No one had expected it to arise from a misunderstanding.
For a time, the number of fugitives rose rapidly.
At the same time, the number of resistance fighters also began rising rapidly.
Some people came to understand.
"Even if we flee farther away, we'll still be hunted as food."
"Since that's the case, why shouldn't we fight for our lives?"
"They aren't gods. They only have ordinary spaceships too!"
"Yeah, they were merely lucky enough to discover the wormhole first."
With that realization, everyone began racking their brains to train themselves, improve themselves, research weapons, and develop resistance strategies.
For this purpose, virtual space became the best training platform.
Of course, they focused most of their efforts on how to manufacture armed Robots and build better offensive AI weapons.
Weapon projects of every conceptual kind were brought out one after another.
This time, they spared neither expense nor time.
It could be said that the Immortals unwilling to flee had united as never before.
In short, they began developing all manner of new weapons.
These weapons encompassed everything. Many had once been considered impossible to develop.
For example, Hypersonic Missiles.
Their speed was ≥ Mach 60. They could maneuver and change trajectory at the edge of the atmosphere, leaving air-defense systems with less than three seconds to react.
Then there was the Space-Based Laser Platform, codenamed "Sky Sentry," with an output of 300 million trillion kW.
It could burn through satellites from 5 million km away.
A ship-mounted 6 billion kW laser could easily shoot down incoming Drones in space.
And each shot cost less than one dollar.
Because fusion energy was cheap.
There was also the famous Electromagnetic Railgun, or EMRG. Its 3.2 billion-megajoule prototype had undergone more than a thousand test firings.
Its projectiles had an initial velocity