The Second Fleet firmly occupied a key system in the M'tok Union. It was a major transportation hub within the Union's territory, and by seizing it, humanity had effectively carved the entire M'tok Union into several pieces.
The Second Fleet then left half its destroyers there, while the remaining twenty dispersed evenly, heading to different systems to destroy their Stellar Bases and ensure that every system received an equal share of the fleet's attacks.
This would have been unthinkable in the game. No player could manually control more than twenty destroyers at once. In reality, however, with so many crew members working together, Xi Yan needed only a single fleet to attack almost every M'tok system.
Every scattered mercenary fleet they encountered along the way surrendered at the mere sight of them. Since her fleet was dispersed, Commander Ningdi Lingling ordered all of them to assemble in the key system where half her fleet remained.
Although the M'tok Union's Stellar Bases were frantically building ships, they could produce only a handful of corvettes in such a short time. The bases' own defenses were also so weak that any single destroyer could capture an entire system.
Elsewhere, the Nier and M'tok fleets were locked in a fierce struggle. The Nier had been pushed back into their own territory and were desperately resisting behind the defensive network they had spent years developing.
To return and defend their homeland as quickly as possible, the M'tok fleet charged forward recklessly, determined to crush the Nier defensive lines and force them to surrender.
Both sides were seeing red. Wreckage filled the systems within Nier Guardians territory, with ships from both sides scattered everywhere.
The Nier also sealed their borders completely, banning civilian ships from entering or leaving, and began rooting out Criminal Enterprise operations on