The latest intelligence has confirmed that in addition to transforming the stars and planets in the occupied area, the Crystal Storm will also transform local life forms.

Directly transformed life forms are absorbed into specialized structures within the Crystal Storm, though their purpose and the nature of the matter remain unclear.

However, there is a theory within the Alliance that the intelligent behavior displayed by Crystal Storm is actually the result of devouring and fusing other higher life forms.

They are like the Zerg queens in science fiction movies, who can improve their intelligence by sucking the brains of other creatures.

Based on the strategy of "what the enemy wants, we want to destroy."

In the designated evacuation zone, no higher life forms can be left to the Crystal Storm.

This is the core guiding principle of the buffer zone plan.

The Alliance will use evacuation and blasting to create an isolation zone with few stars and no population in the key invasion area.

And establish a new line of defense within the isolation zone to delay the invasion of the Crystal Storm.

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When the giant elephant stayed firmly above the planet Zeli B, the Double Corona Empire launched a final counterattack.

They mobilized all remaining space forces to launch a suicide attack on the Mammoth spacecraft.

But all artillery fire and aircraft were intercepted by the escort fleet, and intensive orbital bombardment destroyed all ground anti-aircraft firepower.

The people of the Double Corona Empire could only stare in horror at the giant creature above their heads.

Until the time of judgment comes, a torrent of energy pours down from space to the core of the entire planet.

The planet trembled violently and broke into pieces. The boiling water vapor and scattered magma slowly condensed into a mixture of ice and obsidian in the dark and cold universe.

These fragments would orbit roughly the planet's original orbit, and then they would be pulled by the star's gravity into a rocky ring orbiting it.

Then, the matter that makes up the ring will be swallowed by the star, and all existence will be wiped out by the hot plasma.

All the Burning Heaven Divine Weapons within the range of the Perseus Arm were also put into use.

These massive machines can completely destroy stars and release massive amounts of energy that randomly alter the pathways of the warp.

This prevents normal ships from using secondary warp mode to pass through, and also works against Crystal Storms.

Additionally, the vacuum region created by the loss of mass will flatten the topological shape projected by that region in the subspace.

Even if they were able to forcibly pass through the warp storm, the fleet would be dispersed due to the inability to accurately lock onto the specific location.

This dispersion effect is effective for both sides, but the Galactic Alliance can map the target area in advance and draw a rough star map in a point-to-point manner.

In addition, permanent induction beacons can be built in the area. This landmark building can generate a constantly lit high-intensity induction force field, which can indicate the direction for the Galactic Alliance's Titan deployment.

Crystal Storm has not yet been observed to possess the ability to deploy a flagship. While they can invade the Alliance's stargate network, this is limited to hijacking newly generated signals. For existing stargates, communication between the two locations remains smooth and secure.

Even for the newly built star gates, the Galactic Alliance has found a way to deal with crystal hijacking.

Only battle star-level crystals have the ability to hijack the stargate network. Crystals of this size will cause large-scale localized mass disturbances in the subspace.

Just like the unusually large mass discovered when the Leon Star Gate was ignited, as long as the subspace area pointed by the star gate is observed before sending the handshake protocol, the targeted hijacking of the crystal storm can be avoided.

In addition, the Galactic Alliance can also quickly conduct point-to-point mapping within a large area, which can quickly obtain a subspace amplitude map of the area in a short period of time.

With the help of such a map, even if the spacecraft's own jump engine is used to force its way into the subspace, unless there are any accidents, the final landing point can be guaranteed to be within an acceptable error range.

However, the number of Burning Heaven Divine Soldiers is much smaller than that of Giant Elephants. It takes much longer to extinguish a star than to shatter a rocky planet.

Therefore, it is unrealistic to create an ideal isolation zone where there are no macroscopic stars at all.

Therefore, the Burning Heaven Divine Weapon can only prioritize blasting those star systems that have complex space channel nodes or occupy strategic areas.

As for planets whose geographical location is relatively unimportant but where advanced intelligent civilizations have appeared, we can only use giant elephants to carry out special rectification of key areas to avoid the emergence of phenomena that aid the enemy.

The entire operation has been approved by the Galactic Alliance, including the initial evacuation of known civilizations within the range and subsequent secondary searches by search fleets such as Dorap, all of which are included in this isolation zone plan.

However, cleanup operations against uncooperative indigenous people, such as the Double Corona Empire, are not included in any of the contractual clauses.

In other words, this is a consensus among representatives of all members of the Galactic Alliance, which stems from the interests of all parties involved in the crisis and the tacit understanding between each other.

Even with the current level of productivity in the Milky Way, the amount of materials needed to maintain the survival and development of a low-level indigenous civilization is still a considerable number.

The carrying capacity of the currently designated indigenous civilization ecological protection areas is approaching its upper limit.

Although the emergency laws provided for some additional vacant star systems to be used for the resettlement of indigenous peoples, it was estimated that the existing space was far from enough to accommodate all indigenous civilizations.

Furthermore, as the war progressed, some of the member states of the Galactic Alliance were bound to be defeated in this invasion. Their populations would become a vast number of refugees, pouring into the safety of the galactic center, further squeezing out the already scarce living space.

Different civilizations consume different amounts of resources.

The higher the level of civilization, the more space and materials it needs to maintain its existence.

Countries like the Double Corona Empire, which are already able to travel within their own star system, occupy far more resources and territory than the Luofan civilization represented by Liu Shasha.

In order to maintain the existence of the Double Corona Empire and keep their civilization in a relatively benign development range, at least a complete star system with two or three planets of various types is needed.

After comprehensive transformation, this galaxy will be able to accommodate hundreds of billions of refugees.

From any perspective, giving up some high-consumption indigenous people is the best option.

Especially when you have a legitimate reason to achieve that goal.