Cleanup

The Life Star that the Swarm previously conquered were either planets like Proxima Centauri, which lacked advanced intelligent life, or planets like the Riken Race, which had infiltrated the Zerg swarm a century in advance and surrendered directly when the Swarm army pressed in.

There has never been a case of a direct, head-on battle being won in a short period of time. The Swarm also lacks combat experience in this area, so this is a good opportunity for them to give it a try.

However, when formulating the battle plan, Rowan encountered a problem that troubled him quite a bit. That is, it is best to conduct such combat exercises in a more covert manner and kick the spectators out of the audience.

To do this, their spying channels must be destroyed or blocked.

Although those reconnaissance ships in space carried quantum communication devices and relied on their speed to hover near the Swarm forces, they dared not get too close. Once the Swarm sealed off the training area and released some jamming equipment, their long-distance observation methods would be difficult to be effective, at most obtaining some vague data. Not to mention that Life Star all have atmospheres, which are themselves a powerful tool against spying.

The surveillance systems within the star system have already been cleared out by the Swarm. Only the surveillance systems on Life Star remain, and these are far more numerous and ubiquitous. It's impossible for the Swarm to destroy them all before conquering these planets, which is contradictory.

Fortunately, transmitting this video data to the outside world is not an easy task, as it bypasses the Swarm's blockade. They only have one channel: sending the intelligence out via quantum communicators.

Such quantum-realm instant communication devices are impossible for even the Swarm, let alone the Epoch Clan swarm, to intercept. However, while the information cannot be intercepted, the devices can be damaged. As long as these quantum communicators are destroyed, the two Life Star will become isolated islands, rendering any intelligence gathered by the surveillance equipment useless.

The problem is that the locations of the Duoqi Race's quantum communication facilities are very well hidden, even within the Duoqi themselves, and are kept at a very high level of secrecy. Not many Duoqi Race know their locations.

By some unforeseen means, Rowan learned of these hiding places. But how to find their location was itself a great secret of the Swarm.

If, for the sake of secrecy in tactical exercises, all quantum communication facilities are precisely destroyed, this phenomenon will inevitably arouse the enemy's speculation, and they may thus gain insight into some secrets of the Swarm.

If they are not destroyed, they will continue to send out intelligence data.

Fortunately, the Swarm has now completely taken control of the area, and the alien races won't be able to launch a counterattack anytime soon. Therefore, Rowan can take his time to develop these two training grounds.

The Ancient Cluster split into several small teams, with tens of thousands of Ancient Class occupying the orbits of the Life Star. The atmosphere is a double-edged sword; it can effectively defend against external attacks, but it also weakens attacks launched from the inside out.

Electromagnetic Cannon projectiles incinerate upon passing through the atmosphere. Even if more robust materials are used to manufacture the projectiles, not only will the cost increase, but even if they can pass through the atmosphere, the drag they encounter during flight will greatly reduce their power.

Energy beams or rays, when passing through the atmosphere, will also dissipate at an accelerated rate and be refracted. Therefore, there are not many means of attacking space on the two Life Star of Duoqi.

The few Ground-Based Artillery that exist will be precisely destroyed by the Swarm once they fire and reveal their positions. The Swarm doesn't even need to use Electromagnetic Cannon or other offensive weapons; it only needs to throw rods made of special metal off the tracks. The kinetic energy generated by their descent and impact with the ground can have an effect even more terrifying than Nuclear Bomb.

After destroying the resistance forces, the Ancient Class planet surrounded the planet and released electromagnetic interference to prevent signals from being transmitted out of the planet and relayed through extraterrestrial reconnaissance ships.

Then, the Swarm dropped several cysts onto the ground...

The Swarm's actions quickly piqued the interest of those watching from behind the scenes, because the quantum communicators on the Life Star had not yet been destroyed, allowing them to continue receiving real-time information about the battlefield.

The footage of the Spore Sac being dropped from the orbit was captured by many instruments. The audience thought the Swarm would immediately launch an attack, but to their surprise, the Ancient Class started to idle after dropping their sporangia.

What are they doing?

"I don't know, maybe they're conducting some kind of experiment."

"Send someone over immediately to see what they threw down."

Although the Epoch Clan's artificial intelligence has lost all the weapons deployed in space, it still takes over the electronic equipment on the Duoqi Planet. Furthermore, it has the assistance of some Duoqi People who haven't left the planet and serious criminals on the Life Star.

Knowing their fate, some hardened criminals, in a fit of desperation, have already been executed by artificial intelligence. The core principles of the Epoch Clan AI do not include the option of not harming outsiders; being completely devoid of emotion, they would never leave these troublemakers behind to cause accidents.

The remaining Duoqi People, regardless of their reasons for staying, had all accepted the command of the Epoch Clan AI. After receiving information from the audience and performing its own calculations, the AI quickly dispatched a mixed squad of robots and Duoqi Race to investigate the location where the Zerg cysts had crashed.

The drop locations of the cysts were also carefully planned, precisely calculated by the Intellect; they were all chosen to land in desolate wilderness areas. The mixed formation, traveling in transport airships, could see the wreckage left by the cysts from afar. The scene was splattered with purplish-gray fleshy tissue and fluids, and the contents inside had vanished without a trace.

"This is TLAS3607. No danger has been detected in the vicinity. Requesting landing." Several airships circled the scene a few times. The scene appeared to have been damaged, and the images taken from a distance were not sufficient for analysis. Therefore, the formation Captain requested to land for a closer inspection.

"Requesting approval, please be careful." A cold, mechanical voice came from the communication channel, saying "please be careful," but without any emotion.

The Captain pursed his lips, knowing he couldn't expect too much from the artificial intelligence. He waved his hand, and several airships landed in a dispersed formation around the crash site of the cyst.

Several All-Terrain Robot rushed out of the airship first. They showed no fear and took the lead in clearing the way, while several Duoqi People, armed with weapons, walked carefully behind the robots.

Suddenly, just as the robot sounded its piercing alarm, a blue arc flashed in front of it. A cold voice on the communication channel had just uttered the word "Xiao" when it was drowned out by a crackling sound.