The clock turned back fifteen minutes.
Around the Solar System Wormhole, the fifteen warships Gustav had stationed formed a semicircle, keeping the wormhole within firing range.
The Twin Stars lacked Nie Yun's extraordinary industrial manufacturing capabilities. To build a defensive fortress like Earth's, they would have needed to deploy several industrial motherships, employ vast numbers of engineering robots, and consume enormous quantities of resources.
The Pioneer Legion in the Proxima Centauri System was only a second-line fleet. Its primary strategic objectives were to occupy the system and eliminate hostile forces within it, not build infrastructure.
It was not that they lacked the ability to construct a rudimentary temporary fortress. But expending so much effort on one just to deal with a handful of enemy ships in the Inner Solar System? Military Headquarters would probably reject the request the moment it arrived, and might even seriously question the commander's intelligence.
Besides, no one had ever imagined that the enemy in the Solar System would have the audacity to launch an invasion of the Proxima Centauri System.
If that actually happened, the roles of attacker and defender would reverse. This time, the Twin Stars would hold the terrain advantage, and the All Things Unity Society would likely need to commit at least three times their forces to have any chance of breaking through the defending fleet's line.
But given the current disparity in strength, how would that be any different from suicide?
Gustav even considered the wormhole defense line of fifteen warships somewhat excessive.
Had the Sea Race Fleet not been blindsided by a Sword Immortal Mech during the earlier "Second Battle of the Wormhole," losing a small carrier in the surprise attack, Gustav might have assigned only half as many ships to the defense.
That incident had also served as a