Liu Feng's defection did not cause any waves in the federation.
After all, this guy is not even a federal soldier. According to Su He, he is...
It's not considered a defection, it can only be considered as unauthorized use of federal fleet assets.
At that time, all you need to do is capture him, ask him to compensate for the loss of the federal fleet, and lock him up for a few years.
Good guy, what was supposed to be a crime that was punishable by shooting turned into something else when it came out of Su He's mouth.
However, other senior federal officials have no objections to this either.
After all, Liu Feng's role in the federation is too great.
Not to mention 300 Pangu-class ships, even 30,000 ships would not be as valuable as him.
As for Liu Tao, as long as he doesn't play interstellar pirate games within the federal territory, he'll be fine doing whatever he wants.
In short, the top management just finalized the matter and then disintegrated it.
At this moment, no one knows that the wormhole Liu Tao entered is somewhat different...
And the place he went to exceeded everyone's expectations.
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Three months later.
A fully-equipped Pangea II-type army of the defense fleet arrived in the Sid system.
After completing the handover, Jiang Xingchen was ready to start attacking other galaxies.
Balth Galaxy.
Except for the fifth to seventh legions, which were sent by Jiang Xingchen to take charge of other galaxies, the remaining six legions...
At this moment, everyone has arrived here.
The Federation, which has a hyperspace engine, does not need to use the so-called artificial wormholes, and its navigation between galaxies is extremely convenient.
"Commander, a complex energy reaction was detected 72 light years away, and its characteristics are consistent with mechanical civilization."
"Has the other party noticed us?"
"You should have discovered that their energy response fluctuations are much more active than before."
"In that case, let's start the deployment, just to test the new toy of the Central Academy of Sciences!"
"Yes, Commander!"
Ling Xiao nodded and responded.
Soon after, a large number of warships separated from the fleet and began to disperse in different directions.
Subsequently, with the array of the pioneering fleet as the center, some small satellite-like devices were continuously thrown out.
Continuously extending outwards and deploying.
A few minutes later.
"Commander, among the several energy reactions detected previously, a large number of reactions with similar characteristics suddenly appeared in their positions, but the intensity is much weaker than the first few!"
"Can you confirm what the specific situation is?"
"It is impossible to confirm accurately, but according to the staff team's speculation, it should be the mothership of Balt's mechanical civilization that Liu Tao reported before."
Liu Tao once indeed reported that several steel planets had been discovered in Baltne.
I have also witnessed several mechanical civilization Slayer battleships flying out of these steel planets.
Not only that, the report also mentioned that the energy collected from each planet will also be transported to these steel planets through a special spacecraft of mechanical civilization.
Therefore, the Federation defines this kind of steel planet as...
Mechanical Civilization Predator Mothership.
So, as soon as I arrived, I came directly to the Predator mothership?
And it’s not even one?
Looking at the five red dots displayed on the star map, Jiang Xingchen frowned.
"How is the deployment of the traction speed reduction net?"
"17.5% has been completed and is expected to be deployed in 21 minutes."
"Keep an eye on the target. If there is any abnormal movement, immediately let all the warships deployed to tow the speed reduction net return!"
"Yes, Commander!"
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At the same time.
More than 70 light-years away.
Just as the staff officers on board the Jiang Xingchen Kaitian had guessed, a total of five mechanical planets were gathering together.
And inside each mechanical planet, there are a thousand Slayer warships.
These battleships that had been dormant were gradually waking up due to the wake-up program.
【Didi didi...】
[The wake-up program is completed and all the Slayers have been successfully awakened]
[The intruder coordinates are locked and the cleanup process begins]
[Planetary jump engine starts]
【Start jump】
Although mechanical civilization has passed through the previous arrival of the Scorpion Pirates and the destruction of several transport ships.
The hyperspace engine was obtained and copied.
However, although there have been many imitations, they are only warship-level hyperspace engines.
You know, mechanical civilization will not draw inferences from one instance to other cases, but will only draw inferences from one instance to zero.
To put it bluntly, there is no creativity.
Because of this, these predator motherships of mechanical civilization can still only make jumps and cannot use hyperspace technology.
After a while...
As the planet-level jump engine started, the five huge mechanical planets quickly disappeared into place.
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"Commander, the target has been detected to have a jump behavior!"
"Are you sure it's a jump, not hyperspace navigation?"
"Yes, I'm pretty sure it's a jump!"
Radar officer Li Yao answered firmly.
On the side, Ling Xiao showed a trace of doubt.
"Commander, since mechanical civilization has hyperspace technology, why..."
Jiang Xingchen was also thinking about this issue.
but...
Obviously, now is not the time to think about this question. Even if you think about it, you can't get a definite answer.
Before Ling Xiao could finish speaking, Jiang Xingchen made a gesture to interrupt his words.
"Tell me the deployment progress of the traction speed reduction net in distance units!"
"Currently 36 light seconds, Commander!"
"36 light seconds, that's enough for now. Let them all come back!"
"Yes, Commander!"
Traction reduction net...
This is a system developed to cope with the ultra-high speed and maneuverability of Balt's mechanical civilization.
The technology itself is not powerful, and its role is also very limited. It can even be said to be...
It has almost no effect on conventional scientific and technological civilization.
After all, the technology used here is usually already mastered by third- and fourth-order civilizations.
That is tractor beam technology.
However, the Central Academy of Sciences has derived this technology. By mass-manufacturing tractor beam modules with a single function, and deploying them at corresponding distances, a large-scale traction network like a fishing net can be formed.
Any object entering it will be affected by this and be forced to slow down.
Of course, the force that pulls the speed of light is not great. Otherwise, when we were dealing with the Kerry Empire, we wouldn't have used more than a dozen warships to drag one warship.
What's more, the quality of these single traction equipment is far less than that of a battleship.
Therefore, if a warship enters it, although the traction deceleration net can also play a role, the deceleration effect is actually very poor.
However, although battleships with huge mass are of average use, for those annihilators that are not large in size and have very small mass...
It's completely different.
Even if the Annihilator cannot be stopped completely, as long as it is slowed down by 30 to 40%, it will be enough to bring...
An overwhelming advantage!
Therefore, in many cases, the more advanced the technology, the easier it is to use.
As long as it is suitable, even a technology that can only be mastered by a third-order civilization will have an absolute effect if used properly.
"All deployment ships are withdrawing, and all tractor beam devices are starting to form networks."