Generally speaking, in a large-scale interstellar battle, a fleet's control system had two technological options: manpower and computing power.
Manpower was easy to understand: natural human pilots, bionic pilots, clone pilots, and so on.
Computing power was easy to understand as well: AI, certain hive minds, and sentient beings.
The former was prone to generating negative-emotion buffs during high-intensity warfare. Pilots could even be subverted, recruited, or disrupted by their emotions.
The latter, meanwhile, was vulnerable to large-scale hacking and tampering.
For this fleet operation, the Legion's upper echelons had chosen the latter.
The reason was simple. The entire planet was now wrapped in an enormous cyberspace, and the computing power of a planetary computer was more than enough to support this defensive battle at their doorstep.
Two "big data conceptual entities" had also descended upon the command center.
One was named the "Pipeline Sovereign" and was responsible for maintaining signal transmission on the hardware side.
The other was named the "Eye of AI" and was responsible for monitoring all artificial intelligence.
Thus, excluding the players, the Legion had committed zero manpower to this defensive battle.
This was the tactical upgrade brought by technology.
Under the control of the "Eye of AI," even amid the chaotic information of the battlefield, the faction could accurately locate every starship.
As for the starships' opponents—the powerful-bloodline "space behemoths"—they were also constantly being located, analyzed, and modeled through various monitoring methods.
"There are actually such wondrous species in the universe." Doctor Yu wore an entranced expression. "Powerful genes, powerful bodies—truly the perfect form of evolution."
"Preliminary tests show that its cell replacement speed is one hundred thousand times that of an ordinary second-tier species."
Many of the faction's higher-ups turned their gazes toward one of the space behemoths.
That space behemoth had just been