For all the ordinary lifeforms in the Long Lantern Nebula Constellation, the greatest danger was not the war, but the fleets maintaining order being transferred to the battlefield, leaving the long-suppressed Pirate Fleet to run rampant in the rear.
From Luo Qi's god's-eye view, he could see all kinds of communications and fleet movements within the new universe. Life-bearing planets encased in defensive weapons were constantly subjected to surprise attacks.
In this high-tech age, the pirates deliberately kept around had no advanced manufacturing equipment. They relied mainly on plundering technology and equipment from life-bearing planets.
But with the tacit approval of the upper ranks, some pirates even attacked life-bearing planets with powerful weapons. Attack beams striking planets from space soon engulfed entire worlds in dark red flames.
The rampant pirate groups inflicted enormous losses on the Civilization Coalition. The breakdown of order produced a wave of lifeforms who embraced the principle of joining those they could not beat.
It also produced a wave of lifeforms who spent their contribution points to build fleets dedicated to their own planets. They could no longer rely on the Civilization Coalition's patrol fleets.
But who could have imagined that the righteous "upper ranks" were secretly funding terrorists and pirate groups? They covertly ordered the pirates they kept around to carry out all kinds of massacres deep in the rear.
Luo Qi could only sigh at these so-called upper ranks. When a crisis came, sacrificing those at the bottom first was always an unchanging truth.
War raged between the two sides within the Nebula Constellation for three years. The number of lifeforms fell to one percent of its original total, with 700 trillion dying directly or indirectly because of the war.
The Crystal Civilization had even launched counteroffensives, gaining additional Stellar Systems.
The devastating warfare