As a matter of fact.

From the moment the Scorpion Star Thieves first appeared on the first main spiral arm, Gruane had guessed if it was a human thing.

He also has a certain basis for this speculation.

First, he could not think of any other civilization other than humans who could go directly from the Orion arm to the main spiral arm without relying on wormholes.

Second, according to the Empire's intelligence services, this scorpion star bandit was first born more than two hundred years ago, and its main composition is humans.

But now the various news reported by the Minister of Intelligence has made him a little confused.

This scorpion star pirate ship has also shown its face in communication several times.

From the surviving communication records, it is clear that there is no trace of humans in the entire bridge, and it is supposed to be a multi-civilization composition.

Because in the picture of the bridge, more than twenty different races are seen.

Moreover, the images in these communication records have also been carefully analyzed by the Imperial side, ruling out the possibility that the false pictures or the tasks in them have been disguised.

What's more.

In the process of looting, there were also many people from the Scorpion Star Bandit Group who forcibly boarded the ship, and these people were also not human.

There are no humans in the bridges, and there are no humans in the soldiers.

So, isn't this a human thing?

Well, even if it's not a human thing, but as the Minister of Intelligence said, what's even weirder...

These races that have appeared have not been able to find any matches in the Imperial database.

Gu Ren asked himself, the imperial database should be complete enough, let alone a second, third, or fourth-level civilization.

Even a first-level civilization in the galaxy should not be missing.

But what is the situation with the more than 20 races of different civilizations that suddenly appeared?

Could it be that you have encountered the legendary invasion of alien civilizations?

"Seth, can the local fleet organize an encirclement and suppression?"

I thought about it for a long time, but it still didn't work.

Immediately, Gruen looked at Seth.

Since you can't figure it out, then don't think about it, arrest this group of people back for trial, and you will naturally know about it.

After all, it was just a group of star thieves, and there were only about a hundred warships, and it was a huge fourth-level civilization empire.

To encircle and arrest these star thieves, isn't that a matter of being caught?

"Your Majesty, this... Somewhat difficult! ”

"Difficult? A hundred tattered battleships, you tell me that there are some difficulties? ”

Hearing Seth's answer, Gruin was a little furious, pointing to the virtual screen on the side, the battleship that was broken to the point of no longer breaking and yelled.

"Your Majesty, you should remember that the Scorpion Star Thieves invaded our territory a month ago and ransacked an administrative star, right?"

"yes, isn't that why we're here to talk about what to do with them?"

"Your Majesty, that's an administrative star!"

Seth said again meaningfully.

And at this time, Gruen reacted.

That's right, that's an administrative star!

According to the establishment of the Kairi Empire, the fleet is divided into three categories.

The first category is the garrison fleet, which consists of three ships, each with a size of a thousand ships.

The fleet that Taylor brought to Orion's arm was one of them.

This is the most powerful fleet in the Empire, and its warships are also a general-purpose warship built in the way of the Star Sea Federation, gathering all the latest technologies of the Empire.

Although because of the defeat of Tyro, one of the three fleets was lost.

But over the years, the 1st Garrison was finally rebuilt.

As a result, there are still three Imperial garrisons.

The second category is the main fleet.

At present, the number of the main warships of the empire is 32,000 on the surface.

As for secretly...

The last category is the garrison fleet.

What is a garrison fleet, which is a low-cost, castrated version of a warship.

You must know that a civilization, especially a fourth-level civilization empire like the Kairui Empire, has a very large territory.

Even if the empire's own fleet wants to go from one end to the other, it usually takes days or even more than ten days.

Therefore, you can't expect to send a fleet to deal with it every time something goes wrong.

This is unrealistic, and tens of thousands of warships can't take care of tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of star systems in the territory.

It is not necessary to break the entire fleet into pieces and arrange a warship in a star system.

If you don't want to break it down to pieces, that's fine.

Build enough ships and you're done.

But it's a pity that I can't afford it!

Because you have to build at least a few hundred thousand warships to be enough.

But the main battleships can build hundreds of thousands...

Therefore, usually after the third-level civilization, the concept of the garrison fleet is naturally born.

Take the Kairui Empire as an example, the size of the garrison fleet has now reached the scale of 300,000 warships.

However, as I said before, the warships of the garrison fleet are a castrated version, and their comprehensive combat power is probably equivalent to the level of a third-level civilization, and there is no energy shield.

In order to effectively manage this vast territory, the empire was divided into administrative districts, each of which was usually 8-10 light-years long.

In addition, there are hundreds and thousands of garrison warships deployed in each administrative star.

Make sure that if something goes wrong anywhere in the borough, the fleet can be reached in a single jump.

So, Gruin already understood what Seth meant.

That's right, the planet that was looted is an administrative star!

In addition, it is also an administrative star with 800 garrison warships.

Although the garrison battleships are very rubbish, 800 garrison warships are enough to easily sweep a third-level civilization, let alone a star piracy group with only a hundred warships.

But on the contrary, this administrative star was still ransacked...

Speaking of which, I really didn't take a good look at the report at the time, after all, I had too many things to do, and I didn't care too much about the matter of a star thief group.

But now, Gruen felt that something was wrong.

"Seth, tell me more about that battle!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

A few minutes later...

"You mean, the other side didn't lose a single battleship, and killed our 800 garrison warships."

"And, those ships of the Scorpion Star Pirates all have shields?"

After listening to the report, Gu Ren was also a little uneasy.

After eight times the difference in strength, it can fight more with less, although it is only a garrison warship, but it can be done to the extent that it is not damaged...

Plus having Energy Shield technology.

Isn't this a fourth-level civilization?

"Seth, can you be sure that this scorpion group has nothing to do with humans?"

"From what we know so far, that's true."

Nodding, Seth said.

He has also struggled with this problem, but the problem is that every piece of information he has obtained is proving...

This scorpion group of thieves really has nothing to do with humans.

After hearing Seth's affirmative answer, Gruin also pondered.

It has nothing to do with human beings, could it be that there is still a fourth-level civilization hidden in the galaxy, or...

Is it really an invasion of galactic civilizations?