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The three fleets suffered heavy losses in this battle, with nearly 500 warships losing their ability to sail long distances, of which more than 80 were completely destroyed. Most of them were lost in the final stages, in orbit, while exchanging fire with the Swarm on the Ancient Class's surface.

The other warships also sustained varying degrees of damage, though none were severe.

After the war, the Third Fleet, which suffered the least overall damage, was assigned to monitor the follow-up forces of the Swarm, hoping to take advantage of the smaller number of these forces.

Even if they can't eliminate their main force, depleting some of the Swarm's ammunition reserves is still very beneficial. In the Riken Race's understanding, Swarm without a logistical base will find it difficult to replenish its supplies.

The Second Fleet, which suffered moderate damage, was left to defend Laze Planet, protecting the logistics engineering units and damaged warships on the Laze Planet.

After the spaceship factory is completed, the entire fleet will be overhauled and then take over the mission of the Third Fleet, switching them back for repair and maintenance.

Meanwhile, the spaceship factory on Laze Planet is also responsible for repairing the heavily damaged warships, recovering the completely destroyed warships, and manufacturing new warships to replenish the main fleet as needed.

The First Fleet, which had been fighting the Swarm forces for more than ten days, suffered the most severe damage. Including the warships that landed on Laze Planet and were unable to move, the First Fleet lost almost half of its original strength.

They will return to the Riken Race's Civil-Military Twin Star Defense Perimeter to repair their warships and receive new warships to replenish their ranks. Meanwhile, Lieutenant General Hamis, who participated in the entire war, will also return to the Riken Mother Planet to report on his duties.

Everything is proceeding smoothly.

Whether it's the Riken Race or the Swarm.

Time passed quickly, Riken Race and the Swarm maintained a relatively peaceful relationship, engaging in low-intensity warfare only in the asteroid belt on the outer edge of the Riken Star System.

Initially, the Riken Race took advantage of the fact that the 5,000 Ancient Class that the Swarm had gathered in the early stages were wiped out on Laze Planet, and that their subsequent forces had not yet had time to regroup. They outnumbered the Zerg and gained a significant advantage. The Swarm forces even retreated to a location further away from the Riken Star System to regroup.

But the Swarm initially launched 30,000 Ancient Class Zerg into Riken Star System in one fell swoop. Even if 5,000 were lost, there were still more than 20,000 left.

In less than a year, the Swarm in the Ancient Class of the Riken Star System has grown back to over a thousand. A single Riken Race fleet can no longer gain any advantage.

Later Riken Race changed their tactics, circling around the Swarm forces and feigning an advance to deplete Riken Race ammunition, just like in the previous tug-of-war between the First Fleet and the Swarm.

However, the two sides are now in different positions than before, and this tactic is clearly unable to achieve the desired effect.

At this point, the Swarm did not need to stop the Riken Race fleet from approaching. As their forces grew stronger, they were not afraid of the Riken Race warships getting closer.

Once the Riken Race warships enter the range of their main guns, it means they are closer to the Swarm forces. At this distance, if they can win, all is well; if they cannot, they will find themselves in a dilemma.

If you can't win by attacking, and you have to escape, the route is fixed, which reduces a lot of useless calculations but increases the chance of being hit. How many of them can actually escape is unknown.

Therefore, after the Riken Race feigned several advances and found that the Swarm forces did not react, they could only awkwardly retreat.

The two sides then faced each other from a distance, watching the Swarm grow larger and larger. The Riken Race were anxious but had no good solutions.

Years later, as the Ancient Class Zerg units from Proxima Star System arrived one after another, the Swarm regrouped, now numbering over ten thousand.

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"They're active again. It looks like another war is about to begin," Hamis sighed, looking at the video feed.

The First Fleet is resting in the outer orbit of Laze Planet. Because of its proximity to the front lines, this area has been developed into a forward position against the Swarm.

Initially, after the First Fleet completed its overhaul and received newly manufactured warships, its fleet size exceeded one thousand ships. When Hamis returned to the front lines with great ambition and took over the Second Fleet's mission of harassing the Swarm forces, he attempted to engage the Swarm forces in a major battle.

Unfortunately, by then the number of Ancient Class had exceeded three thousand. If a thousand Riken Race warships were to confront them head-on, the result would likely be a mutually destructive one.

Ultimately, after losing dozens of warships, Hamis retreated in disarray.

Because of the wartime situation, he was not severely punished for this decision-making error; he only lost the opportunity to fight.

Therefore, the First Fleet has been permanently stationed at the Laze Planet Base, a practice that continues to this day.

But now, the Swarm army, which had been quiet for several years, seems to have awakened from its dormancy and is active again.

As Hamis predicted, the Swarm, more than twice the size of the previous force and numbering over ten thousand, took only one month from the start of its activity to its departure.

Meanwhile, the Third Fleet, which was monitoring the Swarm forces from a distance, dared not make any move and could only remain outside the Swarm forces' firing range, keeping a watchful eye on them from afar.

The Riken Race were not particularly alarmed by the Swarm's attack, as they had anticipated it.

In ten years, Laze Planet's defense system has only recovered to 80% of its pre-war level. However, the numerous land cannons can still provide considerable firepower support to the Riken Race.

Ahead of the Swarm army's advance, the Riken Race have laid a large number of Smart Mine in an attempt to slow down the Swarm's advance; it would be even better if some of them could be eliminated.

This idea is certainly good, but it's difficult to implement. The Swarm "seems" to have overcome its poor eyesight. The cloaking coating on the Smart Mine has become ineffective, and when the Swarm forces encounter minefields during their advance, they will release small and medium-sized combat units to clear the mines.

Although Smart Mine have remote detonation capabilities and their own propulsion devices, they cannot evade close-range Electromagnetic Cannon fire. Small, Mature Form are the best way to clear these mines.

At a safe distance, generally around ten kilometers, they will target the Smart Mine, keeping it outside its active search range, and then attack using their onboard Electromagnetic Cannon.

At this distance, Electromagnetic Cannon railgun projectiles are simply impossible to evade with the propulsion system of Smart Mine.

Small fireworks exploded ahead of the advancing Swarm, as if celebrating along the way. Seeing this, the Riken Race was on the verge of a meltdown.

"Novaru, under normal circumstances, if you discover certain flaws in your own warships through actual combat, what would you do?" In the front-line command center of Laze Planet, Hamis, the commander of the First Fleet, was deep in thought. He frowned slightly and suddenly asked the commander of the Second Fleet beside him.

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