The Dead End of Boarding Actions

By the time Yu Lian had traveled back, the situation across the galaxy had grown increasingly turbulent. The two great factions were arming themselves for war, tensions running high. The system-wide disasters of the Zerg Swarm and the Void's descent had not truly led the nations to unite and prosper together. Instead, they had put their wartime mobilization systems to the test.

It was plain to see that a full-scale war, one that would surpass any previous Galactic War, was about to begin.

In that era, the two hegemons, locked in a frantic arms race, had already deployed vast numbers of colossus weapons. Even so, they continued to pour more resources into decisive-class warships, led by the Titan ships.

In that era, the most important measure of a nation's military strength was still the number of Titan ships it possessed.

There was no way around it. On that other timeline, the Titan ships' glorious record remained dazzling—in fact, even more dazzling than it was now. Whether it was wiping out Void fiends that had descended into the material world or hunting ancient behemoths roused from the corners of star systems, their power was indispensable. Even when facing the Zerg Swarm, which had plunged half the galaxy into disaster, its Leviathan bug-ship fleets—built for combat in space—were reduced to severed limbs and wreckage before the iron fortresses formed by Titan ships, each one plunging into a star's sea of fire and being eradicated down to the cellular level.

General Griffith's data was right. Even in the era Yu Lian had returned to, far more Titan ships had fallen to boarding actions than had been sunk in artillery duels.

Come to think of it, the few Titan ships the Zerg had taken down had all been brought low by secretly smuggling their