Dismantling

When the Koya Alliance decided to abandon the Duoqi Civilization, the alliance fleet that had been assembled on the Duoqi border also received orders to evacuate. In order to buy time for the Duoqi Civilization to relocate, they were required to throw all the Dark Mine they carried into the void outside the star system.

One type of Dark Mine specifically targets warp drive; although they are few in number, they have caused some trouble for Swarm that encounter them for the first time.

In typical warfare, these Dark Mine are like a chicken rib—tasteless to use but too valuable to discard. To achieve anything significant, one can only rely on large-scale deployments and waiting for a lucky break.

However, it is not a cheap creation and is difficult to deploy on a large scale. But when this useless thing encounters Swarm, it sparks some unexpected results.

In the history of the Koya Alliance, there has never been a war with warships measured in hundreds of millions. It's worth noting that the Duoqi Civilization previously only had 500,000 warships in regular service. When the Telo Civilization pressured the Swarm, it mobilized hundreds of thousands of warships.

Therefore, at their level, hundreds of thousands of warships are already a grand spectacle. Even in the history of the Star Sea Alliance, wars involving hundreds of millions of combat units are extremely rare. And even those few wars barely reach this standard because of their extremely wide-ranging impact.

In reality, the troop interactions in these wars were mostly in the millions, with very few involving tens of millions.

The Swarm's practice of concentrating hundreds of millions of troops into a single star system is unprecedented in the Alliance's history. But one can only imagine the density of such a large-scale troop movement.

Therefore, the Warp Bubble Mine, a weapon designed to ambush prey, proved surprisingly effective because there were so many prey. More than a hundred Warp Bubble Mine killed dozens of Ancient Class -Ancient Class on the spot and severely damaged nearly two hundred others, achieving a rather brilliant result.

Of course, this was also related to the fact that the Swarm was encountering this thing for the first time and had no experience. Moreover, given the cost of Ancient Class creature, it was hard to say who would profit and who would lose. But this novel thing still caught Rowan's attention.

At a command, the Ancient Cluster actively disengaged from warp drive, cautiously advancing while releasing a large number of Larval Form and Mature Form to clear out the Dark Mine in the void.

This naturally slowed down the travel speed. In fact, this was intentional on Rowan's part, because since the Ancient Class was equipped with Warp Propulsion Functional Module, the deployment speed has increased several levels. The distance between adjacent star systems can be crossed in just two or three years. Even with the time for troop deployment and assembly, it will not exceed five years, no matter how slow it is.

Even five years is far from enough time for the migration of the Duoqi Civilization. Rowan was originally pondering how to make the migration appear natural and unpretentious, so as not to arouse suspicion from the enemy.

To be honest, this was a huge test of the Swarm's acting skills. Just as he was revisiting the principles of acting and racking his brains for a routine, the other party sent over the script themselves. Rowan took advantage of this and slowed down the Swarm's advance.

Moreover, those new types of Dark Mine, or rather, the energy utilization within them, did indeed pique his interest.

The Zerg's movements were constantly monitored, and the Swarm could locate and eliminate any small devices with little mobility.

However, around the Swarm forces, there are also some reconnaissance ships. These are ships with very specific functions; they are not aggressive, but they have sharp noses, can see far, and are very fast. Relying on these characteristics, they patrol outside the safety line around the Ancient Cluster. The Swarm really doesn't have a very good way to deal with these scouts.

Fortunately, the Ancient Cluster, with its massive scale of hundreds of millions, is inherently unable to remain invisible, and it employs a strategy of direct confrontation, so being observed is not a major concern. Intelligence warfare is unavoidable at any time.

After the encounter of the Ancient Cluster was captured by these ships, the information was transmitted back. The Star Sea Alliance, aside from marveling that there were no useless weapons, only misused ones, had little doubt about the Swarm forces' actions of slowing their advance and carefully avoiding Dark Mine.

Most factions breathed a sigh of relief, especially the Koya Alliance and the Kro Mutual Aid Society, which had already made contact with the Swarm. Since Warp Dark Mine could counter the Zerg's swarm attacks, they could produce more of these Dark Mine to buy themselves more time.

The slower the Swarm's attack, the fewer losses they suffer. As long as they can hold out until the big shots in the middle and inner circles arrive on the battlefield, their mission can be freed from this anxious existence.

As for the Duoqi Civilization, their relief was more than just a sigh of relief. With the approach of the Primordial Ancient Cluster, they hadn't even completed 30% of their migration. If the Swarm attacked now, they would likely face certain death.

This caused them great panic and even sparked riots. Fortunately, by divine intervention, the damned Zerg were held back by their great technological creations, and they had a chance to survive again.

Moreover, after that, some of the Duoqi Race who were initially uncooperative for various reasons became much more obedient, and the efficiency of the migration work increased dramatically.

Rowan paid no attention to these things; his focus was already on analyzing the warp drive mine. Besides its high cost and small effective range, this type of mine had another drawback.

It is highly secure, with multiple programs binding those special energies, but because its reaction mechanism is simple, it has almost no lethality against units that have not entered warp drive.

Moreover, since their targets are extremely fast warp units, any delay caused by remote control would lead to failure; therefore, they don't even have remote firing systems.

Thus, while the ordinary Dark Mine were actively activated, causing damage to the Larval Form and Mature Form conducting reconnaissance, these more advanced Dark Mine were captured by the Swarm like stunned stones.

Rowan organized a large number of Intellect to carry out the relevant dismantling work. The Swarm's current technological level is quite advanced. This kind of special Dark Mine is like a foreign language to civilizations that have not unlocked the relevant technology. But to the Swarm now, it's nothing special.

The functions of the relevant structures were quickly analyzed by the Intellect, and then, according to their understanding, they systematically disassembled them one by one. After each failure, they summarized and discussed the findings before continuing.

Although these special Dark Mine are few in number, the Swarm has already captured dozens. With ample test subjects, the Intellect have become much bolder in their operations, and consequently, they have quickly achieved some results.