Star Fleet, Starting with Datafication

Looking at the dazzling stars, Qingyang was filled with surprise.

Unexpectedly, this time I was directly teleported to a celestial region, and judging from the density of the stars, it was at least a star field.

The start is good; having civilizations and endless explorers can greatly improve intelligence gathering efficiency.

At least it won't collect a lot of ridiculous and useless information, such as the changes of stars every second and the rhythm of stars.

Five days passed quickly. In the first three days, the Star Fleet had almost recovered its basic combat strength, but the Commander's Talent and Star Lieutenant's Skill could not be used.

The last two days were mostly spent synchronizing the massive amounts of conventional resources and technology carried by the five fleets.

This naturally includes Lilith and a large amount of mechanical industrial equipment.

Finally, it's worth mentioning that within five days, the Endless Explorers actually managed to uncover two useful pieces of information from the aimless starry sky.

Firstly, this universe actually contains traces of a void swarm, and according to information from the stars, it seems to be a giant swarm comparable to a level nine civilization.

Given the characteristics of the Void Zerg, the possibility of them possessing a super swarm or even a dominant swarm cannot be ruled out.

As for the source swarm...

The entire Void Insectoid race consists of three major source insect swarms. Except for the strongest source insect swarm, which is under the control of the Overlord and whose whereabouts are unknown, the other two are in the greater universe.

One is currently entangled with the highest chaotic dimension.

The Alliance's intelligence indicates that the War Shadow of the Swarm is adapted to the power of Chaos, and they are hunting down some ordinary Chaos Gods in an attempt to optimize the War Shadow using divine memes.

Another group, also at war, targets a formidable Age Empire, an Age Empire highly skilled in biological, memetic, and psionic technologies.

The current stalemate has lasted for hundreds of millions of years.

The Void Swarm's powerful technologies were all learned from and adapted from the Empire of Time.

Of course, that ancient empire also gained a lot.

In addition, nearly fifty of the dominant insectoid swarms are indeed located in the wasteland.

Thinking of this, Qingyang frowned.

If two dominant insect swarms appear simultaneously, along with a certain number of source insect swarm units, invading a desolate universe is indeed not difficult.

After all, the Zerg swarm has extremely strong war potential and endurance among civilizations of the same level, and it does not show any weakness even when fighting two psionic technology civilizations of the same level.

Qingyang then shared his thoughts with everyone, and the two Guiyi commanders immediately said, "It's very likely."

The Alliance previously discovered that the Zerg swarm was extremely eager for the primordial power of the universe, and had even attacked multiple desolate universes simultaneously.

The Zerg swarm was prevented from succeeding only because of the Alliance's intervention. However, the Zerg swarm eventually conquered two desolate universes, each with a diameter of about two to three thousand star seas.

This led to a surge in the size of dominant and super swarms.

Similarly, it's highly likely that there are universes undiscovered by the Alliance that have been attacked by the Zerg swarm.

Qingyang said calmly, "That's right, we can't overlook any possibilities in this situation."

Besides the swarm of insects, another piece of information surprised Qingyang and the others, because the area they were in was neither a star field nor a star cluster.

It's a giant nebula!

A large celestial region with a diameter equivalent to the distance between three seas!

The resources of a region with a diameter of 300 billion light-years are sufficient to nurture seven or eight level-nine or even level-ten civilizations.

What surprised everyone was that although this great nebula had given rise to many advanced civilizations, it lacked level nine civilizations, and the total number of civilizations was not large.

When distributed in three-dimensional regions like large nebulae, they appear even more sparse.

Qingyang looked at the group and said, "For now, let's find a star cluster with abundant resources, preferably one with a psionic environment and a central black hole."

Jia Fei and the others all agreed, and the four of them decided to make Qingyang their leader.

Moreover, they were well aware that Lilith, who was beside Qingyang, was a high-dimensional data life form who was extremely familiar with the construction of intelligent machine civilizations.

Provided the technology is up to standard, a large army of intelligent machines capable of reaching at least an eighth-level civilization can be rapidly established.

That was a conventional force capable of contending with the five star fleets present.

Having finalized their plan, the five warships simultaneously entered stealth mode and sped off in any direction!

Qingyang went even further, abandoning the precision of the Azure Matrix and forcibly increasing the detection range to hundreds of thousands of light-years.

No battle is needed; simply searching for civilizations and obtaining a general reconnaissance result is sufficient.

Before long, Qingyang successfully located a level four civilization and approached it silently, with tens of thousands of endless explorers quickly scanning over it.

They quickly gathered a lot of useful information, mostly about the situation of this large nebula.

After a quick analysis, Qingyang selected a level seven civilization territory, then stored the four people's flagship in his inner space and arrived directly through the primordial starry sky space.

After two or three attempts, Qingyang finally found a star cluster that met his requirements from the database of a level seven peak civilization.

Far from the prosperous region of this great nebula civilization, the area is rich in resources but in a primitive state, with only a few surface civilizations and first and second-level interstellar civilizations.

The dense region of stars spans tens of millions of light-years, with a total area of ​​over 100 million, and contains hundreds of star-scale black holes and one star cluster-scale supermassive black hole.

As for a psionic environment, Qingyang doesn't crave it.

Having successfully located the position, Qingyang released the four flagships, along with Lilith and her twenty mechanical behemoths.

Two of them have a diameter of 500,000 kilometers, while the rest are stellar megastructures with a diameter of 50,000 kilometers, all of which are industrial megastructures.

In addition, there are four mega-server structures and the Taihu Data Terminal.

In fact, no server is needed; even just the Taihu terminal is sufficient to support the data needs of a level nine intelligent mechanical civilization.

After a moment's thought, Qingyang released the two lower-version Heavenly Craftsmanship Monuments as well.

Lilith's industrial megastructure can only produce products of a mid-to-high level level eight civilization at most; it cannot manufacture some peak level eight creations and cutting-edge products.

Two colossal structures can perfectly fill this gap.

Also appearing were 20 million mechanical warships comparable to the main warships of an eighth-level early civilization, and 100 million mineral mechanical spheres.

With a diameter of one kilometer, it has seven or eight force field terminals, including decomposition force field and structural force field, which is sufficient to collect various resources and process them into basic materials.

They can even be combined to form a super-large force field matrix, directly decompressing the resources in the black hole.

Even a hundred million of these machines would be enough to meet the entire resource gathering and basic processing needs of an eighth-level civilization.

Xingqi Mining Group's products are priced at 1,000 Star Points each. Even with a 10% discount, Qingyang still spent tens of billions of Star Points.

Looking at the mechanical legion that was getting on track and beginning to expand rapidly, Qingyang looked at everyone and said, "It will take about four more Star Sea Suns for the Starry Sky Fleet to recover its peak combat power."

Where should we begin our investigation?

Jia Fei and Jiang Tianxue did not answer, but looked at the two Guiyi Commanders. Compared to the two professionals, their opinions might not be perfect.

One of the commanders of the Guiyi faction stated directly: "Currently, the strongest civilizations in the Great Nebula are some level eight civilizations, among which there should be civilizations like the Star Giant Enterprise."

The scale of intelligence possessed by this type of civilization far exceeds that of other civilizations of the same level.

Qingyang nodded in agreement.

Commercial giants, setting aside the value and rarity of their intelligence, are unmatched by any other civilization in terms of scale and reach.

"In that case, we'll spend the next four days searching for the location of the Giant Enterprise Civilization. If we don't find the Giant Enterprise Civilization, we'll have to search for each of the Level 8 civilizations one by one."

Endless Explorers need targeted objectives to maximize the effectiveness of intelligence gathering.

[Please note: Barrenness penetration fluctuation detected]

[Target confirmed: Void Zerg]

Upon hearing this, Qingyang was startled, then raised an eyebrow as if he had just realized something.

Could the swarm of insects be specifically targeting them?

Chapter 288 'A Simple Swarm'

"The swarm is coming."

Qingyang calmly stated that, with the support of the Azure Matrix, the range and precision of his local star network were the highest among the five.

Upon hearing this, everyone who was meditating opened their eyes at the same time, and their powerful spiritual energy spread wildly, instantly covering the entire star system.

Boom!

Space warped, psionic energy vibrated, and distant stars dimmed, as if shrouded in a massive shadow.

It can only emit a dim luster.

The universe where Qingyang and the others were traveling at faster-than-light speeds was similar to the larger universe, possessing a layer of space comparable to that of the larger universe.

In addition, there is a natural spatial cave here, through which one can travel at extremely high speeds.

It is enough to traverse the distance of a star sea within a year, and its distribution is relatively even and extremely stable, and it can even be modified by advanced civilizations.

Making it more efficient and larger is, unsurprisingly, a means for this universe to facilitate communication between advanced civilizations.

Unlike the Star Cluster Universe and the Megaverse, the former, although it only has three dominant civilizations, is incredibly powerful.

The Primordial Light and the Eternal Empire are at least mid-level hegemonic civilizations, and the Protocol Core that is unleashed at full power is likely no weaker than that of a peak hegemonic civilization.

If the Zerg swarm attacks a cluster universe, it would require at least three dominant Zerg swarms plus a large Protoss fleet to contend with them, and even then, they might not necessarily gain the upper hand.

The three dominant forces in the Star Cluster Universe are all groups that favor mechanical civilization.

They are least afraid of large-scale warfare.

However, all these speculations require the premise that the difficulties currently facing this universe are indeed related to the Zerg swarm.

It cannot be ruled out that there are even more advanced structures and civilizations in this universe.

As the shadow rapidly approached the base star system, the five fleets quickly released their respective starships, resulting in a surge of over a billion data mechanical warships.

The size of this warship fleet is still increasing, with dense arrays of warships appearing in thousands of star systems around it.

Dozens of group enhancement skills covered the area, significantly boosting the actual combat power of the five powerful starships. The chilling high-dimensional aura spread like an invisible cosmic storm.

Even if it's not as effective as the mutual amplification of thousands of star fleets, the amplification network of five powerful T5 fleets can still have a significant enhancement effect.

Meanwhile, the insect swarm's shadowy tentacles, covering vast areas of stars, have entered the Eternity's radius of ten thousand light-years.

The shadow that had been exuding savagery, ferocity, and overwhelming iron-bloodedness suddenly trembled slightly, and then all the bonuses and interference effects on the insect swarm collapsed.

[Swarm shadow detected - Local StarNet anti-swarm amplification module activated]