The Human Federation's Expeditionary Fleet.
The moment the order was issued, subtle changes began to ripple through the vast fleet in the depths of space.
The outer swarms of Carrier-Based Drones spread outward again, revealing the massive warships within.
The densely packed missile silos along the warships' sides opened one after another.
Faint flashes of flame lit up as Antimatter Engines propelled the missiles out of their silos.
After a brief wait, the Warp Drives engaged at full power the moment the Antimatter Engines shut down.
Enveloped in Curvature Bubbles, the missiles vanished from the observable universe one after another.
Only the receding spacetime waves bore witness to their existence.
As the Enroget Civilization began its massive overhaul of its homeworld, the Curvature Missiles from the Border Defense Line had already encountered the Interceptor Missiles launched by the Expeditionary Fleet.
Distance between the two sides: one billion kilometers.
In both theory and practice, the Human Federation's Curvature Missiles could carry out the interception with ease.
But did you know how much a single Curvature Missile cost?!
Even throwing money into a Reactor would not burn through it that fast!
Lü Yongchang could accept Curvature Missiles striking a hostile civilization's territory, but he absolutely could not accept using them to hit the enemy's Curvature Missiles.
How was that any different from watching a massive fireworks display?!
For precisely that reason, development of a Curvature Missile interception plan had begun as soon as Curvature Missile technology matured.
The interception plan had just one "simple" requirement.
Effective and cheap.
And so, after sacrificing over a hundred strands of hair, Yevgeny successfully came up with a suitable interception plan.
Simply put, the plan had two steps.
Step one: force the enemy's Curvature Missiles to stop.
With a spacetime fluctuation so faint it was