Through Guide's feedback, Qi Sheng learned that the Eclipse Race was holding a Supreme Conference.
Qi Sheng followed Guide there, listening to the proceedings from the sidelines through his consciousness's Perception View.
During the meeting, he discovered that when the Star Network explained that the Dark Tide would most likely descend someday, gloom enveloped the entire conference room.
A suffocating, oppressive silence filled the air. The Eclipse Race High Command members seated there wore grave expressions, their eyes filled with a complex mixture of helplessness, despair, and other emotions.
Qi Sheng could fully understand this.
These Eclipse Race members had been born on the moon, but they had not lost their race's history of development. They could still consult the database for the series of calamities that preceded their arrival on Earth.
The more they understood their history, the better they understood the gulf in strength between themselves and the Terrifying Dark Tide.
While browsing the Eclipse Race's database, Guide had discovered that the race had actually been preparing for the Dark Tide's arrival all along.
The Star Network Bio-Brain, the crucial core of the Eclipse Race, had even laid out two contingency plans in advance.
Plan one: find an escape route.
Use the Explorer Shuttlecraft to tear through spatial barriers and attempt to find a safe habitat in other worlds. This was also the plan the Star Network valued most.
Plan two: resist through war.
Create virtual battlefields, begin military training in advance, and strengthen the combat capabilities of the Earth Alliance's various races.
A production line for mechanical warriors had been launched alongside this plan.
Large numbers of mechanical warriors were manufactured every year and sealed away in underground arsenals.
All these mechanical warriors could connect through the Star Network. If that day truly came, warriors of every