The Forty-Ninth Unit moved with practiced precision. One hundred warships vanished amid the fleet, stirring up vast super-photon shock waves within the High-Energy Universe Region.
Meanwhile, a fierce White Flash erupted in the area the Forty-Ninth Unit had occupied in the conventional universe. A terrifying particle shock swept across hundreds of millions of kilometers of space, reducing countless warship fragments and drifting celestial bodies to fine dust that vanished in its wake.
Under such a powerful, wide-ranging strike, anything without a high-strength energy shield would burst apart.
Even objects concealed by certain conventional stealth technologies would reveal anomalies under the particle shock wave.
The countless Faster-than-Light Torpedoes drifting through space like tiny tadpoles, along with the concealed automated weapons stations, were wiped out by the shock wave.
Still, these expendables were more like lottery tickets, offering a chance to reap the greatest return at the lowest cost. For lower civilizations, at least, their terror lay in the fact that before you sensed anything wrong, you would never need to sense anything again.
The Crystal Civilization inspector transmitted, "Shock wave release complete. Forever with our civilization!"
"Forty-Ninth Unit mission objective: hold this region, establish a secure position, and await further support."
"First squad acknowledged..."
"Second squad acknowledged..."
Inside the spherical cockpit within the flagship's digital command center, a Crystal Civilization individual named Botan Shiwuya studied the panel before him. He was the inspector for this Substitute Plan, responsible for collecting all the data from the war.
This void was a meat grinder for both sides. Over the past year, battle had raged here without respite, and more than a dozen stars had been ignited and annihilated in the fighting.
With advances in science and technology, the enormous celestial bodies that had once seemed invincible now looked like inflated "balloons," stripped