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Combat Data

Sui Meng's seemingly casual yet immensely weighty "request" echoed across the bridge.

The moment he finished speaking, even the War Maiden projection formed from holographic particles—who should have been absolutely rational—showed a brief stiffness in her expression. A fleeting, remarkably human-like surprise flashed across her delicate features.

As a strategic-level Wise AI that had undergone several iterative upgrades, her emotional simulation module had long since become highly advanced. Her mindset, logic, and capacity for analysis far surpassed those of ordinary people, though under the constraints of her core underlying logic, absolute rationality always remained dominant.

And the implications represented by the term "Great Device Array" had clearly touched upon her standards for evaluating resource allocation and strategic deterrence.

The adjutant standing nearby in Terminator Armor reacted even more directly.

The adjutant turned his head, encased within a heavy helmet, toward Sui Meng. Though his face was hidden, even the glow through his visor seemed to flicker as his deep voice carried a trace of barely perceptible doubt:

"Father, based on the current military deployment and the progress of administrative takeover, the ongoing unification of this universe is expected to achieve full regional stability through conventional means within the standard time frame.

By ordinary assessment, there is indeed no need to deploy the Great Device. Would this not be... making too much of it?"

The adjutant's question was not born of cowardice, but of an outstanding commander's instinctive judgment regarding resource efficiency.

The Imperial Warriors Legion already had the overall situation firmly in hand. To deploy power on the level of true "strategic" weaponry for a war that had already been won did not seem like the optimal solution to him.

Sui Meng's gaze remained fixed upon the star map, as though it could pierce through the hull and