I sat in the tactical room, where my officers coordinated ground, air, and space forces. I was calm. Formally, yes, I commanded all these forces, but I didn't interfere unless necessary. That wasn't necessary. Besides, why deprive your subordinates of glory, especially when Thor was destroying enemy ships? True, his ship was still taking damage. It's not worth taking on an entire fleet on your own; on the other hand, we were covering it. The enemy fleet flashed and disappeared from the scanners, and, consequently, from the tactical hologram.
— The 12th, 5th, and 3rd ships of the Aschen fleet have been destroyed. — We continue. — Sir, how are we going to storm the stations? — We'll say we launch a hundred missiles with multi-gigaton projectiles at them. — But we don't have that many... — It's a good thing you won't tell them.
The operation was proceeding steadily. Many Confederate planets had already been captured, but they were clearly not that important. There were still 20 ships left somewhere, so they would have to be searched for later. On the other hand, the Asgardian ship's sensors allowed for a lot of work.
The gates were blocked, and other troops were deploying through them. Yes, I reoriented the gate's priority, since the Ashen didn't have any recruits, so they're even having trouble evacuating. It's worth mentioning, they have some very interesting robots; I'll have to pick them up later.
"Sir, the Aschen ships have agreed to surrender." "Nine ships remain. Order them not to fire. Have them lower their shields and accept the prize parties." "Yes, sir."
As soon as the shields were down, the Asgard, controlled by beam technology, immediately teleported them to a buffer zone, where they couldn't do anything at all. Better that way. I was serious when I said I'd leave them on some planet, yes, all billions of Aschen, lest they decide to poison people.
- Now inform the people at the two stations about this, and also that in case of failure to surrender, we will fire multi-gigaton missiles.
When everything was finished, the Asgard began abducting people using teleporters, then ferrying the filled buffers to another planet, constantly replacing the buffers. We had 50 ships with teleporters, but even so, it would take a long time. On the other hand, it was also an effective weapon, although the idea of multiple "cartridges" for the buffers was my idea. Or rather, taken from the TV series "Atlantis." Thousands of people disappear, turning into energy. In a way, this can be considered the highest level of military technology, although those were, in fact, civilian.
Again, my ability to turn everything into a weapon. I even came up with an infantry weapon that can turn a person into energy. Essentially, the Necrons had something similar, albeit with certain specifics. Gauss weapons have nothing in common with gauss; the molecules were simply stripped from the object and immediately used to power the next shot. A terrible weapon. I once shared his idea with Brunhilde, and she looked at me like I was Baal or Sokar. What can you do? You need imagination. On the other hand, even the Asgard haven't miniaturized teleportation technology to this degree. We'll probably have to deal with the Refs to obtain samples of the technology capable of providing such a weapon.
"As agreed, you'll have priority access to the Aschen databanks to find and purge all information on biological weapons, as well as retrieve the finished samples. Frankly, I don't need this crap," I said to Brunhilde, who merely nodded. My dislike for bioweapons is well known.
By the way, I'll need to order a lot of tools from Earth; after all, they'll need to build a new civilization, houses, and so on. I'm not exactly cruel, though that applies to the Aschen. Bastards.