Star Iron, building an empire starting with game development

Chapter 124 This World Takes a Different Turn

Unknown world - within an unknown star system

"Whoosh—~ Boom!"

A sound so intense it could be heard even in the vacuum of space erupted as a severely desertified planet instantly shattered into fragments of varying sizes in a violent explosion.

"Buzz~" A spatial rift appeared at the original location of the planet, and then began to expand, eventually becoming a world gate with a diameter of 30,000 kilometers.

"Whoosh..." After the door fully opened, a large number of Star Destroyers and Wave Cannon warships detached from the other side of the door and entered the star system.

"Beep beep beep..." A large number of dimensional reconnaissance drones were released, and then entered the dimensional space in that instant and spread out in all directions.

Bridge of the Starkiller Planetary Fortress Ship [Yamato]

Looking at their destination, Xing pondered the meaning behind the name of this Starslayer planetary fortress ship.

"All the planets in the entire star system, except for the gas giants, have become severely desertified and are experiencing climate problems." Looking at the report transmitted back by the dimensional robots that were scouting within the star system, Okita Juzo reported to Hoshino.

"Hmm." Xing nodded, then continued to ponder why the old man named this flagship Starkiller planetary fortress ship [Yamato].

"Your Majesty," Okita Juzo called out once again.

"Huh? Oh, I see. Did you discover anything else?" Xing asked, forced to interrupt her thoughts.

"This is a planet that the Dimensional Reconnaissance Team discovered within this galaxy, suspected to be Earth." Okita Juzo handed the tablet to Hoshino.

"Are you sure this broken stone ball-like thing is Earth?!" Xing asked in surprise, looking at the screen on the tablet.

"This is the result obtained by the dimensional reconnaissance robots after analyzing all the data," Okita Juzo responded.

"Hmm~ well, it seems to be a parallel world. I have to say, the humans in this world are really miserable," Xing said.

"Furthermore, a large human migration spaceship belonging to Earth has been discovered in a space ten light-years away from the solar system by the reconnaissance fleet. Nano-reconnaissance robots have now entered and are conducting an investigation."

"What a strange parallel world. There are actually large immigration spaceships carrying ordinary people." Xing muttered to himself as he looked at the reconnaissance inside the spaceship from the perspective of the nano-reconnaissance robot on the tablet.

“According to the findings of external agencies, this immigrant spaceship has been traveling in space for at least fifty years,” said Juzo Okita.

"Furthermore, the reconnaissance fleet has detected a fleet within a one-light-year radius of the spaceship. Judging from its shape, it is suspected to be a large mothership-class beta cluster."

"What are the specifications of that immigrant spaceship? How many people are on board?" Xing asked, suddenly remembering something.

"A 100-kilometer-class immigration spaceship, surrounded by about twenty escort warships, and carrying over a hundred similar warships inside. As for the population, it's estimated to be around 500,000." Okita Juzo responded after glancing at the report submitted by his adjutant.

“Send a fleet to eliminate all the beta nests within a ten-light-year radius of the immigrant ship, then make contact with the ship and bring it over,” Xing said.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"Also, expand the search area and see if there are any other immigrant ships. I don't believe that only this one exists," Xing said.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

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Within the star system, all the severely desertified planets where resources were unavailable had been destroyed by the main fleet, and all the beta planets on them had been reduced to fragments. After all the warships were also destroyed, the fleet began to patrol and patrol the crippled star system.

A strange echo reverberated through the fleet. Then, a wave cannon fleet left its main formation, jumped out of the star system, and headed towards the unknown starry sky.

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Unknown Starfield - A Fleet of Human Immigrant Ships

"Whoosh—! Whoosh whoosh whoosh..." Tens of thousands of warship-class beta ships launched an attack on the immigrant fleet, while the escort fleet resisted at the forefront of the ships.

"Sir, this beta fleet is up to no good," an officer said to the captain on the bridge of the immigrant ship.

"Fifty years after leaving our home planet, ten immigrant ships have lost contact with the Beta fleet. This time, we will suffer the same fate." Looking at the large number of battleship-class and mothership-class Beta ships, the captain sighed.

"I really don't know why, even though we've left Earth, we're still being hunted by the betas," the officer complained.

"We're all going to die today, stop complaining, unless a miracle happens... Buzz~" the captain said, but then noticed a particularly bright light appearing behind the beta cluster.

"A miracle has happened?" The officer stared in astonishment.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh—" Several blue beams of light rapidly attacked the back of the battleship-class beta cluster, but just before they arrived, they instantly diffused into tiny beams of light.

Then, tens of thousands of beta-class battleships and a few mothership-class battleships were directly reduced to a handful.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh—" Over a hundred unidentified interstellar fighters appeared at lightning speed, launching missiles from their wings at the remaining battleship-class betas...

"Captain, this..." The officer looked at the captain as he watched the unknown attack clean up the battlefield in less than five minutes.

"I don't know. I hope they're aliens who could benefit us. And I hope those high-ranking officials who are still causing trouble even though they've been forced to leave their home planet will rein themselves in," the captain said.

"After all... the other party is not someone we can afford to provoke."

Looking at the immigrant fleet and the dense blue dots displayed on the radar after the battle, the captain's words almost took a different tone.

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Unknown Star System - Imperial Space Base

"Whoosh!" A wave cannon fleet broke free of warp, bringing with it an immigrant ship that looked wrecked from the outside with most of its internal structure exposed, and several escort ships.

"Whoosh!" Another fleet departed from the warp drive. This time, there were only a dozen or so small sampans that looked like escape pods.

"Whoosh!" The third fleet returned. This fleet was different from the previous two. This fleet brought back three immigrant ships. Although one of them was dilapidated, at least it was brought back.

Space Base - Command Center

"Wow~ The Third Fleet is impressive, bringing back three immigrant ships directly." Xing stroked his smooth chin with interest as he looked at everything displayed in the holographic projection.

"It seems that humanity was quite dispersed when they left their home planet," said Okita Juzo after taking the documents handed to him by his adjutant and reviewing them.

"Even if you disperse with pride, you won't escape within a hundred light-years," Xing said, waving his hand.

"Unless humanity develops a new faster-than-light engine and a new ship."