Getting a Technology System in Modern Day - Chapter 1018

Capítulo 1018: Moving Ahead

The moment the top ten started receiving updates of what was happening in one of the Yrall Coalition’s star systems and saw it with their own eyes, they were shocked. After they recollected themselves from the surprise of both the empire’s capability and the horror of the realization that the empire had such a means of attack in place for who knows how long, they issued orders for all robots to be collected and dismantled in all of their star systems to ensure such an attack would not happen again.

Deactivation codes were sent out en masse from the robot manufacturers, immediately shutting down nearly all robots in those star systems. Ships were then sent to collect them for immediate destruction, despite knowing the catastrophe that would result from this action. They made the decision because the alternative was worse than the damage they were already experiencing.

The Yrall Coalition suffered the most damage, as they used robots in the majority of their production bases. Using robots saved a large amount in construction costs since the production plants no longer needed the unnecessary infrastructure required to keep humans alive. As a result, more than half of their production bases, which were operating at maximum output for war preparations, came to a halt. For those production bases close to enemy star systems, they had gone so far as to bomb them out of existence.

The Zelvora suffered the least damage, as they used telekinesis through their mental abilities to do the majority of things and rarely relied on robots. Even so, they still suffered a large loss. They had just started seriously looking at robot soldiers as the only solution to facing the empire’s near-endless and deathless soldiers. All of them had started producing robot soldiers en masse as a way to equalize the empire’s Avatars, but with a single move, the empire had taken out that part of their plan.

This was just the start of the fallout. It had only been four hours since the attack took place, and the empire had made it clear that they had more attacks planned and would continue until they surrendered. They were also investing a large amount of manpower into trying to discover other ways the empire could attack a star system. They had already given up on one of the top ten Yrall Coalition star systems, which was now under the control of robots, while maintaining surveillance for anything the robots might be planning.

While they were dealing with all the problems on their hands, the fifth hour finally arrived. The conclave members, imperial citizens, and all those in the former conclave star civilizations held their breath, waiting for what the empire had planned for its second attack.

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“Why is the system reporting that as normal?” a supervisor in Star System Kronog asked one of his subordinates, pointing at the massive screen spanning the entire wall.

This was the Ministry of Transportation and Space Management, responsible for monitoring all travel and anything not on a planet, including space stations and asteroids. At the moment, the supervisor was pointing at a space station around the capital planet whose orbital trajectory had changed without raising any alerts in their monitoring system, something the system was specifically designed to do, making him wonder if it was a scheduled change.

“There is nothing in the records about any planned change of orbit, but you should have been made aware of that anyway,” the subordinate said as he went through all the logs related to that space station. He found nothing resembling a decision to change the orbit; the only thing he found were the specific changes that were being applied. This data was not reported by individuals on the space station but was collected through the observer sensors their department had all over the star system.

“Someone is controlling the space station without the system registering it as something worthy of an alarm…,” just as the subordinate was about to go further into his rambling, he paused before the two of them said in unison, “The empire.”

“Fuck, report it to the higher-ups,” he said while tapping his subordinate’s shoulder before turning towards the room and shouting, “I need all of you to stop whatever you are doing and monitor all of the space stations for any anomalous changes regarding their orbits. Focus on those in orbit around a planet, AS FAST AS POSSIBLE.”

He had just realized the empire was planning on deorbiting all space stations orbiting the planets to cause as much damage as possible as their second attack. His anger flared against the empire for having already taken one of their top star systems, only to be targeted once again, instead of another civilization.

“STOP FUCKING STARING AND GET TO FUCKING WORK,” he shouted when he realized his subordinates were looking at him with curious eyes instead of implementing his orders. The shout seemed to bring them back to their senses, as they immediately got to work. Within just a few minutes, they saw the reason for the orders: all space stations around a planet were in the process of a deorbiting maneuver that was minutes away from going critical. Their perigee was getting shorter and closer to the planet with each passing second as their orbits decayed, fully securing the space stations’ fall.

They tried initiating contact with the control centers of these space stations to have them reverse course before it reached the point of no return, but none of their attempts went through. All of this was now being updated live to the upper echelons of the government, who were scrambling to come up with a solution before it became a catastrophe.

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After a few minutes, the military forces in the star system finally moved, splitting up to head toward all of the space stations. This was a contingency measure in case the other attempted solutions didn’t work, in order to reduce the damage as much as possible.