Admiral Thomas is quite a good teacher.

He genuinely has substance and truly imparts that to those around him.

Yang Ming has already commanded a 'moderately significant' fleet battle.

—He led less than a hundred 'antiquated' Dark Star ships, making seven intrepid incursions into the Nonar Free Kingdom.

But that was with Lyu's breastfeeding-level assistance.

Lyu is different from ordinary ship-borne super brains; her reaction speed and control over the ships far exceed the command systems used by the Empire's fleet.

Almost as soon as Yang Ming verbally issues a command, Lyu controls the entire fleet to execute the task within fractions of a second.

But this isn't 'conventional assistance.'

Because of humanity's vigilance towards the Intelligent Mechanical Crisis and the importance of ship control systems, ship-borne super brains have had their self-awareness-generating logic chains removed. They can summarize vast amounts of battlefield information, constructing a three-dimensional map for the commander to reference. Based on the commander's orders on this map, information is transmitted in an extremely short timeframe to the command decks of each ship, with operators independently completing the next step in operations.

The one issuing commands is human, and the one executing the commands is also human.

This is the fleet command system that human civilization can accept.

When the Imperial Defense System is activated, it integrates the computational power of all Imperial ships in the warzone, replacing the position of the Chief Commander and forcibly linking all battleship AI into a single entity, giving operators sufficiently simplified commands (such as pressing a numbered button).

The one issuing commands is mechanical, and the one executing commands is human.

The Dark Star Fleet is more efficient because of the inverse of this relationship.

The combination of Yang Ming and Lyu exploits a loophole with the accompanying Mechanical Thought Body; Lyu should not have been a creation possible under a Level 5 civilization.

Hence, Yang Ming feels compelled to take this opportunity to supplement his professional knowledge of fleet warfare command.

Yang Ming will neither place all his bets on the Empire, nor on the still-developing Wind, nor will he place all his bets on the Dark Star and Mechanical Thought Body; he aims for a three-legged... well, a two-legged approach.

After the first battle, Admiral Thomas convened a review video meeting with the general officers as per usual.

During the meeting, Admiral Thomas specifically invited Yang Ming, the 'chief commander,' to speak.

Sitting in the main seat, Yang Ming cautiously and steadily shared some of his insights on warship command, earning applause and encouragement from the other generals who quite liked Boss Yang.

Yang Ming: ...

This atmosphere always has a bit of a village committee meeting vibe.

As soon as the war commenced, interstellar public opinion became tumultuous, and diplomatic tensions among countries formally began.

Contrary to their previous leisurely posture during the last expedition, the Empire's various departments started a united offensive in various fields against the New Federation.

Economic confrontations, cutting off external resources, and fierce oppositions in international organizations;

There were even 'disgraceful' incidents where delegations from two parties came to blows in a public meeting.

In the first week of the war, the Empire's massive army jumped into the New Federation's borders, repelling the New Federation's 'token resistance' dozens of times and gaining control over twelve stars along the border, achieving the first established objective.

This is just the beginning.

Immediately afterward, the Empire slowed down the offensive, adopting harassment tactics, using these twelve stars as jump-off points, radiating a third of New Federation's territory.

Over the next half month, the Empire, through small fleet incursions, raided New Federation transportation fleets, deploying fleets nearly ten thousand times while losing over 120 ships of various types themselves. They destroyed more than thirty of New Federation's main battleships, over 230 different types of transport ships, and over 100 various types of escort ships, significantly curbing the resource supplies to the New Federation Main Battle Fleet.

The Imperial Military Department's harassment tactics achieved reasonably good results.

At this moment, a standoff between the two sides had appeared.

The Empire used the twelve New Federation administrative stars, with nearly 1.6 billion people, as bargaining chips, waiting for the New Federation's main force to advance for a decisive battle while presenting an attitude of readiness to plunge into the depths of New Federation territory at any moment.

At this time, the New Federation is under tremendous political pressure.

The Empire has been subjected to overwhelming condemnation, but it simply doesn't care.

The Empire even actively released various tragedies occurring in these twelve stars — interruptions in living supplies, energy cuts, depletion of resource reserves, and various issues in the survival environment of the populace.

The scope affected by the war in the New Federation has already stirred public discontent;

New Federation citizens, who have always lived in an atmosphere of democratic superiority, could not possibly endure such repeated insults.

Calls for decisive battles to push back the invaders became the hottest topic across network partitions within the New Federation.

Fortunately, their network model once again played its role, and planets in the rear that were not threatened could still paint a picture of peace.

Yang Ming also discovered a rather interesting phenomenon.

International human rights organizations demanded on-site supervision of the Empire's occupied areas, and the Empire opened its doors completely, fully cooperating.

The Empire's military discipline was strict, with even second-line troops executing 'plunder orders' not engaging in any egregious behavior, fully respecting the human rights of the residents of occupied areas.

Imperial soldiers could even manage not to retaliate verbally to insults and only respond if physically attacked.

This made Yang Ming quite reflective.

Look at the personal qualities of soldiers in the interstellar era!

In his homeland, those imperialist soldiers from the baka oyasumida family were constantly making negative news, undermining the hard work of their intelligence cyber-troops.

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