Until the battleship where Lance was located was dragged into the hyperspace window by two Federation battleships using tractor beams...
Still in a state of confusion.
The colorful dreamy space outside the porthole reminded him of the hypothesis of a former scientist in the empire...
Hypothesis about the existence of hyperspace!
That was when the empire had just become a level six civilization and the nobles had not completely corrupted the empire.
In that era, the imperial army was strong and technology was developing rapidly.
At that time, there was an outstanding civilian scientist who made a series of conjectures about hyperspace navigation, a technology that can only be mastered by a seventh-level civilization.
However, after the nobles came to power, all the great figures born among the common people, like Marshal Richard, were wiped out from history by the nobles, including...
The great results they brought!
As Lance, who has a special identity, of course knows many things that have been erased by the scale. Among them, there are related speculations about hyperspace by that scientist.
"Is this hyperspace?"
"Are we doing hyperspace navigation now?"
While asking questions, Lance turned to look around him, only to find that everyone in the bridge, including his adjutant, was looking out the window with dull expressions on their faces.
There was no time for him to wake up these stunned men. Suddenly, a huge hyperspace window was opened in front of the battleship. The battleship...
Already exited hyperspace.
However, what he could see outside the porthole made Lance tremble all over.
"Sela Star!"
Yes, Lance's entire fleet had been dragged to the vicinity of Planet Sera in just a few seconds.
If you want to remove the time it takes to enter and exit hyperspace.
Then, the time you spend traveling in hyperspace may not even be 1 second.
How terrifying is this?
Even for a sixth-level civilization that already possesses space teleportation technology, this is still very terrifying.
After all, space teleportation technology has too many limitations and is not as convenient as hyperspace navigation.
The most important thing is that hyperspace navigation is faster within a certain distance than space teleportation!
"Please wake up and check the surrounding situation immediately!"
"Yes, Commander!"
After seeing Planet Serra and coming back to his senses, Lance shouted loudly in the bridge.
All the members of the command team suddenly felt shocked, came to their senses, and immediately took action.
"Report, seven unknown fleet traces were found within 10au of our ship. The total number of warships is approximately... 2 billion!"
"Report, it is found that the remaining garrison fleet seems to have been captured, and all the battleships are approached by assault ships of unknown civilization!"
"Report, a large number of warship wreckage was found in the orbit of Sera, most of which are garrison fleets, and the rest are battleships of the Great Ax Pirate Group. Moreover, according to the analysis of the wreckage of the garrison fleet, they should all have been destroyed by pirate warships.
The wreckage of the battleship of the Giant Ax Pirate Group was obviously not caused by the weapons of the warships stationed in the fleet!"
"Report, the surface of Sera is confirmed to have fallen, and the occupiers are using a strange combat vehicle!"
…
There was a series of reports, none of which was good news.
Lance frowned upon hearing this...
However, Lance can infer some situations based on these.
The Giant Ax Pirates arrived directly in the orbit of Planet Sera through some unknown method and launched an attack.
The garrison fleet, under the command of that idiot Kelvin, did not even dare to fight back for fear of affecting the Serra planet. This can be seen from the wreckage of the pirate warships. None of the wreckage was caused by the weapons of the imperial warships.
of...
After that, the garrison fleet, which lost nearly half of its battleships, collapsed and eventually evolved into a rout.
After analyzing this, Lance clenched his hands into fists so hard that he almost scratched his skin.
After controlling his emotions and calming down a little, Lance continued his analysis.
Then, the unknown civilization should have appeared at this time. Some of its warships went to the orbit of Sera and wiped out all the pirate warships in one fell swoop. The other part deployed a blockade network centered on Sera and intercepted them.
Killed all the fleeing Imperial warships.
After that... he arrived 1 light-year outside of Sera. After being unable to contact Sera and being discovered by this unknown civilization, he immediately...
It has to be said that based on the detected intelligence, Lance analyzed the entire process clearly in an instant, almost accurately, which is enough to illustrate Lance's outstanding talent.
However, no matter how talented he is and how strong his commanding ability is, in the face of the absolute gap in the Federation, he still has no effect and can only be captured.
For pirates, mercilessly annihilate them.
For the imperial warships, it only intercepts prisoners.
As for Sera, it was only occupied and not plundered.
Faced with these situations, Lance suddenly had a bold idea in his mind.
Maybe...it's time?
Regardless of what Lance has in mind, as the commander of the expeditionary force, Chris is currently in a state of confusion.
Just now, he received Liant's report.
A large amount of Aero metal was found in the Serra planet, and it can be seen everywhere!
Originally, this was an exciting thing.
Isn't it right? The Federation's expedition to the Weiss Galaxy Group is for the Ai Luo Metal.
As a result, if we randomly occupy a planet, there will be so much Aerometal that it can be seen everywhere. Isn’t this exciting?
But...the next thing Liant reported made Chris instantly confused.
The people on Sera seem to regard Allo metal as the most commonly used building material. Almost all of their cities, residences, and even roads are made of Allo metal.
Well, actually it’s not the Langton people’s fault.
After all, Ello metal is of no use to civilizations that have not mastered dark energy, except that it is much stronger than other metals.
Moreover, the reserves of this stuff in the Weiss galaxy are as abundant as the iron ore in the Federation...
But to Chris' ears, this was not the case.
It's a waste of natural resources, isn't it?
The most critical thing is that, according to the judgment of experts on board the ship, these Ailuo metals that were processed into building materials by Sera Star have completely lost their ability to absorb and convert dark energy...
In other words, these Ai Luo metals that have been processed indiscriminately by the Langton Empire have completely lost their value!
At least...
This is true for the Federation!
And after seeing this report...
Chris just wanted to slap all the people on Sera to death.
No, I just want to shoot everyone in the Langton Empire to death...