Bai Zhongqi arrived at the bottom hold of the Golden Great Sail Ship, which also served as the storage for the silver Fleet. Despite the formidable combat strength of the silver Fleet, he had only used it once. He hadn't fully researched the Elder Race technology that it contained. The different Elder Races had developed in various directions, and the silver Fleet represented the technical direction of celestial collectors to a certain extent.
"When we studied the silver Fleet before, we found that the different materials of the ship's equipment felt very strange. Although made of metal, they exhibited non-metallic qualities, like having superconductivity despite a graphite structure. Now, looking through the prism of primordial substance, it seems that the silver Fleet and even the Elder Race's mother ships all have an indivisible relationship with primordial substance. Once the primordial substance changes into materials, the characteristics of the matter are fixed, and it's not as flexible as the primordial substance itself. Unless you control the central hub of the ship, it's impossible to contaminate it with the supreme command through assimilation by primordial substance," said Linyin, her blonde hair a messy tangle, clearly having neglected sleep in her research on the primordial substance.
Bai Zhongqi stood before a silver warship, which was not very large in size, even smaller than the mainstream cruisers of the Iridium Star at present.
In his hand floated a sphere of primordial substance. He had already tried, no matter how he utilized the primordial substance to interact with the silver warship, it seemed that mechanism had been shut down. Bai Zhongqi was unable to assimilate the warship with his primordial substance.
The same phenomenon had also occurred with two mother ships of the Elder Race; they all featured characteristics of primordial substance but were directly controlled by Bai Zhongqi's soul, not by the Supreme Command.
"The Supreme Command is something I created. To put it metaphorically, it's like a tool that allows me to operate other things, like a compiler, converting the commands of my soul's fluctuation into signals that can manipulate the machinery. Essentially, whether it is various equipment of the United Empire of the Iridium Star, the mother ships, or the silver Fleet, they are all controlled by the fluctuations of my soul. What I'm curious about is, since primordial substance can be occupied by the Supreme Command, can I directly control it using the fluctuations of my soul?" Bai Zhongqi revealed his long-held hypothesis.
Linyin's eyes lit up; she clapped her hands and said, "That's a really exciting topic, Chancellor, let's experiment with it right away!"
Bai Zhongqi himself hadn't expected that a simple hypothesis of his would turn into a complete scientific research project. Linyin, leading a scientific research team of over four thousand people, prepared for a week. During that week, the Galactic Empire's occupation forces in the Orion Arm, in order to preserve themselves, had launched a breakout operation. Forty-six Strategic Fleet groups, led by several Divine Generals, made a direct and clear charge towards the nodes within the Orion Arm.
Meanwhile, at the spacetime corridor nodes outside the Great Star Zone of the Orion Arm, more than three hundred thousand reinforcing ships of the Galactic Empire were about to arrive. This allowed the Galactic military to shift from a defensive situation to one of internal and external cooperation. The situation hadn't been entirely reversed, but it had significantly improved.
Bai Zhongqi had to leave behind Linyin, who was trying to kidnap him to complete the experiment, to board his Iridium Star Ship and watch Zang Xingyan command a battle on a scale that rivaled the previous engagement in the Orion Arm-5 Star Sector. The entire United Empire of the Iridium Star was on high alert, united in a common cause to defeat the enemy, driven by a single mission to cleanse the Empire's territories.
At the same moment, a tense atmosphere also pervaded the command center of the Galactic military.
The civilizations of the Galactic Empire, primarily the ten giants, had at last achieved some degree of cooperative synergy. Before this strike, the edict of the Galactic Emperor had required them to pool their technologies to construct several powerful Titan-class ships. Among them was the Divine Prison Titan, which served as the command center for the Divine Generals of the Divine Generals Hall.
Only slightly smaller than the Golden Great Sail Ship, the enormous Divine Prison Titan, roughly the size of a small asteroid, was like a weapon of war amalgamating various armaments, able to link different warships. Its primary functions were command and special auxiliary abilities. In the previous battle, it was the Divine Prison Titan that, like a Mechanical Behemoth, activated the temporary spatial terrain alteration ability, which isolated part of the Iridium Star Fleet, creating an opportunity for the Galactic military warships to seize several planets from the Iridium Star.
Rarely, all the Divine Generals from the ten giants gathered on either side of a long table, with the Commander of the forty-six Strategic Fleet groups, the Second Divine General Sanlin Luzhi from the High Peaks Civilization, seated at the head.
Sanlin Luzhi's High Peaks Civilization comprised various species, all peculiar in appearance, distinct from the Primate Clan humans. This Second Divine General was beyond ordinary understanding; his body was like a profound cosmic glimmer, shaped like a human and cloaked in a robe of mysterious patterns, wearing a mask that showed only thin eyes and mouth, giving off an especially eerie look.
Flanking him were the Third Divine General Bai Gong from the Lien Xi Civilization, the Fourth Divine General Apuxian from the Nightclarity Civilization, the Fifth Divine General Su Shuang from the Seven Phoenix Civilization, and the Sixth Divine General KeKeKe Manting from the St. Distillans Civilization. Sitting across the table were the other five Divine Generals: the Seventh Divine General Kuo Shu from the Howling Sea Beast Civilization, the Eighth Divine General Suo Kexiao from the Borke Civilization, the Ninth Divine General Achino from the Jinxi Civilization, Burden, the Tenth Divine General from the Luluo Civilization who replaced the deceased Tai Ruonuo, and the Eleventh Divine General Muwato from the Dagu Civilization.
Actually, the rankings of the Divine Generals in the original Galactic High Governance Council were not . However, after the establishment of the Divine Generals Hall, besides the First Divine General, the Second to Eleventh Divine Generals gradually became represented by the ten giants' Divine Generals. But aside from Tai Ruonuo of the ten giants, all began to act on their own will. Obedient Tai Ruonuo had become the mouthpiece of the Prime Minister's Office until his death at the hands of the Galactic Emperor.
This time, the Divine Generals Hall was required to act together with the Prime Minister's Office. The higher-ranking Divine Generals took over the command of fleets from their respective civilizations and reached a form of reconciliation with their parent civilizations. This made the meeting of these ten Divine Generals a body with real military decision-making power within the Galactic military.
Now, these ten individuals gathered together in the luxurious conference hall of the Divine Prison Titan, each with their expressions and thoughts, preparing for the Galactic military's breakout operation.
The Second Divine General Sanlin Luzhi, without an actual physical structure, presided over the military conference as the convener and the commander. His species didn't have a vocal structure; he transmitted his thoughts through waves to electronic devices, which then synthesized the language for playback.