The battle plan was swiftly finalized. Before resource replenishment began, the captains reorganized their fleets. Previous combat had proven the viability of this arrangement.
Although splitting up the three thousand consciousness-linked warships would weaken the combat lethality they possessed as a group, it would greatly enhance the overall strength of the entire Human Civilization fleet.
At most, the pilots would be more tired, but that was no major issue.
Humanity had prepared for this long ago when it began researching consciousness-linking equipment. A consciousness-linked warship did not have only one group of pilots; it also had reserve pilots who could take over seamlessly.
Once one group was exhausted, they would step down and let another take over.
Humanity had long possessed a complete plan for replacing the main pilot during this process. Everything proceeded according to procedure, and accidents would rarely occur.
Furthermore, after reaching Level 5 Civilization, humanity no longer needed as many as three thousand pilots to operate a consciousness-linked warship. Humanity had also made considerable advances in the field of mental consciousness. Combined with the Dream Machine's secondary dream-realm enhancement, every pilot's mental power had improved significantly.
Now, roughly one thousand people were enough to withstand the mental burden caused by consciousness linking.
At this rate of development, once they reached Level Six Civilization, perhaps one person would be able to pilot a warship alone, just like the Awakeners.
However, the technical difficulty remained rather high. They could not carry out large-scale dream-realm enhancement as they had before, and could only proceed in batches with a limited number of people.
Under such circumstances, warship pilots naturally received priority, followed by scientists in every field—especially those engaged in microscopic research. They needed consciousness-linking equipment to observe the microscopic realm and were also in urgent need of mental consciousness