Abyss Solo
Chapter 574 - 250 natural enemies_2

Chapter 574: 250 natural enemies_2

Beyond the floor-to-ceiling windows of the bridge, warships flew in from deep space, and in the distance, space ripples generated by more warships transitioning were visible.

If previously, in the face of a suddenly erupting Insect Race catastrophe across the region, the Imperial Military Department still held back its military strength, with the elite fleet power of the Emperor Star Circle slowly moving outward,

then now, the Imperial Military Department had called out all types of warships they could mobilize, converging at the fastest speed towards the first line of defense.

To ensure nothing went wrong, they would establish three lines of defense.

The first line of defense was responsible for guarding the gateway into the Emperor Star Circle.

The Emperor Star Circle encompassed several dozen Administrative Stars nearest to the Emperor Star, which were the economic and cultural center of the Empire, housing forty percent of the Empire’s population within ten percent of its living area and possessing more than seventy-five percent of the Empire’s wealth.

After years of construction, a tight defense perimeter had been constructed outside the Emperor Star Circle.

Space was vast, but in areas of the Constant Star System where distances were relatively close, wide gravitational balance zones suitable for massive fleet transitions were scarce. The large gravitational balance zones on the periphery of the Emperor Star Circle had been equipped with gravity diversion devices.

Although the Insect Race’s transition principle differed from human ships’, the demands on the gravitational balance zones for large-scale Insect Swarm transitions were even more stringent.

The position of the first defense line was placed precisely on the Insect Swarm’s inevitable path in this direction.

What if the Insect Swarm changed direction?

With the Emperor Star as the center point, the fleet’s transfer speed in the ’inner circle’ inevitably exceeded the Insect Swarm’s speed around the ’outer circle.’

Moreover, the Imperial Military Department’s supercomputer cluster had analyzed millennia of data from battles between the Empire and the Insect Race. The machine’s precise prediction of their route was also in this direction.

The second line of defense was primarily made up of the protective forces of all Administrative Stars within the Emperor Star Circle, which naturally barricaded the Emperor Star.

Should the first line of defense fall, the second line would delay the progress of the Insect Swarm, allowing the Empire to gather all its forces at the third line.

The second line also possessed some formidable weapons—defense satellite systems—that might not be used; these natural satellites couldn’t move freely but were equipped with Super Orbital Cannons, ensuring the Insect Swarm would take several hits should they pass nearby.

If the first defense line suppressed the Insect Swarms, the ships of the second line would also press forward to support, aiming to annihilate the Insect Swarm with the greatest speed.

Later, as the Imperial fleets gradually wiped out the Insect Swarms elsewhere, they would move to support either the first or second line of defense depending on the situation.

The third line of defense was set beyond the Emperor Star.

Honestly, even Vice Admiral Thomas, who had now reached the core of the military, did not know exactly what kind of defense capabilities the Emperor Star possessed.

Years earlier, Thomas had heard that the Emperor Star had begun researching how to defend against high-intensity warfare in the high-dimensional world...

The flagship bridge was broadcasting the position of the Sixth Rank Insect Swarm in real-time.

It had been only a matter of minutes since Vice Admiral Thomas and his fleet had arrived here. The warships that had flown in from within the Emperor Star Circle had already reached an astonishing total of more than six hundred.

Admiral Thomas sighed inwardly.

If these ships could also have been deployed by His Majesty, by the Military Department directly into the earlier battle of encircling the Insect Swarm, those six Administrative Stars wouldn’t have had to be sacrificed.

But there was no helping it; the core area of the Empire could not lack defensive forces. It was both politics and strategy.

Fortunately, several main fleets, after dealing with the queens of the Insect Swarms they had targeted, handed over the extermination of the remnants to the local defense forces and moved to support those six planets lacking defensive forces.

He had just received news that one fleet had already made contact with the strange warships of the White Ghost; the White Ghost would strike to achieve a triple kill against a Fourth Rank queen.

For an individual, for a transformed person, this was necessarily a cross-era accomplishment.

Originally, the entire Empire should have been cheering for this hero.

But now...

Admiral Thomas turned his head towards a monitor on the side.

The gigantic Sixth Rank queen floated in space, her face and features extremely similar to those of human females. Even her appearance conformed to the aesthetics of most humans, with no monstrous maw beneath her chest but a flat abdomen instead.

No one knew what relationship the Sixth Rank queen, on the verge of stepping into the high-dimensional world, had with humans.

But it was certain that the queen’s path of evolution had been fixed before the existing civilizations in the Milky Way ever existed.

There existed many sub-species within the Guel Alliance, products of genetic mutations.

If one looked only at the upper body, the high-rank queens of the Insect Race were closer to humans than most sub-species.

"General! Our command system has reached its operating limit!"

"Yes, my fleet will act as the central group, and the commanders’ fleets on both wings will soon arrive. Now, arrange for the fleets reporting here to gather on the left and right flanks. Everything must be strictly allocated according to the designated airspace to leave enough room for the main fleet to operate. If anyone fails to follow commands, allow the guards to shoot them on the spot."

"Yes!"

A communications officer cried out with a trembling voice, "General! His, His Majesty has sent a communication!"

"What?" Admiral Thomas was stunned for a moment, then immediately turned and hurried towards the command podium.

"Everyone rise! Stand up! Connect the call."

"Yes!"

Several projection orbs flew over, weaving a three-dimensional projection in front of Admiral Thomas.

The bridge fell silent instantly.

One by one, military personnel and technicians couldn’t help but glance at the projection, then saluted neatly and bowed their heads unanimously.