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Not only Conrads' side, but all other members of the Coalition Army also had their own databases. Before the battle against the Zerg, the Epoch Clan shared some intelligence with everyone, so everyone's information about the Zerg was roughly the same.

Therefore, the matching results they obtained were similar to those of the Lashudia Clan. Similarly, no one believed that the Zerg Megastructure were currently gathering energy to create an electromagnetic catapult. Were the Zerg planning to launch a massive projectile to attack the Coalition Army?

This is somewhat ridiculous, since the current battlefield environment doesn't allow the Zerg to operate in this way.

Electromagnetic Projectile are different from energy beams. Electromagnetic Projectile are solid objects, and smaller ones are relatively easy to handle. However, the Megastructure launch objects like the 500-meter- Ancient Class Zerg. Such large objects will become riddled with holes in a short distance if the flight path is not cleared in advance.

By this time, the battle had been going on for some time, and the exchange of fire had resulted in heavy casualties on both sides. The Zerg were in a slightly better position; the remnants of the Ancient Class units could be directly absorbed by other combat units, accelerating their own repairs. Those with minor injuries could either move on their own or be dragged to the rear by friendly forces to bask in the sun and speed up their repairs. If the battle continued for a longer period, they might even have a chance to return to the battlefield.

However, the situation was different for the Coalition Army. Damaged warships and those with minor injuries were evacuated to the rear for emergency repairs, but many others were blown to pieces by concentrated fire from the main guns.

These warship wrecks floated in the air, becoming obstacles. However, the Coalition Army liked these obstacles; they would even deliberately push the wrecks forward into the front lines.

Although the energy beams are not physical entities, they can still be interfered with by these debris obstacles, and may even be detonated prematurely. Furthermore, the closer the debris is to them, the easier it is for them to adjust their firing angles to avoid it.

The wreckage served as a protective barrier, shielding the Coalition Army from a significant amount of Zerg fire.

If even energy beams receive this treatment, then Electromagnetic Projectile are even more vulnerable. And if the diameter of this projectile exceeds 100 meters, these remnants will surely teach it the principle that forces are reciprocal.

Therefore, everyone believes that although the Zerg follow a biotechnology route, they must understand these basic principles and would not make such a rudimentary move as launching large projectiles using electromagnetic catapults.

However, the energy level of the Zerg Megastructure continues to rise, becoming increasingly compatible with electromagnetic catapults.

Is it really going to shoot something at us?

Is the Zerg planning to launch Ancient Class destroyer?

This is not impossible, after all, in the previous battle against the Yuntu Clan, the Zerg used the Desolate Class Mothership to launch Ancient Class ships towards the Yuntu Clan and achieved considerable success.

But that was when the Yuntu Clan was completely surrounded, focused solely on escaping, and had all their main cannons concentrated to create breaches, leaving them without any defenses against attacks from the surrounding area.

Later, when the breach was opened and the main guns returned to defense, most of the Ancient Class battleships were destroyed en route. After all, even when the Ancient Class battleships were huddled together, their diameter exceeded 100 meters, making them easy targets.

At this time, the number of the Coalition Army was dozens of times greater than that of the Yuntu Clan at that time, and judging from the current battle situation, it was the Zerg side whose firepower was being suppressed.

In this situation, shooting at Ancient Class would be utterly suicidal. Moreover, even if the Zerg Megastructure have a higher energy level and might be able to target units like Desolate Class Mothership, there are only two of them, which is too few to be effective against anything.

However, the Zerg aren't fools; they must have some confidence in doing so. Besides, everything is just speculation right now. Most other races still don't believe the Zerg would launch anything. Some have suggested it might be a super-large beam weapon.

From a scientific perspective, this conjecture is actually more realistic. The Zerg have now entered the Dark Energy system, and their powerful energy production and output system forms the basis for the development of ray-based weapons.

However, this is only the basics. Although ray-based weapons have many advantages, their range has always been a disadvantage. Even if we enter the Dark Energy system, there is still a long way to go to develop them into energy beam weapons with a range that exceeds or approaches the current level.

Like all the Mid-Ring Civilizations, many of them already possess Dark Energy system technology, but they still haven't mastered ultra-long-range ray-type weapon technology and remain within the framework of energy beam weapons.

However, it is said that the Epoch Clan and several powerful Inner-Ring Civilizations have developed powerful ray-type weapons and successfully miniaturized them, replacing the original energy beam weapon systems.

This weapon upgrade represents a qualitative leap. Any qualitative leap in a system will be overwhelming for lower-level technologies. Imagine two sides facing each other across the void, where one side's weapons and shells take several minutes to reach the other's battle lines, while the other side's artillery fire arrives instantly. Such a battle would be utterly crushing.

The Zerg's current technology seems to be limited to energy beam weapons, not yet reaching the level of ultra-long-range ray weapons. But who knows if such things exist in the Zerg's mysterious heritage?

Moreover, many new technologies initially come in very large forms, and only with continuous technological advancements can they be gradually miniaturized. The Epoch Clan and those Inner-Ring Civilizations have both gone through this process.

Perhaps the Zerg have now crossed the threshold of developing ultra-long-range beam weapons, but their level of sophistication is not yet sufficient to miniaturize them, limiting them to Zerg Megastructure- like structures.

If that's the case, the Coalition Army need to be careful. If it really is a long-range beam weapon, given the size of the Zerg's Megastructure and their energy supply from their star, even if there are only two of them, the damage they would cause would be unimaginable. It might even wipe out all of the Coalition Army's current advantages.

Without Conrads's orders, the Coalition Army's firepower became much more ferocious. Their thinking was that if they could eliminate more of the Zerg's conventional forces in advance, even if the Zerg Megastructure was indeed a long-range beam weapon, without the protection of other units, it would be lambs to the slaughter.

Moreover, if we can capture it, even if our technological systems are different, we might be able to apply the knowledge to our own race and help advance our technology further.

However, some civilizations disregard this. Several Mid-Ring Civilizations, including the Lashudia Clan, have already reached the threshold of possessing ultra-long-range ray weapons.

They felt that if they could also possess an energy source the size of the Zerg Megastructure, increasing the range of beam weapons to that of energy beam weapons would be no problem at all.

Therefore, compared to the Zerg's ultra-long-range ray weapon technology, they were more interested in the Zerg's Megastructure technology. Unfortunately, all the Zerg Megastructure they had the opportunity to access in the past had self-destructed. They wondered if they would have the chance to observe them this time.