Around the shattered Nakdal Continent, a massive cluster of drone bases was rapidly taking shape.
The drone gun emplacements and floating watchtowers hastily erected to prevent a second wave of corrupted monsters from attacking had been replaced by even more powerful sentry turrets. These silver-gray space structures stood silently in the universe like monuments, their surfaces covered with cannons of all sizes and jump Missile Launchers. The sentries' powerful shield generators could also create a defensive field with an extremely wide coverage area. Arranged with precision, the sentries could make their defensive fields overlap and establish energy links, creating a solid defense similar to a joint shield. This convenient technology, simplified from Hilling military technology, had already been widely applied to various cluster fortress facilities throughout the Macro World, and the drone swarms commonly used by the adjudicators were no exception.
Within the defensive range of the sentry turrets stood six large-scale drone nests. The nests emitted a faint red glow in the dark reaches of space, resembling bizarre sandcastles piled from metal and rock. They grew larger by the day. The factories and drone storage facilities connected to the nests already numbered in the hundreds, producing tens of thousands of drones. By now, they had reached the scale of a prairie fire. These cold and efficient mechanical life-forms moved ceaselessly through the base cluster. Engineering models tirelessly expanded the nests, while more armed drones entered the warehouses after being fitted with weapons. They were arranged in square formations, ten thousand at a time, parked beneath their respective racks as they quietly awaited the moment they would throw themselves into battle.
Between these basic facilities stood command towers, radar stations, data hubs, acceleration tracks, and residential and ecological centers of various sizes.
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