defensive lines along the spiral arm where the swarm's main forces were located.

However, on the first day of the confrontation with the Star River Alliance, the five defensive lines were directly breached, and the sixth defensive line was in grave danger.

This is mainly because the Star Alliance fleet doesn't really uphold martial ethics.

Upon arriving at the battlefield, the fleet's first action was not to engage the planetary creatures of the Babel swarm in combat, but rather to use the radar on board to lock onto their positions and have the gravity-blocking ships prevent the planetary creatures from reaching faster-than-light speeds.

Once everything was ready, the Star Alliance fleet requested a wormhole strike from the rear to destroy the planetary life forms deployed in the nebula.

Thus, after their first encounter, the planetary creatures, who were once invincible, are now as fragile as paper.

"It's unstoppable! Absolutely unstoppable!"

"Only the Nama Nebula retains its defensive capabilities! But judging from the current situation, it won't last more than three days!"

"Tell me if you have any ideas!"

Within the swarm network, the masterminds were in complete chaos. Despite their efforts to overestimate the enemy's strength, they discovered a serious underestimation once the war began.

The defensive lines they deployed before the battle, relying on the nebula, seemed to be able to inflict only a little damage on the enemy.

Just as the mainframes were racking their brains over the Star Alliance fleet's wormhole attack, a message appeared in the swarm network from a hive.

"What is it?" Moston asked, clearly annoyed.

The reason for their dissatisfaction is simple: the mainframes are currently preoccupied with the life-or-death crisis of their race, and this hive is so tactless as to disturb their thoughts at this crucial moment.

The beehive that delivered the message was a bit timid, and it hesitantly replied, "Um... regarding the decision-making... I have a question I don't quite understand... so I wanted to ask."

"Why should you, a beehive, care about this? Just do your job," Moston said.

When the mastermind criticized the hive for its scope of work, it surprisingly overcame its timidity and stubbornly replied, "The hive has been reformed, and participating in thinking is also part of the work of all individuals in the hive."

"Speak up if you have any questions, don't waste our energy and time," the mastermind, Kasha, urged.

The Hive asked, "Why can't we create a large number of dispersed Behemoths to counter the enemy's wormhole attacks?"

"..."

Suddenly, the masterminds within the swarm network, who were still agitated, fell silent.

Yes, why not use the Behemoth horde to replace the planetary creatures on the battlefield?

The only difference between planetary creatures and Behemoths is that one consists of a large number of brains sharing a planet-sized body, while the other has each brain having its own body.

In terms of psionic power, the planetary beings with five million psionic brains are far superior to the five million Behemoths.

Because these Behemoths were so numerous, their physical mass exceeded their brain mass, and their psionic abilities were limited.

To counteract the gravitational pull generated by their immense size, each Behemoth needs to allocate some of its psionic energy to constantly adjust its position, so that the Behemoth horde doesn't resemble a swarm of flies buzzing around.

Planetary beings, on the other hand, do not need to worry about the problem of gravity, thus allowing them to achieve a greater output of psionic energy.

In a contest of psychic power, the Behemoth horde has absolutely no chance of defeating the planetary creatures.

However, the swarm's opponent is not its own kind, but the Star Alliance, which possesses wormhole attack capabilities. Planetary creatures cannot withstand microscopic black holes that penetrate directly into their interiors, but the dispersed Behemoth horde does not need to worry about this.

Because the Behemoth horde is a loose group, throwing a microscopic black hole into them will at most kill a few Behemoths, while the others can easily scatter and hide.

In any case, the terrifying thing about microscopic black holes is their ability to devour matter. As long as the distance is increased, microscopic black holes with relatively small overall mass are not capable of pulling Behemoths over to devour them, and will eventually just evaporate on their own.

Grana thought it was feasible, but since it hadn't tried it, it was still uncertain whether the specific effects would be as it expected, so it consulted the other mainframes.

"What do you guys think?"

Nanali suggested, "...It's worth a try. At the moment, it seems like a good option, but we can't rule out the possibility that the Star Alliance doesn't have any other weapons to deal with this situation."

……

A massive fleet broke free from faster-than-light travel and appeared at the edge of a nebula.

This is the seventh line of defense for the Babel Swarm. After taking down a nebula outpost on the sixth line of defense, the fleet immediately advanced toward the seventh line of defense.

The fleet's commander meticulously scanned the tactical map, but he couldn't find those enormous creatures that were nearly planetary in size.

Radar is divided into high-precision radar and low-precision radar. Although low-precision radar is less efficient than high-precision radar, it has the advantage of faster startup speed.

Generally, after each faster-than-light jump, the fleet will use both types of radar simultaneously to prevent the high-precision radar from starting up too slowly and being caught off guard.

In previous battles, planetary creatures were easily detected by low-precision radar due to their enormous size, but this time they were not detected.

Without a fixed location, a wormhole strike is impossible.

Just as the commander was feeling puzzled, his subordinate urgently reported: "Report! Psychic activity detected! A swarm of bee-like creatures has appeared in the direction of Fugu Star! A large herd of Behemoths has been detected!"

The commander immediately asked his subordinates, "How large is the Behemoth horde?"

"More than five million!" the subordinate reported.

The commander then asked, "What about the planetary-level swarm creatures?"

"Nothing detected!"

The commander-in-chief calmly observed the massive Behemoth horde and fell into deep thought. Clearly, this change in the enemy's tactics was a response to their wormhole attack…

The intention is to use a loose structure to evade attacks from microscopic black holes passing through the wormhole.

However, this change did not pose a problem for the commander-in-chief. From the very beginning, the Star Alliance's staff had envisioned that the Babel Bee Swarm would abandon planetary creatures due to the defeat in the war and instead use traditional swarm tactics.

Therefore, from the very beginning, there has been more than one mode of wormhole attack.

"Gravity jammers at full power! Block the enemy's faster-than-light capabilities! Other ships, provide fire support for the gravity jammers! We must devour these Behemoth behemoths!" the commander-in-chief ordered methodically.

Next, the main commander contacted the wormhole generation device at the rear.

"Requesting wormhole saturation strike! Mode: Gamma coverage bombardment! Range coordinates are..."

(End of this chapter)