Information Gap Caused by Mismatched Data

The radio broadcasting devices they deployed would not be defined as targets by the Great Destruction. The Collectors guessed that this might be related to the criteria established by the Hui Civilization long ago.

In any case, this was worth exploiting. The first cluster to boldly put the idea into practice used this method to transmit the concept of FTL megastructures, along with a rough construction blueprint, to other clusters of their kind through radio broadcasts.

Other Collector clusters did not need to specifically receive radio information point-to-point. Radio waves spread outward as broadcasts, and there were many such radio broadcasting devices scattered throughout the universe. As long as a Collector cluster finished FTL travel and unfolded its radio-receiving organs, it could naturally learn the contents of the broadcast.

As information about FTL megastructures spread, all of Amoeba's FTL clusters gradually began constructing FTL megastructures of their own.

Having grasped the Great Destruction's operational patterns, the Collectors reduced their casualties to a minimum. Whenever a cluster's numbers reached a command limit, part of it would split off and form a new FTL cluster.

However, as time passed, the Collectors discovered another problem.

A newly split FTL biological cluster, a small cluster consisting of five individuals, abruptly appeared in an empty region of space amid a burst of light no less brilliant than matter-antimatter annihilation.

"There are no stars. We came to the wrong place—leave quickly!"

After a brief observation, the small cluster's leader swiftly gave the order to initiate FTL travel.

During the Great Destruction's attack phase, being outside a stellar system was more dangerous than being inside one. Without a star as the source of an explosion, the Great Destruction tended to employ other methods of attack. When a supernova erupted, at least the Collectors could foresee it and