Withdrawal

If the Riken Race had abundant resources, they wouldn't mind using this to slightly delay the Zerg, but right now the Riken Race clearly can't spare those resources.

"Don't worry, we've already considered this situation. We've already deployed Light Sail covering tens of millions of square kilometers in near-stellar orbit, and we're continuing to expand. As long as we can keep the Zerg outside the Civil-Military Twin Star Defense Perimeter, we shouldn't have to worry about energy."

The earliest interstellar travel system of the Riken Race was based on Light Sail, which not only provided kinetic energy for the spaceships but also converted other forms of energy to sustain the spaceships' daily needs.

Harnessing stellar energy is an inevitable step in the development of every civilization. The shared theoretical knowledge leads all civilizations to tend towards developing Dyson Sphere in this regard.

For the Riken Race, nothing is more suitable than Light Sail for enveloping stars and harnessing their energy. Its technology is relatively mature, its cost is relatively low, and its special material, only 0.0005 millimeters thick for the same mass, can cover a larger area. Even though its energy conversion rate is relatively low, it cannot overshadow its enormous advantages in other aspects.

The Riken Race is, after all, a highly intelligent civilization. All their plans are interconnected. They had a contingency plan in place for Chuyun Planet, and using stellar energy was their alternative.

Those present at the meeting were all high-ranking military officers and staff officers. Most of them knew the relevant information, but the fact that they had voluntarily given up Chuyun Planet made them feel somewhat aggrieved and unable to accept it.

The quarrel among the Riken Race did not affect the Swarm at all. The eight thousand Ancient Class insects continued to advance. Although the complex environment within the star system prevented them from reaching their maximum speed, they still advanced to a point more than ten million kilometers away from Chuyun Planet in just over a month.

Although the Blade had already learned that the Riken Race had abandoned the area, they still pretended not to know and conducted some reconnaissance.

As the distance continues to close, Chuyun Planet's many satellites, without atmospheric obscuring, can be directly observed by optical detection systems.

The scene was one of desolation; within the observable area, at least superficially, no units were found that posed a threat to the Swarm forces.

When the two sides were only two million kilometers apart, the Ancient Class had already reduced their speed to 10 km/s. At this speed, they were expected to reach the orbit of Chuyun Planet in two days.

Some 100-meter-long Mature Form, covered in Larval Form, broke away from the group and flew towards Chuyun Planet first.

The Riken Race seem to have made a thorough withdrawal this time, and they have no intention of wasting resources to cause any harmless trouble for the Swarm. They didn't even lay a single Smart Mine in the sky, which can be described as saving resources to the extreme.

In the orbit of Chuyun Planet, the space factories that originally produced energy devices, as well as some space smelters and shipyards, have all been towed away by high-powered functional ships. The issue of relocation was considered when they were built. There were also many such logistics factories in the Laze Planet defense perimeter, but they were all towed away at the beginning of the war.

These things only require a Towing Ship equipped with more than ten high-powered engines to tow them Chuyun Planet orbit, and then they are connected by Tractor Ship that also has an even number of high-powered engines.

Without the influence of planetary gravity, a single Tractor Ship could tow hundreds of space factories forward, resembling an interstellar train from a distance.

With this level of efficiency, the tens of thousands of space factories that were originally docked in the orbit of Chuyun Planet, which combined the defense perimeter of Laze Planet with the existing ones, were all towed away in just a few rounds without wasting much time or resources.

Relocating some factories and equipment on satellites is much more difficult. Fortunately, most of them are also modular, and after being disassembled by specialized machinery, they are sent directly into space orbit by a simple Electromagnetic Launcher, and then transported away by ship.

The Electromagnetic Launcher built by the Riken Race are based on principles almost identical to the Biological Megastructure of the Swarm. The whole structure resembles a giant roller coaster. Although it is a simple, hastily assembled product, it can still send modules weighing tens of tons into space orbit each time.

After completing their transport mission, these Electromagnetic Launcher will be disassembled and towed away by numerous small Transport Craft.

The star system named after the Riken Race is their home turf. Here, their various ability parameters are greatly enhanced, and the coordination between different types of troops is becoming increasingly seamless, far surpassing the level of the Expedition Fleet.

On the various moons of Chuyun Planet, the important buildings had long been dismantled and towed away, leaving only craters. Most of the buildings built by the Riken Race on the moons had some kind of underground structure.

Although the underground structures were mostly modular, they were largely integrated with the surrounding soil and rock structures, making disassembly and dismantling more difficult. In addition, due to the efficiency of transportation through the passageways, apart from the most critical underground structures that were removed, the rest were destroyed.

What remains are these pits and holes.

Since the start of the war between the two races, both sides have consciously kept the secrets of their technological systems. For example, the "Gene Lock" of the Swarm's creations; even when the Riken Race are forced to retreat in an emergency after a defeat, they will try their best to destroy any ships or facilities that they cannot take with them.

However, Riken Race were unaware of was that the Swarm did not have high requirements for the integrity of Riken creations. Not to mention simply blowing them up, even if they were completely corroded into liquid using special chemical solutions, the Swarm could still draw nutrients from them for growth.

The Mature Form and Larval Form that came to investigate dispersed and landed on various satellites, carefully examining the Riken Race monitoring devices hidden on them.

These things definitely exist. The Riken Race will not miss any opportunity to learn about the Swarm. These detection devices are not expensive, so it doesn't matter if they are all destroyed. But if they manage to capture something extraordinary, they will make a fortune.

The Swarm, of course, would not give the Riken Race such an opportunity for speculation. It then sent out several batches of Mature Form and Larval Form to carefully and meticulously check each satellite many times before allowing the Larval Form to burrow into the soil and transform into Creep Seed.

"They were very cautious; all of our surveillance equipment was destroyed, without exception."

"Hateful!"

"That makes sense. Don't be misled by their appearance anymore. So many battles have proven that their intelligence is in no way inferior to ours."

Ricken's arrogance meant that even when both sides lost more than they won in the war, he merely elevated the other's intelligence to the same level as his own, as if this were already a great honor.

"However, our backup plan has not yet been discovered. Hopefully, it can slow down the enemy's advance."

"The other side is being unexpectedly cautious this time; those 500-meter-long Octopus Monster are still staying far away from Chuyun Planet."

"We have to act now. If this continues, our backup plans might be discovered!"