Captain, your ship has exploded again.

The full name of the second Earth government is the United Earth Colony Government.

As the name suggests, this is a government based on colonies.

The government fleet heading towards the asteroid belt has now been forced to travel to the planet Taphlantis.

Because that place represents the last hope for all three parties.

After Zhang Xun and his group arrived on Mars, they left one ship behind and took the remaining three warships with them.

Now it's a competition to see who can reach Tafrantis first.

Zhang Xun was willing to abandon the mission in order to prevent the Blood Moon from awakening.

The fleet that quickly exited hyperspace arrived near the planet Taphlantis.

The situation in space is not good right now; the warships of the Eastern Church and the Earth Government are already locked in fierce combat.

In the dead space of the universe, there has been no large-scale space war for a long time.

Aside from exchanging fire with their main guns, the two sides also engaged in a war of attrition with their fighter jets.

Since neither side had much experience, they did not take any other defensive measures other than deploying space mines near their own positions.

Why is it that in every universe where people don't read the Thirty-Six Stratagems, battles always involve queuing up and shooting each other?

If it weren't for the shields protecting the Eastern Cult, they, who were already outnumbered, would likely have been defeated.

Zhang Xun looked at the battlefield ahead, covering his head, feeling extremely embarrassed.

Many Eastern religions have not received military training, and humanity has always been limited by energy scarcity.

This turned the fight into a situation where you throw a brick at me, and I throw a brick back at you.

The Earth government primarily uses electromagnetic weapons to attack.

Although there are caseless plasma projectiles, the majority are still solid metal projectiles.

It's not that the technology is insufficient, but rather that there hasn't been a cosmic war in this universe for a long time.

In addition, electromagnetic weapons consume little energy, making them the most suitable shipborne weapon for Earth's energy-scarce governments.

To understand energy-based weapons, whether they are laser, positron, antimatter, or plasma-based.

Before they are launched, they all require energy to be charged. In many cases, plasma or positron weapons require extremely high energy to manufacture ammunition before they are launched.

This is also why the latter types of weapons have lower firing power than lasers.

In other words, if a laser emits 100 million watts of energy.

More than 90 percent of the energy consumed is from the beam, and less than 10 percent is from cooling.

Other types of weapons consume 10,000 watts to launch, but may require 200 million watts to strip positrons.

This is also why, in many cases, although energy weapons seem to consume little energy to launch, they are not used in places where energy is scarce.

In other words, the dead space has a unified theoretical technology, which barely resists it by relying on the deflection of gravity.

Otherwise, with a light-speed weapon on one side and a physical weapon on the other, even if they are thousands of kilometers apart, the Eastern Cult's spaceship could evade it.

Zhang Xun's four warships all exited hyperspace in stealth mode.

Without specific scanning using lidar, it would be difficult to detect their stealth state.

"All warships activate their close-in weapon systems, radar scans minefields, and the battlefield system begins assigning mine-clearing order along the paths."

Soon, the battlefield command and coordination systems of the four warships began to function.

Zhang Xun discovered the Earth government's warships and the gravity defense system they were using.

Only a very few outside the warship, the gravitational generator protrusions generate a torsional force field.

This is clearly a fragmentation ship, a method used to pulverize objects that are too close to celestial bodies.

However, it has a good deflection effect on laser and plasma weapons.

Just like Earth's magnetic field protects against solar storms, but its weaknesses are also obvious.

The distorted force field is highly effective against single attacks, but its deflection effect is greatly reduced if two attacks occur at the right distance.

"Warships, move closer together in pairs, use gravity beams to hold them in place, and charge the main guns!"

Zhang Xun had no intention of getting involved in the children's game of throwing stones at each other.

When a warship destroys an enemy warship at a long distance, it can approach to clear the minefield and bring the secondary guns into range to speed up the battle.

While a two-ship attack can break through enemy defenses, the enemy can also use a two-ship chain attack for defense.

This trick is easy to learn at a glance; the main problem is that Candela didn't have enough money to build missiles.

Otherwise, photon torpedoes or quantum teleportation could instantly annihilate all enemies.

The technology of the 25th century was still too primitive; quantum teleportation, such an advanced technology, could not be mastered overnight.

The four warships quickly came to a suitable distance.

"Main gun fire!"

The moment the attack began, Nicole finally gave birth to Isaac's child.

This little guy's first cry came with destruction.

The sudden appearance of four warships instantly disrupted the Earth government's fleet defense system.

Before they could even react, the surrounding minefields were largely cleared.

In order to effectively damage enemy warships, laser weapons are generally fired within their effective range.

However, this does not mean that laser weapons can only operate at this distance.

If the target's armor is reduced, the effective range of laser weapons will also be greatly increased.

This is similar to how gunpowder weapons have a kill radius, but that doesn't mean they can't kill beyond that distance.

Even if a pistol is more than 100 meters away, it can still kill someone if it hits the eye, provided that you actually manage to hit it.

Laser close-in weapon arrays, if distributed in multiple units, can still manage to destroy targets even when they are outside their effective range.

Most of the space mines deployed by local governments are fixed in place and can only be activated with a magnetic attraction function.

For laser arrays, this means a fixed target.

Jacob, inside the Earth government's spaceship, gestured to his subordinates.

They quickly and secretly boarded the shuttle and left.

The Earth government is certainly not stupid; they would not put all the Unification Cult members on a single warship, making it easier for the Unification Cult to hijack the warship.

What they didn't know was that the Unification Church was not a monolithic entity; besides Jacob's branch, there were two other branches within it.

The most dangerous of them all is the faction that coexists with the zombie variants.

It is clear that the Eastern Church's attacks on the Unification Church have accelerated their split.

After witnessing everything that happened on the moon, the Chimera secretly carried away a large number of necromancy limbs.

This also includes a restrained infected individual.

It is clear that some of them were injected with enhancement drugs, most likely obtained from the Titan space station.

The Chimera faction quickly attacked their warship and took control of it.

The government forces commander quickly spotted the unusual warship.

After several unsuccessful attempts to communicate, he ordered the launch of nuclear missiles in a final desperate attempt.

Blinding light appeared on the battlefield; in the vast expanse of space, the primitive nuclear bombs were reduced to nothing more than high-temperature damage.

In the absence of shockwaves, nuclear dust, and light radiation, the only electromagnetic pulses appear so weak.

However, the nuclear bomb was not aimed at the fleeing warship.

The government forces assumed that the enemy's morale had collapsed and they had abandoned the battle and fled, without considering seizing the ship from the Unification Church.

But when the second warship carrying the Unification Cults sailed toward Tafraantis, the government forces realized something was wrong.

Meanwhile, the spaceship that was holding Isaac was attacked, allowing Isaac to escape from his cage.

"Pah, Candela is ruthless. If I didn't know they could find me, I would have thought they were trying to silence me."

The title of the greatest engineer in history is not an exaggeration, but the result of hard work and real-world experience.

His donning of an engineer's uniform signified the loss of the warship.