Stellaris from the Automata Era

Not to mention one kick, it's probably more than just a breath.

"Don't panic, the enemy is weak, we..." The commander hadn't finished his words when a dense stream of signals flashed across his radar. "One...two...three fleets? That many?"

The node of the space-time slide is right behind the opponent?!

Once the enemy's numbers increased, the commander's heart sank even though he knew he had the advantage in combat power.

Living things themselves have a certain fear of the size of the group. Even the most ferocious lion on the grassland will only prey on animals on the edge of the group.

Even if they encounter groups of humans, they will retreat and watch the other parties cut off the thighs of their prey.

"Inform everyone to maintain formation! We still have the advantage! As long as we follow our previous strategy..."

Although the commander of the slime shouted the slogan "The advantage is mine", it soon found that this became a priority death.

Compared with the mechanical fleets they encountered before, the ones coming this time were completely targeted and elite modifications.

As soon as they met, they abandoned their previous strategy of shooting at each other with energy weapons, and the result was a fight between two weaklings.

After all, one is scraping, and the other is so poorly trained that he can't hit.

Instead, they prioritized saturation missile bombing, but the warhead of this missile was a bit strange.

When they hit the mud's ship, a scorching light burst out instantly. The mud almost thought that he saw a super planet explosion happening in front of him.

In fact, it was still okay for those who were watching the scene through image transmission, but some of the slime who were looking directly at the scene through the surrounding observation glass had their eyes blinded.

It was not until this time that the slime with a little bit of brains realized a huge problem.

The opposite side seems to be acting them out.

......

"Wait? Is this a missile?" Yan Luo, who was far away on Earth, was watching the scene and looked back at N2 in surprise.

Although he did replace the mechanical life with weapons that were more effective against shields, this thing seemed a little different from what he had initially imagined.

How to say it, the missile in Yan Luo's imagination should have an equivalent that could hit a civilian area without being overly condemned.

"Yes, Dominator, this is an ICBM."

Intercontinental missiles don’t necessarily have to be equipped with nuclear warheads!

"You might as well just say nuclear bomb." Yan Luo pulled back N2, who was talking calmly as if in an everyday conversation, and threw him onto the screen again.

It is obvious that the current battle situation is doomed. This slime fleet deep behind enemy lines will probably find it difficult to escape its destined disaster.

After all, real space battles don't have a magical retreat button like in the stars, where you can escape from the entanglement and encirclement of thousands of enemies with just one click.

If they want to escape, they may need reinforcements to help.

“But I can’t see your follow-up.”

Even if the other side has reinforcements, it will probably take more than ten days to arrive.

So Yan Luo was sure to defeat the fleet in front of him.

"Get ready for a counterattack. Through these days of fighting, I've discovered that the other side is just a broken house. All we need is a light kick..."

Words with a strange sense of déjà vu came out of Yan Luo's mouth.

Of course, he himself knew that the other party might not be that bad.

It is quite normal for civilizations to lose in the first confrontation, but the real competition lies in the tenacity of the civilization's willpower and how to target each other's technology and equipment.

If the slime is not stupid, it will probably make major changes to its weapons and ships soon.

What Yan Luo has to do now is to take over some of their land before they can react.

Chapter 265: Slime: Master Wang! There are capitalists. Follow me along this path.

"So these slime monsters really have no follow-up?" Based on the large number of species corpses left on the front line, Yan Luo temporarily named the unknown civilization slime.

Anyway, the two sides haven't established diplomatic relations yet, so just say any name.

After destroying their front-line fleet, Yan Luo immediately ordered the mechanical fleet to advance at full speed.

As a result, the galaxies that had fallen into the hands of the enemy were not only quickly recovered, but also invaded their territory.

After all, positive intelligence showed that the Slime did not seem to have any extra troops, so Yan Luo completed the recovery and captured their three galaxies.

There was no resistance at all.

Well, this does not include the fact that the opponent's space station's autonomous air defense achieved some results.

In short, the Earth has now reached a critical crossroads, because their next hyperspace node shows that the route ahead is to connect multiple galaxies in parallel at the same time.

"So, do you hit the left side first or the right side first?"

Yan Luo's original strategic deployment was actually very simple. The first step was to kill the Slime's frontal fleet with one punch, creating a local combat power vacuum for them.

Then punch down their galaxies and compress their resource output.

The last third punch...

"There is no third punch, Master."

Um..

Let’s not talk about how n2, representing evolution, guessed Yan Luo’s psychological activities for the time being. Let’s first listen to how the network of this mechanical life explains it.

"Even us mechanical life forms have to wait for subsequent supplies."

It would be better to say that the Earth was advancing too fast. The mechanical fleet crossed three galaxies without stopping and rushed into the opposite territory.

We will just attack the enemy's space stations and fleets, and most of the attacks will be nuclear bombs.

No matter how you look at it, mechanical life forms have to pull this kind of physical ammunition from the distant Koprulu sector. This really increases the pressure on logistics.

As expected, although energy cannot break the shield, it still has the advantage of being advanced. I don’t know how much time it saves just in terms of supply.

"It's not just a matter of ammunition. We also need to get energy supplies for the fleet from the Koprulu Sector. Otherwise, the entire front line will be shut down."

"Huh? Wait, aren't you using a black box for power?" Mechanical life's black technology is the best in the world.

As far as Yan Luo is concerned, their semi-perpetual motion core may not be much worse than the fallen void power generation in essence.

But if we say now that they use traditional energy... then Yan Luo's face would only show confusion because he couldn't understand it.

"Because we are entering the space age, we also need to iteratively optimize our existing forces."

Wait, isn't this optimization a bit backwards?

Just put it aside to fix the bug that was too strong before, right?

"The production of the core is too complicated, and a single warship requires hundreds of mechanical life forms to assemble. To improve warship production efficiency, we have abandoned the practice of installing cores on warships."

"What you said makes sense."

If you think about it carefully, the mechanical fleet is essentially a large assembled mechanical life form.

Compared to fighting on the ground with humanoids in the past, the cores that dropped everywhere can be recycled, and over thousands of years, a lot of wealth can indeed be accumulated.

But once it falls in the cosmic environment, the core will really disappear while floating.

This is indeed a justifiable practice of giving up the core.

Never mind, let’s just treat it as a balance patch for the universe.

"Then it seems we still need some time to wait for the mechanical fleet to be resupplied." Yan Luo sighed, "Won't this give the slime time to react?"

Although Yan Luo wished he could continue the attack, a fleet without energy was no different from a flying stick.

It can only be said that the Earth, which is still a novice in battlefield confrontation, has not considered it carefully. Perhaps the situation will be significantly improved next time.

"In that case, sir, why don't you deal with the affairs in the occupied area first." After seeing the conversation between Yan Luo and N2 ended, Divara, one of the twins, finally had the opportunity to interrupt.

She stretched out her finger and drew a projection plane, and a yellow planet appeared prominently in the image.

"This unnamed desert planet looks like a colony of mud, the only habitable colony in our occupied area.

N2 has already communicated with us, and they don't have much interest in managing the occupied areas, so we, the humanoids, will be responsible for this."

To be precise, the mechanical life forms have not even fully developed the rich Koprulu, so they don't have the time to invest more energy in the barren galaxy during this period.

After understanding this, Yan Luo naturally also understood the behavior pattern of N2. However, she was able to notify the humanoids to take over, which seemed to indicate that the integration of the two races had some effect.

"Then I need to actually occupy this planet. What is the situation with its army and defense?"

"In fact, we have occupied it... and have not encountered any resistance at all."

how to say..

The mud on the desert planet seems to be in dire straits. According to the analysis of the species, the mud actually prefers land.

Then everything is easy to understand. For unsuitable areas, it is difficult for soft mud to survive.

The climate, habitability and unique viruses on the planet have made this planet a kind of exile place.

It is probably like French Guiana, which is wanted to be developed but is difficult to develop.

In addition, it is also a question of whether real desert planets can produce food?

This also led to the fact that after the Earth occupied the galaxy, the planet directly entered a stage of collapse.

After all, the ooze transport fleet may no longer be able to supply the planet.

By the time the humanoids arrive, few of the starving slimes above will have the strength to stand up, let alone resist.

"There are approximately 300 million slimes living on this planet. I'm afraid the decision on how to deal with them will be left to the adults."

"There are still quite a few people." Looking at the alien life forms that needed to be dealt with, Yan Luo was a little troubled for a moment, but looking at their appearance... "How do they taste?"

"It's said...it tastes like dirt."

hiss..

Let’s not investigate how the humanoid came to such a specific conclusion.

In short, this group of alien life probably escaped the disaster.

Since they don’t have the characteristic of being delicious, Yan Luo can only focus on their surplus value.

So is it purification or purge?

Although Yan Luo really had no sympathy and did not intend to deal with them in batches, he was just considering the current state of the humanoids.

It is estimated that it is difficult to develop planets far away from the earth. Perhaps it is time to ask for some high-quality labor to complete the expansion of the underlying planning.

"I'll keep them under close watch for now and organize their labor. I'll see if there's any need to raise such a large group of slimes."

......

"So, Master, this is really your decision?" 9S, wearing his pod, looked in surprise at the humanoid figure who came forward to deliver the order.

To be honest, he and 2b may have been a little too idle recently.

After completing various errands for the Terrans in the Kopke star zone, he was immediately tasked with the occupation of the mud desert planet.

Regarding the possible conflict with the alien ground army, the humanoid cautiously sought YoRHa's help.

As a result, a Yoerha Legion had just drawn its swords, but had not yet fought a battle. Now, with a single order, it directly became a temporary garrison force.

Moreover, it is getting farther and farther away from humans according to the time and distance. Even a wormhole that Koprulu passes through is closer than the mud planet!

"9s, we don't need to question it." In comparison, 2b didn't care much.

2b, who is naturally aloof, is considered to be relatively normal among the humanoids.

For humans, the instructions are probably of the "Who do you want me to chop? When? How much?" type, well, not really normal.

In short, she would undoubtedly obey the order without asking why.

"But I heard they've built a shopping mall in Koprulu. I'd like to see if their shopping is the same as what humans have documented..." Then, even through his tactical eyepatch, 9s felt the gaze stare directly at him. "Well, it's just a temporary mission anyway."

"Then the next step is to distribute food to the slime."

They don't have to do this themselves. The real duty of the Yoerha Legion is to come and maintain order.

You know, a group of hungry people with blurry eyes will probably cause a lot of chaos in the process of distributing food.

A bloody fight might be necessary right now.

Yoerha shouldn't be lenient when he kills the slime.