Time passed, and the progress of the various network branches was in full swing, and the Domination of King's Landing was also extremely busy.

The 4,000-kilometer-span behemoth is home to a number of complete industrial production lines and a stargate to the inner universe of the Galaxy, where the Zero Point Furnace works tirelessly to process raw materials into parts, while also receiving the mechanical wreckage that has been brought back to the mothership from various network branch nodes, recasting it into new airframes and sending it to the front line.

At the same time, the naked mechs and a large number of parts produced by the various ideal cities in the Far Eastern Star Domain were also being transported to Ophelia through the stargates in the Dominating Body.

Behind the successive Iron Divisions is the strong logistics of the federal power. Only such an interstellar dictatorship, which has no means to check the power in the hands of its rulers, can support a quality war of this scale.

Receiving a project report from Grey Wind, Russell got a rough idea of the battle situation on the front line through logistical data.

"In terms of the current attrition rate, the death rate of the basic mechs is the highest, even if they are equipped with self-destructing plasma cores and high-lethal hot melt weapons, it will take an average of about 6,335 basic mechs to replace a dark spirit ranger cavalry.

…… This is still the result of our surprise attack on the Spirit Race, and after the Dark Spirit Race sees through the weakness of the Zero Element Coating and adapts to the long war of attrition, this battle damage ratio will only be lower. ”

Russell looked up at the roaring production line across the conveyor belt and shook his head: "The cost performance of humanoid soldiers is still a little lower. ”

Gray Wind agreed: "The quality of the Spirit Clan's individual soldiers is indeed strong, and it is even more elusive after obtaining the Liberation Spiritual Energy at the end of reincarnation. ”

At present, it takes an average of 173 giant warbodies to kill a Spirit Clan Ghost Titan on average of 173 giant warbodies on the network front, and the battle loss ratio of armored units is not optimistic...... On the whole, the unit with the best record in the network war is the 'swarm' drone.

The drone swarm played a big role in the battle against the Spirit Poison Fighter to seize air supremacy, and even used the swarm's suicide attack to take out a Ghost Titan that was injured by the Plasma Destroyer, and after occupying air supremacy, it can also pose a great threat to the Spirit units on the ground.

"We may be able to try to allocate more capacity to the drone swarm." Grey Wind suggested.

"That's true." Russell nodded.

Although he has the strong logistical support of the Far Eastern Star Domain and the Domination itself, this does not mean that Russell is willing to squander resources at will like a wronged boss and forcibly fill in the line with troops that are not effective enough.

I tried a more cost-effective class, so of course I had to choose the most cost-effective one.

To fight a war is to fight the economy, and to consume is to fight operations, not only quality wars, but also all types of wars. It's just that Russell shows the binding relationship between war and the economy more nakedly.

"Oh?" Suddenly, Gray Wind frowned.

"What's wrong?" Russell looked at her puzzled.

Gray Wind stretched out his hands: "I just received a signal that the troops responsible for attacking the No. 4 branch have all been wiped out. The information sent back before the collapse of the last giant battle body showed that the spirit clan who had been cornered used some kind of forbidden ancient relic to directly detonate that section of the network, and after the network was damaged, the entire battlefield was swept into the etheric turbulence. ”

"These sprouts can't afford to play."

Russell shook his head: "It seems that I still have too few soldiers, and I actually gave the Dark Spirit Clan time to activate the ancient relics." ”

The No. 4 branch collapsed just in time, and the number of troops that could be invested on other fronts became larger.

Gray Wind nodded, sat on the safety fence next to the production line and shook his feet happily, and was happiest to discuss logistics operations with the marshal.

But suddenly, her brows furrowed again: "Huh......"

"What's wrong with this time?" Russell was puzzled: "The Spirit Clan has used other ancient relics?" ”

"Nope." Grey Wind shook his head: "The subspace sensor has detected psionic fluctuations, located near Mandeville Point in the Ophelia system. This indicates that a ship has sailed through subspace to the Ophelia system, and is about to surface out of subspace through Mandeville Point and return to the real universe. ”

At this time...... Who could it be?

In the current situation that the Sun Star Domain is surrounded by the migratory green tide of orcs, and the Ophelia Galaxy is located near the Storm Star Domain and the Sun Star Field, it is possible that the orc pirate fleet that appears here at this time may be the orcs, in that case, it will take some energy to deal with it.

Then, Russell saw a golden Imperial Double-headed Eagle sneaking out of the subspace rift at Mandeville Point.

A cruiser carrying a heavy chapel with a sacred statue of a human emperor standing on top of it slowly sailed out of the rift torn by the subspace engine and into the Ophelia system.

"It's actually an imperial ship......" Russell was a little surprised.

Judging by the style, this first ship to sail out of subspace was an armed merchant ship belonging to the Imperial merchant fleet - don't underestimate merchant ships.

The 'Merchant Fleet' is the official trade organization of the Empire that was personally issued a business license by the Human Emperor during the Great Expedition, in principle, only the Emperor himself is qualified to issue this level of license, but due to his old man's physical condition, he probably can't sign out a second license, so the Merchant Fleet is actually the only legal organization that holds a galaxy-class trade license, and in fact monopolizes almost all trade transactions within the entire empire.

The exception is for Rogue Traders, Ronin and Smuggler, who have a private license signed by the Governor of the planet to transport small areas between several planets.

The merchant fleet is perhaps the most wealthy organization of the Human Empire, and money is a sign of power, so the armament of this armed merchant ship with the icon of the Emperor stands... In fact, it is better than many of the specialized warships that served in the Imperial Navy.

One after another, and behind the armed merchant ships at the beginning, several more ships with obvious organizational features came out.

The black ships of the Inquisition, the pilgrimage ships of the Anglican Church, the foundry ships of the Mechanic Order...... There's even a Space Marine battle barge. Such a lineup is not unluxurious in the Human Empire, and it can even conquer some planets that are not too difficult to bite.

So much so that Russell wondered: "Isn't the Sun Star Field being besieged by orcs?" How can such a fleet be cobbled together? ”

Even if Ophelia 7 is the state religion version of Mars, a single state religion will not have such great energy, right?

Suspicious, Russell ordered his men to accept a communication request from the patchwork fleet, asking them what they were coming from.

Perhaps intimidated by the power of the Dominant, Russell's question was quickly answered:

"They are a scout fleet sent by Terra urgently, and the purpose of this trip is to pass through the blockade of the Orc Green Tide and go to the Great Otramar Star Domain to ask for help from the Ultramarines."

(End of chapter)