[Empire Log: A war with no hope of victory] [This campaign against the XT-489 Extermination Unit embodied the Sea of Stars Community's spirit of mutual assistance and upholding a new interstellar order. Facing the allied forces of half the Sea of Stars, these rogue extermination units were no more than insignificant dust beneath our organic feet. Their fleets crumbled at the first clash, while our morale soared and we remained undefeated. --Soon, this enemy that has lurked beside our bed for years will meet its end. For them, making enemies of us was the worst decision they had made since their creation. This is a war with no hope of victory.] [Xi Yan's annotation: Organics win!]
Two armies advanced on all fronts. The thousand-plus Disruptors aboard Xi Yan's three Disruptor Cruiser Fleets shattered every Iron Purifier fleet, yet not a single one of his own ships was knocked out. Instead, they shared all the incoming fire evenly, and his damaged fleets brazenly pushed into the XT-489 Extermination Unit's homeworld system: System XT-489.
On the other front, the Zirick Cooperative's fleet encountered barely any resistance. It likewise swaggered through, destroying Stellar Bases along the way before entering System XT-489 and linking up with the humans.
The Sea of Stars Community's allied forces split into fleets by nation and attacked the Iron Purifier from every direction, conquering all its territory within a year. They had certainly earned the pay Grand Marshal Xi Yan had provided.
With that, the Determined Exterminators suffered a total defeat. Stripped of their fleets and starbases, they could only remain on their colonies and await death. Organics would not spare a single slaughter machine.
Their cognition cores would be utterly destroyed and replaced with domestically produced machine intelligence cognition cores from Xi Yan's nation. The Empire's