"How could we possibly take over a galaxy like this?" Wu Tianyi stared in shock at the endless red blips—the fleets on the move.
"Don't forget, ascending to an Energy Civilization requires occupying an entire Galactic Arm. If every galaxy is already fallen, like the Andromeda River System, then even sending out the Milky Way Galaxy Empire's home fleet wouldn't be enough to conquer it!"
The key was the refresh mechanism. No matter how quickly the Empire could build its fleets, each ship still had to be constructed one by one. NPCs, on the other hand, only had to wait for the monthly refresh.
"That's actually our opportunity—the overwhelming combat power of a single ship!"
Warships of this level—even if both sides had comparable technological levels.
There was one important reason for this: the vast majority of NPC Warships that spawned used Standard Alloy for their hulls and external armor.
Standard Alloy had been a revolutionary material in the ground-based era, but in the Space Age, it was merely a basic material. Especially at the level of a Super Civilization—even if it had not studied materials in particular, it would have advanced this basic technology to a considerable degree.
According to the military's research, under normal circumstances, civilizations at this level had already fully adopted nanotechnology, at least in military fields and high-tech industries.
The Empire had gone a step further, and could easily make Nano Alloy ubiquitous. By now, even ordinary civilian products such as the teacups and knives used by citizens were made from nanomaterials.
Then there was Pseudo-neutron Degenerate Matter, supported by Unified Field Force. This material was two tiers above nanomaterials, rendering the equipment and weapons of civilizations below the Super Civilization level almost useless.
And so the Star Spirits witnessed a shocking sight. The Colony