Recaps

As the Black and White Church overwhelmed the Xilbeila Empire, Emperor Cartero finally agreed to send the empire’s remaining people and seeds through a Black Hole Gate. Lin Fan learned that the Xilbeila Empire had activated a gate, but discovered its arriving force was only a little over a thousand warships.

• The Xilbeila Empire lost nearly all its territory to the Black and White Church, whose captured realms turned the empire’s citizens against it.
• Ministers urged Cartero to flee with the empire’s seeds, but he hesitated because using a Black Hole Gate would sacrifice the remaining Black Hole Lifeforms.
• Cartero agreed to leave, and his ministers were relieved that they would not have to remove him by force.
• At Federal Fleet Headquarters, Lin Fan received word from Luo Li that the Xilbeila Empire had activated a Black Hole Gate.
• Lin Fan prepared to evacuate the Federation and its allies, then learned the Xilbeila force numbered just over a thousand warships, not legions.

The Xilbeila Empire’s emperor arrived in former Dasaross territory with a thousand warships and a galaxy-sized colony ship, where the Azure Dragon Alliance intercepted him. After Cartero Guderian claimed to be a Chaos Lifeform, the Alliance confirmed his identity and decided to arrange a conversation with him.

• Luo Li explained to Lin Fan and Li Yan why she believed the Xilbeila Empire was cunning and that cloning technology had caused the destruction of other Cleaners.
• Ten years later, Cartero Guderian’s fleet emerged from the Black Hole Gate in former Dasaross territory and discovered the Azure Dragon Alliance’s forces nearby.
• Alliance forces led by Lin Yu challenged the Xilbeila fleet, and Cartero identified himself as the empire’s emperor and revealed purple energy as proof that he was a Chaos Lifeform.
• Lin Yu sent the recording to Fleet Headquarters, where Luo Li confirmed Cartero was a Chaos Lifeform and Lin Fan ordered a conversation with him.

Lin Fan learned from Cartero how the Xilbeila Empire’s two civil wars began and why the Emperor fled with the empire’s surviving people. He agreed to bring the request to the alliance for discussion, leaving the Xilbeila survivors’ fate undecided.

• Lin Fan questioned Cartero, who confirmed his identity and explained that the Black and White Church emerged after the First Holy War weakened the Black Hole Cavity Consciousness’s influence.
• Cartero recounted how the first Xilbeila Emperor ended the civil war with a peace settlement that allowed the Black and White Church to survive and retain part of the empire’s territory and military strength.
• Cartero explained that the Black Hole Cavity Consciousness later influenced the Xilbeila Empire again, sparking a second civil war after he opposed joining the Holy War.
• Cartero said the Black and White Church converted five Black Hole Cavity Realms and that he retreated rather than attack the Empire’s infected citizens, eventually escaping through the Black Hole Gate with the survivors.
• Cartero asked to take the Empire’s remaining people away from the Holy War, and Lin Fan said the alliance would decide the matter.
• Liang Xue asked Lin Fan whether he believed Cartero, and Lin Fan said Cartero seemed truthful before ordering her to contact the core civilizations’ leaders for a meeting.

Lin Fan proposed trading the Xilbeila Empire’s database for safe passage, using the Empire’s Seed Ship to keep Cartero from attacking. After Cartero agreed and the Alliance downloaded the data, Luo Li and the other researchers began examining it for useful ideas.

• Valeri and many Alliance leaders favored capturing Cartero and taking the Xilbeila Empire’s technology, but Lin Fan warned that Cartero was a Chaos Lifeform capable of destroying Lin Yu’s fleet.
• Lin Fan proposed that the Alliance exchange safe passage for access to the Empire’s entire database, avoiding a fight that could put the Seed Ship at risk.
• The next day, Lin Fan offered Cartero a choice between opening the database for download or facing an Alliance attack on the Seed Ship.
• Cartero questioned whether the Alliance would keep its promise, and Lin Fan explained that the intact Seed Ship was leverage for both sides; Cartero then agreed to open the interface.
• The Alliance spent more than ten days downloading the Empire’s vast database, and Luo Li and the other researchers studied it for inspiration rather than as a source of basic technology.

Lin Fan proposed exploiting the Black Hole Gate network to strike seven weakened Cleanser civilizations at once, using the Xilbeila Empire’s fleet to avoid alerting them. The chapter ended as the seven Cleansers received reports that a fleet was approaching through the Dasaross Empire’s Black Hole Gate.

• Lin Fan reviewed the Xilbeila Empire’s intelligence on seventeen Cleansers and learned that the Tianshu Church was forbidden territory with almost no known information.
• Lin Fan told the Alliance leaders that seven nearby Fifth Order Cleanser civilizations had been weakened after their fleets were destroyed by the Iris Plan.
• Montero questioned how the Alliance could power Black Hole Gates and prevent the Cleansers from detecting and preparing for an attack.
• Lin Fan said the Federation would solve the gate-power problem and proposed sending the Xilbeila Empire’s thousand warships instead of an Alliance fleet.
• In Federation Year 5328, the seven nearby Cleansers received monitoring reports that a fleet was traveling through the Dasaross Empire’s Black Hole Gate toward them.

Luo Li used the Xilbeila Empire’s records to devise a one-time plan to deceive the Sweepers and charge Black Hole Gates with Cosmic Origin instead of sacrificing lives. The seven Sweepers prepared to capture the supposed Xilbeila exile fleet, unaware that their defenses were already too late.

• Luo Li learned that Cosmic Origin could charge Black Hole Gates and worked out how to hack the system and feed false intelligence to the Sweepers.
• The seven Sweepers received the same report that fewer than two hundred Xilbeila Empire warships were traveling through the gate network toward their civilizations.
• The bishop of the Black and White Church asked the seven divine envoys to capture Cartero’s fleet and send it to the Church for execution.
• The seven civilizations dismissed the threat and left their Capital Realms’ existing legions to handle the small fleet.
• In Federation Year 5338, fifteen divine envoys discussed the missing eleven-civilization coalition, which had reached Noreya Realm ten years earlier but had vanished; they planned an investigation and ordered their forces expanded.

The Alliance Fleet overwhelmed the seven Sweeper civilizations, killed their Divine Envoys, and began the next phase of its campaign. In a mental meeting, the Tianshu Church offered to solve the Black Hole Gate iris problem in exchange for the Black and White Church's method of opening gates without sacrificing Black Hole Lifeforms, raising the possibility of striking back at the Heretics.

• The Alliance Fleet sent 5,000 legions through each of seven Black Hole Gates and quickly defeated the Sweeper civilizations’ defenses.
• A month later, the seven Sweeper Divine Envoys had fallen, and the Alliance began targeting the civilizations’ main forces and valuable Black Hole Cavity Realms.
• The Divine Envoys debated how the Heretics had bypassed their surveillance and learned that the Black Hole Gates could be accessed through the iris.
• The Tianshu Church Divine Envoy said the church could resolve the iris problem within a hundred years if the Black and White Church shared its method for opening gates without sacrificing Black Hole Lifeforms.
• The Tianshu Church Divine Envoy reasoned that Cartero had given the Heretics that method, and the Black and White Church Divine Envoy confirmed that the church possessed it.

Lin Fan explained that the Skolasi Empire’s rising morale signaled the imminent birth of a new divine envoy, and Montero was tasked with finding and eliminating it before it fully awakened. Montero’s unconventional plan drew Skolasi forces to defend three overlapping channel exits, but the Alliance closed two channels after the defenders held their positions for three months.

• Lin Fan told the Alliance leaders that the Skolasi Empire was likely to produce the next divine envoy within three to five years, and said Montero would test whether it could be located and destroyed before awakening.
• Montero learned that Kordo Realm was the likeliest location, despite holding most of the Skolasi Empire’s remaining fleet, and devised an unconventional plan.
• The Alliance opened three Cross-border Channels at different locations in Kordo Realm, with their entrances overlapping so Skolasi forces could not tell which exit each channel connected to.
• The Skolasi Empire split its fleet among all three exits and kept reserve forces ready to reinforce any of them.
• After three months of holding the exits, the Skolasi fleet saw the Alliance close two of the three channels.

Montero used Luo Li’s Divine Envoy detection program to locate a half-awakened Divine Envoy in the Skolasi Empire’s universe and ordered the Alliance to eliminate it. After the Empire’s fleets assembled, the Alliance destroyed them with minimal losses, validating the program and leaving the war’s outcome seemingly assured.

• The Alliance broke through the Skolasi Empire’s passage defense, and Montero let the Empire’s fleets assemble while he pursued a suspected Divine Envoy.
• Montero’s expert confirmed the Divine Envoy detection program had identified the correct universe, so Montero sent the Alliance’s fleets to search and cleanse it.
• The Skolasi Empire’s consciousness transmission signal stopped, and the expert confirmed that the half-awakened Divine Envoy had been killed.
• Montero recalled the Alliance’s fleets and ordered an attack on the assembled Skolasi forces, which the Alliance destroyed after more than thirty days of travel and battle.
• The Alliance’s losses totaled only 21 legions against more than 20,000 Skolasi legions, and Montero concluded Luo Li’s program had passed its test.

The Federation’s rapid expansion left it developing conquered territories while Liang Xingchen commanded the Kunsa Realm’s defenses. When the Hacker Gate activated and its iris failed, a fleet from the Bas Empire emerged, leaving the Federation’s home under attack.

• The Federation sold contribution points to Alliance civilizations in exchange for rare resources, spurring development across conquered territories.
• Liang Xingchen commanded 11,500 legions stationed in the Kunsa Realm to guard the Federation’s gate network and the Chaos Research Institute.
• The Hacker Gate suddenly activated, and the gate’s iris failed to respond.
• Liang Xingchen ordered a Level One combat alert, evacuated the Chaos Research Institute, and reported the threat to Federal Fleet Headquarters.
• A fleet from the Sixth Order Black Hole Civilization Bas Empire emerged from the Hacker Gate, and Liang Xingchen ordered all fleets to open fire.

The Bas Empire attacked the Kunsa Realm through the Black Hole Gate, forcing the Federation to evacuate civilians and mobilize its Black Hole Lifeforms. Liang Xingchen held the front as enemy numbers grew, and the first emergency-mobilized legions arrived to reinforce the defense.

• Lin Fan ordered the evacuation of the Kunsa Realm and conscripted suitable Third Tier Black Hole Lifeforms after the Bas Empire appeared at the Black Hole Gate.
• Liang Xingchen warned Lin Fan that he could defeat fewer than twenty thousand enemy legions but might face mutual destruction against a larger force.
• Liang Xingchen fought the Bas Empire and changed from psychological tactics to rigid formations after recognizing that the Sweepers did not fear death.
• The Bas Empire's fleet grew to sixty percent of the Federation's, while its deployed Black Hole Lifeforms reached at least fifteen thousand.
• The first emergency force of twenty-five legions, all made up of Third Tier and above Black Hole Lifeforms, arrived, and Liang Xingchen assigned them to Sectors C and D.

As the Kunsa Realm battle turned into a war of attrition, Lin Fan suspected the Bas Empire was holding back because it feared the iris interference might fail. He ordered the three Black Hole Cavity Battle Groups to prepare for deployment and said he would lead them himself, leaving Liang Xingchen alarmed about his plan.

• Liang Xingchen assigned the twenty-five Black Hole Lifeform legions to Zones C and D so the rookies could adapt before facing the fiercest combat.
• The Angel Church's divine envoy warned the other Cleaners that the Heretics might soon solve the iris flaw, and the divine envoys regretted sending only thirty thousand legions.
• As Bas Empire fleets overwhelmed the Alliance in numbers, Alliance casualties rose, though its defensive line and Third Tier Black Hole Lifeforms kept it temporarily ahead.
• At the frontline command center, Lin Fan learned that no Black Hole Lifeforms had been detected among the attacking Bas Empire fleets and suspected the enemy was limiting its forces out of fear that the iris interference would fail.
• Lin Fan ordered the three Black Hole Cavity Battle Groups to prepare for deployment and said he would lead them, while Liang Xingchen questioned what he planned to do.

Lin Fan used three prototype Hawk Bombs to disable the Bas Empire fleet after leading three Black Hole Cavity Battle Groups into its formation. With the enemy's ships paralyzed, the Alliance Fleet advanced to destroy them.

• Liang Xingchen warned Lin Fan that the Hawk Bombs were untested and their carrier delivery could endanger friendly fleets, but Lin Fan explained that the Bas Empire had only thirty to fifty thousand fleets and needed to be stopped from gathering more.
• Liang Xingchen ordered the defensive fleets to retreat ten Black Hole Units before Lin Fan led three Black Hole Cavity Battle Groups into the Bas Empire formation.
• The Bas Empire fleet opened a path for Lin Fan's forces, then closed in to surround them after they penetrated its formation.
• Lin Fan ordered the Hawk Bomb deployed and activated, sending out a shockwave that degraded Hawk Metal and disabled the Bas Empire's engines, weapons, and energy cores.
• The Alliance Fleet charged back in and destroyed the paralyzed Bas Empire fleets.

After the Alliance defeated the Bas Empire’s remaining forces, Lin Fan learned that the Bas Empire had hacked the Alliance with a computer virus and decided to retaliate. More than twenty years later, he sent eighty thousand legions toward the Bas Empire while making the Eight Purgers believe five hundred thousand were coming, and the other Purger factions dispatched reinforcements.

• Liang Xingchen’s forces destroyed the Bas Empire’s remaining four thousand-plus legions, ending the battle with nearly a thousand Alliance legions lost overall.
• Luo Li told Lin Fan that the Bas Empire had hacked the Alliance with a Homeworld Era computer virus, and she said she could remove it within hours.
• Lin Fan decided to retaliate by letting the Bas Empire know that the Alliance was coming rather than concealing its fleets.
• In Federation Year 5498, Lin Fan sent eighty thousand legions through the Black Hole Gate toward the Bas Empire’s capital.
• The Eight Purgers detected the advance but believed the Alliance had five hundred thousand legions, prompting six Purger factions to dispatch one hundred thousand legions each as reinforcements.
• Luo Li’s hack made the Black Hole Gate network report five hundred thousand Alliance legions, though only eighty thousand had actually departed.

Lin Fan’s forces used a Hawk Bomb to disable the Purifier fleets across Saint De Realm, then conquered the Bas Empire. The Purifier divine envoys learned that the weapon could only be countered by destroying it before detonation, while Luo Li continued seeking a safer way to deliver it.

• A Hawk Bomb disabled the Purifier warships and civilian vessels throughout Saint De Realm, allowing the Federal Fleet to massacre the immobilized forces.
• Luo Li reviewed the Hawk Bomb’s successful test results and identified its vulnerable delivery method as a major problem to solve.
• Lin Fan’s forces captured Saint De Realm, killed the Bas Empire’s emperor, blocked reinforcements by installing the Iris System on the Black Hole Gate, and began conquering the empire.
• The Purifier divine envoys met to discuss the weapon that had paralyzed the fleets, and Lyons admitted the Black and White Church had no countermeasure.
• Jiang Hai identified the Hawk Bomb’s effect as particle-level decay of Hawk Metal and said it had to be destroyed before detonation.

The Sweeper divine envoys debated whether to rescue the Bas Empire and instead agreed to rapidly expand their Black Hole Gate network. Lin Fan watched the expansion, intending to exploit it, while the Tianshu Church’s refusal to build more gates remained unexplained; by Federation Year 6580, the Federation had become a formidable sixth-order power.

• Jiang Hai explained that only an eighth-order civilization could break free of Hawk Metal and stop fearing the Hawk Bomb, so the Sweeper envoys agreed to destroy anything emerging from a Black Hole Gate.
• Lyons raised whether the Sweepers should rescue the Bas Empire, but all except one envoys opposed the risky operation and agreed to expand their Black Hole Gate network instead.
• Over the following century, the Sweepers increased their gates from eighteen to more than two hundred, while the Tianshu Church kept its single gate.
• Lin Fan recognized that the other six Sweepers’ expansion would let the Federation destroy their gates and watched them build, while wondering why the Tianshu Church acted differently.
• By Federation Year 6580, the Federation had reached peak sixth-order civilization, fielded fleets rivaling seventh-order powers, and possessed overwhelming numbers of Black Hole Lifeforms.

Lin Fan launched a vast alliance campaign against six Cleaners, using Luo Li’s infiltration of their Black Hole Gate network to strike their territories with guerrilla attacks. After decades of devastating raids left the Cleaners unable to protect their outlying realms, their Divine Envoys asked Jiang Hai for help, but he refused their request for mental sharing.

• Lin Fan organized 450,000 legions into ten armies and began a two-stage operation against six Cleaners.
• In Federation Year 6602, the ten armies simultaneously attacked lightly defended Black Hole Cavity Realms, wiped out their defenders, and escaped through the Cleaners’ Black Hole Gates.
• Over the following decades, the alliance completely purged more than a hundred Cleaners’ realms while the Cleaners remained unable to locate or intercept its fleets.
• The Divine Envoys realized that continued raids would deprive the six civilizations of recruits and warship production, leaving them unable to sustain the war.
• The six Divine Envoys asked Jiang Hai of the Tianshu Church for help countering the Iris System, but Jiang Hai refused their mental-sharing requests.

Lin Fan launched simultaneous assaults on the six Cleansers’ Capital Realms, despite the Alliance Fleet suffering devastating losses. The Black and White Church battlefield became a near-suicidal fight, and the chapter revealed that the first assault echelon had volunteered as the Dare-to-Die Squad.

• After the Cleansers dismantled their Black Hole Gates, Lin Fan ordered the Federation fleets to return to the Kunsa Realm and begin refitting.
• The six Cleansers gathered their main fleets in their Capital Realms while the Alliance Fleet rested for ten years.
• Lin Fan sent six Alliance armies to attack the Cleansers’ Capital Realms simultaneously, confusing the divine envoys with the scale and purpose of the assault.
• The Alliance Fleet suffered severe casualties across all six battlefields, losing more than 6,000 legions in the first half hour.
• On the Black and White Church battlefield, the Alliance Fleet lost around seventy percent of its forces but kept fighting in orderly formations.
• The Alliance soldiers’ resolve was revealed to come from their volunteering for the first assault echelon, called the Dare-to-Die Squad.

The Alliance used a strategic Hawk Bomb to disable the Cleansers’ fleets, then rescued its Dare-to-Die Squads and began a one-sided slaughter. The other Cleansers’ Capital Realms were falling, but the Black and White Church remained a final obstacle because of its Chaos Lifeforms.

• The first attack echelon’s Dare-to-Die Squads held the frontline until the strategic Hawk Bomb arrived and was activated, disabling the warships’ main systems and stopping the enemy’s attacks.
• The Alliance’s main army arrived, rescued the Dare-to-Die Squads, and then slaughtered the immobilized Cleansers’ fleets.
• The Alliance repeated the operation against the other Cleansers’ Capital Realms, using the bridgehead and Hawk Bomb to limit its own losses.
• The Alliance recognized that fleet attacks might not be enough to take the Black and White Church, which had two Chaos Lifeforms.
• Lin Fan joined Luo Li and three other Great Xia Federation members in the second attack echelon, with the four Chaos Lifeforms assigned to fight Lyons and Lin Fan there to support them.

Lin Fan’s forces subdued Lyons, but the Alliance’s home base, the Kunsa Realm, was devastated by a surprise raid from the Tianshu Church’s advanced fleet. After learning that the enemy might be an eighth-tier Black Hole Civilization exploiting flaws in the Black Hole Gate network, Lin Fan ordered the Alliance to dismantle its gates.

• Luo Li, Jiang Xinlan, and Bai Zhi fought Lyons for five days while Wang Feng shielded the Alliance Fleet from the battle’s shockwaves, and they finally subdued him.
• Lin Fan learned that the battle had destroyed more than ninety percent of the Black and White Church’s capital realm and that a surprise attack had wiped out the Alliance’s 5,000 legions in the Kunsa Realm.
• Lin Fan discovered that the Kunsa Realm had lost twenty percent of its population and that Liang Xingchen’s fate was unknown, although Black Hole Lifeforms had defeated the invading fleet.
• Jiang Xinlan identified the Tianshu Church’s warships as eighth-tier vessels comparable to those of the former Great Xia Federation, while Luo Li explained how they had evaded her surveillance.
• Lin Fan ordered the Kunsa, Norea, and Dasaluosi Black Hole Gates dismantled and directed expeditionary fleets to return using the Realm Folding System.

Lin Fan ordered the Federation to destroy a ring of Black Hole Cavity Realms, sealing Alliance territory off from the Tianshu Church while the Federation developed in isolation. Years later, Jiang Yuntian’s expedition discovered that the realms along every route to Heretics territory were gone, leaving the Church fleet unable to advance.

• Lin Fan ordered Black Hole Gates dismantled and planned an isolation zone by destroying Black Hole Cavity Realms around Alliance territory.
• By Federation Year 6780, the six expeditionary armies had eliminated the six major Sweepers, and they returned using the Realm Folding System after their gates were dismantled.
• In Federation Year 6825, Lin Fan launched the Isolation Zone Plan, assigning fleets to destroy 38,798 Black Hole Cavity Realms.
• By Federation Year 6898, the Alliance had destroyed the final realm in the isolation zone, cutting off 1,375,688 Black Hole Cavity Realms and allowing the Federation to develop in silence.
• In Federation Year 6925, Jiang Yuntian’s Tianshu Church fleet found the Kali Realm missing and had to detour.
• By Federation Year 6937, Jiang Yuntian’s fleet had found every realm along its routes to Heretics territory gone and could not proceed.

After ten thousand years of isolation and development, Lin Fan prepared the Alliance to venture out again, but revealed that the Tianshu Church had expanded far beyond expectations. The chapter left the Alliance’s leaders stunned by the Church’s ability to convert entire realms into loyal followers and its rapid growth into a major power.

• The Tianshu Church gave up searching for a route to the Alliance after discovering that the Federation had destroyed every Black Hole Cavity Realm along the way, while Jiang Hai regretted that his plans had failed.
• Over ten thousand years, Lin Fan’s Alliance developed within its isolation zone and introduced regular assessments that could strip stagnant civilizations of their membership.
• By Federation Year 17085, the Alliance had grown to thirty-six Black Hole Civilizations, and Lin Fan announced that it was time to venture out again.
• Alliance leaders urged Lin Fan to attack the Tianshu Church, but he warned them that the Church had also grown stronger and shared intelligence gathered by reconnaissance ships and monitoring devices.
• The leaders learned that the Tianshu Church controlled more than five hundred thousand Black Hole Cavity Realms, commanded twenty million legions, and rapidly turned the inhabitants of occupied realms into loyal followers.

The Federation Alliance chose to fight the Tianshu Church before it could become a Chaos Civilization. After the Church prepared for an attack along the isolation zone, the war began in its undefended rear instead.

• Lin Fan argued that the Alliance could not delay its attack, and the civilization leaders agreed to fight while both sides remained Eighth Order civilizations.
• Jiang Yuntian told Jiang Hai that the Church had found evidence the Heretics' scouts came from inside the isolation zone and that their unmanned vessels likely came from an Eighth Order civilization.
• Jiang Hai ordered believer fleets to deploy along the isolation zone and directed the Church to run its cloning lines at full capacity to produce Third Tier Black Hole Lifeforms.
• The Church moved its believer fleets toward the isolation zone and put its Crusader Army on the highest level of war alert.
• In Federation Year 17115, the war began with simultaneous attacks on more than a thousand Black Hole Cavity Realms deep in Church territory, where the transferred believer forces had left no alert fleets.

Jiang Hai recalled how he survived the fall of the Sovereign Civilization and came to lead the Tianshu Church as a Cleaner, intending to eliminate the Heretics and rule the Black Hole Cavity Realm. After the Alliance struck deep into Church territory, he ordered his forces to assemble for a broad net-casting advance.

• Jiang Hai reviewed reports that the Heretics had seized more than a thousand Black Hole Cavity Realms while the Church's main forces were away.
• Jiang Hai remembered fleeing the Sovereign Civilization's doomed capital with his race's genetic samples and rebuilding his civilization far from the battlefield.
• After the Tianshu Church rose to eighth rank, Jiang Hai became a Cleaner and planned to eliminate the other Cleaners, destroy the Heretics, and rule the Black Hole Cavity Realm.
• In Federation Year 17116, the Church mobilized its believer fleets to join the Crusader Army while Jiang Hai waited for mass production of Third Tier lifeforms.
• Jiang Hai ordered a net-casting advance, dividing the Church's 120 million legions to cover many Black Hole Cavity Realms and exploit the Church's home-territory production capacity.

After twenty years of costly victories against the Tianshu Church’s believer armies, Lin Fan recognized that the enemy was expanding faster than the Alliance could wear it down. He halted the positional campaign and sent the Alliance’s remaining forces in thousands of small fleets to strike behind enemy lines and cripple the Church’s recruitment, production, and mobility.

• Lin Fan explained that the Tianshu Church’s net-casting strategy had erased the Alliance’s local force advantage, while the Church and its believer civilizations rapidly expanded their fleets.
• Montero urged Lin Fan to abandon positional assaults, and Lin Fan proposed cutting off the enemy’s military expansion while trying to lure out its 22 million Crusader Army forces.
• After a year of recovery, Lin Fan divided the Alliance’s remaining 4.8 million forces into 10,000 small fleets and sent them throughout Tianshu Church territory.
• Lin Fan ordered each fleet to eliminate potential recruits, destroy warship factories, and demolish every Black Hole Gate it encountered.