The Halm system suddenly became busy. Vast numbers of transport ships continuously arrived, bringing large numbers of engineering vessels with them.
After seizing 178 Dreadnought-class heavy cruisers from the Blade Fleet, Tang Xiao immediately arranged for the fleet to undergo repairs on the spot.
These warships had slumbered in the void for twenty-five years. Their internal equipment needed maintenance and replacement, while their fuel and power reserves had to be drained and replenished with fresh supplies.
Most importantly, the entire fleet had to be disinfected. After all, the Blade Fleet had vanished primarily because Brain Plague spread among its crew. Even after twenty-five years, no one could guarantee that the Brain Plague bacteria were no longer lurking inside the ships.
In addition, these Dreadnought-class warships needed to be reprogrammed and fitted with new operating systems. They were, after all, Galactic Republic warships, and naturally still used the old systems of the Republic Judicial Fleet.
Thus, the Halm system became the Blade Fleet's temporary base. With 178 warships stationed around the planet, the system was as solid as a fortress.
And beneath the layered protection of the Dreadnought-class heavy cruisers, the Ragnarok-class Titan warship Plague was undergoing emergency repairs.
Plague had almost completely lost its combat capability. The bridge command center had been destroyed, one of the Hypermatter Railgun's energy rails had been blown apart, and the outer armor on the other three rails had also suffered severe damage. These were no ordinary rails—each one was more than 9,000 meters long and weighed over a hundred million tons!
Not only that, the warship's hangar platform had been completely destroyed, its shield capacitor bays wiped out, four-fifths of its antimatter production bays ruined, its Hypermatter Railgun projectile factory obliterated, more than half its living quarters destroyed, and its hyperspace engines heavily damaged.