Chapter 139: The Broken Colony Ship
I don't know what happened to this day, it seems that everything was fed back when Xue Hua was just free.
Less than five minutes after Xue Hua had deployed Krisa's operation, Isha gave him an update on the Swarm Fleet.
Stokoff had just led the fleet into the maximum reachable range of the main nest's mind, and sent them a request for contact in the form of a psionic boost.
Xue Hua had been waiting for the Swarm Fleet to bring back the clues to the location of the two new Star Spirit Beacons, so after receiving this request, he chose to agree without hesitation.
Then, the psionic signal of Stokoff, which had not been seen for a long time, was connected to the mind of the main nest.
As soon as the signal was connected, Stokoff reported to Xue Hua in an eager tone that was completely out of character.
"Juggernaut, the Swarm Fleet has explored the sector where those two Star Spirit Beacons are located... During the exploration, we found some unusual problems. ”
"Speak slowly, Stokoff, speak slowly......" Xue Hua reassured.
Under his reassurance, Stokoff breathed a sigh of relief, and then slowly explained the anomaly discovered by the fleet to Xue Hua this time.
It turned out that the Swarm Fleet had discovered the Star Spirit's colony ship almost immediately after turning to the location of the first psionic beacon, and it stopped not far from the Swarm Fleet's turning point, while at the same time, the fleet had also discovered the final destination of the colony ship.
- It was a huge planet covered in a thick haze of earthy yellow dust.
According to the Inspector's analysis of the planet, the planet is supposed to be a solid planet with an endless band of dust and wind.
The planet's position in the asteroid system is in the central region, but its rotation speed is quite slow, and it has no atmosphere, so the surface is not suitable for life.
However, these conditions are nothing for a race with super technological strength like the Star Spirit, and there is no obstacle for the swarm at all.
So at first Stokoff thought that the Star Spirits had landed on the planet, and he didn't know why they hadn't brought the colony ship with them.
So, Stokoff had the Inspector Worm start scanning the planet for biological signals and psionic disturbances, and the fleet began to approach the planet in a defensive stance.
However, the results of the scan that the king worm later reported surprised it.
Because the scan results of the king bug show that the planet is a standard "death star", there are no biological signals emitted on it, only the mineral layers of some suspected ore veins on the planet's surface emit rather weak psionic disturbances.
Only then did Stokoff sense that something was wrong, and withdrew the fleet that was about to approach the outer layers of the planet.
At first, it thought it was another "Planet One" and put the fleet ready for battle.
However, after several hours of alerting without anything out of the ordinary, Stallkov set his sights on the Astral Colony.
It sent King Worm to land on the colony ship with the Zerg's ground forces, trying to find any clues about the Star Spirits.
However, after the swarm landed on the colony ship, he found that the colony ship was an empty shell, except for the anchoring facilities, all other compartments and equipment inside had been destroyed, and even the solar debris reactor in the power propulsion part had become a huge hollow.
It was as if the colony ship had just crossed the area after a deadly intrusive attack, and the attackers had destroyed everything inside the colony ship from within, leaving only a seemingly intact empty shell fixed in the deep space of the universe by a barely functioning anchoring system.
And by looking at the ruined interior of the colony ship, Stokoff deduced that it was supposed to be a "dormant chamber" ship full of astral lifeforms, but the swarm did not find any astral dormancy chambers inside.
Apparently, those attackers had taken all of the Astral Dormancy Chambers.
The attacker's behavior gave Stallkov a bad premonition, and he quickly left a detachment and a few king worms carrying worker bees to set up a hatchery on the planet, and then took his main fleet directly to the next Star Spirit Beacon location.
However, when they arrived at the second beacon site, Stokoff realized that his hunch had come true.
Because they found a large number of fragments of the wreckage of the Astral Spirit Creation in that airspace, and there were even a large number of Astral Spirit fighters and combat vehicles.
The wreckage of the glittering "Corsair" and "Reconnaissance Aircraft" covered almost the entire airspace, and even most of the hulls of the "Five Void Glow Ships" were floating in them.
These Astral Spirit ships had clearly endured a terrible battle, and they had not been able to achieve a final victory.
Because in the central area of these wrecks, Stokoff found a giant Astral Colony that was almost broken in two.
The Astral Colony was larger than the two Colony Ships Standoff had seen before, and it was recognizable from its appearance alone, covered in a variety of destroyed weapon systems and gun emplacements.
This is clearly a large armed colony ship with a large combat capability and a small fleet as an escort.
However, such a strong combat power was completely destroyed by a mysterious attacker.
And what made Stokoff, the swarm commander, feel a little creepy was that on this interstellar battlefield, he only saw the wreckage of the Star Spirit fighters and battleships, but did not find any of the price paid by the attackers.
This proves that this powerful Star Spirit Fleet was almost completely wiped out by the opponent without injury.
But how is this possible?
With the strength of this astral fleet, the idea of destroying them without paying any price was almost like a dream.
Even with Stokov's self-confidence, there was no guarantee that such a thing would be possible.
However, this miraculous scene actually happened before his eyes......
Stokoff was silent for a moment, then sent the swarm to gather all the remaining information about the war.
And as expected, there was still no trace of any astral lifeforms in the ruins of this battlefield.
When the Astral Warriors die, their souls return to Kara, and unless they are completely cut off from the outside world, their body parts will dissipate, leaving no corpses behind (see Zeratul's Death), but their equipment will remain in most cases.
However, Stokov was unable to find any non-vehicle equipment for the Astral Warriors in the wreckage of the battlefield, neither the Zealots nor the High Templars nor the Dark Templars.
And in that large colony ship that was almost broken, all the dormant chambers were removed again, and the colony ship's solar debris reactor disappeared entirely, just like the previous colony ship.
Stokov only found a few hidden and encrypted image crystals in the lowest compartment of the large colony ship, and nothing else.
The attackers seemed to have deliberately destroyed all the valuable items and information inside the colony ship, as if trying to cover up something.
However, Stokoff has already come to a terrible conclusion from the condition of two Star Spirit beacon points in a row.
Something is hunting down the Star Spirits who have colonized here!
And the goal of this thing is very clear, which is to seize the dormant chamber of the Star Spirits and destroy the valuable equipment and information on the colony ship.
They are undoubtedly powerful, and know exactly what they are doing, and even know the final destination of all Astral Colony ships.
Phase Technician Kyreus's colony ship was inexplicably attacked before entering the Foldago and did not reach its final destination, so he and his lover were lucky enough to escape.
But I don't know if the other Star Spirit colonies are so lucky.