In addition, there are 20 groups of engineers who specialize in the construction of various transport ships, industrial ships, maintenance ships and other civilian ships.

In addition, there are officers and regular crews of Clones who can accommodate two large branch fleets.

"What a pity!"

Talent is talent, but he can't use it.

Except for the ten battleship chief engineers who can be transformed into servants of light in the future and can continue to be used, nothing else can be used.

According to the appearance of the Shata people, there is a high probability that the fate will not be good after being conquered in the future, even if they are not exterminated, they will be disarmed, and the meat quality will be adjusted with genetic technology and then raised in captivity to become food animals.

It's not scary, it's real.

In the course of the development of human civilization, there have been many conquered civilizations, but now there are not many alien civilizations in the human sphere of influence, and most of them have been extinct, and a small number have been reduced to pets or food, or to be watched in zoos.

They were born in captivity, not allowed to accept any knowledge, not allowed to speak from childhood to adulthood, over time naturally forgot their own civilization and knowledge, civilization was cut off, the new generation of IQ degraded step by step, after genetic technology adjustment of the body will also slowly degenerate, slowly become no different from animals, at most once intelligent creatures and more intelligent than ordinary beasts, better domesticated.

The icy universe is beautiful and cruel.

There is only life and death between civilizations and civilizations in order to survive, although it is not as completely extreme as the dark forest, but the difference is not big.

There is absolutely no day when civilizations live in peace with each other, even if they are two civilizations that are identical.

If human beings encounter a second human civilization in the universe that looks exactly like themselves, their first reaction is definitely not curiosity, but vigilance.

There can never be two identical species in the universe, and if there are two identical species, there are only two possibilities.

One possibility is that they were once of the same origin, such as two civilizations originating from the same place of origin, but they just went out of the planet first.

For example, if the United Empire of Mankind is destroyed and a large number of humans escape, if these escaped humans can escape the pursuit and redevelop on the other side of the starry sky, this is also the same origin.

The other possibility is a bit more scary.

As we all know, there are three main ascension routes in the universe: the mind is better than the object, and the spiritual energy is ascending; Flesh and blood are weak, and machinery soars; Design evolves, genes soar.

When gene technology reaches a certain point, you can use gene technology to design your own genes, strengthen your body, change your appearance or form, etc., or use gene technology to forcibly create a new species, and so on.

It's not surprising to redesign a species in imitation of a race, or to be dissatisfied with the appearance of one's own species, and to genetically design one's own species to look like another species that is satisfying.

Or some genes can be directly promoted to a dog through genetic technology, from the physical body to the level of intelligence.

From a dog to a kobold, and then a kobold into a tiger or a dinosaur or an elephant man, etc., as long as your genetic modification technology is good enough, you can do it.

So redesigning a race into a species that looks exactly like a certain race is a small kiss for those genetics, who prefer to make artificial legendary creatures, artificial leviathans.

Having said that, it was precisely because he could imagine how miserable the fate of the Shata people would be, that he didn't dare to use these Shata talents, and at most he dared to use them as servants of light.

And when the point is turned into a servant of light, from the body to the mind, and then to the will is distorted, in fact, it has nothing to do with the Shata people.

The number of servants of the light is too small, only one a month, only twelve a year, and there is no way to leave too many talents, only these ten battleship chief engineers can be left.

Unconsciously, more than half a month has passed, and the giant dock has been split into the universe in the palm of his hand, and many Shar slaves have also been put away, and there are about 31.08 million in the inventory, and all the annoyance has been collected in the warehouse area to merge with the previous Shahr people, and the previous Shahr

People do the ideological work.

For most of the month, except for the occasional small fleet jumping in to reconnoitre, no enemy arrived, but on the twenty-first day, Crimson and Horn of Liberty plus three other large teams gathered a fleet with conventional warships that were more powerful than them except for the flagship, and rushed over, preparing to attack the Shata III system, which was only seven jumps away.

They also found the Garan Legion that was plundering Shata Five, and Gu Shenzhou sent someone to ask him if he wanted to send a fleet over, but Li Qing refused.

The garrison over there is not much different from the giant dockyard side, and it will not be a problem to capture it with the strength of a joint team, but it will certainly not be so easy.

Although it hadn't passed, Li Qing was still very concerned about the battle situation over there, and he wanted to see if the battle situation over there was a stalemate, and whether the capital of the southern province of Shata, which was only a jump away from him, would send reinforcements.

Not sending the Combined Fleet to defeat this garrison will also relieve the pressure on you, and if you send reinforcements, the pressure will be reduced later when you enter the reef lair.

These days I don't stay in this galaxy every day, and the small ships sent out, and the occasional small fleets sent out to scout around, have already touched the galaxy near the reef lair.

Ever since he knew that he had a Titan Superflag and three flagships here, and had figured out their strength through the garrison here, the divisional fleet stationed in the capital of the southern province had stayed there, looking like it wanted to defend the capital.

Li Qing didn't think about seduction tactics, this is useless, the opposite side will definitely not come out, so he can only attack.

The plunder was almost over, and on this day, Li Qing finally ordered the fleet to move towards the MK471 system.

It is the crossroads galaxy, from there to the north is the Shata 3 system, to the south is the Shata 5 system, to the west is the human expeditionary force, and to the east six systems is the reef lair, the capital of the southern province of the Shata civilization.

It is very strange that there are no defenders in this critical intersection system, and it is empty.

However, looking at the entire star map, it is not unusual for there to be no defenders.

From their point of view, this is a key junction, but from the perspective of the Shata civilization, it is just an ordinary intersection, from other locations there are roads around the capital system, and there are only two key junctions in the entire southern province as a whole, one is the Quelta Fortress system, and the other is behind the capital system, the junction between the southern province and another province within the Shata civilization.

There is a key intersection there, there is a crack that isolates the interference zone and extends over, not only the difficulty of the jump has soared, but the hyperspace channels of the surrounding galaxies have also been broken a lot, and the remaining hyperspace channels are just connected to this key intersection galaxy, if there is no primordial jump strength bonus, it is difficult for even the flagship to jump directly under normal circumstances.

The Shata civilization has established a fortress system in that system, where two divisional fleets are stationed all year round.

This is also one of the risks that Li Qing considered, if there is to support, although it is limited by the environment and cannot jump over directly, but if there is preparation, it will only take about a week to rush to the reef nest galaxy.

In other words, he had to completely defeat the defenders in the reef lair within a week, and then block the support from the fortress system.

So far, Li Qingqing has guessed some unreasonable places within the Shata civilization, why the central government does not directly support, it is likely that the southern province belongs to the sphere of influence of one of the eight tribes of Shata, and the central government belongs to another tribe, and although these tribes have united to form a powerful civilization, after all, they are not of the same race, and they are not very closely united, and everyone is still wary of each other.

This guess is very likely, if they are all of the same clan, they can sweep the expeditionary force out with a little reinforcement and join forces.

To be able to form this kind of thinking error, Li Qing felt that the fundamental reason was that the joint civilization of the Shata tribe did not know how strong the human civilization was, and it was estimated that the human civilization in their eyes was at most as strong as the Yu clan located in Jinmen, and they estimated that they thought that the Yu clan in Jinmen was a human civilization.

If you take this as a reference, the strength of the Jinmen Yu clan is definitely not comparable to the entire Shata clan union, plus the Sha'ar people who are now the main force of the Shata civilization on the other side are at war with the Xivis Council, and it is not impossible for the Shata people who do not want to fight on three sides to strategically abandon the southern provinces

Yes.

After all, it was just one of the tribes that was abandoned, but there were eight tribes within Shata, and one less tribe could share more benefits.

In addition to the two moons, there is also a giant residential station group composed of hundreds of large and small habitation stations, and tens of billions of Shata people live in this settlement station group.

On the planet, there is a huge industrial base, and dense civilian ships are shuttling back and forth between residential station groups, transporting large numbers of civilians away.

In the void, millions of kilometers away from the residential station group, two extremely large fleets were fiercely exchanging fire, and the pillars of energy light lit up back and forth, and from time to time the flames of the explosion of battleships rose and reflected the void.

In less than an hour's engagement, the combined fleet, with its superior ship size, had already gained the upper hand.

If there are no accidents, victory is inevitable, the difference is when the enemy collapses and how big their own losses are.

"Ice Front, you take your fleet out of the battlefield slowly, they will definitely find a way to escape, I need you to intercept it later."

Gu Shenzhou, the temporary commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet, was staring closely at the rapidly changing battlefield and constantly issuing various orders:

"Blade, seeing that the mark I sent you is not, through the interception signal, it is most likely one of the enemy's command flagships, and I need you to sink it at any cost."

"Dimensity, in the latest news I am sending you now, keep an eye on all the movements of the enemy ships marked in blue, and if there is no abnormality, you continue to carry out the tactics, and if there is an abnormality, intercept it immediately."

"Ladies and gentlemen, the enemy has fallen into a disadvantage, just entangle them according to my orders, the victory will be ours, this galaxy has tens of billions of people, as well as a large amount of supplies, as long as you take it, you can make a lot of money, and no matter how big the loss is, you can earn it back."

When Li Qing's fleet came, the battle had already entered a white-hot state, and the isolated defenders and the combined fleet fought a desperate battle, and the battle was quite fierce.

The void was littered with burning and smoking wreckage of warships, a large number of life-saving pods drifting between the wreckage, and the defenders suffered heavy losses but were still resisting.

Normally, a fleet's fighting spirit will be shaken when the loss exceeds 30%, and when the loss exceeds 50%, it is already close to collapse, and a very small number of elites can hold out longer, but they will certainly not be able to fight to the death like in mythology, unless they have special talents to make their subordinates not afraid of life and death.

If you are fighting with the faction normally, at the current rate of battle losses, one of the sides has already begun to flee or sue for peace.

But now it is a war between civilizations and civilizations, and there is no talk of surrender.

If you can't escape, you have to fight to the death.

Li Qing himself did not participate in the war, but sent Li Qi and Li Liege to lead the fleet around the rear to prepare for interception, and if the enemy broke through the blockade of the combined fleet, he would attack, and if he did not rush out, he would just do it.

Without a flagship, the battle would have lasted a long time, and even with absolute superiority, it would have taken the Combined Fleet eight hours to defeat the opponent, and even longer to clear the router.

Li Qing was not in a hurry, and waited until they had cleared all the routs before leading the fleet to approach the huge residential station group in the center of the galaxy.

During the communication, Li Qing looked at Gu Shenzhou, Feng Lixiu and the three team leaders he didn't know and said:

"Congratulations on taking this galaxy."

Gu Shenzhou sighed and said:

"Although it was taken, it suffered heavy losses, a total of nearly 100 battleships, more than 200 cruisers, more than 400 destroyers, and more than 2,000 frigates."

Li Qing smiled:

"What's that, look at the harvest in this galaxy, so many residential station groups, at least tens of billions of people, I don't know how many supplies, enough to make up for all the losses and redundant."

"Hopefully!"

Li Qing smiled and didn't say anything, he was just crying poor.

As soon as his eyes fell on the light curtain in front of him, the screen showed that there was a community of hundreds of habitation stations in the orbit of the planet, which looked like bunches of grapes hanging in the orbit of the planet

。

The group is divided into five groups, one large and four small, the largest one is composed of seventy or eighty large and small stations, and the largest giant station has a diameter of two hundred kilometers.

They brought a large number of industrial ships and transports, and after the battle, they entered and stopped in orbit above the planet, and a large number of clone warriors entered the settlement in assault boats to drive the Shata people out of the settlement.

In fact, the best way to haul these dwelling stations is to tow these dwelling stations off the track with a towing beam from a large or giant industrial ship, and haul them back like a towing bay for normal transportation.

But if you want to do this, you must completely seal off these settlements, otherwise you will not be able to pass through the hyperspace channel.

This is a big project, and it is better to transport it directly in a processed trailer warehouse, which is not so laborious.

Of course, there is another important reason, these residential stations Li Qing said before that they wanted to, and they couldn't do it if they wanted to.