About 30,000 light-years away from the Italo Union's capital circle.
This was a dim and lightless star system. The star that originally gave the planets light was now wrapped in a man-made mechanical shell, and not a single ray of light could leak out.
Not far from this giant shell, there was a space base with a diameter of more than 5,000 kilometers.
It was the Italo Union's codename "Holy Land", a ruin from a pinnacle level eight civilization.
A large number of battleships stationed here were constantly sailing out of the starport group and setting up one formation after another around the Holy Land.
"General Boris, the current defensive deployment is 72% complete. It is expected to be completed in three minutes!"
This was a battleship that served as the flagship of the defending fleet. In the command center, the adjutant was reporting to one of the three joint generals, Boris.
Since a few minutes ago, after receiving the order from the council, the defending fleet quickly moved under the command of General Boris.
The five joint fleets, with one billion ships as a standard unit, quickly deployed 50 formations and firmly guarded the Holy Land in the middle.
"Too slow. Order all fleets to speed up. The deployment must be completed in two minutes!"
"Yes … But General, didn't the council say that the enemy would only arrive in a few days?"
The adjutant sent the order through his terminal while asking with some confusion.
After all, Boris seemed very anxious as if the enemy would arrive at any time. This made the adjutant very confused.
"Stupid. The old guys in the council are stupid. As my adjutant, how can you be so stupid!"
"Do you think the warp engine can be directly activated in the area where the warp interference has been deployed?"
Boris looked at his deputy with a look of exasperation.
"Theoretically, it shouldn't be possible … Could it be?"
The deputy shook his head and said, "Don't worry about it.
Then, he suddenly understood something and suddenly widened his eyes.
"That's right. Based on the battle in the Reeves Sector, the enemy's civilization level is obviously much higher than ours."
"Then, what makes you think they are still using the warp engine?"
"What makes you think that they haven't developed a new way of faster than light speed, a technology with the convenience of warp and the speed of space transmission technology?"
"And as the fleet commander, when we lack detailed information, we must consider the worst possible factors. Do you understand?"
"Yes, I understand, General Boris!"
The deputy nodded.
Indeed, just as Boris had said, the precondition of war was intelligence. Under the situation of extreme lack of intelligence, one had to consider all the worst possibilities when formulating a battle strategy, or else …
Thatcher was a good example!!
"General, a large number of abnormal energy sources have been detected. The location has been locked onto!"
"Show me the images!"
"Yes, General!"
While Boris was instructing his deputy, a somewhat urgent voice came from the Warstar command team.
Soon, an image was projected in the command center.
It was a void that was originally empty. Yes, originally …
But at this moment, space wasn't empty anymore. It was covered in a myriad of vortex-shaped azure blue spatial windows that stretched as far as the eye could see, and it was extremely gorgeous!
But to Boris, no matter how beautiful this scene was, it was like a passage that connected to the abyss. It was extremely dangerous!
"As expected, they're here. How many fleets have yet to be deployed?"
"Currently 87% complete. It will take another 97 seconds to complete the deployment!"
"Damn it!"
Boris was rather anxious. Ever since he received the order, he had gathered the fleets and set up the defensive line as quickly as he could. Boris believed that this speed was already his limit, and he couldn't go any faster!
But only now did he realize that there still wasn't enough time!
He had imagined that the invaders had a method that was more efficient than hyperdrive and more convenient than spatial teleportation, and that they wouldn't need more than a few days to reach this place.
But he had never imagined that the enemy would arrive so quickly.
So quickly that he didn't even have enough time to deploy the fleets!
"Order all fleets to immediately charge their cannons and lock onto the target. The moment the enemy warship comes out, attack immediately!"
A head-on clash wouldn't work. Thatcher's failure had already proven this point.
Since normal methods couldn't deal any substantial damage, he had to find the enemy's weakness so that he could break out of this predicament of certain death!
And this situation before him was a very good experiment!
It must be understood that both hyperdrive and spatial teleportation had one thing in common, and that was …
During the process of hyperdrive, the warship couldn't activate energy shields or spatial shields. It could only activate a special anti-radiation barrier to isolate the special radiation in different spaces.
So, regardless of what kind of hyperdrive technology the invaders had, the moment they arrived, it would undoubtedly be a good test of their possible weaknesses!
Indeed, this was a weakness that even the Fearless fleet couldn't avoid.
After using the hyperdrive to enter hyperspace, it was also filled with some very special ancillary elements that could only be avoided by not activating the anti-radiation barrier on the warship.
The Federation had thought of many solutions to this point over the past few decades, but the results were not ideal.
It could be said that Boris had really grasped the Federation's weakness!
However, since the Federation knew his weakness, would they still leave hyperspace in front of the enemy without any hesitation?
Obviously, this was impossible. Lin Kexin wasn't that stupid!
Otherwise, even if she was Lin Fan's daughter, she would never be able to sit in her current position.
It had only been less than two seconds, but Boris felt as if two days had passed. It was extremely unbearable.
Suddenly, Boris's eyes widened as he stared at the scene in front of him.
He saw that something was coming out of those vortex-shaped azure spatial tunnels.
Even though it was just a little bit, Boris guessed that it was the front of the invaders' warship!
"All warships, open fire!"
There was a very good saying that could be said to be 'Opportunity knocks but not twice!'
He had to seize the opportunity to attack decisively. If he waited until the enemy was completely exposed and he could identify them before attacking, then it was very likely that he would give the enemy the opportunity to activate the strange shield, and he would completely lose the best opportunity to attack!
Boris, on the other hand, was definitely not a hesitant and overcautious person.
Therefore, the order to attack came out from his mouth …
The order was given!