"The red giant's psionic energy is out of control. The experiment has failed. The red giant fortress has been exposed!!"
An explosive news burst out from the mouth of the intelligence officer. In an instant, the noisy and busy command hall seemed to have fallen into absolute silence. In fact, the equipment was still buzzing, but the sudden heavy atmosphere made one feel as if everything had fallen into a dead silence.
This simple sentence echoed in my mind a few times before I finally understood the shocking information it contained. I then asked loudly, "Detailed information, the damage, and the current situation. Hurry up and report. Get Tawil to project a clone on the flagship. I want to know the details of the experiment's failure."
The most encrypted emergency report from the West Sky was still being transmitted. However, the most crucial information had been received. The intelligence officer directly entered them into his own thinking core and quickly sorted out the outline before uploading it to the emergency information link.
The contents of the emergency report were clear at a glance.
"Emergency report. A fatal emergency. The planet fortress project codenamed 'Psionic Death Star' has failed. We have lost control of the death star.
The following was a summary of the report from the last officer who stayed behind.
Imperial Army Time, XX day, 9.45 am. The modification of the white dwarf's control core has been completed. The celestial body has been completely converted into a psionic structure. The material parts have been precisely removed. The energy body is now under control.
9.50 am. The control unit has come online. The white dwarf's control core has begun charging. The state of control is good. The small-scale pure energy body is in a state of equilibrium. All functions of the 'Psionic Death Star' are responding well.
10.45 am. The control unit's script has been loaded. The white dwarf's control core has been charged. The main body of the fortress has been evacuated from the red giant. The builders and supporting facilities have been evacuated. The science ship has started to fine-tune the control core's energy resonance frequency. The resonance range is slightly smaller than the design value. This has caused the control of the death star to be less sensitive. The reason is unknown. Attempting to load more scripts to increase the resonance.
13.26 am. All preparations have been completed. The science ship has activated its powerful shield and sunk into the control core. The red giant has been completely covered by a hidden barrier. The energy conversion and large-scale psionic charging system has been successfully activated. The body of the red giant is being replaced by psionic energy. Current completion rate is 5%.
At fifteen o 'clock, the psionic conversion of the red giant had reached ninety-five percent. The connection between the white dwarf's control core and the fortress was suddenly cut off for six seconds. Following that, communication was restored. The staff of the science ship in the control core reported that everything was normal and that there was no interruption in communication. This information indicates that the white dwarf's control core has lost six seconds of communication. This period of time may have been erased by the space-time stagnation effect.
At 15: 07 pm, the psionic transformation of the red giant had stopped after reaching ninety-five percent, and it could no longer continue. The control core and the science ship reported at the same time that the energy intensity of the red giant's inner layer was rapidly increasing, and the control of the core was weakening. The red giant had begun to collapse prematurely due to the fusion energy. The science ship issued the final message, indicating that they were attempting an emergency shutdown.
15.17 am. The red giant is still collapsing. The emergency shutdown has been confirmed to have failed. The science ship has lost contact, the control core is offline, and so is the control unit of the alternate dimension. The control over the 'Psionic Death Star' has fallen below the absolute loss of control point of five percent. The red giant that was mixed with impure energy has begun to collapse. The ultra-strong psionic energy has lost balance, and the space-time within the hidden barrier has begun to distort. The stability of the space is rapidly declining. A large-scale void passage has been detected to be forming, and the incomplete 'Psionic Death Star' is losing its connection to the Prime Material Plane.
15.20 am. We have lost all signals from the 'Psionic Death Star'. It has disappeared from the eyes of all surveillance devices and completely left this universe. There is a large amount of void energy left at the scene. The dead star may have fallen into the endless void. Recorder NDL-16585EF12, the recorder team has suffered serious damage and is about to self-destruct. Please report this information as soon as possible …
Information has been terminated. "
What was recorded was the entire process from the start of the death star fortress going out of control until it disappeared before our eyes. With my level, I naturally couldn't understand a bunch of specious scientific jargon, but I was still able to grasp the important information. The fortress had experienced two minor malfunctions during its activation. The first was that the range of its resonance was too small, and the second was that its control core had mysteriously lost control for six seconds. In the end, the astonishingly powerful death star fortress had lost control, and before it had even collapsed halfway, it tore through the World Barrier and directly rushed into the endless void. Along with it, a science ship filled with Schilling's technicians — including a mass projection of Tawil. Still, this wasn't considered a loss. Mass projections were just an extension of the main body's will, and they didn't have the attribute of "existence". After losing contact with the main body, they would immediately disappear. However, the technicians from the Empire were probably already dead — they were the most outstanding scientists in the Empire!
And this was only the direct loss of the death star fortress after it went out of control. What was even more frightening was the catastrophic consequences of this loss of control.
In the process of the red giant's collapse, it destroyed the giant barrier that we had set up to hide it. This barrier was only to prevent the rebels from probing its interior. The red giant's defense against frontal attacks was almost zero. A giant star that was 95% pure psionic energy, how much radiation could it produce when it was out of control? This was simply unimaginable. The moment the gigantic barrier was destroyed, all the radiation from the death star exploded, forming a signal impact of unprecedented scale in the universe. The signal impact's speed reached infinity — this was obviously the special property of highly active psionic energy — and then we received the signal interference for an instant.
That wasn't interference at all. It was a full-frequency broadcast that was off the charts in terms of power, speed, and intensity!!
The information from the death star reverberated throughout space like a bell, and the extremely pure information almost covered all the cosmic background radiation in that instant. In that instant, the secret of the red giant fortress and the Western Sky that we had hidden in every possible way was like a giant firework that suddenly exploded in the dark night sky, illuminating the foggy space. It shone on the heads of every rebel army, and in all radar systems, it was brighter than any star in the universe.
The Western Sky was completely exposed.
That was the location of the greatest trump card that we were preparing. Not only did it have the red giant fortress, but it also had other equally important things, such as a World Gate that was under construction in the C-165 system where Crystalline Peak was located.
We had been thinking of ways to rapidly expand our forces in this world, but it was difficult to catch up with the numbers that the rebel army had accumulated over countless years by relying solely on the speed of local production. The best way was to transfer troops from other worlds. Using Crystalline Peak's shockingly efficient signal amplification function, we were transforming the entire system into a spatial passage, a World Gate built with Crystalline Peak's planet coordinates as a broadcast tower. The energy source of this largest World Gate in history was the future death star of psionic energy. Its mission was to transport a special fleet: simplified 'Zero' planetary battleships from the old Kepru Sector, filled with destruction and fury. These planetary battleships were originally to be used as our second main force in the battle against the rebel army.
Although it was only a simplified version, the 'Zero' was already the most powerful weapon that we could mass-produce at the moment (not counting the death star of the doomsday weapon and the Avalon system of auxiliary equipment). Their matter decomposition rays could even ignore the armor of an Eternal-class mothership. However, these behemoths could not be built in this universe, and time did not allow it, so we could only think of ways to transport those planets from another world. But now, the death star of psionic energy that was prepared as the energy source had disappeared, and the Western Sky had also erupted with a signal broadcast with countless plus signs. All of our plans had collapsed.
The rebel army would definitely swarm in, and then slaughter the weakly defended Western Sky.
Originally, the purpose of our battle in the Eastern Sky was not only to kill and injure the enemy's strength, but more importantly, to attract most of their attention to this place. But now … damn it, everything was over.
"Your Majesty, there are reports from the commanders of the various hunting forces. The rebel army's supervision team, Logger army, and patrol ships have already begun to move. More than 80% of the rebel army has set their course to the Western Sky." Xi Weisi read the follow-up information that was constantly being sent over, and very soon, he gave us another piece of bad news. "The C-165 star system has detected a scanning signal, and the scanning time is extremely short. Our World Gate may not have been exposed, but the rebel army is obviously suspecting that the Western Sky is hiding something."
"Our defensive strength over there … There's no need to check, it's impossible. How long will the enemy's army in the Western Sky take to suppress the border?"
"At most four days. Furthermore, based on the rebel army's behavior, they may not gather their troops for an all-out attack. What the Western Sky will have to face should be an endless stream of rebel army attacks starting from a few hours later."
"Alright, at least in the first one or two days, they will have the chance to hold on and defeat the enemy's vanguard troops one by one." At this moment, I could only barely comfort myself. The impact of the news that erupted in the past 30 minutes was too great, and it required a lot of willpower to calm down. At this moment, I was really envious of Sandora's strong mental fortitude. "Inform the City of Shadows that the Western Sky has been exposed, so there's no need to hide anymore. When the World Gate opens, send over all the troops that they can send over. It doesn't matter how small the number is. Right now, we are fighting with our backs against the wall, and we need every bit of strength."
Sives received the order and left. The elder sister frowned, her expression terrible, but she still tried her best to calm down. "Ah Jun, should we stop Liliana's operation?"
"We can't stop it." It was rare for me to react quickly. "Liliana's operation can be completed by herself, and it won't affect the Imperial Army's follow-up operations much. Furthermore, I have always been very concerned about the ancient artifact in the hands of the Angel Pirates. If we want to turn the situation around, we really can only rely on that faintly discernible thing — I hope that its summoning ability is strong enough to make the rebel army ignore the movements in the Western Sky and focus their attention here again. Even if it's just a third of the time, it's good enough."
At the start, we were still worried that the Eastern Sky would attract too many enemies, but now, we have to worry that the enemy won't come.
"We now have dozens of launchers from the Angel Pirates, and Tawil had already arranged for people to repair them before he left for the Red Giant Fortress to supervise the experiment." The elder sister thought hard. "Activate them, or at least think of a way to stall the enemies in the Eastern Sky."
At that moment, the entrance to the bridge suddenly opened, and the translucent projection of Tawil hurried in.
"Your Majesty, Tawil reporting for duty."
The bespectacled lady spoke before I could ask. "The red giant has been confirmed to have gone out of control and left this universe. It is now still in the Boundless Void, and we are unable to pinpoint its location. The main reason for the loss of control is that the control core lost six seconds of time relative to the red giant itself, and within those six seconds, a key control script failed to take effect. However, the core's timeline is complete, and it did not realize the fatal error, which ultimately led to the collapse and loss of control. My projection sent back a message before it dissipated. The hull of the science ship is severely damaged, but the shield is still intact, and my research team is still alive. I have no explanation for this incident, and we should not have underestimated the Prophet Matriarch's warning and hastily researched the deeper technology of the Crimson Moon Cube. I am willing to enter the recycling furnace."
"Recycling your sister!"
I finally smashed Tawil's head with a karate chop, and even her glasses were smashed crookedly — this was the first time in my life that I had used such a move against this serious and serious mature female researcher. It really felt different from the lolis at home who could still act cute after getting karate chop — where did she run off to?
"I haven't even said anything yet and you've already talked so much that you want to throw yourself into the recycling furnace. Listen, the most important thing right now isn't who is responsible for the failure of the experiment. The first problem we need to solve is how to delay the enemies who are swarming towards the Western Sky. Then, how to reconnect with the dead star fortress. That scientific spaceship didn't disintegrate and the most outstanding scientists of the Empire are all on that spaceship. As long as they can cool down the dead star and reconnect with us, then there is still room for redemption. Then, your current mission is to wait for Liliana to snatch back an ancient artifact. A few parts of that artifact can be made into an enemy, and its main body might be able to reverse the current situation — that's right, big sister, your plan just now was very correct. Tawil, you still have a job that you need to start right now. Go activate the bunch of launchers that you fixed and use maximum power to delay all the enemies in the Eastern Sky!"
The expression on Tawil's face was a little dazed, but my words finally made her understand that the most important thing now wasn't the production responsibility, but how to make up for her mistakes. The bespectacled lady clenched her fists tightly and saluted as if she was going to skin someone alive. "Yes!! Your Majesty!! "
Everyone knows about the Schilling military salute, right? That moment, that tremble … I never thought that there would be so much material under Tawil's white robe.
Tawil left, but we still had to rack our brains to think of our next move.
"Then, Seves, what's your plan?"
In terms of being a little clever, I might be able to do it, but if we really wanted to make a large-scale battle plan, we could only rely on the opinions of experts. It just so happened that Seves had just finished contacting the City of Shadows and walked over. I immediately set my expectant gaze on her.
"If those launchers are really effective, then we will do our best to annihilate the enemy's strength in the Eastern Sky. At the same time, we will send troops to the Western Sky and prepare to face the enemy head-on. If the launchers are ineffective, the main force of the Imperial Army will move to the Western Sky to fight, leaving behind an army for Liliana to escort the ancient relics and then follow up. This is the only thing we can do now. The initiative is no longer in our hands, no plan can keep up with the changes."
Seves didn't hide the seriousness of the situation and spoke bluntly.
"Alright, we will do as you say. We will wait for Tawil to activate those launchers."
"Reporting, Sir! This is intelligence from the commander of the Southern Sky's Hunter Squad! "
The intelligence officer's report made me shiver. This guy made the same report thirty minutes ago, and the result was that my liver was trembling until now. If he were to give me any more bad news now, I reckon that I can only ask my elder sister to make me two catties of Heart Reliever Pills for dinner tonight.
I believed that the people beside me had the same thoughts, such as my elder sister Seves, Pandora, Visca, and even the heartless Shallow Shallow. Thus, a group of Empire leaders rushed to the side of the military officer's platform. A row of rather important heads gathered to look at the intelligence officer below. That unlucky child's forehead was covered in sweat.
"A minute ago, the Southern Sky's Kemet Empire suddenly took the initiative to attack the retreating rebel troops of the Empire. With nearly a hundred times their military strength, they instantly destroyed those spaceships. Kemet Emperor then issued a statement, announcing that the Empire will be free from the oppression of the Shepherdians from today onwards, and will fight for freedom with the entire nation's strength."
After the intelligence officer finished his report, the hall quietened down again.
This was yet another shocking news, and from a certain point of view, it should have the same impact as the bad news just now.
The rabbits that had been submissive for thousands of years finally waved their weak claws and fought against the ferocious wolves. And — — the rabbits succeeded.
Old Roland Gale's words flashed across my mind like lightning. "… We just want to survive. Even if our strength is meager, if there is no other choice, the ants will also fight back. That is all …"
The ants had started to fight back. But why? Why did they suddenly have such courage? Old Roland Gale had his own unique bravery. That stubborn old man who would never bow to a powerful enemy, or even to fate, was the most disobedient lamb from the start. But the other factions were just as Roland had said, a bunch of cowards who resigned themselves to adversity. Without sufficient opportunity, even if the Imperial Army declared war on the Shepherdians, they would only be indifferent.
"Perhaps this could answer my brother's doubts." Visca suddenly spoke, and then connected to the military officer's platform's projection system. "This information had just been sent over, but because the red giant base's loss of control was the highest priority, and there was a bunch of other high-priority information that occupied the information link, this was treated as a useless broadcast. That queen, I admit that I have underestimated her."
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