"Faster-than-light combat—you always manage to come up with something new."
Lieutenant General Turwen watched the marked dot on the surveillance screen. Even on a holographic battlefield measured in astronomical units, that dot was moving at incredible speed.
A small dot soon appeared on another allied combat unit. It did not destroy the combat unit, but the name of a fallen officer instantly appeared in red.
The dot began transferring almost without pause.
Although they were a military superpower, with an iron-blooded personality imprinted from top to bottom, officers were still ranked below soldiers in terms of "military expenditure." After all, an excellent officer needed training not only in combat skills, but also in starship piloting, ordinary fleet tactics, group combat tactics, the joint-combat modes of third-level civilization weapons...
All this training meant that an officer consumed far more "resources" than a soldier unit. Their battlefield reactions and functions were no worse than an AI's, and in legion-level interstellar warfare, they served to link together every system.
Even if they were killed, there were backup battlefield AIs, as well as virtual commanders transmitted from headquarters.
But in reality, for certain reasons, unless absolutely necessary, Garen interstellar warfare would not be controlled entirely by AI.
However, not only were battlefield commanders dying in large numbers as that little dot moved, even the "virtual commanders" transmitted over were cut down by the enemy through the network.
Because of this, the command center where Lieutenant General Turwen was stationed had to relocate several times to avoid being detected and decapitated by the enemy.
"Did the trap fail again?"
a military staff officer said regretfully.
The red dot marked as a key target had already fought its way out of a local battlefield surrounded by seven green dots. Its figure blurred, then vanished into the