During that surprise attack, The Great Voyage Organization had committed nearly all its elite forces to destroy the Heavenly Maiden Civilization's million-strong army.
Led by Human Civilization and the Awakeners, both sides deployed roughly a million warships each. Their elite vessels formed the core, leading the main battleships of the other civilizations in The Great Voyage Organization into combat formations for a medium-scale battle against the Heavenly Maiden Civilization in the middle section of Arm One of the Andromeda Galaxy.
In that battle, The Great Voyage Organization fielded 20.7 million warships. Aside from the two million vessels from humanity and the Awakeners, every other civilization had dispatched roughly 1.7 million ships as well.
Their numbers were twenty times those of the Heavenly Maiden Civilization's individual units.
Lyra held the line among them. The Neutron War Star and the Silver Heart Alliance's Star River did not participate; the former was still being upgraded, while the latter remained hidden to conceal its strength.
This local war ended in the Heavenly Maiden Civilization's defeat, but The Great Voyage Organization failed to annihilate them completely. If they wanted to leave, The Great Voyage Organization had no way to stop them.
Moreover, during the war, the civilizations of The Great Voyage Organization discovered in horror that aside from the Awakeners' warships and humanity's Consciousness-Linked Warships, ordinary main battleships could not threaten the Heavenly Maiden Civilization's warriors at all. They were utterly outclassed and almost useless in battle.
An ordinary main battleship simply could not evade the Heavenly Maiden Civilization's Sacred Guards, who could make Four-Dimensional Jumps. Shields and armor were completely useless. Nearly every main battleship was destroyed when the enemy jumped directly inside it and fired a single Tachyon Light Sword.
They did not even have time to self-destruct. They had no ability to