I Am The Swarm

It’s worth noting that the Space Octopuses are essentially a variant of the Fungal Carpet, with each fungal strain inside them acting as a seed for a new carpet.

While the Mature bodies bombarded the ground-based cannons, many Larval bodies had already landed on the planet’s surface.

With their flexible tentacles, the larvae burrowed into the ground with impressive speed. In a short time, they had vanished beneath the planetary surface.

Over the years, Cross’s family had converted more than a hundred Intelligent Entities, many of whom held prominent and influential public identities.

Among the high-ranking officers in the Riken’s three main fleets, several were secretly Intelligent Entities. These individuals relayed real-time fleet command updates directly to Sarah and her Blades.

When Sarah learned of the Riken’s astonishment, she nearly laughed aloud. This was a prime example of how asymmetric information leads to misconceptions. The Riken assumed their plan was succeeding, yet they remained oblivious to the possibility that the Swarm might have been employing a stratagem. Perhaps their target had always been Planet Raze.

The planetary surface was vast and featureless, with tens of thousands of ground-based cannons concentrated in a dozen or so areas. This arrangement facilitated energy supply and reduced engineering complexity.

The materials used to construct these metallic structures were partially sourced from metal-rich asteroids dragged in from the debris fields and refined in space before being dropped onto the planetary surface.

However, the majority of the materials were mined directly from Planet Raze.