Turning Point

The maintenance cost of a single warship was negligible, but across the entire defensive line, maintaining hundreds of billions of warships even once came at an astonishing cost. Given the Epoch Clan's current wealth, it was truly a heavy burden.

Ever since the first warship in need of repairs and maintenance appeared, the Star Port vessels behind the Epoch Clan's lines had never had a moment of rest. Vast numbers of Epoch Clan warships lined up for maintenance. Although the Epoch Clan had quite a few Star Port vessels and had even built several super-large Star Ports to provide repairs and maintenance for the frontline forces, maintaining all hundreds of billions of warships would still take an exceedingly long time, even with sufficient consumable materials.

Thus, before the first round of repairs and maintenance had even ended, some warships had already begun their second round of maintenance.

And as time passed, there came the third round, the fourth, the fifth...

In the year 780 of the New Era, this offensive and defensive war had already lasted nearly three hundred years. The wear-prone consumables the Epoch Clan had stockpiled at the start had been almost entirely exhausted.

As they had remained cut off from mineral supplies, they had no choice but to dismantle some warships to manufacture new vulnerable components. After all, some warships had been out of the combat roster for far too long. They had failed to get a maintenance slot during the first round and had waited until now; in the foreseeable future, they would most likely still fail to get one. They might as well be put to use as scrap now.

Thus, the ships dismantled by the Epoch Clan themselves became the second-largest source of their losses.

On the battlefield, fierce combat still raged. But unlike