700 million light-years from the Milky Way.

Shepherd's Hollow.

Silverlight Empire.

"The strength of this civilization is good, it has deployed more than three million warships, even among the fifth-order civilizations, there are very few military forces that can reach this level."

Inside a building.

Number Two was watching the live broadcast from 700 million light-years away, and the face under the veil was full of sighs.

This is not a mockery, but a sincere sigh.

After all, how many fleets a civilization has are usually determined by two elements.

The first is the civilized population.

The second is the interstellar industrial manufacturing power of civilization.

The words of the civilized population are easy to understand.

If you don't have enough people, you won't be able to support such a large fleet.

Of course, basically every civilization that can survive to the fifth order is at least tens of thousands of years old, as long as it is not some race that is difficult to reproduce...

There is basically no shortage of population in this aspect.

It's just that the population alone is not enough, and on the other hand, it is the manufacturing power of the interstellar industry.

After all, it's not enough to have people without warships.

Building a battleship of a fifth-order civilization is a complex process, and most importantly, it requires a lot of resources, and among these resources, there will definitely be many scarce resources.

Therefore, in the usual fifth-order civilization, the fleet will not exceed one million, unless it is a simple crazy riot regardless of the development of other aspects.

This situation will not be reversed until the sixth-order civilization.

Because...

Space particle reconstruction technology is a technology that is extended after the further use of space technology.

This technology has also been recognized by various high-level civilizations in the universe as...

The hallmark technology of the sixth-order civilization.

With this technology, resources are no longer a problem, and production efficiency will no longer restrict the production efficiency of a civilization.

From then on, the entire civilization will enter a new fast lane.

Therefore, in the universe, there is a huge watershed between the fifth-order and sixth-order technological civilizations.

As far as a sixth-order civilization is concerned, no matter how weak it is, the number of warships will definitely not be less than five million.

Some have powerful militaries, and can even have tens of millions of warships.

"Two, don't you think these ships... Is it different from the previous ones? ”

"It's really different, but it's still based on the same civilization design style, and it's definitely the same civilization."

Hearing the other elder's words, Second nodded.

How could he not see this?

After all, compared to the previous kind of battleship, this is obviously a notch weaker now.

It's just that from the design style, it can be judged that these two types of warships belong to the same civilization, so he didn't think about it so much.

After all, under the command of his Silver Light Empire, there are still legions of different levels, and the most inferior ones are even only at the level of fifth-order technological civilization, isn't it?

There's nothing strange about that.

However, the number three on the side does not see it that way.

"Two, do you think these are the subordinate civilizations under the command of that civilization?"

"The possibility is very low, after all, they themselves are only a fifth-order civilization, and then equip the subsidiary civilization with a quasi-fifth-order civilization warship?"

"That's right..."

Three nodded, not saying anything more.

After all, it's really unlikely.

Different civilizations, different experiences, different logics.

In this universe, although there are more than a dozen ninth-order technological civilizations, their logic has always been...

The cannon fodder corps of the attached civilization can use low-level warships.

And his own civilization, with a ninth-order civilization warship, can suppress any disobedient.

To put it bluntly, it is a kind of control of absolute strength.

So, no one ever thought about controlling it any other way.

But the Federation is different, and as far as the current Federation is concerned, it has a small population of its own and is unable to build a huge fleet of millions.

However, there are too many threats in the vicinity, and a large number of troops must be possessed.

So, the Federation opted for arms control.

Things can be given to you, but these things are also under the control of my Federation.

As long as you are obedient, then these things can be used forever.

But if you don't obey, then these things can also be turned into scrap metal in an instant.

Another point is that the Federation had just entered the Fifth Order a few decades ago, and it accidentally developed the space particle reconstruction technology.

The productivity of the sixth-order civilization, plus the population may not be comparable to that of the fourth-order civilization.

As a result, there is a direct surplus of productivity.

If it were just the Federation itself, it might not be able to use 10% of today's productivity, wouldn't it be too wasteful?

In this case, let's use the surplus productive forces to vigorously build warships.

On the one hand, it will arm the subordinate civilization so that it will have stronger combat effectiveness, so as to become an important help for the Federation in the war.

On the other hand, it is also through armaments to completely control these subsidiary civilizations, so that they cannot escape the control of the Federation.

None of that matters, though.

At least...

In the eyes of the higher-ups of the Silver Light Empire, it didn't matter at all.

Because, even the Imperial Third Legion has a full billion warships, which is more than three hundred times the number of ports deployed by the Federation.

In the end, there is not much suspense about winning the Federation.

As for what the price to pay, no one cares.

It's just an Imperial third-class legion, even if it's dead, who cares?

"Okay, there's nothing to see about the battle over there, and finally there is a result, so let's just get to know it again."

"We're not here today to discuss this."

The number one, who rarely spoke, was suddenly vocalized.

And the rest of them also came back to their senses.

That's right, they got together again, but they didn't care about this kind of battle, which didn't matter what the outcome was.

But...

"Five, you are in charge of this matter, you can talk about it."

"Well, since the first-level anomalous lifeform was brought back six years ago, we have used Imperial technology to accelerate its evolution, and two years ago, we promoted him to the sixth order."

Oh oh, so fast?

I thought it would take about ten years!

After hearing the words of the fifth number, the other people present sighed in their hearts one by one.

In the early days, they were worried that although they had successfully obtained the first level of special lifeforms, they would be able to complete their ascent from the fifth to the ninth order within a thousand years...

There is still some uncertainty in everyone's hearts.

After all, individuals in biological civilization need more time to advance each time.

And the promotion of the fifth-order civilization to the sixth-order, even with the technical assistance of the Silver Light Empire, should be about ten years.

But this guy, even in less than five years, went through the entire promotion process.

It's too fast.

Is it ethnic?

Or is it...

No one knows, but they know something else.

With such an evolutionary speed, it shouldn't be a big problem to reach a ninth-order biological civilization within a thousand years.

But, just when everyone was excited.

Five spoke again.

"Although the rate of evolution is fast, this race has some troubles."

"Well, what's the trouble?"

"It needs a huge amount of energy to support its evolution."

"What's the problem? The evolution of high-level biological civilization individuals, which one does not need the support of huge energy? ”

Everyone was a little dismissive.

Isn't it energy, as a ninth-order civilization, will we still lack energy?

Give as much as you want, as long as you can eat.

"It's not what you think, this race needs life energy, and it is extracted from the swallowed organisms after eating, in the process of digestion."

"To put it simply..."

"He needs to devour creatures, the more powerful creatures..."

"The more life energy you can extract!"