In addition, there are 20 groups of engineers who specialize in building various transport ships, industrial ships, maintenance ships and other civilian ships.

In addition, there are senior crew members and ordinary crew members of Shatta clones who can deploy two large branch fleets.

"what a pity!"

Talent is talent, but it cannot be used.

Except for the ten battleship chief engineers who can be converted into servants of light in the future and can continue to be used, the others cannot be used.

According to the appearance of the Shatta people, there is a high probability that the fate of the Shatta people will not be good after being conquered in the future. Even if they are not exterminated, they will be disarmed, use genetic technology to adjust the quality of their meat, and then be raised in captivity and become food animals.

This is not meant to scare people, it is real.

In the course of the development of human civilization, there have been many conquered civilizations, but now we have not seen many alien civilizations within our sphere of influence. Most of them have been extinct, and a small number have become pets or food, or are viewed in zoos.

They were raised in captivity as soon as they were born, and were not allowed to receive any knowledge. They were not allowed to speak from childhood to adulthood. Over time, they naturally forgot their own civilization and knowledge, and civilization was cut off. The IQ of the new generation will gradually deteriorate. After adjustment with genetic technology,

The body will slowly degenerate and become no different from animals. At most, they were once intelligent creatures and were smarter and easier to tame than ordinary beasts.

The cold universe is beautiful and cruel.

Civilizations are life-and-death in order to survive. Although it is not as completely extreme as the Dark Forest, the difference is not big.

There will never be a day when different civilizations can live in peace, even if they are two completely identical civilizations.

If humans encountered a second human civilization that looked exactly like themselves in the universe, their first reaction would definitely not be curiosity, but vigilance.

It is absolutely impossible for two identical species to appear in the universe. If two identical species appear, there are only two possibilities.

One possibility is that they once had the same origin. For example, two civilizations originated from the same place of origin, but one of them walked out of the planet first.

Or civilizations have been destroyed in the past, and both groups were developed by the fish that slipped through the destroyed civilization. For example, if the United Empire of Humanity was destroyed and a large number of humans escaped, if these escaped humans could escape pursuit and develop again on the other side of the starry sky,

This is also the same origin.

Another possibility is a little more detailed and scary.

As we all know, there are three mainstream ascension routes in the universe: mind is stronger than matter, spiritual ascension; flesh and blood are weak, mechanical ascension; design evolution, genetic ascension.

When genetic technology reaches a certain level, you can use genetic technology to design your own genes, strengthen your body, change your appearance or form, etc., or you can use genetic technology to forcibly create things, create a new species, etc.

It is not surprising at all to imitate a certain race and redesign a species, or if you are dissatisfied with the appearance of your own species and use genetic design to change the appearance of your own species into the appearance of another species that you are satisfied with.

Or some genetic ascension masters can directly improve a dog through genetic technology, from the physical to the intellectual level.

Transform a dog into a kobold, and then turn a kobold into a tiger-headed man, a dinosaur man, an elephant man, etc. As long as your genetic modification technology is good enough, you can do it.

Therefore, redesigning a race into a species that is exactly the same as a certain race is simply a kiss for those genetic masters. What they prefer to do is artificial legendary creatures, artificial Leviathan.

Having said that, it was precisely because he could imagine how miserable the Shatar people would be that he did not dare to use these Shatar people. He only dared to use these Shatar people when they were turned into servants of light at most.

But when Dian is transformed into a servant of light, his body, mind, and will are distorted. In fact, he has nothing to do with the Shatar people.

The number of Servants of Initiation Light is too small. There is only one per month and only twelve per year. There is no way to retain too many talents. We can only retain these ten battleship chief engineers.

Unconsciously, more than half a month has passed. The giant shipyard has been divided and included in the Palm Universe. Many Shar slaves have also been collected. After counting, there are about 31.08 million. All the slaves have been collected in the warehouse area and are the same as the previous Shar slaves.

People gather together, and the former Shar people do the ideological work.

For more than half a month, except for the occasional small fleet that jumped in for reconnaissance, no enemy arrived. On the 21st, on the 21st, the Crimson and the Horn of Liberty plus three other large teams assembled a team except

In addition to the flagship, a fleet of conventional warships that were even more powerful than them rushed over and were preparing to attack the Shatta III system, which was only seven hops away.

They also discovered the Jialan Legion that was plundering Shata No. 5. Gu Shen Zhoute sent someone over to ask if he wanted to send a fleet there, but Li Qing refused.

The garrison there is not much different from the giant shipyard. It won't be a problem to capture it with the strength of a joint team, but it will definitely not be that easy.

Although he had not gone there, Li Qing was still very concerned about the battle situation there. He wanted to see if the capital of the southern province of Shatta, which was only one jump away and was at a stalemate, would send reinforcements.

Even if you don't send a combined fleet to defeat this garrison, you can relieve the pressure on yourself. If you send reinforcements, the pressure will be reduced when you enter the reef lair later.

These days, we don't stay in this galaxy every day. The small ships and occasional small fleets sent out to scout around have almost touched the galaxy near the reef lair.

Ever since he learned that he had a Titan super flag and three flagships here, and found out their strength through the garrison here, the division-level fleet stationed in the capital of the southern province stayed there, seemingly wanting to defend it to the death.

capital.

Li Qing never thought about seduction tactics. It was useless. The opponent would definitely not come out, so he could only attack by force.

After the plunder was almost completed, Li Qing finally ordered the fleet to move towards the Mk471 galaxy.

It's the crossroads galaxy. From there, you can reach the Shatta III galaxy to the north, the Shatta V galaxy to the south, the human expeditionary force to the west, and the six galaxies to the east are the reef lair, the capital of the southern province of the Shatta civilization.

What is very strange is that there are no defenders in this critical intersection system, it is completely empty.

However, looking at the entire star map, it is not surprising that there are no defenders.

From their point of view, this is a key intersection, but from the perspective of Shatta Civilization, it is just an ordinary intersection. There are roads from other locations to the capital system. Looking at the entire southern province as a whole, there are only two key intersections.

, one is the Quelta Fortress system, and the other is behind the capital system, the Locke Fortress at the junction between the southern province and another province within the Shatta civilization.

There is a key intersection there, and a crack that isolates the interference belt extends over. Not only does the difficulty of the jump skyrocket, but many of the hyperspace channels in the surrounding galaxies are also interrupted. The remaining hyperspace channels happen to be connected to the galaxy at this critical intersection. If there is no initial

The source's jump strength bonus makes it difficult for even the flagship to jump directly there under normal circumstances.

The Shatta Civilization established a fortress system in that system, with two entire division-level fleets stationed there year-round.

This is also one of the risks that Li Qing has considered. If support is needed over there, although it cannot jump directly due to the environment, it will only take about a week to reach the Reef Nest System if prepared.

In other words, he must completely defeat the defenders in the reef lair within a week, and then block the support from the fortress system.

By now, Li Qingqing has guessed some unreasonable aspects within the Shata civilization. Why does the central government not directly support it? Most likely, the southern province belongs to the sphere of influence of one of the eight Shata tribes, while the central government belongs to another tribe, and

Although these tribes have united to form a powerful civilization, they are not of the same tribe after all, and the union is not very close. Everyone is still wary of each other.

The possibility of this guess is very high. If they are all of the same race, they can combine with some support to sweep the expeditionary force out.

Li Qing thinks that the fundamental reason for this kind of thinking error is that the Shata Tribe United Civilization simply does not know how strong human civilization is. In their eyes, human civilization is probably as strong as the Yu clan in Jinmen. They probably think that Jin is

The Menyu clan is human civilization.

If this is used as a reference, the strength of the Jinmen Yu clan is definitely not as good as that of the entire Shata tribe alliance. In addition, the main force of the Shata civilization is currently at war with the Shar people on the other side and the Sivis Council. The Shata people do not want to fight on three sides.

It is not impossible for people to strategically abandon the southern provinces.

After all, it is just giving up one of the tribes. There are eight tribes in the sand tower. If one less tribe is eliminated, more benefits can be shared among the other tribes.

In the Shatta-3 galaxy, there is a huge desolate planet suspended in an orbit more than 100 million kilometers away from the main sequence star. In addition to two satellites, there are hundreds of residential stations of various sizes in the planet's orbit.

A huge residential complex with tens of billions of Shatta people living in this residential complex.

On the planet, there is a huge industrial base, and densely packed civilian ships are shuttling back and forth between the residential stations, transporting large numbers of civilians away.

In the void, millions of kilometers away from the residential station group, two extremely large fleets were engaged in a fierce exchange of fire. Energy beams lit up one after another. From time to time, the flames of the battleship explosions rose up and illuminated the void.

In a short battle of less than an hour, the combined fleet with its ship size advantage had already gained the upper hand.

If there are no accidents, victory is inevitable. The difference lies in when the enemy collapses and how much your own losses are.

"Bingfeng, take your fleet and slowly leave the battlefield. They will definitely find a way to escape. I need you to intercept them later."

Gu Shenzhou, the temporary commander-in-chief of the combined fleet, is closely watching the ever-changing battlefield and constantly issuing various orders:

"Blade, did you see the mark I sent you? If you intercept the signal, it is most likely one of the enemy's command flagships. I need you to sink it at all costs."

"Tianji, in the latest updates I am sending you, keep an eye on the movements of all blue-marked enemy ships. If there are no abnormalities, continue to execute the tactics. If there are any abnormalities, intercept them immediately."

"Everyone, the enemy has fallen into a disadvantage, just follow my orders to entangle them. Victory must be ours. This galaxy has tens of billions of people and a huge amount of supplies. As long as we capture it, we can make a lot of money. No matter how big it was before,

All losses can be recovered.”

When Li Qing's fleet came over, the battle had already entered a fierce state. The isolated defenders and the combined fleet launched a desperate battle. The battle was quite fierce.

The void is filled with burning and smoking wreckage of warships, and a large number of life-saving cabins drift among the wreckage. The defenders have suffered heavy losses but are still resisting.

Normally, a fleet's fighting spirit will waver when the loss exceeds about 30%. When the loss exceeds 50%, it is close to collapse. A very few elites can persist longer, but they certainly cannot fight to the death like in mythical novels, unless they have special powers.

His talent can make his subordinates fearless of life and death.

If the same camp is fighting normally, one of the parties has already begun to escape or seek peace based on the current battle damage rate.

But now it is a battle between civilizations, and there is no surrender.

Once you can't escape, you have to fight to the end.

Li Qing himself did not participate in the battle, but he sent Li Qi and Li Lie to lead a fleet to circle back and prepare to intercept. If the enemy broke through the blockade of the combined fleet, he would take action. If he did not break out, it would be fine.

Without a flagship, the battle would last very long. Even if they had an absolute advantage, it still took the combined fleet eight hours to defeat the opponent, and it would take even longer to clear out the defeated troops.

Li Qing was not in a hurry, and waited until they had wiped out all the defeated troops before leading his fleet to approach the huge cluster of residential stations in the center of the galaxy.

During the communication, Li Qing looked at Gu Chenzhou, Feng Lixiu and the three unknown team leaders and said:

"Congratulations on taking over this galaxy."

Gu Chenzhou sighed and said:

"Although we won, we suffered heavy losses. Nearly a hundred battleships, more than 200 cruisers, more than 400 destroyers, and more than 2,000 frigates were sunk."

Li Qing smiled and said:

"What does that mean? Look at the gains in this galaxy. There are so many residential stations and at least tens of billions of people. I don't know how much supplies are enough to make up for all the losses."

"Hopefully!"

Li Qing smiled and said nothing, he was just crying about poverty.

As soon as his eyes fell on the light screen in front of him, the screen showed a forest above the orbit of the planet, a community composed of hundreds of residential stations, which looked like bunches of grapes hanging above the orbit of the planet.

This residential station group is divided into five groups in total, one large and four small. The largest one is composed of 70 or 80 large and small residential stations, and the largest giant residential station has a diameter of 200 kilometers.

They brought a large number of industrial ships and transport ships. After the battle, they entered and parked in the orbit of the planet. A large number of clone warriors entered the residential station in assault boats and drove out the Shatar people in the residential station.

In fact, the best way to haul them is for large or giant industrial ships to use tractor beams to tow these residential stations off the track, and haul them back like a trailer warehouse for normal transportation.

But if you want to do this, you must completely seal each residential station, otherwise you will not be able to pass the hyperspace channel.

This is a big project, and it's not as laborious as transporting it directly in a treated trailer.

Of course, there is another important reason. Li Qing had said he wanted these residential stations before, but they couldn't do it even if they wanted to.
Chapter completed!