The first wave of Primordial Bodies had now reached the wreckage zone. As the Confederation forces had predicted, even the highly impact-resistant biological armor of the Primordial Bodies couldn’t withstand the extre-speed collisions.
The splattered fluids spread across the void, propelled by inertia toward the Confederation forces’ positions. However, due to the deceleration from the impact, these fluids no longer posed a significant threat.
So of the wreckage was struck, either shifting from its original position or being blown apart, creating gaps. The Confederation forces had the opportunity and capability to repair these gaps, but in order to give the Swarm hope, they deliberately left them untouched.
Soon, the second wave of Primordial Bodies arrived. After passing through the main and secondary cannon fire, only a few lucky ones managed to navigate the wreckage zone and reach the Confederation forces’ ships.
But before they could showcase their abilities, they were obliterated by Unmanned Fighter Drones carrying high-yield bombs.
While most of the Confederation forces intentionally went easy on the Swarm, they didn’t actually want the Primordial Bodies to get too close. At close range, they had no effective way to deal with these agile octopus-like creatures. If their ships were damaged as a result, it would be a net loss, especially since they hadn’t requested the Ji race’s artificial intelligence to intervene.
Therefore, they chose to use Unmanned Fighter Drones to trade blows with the Primordial Bodies. Since the Primordial Bodies were much larger than the Unmanned Fighter Drones and could release mature and larval bodies from their storage pods, each Primordial Body was targeted by a swarm of Unmanned Fighter Drones.
From the outside, it looked as though the Swarm had breached the defenses and caused losses to the Confederation forces. They hoped this would encourage the Swarm to continue their troop-dumping behavior.
The Daibo civilization, however, presented a different scene. Tens of thousands of humanoid cha surged out from their ships. Compared to the Daibo civilization’s fleet of fifty million ships, these tens of thousands of cha seed insignificant.
But due to the suddenness of the situation, the lack of a proper manufacturing and assembly line, and the rushed design, these tens of thousands of cha were the best the Daibo civilization could muster before the fleet’s departure.
The cha stood nearly sixty ters tall, with long arms and legs and perfect proportions. However, these cha were based on large, highly detailed figurines, resulting in colorful and extravagant paint jobs that made them look like exquisite works of art.
In terms of weaponry, since the cha were designed for close combat with the Swarm, they were equipped with lee weapons. The right arm wielded a twenty-ter-long high-molecular blade, while the left arm carried a reinforced tal shield nearly forty ters long and twenty ters wide.
For ranged weapons, the cha had multiple close-defense cannons on their heads and chests to deal with small harassing targets. Hidden in the right thigh was an energy gun, which, due to its caliber, was only slightly more powerful than the weapons of Unmanned Fighter Drones, providing a minimal amount of ranged firepower.
On the right side of the cha’s back was a large-caliber energy cannon. When in use, the cannon would rise and mount on the cha’s shoulder. Due to the rushed production and design, the cha’s right hand was needed to stabilize the cannon when firing.
However, the “large caliber” of this energy cannon was only relative to the cha itself. Its power was barely on par with a ship’s secondary cannons, serving as the cha’s primary ranged attack thod.
The cha’s head featured a reinforced ruby-red glass panel, behind which lay the cockpit. Since there had never been a cha warrior unit before and ti was short, the pilots were recruited from among figurine enthusiasts. Surprisingly, these enthusiasts were more than willing to take on the role, eager for the chance to pilot cha in real combat.
Previously, the figurine community had hosted various strange competitions, such as cha sports tournants and cha combat tournants. As a result, these enthusiasts, though not professional soldiers, had more experience piloting cha than most soldiers.
Unfortunately, due to ti constraints and data limitations, these cha were still primitive models with many shortcomings. However, with the combat data collected from this battle, the Daibo civilization might refine and improve them, potentially developing specialized cha tailored to different enemies.
Thanks to the Daibo civilization’s extra leniency, over twenty Primordial Bodies from the second wave managed to pass through the wreckage zone and reach their fleet.
Hundreds of cha eagerly rushed forward. The high-power thrusters on their backs gave them decent speed in space. However, despite their impressive size, the cha were dwarfed by the Primordial Bodies, which were dozens of tis larger.
The first civilization the Swarm encountered that used cha was the Botian civilization, located in another star system. Fortunately, their star system only had the Botian civilization. Unfortunately, a wormhole inexplicably appeared on their planet, periodically releasing one or more small monsters.
This forced them to develop cha nearly a hundred ters tall to combat these creatures.
It’s worth noting that even the Daibo civilization, a mid-ring civilization, could only produce cha under sixty ters tall. While the Daibo civilization could technically create larger cha, the corresponding designs and equipnt would require extensive ti and effort to develop.
Otherwise, they could have simply built a five-hundred-ter-tall cha to go one-on-one with a Primordial Body, rather than having multiple cha gang up on a single Primordial Body.
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This highlights the difficulty of creating larger cha. Even a hundred-ter-tall cha, if it were to simply stand on a planet’s surface without moving, would require terrifyingly advanced technology.
The Botian hadn’t even left their ho planet. If not for their bizarrely skewed technological developnt, they might have already achieved interstellar travel.
But this was unavoidable. Their skewed technological developnt wasn’t a conscious choice, like the Daibo civilization’s decision to lie flat and seek personal enjoynt. Instead, it was a forced deviation due to the constant threat of monsters. If they hadn’t developed combat cha, they would have been wiped out long ago.
Fortunately, the Swarm discovered them. They even kindly helped so of them transform into immortal intelligent entities. In return, the Swarm gained access to their ho planet, which was a treasure trove in itself.
The other side of the wormhole also held a treasure trove. When the Swarm began developing it, the confederation’s war against the Swarm had just begun. Over the past century, the resources from that place had greatly aided the Swarm. Once fully utilized, they would surely give the confederation a few surprises.
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