The void is vaster and larger than the universe.
so.
The war in the void will also be bigger.
In the 109th year of the Third Era, at the beginning of the Year of Rebirth, our home star followed the orbit of the Sky Father and entered a severe winter period far away from the orbit of the star. Our fleet is not suitable here just like it has been for hundreds of years. The season of survival left this small galaxy world and came to cruise in the void.
Sky Father is the name of the gas giant planet orbited by its parent star. In the daytime of its homeland tundra, its light blue figure can occupy the entire sky, so it is honored as Sky Father, and it is also habitable to surround Sky Father. There are two planets, which we affectionately call 'mother' and 'brother'.
In the past thousands of years when civilization was young, countless stories unfolded around these stars. Our mother star 'cradle' rotates peacefully around our father, mother, and satellite 'sister', and our race is in the cradle. grow quietly.
The ups and downs of history are breathtaking, and time flies by quietly in the blink of an eye. Our civilization grows and expands, and our horizons broaden. We launch spaceships into the stars and explore the interstellar space. We explore the boundaries of the world, then enter the void and come to the world. On the big stage, of course, over thousands of years, we have naturally had civil wars and disputes, but after all, we are a race and one body. All conflicts dissipate over time, and we join hands to move forward together.
—We once thought that this was the new beginning of our civilization, and that the infinitely vast galaxy and future in the void were waiting for our exploration.
But reality tells us that this is our limit.
The world's galaxy is not empty. In fact, it is filled with all kinds of civilizations. Because of the existence of extraordinary power and souls, there are more intelligent civilizations than we imagine. Every shining star is a prosperous life. World, and in these worlds, are there races that have explored the secrets of entering and exiting the void, and are there existences like us that have just begun our journey? Of course, powerful void civilizations that are much more powerful than us must also exist.
And always with bad intentions.
They are coming, from the stars not far away. Their warships are larger and more advanced than ours. They have experienced more baptisms of war. They discovered us, so they launched an attack. The fierce artillery fire can still cross The attack by the special forces of the Void Extraordinary caused us heavy losses. We retreated step by step. We were forced back to our home world and back to our home system. We were angry, but our fleet was in pieces. Iron, even the 'Sister' was shattered by the powerful main gun fire, and the debris was scattered in orbit, forming scattered asteroid rings - so we can only surrender, surrender and accept their control.
The Kothians, this is their name. They are a huge empire that occupies more than forty worlds and governs five vassal states. Our country must regard them as suzerains, and our people must hand over four percent of their own production. One of them was handed over, and our scientists and extraordinary beings were called upon by them at will. Although our fleet was not disbanded, it had to obey the other party's command and engage in various dangerous battles.
We are not allowed to colonize, we are not allowed to expand, we are not allowed to explore, and we are not allowed to conduct research that they are not allowed to conduct. They destroy our culture and try to transform our people and make us their exclusive miner race, but for various reasons, this The last step is never successfully achieved.
This is our luck, but it is also a kind of sadness - putting all fate in the hands of luck, isn't it the most miserable sorrow that intelligent life can feel
And just when our fleet was preparing for routine, patrolling the surrounding void to see if they could pick up some rare void resources, their order came again: they detected great changes in the nearby galaxy, and a war was brewing. It is about to start. According to them, there are many civilizations, even several extremely powerful civilizations, ready to check out the situation. There may be conflicts between these entities, which will then evolve into a melee, and they may be able to gain some benefits from it.
Of course, the danger is always ours, and the benefits are theirs. This is the fate of losers and vassals. But even so, if we can pick up some battleship wreckage of advanced civilizations, it may be able to slightly improve our technology and national strength... This is a hard-earned opportunity for progress, and we have no choice.
So the mighty fleet sailed in the void, and we were the first to bear the brunt. The extraordinary beings of the Kothians wore battle armor and moved together with the battleships, bringing with them dazzling magic light. We also have some control over this brilliance, but our powerful extraordinary The deceased will always be forcibly taken away by them, and will never return to our group, so our inheritance becomes increasingly scarce, and until now, it is difficult to make any progress.
We flew and leaped numbly, we traveled through the void, and came to the empty void between the stars and the stars. The fluctuations of time and space were gentle, but it was not until we came here that we felt regret and fear - because in this originally vast and empty area , has been occupied by countless civilized reconnaissance ships and fleets, and a huge fleet that is so huge that it can distort the galaxy is also advancing.
Those are the knowledge takers, one of the most powerful civilizations in this diverse galaxy. They silently cruise among the stars, passing by all the civilizations they are interested in and taking over all the knowledge they are interested in. We should be grateful for our weakness and ignorance. , because in this way they will not take action against us, and the takeover will not waste their energy on a civilization that has been confirmed to be 'worthless'.
"We should retreat."
Soon, we sensed a new wave of energy, which was a wave of fear that made people tremble even across countless stars. There was no doubt that the existence that came was extremely powerful, and the other side of the galaxy also lit up suddenly. A series of terrifying auras, the Knowledge Receiver and these two auras are three pillars. These extremely powerful civilizations are confronting each other across the void between galaxies. There is no doubt that this is no longer an area where we weak beings can watch.
"keep going!"
But the orders of the Kothians are still so arrogant... They are motivated by interests, but we know what they think. They speculate that the confrontation between these three powerful civilizations is because the civilization that set up a defensive array on the other side of the galaxy discovered that What kind of secret treasure or extremely important ancient ruins - they want to know what treasures and ruins are guarded behind it, and they want to get some benefits from it.
The greed of the Kothians is not surprising, nor is it crazy, because in this galaxy, there are many rapidly growing civilizations due to the discovery of secret treasures and ancient ruins. Even we know a little bit of their legends and stories, and It is not strange that the Kohiyans are crazy about these more aware people, not to mention that it is us who are taking risks, not them, and they are naturally willing to be generous to others.
So we and other vassals were forced to move on - we did not conflict head-on, but took a detour from another direction in the void. After all, the area connected between the galaxies is so vast that there is no need to take the shortest and most convenient straight line to reach it... At this moment, the war started.
We can't describe the grand fire - the first to launch the attack were the fleets that had set up a defense line on the other side of the galaxy. They were few in number, but had strange shapes. Eight giant void beasts as huge as small worlds became their barriers. The giant void beasts The world on the back of the beast also began to slowly lift its shield, revealing a group of ferocious biomass fortresses behind it. Countless plant-like small ships took off from it, densely packed like a swarm of bees.
Then came the massacre.
Most of the fleets that were watching, watching, or trying to bypass their direction like us were destroyed in an instant, and it was not a simple explosion. We could see that the carapace spaceship in the distance was hit by a distorted space. Then it turned into a painting-like plane in an instant, and finally turned into the finest dust under the correction of the void; we can see that most of the Rankmoi fleet was destroyed in a rapid attack that could not be seen with observation equipment. , the element of annihilation makes them become bright fireworks in the void; we can see the shadows spreading in the void, and all the warships that cannot dodge can only sink slowly in the darkness in vain after firing their main guns once or twice. , and then was swallowed invisible.
Particles of energy light that are as bright as the sun rise from the flagships of those fleets. They form a circular array in the void, tearing apart time and space, and seem to be summoning some huge machinery. We can vaguely see from the space of time and space. Behind the crack, I saw that ferocious and beautiful scaly claw, and an extremely dangerous aura emerged from it.
The fleet of the Knowledge Receivers is solid and powerful. Their shields are connected as one, receiving all the attacks. They also begin to fight back. Energy light particles flying at sub-light speed and energy arcs tearing apart time and space fill half of the void. We only He was able to evade in a hurry, and even refused the Kohiyan's furious instructions for the first time and turned to escape.
And those who turned around and fled with us were countless other bystanders who were watching. They fled in embarrassment, their flags drooped, and their neat arrays were full of holes. They seemed to be facing a nightmare. This unbelievable attack method could not even be understood. I couldn't understand that even if I picked up the wreckage, it would probably be a disaster rather than a blessing.
One after another, the battleships that were originally powerful in our eyes fell and turned into smoke. The Tahr's flagship lost its brilliance. Their huge ring-shaped battleships are now like donuts that have been eaten, falling apart in the void. The fleet of the void civilization competing with the Kothians in this star field is wailing and fleeing, leaving behind large pieces of incomplete warship wreckage. We can receive their panicked hyperspace transmissions, which are full of panic screams.
No matter what secret treasure or relic, we can't get it. The Koscians are too arrogant. We are just ants in the starry sky. How can we get involved in the battle of giant beasts? A civilization without self-awareness will eventually be destroyed.
Just like the Cohians.
Most of the onlookers' civilizations have been cleansed. The knowledge takers and the unknown civilization on the opposite side have done this at the same time. They have cleared the battlefield, and now they are confronting each other again, launching tentative attacks and defenses. The advancing metal galaxy We also temporarily stopped and began to build a magnificent void fortress - but just as fish that slip through the net always exist, those Kohithians and their families who did not turn around and flee with us actually passed through the dense fire net on both sides. , survived the near-death battle.
They seemed to know their luck, so they sailed quickly without stopping at all, preparing to go to the depths of the galaxy to avoid the attacks of these two terrifying civilization fleets. We can hear the communication channel full of crying and rejoicing sounds. , you can hear nonsense prayers... But the excitement is only temporary. They thought they had escaped the attack range of both sides, but we can clearly know that this is not the case.
Like falling into an ice cave. When the huge circular magic circle tore through time and space and summoned the extremely huge steel creation into the void, our hearts went cold. Although now we have no idea what it was used for, there is no doubt that it is. That is a weapon that even a super civilization needs to treat with caution. It is the crystallization of supreme technology.
Soon, we knew - it was a flower, a flower forged from steel. It had not yet bloomed. It looked like an oval seed, with countless flexible pipes made of living metal like tree roots or blood vessels. Such a structure covers it, like veins made of metal, and these veins divide the entire seed into sixteen sectors, each sector separated by a transparent crystal layer.
But now, under the infusion of incomparable surging energy, this seed began to 'bloom', and the metal sectors that were thousands of meters long began to stretch and turn into the shape of petals. The ones that were originally bound by these metal petals at the center, It is a huge etheric light group that is constantly rotating, expanding and contracting. After this light group breaks away from the shackles of the metal petals, it begins to project light blue light strips like ribbons towards the surroundings. Like a silver-blue flower showing its core.
It was suspended smoothly in the void, enveloped by a bright and soft light blue band, with thick etheric brilliance rolling and coiling around it, like a solar corona.
At the moment when the petals were in full bloom, we felt the extremely dangerous sight sweeping across the entire starry sky. He swept across us, and then ignored us who were weak. But even so, the feeling of being seen through even the inside of the skeleton is still immersed in our souls. , he stared at everything in the void indifferently, and then silently focused his eyes on the Kohian fleet.
Light bloomed from the metal flower, and the light blue ether glow passed through the dark void, shining on the proud fleet of the Kothians.
Then they were gone—in an instant, completely gone.
The Kothian fleet is finished—
There are more than five thousand ships, and there are many vassal fleets. This fleet has a history of more than thousands of years. It has conquered double-digit void civilizations, has multiple vassals, and won countless glory. This fleet has been recorded and praised in hundreds of history books. , leaving behind many glorious achievements and military achievements and legendary fleets, just like dust in the sun and tears in the rain, quietly turned into nothing, and whether it is them, us, or others quietly in the distance None of the civilizations who peered into this scene could understand all of this.
How did they do that
But now is not the time for doubt.
We are running away quickly.
Thousands of warships were destroyed, and the main fleet of the Kohia tribe was destroyed. It is not surprising that these existences that rely on force to suppress, conquer, and enslave other civilizations have such an ending, but our hearts are in turmoil, because among the fleet There are also our compatriots who were recruited by the Kohia people and reluctantly left their home planet's tundra homeland to become the minions of the Kohia people. They have not returned to us for decades or hundreds of years. , but they are still our compatriots, and their deaths sadden our hearts.
But now we can only run away in fear.
This is no longer a road that can be passed by 'lucky', no longer an arena that can be watched by 'cautious', but a battlefield for decisive battles between advanced civilizations. We survived because of luck, but we only escaped death and relied on others to breathe. Once again - but this is the fate of a weak civilization. We don't hate it, we just feel angry. If we fall behind, we will be beaten and exploited. Only this truth has always been engraved in our hearts.
but.
The main fleet of the Kothians has been completely destroyed, but we are intact... And the squadron of the Kothians still needs to suppress other vassals and guard their huge territories and territories... The war of the super civilization may be our chance. .
—Farewell, the enslaved past.
We turned back and looked again at the place where our compatriots and the Kohian fleet disappeared.
The traces of light blue light left in the void still shine.
The silver, gold, and black fleet is located behind the huge void beast, guarding the huge steel flower - it is rotating in the void, and the sixteen crystal petals have a strange and dangerous light.
We are eager, envious, curious and excited, looking at that powerful 'light'.
Named 'civilization', 'light'.
-This year, called the Year of Rebirth, the metal flower flag representing 'freedom' flutters over the mother planet. We, the Obzer people, finally break free from the shackles and can look at the starry sky with freedom.
Not to mention water, I will briefly describe the civilization status and battlefields of the multi-dimensional galaxy. There are two more updates today, and the second update is already half-written.
(End of chapter)