The expeditionary fleet sent by the Empire to the Taiping Star Domain soon encountered their first enemy, a hapless orc fleet.

When the expeditionary fleet appeared in the system tearing the veil from hyperspace, the advanced tachyon sensors installed on its ships detected the movement of the orc fleet at great distances, relying on rotating tachyon beams.

And the faster-than-light movement of orcs in the galaxy is also achieved through subspace, and their subspace engines are more unstable than the Empire's.

Some were rebuilt from the wreckage of subspace engines taken from Imperial warships, and some were weird things built around the brains of a nervous boy that had been removed.

The subspace sensors installed on the expeditionary fleet can easily detect the huge subspace fluctuations left behind by these orc ships after they broke away from the subspace, so as to deduce the time when the orc fleet appeared in this system and learn more about the orc fleet.

After discovering the orc fleet, the sirens in all the warships of the empire urged all naval personnel to return to their respective posts as soon as possible and prepare for battle. The other personnel on board the battleship should return to their rooms as soon as possible and should not move around the battleship at will.

"Croatian General, the battleship Winterchill is in place."

"Croatian General, the battleship Identification is in place."

"Croatian General, the battleship Valiant is in place"

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"Croatian General, the Punisher Titan is in place."

"Croatian general, the Mujahideen Titans are in place."

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In front of the commander of the expeditionary fleet, various communication windows appeared densely on the huge holographic projection screen, and the reports of the captains of various warships kept coming.

The entire expeditionary fleet's large number of warships quickly formed battle formations under the orders of the commander, ready to open fire on the orc fleet at any time.

Due to the large number of warships in the expeditionary fleet, those frigates, destroyers, cruisers did not need to report to the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary fleet, the Croatian general.

After all, even if Croatia is a forbidden army, it cannot process the information reported by hundreds of thousands of warships at the same time in a short time.

Therefore, only battleships and Titan-class ships were qualified to report directly to Croatia. Being able to be under the direct jurisdiction of the Supreme Commander is a symbol of strength in the expeditionary fleet.

But even if you just count the battleships and Titan-class battleships, they are enough to number tens of thousands in the expeditionary fleet. It's daunting to look at.

At this time, the detection array of the orc fleet also discovered this huge fleet half a galaxy away. The detection devices on the orc warships appeared densely packed with signals representing the enemy.

Although these orc ships are in tatters, like space junk, their warships should have a lot of functions. Whether it's a subspace engine, an energy shield, or a probe array.

The orcs have simply categorized the various detection devices they use as "finders", using devices ranging from powerful aether scanners to giant telescopes.

And like most orc technological creations, the orc's detection array is incredibly complex under its rough and simple appearance. Even more powerful than the detection devices used in previous empires.

At this time, the orc detection device had already detected the situation of the Imperial Expeditionary Fleet, but at this time, the Great Technographer, who was in charge of monitoring the detection device, was wondering why there was something wrong with this detector.

Because the feedback system of the orc detection device on this space waste ship is very simple, a three-dimensional green sphere represents the cosmic situation around the orc battleship. If an enemy ship is detected, a red dot will appear in a three-dimensional green ball.

At this time, the red dots representing the enemy warship appeared densely in this three-dimensional green ball, and the density was even connected to a crimson rectangle on the orc's detection device.

The big guy wondered if it was some bad boy who had broken the ship's detection device, or maybe some had gotten into the ship's pipes or gnawed some important line.

So he grabbed his tools, gathered his technician boys, and began to overhaul the detection array on the very chaotic layout of the ship.

But when the Great Techmaster walked to the deck of the ship, he glanced in the direction of the red dot on the probe.

And this glance made him so shocked that he couldn't hold the wrench in his hand, and fell to the ground with a "bang".

Light.

Endless light struck the orc fleet.

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Dozens of minutes ago, the various warships of the empire, which had already prepared their battle formations, reported to the Croatian general who was on the throne at the same time.

After the cold-faced Croatia confirmed this, he looked at the orc fleet in the distance with a cold gaze, and gave orders to all the captains in the expeditionary fleet.

"Fire."

"Roger!" "Roger!" ......

Croatia's voice was tepid, and there was not the slightest excitement in his heart. Even if tens of millions of orcs would be wiped out by the Imperial fleet under his orders.

His attitude towards the orc fleet was like a person walking on the side of the road and seeing an ant in the way, gently raising his foot and stepping on it, and continued to move forward.

Would you rejoice when you trampled an ant to death?

The captains of all the warships that had received the Croatian orders, after replying to the Croatian generals, immediately ordered the weapons systems on the warships that had already been aimed at the orc fleet to start attacking.

Since the orc fleet is half a galaxy away from the Empire's expeditionary fleet, the expeditionary fleet's first wave of attacks against the orc fleet is almost entirely using long-range and fast energy weapons.

The distance between the orc fleet and the Imperial fleet was such that even a laser weapon attack could move at the speed of light and take several minutes to hit the orc ship.

Even though a large number of battleships of the Empire are equipped with tachyon spears that are more powerful than particle guns, they can fire tachyon beams of great power.

But even this kind of faster-than-light attack is unlikely to hit the enemy immediately, so in such an ultra-long-range space attack, the Empire's fleet must learn to shoot "ahead of time".

However, in a battle at this distance, only by human naked eye observation, even the opponent's warship cannot be seen at all, and if you want to achieve this kind of ultra-long-distance aiming, you must rely on a special fire control system.

Through the advanced combat computers installed on each warship, the Imperial warships can roughly predict the direction of the orc fleet, so as to strike the orc fleet in advance. Prediction algorithms go one step further, and battlefield decision-making is superior.

But even so, due to the distance, when the orc ships detected an attack from the Imperial fleet, they could still react and change their direction or slow down.

However, it is not so simple for a battleship to be several kilometers long, tens of kilometers long, whether it is to accelerate or decelerate, it will take a lot of time, so the hit rate of the imperial fleet is still fully guaranteed.

In addition, the Imperial fleet is far larger than the orc fleet, and their attacks saturate all orc fleets. The orcs could only see a colorful light shooting towards them, and there was no room to hide at all.

If you can't dodge, you can only resist.

The orc warships also have powerful energy shields, and they use energy force field technology on a large scale to envelop the entire battleship.

The energy shield defense of the orc warship is even comparable to that of the Void Shield of the Imperial warship, although the orc's force field generator is always covered in crackling lightning and spewing out of toxic smoke, and occasionally dissolves the orcs who get too close.

And in the flagship of this orc fleet, a space waste ship tens of kilometers in size, there is also a special custom shield.

Like the energy fields used by other orcs, the crackling custom energy shield is replenished with extra energy, sometimes shining brightly to withstand the most powerful attacks.

However, due to the uncertainty of orc technology, this more defensive shield sometimes fails catastrophically without warning.

Although the orcs' defenses were so strong, their shields burst like bubbles under the attack of the Imperial fleet, only delaying their death by a few seconds.

The size of the emitter arrays of the Imperial Tachyon Spears and Particle Spears limited their use to the large turrets of battleships.

However, the focused particle beams and powerful tachyon beams fired by these high-energy weapons can inflict massive damage on ships, and it only takes a few shots to overload the energy shields of orc warships.

The orc warships that had lost their shield protection quickly exploded or disintegrated directly under the powerful energy attack, returning to the way they were before they were used by the orcs.

The armor protection of the orc battleship can be said to be almost non-existent (the armor value is extremely low), so once the shield of the orc battleship is broken, then the end of the orc on it is already obvious.

And on some Imperial battleships, arc generators were installed, a powerful weapon capable of ignoring enemy fleet armor and shields. They shoot arcs of chaotic energy at their targets, dealing direct damage to enemy hulls.

As the main ship of the orc fleet, the space scrap ship has been taken care of by the Imperial Expeditionary Fleet. In addition to the sheer number of battleships attacking it, several Titans shot deadly Infernal Rays at it.

Obviously, this space scrap ship is the largest and most protective warship in the orc fleet. But it was the first ship to be destroyed, and the orc warlord on it died at the hands of countless Imperial warships before he could even escape in a small carrier-based aircraft.

The orc warlord was still struggling to calculate his victories, how many worlds he had conquered, and how many worlds he had burned, before he met the Empire's fleet.

If he hadn't come across the Empire's expeditionary fleet, his orcs and various war machines might have been able to keep his legacy alive and spread his name across the galaxy.

But under the salvo of the Imperial Expeditionary Fleet, it all became so ethereal. Just one salvo of the Imperial fleet crushed this orc force that could give any imperial world a headache.

And looking at the situation of the orc fleet enlarged on the holographic screen, the Croatian general at this time gave another order to the expeditionary fleet.

"Stay in formation and approach the orc fleet."

With a Croatian order, the well-armed fleet spewed a tail flame that shone across the entire galaxy and began to advance towards the destroyed orc fleet.

At this time, although most of the warships of the orc fleet have been destroyed, some of the warships have only been destroyed or disintegrated, and many orcs are still alive. And on some of the destroyed orc warships, some smart orcs have already begun to flee in carrier-based aircraft.

These are very small targets compared to warships, and there is only a small chance that they will be attacked by the Imperial fleet. As a result, most of these orcs survived.

Knowing your opponents is the first lesson every Imperial soldier learns at the Military Academy.

The Imperial Expeditionary Fleet will approach the surviving orcs and attempt to gain strategic information about them by capturing them. Humanity has fought countless bloody wars with these savage aliens, and now humanity will no longer despise these seemingly stupid orcs.

And one of the missions of this expeditionary fleet is to go to the Orc Empire in the Taiping Star Domain, capture the leader of the Orc Empire, and learn more about the beast-level orcs. The orc force in front of him may have the information that the empire needs.

Through the inference of the upper echelons of the empire, perhaps a beast-level orc was probably born in the orc empire of the Taiping Star Domain.

Originally, since the Beast War, the empire has carried out a large-scale cleanup of all orcs, and the vast majority of orcs in the galaxy have been wiped out.

But now, a thousand years later, countless orc empires have appeared, each of which has spread throughout the galaxy like a poisonous green stain, and each galaxy has traces of orcs.

Among them, the largest orc empire is located in the Taiping Star Domain. This is also why Sivir sent so many Star Marines to conduct intelligence reconnaissance on the orcs in the Taiping Star Field.

The scale of this orc empire is the largest in the galaxy, and even the territory connected by the planets controlled by it spans the Taiping Star Domain and the Sun Star Domain.

This also makes the orcs of the Taiping Star Domain waaagh! The scale is the largest, and the Taiping Star Domain has been the most seriously invaded by the orcs, and the orcs here are also the largest in average size among the five star fields. All these circumstances indicate that the beast-level orcs are in the Taiping Star Domain.

Therefore, the empire gathered the most interstellar marines, the most warships, and formed the most powerful expeditionary fleet to carry out an expedition against the orcs in the Taiping Star Domain.

There were more than 10,000 battleships alone, and there were dozens of Titan-class warships. The Titans are the pride of the entire fleet, can carry a large number of weapons, and are often used as the flagship of the fleet.

The strength of this fleet can be seen from the dozens of Titans in this expeditionary fleet, as well as the importance that the empire attaches to the Taiping Star Domain.