Chuyun Planet

The Riken Star System was, after all, the main battlefield for the Riken Race. Over the past few decades, they had deployed a great many reconnaissance devices within the system. Even after their defeat and retreat, these reconnaissance devices could not be cleared away in a short period of time.

Furthermore, the Swarm's movements were not concealed, and the Riken Race were fully aware of the Swarm's reinforcements' movements.

In the second Battle of Laze Planet, the Swarm's Ancient Class did not suffer many losses. If their forces continue to expand, the Riken Race's chances of victory will become increasingly slim.

The Riken Race also understood this, but they didn't have a good solution. The three fleets suffered heavy losses in the Second Battle of Laze Planet, losing 20% of their fleet and requiring repairs to the rest.

Even including newly built ships that have just joined the fleet, the number of warships that can be deployed in a short period of time is less than a thousand.

While this number of warships is capable of intercepting the Swarm's follow-up support forces, the risk is simply too great, and the cost-effectiveness is too low.

The Riken Race wanted to ambush and intercept the Swarm reinforcements, but they had to cross Laze Planet, which was already occupied by the Swarm and guarded by thousands of Ancient Class enemies.

Meanwhile, the Swarm's support forces do not act alone, but rather in clusters once they reach a certain number. If the Riken Race interception forces are entangled, they could easily be intercepted by the Swarm forces from Laze Planet.

If they were attacked from both sides, this entire force might be trapped there. This is something the Riken Race cannot afford; if they lose a thousand warships, the Riken Race might as well surrender.

However, they were unable to intercept the Swarm's reinforcements. As the Swarm forces grew stronger, the chances of the Riken Race being able to resist them decreased day by day, approaching a state of slow death.

But the Riken Race now seem to be living for the moment, and they don't care about anything else anymore.

The discovery of the Chess Player' influence emboldened the Swarm, who, having gained some understanding of the situation, became even more aggressive in their actions.

After receiving some reinforcements, the Swarm, aside from leaving 5,000 Ancient Class to guard Laze Planet and over 2,000 Ancient Class to recover in space, assembled a force of over 8,000 Ancient Class and set off into the depths of the Riken Star System.

The eighth planet in the Laze Planet is a small geological planet, only one-tenth the size of Laze Planet. It is so small that it doesn't even have a single moon.

This means that the scale of its planetary defense system deployment would not be too large. In addition, with the Laze Planet defense system in front and the Civil-Military Twin Star Defense Perimeter behind, the Riken Race did not build a defense system here except for some observation devices.

When the Swarm passes by Planet Eight, it leaves behind two hundred Ancient Class. They and their Larval Form will plant Creep, which will later develop into Electromagnetic Cannon.

Although Planet Eight is not large, it is still much larger than the Ancient Class. The Electromagnetic Cannon deployed on it can be developed into larger sizes, and may provide some long-range support in critical moments.

The Planet Seven of Laze Planet, named Chuyun Planet, is similar to Planet A7 in the Origin Star System. It is a giant gas planet with a large number of moons, as many as nineteen.

Whether a civilization follows a mechanical or biological path, its underlying theories are similar. While the Riken Race cannot, like the Swarm, directly occupy the orbit of a gas giant and absorb its radiation to grow, their energy conversion is not complex.

The Riken Race built numerous related facilities on many of Chuyun Planet's satellites, which are the main production sites for Riken Race energy storage devices.

The movements of the Swarm were constantly monitored by the Riken Race. Such a large-scale march could not be concealed by the gravitational wave detection radar.

The Swarm made no attempt to conceal their intentions, clearly indicating that Chuyun Planet was their next target. This sparked another heated debate within the Riken Race.

"We must hold Chuyun Planet!" a staff officer said.

"Ha, what are we going to use to defend? We can only deploy about a thousand warships, while the other side has 8,000 500-Meter Class Octopus Monster. How are we supposed to fight them?"

"Didn't we deploy quite a few defense systems on Chuyun Planet?"

"Chuyun Planet itself is a gas giant, unsuitable for a defensive system. Furthermore, of its nineteen moons, only eleven are large enough to warrant a defense system. Adding to Chuyun Planet is extremely large, and the eleven moons have different orbits, making it difficult to simultaneously engage enemies in a particular direction and create crossfire. Therefore, their construction priority is not high," a staff officer patiently explained. "We were already building the Laze Planet defense system, the Wenwu Twin Stars defense system, and the Mother Planet defense system simultaneously, leaving us unable to undertake secondary projects. Therefore, our defense system on Chuyun Planet is not strong."

After a moment of silence, one of the Ricken generals spoke up, "If Chuyun Planet, our energy costs will increase by at least 50%."

The energy produced by Chuyun Planet's resource system is safe, convenient, and low-cost, primarily supplying the main fleet and major defense systems. If this region is lost, they will have to obtain energy supplies from their Mother Planet and various colonies. Leaving aside production costs, transportation alone would be an extremely troublesome matter.

"There's nothing we can do. Although Chuyun Planet very important, our deployment there is insufficient to withstand the Zerg's attack. Even if all three fleets are at full strength, it won't help."

"That's right. The Zerg army is approaching. Even if we build Chuyun Planet now, it's too late. Not to mention that we must concentrate our resources and prioritize supplying the Civil-Military Twin Star Defense Perimeter to hold off the Zerg there," Hamis said. As a senior commander who had fought against the Zerg, he knew how terrifying Zerg. He had no intention of annihilating the Zerg forces at the moment; he only hoped to stop Zerg with powerful crossfire.

In fact, countless meetings like this have been held recently. Initially, many Rikens supported fighting the Zerg Chuyun Planet, but after careful analysis, they felt it was completely meaningless.

Leaving aside the question of whether those defensive facilities can even be built, since only satellites can construct defensive bases, their mineral reserves are incomparable to those of geological planets. Unlike Laze Planet, they cannot utilize local resources, making construction extremely costly.

They simply haven't been able to confirm how the Zerg infiltrated Laze Planet. Those genetic mutations and transformations are just speculation at the moment. Therefore, the best way to defend against Zerg infiltration right now is to prevent them from getting close at all, relying on a dense network of firepower to destroy any objects that approach.

Whether it's Octopus Monster or meteorites, they won't let any of them go.

However, the environment of Chuyun Planet is clearly not suitable for building such a defense system. If the Zerg were to get close, those hateful purplish-gray patches would probably cover it up soon.