It had to be said: the Pudolad Civilization's warships had truly solid overall combat power—so solid that even the Awakeners found it depressing.
The Awakeners discovered that even if they pushed to within ten Astronomical Units before attacking, they still could not destroy a Pudolad Civilization warship in a single shot.
Even against space cutting, the Pudolad warships had corresponding directional space-stabilization defenses, and their technical level was extremely high—far stronger than the space stabilization of ordinary Level Six Civilizations.
The Awakeners found that when an ordinary Level Six Civilization warship detected that it had become the target of a Space Cutting Weapon, it would have its defense system activate a space-stabilization procedure, reinforcing the space around the warship so that the energy of the space cut would be exhausted before touching it, achieving a defensive effect.
But the Pudolad Civilization's warships used it in a more advanced and more efficient way. Their systems had achieved directional space stabilization aimed at the warship itself.
This technology was impossible for ordinary Level Six Civilizations to realize; even the Memoda Civilization did not have it. The Awakeners guessed that it was probably a specialty technology developed by a civilization with extremely deep research into space-stabilization technology.
The powerful defenses of the Pudolad Civilization's conventional warships left a deep impression on the Awakeners. Ever since stepping out of the Triangulum Galaxy, they had never encountered such a powerful civilization.
If only main cannons, shields, and armor strength were compared, the Awakeners really could not match them—or rather, none of the conventional warships of any civilization in The Great Voyage Organization could match them.
Even after the Awakeners had closed to such a short range, sinking one enemy warship was still extremely difficult. Almost every warship required dozens or even hundreds of attacks before