Galaxy Domination Guide

Watching the crew and engineers hauling a gigantic cube with a crystal-like shell into the spaceship, Suo Kexiao stroked his chin and sighed, "With such a thing, the Galactic Empire could dominate the Galaxy."

Su Shuang, however, remained skeptical. "If a civilization with expertise in construction over level 30 produces warships, the speed isn't necessarily slow, and the scale of the fleet produced won't be smaller than that created by modifying it with this Crystal Cube. Moreover, the warships transformed by the Crystal Cube Core are inconsistent, and even the developed weapons vary, meaning the synergy won't compare to warships produced in the same dockyard of the same model."

Suo Kexiao smiled and said, "But for the Galactic Empire, the Galactic Emperor used the Crystal Cube Core to elevate the warships from middle and lower civilizations to high-level civilization warships, giving those civilizations the backbone they previously lacked to stand up against higher civilizations they could only bow to. Heh, not to mention, if there's no backdoor set by the Galactic Emperor in the transformed warships, that would be suspicious."

As they spoke, the crew and engineers had already fitted the Crystal Cube Core inside the internal mechanisms of the originally level 12 warship. Suddenly, the crystal began a plasma reaction; the surface, initially crystal-like, began to flow like a colloid, eventually allowing the life-like colloid to permeate the warship, beginning a comprehensive transformation from inside out.

The original turrets became more massive and fearsome, the warp engines were directly upgraded to an extremely high tier of stage-two warp engines, and even spacetime corridor navigation capabilities were added. The energy system was directly converted to a highly efficient antimatter core, and the strength of the energy shields was greatly enhanced.

Even in terms of appearance, the warship had many new components added, making its structure more majestic. As though shaped like a lance, the bow saw additional auxiliary guns appear on its top, bottom, left, and right—a style the original warship did not have.

The flowing colloid moved around a spot on the warship as if boiling, and eventually solidified into new components—an almost inconceivable occurrence. Nevertheless, Su Shuang and Suo Kexiao roughly understood what was happening. The Crystal Cube Core was likely a highly intelligent colony of nanorobots that could erode, dismantle, and reconstruct material and matter directly, transforming an object into another.

This production technology, like Iridium Star's Atomic Substance Construction Technology, belonged to the same level, perhaps even slightly superior. However, there was one thing neither of them quite understood. Although the transformed warships shared a unified style, the actual differences were quite significant. All warships could at least upgrade to the level of a level 25 high-level civilization warship, but few could enter level 30, so the Snow Dragon Alliance's main fleet was not given to the Crystal Cube Core for transformation.

Su Shuang said, "Limiting the warship level to below 29 might be a conscious decision by the Galactic Emperor. He is giving some power to the lower civilizations that lack negotiation chips, but not enough to fully challenge the ten powerhouses. This creates a relative equilibrium among the civilizations within the Galactic Empire, which maintains stability."

Suo Kexiao shook his head, "I'd rather believe that reaching beyond level 30 is something the Crystal Cube Core cannot achieve, or the cost is too high, making it inefficient."

The crew of this lower civilization in the Universe Army burst into cheers. Apparently, after a long wait, their originally level 12 Escort Ship had evolved into a high-level civilization Escort Ship of level 26. The main gun's caliber had broken through to 1200WM, a power that the previous main combat ships of this lower civilization could not attain.

Su Shuang looked coldly at the naive general of the lower civilization without uttering any words of disdain. In reality, Su Shuang herself was hardly calm after seeing what the Crystal Cube could achieve.

"You only have two weeks to familiarize yourselves with the new warship. In this time, I will arrange coordinated training and various maneuvers. Your task is significant and should you fail to perform adequately, you will be discarded. There's no need for me to spell out what a dismal end awaits you if you fail to contribute to the Galactic Emperor," Su Shuang coldly stated.

The general swallowed nervously and quickly nodded in salute, responding, "Yes, Commander, your subordinate will definitely dedicate himself to drilling the fleet, to serve you and the Galactic Emperor by defeating the enemy."

Su Shuang casually nodded, then proceeded to leave with Suo Kexiao.

Entering their spaceship, Suo Kexiao asked, "Do you think these people could be of any use?"

"From a lower civilization, even with a new command system and corps system to aid them, the gaps in cultivation and skill are too vast to bridge. I don't think that a short-term training will enable these middle and lower civilizations to effectively confront Iridium Star's fleet, but numbers matter, firepower matters, and even just a distracting role could already significantly impact this battle," Su Shuang replied.

Suo Kexiao, shrugging his shoulders, lightly laughed, "It looks like Divine General Su Shuang, you believe victory is within easy reach."

Su Shuang responded indifferently, "I won't underestimate my opponents, especially not an opponent like Iridium Star. But the reality is, we possess a stronger force."

Suo Kexiao, smiling, said, "Well, since you are the chief commander, I'll just skate by. I want to remind you that Iridium Star is probably aware of what the Galactic Empire is currently planning. From Nuoye Star, quite fast Reconnaissance Ships often come by. I believe that the expansion and strengthening of our fleet is entirely clear to the people of Iridium Star, and at the very least, they will react."

"Likewise, we are also observing them. However, the people of Iridium Star seem to have a sense of honor. They do not plan to leave Nuoye Star, although they don't really have any residents here, only a planet that looks like a tourist destination," Su Shuang said.

Suo Kexiao nodded, adding, "This civilization does seem to care a lot about their honor and the integrity of their culture. So, convincing them to abandon their territory shouldn't be easy. But that's good. If they truly ran, we'd have to chase them across the universe."

In the Horse Chestnut Arm-5 Star Sector, the Galactic Empire's fleet was busily preparing, while Iridium Star's Reconnaissance Ships allowed Bai Zhongqi to take in every major change. Every warship from the Snow Dragon Alliance had undergone significant modifications and now bore the insignia of the Galactic Empire, showing an apparent change in allegiance.

Nuoye Star was facing a potential war, and Bai Zhongqi could not ignore it.