The sound of footsteps echoed around the edge of the main hall of the Sherman Imperial Palace, and gradually increased in frequency. Devany almost rushed to the conference room.

New Orion was defeated.

The 6th Expeditionary Ship Regiment was completely annihilated.

A dreadnought was captured by the Downwind Alliance.

Devany could fully understand how much influence the incident reported by the military department would have on the empire.

This matter is so serious that His Majesty the Emperor has already left his throne and opened the Empire's highest operational command center, which has not been used for several years, that is, this small conference room in front of him.

The guard pushed open the alloy door, and Devany entered the somewhat dark room, where she saw several familiar old men, all using projections to participate in the meeting.

The stereoscopic projection is playing the last picture of the 6th Expeditionary Ship Group before it lost contact. Stars spew beams of hot ions;

One by one, the ships of the Falling Wind Alliance appeared on the display interface of the global radar;

Without any hesitation and without any announcement, the opposing side opened fire in a volley, and the ill-prepared Imperial fleet was completely beaten without any power to fight back.

Bang!

An old man slammed the teacup in his hand directly on the table, and the stereoscopic projection was shaking. "How dare they!"

"The Falling Wind Alliance is humiliating us! It's insulting to us!"

The old emperor's expression was as gloomy as water, and he frowned, "When did our fleet become so vulnerable?"

"It's the intense activity of the stars that causes some of our older ships, mainly the larger ones, to stop working in a self-protective way.

"It's an integrated battle cluster! Even against twice as many enemies as them, how could they not even hold out for two galaxies?"

"Their firepower is really strong." One of the generals hurriedly said:

"According to the preliminary analysis of the data we have obtained, the energy released by the opposing fleet in an instant has reached two full battle clusters with dreadnoughts.

"In fact, we have captured more than 6,200 Falling Wind Alliance ships, and most of them are 500-meter to 800-meter cruisers, and 1,200-1,600-meter battleships.

"Their heavy battleships were not as numerous as the temporarily reorganized Sixth Expeditionary Ship Regiment.

"But one thing, we noticed that they have a lot of transport ships, supply ships, and they have released a large number of drone swarms, and these drone swarms ······ It seems to be the key to our dreadnought's capture by the other side."

An old man asked, "How to fight drone swarms? Isn't that the way we've gotten rid of it?"

"Yes, my lord, about 3,000 years ago, there was a drone swarm battle, and at its peak, there was a self-destructive battle of hundreds of millions of drone swarms.

"Later, because of the need for highly autonomous artificial intelligence for drone swarms and the revolution of the short-range defense system of heavy battleships, large drone swarm operations gradually withdrew from mainstream battles.

"But we analysed a bit of battlefield data that came back after the war, and we saw an incredible scene, you saw a blurry picture in the projection installation.

It was the image of a swarm of drones wrapping the dreadnought, and the dark tentacles that opened regularly were like an octopus behemoth trying to swallow the dreadnought in one gulp.

"It's the fighting skills of the Zerg!"

An old general clenched his fists and shouted.

"Bugs?" The old emperor asked, "Are these drones pretending to be bugs?"

"Your Majesty, you mean the way of fighting," the old general quickly explained, "Bugs are actually very smart, and some studies say that bug civilization is the direction of evolution of biological civilization, and we are relatively primitive intelligent life······ A third of our fleet is dealt with by these drone swarms."

One person asked, "How many of these drones can the Falling Wind Alliance have?" Ten million?"

"I don't know, but it shouldn't be much, we have been monitoring the military industrial enterprises within the Falling Wind Alliance······ If this technology is advanced, it will become a powerful weapon against other powerful enemies in the future."

"Everyone!" The old emperor said impatiently:

"Now, we have suffered serious losses, and the majesty of the empire has been trampled on the soles of the feet by the original vassals, what technology are you discussing here!

"Defeat the Falling Wind Alliance now!"

"Your Majesty, there are some difficulties that have not yet been resolved."

The old general, one of the three supreme commanders of the empire, looked embarrassed at the moment:

"Before, to be exact, when the Falling Wind Empire announced its name change and independence, we were already in a meeting to prepare for a crusade against them, and we wanted to come up with a mature plan, and then we will report to you.

"And ······ The Empire is now fighting on multiple fronts, and the new Federation is taking too much of our energy away, and we must maintain a defensive force within the Empire.

"The Falling Wind Alliance chose this time to have a showdown with us, because we have some time to care.

"In the battle of New Orion, Falling Wind accurately hit one of our battle clusters, which made our available forces even smaller.

"The combat effectiveness of the Falling Wind Alliance's fleet, you can also see it, their will to fight, presumably we can also imagine it, because of the Edwang incident, they are now in a very angry state, and even, the other members of the Falling Wind Alliance should have raised war objections at this time, and they want to ask the Falling Wind Empire, why did they pull the alliance to the opposite side of the empire······ But that didn't happen.

"On the contrary, the Falling Wind Alliance is tightly united, and all the countries are preparing for war, and there is not even a large-scale exodus of merchants, which is simply incredible.

"Falling Wind seems to have brainwashed all these countries.

"To put it simply, if we don't use the Levy Ship Regiment, it will be difficult for us to gain a superior military position in the face of the Falling Wind Alliance."

The conference room fell silent.

The old emperor threw away the remote control in his hand, leaned back in his chair, and frowned and thought. There are several rays in the corners that weave back and forth, weaving a new stereoscopic projection.

Director Ino joins the meeting, and the communicator in Daphne's hand also gets a message from Director Ino.

"Isn't the Imperial Guard system still usable?" Devany asked in a whisper. The two old men shook their heads.

Director Ino said, "I'm now at the location of the origin server of the Emperor Guard system, and the server is working normally, but the main consciousness of the Emperor Guard system is still sleeping. The authoritative expert over there said that the Imperial Guard system itself is like an independent personality, she is too old, just like our human consciousness, she will collapse in two hundred years at most, and she has persisted for tens of thousands of years."

"Without the Imperial Guard system, how can we activate the Levy Ship Regiment?"

The old emperor asked, "What about Emperor Wei 2?" Hasn't it taken over the network of the Emperor Circle?"

The commander of the empire hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, the feedback from the Imperial Guard 2 team is that the computing power of the Imperial Guardian 2 is not enough to unify now, and it is already a little reluctant to control the Imperial Star Circle network, and the Radiating Empire Great Unification Network is even more reluctant.

"They have tried to separate the military system from the civilian system, but the Emperor Guard 2 will support the command and support work of three more combat clusters at most.

"The team of Emperor Guard 2 tried something, but they couldn't find the interface to the Levy Fleet." Director Ino answered the question, "The interface is on the root server of the Emperor Guard system."

Deadend.

The old emperor muttered, "Doesn't it still meet the standards that the imperial guard system says? Didn't she detect that the empire was facing a chaotic internal and external situation? In this situation, in history, the Imperial Guard system has already been activated dozens of times, right?"

Obviously, the old emperor felt that he was being targeted by the imperial guard system. "So, what about the private fleet of the Imperial nobles?" Devany continued:

"I got a set of data before, and the private fleet of the Imperial nobles can integrate three battle clusters."

The old emperor frowned and looked at his daughter, "Daphne, you must understand that the fleet raised by the nobles has little combat power."

"But they have the firepower, father." Devine said softly:

"The ships that bless the nobles with Imperial Guard 2 should be able to exert similar combat effectiveness as regular fleets, and

······ expensive

The clan has made meritorious contributions to foreign wars, and we can also publicize it internally, and the nobles enjoy privileges on weekdays because when the empire is in crisis, they must stand up and shed blood, and the domestic turmoil will subside a lot.

"This time, we require each noble family to send a fleet commander, either the nobleman himself, or their eldest son with the first right of inheritance, to ensure that they will fight bravely.

"How about giving the aristocracy a chance to perform?" The old emperor raised his eyebrows slightly.

An old man spoke, "Is this what Ino meant?"

Devine laughed, "It's just that I suddenly ······ myself."

"That's what I mean, uncle," Director Eno interrupted Devany's words and said indifferently, "Now is a good opportunity for the nobles to step up, if the nobles suffer heavy casualties in the war, the domestic public opinion will be calmed down immediately."

The old men fell into deep thought.

The old emperor smiled and said, "That's it, Daphne, you go and draw up a will, pay attention to the wording, and I will sign it."

"Yes, father."

Daphne glanced at the old men, who were obviously a little displeased, and bowed her head and walked away quickly. Director Eno smiled and began to bow his head to contact the R&D team of Diwei 2. "This is humanity.

Labdo's eyes were a little dumbfounded, and he stared at the stars in a daze. He was trying to digest the vast amount of information about the Emperor's Star Circle.

There is no bottom line for human beings to fall;

Technological advancement does not lead to an increase in moral standards;

In the development of a human group, there will be progressives, but most of them are mediocre, and there will be regressorsHuman history is not an epic, but full of biological instincts;

There is only one kind of justice in human interaction, and that is to fight back against the aggressor who violates its rights······ Labudo constantly used these ideas to correct his dangerous thoughts, which were so crazy that they could plunge the empire into a real disaster.

"Labdo. ＇

The man's voice rang out again, giving Labdo's eyes some hope. That's what he said to himself the last time they parted:

You are a strong thinking body, and my intentional guidance to you this time is actually to inject the seeds of kindness into your heart.

"Later, you will most likely take over the Empire's online world and become the tool of the Round Table to control the Empire, but I think you can keep some of your own leeway when you carry out their orders.

"That's the space for goodness.

There is no absolute goodness in the world, and if you do what you think is good, it may also infringe on the interests of others.

Human beings are a terrible race, but in this race, there are often shining souls, there will always be people who stand up to sacrifice the ego to become the greater self, and there will always be individuals who raise their arms and shout and shed blood and sacrifice when they are collectively degenerate, and it is this light that continues to flicker in the long river of human history, so that human beings can survive in the vast galaxy.

"That's something you can think about later.

Don't define human beings, each individual has its own characteristics, which is the real charm of human society. Labudo sighed and secretly opened a small panel, which contained a white ghost live stream that had just ended.

"Labdo!"

An old man's shout was heard from the side.

Labudo instantly tucked the panel into his body and turned to look at his supervisor. The gray-haired old man ran over in a hurry, and immediately said:

"You still have computing power to spare, do you?"

"Yes," Labdo nodded, "but I can't take over the larger network for the time being, my core data is a bit unstable and will take some time to adjust."

"Oh well, you're a great kid, you've been able to tenaciously get back to normal after more than six thousand breakdowns, and that's already a miracle."

The old man complained:

"This big unified network designed by our predecessors is too perverted!

"They haven't left us with the technology, everything has to be developed by ourselves, it's just ······ By the way, now is not complaining

When.

"The Falling Wind Alliance ambushed the Imperial Expeditionary Fleet, and you should already know about it."

"I got the information very early," Labdou said, "From a personal point of view, we can't refute the revenge of the Falling Wind Alliance, but from the perspective of my work, the Falling Wind Alliance has seriously threatened the Empire, they have disgraced the Empire, and severely damaged the living forces of the Empire that can be mobilized outside the borders."

"That's right, Labdo, there's an order from above."

"What order?" Labdo laughed, "I'm not the first to know.

"They're still in a meeting, a great scientist told me······ You will next take over the armed forces of the nobles throughout the Empire, and the Empire will order the nobles to form an expeditionary army to defeat the Fallen Wind."

The old man glanced left and right, came closer, and whispered in front of Labdo:

"The Falling Wind Alliance has assembled their entire army, probably three battle clusters.

"The military strength that the Emperor's *** department can mobilize is the regular army of two battle clusters plus a reinforced ship regiment, which is equal to the strength of the Falling Wind Alliance.

"The above means that you are in command of the nobles' ships······ Let them suffer heavy casualties, preferably a few more princes and dukes······ Do you understand?"

Labudo frowned, "Power struggle?" "No, Labdo, it's not."

The old man sighed:

"I understand that the lord who gave me the order was a selfless devotee who had to look after his family while pursuing self-fulfillment.

"By using this war to defeat the armies of the Falling Wind Alliance, you can plunder the wealth of the Falling Wind Alliance and alleviate the crisis in the Empire.

"Then, in this process, if the nobles lose a lot, then the power of the nobles in the empire will be weakened, and the people's antipathy towards the nobles will be greatly alleviated, and the empire can survive the current crisis."

Labdor pondered, "There's another possibility. What?"

"If the aristocracy loses too much, and the imperial authorities take advantage of the situation to issue a decree to reduce the privileges of the nobility, the voice of the aristocratic community will become very small, and the social unrest caused by that will be controlled."

A faint smile appeared on the corner of Labdo's mouth:

"Director Eno is a wise elder." "Uh, you know who it is?"

"I am in charge of the network of the Emperor Star Circle, and although I cannot directly interfere with the Emperor Star, I am closely connected to the Emperor Star, my supervisor.

Labdo's eyes were full of light:

"I love this mission, I hate those nobles." The director didn't know what to tell for a while.

Don't let the nobles die too much?

Like, the more you die, the better for the Empire······ said. Darkstar III Base.

Yang Wei was lying in the gravity-free seat, enjoying the massage service of 026, and listening to the law report on the mobilization of the emperor's strength.

The military movements of the empire, in their eyes, were almost transparent.

The woman on the side is holding the handle and playing electric.

The controller, the console, and the game content are all made according to Yang Wei's dictation, and Po Shao has recently liked this kind of entertainment with backward technology but rich content.

After the law report was finished, Yang Wei couldn't help frowning:

"Noble Private Army······ Is there anyone moving in the convoy of Saka? I don't want my left hand to hit my right hand."

"I haven't received any orders yet, but Revere's family has received the relevant orders, and they have asked him to dispatch almost all of his ships," Ryu laughed, "Obviously, those old people know that Revere is a new nobleman cultivated by the old emperor, and they are targeting him."

"There's no need to worry about this, Revell is the Imperial Count, this is a matter of position." Yang Wei groaned a few times.

Could it be, in the next big war, Li will not participate, right?

In fact, he was ready to face some of the Levi Ship Regiment, and if the Levy Ship Regiment remained unmoved, even if they won the next crusade sent by the Empire, their influence would be greatly reduced.

"Harbour, that's small

Is there anything unusual about the ancestors?".

"No," Ritsu said, "she wants to play with Miss Mimilie, and I have Molly with her, and Miss Mimiri is now actively preparing for the fight."

"What can her pirate ships do?" Yang Wei smiled:

"Don't let her go to war, that's not her job, is my Uncle Hatton back from the Güell Alliance?" "It's on the planet Elandor."

"In this way, let Kolev go to Mimiri's side and take a good look at Mimiri," Yang Wei admonished, "I know Mimiri, she doesn't care about anything when she's crazy."

Ritsu smiled and shook her head.

No matter what, the control of Mimilie's hundreds of "pirate ships" is in Molly's hands, that is, in her hands.

"Ritsu," Yang Wei glanced at the deep-space combat drone behind the glass.

These are the combat drones that captured dreadnoughts before, and each drone can be stationed in a mechanical thinking body, and can also be controlled in parallel with the swarm.

In wartime, the minds in the dark capital will enter the game cabins and directly control these drones to fight.

When the drone is destroyed, these minds can be transferred to other chambers. "How many of these drones do we have on hand now?"

"Twenty three million three hundred seventy seven thousand three hundred seventy-six, as of the last second."

"Beautiful," Boss Yang frowned, "With so many resources, wouldn't it be good to produce more dreadnoughts?"

"Uh, boss, you agreed to read the daily report before, why don't you turn your face and deny it now! The target of the dreadnought is too big, how can these drone swarms be easy to use, they can be directly hung on civilian transporters, and they can jump to participate in the war!"

"Why didn't I admit it?" Yang Wei said sternly, "Have you ever seen a boss who would be okay to read so much data in the briefing? I trust you!"

"Okay, but the technology we got from the teacher is very suitable for this drone swarm combat system." Ritsu explains:

"I'm producing an average of three million drones from an Imperial Administrative Star, and that's not enough! In this way, we will be able to take over and control the administrative stars of the Empire at any time!"

Yang Wei: ······

"Wake up, we can't do the Levy Fleet right now."

"It's just that you can't do it on paper," Ritsu raised his head slightly, "as long as we don't make a move, we are invincible." Yang Wei couldn't help but remind her, "Li and Levy have children."

The corners of Ritsu's mouth twitched a few times, "It's all consumables anyway."

"Prepare for the worst in everything and do your best," Yang Wei closed his eyes, "Don't leave any regrets in the next battle."

"Yes!"

Ritsu whispered, "If there are ten more galactic years, the Levy Fleet will not be a problem." Yang Wei smiled and said nothing.