War was on the verge of eruption.
To hold No. 2 Star Gate, the Type II Boundary Breakers had no choice but to pull back large numbers of Boundary Breakers as reinforcements, even though they knew one of the Kroll Civilization's fleets was advancing toward the central black hole.
At the same time, they did not choose to fight alone. Instead, they called for support from their rear.
However, what came was not an army of Type II Boundary Breakers, but their lackeys—the Level Six Civilizations under the Type II Boundary Breakers.
They had already defected to the Type II Boundary Breakers, and under the Type II Boundary Breakers' orders, they had thrown the power of their entire civilizations into the war.
Looking at the balance of power in the 627 Galaxy as a whole, the Kroll Civilization's side had roughly two fleets with about twenty billion Main Battleships, the Pena Civilization still had six billion Main Battleships holding out in the central black hole region, while the Boundary Breakers' side possessed 1.8 billion Boundary Breakers and three hundred billion Main Battleships from three lackey civilizations.
The difference in total numbers was not large.
Under normal circumstances, a Level Six Civilization of standard scale could maintain around ten billion Main Battleships at the same time, which were Sub-Civilization Class Warships, plus eighty to ninety billion other types of ships, for a total of roughly one hundred billion.
But now, the Kroll Civilization had twenty billion Main Battleships from just two fleets alone, clearly exceeding the maintenance range of a normal Level Six Civilization.
The reasons were simple. First, the Kroll Civilization's civilizational structure had changed over long years of war. Second, these fleets did not need to remain in a maintained state forever; once they were built and fully organized,