Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station

The result of the new battle plunged many people into heavy despair.

No one knew how to face such a fleet with stronger single ship strength and the ability to expand its own fleet from the enemy's wreckage.

Moreover, the empire is still facing an evenly matched enemy.

However, the Minister of Psionics did not have such an idea.

After seeing the ability of the nanomachine, the hope in his heart was even more impossible to extinguish.

Because he found that the ability of the nanomachine was extremely similar to Chen Ming's psychic power.

Not only the style of ability, the combat intensity of the ships, the pure mechanical structure they possessed, and the seemingly endless number of ships, all seemed to be a fleet from Chen Ming's men.

However, they did not have the terrifying production efficiency that gradually increased with the expansion of the nest scale like the Zerg.

Production and assimilation seemed to be two different ways of doing things for nanomachines. The efficiency of ordinary warship production was not as fast as assimilation in the actual outbreak of battle.

At least it was not that a cruiser or even a main ship was just destroyed, and it was completely assimilated by the nanomachine in a few minutes and became a member of the nano fleet.

This can be seen from the recent battle commanded by the commander of the 14th Legion, and the fact that the number of nano warships in the nano fleets observed by the Empire from different nano planets is far lower than expected.

The minister does not understand why this is the case, but this is one of the few good news at present.

Although this good news does not seem to be so good when the nano warships have a production efficiency far exceeding that of normal warships, and the nano has an exaggerated assimilation efficiency of the planet, and each planet can carry out industrial production.

But this at least means that these nanos have shortcomings and are not perfect.

And there is another point.

That is, the nano fleet is not like the warships controlled by Chen Ming himself, which have a ship repair efficiency close to unlimited and can be repaired from a pile of destroyed dregs.

When the nano robots of each nano warship are damaged to the point of being unable to support the warship, it is equivalent to the warship being destroyed, and there is no way to return to the battlefield almost unconditionally like Chen Ming.

They also do not have truly unlimited firepower output like Chen Ming's fleet.

In terms of single-ship combat power, it is indeed superior to the ordinary warships of the empire, but it is still far behind the warships operated by Chen Ming.

In terms of strength, it is weaker than Chen Ming's.

All these news together make the minister feel that the nano fleet led by the queen is almost completely suppressed by Chen Ming's psychic power.

Even if the queen's own psychic power is strong, it cannot change this fact.

In the minister's view, unless a single psychic is strong enough to destroy the entire empire by himself, he has no capital to threaten the empire.

The power of an individual is ultimately too weak in front of the collective.

Even the queen is the same.

If she didn't have those nano fleets, she would be just a lamb to be slaughtered for the empire.

Moreover, if she could really destroy the empire alone, then she would really be like what the military leader said at the meeting two days ago, and there was no need to slowly expand the nano planet.

So the minister was extremely convinced at this time that as long as Chen Ming could come back, the empire's current predicament or desperate situation would be completely broken.

But...

The minister took out the terminal and tried to contact Chen Ming.

As expected, no response was received.

Chen Ming was still disconnected.

The minister put away the terminal with some disappointment and sighed.

This action can be said to be the most common action he has done recently.

He looked at the current time, got up and went to a special floor of the office building to attend a new online meeting after the failure of the tentative battle.

Through the simulation device, the minister quickly returned to the previous online conference room.

Unlike before, there was a moving countdown hanging on the wall on one side of the conference room this time.

The time shown on it was more than seven days and more than ten hours, close to eight days.

There were already more than twenty people sitting in the conference room, and someone explained to the new minister: "This is the time we estimated to reach the border of the empire based on the current expansion rate of the nano planet and the empire's data on those galaxies that are about to be assimilated."

"This time may be earlier, but it will not be delayed."

The minister nodded and stared at the countdown for a long time.

It was like a sword of Damocles that could fall at any time, threatening him and the empire.

And there is no way to take the sword off at present.

The minister sat down at his seat and looked around. The atmosphere in the conference room was even worse than before.

If the nano cluster had not chosen to expand slowly instead of letting the empire face this trouble directly, I am afraid someone would have collapsed long ago.

The people in the conference room gathered quickly.

Compared with the previous two days, the head of the military department was not as enthusiastic as the first to speak at the meeting: "We have a clear understanding of the combat effectiveness of the nano fleet."

"Basically, as long as they expand and engage in a head-on battle with us, we will definitely lose."

"With our current technological level, there is almost no effective way to effectively strike their fleet except to crush them with at least twice the number of fleets."

"In terms of fleet and ship strength, the Titan class that is still under construction may be able to do it, but once the Titan class warship is damaged in battle, the few means we have will lose their effectiveness."

"This is the news that everyone knows now, and everyone should be having a headache now."

"But... I still have to tell you some bad news that you don't know."

"At the beginning, the scale of the nano fleet that passed through the wormhole was only close to the permanent military force of an ordinary star field."

"We have missed the best opportunity."

The head of the military glared at the person who questioned him last time.

But there is nothing to say. Even if the authority is really given to the military, they can't really gather the entire empire's available manpower and all psychics to attack the queen on the day the queen arrives.

It's really hard to say who will win or lose.

So the military just glared at him, and then continued: "But as of today, the size of the nano fleet is unpredictable, at least one-tenth of the Empire's standing military force."

"Don't think this number is small. How many star fields does the Empire have? How many star systems have they occupied so far?"

"The production efficiency of those nano planets is very high, and the speed of replenishing the fleet is far faster than ours."

"And as the base of the planets they control increases, the number of warships they produce will increase."

"In a few days, when the number of nano fleets really crushes the number of our fleets, we really have no hope of turning the tables."

"But there is still hope now."

"According to our parallel investigations over the past two days, we found that the growth of the nano fleet is not exponential, but linear."

"The only means they use to expand the nano planet is the Colossus."

"I doubt if the Chen Ming colony had not used the Colossus to try to destroy the star gate, giving them the opportunity to replicate the Colossus, would their queen have come to the Empire to grab one in person."

"We have a way to curb their expansion, and this Colossus can be our target."

The Minister of Psychic Energy agreed with this view.

Although he thought that the production efficiency of the nano planet was not as high as the conversion efficiency of the nano ship in the battle, it was relative.

If we can find a way to dismantle the colossus and delay the expansion of the nano planet for one or two days, that would be good.

If the production efficiency of nano is lower, the speed of rebuilding the colossus is slower, and it can be delayed for a few more days, it will be a pleasant surprise.

Now that there are less than eight days left to face the queen, the delay is extremely important.

However, someone mentioned the last meeting: "Where is the queen? What are you going to do?"

"There is no place for the nano colossus, and you are still thinking about the queen?"

The head of the military department turned black and asked back.

However, he still said a plan that seemed to have been thought of before: "If you want to deal with the queen, there is only one choice, gather the power of the top psychics in the empire and fight together."

"We can't just find a few psychics and try to deal with it. That's no different from giving up our lives."

And the plan of gathering the top psychics in the empire is not feasible at present, and the threat of the mechanical super body is still on the side.

Once the mechanical race notices the movements of the empire's psykers, the super-bodies will bring heavy losses to the empire in a very short time.

Therefore, if you want to target the nano, you must start from other aspects first.

After two sentences, the topic of the queen was temporarily skipped.

The military leader said again with some preparation: "Not only the nano colossi, we must also try to clean up those nano planets later to further reduce their productivity."

"It is necessary for our colossi to move, this is the job of the colossi."

The people in the conference room discussed it for a while and had no objection to this idea.

This is indeed an effective way to suppress the productivity of the nano fleet.

The only possible consequence is the same as destroying the nano colossi, that is, the queen changes the current way of doing things and attacks the empire directly.

But this is not a problem at all, it is just something that will happen sooner or later.

Instead of being afraid of the consequences of doing so, it is better to make some attempts.

Someone suggested: "There is also a Colossus in Chen Ming's colony. Do you want to borrow it?"

"You can give it a try, but I don't think the neutron torrent will have a good effect on nanomachines."

"One more option won't hurt."

After the plan was passed and handed over to the military for execution, the head of the military suddenly glanced at the Archon.

He suddenly changed the subject as if he understood something and said: "By the way, it is actually necessary to plan a plan against the Queen."

"At present, we all know that the Queen's psychic power is far stronger than any psychic, so our psychics must cooperate to target her."

"Our top psychics don't usually cooperate much, especially in combat, so if their abilities conflict, appearing in front of the Queen together may even have a negative effect."

"We need to organize ourselves to form a qualified team, be prepared at all times, and carry out the decapitation plan when necessary."

The plans for the nanocolossus and nanoplanet are both theoretically feasible and can predict the approximate results.

But for the Queen's plan, it is obvious that no one present will pass it so easily.

"Let's not talk about decapitation. How can we decapitate the Queen when we don't even know where she is?"

The head of the military department answered confidently: "We actually have a solution to this problem."

"Our military department has been cooperating with the Fanchao Research Institute to conduct research on a secret project. The name of this project is the Sentinel Array."

"This was established one month after Chen Ming brought back the cosmic star map. The research was completed some time ago, and the technology was only completely completed recently."

Sentinel Array.

It is a special giant structure with the same specifications as the giant dock, but with different capabilities and effects.

The effect is to conduct long-range ultra-high precision reconnaissance at the imperial level.

As long as it is within the radiation range of the sentinel array, everything from the structure of galaxies and star clusters to the biological populations and natural resources on the surface of the planet can be clearly seen.

This technology was originally used to target the mechanical race. As long as the mechanical race still exists around the empire, the empire will know everything about the mechanical race.

As long as the war between the empire and the mechanical race continues, the location of their Omega core can be quickly locked with the sentinel array.

And now, the results of this technology can just be used on the survivors.

"Then what? Still can't win."

"Decapitating the queen is not the first goal, this is just preparation. If we are not prepared, we won't even have a chance to fight the queen."

The Grand Archon, who had been silent for a long time since the meeting, ended the debate and completely determined the tone of the empire's targeted strategy for the survivors.

Destroy the nanocolossus.

Clean up the nano planet.

Decapitate the queen.

Three fronts go hand in hand.

This is not the Grand Archon's arrogance, but the empire cannot win if it does not do this.

Half a day later.

The sentinel array built in a hidden galaxy belonging to the military of the Empire was officially launched after a series of careful preparations.

Within a few minutes after the array was launched, the exact location of the Queen of the Survivors and her Nano Colossus was determined.

The Queen's vehicle is now hovering in the galaxy where the wormhole is located.

Like any nano-ship, her vehicle does not require a giant dock for maintenance.

Because each nano planet has all the functions it should have, and it transforms with the changes of the nano machinery on the planet.

Each planet can be a ship production center or a dedicated ship repair center.

The Nano Colossus is moving towards the Empire at the edge of the galaxy occupied by the Survivors.

The Queen's star field is not expanding in a spherical shape, but in an egg shape.

The tip gradually extends in the direction of the Empire.

This gives the Empire an excellent opportunity for a surprise attack.

One day later.

The operation against the Nano Colossus was officially launched.

A joint fleet composed of several powerful imperial military components took the initiative to attack the galaxy where the Nano Colossus is located.

Relying on the absolute advantage in numbers, the Empire's fleet barely managed to win back a city in this battle.

The Nano Colossus was not dragged into the war, but went to other nearby galaxies under the escort of the rest of the Nano Fleet.

Of course, this was also planned.

A Level 6 psychic was deployed on all the retreat routes of the Nano Colossus, with the goal of destroying the Colossus.

The direction in which the Nano Colossus actually evacuated was Hu Yi, who was caught by Chen Ming before, then forgotten by Chen Ming, and finally ran to the president's side.

His psychic power has a very good targeted effect on nanomachines.

The entropy reduction of his psychic power is completely irreversible for the structural damage of nanomachines after constructing an absolute zero area.

And the moment the Nano Colossus stepped into the ambush range.

The instantaneous extreme cold completely destroyed the entire Nano Fleet, including the Nano Colossus.

The fleet where Hu Yi was quickly dismantled the Colossus and evacuated. The Imperial Fleet, which was used to attract the main force of the Nano Fleet, also took the opportunity to end the battle and also chose to evacuate.

The Queen did not appear during the whole process.

And the Nano Fleet seemed to have no ability to replenish a new Colossus in a short time.

The Queen's steps seemed to have stopped for the first time.

But just as this news was just transmitted back to the Empire, another news was also transmitted back.

Under the surveillance of the Sentinel Array, a Nano Fleet with three main battleships was leaving their star field and approaching the Empire.