The Striped Civilization's fleet was actually made up of countless giant snakes.
This was a civilization primarily oriented toward biology. It also possessed many scientific technologies, but their bodies themselves were the equipment.
Near the planet Lan Mu had just terraformed, a wormhole lay quietly in space.
Suddenly, hundreds of two-headed giant snakes surged out of it, quickly forming ranks in space.
"Blockade the star system! Don't let the enemy escape!"
The giant snakes were largely alike, every one of them enormous and hideous.
Purple ripples spread from their bodies, sealing off the surrounding space and preventing any form of outward jump.
However, they soon discovered that someone had already beaten them to it.
"Hiss... the space here has already been sealed! We can't assess the blockade's strength. We can't get out."
"It's him! It must be that guy on the planet."
The giant snakes looked toward the planet. Just as the owner had said, it had already been thoroughly transformed into a living planet.
"This ecological environment... is so strange. What kind of creature is he?"
The owner replied, "I scanned him... He is a carbon-based lifeform."
"Ah! A carbon-based lifeform! That's an extremely rare species on the verge of extinction!" The giant snakes were shocked.
In the Milky Way, carbon-based lifeforms were the most common kind of life. Ninety percent of all life in the galaxy was carbon-based.
Yet in the M87 Nebula, the situation was reversed. This was the cradle of ammonia-based lifeforms—entirely new organisms formed by replacing water with liquid ammonia.
Among the various elements left after high-energy matter cooled in M87's space, ammonia and sulfur were also exceptionally abundant. This created harsh atmospheric conditions, turning nearly every planet into a hellscape.
By comparison, carbon-based lifeforms found it extremely difficult to reproduce. The environment here fundamentally