War was such a distant word. For the Crystal Civilization, nine hundred years had passed since they last experienced it.
Nagus and his people could not observe any activity among the stars, whether they looked up at the night sky or used their various detection instruments.
All they could see was darkness, a darkness so thick it would not disperse, blocking every attempt to probe beyond the star system.
The universe had abandoned them.
For the Crystal Civilization, it meant they had gone blind and deaf.
They had only just relocated to this star system. If not for the warships the Gem Civilization had given them as charity... well, perhaps staying on those four life-bearing planets would have been better.
At least their civilization would still have had large underground factories. At least it would not have faced a war like this directly.
Inside a starship, Qi Nan Siyun watched the detected information on the light screen. Everything had already been handed over to the Intelligent Network Entity.
The network intelligences of four hundred starships formed a defensive system, creating a vast new module. They shared all their information, and every enemy had been thoroughly accounted for.
The seventh-generation Tianxing Jia-Class Battleships were themselves faster-than-light warships, descended from the original capital ships. As technology continued to advance, however, they had transitioned from capital ship formations into unmanned warship squadrons under the starships' command.
Sixteen million unmanned warships vanished from the conventional universe. A war unfolded in the high-energy universe, while none of its combat activity could be seen in the conventional universe.
The starships' Faster-than-Light Torpedoes met the Civilization Coalition's interceptor drones. All kinds of faster-than-light ray attacks were unleashed in the high-energy universe. Torpedoes that were hit activated their self-destruct mechanisms, releasing terrifying energy capable of destroying planets.
That