After the linked conference ended, the reconnaissance forces of the entire battle fleet spread out farther once again. Perhaps because this region of space was too empty, despite the endless stars filling their view, there was not a single planet anywhere near the fleet.
The Star Map comparison for this world had also been completed while Xiao Ran was holding the linked conference. Since the legion possessed an identical world, comparing the Star Maps had become much easier.
They had determined their current position and its distance from Earth, but Xiao Ran did not immediately have the main force jump directly to Earth. Instead, he sent fewer than fifty Ghost Battleships—also known as Dimension Submersible Battleship Special Reconnaissance Types—ahead first. These vessels could be considered submarines in space. True submarines hid beneath the shadows of the normal plane, traveling through the Dimensional Rift.
This type of battleship should have been developed long ago. After all, the Burning Legion already possessed dimensional traversal technology and the ability to enter the Dimensional Rift. It was simply that no one in the Technology Department had considered using such technology to develop Dimension Submersible Battleships for the Burning Legion. It had merely been a matter of an idea, a concept.
It was only after the planetary collider had been completed and several collision experiments had uncovered something new that someone suddenly thought of it. The special particles discovered through those experiments further advanced the Burning Legion's quantum research, allowing these Ghost Battleships to brute-force their way past technical barriers through a different approach and finally be manufactured.
The first things experimentally produced had not been battleships, but drones. The battleships were developed afterward, and fewer than fifty had been manufactured, along with the drones deployed inside them, for combat testing.
After the Ghost Fleet