[Postwar report] [Our forces: Nanite Warship swarm 60M → 0, States fleets 20M → 5M] [Enemy forces: extradimensional fleet 20M → 3M] [Detailed data follows.]
There was no doubt that this had been a crushing, bloody defeat. Even the Empire's statistics offered indirect proof: its energy credits production, once so spectacularly negative that the figure could stretch all the way from the Alpha Ring Segment to the Gamma Ring Segment, had instantly turned positive. That alone showed just how many fleets the Empire had lost.
Xi Yan did the calculations on his throne. Well, there was really no need to calculate anything, because every fleet he had committed had been wiped out. Not a single ship remained.
A nanite army with roughly 60M in nominal combat power and the Sea of Stars Empire's States fleets with another 20M had been almost completely annihilated, barely forcing the Realm Breakers' 20M force to withdraw. The extradimensional fleet's casualty rate had not even reached thirty percent.
The losses were terrifying.
With things as they were, he might as well publish an Empire Log.
[Empire Log: Crushing defeat] [Our fleets were utterly unable to halt the Realm Breakers' invasion. The Extradimensional Invaders' technology and laws could crush us. All our fleets perished in this battle. Through their sacrifice, our fleets held the Realm Breakers back. This devastating defeat will stand as a humiliation for the Sea of Stars Empire. Against extradimensional forces far stronger than ourselves, we can only halt their advance through continued sacrifice.]
The Realm Breakers had grown stronger by far more than a little. Their extradimensional Matter Decomposers were truly devastating weapons against the lower-dimensional universe. Even nanomachines could not withstand the erosion of extradimensional power.
Ordinary ships that ran into them were destroyed instantly. Even