While Nie Yun carried out the Shattered Star Strategy step by step, on the other side of the wormhole, the war between Twin Stars and the Locke Conglomerate was also raging...
Two months earlier.
Twin Stars, Storm System.
The once-bustling shipping lanes lay in ruins. Countless wrecked ships and pieces of equipment formed a distinct debris belt that stretched all the way toward the central administrative planet...
More than 2,200 warships, divided into eleven squadrons, surrounded the administrative planet in a loose encirclement.
Boom! The final asteroid-based Floating Fortress became a ball of fire under overwhelmingly superior firepower.
"Lord Kloros, all enemy resistance has been eliminated!" the adjutant reported with a smile.
In less than a month, Kloros's second invasion fleet had swept through and destroyed all resistance in the Storm System.
Facing more than 2,200 regular warships-nearly the Locke Conglomerate's entire fleet-Twin Stars, whose forces had been almost completely wiped out in the previous white dwarf explosion, simply could not assemble another defensive fleet of comparable size in such a short time.
Moreover, the supernova explosion had devastated the Storm System's painstakingly constructed defensive network, destroying more than sixty percent of its installations.
Under these circumstances, the fall of the Storm System was inevitable. Even an ordinary Twin Stars officer could see that.
Stubborn resistance was undoubtedly the stupidest choice.
Thus, after discovering the staggering size of the enemy's second fleet, the shocked Twin Stars Military Headquarters had unhesitatingly ordered a full evacuation.
Apart from a small contingent of the local Garrison Force left behind to buy time, all military forces, including the surviving fleets such as Nie Yun's, had immediately withdrawn from the Storm System and retreated to the rear.
"Hmm? That Lightspeed Battle Star didn't appear..."
Kloros breathed a sigh of relief, though a trace of disappointment