Chapter 1605: Machine Flight Failure
When Gao Gong's spacecraft descended onto Velvet β, the first thing he saw was a mechanical satellite in low orbit.
Or rather, a war fortress the size of a satellite.
This war fortress was neither traditionally spherical nor cubic, but a dynamically transforming polyhedral structure composed of countless independently moving metal modules. Its basic form was close to that of an irregular icosahedron, but its surface was not smooth. Instead, it was covered in sharply angular layers of armor. Each armor plate rose and fell faintly like a living thing, ready to reassemble at any moment.
Dark-purple energy veins flowed through the armor seams, pulsing like blood vessels and making the entire fortress look like a mechanical heart suspended in space. Its shell was not fixed. It transformed in real time according to the needs of war—some areas suddenly sank inward, forming honeycomb-like weapon arrays, while other sections extended outward, unfurling energy shields as sharp as blades.
The fortress's core was a colossal black sphere covered in glowing patterns resembling a neural network. This was its primary computing center, a planet-scale "war processor." When it performed tactical calculations, those patterns flickered at astonishing speed, like a silent data storm.
Gao Gong knew this thing all too well.
After all, this was the combo move he and Director Du had created in a fit of fervor!
Moreover, a mechanical creation like the "war engine" was the product of combining mechanical agrarian militarism, planetary hardware, and the mecha frenzy into one.
It could be replicated, which completely validated Gao Gong's earlier speculation.
The faction's accumulated technology had indeed reached a critical point.
However, when he opened the "Faction Panel" and glanced over it, he found that the faction points had not changed.
*As expected, I still have