In the War Room, the Gatherers and the commanders of the new empire gather to discuss the battle.

The Gatherers were mostly silent, watching the commanders of the New Empire explain their strategies to them, this star system was the home of the New Empire after all, and they had to know more about the battlefield environment than the Gatherers who had only arrived for a short time.

"We have wiped out the fleet sent by the other side, and we can continue to pursue while we are victorious, pass through the gate to the other end, and launch an attack on the Holy Vorm State."

A commander gestures in front of a three-dimensional projection, and the projection changes with that commander's gesture.

"The Holy Worm State has multiple space fortresses stationed at both ends of the gate, and to pass through the gate, you must first capture or destroy these space fortresses."

The door in the projection surrounds a circle of man-made buildings, and since the quality of the door has reached the level of a red dwarf, these man-made structures only need to reach a certain speed to no longer need external force and stably surround the door.

"We need to fight as close as possible, it is not appropriate to use long-range weapons, once the door is hit by a stray bullet, the response mechanism will be activated immediately, and the consequences will be serious."

"How serious?"

The gatherers are a little concerned about the door counterattack mechanism, and the new empire seems to be quite afraid of this issue.

Hearing the gatherer's inquiry, the commander gave a firm answer.

"We're going to be annihilated."

In response to this answer, the Gatherer's Life Field channel was in turmoil, and various ideas emerged one after another.

The inquiring gatherer was silent for a moment, expressing his interest to the new Empire.

“…… Please give us the information on this part of the door, we need to re-evaluate the door strategically. ”

"We're sorry, but we don't have any information here."

The New Empire exchanged words and exchanged words in private, explaining the reasons to the gatherers.

"In a mistake in the decision-making of the Holy Worm State, we wiped out all the ships they had passed through the gate, and then began to seize the gate, attacking the garrison stationed near the gate."

"The unsuspecting garrison of the Holy Worm State was at an extreme disadvantage, and just as all this strategic process was unfolding as we expected, the new Imperial fleet, which was in charge of the attack, suddenly lost contact en masse, and the new empire was severely damaged and became a disadvantage again."

"And how are you sure that it was the Gate that attacked the New Imperial fleet?" The gatherer asked.

"The garrison of the Holy Worm State is powerless, and there is no third party on the battlefield except for the door."

"At first, we were only suspicious, but later, the scientific research ship sent out to investigate the cause of the destruction of the fleet told us who the attacker was, at the cost of their lives."

"Unfortunately, the research ship also did not leave any information about the means of attack."

The answer from the new empire's side raised the importance of the gatherers on this issue to a higher level.

Obviously, the New Empire's research ships were determined that the attacker was the Gate, but in order to make the New Empire believe their judgment, they risked using the Attack Gate to prove it.

But there is a premise for this kind of temptation, that is, the tempter must be safe, and if he is not safe, then the fool will go back to the temptation, purely to live too long by idleness.

In other words, the only explanation is that the research ship thought it was safe, and then tested the counterattack mechanism of the gate, which led to a catastrophe.

But the problem is that since the research ship is fully prepared and ready to record the counterattack mechanism of the gate, but no information has been received by the new empire, which is very intriguing.

All signs are expressing an answer, one that even gatherers feel a little stressful - the speed of light!

Only a strike at the speed of light can make radars and recorders blind and deaf.

"Did you find anything out of the wreckage of that research ship?" The collector asks for details.

The commander of the new empire replied, "The scientific research ship has been completely shattered, and the largest fragment is only as big as our eyes, it is hard to imagine what kind of attack the scientific research ship was under in the first place. ”

Such an answer is obviously not a laser attack, but more like a kinetic strike, and the collectors confirmed this fact after simply simulating it with a physical model in the channel.

But that's not too much of a problem for gatherers.

The counterattack mechanic has a limited scope, if it is an attack as long as it touches the door, then there is no doubt that the gate will blow the star first, because the stream of particles released by the star is hitting the door all the time, although the number of particles is very thin due to the distance, but this does not mean that there is none.

Again, this boundary is not limited to living beings, otherwise the gate will wipe out anyone who dares to look at it, because photons are also entities, and the eye works by receiving information about the reflected object through the reflection of photons.

Impacts and touches are essentially the same, except that they carry different kinetic energy and therefore have different effects - gatherers who think of this believe that the main reason why the door attacks is because it has a threshold beyond which it is considered an attack.

Suddenly, another gatherer asked.

"I have a question, if the enemy ship explodes and the scattered fragments hit the door, who will the door fight back?"

“…… I don't know, we haven't tried, the Gate may or may not fight back against the initiator of the attack, and we haven't had a chance to do it again since that failed attempt to capture the Gate. ”

The new empire shook their heads helplessly, their research on the door was not very deep, they had been pressed and beaten by the Holy Worm State, and they had such resources and opportunities to study the mysteries of the gate.

"We don't recommend that you take the risk of taking it by storming, as amoeba creatures, you can use the previous method of defeating the fleet, by infiltrating, silently uprooting the garrison fortresses one by one."

The idea was that the Gatherers would also infiltrate the forts to eliminate all the enemies stationed in the forts with as little movement as possible.

"Do you think our tactics are that easy?"

"We don't know anything about the Holy Worm State, and now we have much more information about them than they do about us, and if we use tactics indiscriminately, that advantage will be wasted."

The gatherers glanced at the new imperial commanders on the other side with disdain, they were too immature in terms of tactical thinking, and they dared to use that kind of tactic because they knew the Serines very well, but in terms of the Holy Vorm State, the gatherers did not know much about it, and it could easily lead to defeat.

As for the operational aspect, they have their own ideas, and there is no need to use tactics with a low success rate.

"Combat is all about suddenness, when the opponent is powerless to parry, unable to defend, and crushed at the first blow, it is best to be a foregone conclusion before they react."

"The problem of the counter-attack mechanism of the door is easy to solve, as long as it doesn't explode and there are no stray bullets, isn't it fine?"