The gray storm of nanites raged through the star system, devouring every kind of matter on the planets and converting it into more nanites.
A fully converted Nanite World could provide the Gray Tempest with a vast output of nanites.
Unlike in the game, the Gray Tempest needed nanite resources to build new fleets, but it did not need to go through the Nanites Factory. It could assemble them on the spot.
The Nanites Factory deep within the L-Cluster was merely their communication hub, the location of their core.
And because the Gray Tempest regarded Dessanu as one of its own, it had stationed no defenders inside the Nanites Factory. Xi Yan could actually march straight in and take out the entire Gray Tempest in a sneak attack.
But the other nations did not know that, creating a natural intelligence advantage.
Almost all the Gray Tempest fleets gathered in Succubus' Call and set off along hyperlanes leading in two directions.
One led into the territory of Minamar Specialized Industries. The Gray Tempest destroyed the stellar bases along the way and lingered over its colonies.
The nanite storm enveloped a habitable planet teeming with aliens. A vast gray net covered the once-scenic terrestrial planet, and countless tiny nanites began assimilating everything.
The first thing the alien inhabitants noticed was that "it had gone dark."
Then, like a sandstorm, the gray tempest descended from the sky, sweeping into the cities first.
The nanites clung to steel buildings and swiftly began eating away at their sturdy structures, transforming those metal molecules into countless nanites through an abstract process that was quintessentially Stellaris.
Vast quantities of matter-anything that could be physically touched-were converted into part of the nanite swarm.
Magnificent towers, bridges, roads-the entire modern metropolis, with its alien architecture, began to dissolve.
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