The sudden emergence of this opponent caught the leadership of humanity's Two Great Alliances completely off guard.
They discovered that the vast stockpiles of weapons designed to fight other humans were not merely outdated-most could not even be used in interstellar warfare.
For starters, humanity did not even know where the planets of other star systems were. Hundreds of millions of ground troops could only gather on Water Blue Star to defend their home planet.
Humanity had yet to send a single spacecraft beyond the Solar System and bring it back.
Star River said, "While the other projects proceed as planned, should we begin implementing the plan to preserve the seeds of humanity?"
Fang Tianyi frowned at the question. Before considering victory, they had to prepare for defeat.
If the enemy truly intended to exterminate humanity, there was still a small window to escape this quagmire.
In truth, few people paid much attention to the escape-and-seeding plan. After all, the humans it would produce could only be considered inheritors of human civilization, carrying its genes.
"Implement it immediately. Continue building the surface-based attack systems. We must buy enough time..."
Fang Tianyi looked at the countdown. All he could do was pray that the enemy would give them enough time.
Over ten thousand large automated factories across the River Domain Alliance operated at full capacity. Daily resource consumption and manufacturing output alone were measured in hundreds of billions of tons!
Even mechs two stories tall clattered off the assembly lines in orderly rows.
But technological progress was both their salvation and their undoing.
Too many technologies were being updated in rapid succession. Version 1.0 today might become version 2.0 a month later.
Six months later, they might already be on version 4.0.
That made it impossible for humanity to settle down