Until Lance's battleship was dragged into the hyperspace window by two Federation battleships …
He was still in a state of confusion.
Outside the porthole, the colorful fantasy space reminded him of the hypothesis of a scientist from the Empire …
The hypothesis about the existence of hyperspace!
That was when the Empire had just become a level 6 civilization and the nobles had not completely corrupted the Empire.
In that era, the Empire's army was strong and technology developed rapidly.
At that time, there was an outstanding civilian scientist who made some conjectures about hyperspace navigation, a technology that could only be mastered by a level 7 civilization.
However, after the nobles came to power, all the great figures of civilian origin, like Marshal Richard, were erased from history by the nobles, including …
The great achievements they brought!
Lance, who had a special identity, of course knew a lot of things that were erased by the scale, including the scientist's conjectures about hyperspace.
"Is this hyperspace?"
"Are we doing hyperspace navigation now?"
While asking, Lance turned his head and looked around, only to find that everyone in the bridge, including his adjutant, was looking out of the porthole with a dull expression.
There was no time for him to wake up these stunned subordinates. A huge hyperspace window suddenly broke open in front of the battleship. Battleship …
Already out of hyperspace.
However, what he saw outside the porthole made Lance tremble uncontrollably.
"Sela!"
Yes, Lance's entire fleet had been dragged to the vicinity of Sela in just a few seconds.
If you want to remove the time spent entering and exiting hyperspace.
Then, the time spent in hyperspace may not even be 1 second.
How terrifying was this?
Even for a level 6 civilization that already had space transmission technology, this was still very terrifying.
After all, space transmission technology had too many limitations and was not as convenient as hyperspace navigation.
The most important thing was that hyperspace navigation within a certain distance was faster than space transmission!
"Wake up, immediately confirm the surrounding situation!"
"Yes, Commander!"
When Lance saw Sela and came back to his senses, he shouted in the bridge.
The members of the command group suddenly felt a chill in their hearts, and they immediately took action.
"Report, within 10 AU of our ship, we have found seven traces of unknown fleets. The total number of warships is about … 2 billion!"
"Report, the remaining garrison fleet has been discovered. It seems that they have been captured. All the warships are being docked by assault ships of an unknown civilization!"
"Report, a large number of warship wreckages have been found in the orbit of Sela. Most of them belong to the garrison fleet, while the rest belong to the Giant Axe Pirates. According to the analysis of the wreckage of the garrison fleet, they were all destroyed by pirate warships, while the wreckage of the Giant Axe Pirates was obviously not caused by the weapons of the garrison fleet!"
"Report, the surface of Sela has been confirmed to have fallen. The occupiers are using a strange type of combat vehicle!"
…
There was a series of reports, and none of them were good news.
Lance frowned when he heard that...
However, Lance was able to deduce some things based on this information.
The Giant Axe Pirates had used some unknown method to arrive directly in Sela's orbit and launched an attack.
The garrison fleet, under the command of that idiot Kelvin, did not even dare to fight back for fear of affecting Sela. This could be seen from the wreckage of the pirate warships. None of the wreckage was caused by the weapons of the Empire's warships...
After that, the garrison fleet, which had lost nearly half of its warships, collapsed and eventually collapsed.
At this point, Lance's hands clenched into fists so hard that they almost broke his skin.
After controlling his emotions and calming down a little, Lance continued his analysis.
Then, the unknown civilization should have appeared at this time. Some of its warships went to Sela's orbit and wiped out all the pirate warships in one fell swoop, while the other deployed a blockade with Sela as the center and intercepted all the fleeing Empire's warships.
After that... he had arrived one light year away from Sela and was unable to contact Sela, and was discovered by this unknown civilization, and then...
It had to be said that according to the information he had detected, Lance was able to analyze the entire process clearly in an instant, almost without any error. This was enough to show Lance's outstanding talent.
However, no matter how good his talent and commanding ability were, in the face of the absolute gap between the Federation and the Federation, it was still useless. He could only be captured obediently.
As for the pirates, they mercilessly annihilated them.
As for the Empire's warships, they only intercepted the captives.
As for Sela, they only occupied it and did not plunder it.
Faced with these situations, Lance suddenly had a bold idea in his mind.
Perhaps... it was time?
Regardless of what Lance was thinking, as the commander of the expeditionary force, Chris was currently in a daze.
Just a moment ago, he received a report from Lyant.
A large amount of Erlo metal was found on Sela, and it could be seen everywhere!
Originally, this was something to be excited about.
Wasn't it? The Federation's expedition to the Weiss Star System was for Erlo metal.
In the end, after occupying a random planet, Erlo metal was found everywhere. How could this not be exciting?
But... the next thing that Lyant reported made Chris dumbfounded.
The people on Sela seemed to use Erlo metal as the most common building material. Their cities, their residences, and even their roads were all built with Erlo metal.
Well, it was not the Langdon people's fault.
After all, Erlo metal was useless to a civilization that had not mastered dark energy. Other than being far stronger than other metals, it was useless.
Moreover, the reserves of Erlo metal in the Weiss Star System were as abundant as the iron ore in the Federation's territory.
However, in Chris's ears, this was not the case.
What a waste of natural resources, wasn't it?
Most importantly, according to the judgment of the experts on board, the Erlo metal that was processed into building materials by Sela had completely lost its ability to absorb and convert dark energy.
In other words, the Erlo metal that was processed by the Langdon Empire... had completely lost its value!
At least...
This was the case for the Federation!
After reading this report...
Chris wanted to slap the entire group of people on Sela to death.
No, he wanted to slap everyone in the Langdon Empire to death...