Repulsion Fields

In the distant reaches of space, sparks occasionally flashed by, disappearing in an instant.

This is the spark that flew when "Flaming Red Lips" collided with the Electromagnetic Projectile. The Duoqi Race's Tactical Nuclear Bomb, when not activated, will not explode even if it is hit, demonstrating its superior safety performance.

But regardless, at such high speeds, whether it's a glancing blow or a collision, it signifies the end of their mission.

Ultimately, 80% of the "Flaming Red Lips" were intercepted, with only 20% breaking through the defenses and falling into the Swarm's territory, causing some losses. Both sides found the result acceptable.

The weapon "Flaming Red Lips" relies on surprise and information asymmetry; once the initial attack is over, it's difficult to achieve such brilliant results. This is documented in many past examples, not only by the Duoqi Civilization but also by many other civilizations.

Therefore, this weapon is also known as a "gift for newlyweds".

"It's truly spectacular. This is the first time I've ever actually seen them unleash a barrage of thousands of projectiles," Aslite murmured.

"Right? According to records, our fleet was wiped out by 80% after the first round! What a humiliation. But the Zerg are indeed hiding a great secret; after this round of welcoming ceremonies, they seem to still have the strength to fight."

"Yes, Your Highness, and this is merely one of their bases. We should proceed with caution."

"It's alright. Technological gaps can't be bridged by sheer numbers. The more resilient they are, the more excited I am. If they were solved all at once, it would be incredibly boring."

Two salvos nearly depleted the "Flaming Red Lips" carried by the Duoqi Fleet. Even if a few remained, they wouldn't be able to mount another salvo of that scale. However, they had already wiped out most of the Zerg's fighting force, making it a glorious victory.

--

Seeing the Doki fleet accelerating towards them with its engines back up, Sarah calmly ordered all the space octopuses to disperse and simultaneously commanded the forces from the Lazer swarm base and the near-star orbit swarm base to rush to their aid.

"Your Majesty, we have deployed all the troops from the Chuyun Planet Base. If the enemy gets close and uses the weapons they just used, they may not be able to hold out until reinforcements arrive," a Blade said with some concern.

"Don't worry. Judging from their performance just now, that weapon isn't cheap for them either, and with such significant limitations, I don't believe they would bring too many. I even suspect that this weapon isn't standard issue for their fleet, but rather something specifically prepared for us."

Sarah's guess was correct; many details about the Duoqi Fleet revealed their level of industrialization. Tactical Nuclear Bomb were indeed easy for a civilization of this caliber to manufacture, but the rudimentary interstellar engines and nuclear batteries equipped on the "Flaming Red Lips" were not cheap consumables for them either.

The two salvos launched nearly 20,000 "Flaming Red Lips" missiles. Within the Duoqi Civilization, the value of these missiles was enough to build hundreds of warships.

Furthermore, given their limitations, "Flaming Red Lips" is indeed not standard equipment for the Duoqi Fleet. This thing is only effective the first time, just like just now, where hundreds of Duoqi warships couldn't possibly eliminate so many combat units of the Swarm.

"Fire! Stop them from advancing!"

At a command, the Swarm's Electromagnetic Cannon began firing. In a near-vacuum environment, the Electromagnetic Cannon has an extremely long range, but beyond a certain distance, it becomes a matter of chance, almost never hitting the target.

However, the Duoqi Race warships were extremely fast and had clear targets, so the angles available for them to navigate were very small. Electromagnetic Projectile could easily block them.

--

"Activate Repulsion Field!" Although the Duoqi Race were unaware of what the Swarm were hiding, they were very familiar with some of the surface-level things, such as the Swarm's main weapons.

Therefore, the Duoqi Race detected the energy fluctuations the moment the Swarm Electromagnetic Cannon fired.

Dialo immediately responded.

The void between star systems, while containing very little matter, is not entirely devoid of it. Larger obstacles can be detected in advance by the fleet and destroyed using light-based weapons. However, clearing away extremely small obstacles, such as rice-grain-sized meteorite particles, with weapons is impractical. Because they are so small, by the time radar detects them, the warships are already very close, and adjusting weapons and calculating the angle of attack is too late.

However, ignoring these small objects is not an option. When a warship's speed reaches or exceeds half the speed of light, let alone an obstacle the size of a grain of rice, even something smaller is enough to make the warship's Reactive Armor, which can withstand Electromagnetic Cannon fire, as fragile as glass. The force generated by the impact can easily tear the warship apart.

Therefore, in order to deal with these small obstacles, a Repulsion Field Generator was developed. These devices can generate an invisible field shield at the bow of the ship, helping the warship to deflect and destroy these small objects during high-speed flight.

Although the Duoqi Civilization's technology level was insufficient to miniaturize it, resulting in most of the forward section of the warship being used to house the field generation device, it was still indispensable. Without it, the Duoqi warship's speed could only reach a maximum of one-fifth the speed of light.

In other words, the technological gap Riken Race and the Duoqi Race in terms of warship engines is not actually that large. The real difference lies in this field generator. If the Riken Race had it, their warship speed would also increase rapidly.

Although due to technical limitations they can only generate a small area of force at the bow, this auxiliary device can become a powerful tool against Swarm Electromagnetic Cannon if the course angle is calculated correctly.

Faced with the overwhelming onslaught of Electromagnetic Projectile, the Duoqi warship did not slow down at all, but only slightly adjusted its course, hiding the entire ship behind small field shields.

Although the Electromagnetic Projectile were incredibly powerful, they were completely ineffective against this transparent Repulsion Field. Millions of projectiles fired in several rounds were deflected without causing any damage to the Duoqi Fleet.

The loss of their main combat weapons left Sarah and the Blade somewhat speechless. Since the start of the war with the Duoqi Fleet, the Swarm had been on the defensive at every turn and had been severely targeted.

This is due to intelligence suppression.

This was the first time they had faced a situation where they knew nothing about the enemy, but the enemy knew something about them.

A third party operating in the shadows naturally possesses an intelligence advantage.

Faced with this situation, there was no time to slowly gather intelligence; the only option was to use the lives of the insects as lessons learned, probing little by little to find out the truth.

Fortunately, for Swarm, there is no need to consider factors such as the individual will of the insects, making this operation relatively easy.