"Good," Karney said with a brief nod. "Let's focus on the war."

As Karney's voice landed, the holographic devices in the hall were activated, and projection devices hidden throughout the conference hall were programmed to draw a glowing star map.

Moments after it was established, the illusory space unfolded completely. Within seconds, signs and data appeared everywhere on the map.

Everyone in the hall could clearly see the entire star map, and this star map depicted the Milky Way in which they were located.

Every galaxy, every planet, can be found on it.

The names of the many galaxies, displayed next to those stars, are mostly just a series of star hall data. Galaxies that have been occupied by humans are shown on the star map more brightly than normal galaxies.

The sparkling light reminded them of how sparsely distributed the Imperial World was across the galaxy.

Although over the past few hundred years, the empire has established countless new colonies. But for the hundreds of billions of galaxies in the galaxy, the empire owns less than one hundred thousandth of the world.

There are still infinite mysteries waiting for humans to explore in the galaxy, but now humans are not allowed to have that leisure and elegance, and how to survive the threat of Tyranid is a question that humans must think about first.

This star map can show much more than that, but if all the information is really fully displayed, I am afraid that the people in the conference hall will not see anything but overlapping text.

Just showing the names of galaxies makes the whole star map look dense and makes people feel big.

But it doesn't matter, Karney's purpose is not to make everyone look for anything in this star chart.

Using the controls on the table in front of him, Karni removed the names from the star map and shrunk the entire galaxy in miniature.

Then, the whole galaxy spun rapidly.

And as the Milky Way turned, some people found that the points of light representing the empire's territory seemed to gradually increase on the star map.

But the transformation of the star map is not only this, at the edge of the galaxy, a tiny tentacle quietly sticks into the galaxy, so small that you can't even notice it without looking closely.

Soon, though, everyone's attention was drawn to the tentacles that represented the Zerg fleet.

In the beginning, there was only a small tentacle on the star chart. But soon, or in the blink of an eye, numerous tentacles will appear around the galaxy until it envelops the entire galaxy.

Multiple tendrils extend from below the plane of the galaxy in the direction of the attack, and they march in unison, like a slow-motion replay of a video of a beast hunting water prey.

Viewed from the picture, although the tendrils appear scattered at first, they resemble the roots of a large tree, which gradually become thick and intertwined as they reach into the nutrient-containing soil of the Milky Way.

And what is disturbing is that there are even the tips of individual tentacles that have been deeply inserted into the galaxy. Under the tentacles of slow exploration, many areas in the star map glow with infuriating reds and grays.

Red represents the Zerg fleet, while gray represents the galaxies that have been ravaged by the Zerg.

And just as these tentacles representing the hive fleet kept appearing, a striking red dot appeared in the range of the empire's hazy star field on the star map.

The follow-up Zerg kept entering the galaxy, making the tentacles representing the hive fleet thicker and thicker, and the red dot seemed to be unwilling to lag behind.

It spreads like a cancer cell under the weaving of galactic star wires, and eventually develops into a strange space phenomenon that spans the hazy star field.

And after it appeared, the movement of the entire star map soon stopped.

"Look at these huge hive fleets," Commander Karni said, his outstretched arms surrounded by writhing tentacles.

"For hundreds of years, they've been heading toward the galaxy, devouring everything it comes across in its path."

"This simulation is 10 million times faster. As you can see, like the fearsome plague of locusts on ancient Terra, they devour the world one by one, stripping everything they come across. ”

"And as we've seen, there are still countless hive fleets pouring into the galaxy. Their follow-up forces seemed endless. ”

"At the moment, these zergs, these bunglings that are more than the entire galaxy creatures, may be all the enemies we will face, but perhaps, these are just the vanguard of the zerg."

Karney's words made the atmosphere in the hall a little solemn.

With so many bugs, how should the Empire respond?

According to the combat experience of some fleets and some small-scale hive fleets in the Empire, as long as the Empire uses the mobility of ships and long-range attack methods to carry out kite flying tactics, then these hive fleets will not even touch the Imperial fleet, and will be reduced to ashes under the terrifying fire of the Imperial fleet.

It seems that the Tyranid are not worried.

But in almost the same number, the Imperial fleet can easily defeat the hive fleet, so what if there are ten times more Zerg, or even nine times more Zerg?

Or even a hundredfold, a thousandfold?

Ever since Sivir led the Empire, the warriors of these Empires had hardly fallen into numerical disadvantage.

Even when faced with orcs who were known for their numbers, the Empire's forces were able to maintain their superiority against them on most battlefields.

And after the orcs are eliminated, there is no race in the galaxy that can match the human in terms of strength.

Spirits? If you add up the Ark Spirit Clan, the Dark Spirit Clan, the Barbarian Spirit Clan, the Spirit Pirates, and all the pointed ears in the entire galaxy, it is estimated that there is not as much population as the human nest on the planet.

Space necromancy? Perhaps, but if you only talk about the awakened space necromancer, it is still not worthy of lifting shoes for the Empire.

As for the other alien races in the galaxy, large and small, they are not worth mentioning.

But in the face of the Tyranid Zerg who invaded the galaxy at this time, some of the Imperial soldiers with rich service experience in these conference halls suddenly had a sense of familiarity.

Those Astral Army generals and Space Marine company commanders all recalled their past.

On a strange planet, you have only a few comrades by your side, but you are faced with endless rebels and cultists, or green skins all over the mountains, or awakened hordes of space necrons.

Ah..., I think of the battle in the sunset that day, it was my lost youth.

Playing more with less?

Isn't this an old tradition of the Empire?

It's back, it's all back.

Since they were once able to defeat those enemies who were a hundred times more than their own, why did the current Zerg make the soldiers of the empire timid and fearful?

The warriors, who had been a little shaken for a while because of the staggering number of Zerg, rekindled a fire in their eyes.

Karni didn't know what some of the warriors were thinking, and seeing that everyone was silent because of the number of zergs, he spoke again.

"We're not without an advantage in the face of the Zerg."

Karni manipulated the star map, and a large-scale map suddenly appeared, replacing the Milky Way in the star map.

A part of the Extreme Star Field floats in space, and every detail is flawless.

"This is the Kelvin sector we're in."

Calvin said, pointing to the many galaxies displayed by the holographic projection. As the edge of the Extreme Star Field, the edge of the Empire's territory, the Kelvin Star Region is relatively sparsely populated.

But in Calvin's sector, there are still thousands of galaxies that belong to humans. They are under the threat of the Zerg.

"Farther beyond Calvin's star sector, on the edge of the galaxy, several small races have been eaten by the Zerg. Outside of the Empire's attention, thousands of planets have gone from living planets to rocky balls that will never give birth to life again, unbeknownst to them. ”

"However, the deaths of these planets are months or years apart. By our standards, it's moving slowly. ”

"It is precisely for this reason that these zergs have arrived in the galaxy hundreds of years ago. But most of the Zerg are still on their way to the edge of the galaxy. ”

"Even if a small number of Hive fleets broke into the Empire's galaxy first, they were quickly wiped out by our fleet. But this also made the empire not realize the threat of the Zerg at the first time, and did not realize the huge hive fleet that had reached the galaxy. ”

Karney glanced at the crowd in the hall, some of whom seemed to have realized the point.

"Mobility."

"Maneuverability is an important factor in achieving victory."

"This could be the key to our victory in this war."

"The speed of those hive fleets seems to us to be too slow!"

"The Sentinel Array in the Solar System is in operation with a roar, and the array is full of energy, and with its powerful signal, the entire galaxy can be seen at a glance."

"Through the Sentinel Array, a spatial scanning device, the movement of the entire galaxy is in our hands!"

"The change in the galactic coefficient that we have just seen over the past hundred years is the real-time monitoring of the entire galaxy during the operation of the Sentinel Array over the past few hundred years."

"And after discovering the Zerg invasion, the Empire never took its eyes off them."

"And in all the years that the Empire has been monitoring the Zerg fleet, not a single Zerg fleet has disappeared from the monitoring of the Sentinel Array."

"Based on the data collected by the Empire, we have found that through a certain mechanism, the Tyranids can defy the laws of nature and travel at a speed slightly faster than the speed of light, but as far as we know, their fleets cannot travel through subspace or hyperspace."

"This will give us a strategic advantage because we will be able to react faster than the Zerg."

"Through the Zerg movements provided by the Sentinel Array, coupled with the Empire's mobility far beyond the Zerg, we may be able to erase the Zerg's numerical superiority."

At this, Karni paused.

"And yet..."

However, victory in this way will come at a great cost. After all, the Empire's fleet is mobile, but what about the Empire's planet?

Instead of saying the last half of what he was thinking, Karney steered the conversation to the impending war in the current galaxy.

"However, the Empire has let us assemble here, not for us to play mobility."

Karney manipulated the controller in front of him again, and enlarged the star map again, and the star map that originally showed the Kelvin star region now showed only one galaxy - the White Deer Galaxy, which was the galaxy where Karney was located.

The White Hart galaxy on the star chart has automatically scrolled down with data detailing the worlds in the galaxy: population, exports, levels, and all the other macro-hierarchical information needed for the empire's bureaucracy to function.

These statistics come from planetary governments on each planet, and the Eagle is always in sync with the Solar System's Imperial Core database, all of which are updated in real time.

As the supreme commander of the forces currently stationed in the White Hart system, the "Eagle" also maintains information synchronization with the Empire's strategic command center.

The orbital markers of galaxies, the orbits of planets, the boundaries of regions, boundaries, prominent phenomena and important outposts are all visible on the map.

Those space fortresses, orbital defense platforms, missile arrays, starry torpedoes, and some planets in the White Hart Galaxy. All of them are marked.

Within seconds, the people in the hall had a general idea of the defenses within the system.

Of course, this is a thing of the past.

After welcoming a support fleet sent by the Empire, of course, the defenses of the entire galaxy had to be changed to better face the dense and innumerable hive fleet of hives rushing towards the White Deer System like a behemoth tentacles on the star map.

In order to maximize the power of the support fleet, Karni had a short discussion with the people in the conference hall.

When they reached a consensus, the military forces of the entire White Deer System suddenly underwent a rapid but orderly change of defense.

Everything is ready for the battle.

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As a galaxy located on the edge of the Empire's borders, the White Deer Galaxy has long been attacked by the Empire's enemies.

Its people have long honed their will in the hard lives of life, and countless people are ready to join the planetary defense force to fend off the coming devourer.

And in addition to the help of military power, the empire has also sent many bishops and priests of state religions on various planets within the galaxy, so that they can calm the hearts of everyone on the planet and ensure the mental state of the people of the empire.

Once the White Deer Galaxy has repelled Spirit pirates, Chaos Warbands, and even a large-scale waaaagh initiated by orcs! The Imperial Citizens of the White Hart System believe that no matter how sharp the minions of the Tyranid swarm are, they will be smashed headlong on this stronghold.