This civilization still has great advantages over ghosts.
After all, there is a huge gap between Wraith, which has only been developed for a hundred or even a few decades, and an established fourth-level technological civilization, both in terms of battleship technology and quantity.
But after a few years, everyone discovered something was wrong.
How come the more ghosts are eliminated, the more ghosts there are?
Finally, after studying a group of newly captured ghost prisoners, they discovered...
Different from before, the ghosts appearing now are all clones.
You must know that after Stanley was exiled, he only carried out a comprehensive transformation of a second-level civilization with a small population.
After these years of war, most of this civilization's population has been consumed.
So Stanley launched another plan.
Cloning plan!
Use the ghosts with the best physical fitness for cloning, and then use the most experienced soldiers under your command to instill their experience into them.
Eventually, the clone army of ghosts appeared.
It only takes a few days to create a life from scratch.
Moreover, they are all powerful soldiers with rich combat experience and do not need any training.
Gradually, the war entered a stalemate stage.
Then, with the emergence of the new generation of ghost warships, the balance...
was broken.
If this continues, the defeat of the Masar civilization will be inevitable.
But obviously, they will not just sit still and wait for death.
As a result, a project called Nanomechanical Life emerged...
Didn't you Stanley create a ghost civilization?
Then let’s build a nanomechanical civilization and fight fire with fire!
Originally, mechanical life was definitely a taboo among taboos in the Masar civilization.
After all, once machines gain self-awareness, no one can be sure what the future will look like.
But in the face of the crisis of civilization's demise, this taboo is nothing.
Two years later.
Nanomechanical life was born.
As expected, in the face of nano-mechanical life, the ghost is like a child, with no resistance at all, and is retreating steadily.
In less than a year, except for the star system where Stanley's home base is located, all other places were captured.
There is no other way. How can you resist when facing an enemy that cannot be killed?
But just when all civilizations thought that the ghost crisis was about to end, and peace and prosperity would soon be restored in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
All the nanomachines suddenly returned to the Diami star field.
The Masar civilization simply disappeared.
Not only the people disappeared, but also their fleets, cities on the planet, etc., all disappeared.
It was as if the traces had been completely wiped away and this civilization had never appeared.
Everyone was dumbfounded, including Stanley.
But soon, Stanley, who realized what this meant, immediately relaunched the offensive, and a few years later, he had controlled all the remaining areas in the Large Magellanic Cloud except Diami and the surrounding star fields.
Stanley didn't want to capture Diami and other star fields, so he also sent a fleet there.
But the problem is...
As long as the fleet enters the Diami star field, it will immediately be attacked by nano-mechanical life forms.
In view of this, not only the Diami star field, but also the three surrounding star fields, Stanley did not dare to set foot in it.
He was afraid that at some point, those nano-mechanical life forms would suddenly rush out and completely destroy the ghost civilization he had built.
But even excluding these five star fields, more than 80% of the Large Magellanic Cloud has fallen into Stanley's hands.
However, before he could be happy for long, he discovered another problem.
The number of ghosts...
Too many!
In order to fight against the Masar civilization, Stanley started to clone like crazy, so that now the number of ghosts has reached trillions.
Coupled with the conversion rate of ghosts sucking life, even all the civilizations in the entire Greater Magellanic Galaxy combined cannot meet the needs of the ghost civilization.
To this end, Stanley built a model and then calculated it.
Damn...
In less than a hundred years, the ghost civilization will be destroyed due to lack of food?
He pursues eternal life through biotechnology, but in the end he will starve to death due to lack of food supply?
Immediately, Stanley lost his composure.
In the end, he came up with a compromise plan.
That is, drastically reduce the ghost population!
But the extent to which this population reduction needs to be achieved is also very particular.
If there are too few, although the demand for ghosts can be maintained for a long time by keeping various civilizations in captivity, the military strength is not enough to perfectly control the entire Large Magellanic System, and eventually problems will arise if one of them fails.
But if you want to ensure that you can control the troops in all areas, you must leave a certain number of ghost soldiers.
And this quantity cannot balance supply and demand.
This is a headache.
However, Stanley soon came up with a plan that he thought was perfect.
Reserve hundreds of millions of ghost warriors to control all star fields, and at the same time, only hunt 90% of those civilizations at a time, and then let them enter a period of population recovery that lasts for ten thousand years.
During this recovery period, all ghosts are allowed to enter a dormant state.
In order to achieve a so-called balance.
Although this way, each time the ghost wakes up, it can only last for a hundred years.
But as long as one day Ghost solves the problem of ultra-long-distance navigation and can colonize outer galaxies, then all problems will be solved.
After all, the Large Magellanic Cloud is just a satellite galaxy.
Therefore, every time after waking up, Stanley will conduct thousands of years of scientific research.
Why was it last year?
Nonsense, Stanley is the king, so he can naturally get more "food" and thus get the longest lifespan. He doesn't have to go into hibernation for dozens or hundreds of years like other ghosts because they run out of food.
At this moment, Stanley's vitality stored in his body has given him a life span of millions of years.
Theoretically, he can continue to live even without going into hibernation.
But in fact, this is not the case.
Ghost is a product of biotechnology, and this technology still has flaws that Stanley cannot solve.
According to Stanley's own calculations, this flaw will require a long period of dormancy for at least a thousand years before it can be alleviated.
Otherwise, there may be a collapse problem at the genetic level.
Therefore, even though he has a life span of millions of years, he still has to sleep every thousand years.
At the same time, in order to completely control all ghosts.
A set of ruling methods with the three top queen forces as the main force, and then the upper, middle and lower forces as supplements, has gradually emerged.
The so-called ghost queen is different from ordinary ghosts.
They are not clones, but enhanced ghosts cultivated through technology.
If the ordinary ghost is the first-generation ghost created by Stanley, then the clone is born using the first-generation ghost as a template.
As for the Ghost Queen, it is the second generation ghost created by Stanley after improving some technologies.
Compared with the first generation, the second generation has been greatly improved in terms of suction efficiency, strength, speed, etc.
However, due to some special factors, the second-generation ghost cannot be cloned, and it is extremely difficult to create.
After spending a lot of time, Stanley only created more than two hundred second-generation ghosts.
And these two hundred or so second-generation ghosts are now the ghost queens.
Of course, after more than 100,000 years, some of them died due to mutual conquests, and now the remaining Ghost Queen...