The Forgotten Corner

The small Skywatch Escort Frigates before them were like cold hunting sharks of the deep sea, their pulse main cannons and broadside missile launch arrays glinting with dangerous light.

This marked the Federation's mastery of mature mass-production capabilities for small starships.

The medium-sized vessels stretched three hundred meters long. Chen Xia named them Star Patrol Frigates.

They were more complex than small starships. Their key modules—core fusion reactor arrays, secondary spatial jump engines, composite energy shield generators, and more—had already begun production and testing in specialized super-factories. Star Spirit Clan engineers moved back and forth among them, strictly controlling the precision of every stage.

As for the Federation's first mothership, construction was already more than halfway complete.

He named the large starship the Milky Way Mothership.

Within a vast selected forest, inside a gigantic dock built against the mountain, the Federation's first true mothership had already begun to take shape.

The enormous keel, like the spine of a mountain range, lay across the center of the dock. It had already surpassed five li in length. This was merely a mid-stage component of a mothership. Factories producing such components had spread across a thousand kilometers of forest in every direction, drawing upon nearly the world's entire scientific research force as they completed the work in batches.

At every site, tens of thousands of engineering robotic arms busied themselves around it, welding massive prefabricated armor plates into place. Inside, countless pipelines, energy channels, and habitation sections were being laid simultaneously.

Although building the Star Spirit Clan's super mothership, passed down for ten thousand years, was almost impossible to accomplish in one stroke, every key component, energy device, and life-support system was being developed and manufactured to the highest standards.

This forest, chosen as the mothership construction base, had transformed into a colossal