Chapter 470: Disassembly
When the decision was made by the Koya Alliance to dismantle and abandon the Daqi civilization, the alliance fleet originally assembled at the Daqi border also received orders to withdraw. To buy time for the Daqi civilization’s relocation, they were instructed to deploy all loaded smart mines into the void beyond the star system.
One type of smart mine, specifically targeting warp travel, though limited in number, caused some trouble when first encountered by the Swarm. In standard warfare, these smart mines are considered to be of little tactical advantage, neither significant enough to keep nor negligible enough to discard. To achieve any success, they must be deployed over a large area, hoping for the accidental interception of enemy forces.
However, these mines are by no means cheap to produce, making mass deployment difficult. Yet, when this seemingly useless weapon encountered the Swarm’s massive forces, unexpected results emerged.
In the history of the Koya Alliance, there had never been a war measured in billions of ships. It should be noted that before this, the Daqi civilization operated only half a million warships in regular service. When the Troi civilization exerted pressure on the Swarm, they also mobilized a force of several hundred thousand warships.
At their level, tens of thousands of warships constituted a large-scale operation. Even in the history of the Interstellar Technological Confederation, wars with over a hundred million combat units are rare. And those few warfare instances only met such standards due to the extensive scope of engagement.
In reality, the troop engagements in these wars were more often in the millions, with tens of millions being rare. The Swarm, however, concentrated hundreds of millions of troops within a single star system, which was unprecedented in Alliance history. The density of forces could be imagined.
Thus, warp-bubble smart mines, a weapon relying on passive engagement, performed exceptionally well due to the high concentration of targets. Over a hundred of these mines destroyed dozens of primordial bodies and severely damaged nearly two hundred, achieving a significant outcome.
Of course, this success also stemmed from the Swarm’s lack of experience with these devices. And considering the cost of a primordial body, it’s hard to say definitively who suffered a net loss. Nonetheless, this novel situation attracted Luo Wen’s attention.
Upon his command, the primordial cluster voluntarily ceased warp travel, cautiously proceeding while deploying numerous larval and mature bodies to clear the smart mines in the void.