1983, Starship Civilization?
"This war can't go on like this!" Admiral Ziyala said, her tone exceptionally grave as she looked at the enormous holographic star map before the conference table.
Red warning signals flashed all along the borders of Chiss territory on the star map. This showed that nearly every border colony in Chiss territory had come under attack recently.
In fact, it was not just the border colonies. Problems had begun appearing on many planets deep within the core of Chiss territory as well!
Before the war began, the Chiss had never imagined that the Grysk Hegemony had infiltrated their territory so thoroughly! They even knew about the stargates!
Although the Duchy of Dawn had sent reinforcements, making the lineup of Chiss territory's main naval fleets extremely formidable.
Previously, apart from the Eternal Super Carrier and its accompanying ten cruisers, the Duchy of Dawn garrison also had the strength of one squadron: ten kilometer-class capital ships, thirty cruisers and destroyers of various types, and one hundred small warships and support craft.
This time, the Duchy of Dawn had dispatched an additional ten capital ships, thirty cruisers, and one hundred fifty small warships.
Together with the Chiss territory Defense Fleet, such a force could certainly dominate the Unknown Regions! The greatest problem in the Unknown Regions was that hyperspace travel was extremely inconvenient, which directly made interstellar transport of supplies very difficult.
And constructing warships over a kilometer long was far beyond what a single planet could accomplish alone.
Thus, although the Unknown Regions were home to countless races and civilizations, more than ninety-nine percent of them could not control multiple planets. They spent their entire existence huddled on their homeworlds. Even if such civilizations mastered space travel, the warships they built would top out at two or three hundred