Although there are 1 million warships in the advance fleet, when these warships are evenly distributed on a sphere with a diameter of several AU, they immediately appear to be extremely sparse.
On average, the distance between every two battleships is about 100,000 kilometers.
What about the Zerg on the opposite side?
It was as turbulent as the sea water, and there was almost no distance between the insects. Basically, they were all crowded together and rushing forward.
In comparison, the advance fleet is really not impressive enough.
Of course, after the level of civilization reaches a certain level, the significance of quantity is far less than it used to be.
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Advance fleet, hull number F012-ST27890-3312.
A battleship, which is only a third-level civilized frigate, is speeding forward at this moment.
"Captain, we are 30 million kilometers away from the target!"
"After the battleship slows down to the second cruising speed, start releasing all impact ships!"
"Yes, Captain!"
Relying on the powerful subspace engine, it only took more than ten seconds for the battleship to slow down from its third battle speed to its second cruising speed, and its braking ability was very powerful.
When the battleship slowed down and reached the captain's request, its belly with a completely meaningless gap... was suddenly opened.
The huge hidden cargo warehouse is almost one-third of the length of the entire battleship.
A thing as big as an assault ship slowly emerged from it.
Its appearance is cigar-shaped, and its overall surface is extremely smooth. There is nothing extra, and you can't even find the propeller on it.
Just from the appearance, you can't tell that this thing is a battleship at all. It feels like a huge solid metal body.
The second ship...
The third ship...
It wasn't until the twenty-fourth ship that it finally stopped.
However, no matter who looks at it, the size of these twenty-four impact ships is much larger than the size of the Dreadnought-class battleship in front of them.
This situation completely benefits from the application of spatial storage.
Even though the Dreadnought-class battleship is only the size of a third-level civilization frigate, its internal space is definitely no smaller than that of a heavy battleship due to the application of space storage technology.
"Captain, all impact ships have been released and connections have begun... Command has been obtained!"
"Start the first wave of impact!"
"Yes, Captain!"
Twenty-four impact ships, like escort ships, surrounded the battleship.
However, if you really think of these cigar-shaped impact ships as escort ships, you would be totally wrong.
The next second, with a slight vibration in the space around the battleship, all twenty-four impact ships were stretched.
That’s right, it was stretched!
At least...that's how it looks visually!
Like a golden hoop, it kept getting longer and longer, and it wasn't until a few seconds later that the impact ships originally surrounding the battleship gradually dissipated.
Of course, the impact ship will not really be stretched, it will only cause this visual effect because it accelerates to 0.99 times the speed of light in an instant.
"All data is normal, contact with the insect swarm is expected in 79 seconds!"
"Put all attacks around the impact path, and try to squeeze the surrounding bugs into the impact ship's path!"
"Yes, Captain!"
The distance is nearly 20 million kilometers, and a large amount of space collapse directly affects the insect swarm, constantly harvesting the lives of the war insects.
Although the war bugs are not afraid of death, nor are they afraid of such emotions, they will still instinctively move their position when encountering a powerful attack, trying to stay away from the killing range.
And it is precisely this behavior, coupled with the constant deliberate behavior of the attacking warships.
There were indeed many war bugs pushed onto the path of the impact ship, which increased the number of bugs on this path by at least 30%.
"There are still ten seconds until contact!"
"9..."
"8..."
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"1...0..."
"touch!"
Twenty-four impact ships, at this moment, all plunged into the insect swarm.
"It has penetrated 1.92 million kilometers into the insect swarm and lost 0.02% of its speed!"
"It has penetrated the insect swarm for 8.4 million kilometers and lost 0.03% of its speed!"
"Successfully penetrated the insect swarm!"
Twenty-four impact ships took less than a minute to penetrate the insect swarm with a thickness of tens of millions of kilometers.
And this penetration is not calculated based on the size of the impact ship. Otherwise, even if there are thousands of impact ships together, they will not be able to cause much damage to the Zerg.
The key is that although these impact ships are not solid, their entire shell is made of degenerate materials, especially the head, which accounts for 20% of the entire impact ship, is all made of degenerate materials.
Therefore, although the impact ship is not as strong as the neutron battle star, due to its huge mass and the ability to move forward at 0.99 times the speed of light, it can also produce a large gravitational effect, which is enough to cause damage to the ship body during the forward movement.
Zerg within tens of thousands of kilometers around, causing fatal damage.
If we really want to make an analogy, then the impact ship is a neutron battle star that has been weakened tens of thousands of times.
Wherever it passed, it was like a bloody storm, and the insects that were directly hit by the impact ship were atomized in an instant.
Although the surrounding bugs that were not directly hit avoided the worst outcome, they could not escape death and were completely torn to pieces by its powerful gravitational effect.
Perhaps, just looking at the killing radius of only tens of thousands of kilometers is not that big, but the problem is the depth, which directly penetrates the entire insect swarm!
Therefore, in terms of lethality, for a race like the Zerg that emphasizes numbers, the effect of the impact ship is more outstanding than that of ordinary space weapons.
"All impact ships readjust their angles and prepare for the next wave of impact!"
"Yes, Captain!"
Obviously, this captain is preparing to control the impact ship to stage a seven-in and seven-out drama in the insect swarm.
However, it was not just this captain who was doing this, but all the warships in the entire advance fleet were doing this.
Due to the entry of the impact ship, the firepower of the entire advance team more than doubled, pushing the insect swarm back again!
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In hyperspace, the bridge of the USS Union.
"Commander, according to this progress, we should be able to control an area large enough for the entire fleet to descend within the specified time!"
As Vilodis reported, she was also a little shocked by the effect of the attack on the fleet.
Originally, before the impact ship was engaged in actual combat, she had always viewed it as a single-point attack to forcibly destroy the enemy's important targets.
However, after the battle with the advance fleet, her mind completely changed.
Maybe...
Compared with single-point attacks, it seems to be more effective against enemies like Zerg that rely on quantity.