Ever since the galactic core's mass had been altered by the successor factions' stellar-scale FTL negative-matter missile, the entire galaxy had changed. In vast stretches of space, interstellar matter had been pushed aside, leaving behind one spherical void after another.
With the danger level elevated, the Correction Agency entered a higher state of resolve.
This was the absolute, invincible posture that had dominated the galaxy for eight hundred million years without any civilization ever being able to oppose it. Now, the successors had triggered it!
The successors soon learned of the news as well.
The information came from the Collectors. As Collector clusters entered and exited the Spirit Realm, they occasionally received information streams echoing within it. Those streams were stored in the Collectors' brains, and once the successors killed them and consumed their matter, the intelligence contained in those echoing Spirit Realm information streams naturally became known to the successors.
The successors began preparing strategic supplies for the coming war, especially black hole bombs.
By now, attack methods such as sublight shells and gamma-ray cannons were no longer enough for Amoeba's battles against its enemies. Strategic materials with extreme spacetime-distorting properties, such as black hole bombs, were in ever-increasing demand.
A large portion of these supplies came from the Collectors. Every time the successors destroyed a Collector cluster, they could seize vast amounts of strategic supplies from the storage megastructures.
Yes, Perpetuity definitely had not sent them deliberately.
Yet even so, the successors' situation did not improve much.
Battles often ended in a single ambush. The successors did not even know where the enemy was, when it had attacked, or what kind of attack it had launched.
In a mere instant, everything was dead. All matter in the cluster, including the black hole bombs, disintegrated into countless particles in