Obviously, Deng Zhengqing was now the Ninth Fleet's rising star, someone they were grooming for great things. Brigadier General Bazan trusted him greatly. Since even he had no objections, Bazan said no more. Then they moved on to discussing how to carry out the operation. After all, the Ninth Fleet and the New Shenzhou Security Fleet were now working together, and plenty of details still needed to be settled.
The tactical plan was divided into the following steps.
First, after the giant creature awoke, Skywatch Eye would move in close to determine its current condition, energy parameters, whether its force-field shields were active, and the possible metallic composition of its outer shell, among other things. According to Professor Jinov, the Leviathan would have little trouble mistaking something like an automated probe—no bigger than a drone—for an ordinary drifting asteroid.
Once the monster began moving, Skywatch Eye would use the gravitational data recorded during its movements to estimate its approximate trajectory and identify possible interception points in space-time.
At the same time, the Dawnlight, where Brigadier General Bazan was stationed, would take unified command of all the Ninth Fleet and Security Fleet's fast ships. They would close in on the target and use sustained bombardment to weaken its naturally generated energy shields and the armor around it as much as possible.
Likewise, the ten old Longbowman II arsenal ships sent by White Jade Capital, each at least sixty years old, would arrive early and wait at potential interception points. They carried long-range railguns and large numbers of long-range thermonuclear missiles, allowing them to unleash their firepower without restraint.
These old arsenal ships had actually been phased out over the past few decades by the Outer Ring Fleet and the Ninth Fleet, then sold to the New Shenzhou sector to be scrapped